Obama is, IMO, the worst political figure in modern history. That's including Biden and Hillary and all of the criminals in the W. Bush administration.
Repealing the ban on domestic propaganda was probably the most damaging policy decision that flew under the radar in my lifetime. I attribute a large chunk of what's gone wrong in the last ten years to that, if not directly then by allowing the flames to be fanned.
That change had nothing to do with private media. It allowed the state department to broadcast its news segments (that they had been producing for years for overseas audiences) within US borders.
Operation Mockingbird started 70 years ago and despite the senate hearings that brought it to light, nothing was done to curtail such behavior going forward, and indeed it continued to flourish well before Obama was in the picture.
I don't say any of this to defend that piece of shit, but the whole "Obama legalized propaganda and that's why the media is so fucked" narrative is just flat out wrong.
Obama is, IMO, the worst political figure in modern history. That's including Biden and Hillary and all of the criminals in the W. Bush administration.
And I say that as someone who voted for him.
Repealing the ban on domestic propaganda was probably the most damaging policy decision that flew under the radar in my lifetime. I attribute a large chunk of what's gone wrong in the last ten years to that, if not directly then by allowing the flames to be fanned.
That change had nothing to do with private media. It allowed the state department to broadcast its news segments (that they had been producing for years for overseas audiences) within US borders.
Operation Mockingbird started 70 years ago and despite the senate hearings that brought it to light, nothing was done to curtail such behavior going forward, and indeed it continued to flourish well before Obama was in the picture.
I don't say any of this to defend that piece of shit, but the whole "Obama legalized propaganda and that's why the media is so fucked" narrative is just flat out wrong.
Glad you chimed in about that. Allow me to post my favorite quote ever about the media:
Philip Graham of the Washington Post quotes a CIA operative that "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."