On Contact: Biden Admin - Redux #DeepState, #Empire & #Censorship

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Biden Admin - Redux #DeepState, #Empire & #Censorship

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they want to maintain a monopoly over
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the dissemination of information and
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they’re not
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and the the most shocking part of it is
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the people who are leading this crusade
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the censorship crusade our journalists
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are the people who work at
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the large corporate media outlets
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they’re the biggest and most vocal
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cheerleaders
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for corporate censorship of anybody
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because they don’t want any other voices
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competing with their own
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you make a point in one of your columns
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about the
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and the and the raison d’etre for that
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we’re talking about publications like
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the new york times
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is they claim that they’re nonpartisan
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uh and you kind of devastate this
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argument
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uh but lay that out for us the idea that
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uh these partisan outlets whether the
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left or the right are shut down and
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censored
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and uh there is a uh direction
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the people who seek news are directed to
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established media outlets like the new
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york times
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as if they are objective but but
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please explain that fallacy so i’ve you
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know obviously there has been
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a lurking question for 15
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years now or so with the advent of the
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internet which is
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how is it that media outlets and
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newspapers can survive
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when there’s so much free content online
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as a result of the internet where can
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they get their
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revenue from it used to be that they
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could get it from advertisers but
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advertisers now primarily go to google
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and facebook and they collect 90 to 95
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of what used to be media advertising
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money people
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are unwilling increasingly to pay for
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content
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online and so these media outlets were
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in serious trouble and so the model that
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they adopted
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in order to become financially viable
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was to become
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a cause to say we’re not just objective
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news disseminators because you can get
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that anywhere we’re gonna be
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devoted to a particular political cause
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and because you agree with that cause so
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passionately
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you’re gonna give us your money the way
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that you give your money to the aclu or
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to some other group that you support
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so the new york times cnn msnbc
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all these other outlets positioned
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themselves as
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anti-trump outlets and everything that
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they did
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became designed to appease
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and aggrandize essentially the
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democratic party because that is who
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became their audience the democrats are
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now the audience of the white affluent
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managerial costs that’s where you get
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subscription money from because of this
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financial incentive to become
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essentially organs of or spokespeople
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for the democratic party obviously not
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the socialist movement within the
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democratic party but the establishment
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neoliberal
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and yet the argument is that they
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somehow aren’t partisan
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that’s the argument that they make to
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justify
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diverting uh readers towards their
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content
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yeah you know it’s kind of ironic
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because when i began writing about
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politics in 2005 one of my motives
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was i did think that this kind of
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pseudo-neutrality or
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pseudo objectivity that the media had
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long
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adopted for themselves was destroying
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journalism and the example that
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bothered me the most at the time was
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that the bush administration began
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implementing a system of worldwide
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torture and
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media outlets refused to call it torture
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on the ground so well the bush
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administration denies that it’s torture
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human rights groups and everyone else
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around the world says it is
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who are we to decide we’re just
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journalists we tell you what one side
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says we tell you what the other side
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says and then we wash our hands
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of the question and that was clearly a
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corrupting form of journalism because it
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precludes
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the truth and i always advocated for a
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more adversarial and honest
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form of journalism that’s willing to
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call lies from government officials
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lives in a sense they’ve adopted that
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but only in a very partisan sense
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they’re only willing to do that when it
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comes to donald trump because that’s all
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their readership wants to hear
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you’re going to see a radical shift in
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how the u.s government is covered
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now that biden and the democrats are
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about to take over i’ll bet you
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you can count on one hand the number of
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times cnn will have a crying on screen
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calling a press secretary statement or
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the president’s or the vice president’s
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statement a lie
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or false because they’re not
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doing journalism they’re doing activism
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on the part of the democratic party that
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is the model they’ve assumed
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great that was pulitzer prize-winning
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journalist glenn greenwald
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on what to expect from the incoming
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biden administration