*I reworked the penultimate paragraph substantially earlier this morning so this is an update.
De facto Minister of Propaganda Sean Spicer spent a considerable portion of this week's press question and answer session cutting off questions and reading, reading into the record so that newspapers of record would reprint and hence amplify Spicer's lies and dissembling.
I am going to keep this up as long as the Fourth Estate keeps acting as amplifier for De Facto's lies and misstatements:
Do not go as lemmings over the cliff with these scum. Come to realize that you are being rolled. Come to realize that De Facto is crack to you, that you are addicted. Just say no and refuse to go.
This is new having a minister of propaganda in America and a pathological liar as de facto president of the United States. But it has been going on 60 days since inauguration and the campaign was an accurate template for this cowardly new world. You must adapt to this cynical, ominous new world of "alternative facts," "fake news" and "false narratives." It takes time but it has taken too much time, you are still getting rolled.
You need to exercise a discipline foreign to you but if you do not adapt you become these lying scum's amplifiers. Don't do it.
The new masthead of the Washington Post is "Democracy dies in darkness." The precisely encapsulated mission for you now is "Demagogy dies in darkness." Don't cover his press conferences, don't reprint their lies verbatim, you act as amplifier for their lies and a handmaiden in application of a Gresham's law in public discourse.
Crack is a very difficult addiction to kick. You don't know what to do and so you are not trying. Demagogy WILL die in darkness; Democracy may die in darkness, but the First Amendment thrives in darkness. Then it is the only light! Indeed, the First Amendment can be bleached dry in too much direct light. That is the mistake you are making. You are printing too much. The current crisis-for American democracy, for a free press-is not that you have been plunged into darkness because the authoritarian state has pulled the plug on the lamps, the crisis is that you are addicted to light! You must have all the lights on, you must print everything they say, which means their lies. You have no experience with being parsimonious. You falsely equate freedom and compulsion. The First Amendment makes you free to publish most anything you want-and free to not publish anything you want. You are free, you are not compelled. You must learn to live with less light because the "light"
of lies is killing democracy.
In the history of evolution only those species which adapt to changes in their environment survive. Choose your sense, hearing or sight: Democracy and the Fourth Estate in America are being weakened by sensory overload not by sensory deprivation. If they don't adapt they will go the way of the passenger pigeon and "exist" only in museums, stuffed.
De facto Minister of Propaganda Sean Spicer spent a considerable portion of this week's press question and answer session cutting off questions and reading, reading into the record so that newspapers of record would reprint and hence amplify Spicer's lies and dissembling.
I am going to keep this up as long as the Fourth Estate keeps acting as amplifier for De Facto's lies and misstatements:
Do not go as lemmings over the cliff with these scum. Come to realize that you are being rolled. Come to realize that De Facto is crack to you, that you are addicted. Just say no and refuse to go.
This is new having a minister of propaganda in America and a pathological liar as de facto president of the United States. But it has been going on 60 days since inauguration and the campaign was an accurate template for this cowardly new world. You must adapt to this cynical, ominous new world of "alternative facts," "fake news" and "false narratives." It takes time but it has taken too much time, you are still getting rolled.
You need to exercise a discipline foreign to you but if you do not adapt you become these lying scum's amplifiers. Don't do it.
The new masthead of the Washington Post is "Democracy dies in darkness." The precisely encapsulated mission for you now is "Demagogy dies in darkness." Don't cover his press conferences, don't reprint their lies verbatim, you act as amplifier for their lies and a handmaiden in application of a Gresham's law in public discourse.
Crack is a very difficult addiction to kick. You don't know what to do and so you are not trying. Demagogy WILL die in darkness; Democracy may die in darkness, but the First Amendment thrives in darkness. Then it is the only light! Indeed, the First Amendment can be bleached dry in too much direct light. That is the mistake you are making. You are printing too much. The current crisis-for American democracy, for a free press-is not that you have been plunged into darkness because the authoritarian state has pulled the plug on the lamps, the crisis is that you are addicted to light! You must have all the lights on, you must print everything they say, which means their lies. You have no experience with being parsimonious. You falsely equate freedom and compulsion. The First Amendment makes you free to publish most anything you want-and free to not publish anything you want. You are free, you are not compelled. You must learn to live with less light because the "light"
of lies is killing democracy.
In the history of evolution only those species which adapt to changes in their environment survive. Choose your sense, hearing or sight: Democracy and the Fourth Estate in America are being weakened by sensory overload not by sensory deprivation. If they don't adapt they will go the way of the passenger pigeon and "exist" only in museums, stuffed.
