Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Classic Stossel: Liberal Censors" video.

  1. This has been going on for a long time, only it was easier to prevent establishment ideas from ever being before the Internet. It's been that way since at least FDR. Informal systems of control amounted to officials making a few phone calls to a very small number of big news operations, like WaPost, NYTimes, ABC, CBS and NBC. Then of course, there's AP and UPI. It was for the war effort during FDR and WWII, but those cozy relationships didn't go away after Victory in the Pacific. Neither did things like injecting cattle with antibiotics, and a plethora of other "emergency" measures that remained in place for decades after the war. Before Obama, it was more subtle. You had to be very well-informed by other means than establishment education and news to even know there was a bias, because the bias was in the story selection rather than in how it was reported. Since Obama, the bias is right out in the open in the reporting, itself. There was at least some attempt to give more than one viewpoint on what news that was allowed to be reported in any kind of big way, before Obama. But NOW, there are independent media with millions of viewers who point out the bias, bad facts, and most of all, stories that were EASILY memory-holed, when media were more of a monolith (from the Great Depression to Obama). The Internet changed things. Most of all, so-called "liberals" becoming the establishment changed things. They're MUCH more censorious than their more conservative (classical liberal) predecessors.
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