Beware of Media Narratives on Both Left and Right | RealClearPolitics
How do they get away with it?
Even with the thousands of alternative media sources available today Internet, podcasts, social media the legacy media picks a narrative and repeats it so often that the average citizen may well accept it as true.
Now, if the subject matter is something inane like the importance of a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance, we can all play along and, well, no harm, no foul. But when the purpose is character assassination of a candidate for president, it is dangerous to be unaware of the falsity of what the mainstream media is selling.
I know I sound like a broken record, but every week something more egregious presents itself. For the last two weeks, it has been the false narrative that Donald Trump praised the terrorist organization Hezbollah for being very smart. On every news show every hour for at least a week, one of the guests or anchors would tell you this as if it disqualified Trump to be president.
So, once again, I have to ask, What did Trump really say?
It s not hard to find out. Video exists of the Oct. 11 speech in West Palm Beach, Fla., and yes, Trump did say that Hezbollah is very smart but not as a compliment. Rather, he was saying that it was foolish for Israel, President Biden, or anyone else to underestimate this brutal foe.
Two nights ago, I read all of Biden s security people& national defense people, and they said Gee I hope Hezbollah doesn t attack from the north because that s the most vulnerable spot. I said wait a minute. Hezbollah s very smart. They re all very smart. The press doesn t like it when I say it though. &
But Hezbollah, they re very smart, and they have a national defense minister or somebody saying I hope Hezbollah doesn t attack us from the north, so the following morning they attack. They might not have been doing it, but if you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north because he said that s our weak spot. Whoever heard of officials saying on television that they hope our enemy doesn t attack in a certain area?
In his speech, Trump paused to recall how the press had attacked him previously when he said that President Xi of China is a very smart man. As Trump said, They killed me the next day, and that s what happened after Trump s Florida speech as well.
From that day forward, the press passed along the Hezbollah anecdote in a truncated form that had no context and no legitimacy as news but only as propaganda. All they told their readers or viewers was this: Trump said Hezbollah is very smart. In other words, Trump is dangerous and disreputable and a terror sympathizer who shouldn t be commander in chief.
Frank Miele.
There a big struggle going on for control of mass media. A big part of it emanates, as from a penumbra, from the First Amendment. The Supreme Court will get to decide this question: How much management, i.e., thought control, is our federal government allowed to do? You may have noticed that it’s currently all the rage in the West. Sadly, I predict Roberts, Kavanaugh and perhaps Barrett will take the CIA’s position that too much free speech is just too dangerous. I could be wrong and hope I am, but that’s what I fear.