Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "WATCH: Crowd shouts down reporter during Trump presser" video.
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The press's ORIGINAL job was to take sides, and the 1st Amendment exists to ALLOW that. In the 20th Century we forgot about that and we've been lying to ourselves ever since that the media are or ever WERE objective! And except for FOX, plus a bunch of other networks denied a place in cable, the legacy media are one-note. The Founding Fathers envisioned an open and free competition between competing viewpoints. In the 20th and on into the 21st Century, we bought into one perspective as The Objective perspective, when the networks should always have been fighting and bickering between different world views, while the American people decided for themselves which viewpoint is closer to the truth.
The "good old days" of objective journalism NEVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. Things are contentious, now, and so much censoring is going on, now, because the MONOLITH lost its stranglehold on the public square. It's ugly. It's messy. It's the way things should be. Everyone agreeing is SCARY - or should be! Everyone bickering and arguing over proposed changes is SUPPOSED to keep things fairly close to what was already a pretty good thing, already.
Our system is supposed to keep it simple, and not deviate much from basic principles. The feds hastily stick their noses into EVERYthing, with less skill or competence than the average person working in the field or industry over which the federal government wrongly legislates. Free flow of information in a free market has ALWAYS gotten the people to a better place more quickly and with less unintended harm than anything idiot politicians ever did.
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