Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:34 pm
There's nothing to "take." It's very simple: the legacy media has contradicted the legacy media. Neither you nor I need say more. It's just the fact.
The legacy media has been, from the very start, always in some degree of self-contradiction.
Yellow-journalism now refers to sensational journalism or 'click-bait'. But it emerged (I suppose principally) when the *powers-that-be* were advocating for the Spanish-American War. That war (involving Cuba and The Philippines) involved one of America's most notable forays into *neo-imperialism* which, by definition, opposes and contradicts America's foundational ideals of self-determination, democratic rule, etc.
From Wiki: Hearst (the Hearst newspapers) became a war hawk after a rebellion broke out in Cuba in 1895. Stories of Cuban virtue and Spanish brutality soon dominated his front page. While the accounts were of dubious accuracy, the newspaper readers of the 19th century did not expect, or necessarily want, his stories to be pure nonfiction. Historian Michael Robertson has said that "Newspaper reporters and readers of the 1890s were much less concerned with distinguishing among fact-based reporting, opinion and literature."
Note that Mark Twain was a strong opponent of these adventures, and indeed they marked a decisive shift in foreign policy that never has abated. Twain wrote in New York Herald, October 15, 1900:
I left these shores, at Vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with he Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Phillippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do
I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of their own, put a miniature of the American constitution afloat in the Pacific, start a brand new republic to take its place among the free nations of the world. It seemed to me a great task to which had addressed ourselves.
But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Phillippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. . .
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
And in a February 1901 article titled, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," he wrote:
There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land. . .
True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned against the weak and the friendless who trusted us; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest; we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell; we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty; we have invited clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket and do bandit's work under a flag which bandits have been accustomed to fear, not to follow; we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world. . .
And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one--our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.
There is no way, at this point, for "Legacy Media" (media systems generally) to become non-partisan since they are owned by the same structures that comprise the System itself. Possibly the only media that could *tell the truth* would be non-aligned media. A mere
drop in the bucket of what is communicated through conventional channels.
Here, it is nicely explained in
this clip.