TL;DR – Media Outlets Must Sacrifice Truth for ‘Access’
So-called “hard-hitting” CNN spiked stories for decades under repressive Middle Eastern regimes (Warning: disturbing).
Now, “Mass media” is an easy target, but I think the basic problem with reporting state affairs is universal and insoluble. The more intrusive the state, the more state actions matter, but also the less easily secret and accurate information can be ferreted out while still staying in business (and I can’t think of any liberal states today). Additionally, media men are wary of alienating advertisers, and the bigger the moreso.
So, in an age of encroaching state involvement crowding out every area of legitimate human endeavor, I venture that honest, non-“infotainment” reporting of significance is prohibitively expensive. Readers can’t be told the truth (and they probably don’t want most of the truth, either, similar to my cynical take on Greenwashing).
There can only be private intelligence organizations (though they don’t call themselves that) reporting to the few and rich for investment reasons (who may have signed secrecy agreements). Even then, there are issues of mutual trust, etc.
For more, I suggest reading this: Never Trust Any Media Organization Large Enough to Gain ‘Access’!
More Evidence (if Such Was Needed) the USA Is Doomed in Every Which Way…
Tyler Cowen on The Complacent Class
May 8, 2017
Author and economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, The Complacent Class. Cowen argues that the United States has become complacent and the result is a loss of dynamism in the economy and in American life, generally. Cowen provides a rich mix of data, speculation, and creativity in support of his claims.
When Push Comes to Shove, What Would Feiglin Do?
I have earlier wondered if Feiglin would support peaceful secession.
Well, I discovered the answer in the comment section by the writer of “Tomer Devorah”:
I stood on the same street corner with Rav Baruch [ed., Kahane, son Rabbi Meir] handing out Feiglin literature years ago even after Moshe Feiglin told me to my face that if Jews in Yehuda and Shomron tried to break away and create a separate State of Judea (a project I was heavily involved with at the time) he would fight against it. He said that were he the Prime Minister, he would fight against it with force.
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See the context here. (For more on Medinat Yehuda, see this.)
Despicable.