Burt, if one was an arrogant prig…masquerading as an historian…one could ask “What’s the Matter with Manhattan?” or “What’s the Matter With Berkeley?”
Deadwood media are acting in manner inconsistent with their own economic health and welfare, in order to sustain a worldview.
The fact that the worldview they choose to espouse is arrogant, narrow-minded, hypocritical, antagonistic, puerile, elitist, anti-military, anti-American, anti-Israel, poorly researched, poorly edited, oftentimes forged, plagiarized or fauxtography-filled….is of little moment to them. It’s intent is and has been to indoctrinate opinions, not stimulate debate.
It’s intent is and has been to brainwash, not mind expand. It’s intent is and has been to grind out dissent, not advance discussion on topics of the day.
It’s intent is and has been to paint corporate America in a bad light, to denigrate the military, to denounce certain faiths, to peer pressure the easily swayed. It has become the Cultism of Communication. Hollywood is an arm, deadwood media is an arm, academia is an arm, the alphabet newsrooms are an arm. They have stifled, strangled, snuffed out not just dissent…but ANY voice expressing a different opinion within their confines.
Like a steam pressure valve…those points of view responded to the strangulation…by popping up in vents elsewhere. The blogosphere, talk radio, Fox News.
The leftists cling to their elitism and antagonist-theism because “belonging” to the peer pressure accepted group is more important than their own welfare. Certainly more important than the free expression of ideas and absolutely more important than the welfare of the country to which they belong in name only….not in heart or soul. These are people who are no longer proud to be Americans, they wish to be One World Socialists. They have a residence here, but are Timeshare Americans.
“What’s Wrong with Press Row?” They sold out and bought into Timeshare America.
