Op-Ed: The unchecked power of liberal media

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” –Noam Chomsky

In the European feudal era, there were three estates; the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. In 1771 upon opening up of the House of Commons to the press Edmund Burke announced, “The gallery in which the reporters sit is now the fourth estate.” Burke dubbed the press an “independent branch of government” whose only duty in Parliament was to watch over the people’s government.

If Burke was alive today, he’d be cursing that press. Throughout the years, media has suppressed the other three estates and it is the only remaining estate. They are no longer watchdogs over the government but their lapdogs. Media has become hit-men that do dirty work for the highest bidder.

When truth sold papers and reporters would dig up stories that sold them, gum shoes searched archives to find real news. It helped keep government honest until politicians learned how to use media for their benefit. Once politicians and media joined forces, truth in reporting soon vanished.

When papers like the Penny Saver, whose profits came from advertisers, entered the market, media soon followed. This new source of revenue made media less dependent on reporting factual news. When media abandoned objective reporting for profits, that ended the mission of the fourth estate.

Today’s fourth estate is a dangerous collective power with broad influence. It consists of all news media: TV, radio, the press, and social media. They mix fact with fiction and call it news. This is not the journalism we learned in college or as rookie reporters, but yellow-dog journalism at its worst.

The unholy alliance of Democrats and liberal media has married power with money to force-feed liberal idealism down the throats of passive Americans, who take little or no interest in politics. “If you do not take an interest in politics, it doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles

The merging of the left and media has been a success in controlling elections. Democrats have the money and liberal media has the power to elect progressives to office, and promote their agendas. Media turned community organizer Barack Obama into a global celebrity. They ran cover for his mistakes for eighth years and “back-paged” every foreign and domestic policy blunder he made.

Donald Trump was brutally punished by liberal media and Democrats from the day he took office. Although he was the most successful president in years, he was impeached twice. After he left office, the left convicted him of 34 bogus felonies in a Democratic Kangaroo Court, to shame and discredit him. “When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough!” – Donald Trump

Liberal media takes their orders from Democratic operatives and will light a fire or put one out with one call from the DNC. When Hunter Biden’s laptop was found loaded with information that linked Joe Biden to suspicious dealings with China and the Ukraine, liberal media refused to report it and blocked it on social media. Yet a recent NY Post poll found that over half the voters believe truthful coverage of the laptop scandal would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

A striking example of how Democrats use the power of liberal media to influence public option is how they turned the failures of VP Kamala Harris, whose approval ratings were the worst in history, into positive talking points overnight. The day after Democrats announced she’d replace Joe Biden on the presidential ticket, her past was forgotten and she became liberal media’s newest superstar.

In vetting Harris, media praised her ascent through California politics as San Francisco’s DA and Attorney General and her one year as U.S. Senator. Yet she had the worst conviction rate of any DA in the state. She was also the center of a scandal with San Francisco’s crime lab. As Attorney General, her Smart on Crime policy increased violent crime by 10%, its highest mark in 22 years.

For the last three plus years she’s been criticized by the same media and members of her party for her vague answers to serious questions about domestic and foreign policies. She has struggled to articulate any coherent ideologies or express harmonious positions on any issues except abortion.

“If I am elected, I will make abortion a federal right for every woman in America.” – Kamala Harris

As vice president, Harris failed to make any impact in her roles as Border Czar, on Gun Violence Prevention or Artificial Intelligence. When questioned about her failures, she avoids answering by repeating herself with odd vocal mannerisms, maladroit laughs and painful rambling “word salads.”

Despite her lack of merits and achievements at every stage of her career, the left has deemed her their perfect candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Harris checks every box: She is an ethnic minority, a woman of color, will do what she is told and the most progressive candidate in America.

Media in today’s society has immense influence and it has a profound impact on all aspects of our lives. Media shapes public opinion and our beliefs. It molds how we view society and the world by glorifying their agitprop to sculpture and discipline our social, political, moral and cultural values.

As prodigies of Voltaire, the media has dethroned the clergy and has become the new arbiters of moral rightness. Today, we allow media to control our lives. They decide what thoughts and words are acceptable. Media chooses who is blacklisted from society and which national companies and public institutions we should or should not support in a world they firmly believe belongs to them.

Media knows Democrats can’t accept losing. Since the 2000 Florida presidential election, the left united with liberal media to control the narrative in every election. When the middle class workers refused to accept eight more years of progressive absolutism, they elected Donald Trump. And this election they’ll do everything possible to keep Donald Trump from entering the White House again.

Since media abdicated its mission to convey accurate, unbiased information, it’s preeminent we get our news from legitimate, trustworthy sources, such as non profits who must report accurately or lose their 501 IRS status. Ethical journalists report news without personal opinions supported by facts and statistics. Being fair, honest and objective maintains the public’s trust and their credibility.

How long are we going to allow liberal media and progressives to control free elections before we fight back? How long are we going to watch them pass questionable laws for special interests and identity groups that don’t benefit the general public? How long will we allow liberal media to fuel our political divide to empower them over us? This is our republic. Can we save it? Only if we wish.

“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’ – exercised through the mass media.” – Noam Chomsky