As I discussed with Rob Maness, the media has morphed into a lapdog for those in power, dutifully parroting the official narrative while silencing any opposing voices.
"...Many Americans have an undying faith in the media and thus revere this man-made entity without realizing they are doing so. These people usually consider anything printed or spoken by the media as gospel, and this is precisely how these opinion-shapers would have it.
"People who idolize the media are, at the best, naïve:
'The simple [naïve] believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.' (Proverbs 14:15)
"We are to live 'by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of YHWH' (Deuteronomy 8:3).
The word of everyone else should be judged by 'the mouth of two or three witnesses' (2 Corinthians 13:1).
"Howard Beal of Network described the media:
'If you want truth, don’t come to us. We will tell you anything but the truth. Go to God.… Go to your gurus, go to yourselves. But, don’t come to us.… Your lives are real, we are an illusion.'36
"That is what an idol is: an illusion....
"The impression of an independent press in America is part of the illusion. In 1898, at an annual dinner of the American Press Association, John Swinton, the one-time editor-in-chief of the New York Times, was called upon to toast journalism and America’s free press. He responded in a surprising way:
'There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.38 You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150.00 a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with—others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things—and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to revile, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an “Independent Press.” We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.'39
'Journalism, once a profession, and then a trade, is now a crime.'40...."
"...Many Americans have an undying faith in the media and thus revere this man-made entity without realizing they are doing so. These people usually consider anything printed or spoken by the media as gospel, and this is precisely how these opinion-shapers would have it.
"People who idolize the media are, at the best, naïve:
'The simple [naïve] believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.' (Proverbs 14:15)
"We are to live 'by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of YHWH' (Deuteronomy 8:3).
The word of everyone else should be judged by 'the mouth of two or three witnesses' (2 Corinthians 13:1).
"Howard Beal of Network described the media:
'If you want truth, don’t come to us. We will tell you anything but the truth. Go to God.… Go to your gurus, go to yourselves. But, don’t come to us.… Your lives are real, we are an illusion.'36
"That is what an idol is: an illusion....
"The impression of an independent press in America is part of the illusion. In 1898, at an annual dinner of the American Press Association, John Swinton, the one-time editor-in-chief of the New York Times, was called upon to toast journalism and America’s free press. He responded in a surprising way:
'There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns.38 You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150.00 a week for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with—others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things—and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to revile, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an “Independent Press.” We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.'39
'Journalism, once a profession, and then a trade, is now a crime.'40...."
For more, see "Thou shalt not make unto the any graven image," the second in a series of ten free online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and civil judgments, at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/onlineBooks/second-commandment.html
Great guest.
I have seen him on worldviewtube.com
He is a true gentleman and patriot.
Thanks for sharing his insight and knowledge with us all.