Columbia U.’s Bollinger Oblivious on MSM Bailout
This would not have been possible in the early days of the republic, and in fact, similar information was available to the American people. During Thomas Jefferson’s first term as president, newspapers opposed to Jefferson printed stories that he had several children by his slave Sally Hemings. DNA evidence has indicated that this was indeed the case.
DNA played a prominent role in a scandal involving a later president, but the MSM tried to cover for the president and keep the information from the American people. The story was broken not by a print newspaper, newsmagazine, or TV network, but rather by what CNN still refers to as “an Internet gossip column” — the Drudge Report. Without the DNA samples on the blue dress, the MSM would even today be denying that Clinton had “sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
There are other potentially earth-shaking stories out there that could be confirmed or refuted by DNA tests. For example, Adolf Hitler’s first lawyer claimed that Hitler was actually a Jew. The psychiatrist whom President Franklin D. Roosevelt hired during World War II to analyze Hitler believed Hitler was a Rothschild. Hitler’s father was illegitimate, so indeed the ethnicity of Hitler’s paternal grandfather is open to doubt. The ethnicity question could be settled easily enough: It is well-known that Hitler has three half-grand nephews living today on Long Island. They long ago changed their name, but it is known that their paternal great-grandfather was Adolf Hitler’s father. These three Americans, in other words, have the same Y-chromosome as Adolf Hitler. Thus, by obtaining a sample of their DNA, the Hitler-Jew story could be checked.
Refuted, in my opinion. But if this story is ever investigated, it will be by a web-based media organization — the MSM would never be interested. Certainly a government-supported news organization would not be. Academic historians — historians like those at Columbia University — dismissed out of hand the possibility that Jefferson ever fathered children with one of his female slaves. The possibility that he did went against the narrative.
The new media has, collectively, no narrative. And this is precisely because web-based news organizations are not government-funded.
They are funded by customers when they provide their readers with exciting news stories, with thought-provoking op-ed pieces. When they fearlessly state the truth as they see it. By behaving, in other words, like the print newspapers America had in the Founders’ day.
We need no government bailout of newspapers. We need no American Pravda.
Since the 1830s Columbia University has been the home base of
Cultural Marxism. The Institute for Social Research and the “Critical
Theory” project was moved from Moscow in 1923 to Frankfurt, Germany finally to Columbia in 1935. From Columbia
trained Marxist professors went out to every University in the USA.
Using a rigged tenure process which recognized as “scholarly” only
work done in “Critical Theory” these Marxists gained permanent possession
of whole academic departments..training the next generation of Marxists.
Radical Feminism, Colonial Studies, Black Studies, Gay Studies,
Third World Studies, MultiCulturalism, Political Correctness all of it originated at Columbia University and all of it had one goal, destroy traditional America using the institutions of America. The universities,
the poltical parties, the churches, and above all the Free Press.
Just as Columbia disseminated liberal academics it mass produced liberal
journalists. The goal was to use what looked like open minded reporting
and take American values like “tolerance” to its extreme. Special Interest
groups would be created out of thin air, interviewed by liberal journalists
affixed with grievance status and shown how to demand political power.
The resulting fragmentation of the USA would destroy its political will and unity.
In this way Cultural Marxism was a smashing success. Centuries old beliefs, founding ideals of the USA, demographic makeup all of it was relentlessly crushed. Generations were ideologically conditioned without ever knowing it.
All of this was done via the University dominating intellectual discourse
in the USA, and the Left wing press dominating all access to the public discussion Then one day along came the Internet. A new technology that could not be centrally controlled. At least not yet.
Meanwhile back at Colombia University, however, all was not well. Marxists like Dr. Bollinger despair over the loss of the Free Press something that was never “free” to begin with. Either he knows that,or,
he himself is a perfect example of perfect ideological conditioning. Dr.
Bollinger wants the good ol days back, where Big Government funds Big Media
and all of it is trained and put in place by big liberal education, with its hub at Columbia University. Just like the good ol days when idealistic
Lefties, living in a delusional bubble, made believe that “Revolution!”
was coming to overthrow America and they were leading it.
Beinning with the 1930s Columbia University has been the home base of
Cultural Marxism. The Institute for Social Research and the “Critical
Theory” project was moved from Moscow in 1923 to Frankfurt, Germany finally to Columbia in 1935. From Columbia
trained Marxist professors went out to every University in the USA.
Using a rigged tenure process which recognized as “scholarly” only
work done in “Critical Theory” these Marxists gained permanent possession
of whole academic departments..training the next generation of Marxists.
Radical Feminism, Colonial Studies, Black Studies, Gay Studies,
Third World Studies, MultiCulturalism, Political Correctness all of it originated at Columbia University and all of it had one goal, destroy traditional America using the institutions of America. The universities,
the poltical parties, the churches, and above all the Free Press.
Just as Columbia disseminated liberal academics it mass produced liberal
journalists. The goal was to use what looked like open minded reporting
and take American values like “tolerance” to its extreme. Special Interest
groups would be created out of thin air, interviewed by liberal journalists
affixed with grievance status and shown how to demand political power.
The resulting fragmentation of the USA would destroy its political will and unity.
In this way Cultural Marxism was a smashing success. Centuries old beliefs, founding ideals of the USA, demographic makeup all of it was relentlessly crushed. Generations were ideologically conditioned without ever knowing it.
All of this was done via the University dominating intellectual discourse
in the USA, and the Left wing press dominating all access to the public discussion Then one day along came the Internet. A new technology that could not be centrally controlled. At least not yet.
Meanwhile back at Colombia University, however, all was not well. Marxists like Dr. Bollinger despair over the loss of the Free Press something that was never “free” to begin with. Either he knows that,or,
he himself is a perfect example of perfect ideological conditioning. Dr.
Bollinger wants the good ol days back, where Big Government funds Big Media
and all of it is trained and put in place by big liberal education, with its hub at Columbia University. Just like the good ol days when idealistic
Lefties, living in a delusional bubble, made believe that “Revolution!”
was coming to overthrow America and they were leading it.
This could have been such a great argument against government subsidies of the MSM and print newspapers. But the author got sidetracked by irrelevancies, such as what scandals independent papers could expose or burst, bring to the forefront or have laughed off the front page. The bone I would have to pick with JFK is not that he was an amoral Don Juan, but that he introduced fascism into this country. This is something Mr. Tipler could have focused on. He also perpetuates the unfounded rumor that Jefferson fathered several children with his slaves, neglecting the equally ambiguous evidence that it was instead one of his nephews. Tipler seems to be oblivious to the purpose of such stories: attack the man’s ideas by attacking his character. If you can’t refute his ideas, invent and spread a slander or a libel. JFK’s ideas deserved rebuttal and refutation; Jefferson’s did not. True journalism is not pandering to the prurient interests of the public in order to further the politics of friend or foe. Oh, this could have been a much, much better warning against government subsidies of the MSM — and of control of the internet.
Agreed. It would have been much more effective to pursue the climate science angle further, and note the egregious whitewashes at both UEA and Penn State. That is what government involvement in the academy has led to, and what government controlled media would look like.
Expect a blizzard of liberal academic parasites like Bollinger to start a drumbeat for funding of the MSM as the decline becomes steeper. The NYT will be “too big to fail” or “too important” to be allowed to publish only in liberal purgatory. Behind them will be the Wapo and a host of other publications that all share a common theme…statism is religion and the rest of us are too stupid to understand.
If the state is to interfere I would suggest the following credibility scoring. Journalists writing on any subject must have credentials to do so or the piece must be clearly labeled “Opinion” weighted either “Evidence Based” on one end and “Nonsense” on the other.
I really hope the reason why the WSJ published Bollinger’s article is to subject him to intense ridicule. Am I mistaken or is the WSJ the only print newspaper that’s actually making money? Is it true that their online subscription base has more paid subscribers than the WaPo? What are they doing that the others are not?
Oh. Right. Reporting the news that people actually want and are willing to pay for. Keeping their opinions confined to their editorials and not in the stories. Seems like a basic plan to me.
Today’s WSJ letters column has a flurry of “Is Bollinger out of his mind?” responses. So yeah, I think they do it to provoke a reaction. That’s probably the same reason why they publish Thomas Frank.
Government funding of public universities has also lead to the institution of PC and speech codes; and since the government now controls student loans, I am sure we will see an influx of black and other “protected” students taking up seats of more qualified white and Asian students.
Bollinger probably believes that Pravda was an independent newspaper. Better yet, I bet Bollinger thinks Goebbels was acting on behalf of the public.
The left is totally consumed with power and no matter how the facts are presented against them, they will never change.
He does appear to believe that the BBC is independant and neutral.
The squeaking wheel gets grease, but when you grease it the other wheels don’t start squeaking. People are different. Bail out AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Chrysler, GM, Bear Stearns, and a hundred well-connected banks, and you discover that every other enterprise wants a bailout, too. “You subsidize agribusiness. You subsidize wind mills, solar energy, ethanol production. You subsidize real estate dealers. The Prez just went to Michigan to cut the ribbon on a subsidized Korean battery factory. Where’s mine?”
It is folly, of course, to think that the man who pays the piper doesn’t call the tune and that subsidies come without strings attached. When you pay a Congressman to vote your way, as the banks did, you have to do as he tells you, as in the Community Reinvestment Act. You do as you’re told, or else. The solution to the news industry’s problem lies in dealing with the source of those problems, not going on welfare.
Exactamundo:
It is a bit like an Interference Pattern;
The lies cancel out, exposing the truth.
I find it telling that Bollingers article, without a trace of evidence that he thought it through, highlights such bastions of free and independent reporting as China’s State run CCTV and/or Al Jazeera.
Neither of which have an agenda beyond selflessly reporting the truth to power.
Riiiiigggghhhtttt.
I would have thought that even a uni president could grasp that the reason print/TV “old media” are declining is that they no longer perform the duties for which people are willing to pay—among them providing accurate information and watch-dogging the government.
You don’t get either from the Offical State Media.
I think the subtext is that Bollinger is bitterly aware that nobody wants to buy what he is selling so he is using his considerable rhetorical powers to get our tax dollars to prop up his failing product…rather than simply making the needed improvements needed to remain competitive.
The old saying is very true – Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual will believe them. Government subsidies for the media is certainly one of them.
Of course this idea has nothing to do with maintaining a well-informed public able to make intelligent decisions. Dr. Bollinger is simply advocating subsidies for “his kind of people.” As an elite professional academic politician, Bollinger is a denizen of the same social and intellectual world inhabited by upper-level media types. They are “of his class” and, rather like the old British nobility and the Civil List, are worthy of government largesse because of their standing at the top of the social pecking order. This has little to do with quality journalism. Dr. Bollinger sees a crisis looming for a particular sub-group within the circle of “the best people” and a government bailout is therefor necessary. If some poor schnnok who runs a cash-strapped bicycle sales/repair business in Boise asked for the same kind of assistance Dr. Bollinger would show him to the door. Such a person would not be of Dr. Bollinger’s class and therefore “not deserving.”
I understand Martin Luther King had a sex life similar to Kennedy’s, and this is still not written or talked about. My point is not to attack Dr. King, but to highlight that the MSM and academia does not approach its subjects honestly, never has and never will.
The problem with today’s “journalists” in the MSM is that they don’t report the news anymore. It used to be, a newspaperman would write a story with the four “W’s”…Who, What, When and Where. Sometimes, they’d dig a little deeper and try to find out Why. Nowadays, MSM journalists are too busy interjecting their own political biases into their stories, basically becoming editorialists instead of reporters.
Just a thought, Mike
Bollinger seems to have forgotten the Stalinist speech codes that are a staple of modern American public universities. He may not want to admit it, but the professors and administrators of public universities who dream up and administer those codes are government employees. These codes are a glaring example of how the government flexes its considerable muscle to suppress ideas and opinions it does not like. So what reason does Bollinger have to believe that similar ironclad control of the press will not result from government subsidies?
It is no accident that as government funding of public universities has increased the attacks on the rights and civil liberties of those deemed “intolerant” has also increased. Dissent has become treason in modern public universities, and must be severely punished by those who have anointed themselves our moral and intellectual superiors. The loss of freedom that many American historians only imagined happened in the 1950s because of Senator Joe McCarthy is now a reality because of the “diversity” Bollinger favors.
Or did Bollinger forget? The alternative hypotheses is that he is perfectly well aware of the destructive impact on freedom and civil liberties that government subsidies have. He knows and approves. Just as students and professors who fail to propagate state-approved beliefs are routinely discriminated against at American public universities, journalists in publicly funded news outfits who fail to adhere to the government-approved version of news will be forced out. This is appealing to left-wing extremists like Bollinger, who find the whole idea of free speech too dangerous. It is far easier to prosecute a student or professor (or a journalist) for “racism” or “homophobia” than it is to defeat their ideas in debate.
I teach mathematics at a community college, so I know what I am talking about “Diversity” is a code word for censorship.
Newspapers and reporters have a long tradition of being full of crap. About the time I was born, all of the city newspapers in my home state of Montana were owned by the dominant Anaconda Copper Company. As you can imagine, nothing that made the Company look bad saw the light of day in their papers. It was kind of the same deal the Democrat Party enjoys with the AP and most newspapers today.
If you were a college freshman today, would you be considering journalism school? Me neither, but Bollinger is president of a university with a large expensive J-school. He’s just talking up a jobs program for its otherwise unemployable graduates.
Personally, I could care less about Jefferson’s or Kennedy’s sexual exploits. If one wishes to document them for historic purposes, go for it. But in the real world of what does matter & what does not, its all salacious bedroom talk.
The very idea the MSM would push for federal taxpayer funding is pathetic in the extreme. The best example why we cannot & should not do this is, CPB or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its subsidiary, National Public Radio (NPR) is as biased as MSNBC. The difference is, NPR tries to accomplish the same biased reporting as MSNBC, using the vernacular of upper crusty style w/ classical music in the background, rather than vicious vitriol spewed by people like Keith Olbermann or those suffering from physical ailments like Chris Matthews & his leg tingles. (P.A.D. anyone?)
The public already distrusts the ‘old establishment mainstream media’. And they do so with great good reason. What the media reports is distorted & in many cases what they do not report is as or more important than what they do report. If media employees are bent on biased ideological reporting now, imagine what they will do w/ the news once they are beholden to their hyper partisan bureaucratic federal paymasters?
This is ‘another’ attempt to bypass the free market. Times are changing and so too are the means which the people obtain their news. If the internet or any other venue is pushing old media forms out of business, I suggest they either adapt or go out of business. These folks realize the public is rejecting their form of “journalism,” & the public also realizes these media types are using their positions of journalistic trust to propagandize for the political ideology they personally support!
Why should ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, or even the New York Times & other liberal rags, get public taxpayer funding because their subscribers are abandoning them? FOX News is not having this problem! Their ratings are up through the roof! Why is that? To tell me FOX is succeeding because they are pandering to a specific political class, is to tell me, the public does not support the political class the old media types do support!
Perhaps the old media types need to rethink their political ideology & realize it is they who are out of touch & not the people or even FOX News? You either provide the material, product, or service, the public wants, or you go out of business. To have the public provide financial support for a failing business is a horrible idea. Maybe these old media folks should go back to school & learn a new trade? That is what they smugly tell us to do in their articles when the businesses we work for are passed by, by time & technology!
The opportunity for hyper partisan biased reporting by media dependent on & therefore controlled by their paymasters within a government bureaucracy, is far too dangerous. We want news reporting, not ideological propaganda that we are forced to pay for through taxes! That type of “news” worked well for the old Soviet Union. We are not communists, although there seems to be many in America who would have us so!
Great article, but I wonder if the term ” oblivious” is appropriate here.
I think Professor Doctor Bollinger knows exactly the effects that government patronage of the legacy media would bring. But he doesn’t mind, because he assumes that the allocation of the shekels will always be in the hands of people with whom he agrees.
It’s rather like what took place in the Big Housing Bust out here in California:
everybody knew what was gonna happen. They just planned for it to happen to somebody else. Here’s an interesting experiment someone should try: ask President Bollinger why he didn’t make that proposal while Bush was still in office….
And don’t forget the abominable cover-up on behalf of John Edwards, which occurred while people were STILL donating money to his presidential campaign -not to mention the MSM’s startling incuriosity about BHO’s past.
Prof. Tipler, you are slacking over there. Claudia Rosett already wrote this up on Wednesday. But I will overlook your tardiness, being as how you are an enemy of the state #38, for climate crimes against insanity.
I suppose we cannot blame Mr. Bollinger and his fellow journalists for wanting their 30 pieces of silver. But as far as I’m concerned they can seek their reward from the Democrat Party that they served rather than from the rest of us. They pawned their honor with open eyes. Now they can just go ahead and watch their profession collapse.
S Rubicon
They will, IMO, NEVER “rethink their political ideology and realize that it is they who are out of touch.
With such folks it is ALWAYS “you” that have the problem and NEVER “them.”
I really liked the line about them learning a new trade as they often tell us to do……..only “problem” with it was logic and common sense……so none of them are going to pay any attention.
S. Rubicon
The above should read “the only “problem” with your post is that it is FULL of logic and common sense….so none of them are going to pay any attention.”
Hit “submit” before I checked it.
The Russian government’s alleged remains of Adolf Hitler have recently been proven via DNA tests to be from an unknown woman. See:
Uki Goñi, “Tests on skull fragment cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story: Bone with bullet hole found by Russians in 1946 came from an unknown woman, not the German leader”, The Observer (U.K.), September 27, 2009.
Since this result has been obtained, the Russian government’s story regarding Hitler’s death has changed. See:
Andrew Osborn, “Adolf Hitler ‘did not shoot himself’: Russia’s top KGB archivist has claimed Adolf Hitler poisoned himself rather than committing suicide with a gun in the manner of a ‘soldier’”, Telegraph (U.K.), May 7, 2010.
Whatever the case, we now know that we’ve been lied to for all these decades regarding Hitler’s fate. This leaves it an open historical question as to what the fate of Hitler actually was.
During Thomas Jefferson’s first term as president, newspapers opposed to Jefferson printed stories that he had several children by his slave Sally Hemings. DNA evidence has indicated that this was indeed the case.
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Actually the DNA only revealed that somebody related to Jefferson had children with somebody who was an ancestor of those people currently identified as descendants of Sally Hemings. Not that it was T. Jefferson and S. Heming directly.
but it is known that their paternal great-grandfather was Adolf Hitler’s father. These three Americans, in other words, have the same Y-chromosome as Adolf Hitler.
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That would only be true if the the descent is entirely through the male line.
Isnt this the same fool who invited Im a Dumb Jihad from Iran to speak on the campus? Enough said right there-another colossal idiot.
The government dictates research quite effectively with its choice of what to fund. You can’t make tenure in any respectable research university these days without a reasonable source of funding, and you can’t get funding in most cases without playing the game on the government’s terms.