Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Hill"
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@princeobah7995 When the USA was originally constituted, and for over a century AFTER ratification of the U.S. Constitution, EVERYBODY KNEW that "The Press" meant people with a political (or theological) axe to grind. The point of the 1st Amendment wasn't to ensure helpless consumers of news got the truth, but to respect EVERYone 's right to speak their mind. There was no "Ministry of Truth."
The point was that everybody's got a bias, and the everyday person should be able to pick and choose what seems the most truthful to THEM. The so-called "Fairness Doctrine" was a huge bait-and-switch, where people were FOOLED into believing that the BIG NETWORKS and BIG PAPERS were printing objective truth, without fail. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Now, rather than being pissed off at how far off the rails the legacy networks are, I REJOICE at the fact that the hidden bias is now out in the open and the people are finally aware of it. There are some decent rags out there who get most things right, like Just The News. The Hill's got a more obvious axe to grind, but they're mostly truthful about the things they choose to report. The REAL censorship/bias is in the choice of what to report at all, and it's refreshing to see some conservative bias to balance the statist bias that prevails on all the legacy networks whose news ratings are in the tank.
I think the independents are going to piggyback on the legacy news until the legacy news runs out of steam, and demand for hard facts and real news creates a whole new ecosystem of reporters and news agencies. Until the legacy networks dry up and lose their monopoly on 90% of the reporting, things won't really change much from what we have now. But they're running out of steam as we speak. Ratings are causing more and more layoffs. Eventually, there'll be a market for a whole new class of independent reporters or freelancers, contracting with different channels or forming co-ops. Like to see the co-op thing take root.
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