The news media had a lot of highly experienced journalists. They’d been well trained in their trade. They were sensible. They knew how to write a good story. They knew not to express their own opinions. They knew to tell the truth without fear or favour. These were the traditional values that had made the media the Fourth Estate – responsible for keeping the government honest.
But even as far back as 1978, the famous Russian dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, who knew how left wing governments really operate from the ten years he spent in the Soviet forced labour camps, called gulags, and wrote 2 famous books about what they were like and how they operated, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, had this to say when he delivered what turned out to be a real exercise in truth telling that the Harvard graduating class found too critical, and perceptive, of American society. He said:
“… the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
Since then, as I’m about to tell you, things have gotten infinitely worse.
So how did so much of the media become woke and abandon all of those vital traditional values that earned the media the term the Fourth Estate? Well if you’ve got about 20 minutes or so I’ll tell you.
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