Media have forfeited all objectivity in bid destroy Trump
Jun 4, 2017 5:25:51 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Jun 4, 2017 5:25:51 GMT -5
Media have forfeited all objectivity in bid to pull down Trump
By George Parry, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 Jun 2017
“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed upon the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. ... The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primary traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly from his teachings. ... He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. .
“In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices in an effort to drown (Goldstein’s) maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.”
Thus did George Orwell in his brilliant “1984” describe the officially mandated daily ritual by which Big Brother inoculated the masses against dangerous counterrevolutionary thoughts and beliefs. Hate Goldstein, love Big Brother, follow the Party line. Or else.
As I watch the mainstream media’s unhinged and semi-hysterical denunciations of President Trump, I cannot help but draw comparisons to Orwell’s prophetic novel. But compared with Trump, Goldstein got off easy. After all, what’s two minutes of daily hate compared with the mainstream media’s 24-hour nonstop barrage of anonymously sourced reports that seek to diminish, delegitimize and undermine Trump’s presidency.
Given that a tidal wave of long-ignored, much-abused and very angry voters sent Trump to wrest control of the federal government from the immutable and permanent Washington establishment, it should be expected that those politicians, lobbyists and entrenched bureaucrats who have so much to lose are using every tool and tactic at their disposal to neutralize him. And not least among those tools are the mainstream media, which feast at the same establishment table.
www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/columnists/media-have-forfeited-all-objectivity-in-bid-to-pull-down/article_22c57554-47eb-11e7-8116-1b491a8bb4c5.html
By George Parry, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 Jun 2017
“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed upon the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. ... The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primary traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly from his teachings. ... He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. .
“In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices in an effort to drown (Goldstein’s) maddening bleating voice that came from the screen.”
Thus did George Orwell in his brilliant “1984” describe the officially mandated daily ritual by which Big Brother inoculated the masses against dangerous counterrevolutionary thoughts and beliefs. Hate Goldstein, love Big Brother, follow the Party line. Or else.
As I watch the mainstream media’s unhinged and semi-hysterical denunciations of President Trump, I cannot help but draw comparisons to Orwell’s prophetic novel. But compared with Trump, Goldstein got off easy. After all, what’s two minutes of daily hate compared with the mainstream media’s 24-hour nonstop barrage of anonymously sourced reports that seek to diminish, delegitimize and undermine Trump’s presidency.
Given that a tidal wave of long-ignored, much-abused and very angry voters sent Trump to wrest control of the federal government from the immutable and permanent Washington establishment, it should be expected that those politicians, lobbyists and entrenched bureaucrats who have so much to lose are using every tool and tactic at their disposal to neutralize him. And not least among those tools are the mainstream media, which feast at the same establishment table.
www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/columnists/media-have-forfeited-all-objectivity-in-bid-to-pull-down/article_22c57554-47eb-11e7-8116-1b491a8bb4c5.html