The problem is that we (and by that I mean leaders) whine about unfairness but then don't get out and compete in the marketplace of ideas well.
Ha! Now this is funny. You are calling that massive trillion dollar broadcasting infrastructure completely owned and controlled by the leftest "elite" members of our society a "free market."
There are tons of available alternatives, each providing many viewpoints, but we spend all our (again, 'our' as by so-called leaders) bitching and whining versus making our case.
What is this "alternative" that will allow Conservative voices to reach 20-30 million people every single day without being filtered by the left?
Information is a free market idea like any product.
"Information" is not a "free market." Information is power, and those people who have the ability to control it or substitute false information have the power to manipulate elections, and that is what they have been doing since at least John F. Kennedy.
When we want our product to succeed in the free market, we promote our product the best we can. We don't use the strong arm of the government to slap down the competition (cronyism at best, fascism at worst).
Competition? How do you have competition in a monopoly? There is no competition. I don't know of a single conservative news source that broadcasts to millions of people every night. All of them are in the hands of liberals, and liberal censors control what gets on the air.
The current plan, to bar cameras from press briefings is asinine and does absolutely nothing to help our values-
It establishes the premise that we regard the Media people as enemy combatants for whom we no longer have any respect. It is a point that very badly needs to get made, and most especially made from a position of power, such as the office of the Presidency.
at that, it cuts ourselves off at the knees- removing the visual evidence of our counter arguments if something said in a report is disputed. It is nothing more than a power play, and a foolish one at that- now it leaves the report to be the 'opinion' of the writer, not the facts as captured on film.
You mean it more accurately reflects what has actually been going on for decades? Sounds good to me. Let it be known that these people have always been pushing their opinions while claiming they were "news." As far as a "power play" goes, yes it is, and that is exactly the point.
The Presidency lends legitimacy to the prattlings of these liberal agents, and now he has demonstrated that he can take it away by denying them face time on Camera in his press conferences.
As the French put it " à bon chat, bon rat."
If we are failing in the market of ideas, we (again, leaders, not people like you and I whose voice is just a bit and byte) need a big mirror, not daddy government to bring a big hammer and silence anything we don't like.
We aren't failing in the marketplace of ideas because there is no open market of ideas. There is a socialist controlled "stage" upon which puppets mouth words and make gestures. A market place of ideas would allow us to show anti-abortion information, or information about the incidence of diseases running through the homosexual communities. It would allow us to point out information
about Muslim practices such as this, or how the crime statistics are always hushed up to ignore the elephant in the room.
We operate in a system where the left controls and censors what the people may hear. It is a system that turns the very purpose of "free speech" on it's ear. And it's not a "free market" of ideas.
