How did journalists become the public face of America’s secretive elites? How did they turn from searching for truth to serve the public good to acting as covert stenographers for law enforcement and intelligence services? Up until very recently, the press prided itself on its independence. More than a hundred years ago, the New York Times spoke for all American pressmen when it promised readers “to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved.”
In our on-going series on the self-destruction of the legacy media, this week we take a look at how this once worthy profession has thus far escaped accountability for the pain and suffering they’ve caused fellow Americans in their partnership with powerful oligarchs and their lieutenants.
Impartiality, or telling it straight, was “how” the media served a free society and paid its debt to the Founding Fathers who ensured that our God-given rights to speak freely and communicate ideas and expressions to one another, whether quietly around our dinner tables or openly in the public square, were enshrined in the Bill of Rights. We are all equally entitled to these rights. However, those who hold themselves out to the public as journalists have a greater responsibility to adhere to the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
Earlier generations of journalists knew that betraying the First Amendment, the foundation of their profession, would have meant siding with power over everyday hardworking Americans supporting their families and contributing to their communities. What we’re seeing now in our media represents a conscious break with that great American tradition. Indeed, today a corrupt ethos dominates the press, ranging from large news organizations – like the New York Times – to anonymous social media accounts.
Consider how many reports of the “big stories” of the day are based on corrupt, deceptive information unlawfully leaked by law enforcement, intelligence services, and/or political operatives. In turn, that same information passed to the press is next recycled into warrant applications and indictments by the very same cabal of leakers collaborating to put their targets behind bars before they’ve even come to trial. If sordid conduct like this is what it takes for a warrant to issue or to indict, fair and equal justice for all has failed. In more and more cases in American Jurisprudence, this cozy, corrupt media partnership with politicized government agents and operatives has been successful in framing US citizens.
For instance, after one jury found that defendants accused of attempting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer had been entrapped by the FBI, a second trial found two men guilty of the fabricated charges.
At other times, the press has failed in its efforts to destroy lives. For instance, despite the media’s portrayal of Kyle Rittenhouse as a violent and “racist” criminal — who in fact shot three white men in self-defense — a jury of his peers found him innocent.
And then of course there is the ongoing effort of an “anything goes” press and a politicized justice department bending laws and colluding together to prosecute the 45th president of the United States with everything from obstruction of an official investigation to espionage.
At America’s Future, we pray that our nation may avoid the likely chaos that would ensue should the current President, via his Department of Justice, break all protocol and indict his predecessor. We urge you to join us in demanding that the press be held accountable for damaging the reputations and in some cases, the lives of innocent Americans. When one American is denied due process, every American suffers.
Americans are awakening to the attacks on good, patriotic Americans by a wayward media that parrots biased information from hidden sources in many cases. Please take our Reader’s Survey and let us know your thoughts on the deceptive practices and lack of accountability in the media today. Thank you for participating with hundreds of our newsletter readers each week. And remember to watch our Executive Director Mary O’Neill on America’s Mondays With Mary at 9 a.m. every Monday when she shares readers’ survey responses.
