This is pure censorship by billionaires who have caved to a fascist regime so they can enrich themselves and are too weak to own up for their mistakes and callous actions against the laws that make the environment and ppl safe.
My guess is that Netanyahu whispered something disturbingly significant into Trump's ear. Something like: 'The assassin never missed his mark by grazing your ear. He did exactly as he was instructed to do. JFK never received the same second chance as you.'
And/or Netanyahu showed Donald the Mossad’s Trump Files with all of the (what remains of his) career/reputation etcetera destroying information.
ABC and Disney seem to have grow a set of testicles. They got the message from Jimmy Kimmel fans. As for CBS, we need to make that network a complete wasteland until it's sold. In the meantime, Jimmy Kimmel wins the Peabody award for spreading truth with comedy. Take note US media. It's time to get the corporate officers out of the newsroom.
And of course since you wrote this the whole CBS debacle has blown up. Since I don't watch TV news at all, it isn't hard to boycott CBS. But I also find that if I click on a link to CBS news, I don't read it, but look for some other source that covers the story. I do wish Substackers would simply stop linking to CBS unless they are talking ABOUT CBS; the least we can do is starve it of clicks.
From both right-wing and left-wing news media, too much of ‘journalism’ is motivated more by a paycheck and publication (‘a buck and a byline’) rather than a genuine strive to challenge the big and bad powers that be: To truly comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence. Mainstream news-media have been editorially emasculated thus negligent, however much it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control.
Such journalism’s traditional function may also be subtly changing. The adage-description of journalism’s fundamental function can remain the same, but revision of terminological representation is definitely in order. While it remains “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” there may be an alteration to what/who constitutes an “afflicted” and “the comfortable”.
Also, over decades I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. I have to say that such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling and copulating with intent to procreate.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored or missing coverage of a brutally lopsided foreign war or that of domestic corporate corruption that will harm the populace. Instead, the mainstream news-media's distortion and diversion continues.
On some important social/societal matters, too much media have gone far beyond simply being biased. They simply have corrupted themselves. What astonishes me, though, is how such news-media professionals can afterwards sleep at night or look their little children/grandchildren in the face everyday?
This is pure censorship by billionaires who have caved to a fascist regime so they can enrich themselves and are too weak to own up for their mistakes and callous actions against the laws that make the environment and ppl safe.
Thank you Mark, for staying on top of the speeding bullet train of alarming events.
We must be made aware.
These creeping strangulations of the Free Press and the attempt to swallow the Truth keep me awake at night.
Truth is the antidote to Fascism. They are trying to bury Truth
Oh my fascinating
Not inconceivable
If not true
It’s a good novel im the making
My guess is that Netanyahu whispered something disturbingly significant into Trump's ear. Something like: 'The assassin never missed his mark by grazing your ear. He did exactly as he was instructed to do. JFK never received the same second chance as you.'
And/or Netanyahu showed Donald the Mossad’s Trump Files with all of the (what remains of his) career/reputation etcetera destroying information.
ABC and Disney seem to have grow a set of testicles. They got the message from Jimmy Kimmel fans. As for CBS, we need to make that network a complete wasteland until it's sold. In the meantime, Jimmy Kimmel wins the Peabody award for spreading truth with comedy. Take note US media. It's time to get the corporate officers out of the newsroom.
Indeed,Trump’s hands are dirty. But to lay all the problems with newspapers and other media at Trump’s feet is goofy.
And of course since you wrote this the whole CBS debacle has blown up. Since I don't watch TV news at all, it isn't hard to boycott CBS. But I also find that if I click on a link to CBS news, I don't read it, but look for some other source that covers the story. I do wish Substackers would simply stop linking to CBS unless they are talking ABOUT CBS; the least we can do is starve it of clicks.
From both right-wing and left-wing news media, too much of ‘journalism’ is motivated more by a paycheck and publication (‘a buck and a byline’) rather than a genuine strive to challenge the big and bad powers that be: To truly comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence. Mainstream news-media have been editorially emasculated thus negligent, however much it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control.
Such journalism’s traditional function may also be subtly changing. The adage-description of journalism’s fundamental function can remain the same, but revision of terminological representation is definitely in order. While it remains “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” there may be an alteration to what/who constitutes an “afflicted” and “the comfortable”.
Also, over decades I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. I have to say that such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling and copulating with intent to procreate.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored or missing coverage of a brutally lopsided foreign war or that of domestic corporate corruption that will harm the populace. Instead, the mainstream news-media's distortion and diversion continues.
On some important social/societal matters, too much media have gone far beyond simply being biased. They simply have corrupted themselves. What astonishes me, though, is how such news-media professionals can afterwards sleep at night or look their little children/grandchildren in the face everyday?