{"id":22261,"date":"2016-12-10T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22261"},"modified":"2016-12-10T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:14:13","slug":"the-mainstream-media-is-asking-for-a-government-bailout-via-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22261","title":{"rendered":"The Mainstream Media is Asking for a Government Bailout Via Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2016\/12\/09\/the-mainstream-media-is-asking-for-a-government-bailout-via-censorship\/\">The Mainstream Media is Asking for a Government Bailout Via Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40464\" src=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-09-at-10.35.32-AM.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-09-at-10.35.32-AM.jpg 742x, https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-09-at-10.35.32-AM-300x170.jpg 300x\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-09-at-10-35-32-am\" width=\"406\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The current controversy is different. Many people in Washington are irate over Wikileaks \u2014 not because the email were untrue but because they proved what many had long suspected . . . that Washington is a highly corrupt place full of truly despicable people. For people who make their living on controlling media and information, it was akin to the barbarians breaching the walls of Rome. So the answer is to call for government regulation to combat what will be declared \u201cfake\u201d news or propaganda. It is only the latest effort to convince people to surrender their rights and actually embrace censorship.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From Jonathan Turley\u2019s:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2016\/12\/09\/washington-post-issues-correction-to-fake-news-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Issues Correction To \u201cFake News\u201d\u00a0Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watching Hillary Clinton attack\u00a0\u201cfake news\u201d and calling for legislative action against free speech she doesn\u2019t like got me thinking. Why is she doing this? Yes, it\u2019s obviously related to her notorious personality trait of never taking responsibility for anything and attaching herself to an invented controversy in order to deflect blame for her monumentally\u00a0embarrassing loss to Donald Trump. But there\u2019s more going on here. A lot more.<\/p>\n<p>To set the stage, we need to examine the types of people who are most jumping on the \u201cfake news\u201d meme. What you\u2019ll find is that it\u2019s a who\u2019s who of the most contemptible and corrupt people in America. As Glenn Greenwald so accurately noted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/12\/09\/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\">his piece<\/a>\u00a0published earlier today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>But the problem here goes way beyond mere hypocrisy. Complaints about Fake News are typically accompanied by calls for \u201csolutions\u201d that involve censorship and suppression, either by the government or tech giants such as Facebook.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mainstream Media is Asking for a Government Bailout Via Censorship The current controversy is different. Many people in Washington are irate over Wikileaks \u2014 not because the email were untrue but because they proved what many had long suspected . . . that Washington is a highly corrupt place full of truly despicable people. 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