The Media Are Agents of Propaganda
by David Catron
Last Thursday Vice President JD Vance joined a White House press briefing to discuss initiatives the Trump administration is taking to investigate the pervasive welfare fraud that has been discovered in Minnesota. He was inevitably asked questions about the death of Renee Good after she attempted to drive her SUV over an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Vance described the media coverage of the death as “disgraceful,” and followed up with this question: “You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourselves become agents of propaganda?” The collective response of the “reporters” was to disregard the question, but the answer is vital to the future of the republic.
The ICE officer was not only hit by Good’s SUV, he was briefly hospitalized due his injuries. There is no way an objective viewer can watch this video and draw another conclusion.
In a letter to the British philosopher Richard Price, Thomas Jefferson observed that “wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government.” Jefferson was, of course, an ardent advocate of a free press whose function would be to provide voters with accurate information about the government’s actions in order to assess the competence of their elected leaders. By that standard, it’s unlikely that the Sage of Monticello would dignify the corporate media with the appellation, “free press.” This term implies that, in addition to being free of government coercion, the press must be untrammeled by ideological prejudices which render it impossible to report facts objectively. Today’s corporate media have failed that test spectacularly.
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