We live in a day and age in which all of the mainstream press that we see online, in print, or via the medium of television and the like is all owned by corporate entities whose only apparent desire is profit. This thus signifies that journalism of today is not going to be primarily about holding the establishment to account and thereby exposing what they do not wish to have expose, or challenging conventional wisdom, but in many respects, journalism has devolved into simply spinning narratives that are in accordance with establishment desires and decrees, as if this somehow represents all the news that is fit to be disseminated, when it really isn’t.
This country is supposed to be by, for, and of the people, which thereby signifies that those that are journalists highest and most noble duty is to do right by those people, and whenever there is a conflict between what the establishment wishes to see professed, as contrasted to the truth of the matter, then those journalists need to be on the side of truth, even when such truth is inconvenient, and thus hold the establishment’s feet to the fire.
Instead, far too many of those that claim the mantle of journalism, aren’t really journalists, at all, though they may well proudly wear the title, but what we really have, are nothing more than well-paid lackeys to the establishment who write and speak only those words that have been preapproved with the hope that the narrative so spun will be good enough to fool Americans. Fortunately, we find that as it has been wisely stated while “you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Indeed, in this era of social media, and independent non-legacy media, there are a multitude of voices that represent the renewed and reinvigorated journalism, serving the people’s purpose of challenging the establishment and their stories, thereby holding those entities in powerful positions to account for what is really happening, providing to the people the necessary counterpoint to that which is being propagandize to the people as representing the truth, when at best, it is a partial truth, and in many a case with the establishment, no truth at all.
In sum, those that are our journalistic outlets that, for all practical purposes, are nothing much more than a mouthpiece of the establishment deserve not a minute of our time or our care, because they provide nothing much of merit or interest for us, for they are trying to condition us to believe in that which provides little benefit or good purpose. The establishment wants us to believe in their lies when the truth cries out that we are being sold a very bad bag of goods, and those then that are responsible for the telling and retelling of deceptions and misdirection of all sorts have no worthy place in society, because they are not contributing to our search for truth and accountability, but are instead doing the very opposite in the hopes that by doing so, they can mold us into citizens that don’t question authority but rather just are obedient to such