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Election"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Say AT\u0026T, Comcast and Disney Decide Presidential Elections"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The first to call the presidential election for Joe Biden was AT\u0026amp;T.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAT\u0026amp;T, through its subsidiary CNN, one of the largest conglomerates in the world with a market cap of over $200 billion, billions of which come from lucrative federal contracts, was the first to claim that Biden was the winner. Beyond government contracts, AT\u0026amp;T has a major stake in the 5G wars and has spent a lot of money investing in the Biden campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAT\u0026amp;T employees were the tenth largest source of contributions to the Biden campaign.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden had attended fundraisers at the homes of two AT\u0026amp;T lobbyists, but the ties run deeper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L_VleEh0Fpw\/X68azPYxJVI\/AAAAAAAASkU\/VGvHvgvuIbMF9SRJ4eGUgTHiUujEFX-6QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1486\/cnn%2Bbiden%2Belection.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"826\" data-original-width=\"1486\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L_VleEh0Fpw\/X68azPYxJVI\/AAAAAAAASkU\/VGvHvgvuIbMF9SRJ4eGUgTHiUujEFX-6QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/cnn%2Bbiden%2Belection.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESteve Ricchetti, Biden's former chief of staff, and longtime confidant, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/09\/former-lobbyist-on-biden-campaign-payroll-is-raising-cash-for-former-vp.html\"\u003Echaired\u003C\/a\u003E Biden's campaign. AT\u0026amp;T has been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/biden-lobbyist-ties.html\"\u003Ethe only\u003C\/a\u003E corporate client of the Ricchetti Consulting Group for nine years. Ricchetti has deep relationships with both AT\u0026amp;T and Biden. And if Biden were to take over the White House, AT\u0026amp;T would have its man on the inside to protect its economic interests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s crucial for AT\u0026amp;T considering how hard the Trump administration fought against the illegal merger of AT\u0026amp;T and Time Warner which ended up hurting consumers. AT\u0026amp;T’s future expansion plans require a compliant and friendly administration. And that’s just what Biden would mean.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Democrats claim that CNN’s call of the presidential election is somehow binding, what they’re really saying is that AT\u0026amp;T should have the right to pick presidents favorable to it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not democracy. It’s oligarchy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN’s bias is not accidental. It’s about the money. CNN, as an economic entity, was a key issue in the merger with the Justice Department urging AT\u0026amp;T to sell components of the merged company, including CNN, as a precondition for the merger. AT\u0026amp;T and its CNN subsidiary had economic reasons, not just political ones, to want Biden and Ricchetti in the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter AT\u0026amp;T called for the election for Biden, Comcast claimed less than a minute later that Biden was the winner through its properties, NBC and MSNBC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComcast, like AT\u0026amp;T, has deep ties to Joe Biden and a deeper animus to President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden launched his campaign at a fundraiser at the Philly home of David Cohen. Cohen is a Senior Executive Vice President at Comcast, and a senior counsellor to Comcast's CEO.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECohen, a powerful Philly Democrat official, named as one of the most powerful figures in the state, went on to reshape Comcast's lobbying operation. Comcast, under Cohen, spends $14 million a year lobbying in D.C. The Washington Post called him, \"Comcast's secret weapon\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENBC was not a sideline to Comcast’s opposition to President Trump. Like CNN and AT\u0026amp;T, it was crucial to it. Comcast had swallowed NBC Universal and then went on to blatantly violate antitrust laws and its conditions for the merger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump had\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1062045654711713792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"\u003E warned\u003C\/a\u003E that Comcast \"routinely violates antitrust laws\". Comcast’s own expansion plans, after it lost Time Warner to AT\u0026amp;T, require Trump out of office. Its attempt to take over FOX’s entertainment properties (not including FOX News) fell through, and to keep growing it will need to keep acquiring content creators and cable providers. A merger with Verizon, the path to an even bigger nationwide monopoly, would be blocked unless Biden wins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrian L. Roberts, the CEO of Comcast and the son of the company's founder, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2014\/04\/how-comcast-bought-democratic-party-matthew-continetti\/\"\u003Ewas\u003C\/a\u003E Obama's golfing buddy. Comcast execs and employees have been Biden's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/readsludge.com\/2020\/01\/29\/msnbcs-owners-shower-biden-with-campaign-cash\/\"\u003Eseventh largest\u003C\/a\u003E career contributors and 94% of donations from Comcast executives have gone to Biden. Comcast employees were the seventeenth largest source of donations to Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis year, Roberts announced that Comcast was plowing $100 million into various Democrat-allied organizations including Al Sharpton’s racist National Action Network, the NAACP, and the Community Justice Action Fund, a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/why-does-the-advocacy-fund-hide-its-tides-funding\/\"\u003ETides Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E project. CJAF is funded by corporations while \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/community-justice-action-fund\/\"\u003Eclosely intertwined\u003C\/a\u003E with Democrat organizations and political agendas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t just ideological spending. Comcast’s investments in Sharpton and other political organizations enlisted political support for grabbing NBC. When Roberts, Cohen, and Comcast invest in Democrats and left-wing organizations, they’re buying support for Comcast’s growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite all its social justice spending, the Trump administration caught Comcast discriminating against its employees in Philly, resulting in a settlement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComcast's expansion plans also include an aggressive push into government business. Last year it picked up BluVector in its search for cybersecurity contracts and created a federal sales division. Its big plans for federal contracts will work much better if President Trump is gone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter CNN, a subsidiary of AT\u0026amp;T, and NBC and MSNBC, two properties of Comcast, targeting slightly different demographics, CBS News, or more accurately, National Amusements and Shari Redstone, called the presidential election for Biden. National Amusements employees directed their donations primarily to Joe Biden. More importantly, top CBS lobbyist John Orlando has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.benton.org\/headlines\/biden%E2%80%99s-fcc-take-number\"\u003Ebeen tipped\u003C\/a\u003E for Biden’s short list to head the FCC. Along with Disney’s Susan Fox.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter AT\u0026amp;T, Comcast, and National Amusements picked Biden, Disney’s ABC News joined in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney boss Bob Iger, who had considered running for president, was one of Biden's big donors, maxing out his donations to the Democrat candidate, and plowing $250,000 into the Biden Victory Fund. Abigail Disney, Roy's radical leftist granddaughter, kicked in another $50K.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney employees were Biden’s fourteenth largest source of political donations. And the company has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/top-lobbyist-for-abc-news-is-a-major-democratic-donor-former-director-of-the-dccc\/\"\u003Esignificant ties\u003C\/a\u003E to the Democrat infrastructure. Biden has longtime ties to Hollywood and has helped it broker deals in China. Disney’s big focus is on China. Its ability to release movies and maintain properties in the Communist dictatorship is crucial to its growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump’s immigration policies and resistance to China was bad for Disney’s business. Disney’s reliance on replacing American workers with cheap immigrant labor and on dealing with China made getting him out of office vital to protecting its business model and its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike AT\u0026amp;T and Comcast, Disney wants President Trump out, not for domestic or federal contract reasons, but to protect its economic dependency on Communist China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the oligarchy that is swallowing the economy made their call, the rest was anticlimactic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Associated Press, headed by Steven R. Swartz, the CEO of Hearst Communications, and Gary B. Pruitt, the former CEO of McClatchy, called it for Biden. Hearst is partnered with Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen FOX News, which depends on AP’s data, called it for Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile FOX News describes its data set as the Fox News Voter Analysis, which sounds properterial, it doesn't come from FOX.  Instead the FOX News Voter Analysis comes from AP VoteCast. AP VoteCast is actually a project of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. NORC is funded by the National Science Foundation whose directors are embedded for six years. As a result, France Cordova, an Obama appointee, held down the NSF for most of Trump's first term. That’s the origin of the data set FOX News used to make its calls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut FOX Corp already made its call last year when it hired Danny O’Brien, Biden's former chief of staff and the head of his 2008 presidential campaign, as its head lobbyist. O'Brien went on working to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/biden-lobbyists-sanders-126106\"\u003Ehelp the Biden campaign\u003C\/a\u003E while lobbying for FOX. That’s not an accident, it’s a plan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter handing over most of its valuable entertainment properties to Disney, FOX Corp is a shell of its former self, but it still has entertainment and business interests beyond FOX News. What the Disney deal really meant was that FOX couldn’t compete with the monopoly bosses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real picture of the election and of the oligarchy can be seen in the order of Biden calls, with the biggest titans, AT\u0026amp;T and Comcast, getting first in line, followed by powerful, but more limited content powers like Disney and National Amusements, followed by dying organizations like the AP and FOX that have no future except servicing some of the big players in the new economy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just about President Trump or the election. It’s about who runs the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats argue that when AT\u0026amp;T, Comcast, and Disney declare the election, that’s it. A handful of expanding monopolies can and should decide who’s going to be the president.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the party of social justice and dirty cash is not even ashamed to make that argument.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica is not an oligarchy. Presidential candidates are not selected by a handful of lefty corporations or their media mouthpieces. The oligarchy has its fists clenched around the country’s neck. It has outsourced our economy, plundered our resources, and depressed the nation, while concentrating wealth and power in a few major cities and their suburbs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real question on the ballot was whether a handful of oligarchies should be running America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you look at the voting map, you’re not just looking at counties, but economic segments, some of which are incredibly wealthy because they’re concentrated around sources of government and corporate power, and others which are struggling to survive. The real poverty isn’t in the urban homeless encampments cultivated by Democrats, it’s in parts of rural America and the Rust Belt that are struggling to survive, but still working hard every single day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Trump won their support because he took on the oligarchy. Now the oligarchy is trying to crush him. And the Democrats insist that the oligarchy decides elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2020 will not only decide who sits in the White House next year, but whether AT\u0026amp;T, Comcast, and Disney decide who gets to occupy the Oval Office, or whether the American People do.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7775386621513375494\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/democrats-say-at-comcast-and-disney.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7775386621513375494"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7775386621513375494"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/democrats-say-at-comcast-and-disney.html","title":"Democrats Say AT\u0026T, Comcast and Disney Decide Presidential Elections"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-L_VleEh0Fpw\/X68azPYxJVI\/AAAAAAAASkU\/VGvHvgvuIbMF9SRJ4eGUgTHiUujEFX-6QCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/cnn%2Bbiden%2Belection.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4445886320358383349"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-08T22:35:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-10-11T23:39:37.900-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Bias"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Democrats Want You to Pay the Media’s Bills"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ef8lPP2M2Es\/X3_MTQmPswI\/AAAAAAAASec\/M1z0kxv5nQUBev6mR7v4KLYpITXwiv7MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s575\/old%2Bpapers.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"423\" data-original-width=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ef8lPP2M2Es\/X3_MTQmPswI\/AAAAAAAASec\/M1z0kxv5nQUBev6mR7v4KLYpITXwiv7MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/old%2Bpapers.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe media is dying. Its business model is defunct. Its bias has alienated most of the country. In the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/10\/pew-survey-shows-media-bias-destroyed-trust-media-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Elatest Pew survey\u003C\/a\u003E, the only group that still trusts the media are Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd while so many millions are out of work, Democrats are bailing out the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wave of consolidations and bankruptcies is sweeping like a fire through major papers. Cable news will be a casualty of demographics and the end of bundling. The end of network television is less than a decade away. Brand names like CNN and MSNBC will soon be where Time, Newsweek, and other news magazines ended up once subscriptions collapsed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media is dying, but it’s not about to die gracefully. It just needs to find money. Lots of it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech billionaires have bought classic newspapers and magazines like Time, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, but those are vanity projects and even Jeff Bezos doesn’t have enough money to subsidize the entire ossified infrastructure of the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the only people who have more money than the Amazon CEO are the American people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media’s Plan A has been sponging off Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, pressuring them to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into its operations. Its Plan B is blurring the line between lefty activist non-profits and its newsrooms with organizations like \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/04\/facebook-spending-millions-plant-radical-activists-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EReport for America\u003C\/a\u003E being funded by Facebook and Google to embed activists into local newspapers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs that going to pay the media’s bills? No. That’s why there’s Plan C. And Plan C is you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EH.R. 7640: The Local Journalism Sustainability Act was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/116\/hr7640\/summary\"\u003E introduced\u003C\/a\u003E in Congress, backed by a coalition that includes Report for America and the National Newspaper Association, and would offer tax credits for newspaper subscriptions and tax credits for paying the salaries of the radical  activists working there. There's also a $5,000 tax credit for advertising in newspapers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt a time when millions of Americans are out of work, when families are faced with losing their homes and businesses, Democrats have decided that they should aggressively subsidize a dying industry at the expense of everyone else whose jobs are seen as “non-essential”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe countless stores, gyms, bars, salons, and other small businesses going out of business in the epidemic of Democrat lockdowns and lootings could use this kind of bailout. But the Democrats insist that their media messaging operations are vital and should be subsidized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who introduced the bill, claims that it will fund “local newspapers”, those local newspapers are largely owned by national operations and hedge funds. While actual local businesses go out of business, Democrats are proposing a bailout for media investors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Kirkpatrick’s press release touts support from from the News Media Alliance whose board is stacked with the heads of McClatchy and USA Today, huge national chains with a combined thousands of papers, not to mention the CFO of the New York Times, and a VP at the Washington Post. Are these the local small businesses Democrats want to subsidize?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Local Journalism Sustainability Act has over 40 Democrat sponsors and nearly 20 Republican sponsors. Democrat sponsors include some of the House's most extreme figures like Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and Rep. Andre Carson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EH.R. 7640 would be an outrage at any time, it’s a particular outrage when so many Americans are out of work and so many small businesses are going under that Democrats and some Republicans want to provide a $250 tax credit for newspaper subscriptions, a tax credit covering half of $50,000 salaries for media hacks, and $5,000 credits for advertising in newspapers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompanies that own dozens, hundreds, and thousands of papers are lobbying Congress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey keep claiming that the bill will help save “local journalism”. But how does the Local Journalism Sustainability Act  define local journalism? Not based on the paper, but the readers. As long as 51% of the paper’s readers live in the same state, it’s considered a local paper. Even if the paper is a subsidiary of a national chain whose real headquarters is in New York or D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr alternatively, they live within 200 miles of each other. Depending on how you measure, Washington Post readers in New York and New York Times readers in D.C. would be “local”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s some “local” journalism. And it’s no accident that it was written this way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing local about this bailout. It will mostly go to subsidize the huge newspaper chains that are lobbying for it, while bribing businesses and readers to fund their failed business model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while Democrats are destroying businesses with viable business models, they’re trying to keep the media alive by exclusively offering tax credits for their political allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s sleazy, it’s slimy, and it’s just the beginning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat organizations like Acronym’s Courier Newsroom have been setting up fake local papers while Report for America has been hollowing out papers by embedding radical activists into newsrooms. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act is testing the business model for converting the media into a bunch of political non-profits backed by taxpayers and lefty donors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond media associations, backing for the Local Journalism Sustainability Act comes from Report for America, and the American Journalism Project, which is advocating the transformation of the media to a non-profit model. Report for America is an initiative of the GroundTruth Project which is backed by the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation is a leading backer of Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile these donors already back a network of radical messaging operations, proposals like the Local Journalism Sustainability Act allow the media to ease into the transition by having it both ways, maintaining corporate ownership, while having their operations subsidized by tax credits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the Left sets up new complex interplays between corporate media and its non-profits, the line between journalism and political advocacy blurs into a strange twilight zone in which non-profits subsidize media operations and taxpayers subsidize corporate chains as if they were non-profits, while creating something that looks very much like a state media operation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe internet has been slowly digesting the separate parts of the media, and it doesn’t pay the bills. The ads and subscriptions that funded local newspapers were wiped out by the internet. Streaming dooms cable channels and local news, leaving behind a lot of online video. But even digital media is being crushed by social media. Vox, Vice, the Huffington Post, and all the digital lefty outlets were hit with layoffs after facing the impossibility of actually turning a profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media can’t survive on its own terms. Its business model is defunct. Its shakedown strategies aimed at Google and Facebook have silenced countless conservative voices, while pushing social media to spam its content, but won’t preserve the media as a viable institution. The hedge funds and private equity firms that own the media will cut costs, consolidate, and dump. The tech and communications firms that come into possession of media outlets will shrink and then dispose of them. That doesn’t mean that the media will die. It will ‘Pravdaize’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN, MSNBC, and the Huffington Post will be deemed “essential” forms of journalism that must be protected by subsidizing their operations, much as newspapers would be subsidized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media will become a public institution. Its funding will come from taxpayers in a thousand different ways and  the Local Journalism Sustainability Act is the least of it. Media activists have been cooking up a large package of tax credits, subsidies, law changes, tax code restructurings, and assorted proposals to transform the media from corporate properties into state media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImagine PBS and NPR multiplied by a million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECongress should not be bailing out media tycoons while Americans go hungry. If Americans want local papers, they can buy them. And if they aren’t, maybe it’s time that the big chains asked why they’re losing subscribers and why Americans aren’t buying what they’re selling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA majority of Americans don’t like and don’t trust the media. They’ve divested from it. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act wants to bribe Americans to read the paper with their own money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA better idea might be to have the media pay its taxes and let Americans keep their money.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4445886320358383349\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/democrats-want-you-to-pay-medias-bills.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4445886320358383349"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4445886320358383349"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/democrats-want-you-to-pay-medias-bills.html","title":"Democrats Want You to Pay the Media’s Bills"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ef8lPP2M2Es\/X3_MTQmPswI\/AAAAAAAASec\/M1z0kxv5nQUBev6mR7v4KLYpITXwiv7MgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/old%2Bpapers.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-916393609834890972"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-02T02:56:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-08-02T02:56:00.332-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Bias"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Media’s Political Suicide"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"McClatchy had bought Knight Ridder for $4.4 billion to create the second largest news company. After going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, McClatchy was won in an auction by a hedge fund, which also owns the National Enquirer, in a secret bidding which started with $30 million cash and $270 million in debt. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this says anything good about the future of its D.C. bureau, or the Miami Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Sacramento Bee, the Kansas City Star, and other hollowed out husks of major urban papers carrying huge loads of pension debt and even bigger loads of radical left-wing politics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, Warren Buffett had dumped 30 newspapers that he had bought for $344 million for $140 million. The Newseum, a $450 million media museum, backed by Gannett, was sold off last year. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGannett, the biggest newspaper chain in the country, lost $80 million in the first quarter of the year even after a merger in which it slashed jobs at some of the hundreds of newspapers which it controls. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver 20,000 media jobs have been wiped out in the previous two years and it’s just getting started. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fW0rR6o--Co\/XyTLAA8gI8I\/AAAAAAAASUI\/btvQlpQs17kfhmhFFpftt0pt5nLg4SSfQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/the_end1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"384\" data-original-width=\"512\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fW0rR6o--Co\/XyTLAA8gI8I\/AAAAAAAASUI\/btvQlpQs17kfhmhFFpftt0pt5nLg4SSfQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/the_end1.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s too much content chasing too few advertisers and subscribers. The internet took away the death grip that local papers had on certain kinds of advertising and made other kinds irrelevant. And people have a lot more options for breakfast reading material than just subscribing to the local rag. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media radicalized even as it became more economically vulnerable, alienating print subscribers who tend to be older and more conservative. Papers have been chasing digital subscribers, who are more likely to be younger and leftist, but that’s only a viable strategy for a handful of national papers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, which embraced a radical agenda and a vow to bring down Trump. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Times and the Post can drive conversation, dominate the news cycle with an anti-Trump conspiracy theory, or turn historical revisionism like the 1619 Project into a curriculum, a TV show, and a movie. But that’s not a realistic option for the Sacramento Bee or the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Advertisers will flock to the Times and the Post because they have affluent readers and drive the conversation. But local papers will go on bleeding older and more conservative readers while the hedge funds that own them slash jobs, eliminate entire papers, and eventually give up on the whole media venture as a bad idea. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarren Buffett did. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocal papers are dying. Formerly influential national news magazines are irrelevant. When was the last time you heard anything from Time except around its annual Cause of the Year publicity stunt? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s not just the dead tree media that’s in trouble. Digital darlings like the Huffington Post, Vice and Vox have been cutting jobs because clickbait doesn’t win over subscribers who will pay for content. Network television and cable news are on their last legs as cable subscribers cut the cord and content providers set up their own Netflix rivals. What happens to NBC News or CNN in a marketplace defined by Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, HBO Max, CBS All Access, and whatever other platforms will pop up? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media hasn’t had a viable business model in a long while. It’s a zombie that kills even as it dies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat we think of as the media, a series of private companies reporting the news to customers willing to pay for their services, is evolving into a political movement that views its platforms as a public service. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe for-profit media is still around, but not for long. The non-profit media is the rising model and it takes many forms, from old brands like the Washington Post and Time owned by dot com tycoons for the power and prestige, to non-profits like Poynter which combines a newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, a journalism school, and a partisan fact-checking network. Google, Facebook, and other dot com platforms have been pouring millions into subsidizing media outlets to create a hybrid model. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOther hybrid models include, Report for America, a left-wing non-profit that embeds its activists into local newspapers, and Courier Newsroom, a left-wing fake news network set up by Acronym whose arm is a PAC, that combine non-profit status and political advocacy with some of the trappings of the media. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has redefined journalism as advocating for left-wing policies and the advantage of this is that in the age of the internet, political activism has a better business model than journalism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess money is being spent on advertising and subscriptions, but the cost of elections is soaring. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the recent past, journalists had to choose between working in the legitimate media or doing opposition research for dark organizations like Fusion GPS. But as the distinctions between the news and editorial desks have broken down, so have the distinctions between reporting and generating hit pieces. The only reason to bring in an organization like Fusion GPS is for media strategy and coordination. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo the big money pouring into elections from New York and California, media outlets are dinosaurs in terms of profitability, but redefine them as digital campaign operations and they’re suddenly hot. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInvestors who wouldn’t put money into a local paper without deep cuts will pour millions into Report for America or Courier because non-profit journalism has redefined the purpose of investing in the media from profits to politics. As a political non-profit, the media can be more viable than it has in years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe transformation of the media from for-profits to non-profits sheds any commitment to the marketplace, to a community of readers who pay for its services, and instead puts it at the service of dot com tycoons who want to invest in left-wing causes. The experience of reading or watching the media’s content also changes from information to indoctrination. As is the case with so many of the dot com giants which finance the media and on whose platforms the media depends, the reader and the viewer are no longer consumers, they are the product that is being sold to the media’s political backers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven as the non-profit media claims that it’s now free to pursue journalism as a public service, it’s not providing a service to the public, it’s serving a small class of donors by trying to influence the public.   \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media still insists that it’s objective, trustworthy and seeking the truth. But those slogans are the leftovers of an older generation that at least believed in hypocritically mouthing such pieties. The new generation, the one leading the purge at the New York Times, doesn’t even believe in the pieties. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe campaigns, like those that hijacked the Times, are coordinated by political allies from different media outlets across social media. The participants in this new collegiality view journalism as a form of advocacy for their political agenda. They have no commitment to the organization they work for, only to the larger movement of which they are operatives, coordinating to undermine their own organizations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the leftist non-profit realm, organizations are just shells for an agenda and they can be jettisoned, renamed, or swapped out at the right time. As the media falls into that category, publications become mere brands to be tied to a fake news narrative, and tossed aside when they’re no longer getting clicks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe weight of the name on the masthead matters much less than the ability of the activists it employs to appear influential by picking fights on social media. Media publications no longer serve a community, but a narrative, and constantly swapping out publication names helps make the narrative seem fresh. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe end result is State News, a product that closely resembles the government news networks in China or Russia, but which is still distributed across a variety of organizations and which is controlled by social media narratives coordinated across social networks rather than by a central government agency. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least for now. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,\" Bari Weiss wrote in her resignation letter to the New York Times. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwitter is the media’s editor. Its platform provides the content that fills the media, but it also makes the infrastructure of the media surplus to requirements. The medium is the message and the medium of Twitter is 280 characters. As Weiss notes, “the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the real performance space is on Twitter where content is consumed and debated much more rapidly in short form than in the long form pages of the New York Times. As the media transforms into a pure instrument of political advocacy whose antics play out on social media, there’s less and less use for the expensive billion-dollar operations, the newspapers, channels, and even the sites of the media. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia bosses keep saying that their future is digital. But that digital future is a Twitter debate. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only reason to read long form articles is to find out the details of a story or experience new ideas, but when writing exists to reinforce what readers already believe, then it doesn’t need to be read. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHardly anyone bothered reading Soviet papers because everyone already knew what was in them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA media that exists to tweet articles about Trump’s terribleness and a story about an oppressed person whose plight proves the need to have open borders, no police, and free everything is unreadable. Not just to conservatives, but to everyone who isn’t looking for a righteousness or rage fix in the morning. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media envisions its own transformation into public service non-profits subsidized by dot com tycoons and then eventually the benevolent socialist state that will pay its members to put out propaganda that nobody reads. This act of literary suicide for power and profit is its real legacy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has been killing cities and the country to buy a little more time for its existence. But it is becoming a zombie that is killing the basis for its own existence and then the very thing that it does. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe members of the media began by killing their ethics and morals. They tossed away the truth as a value and a goal. They turned on their colleagues, incited mobs, celebrated violence and terror. And then they set out to destroy the organizations they worked for and the country that they live in. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir final act of political suicide will be to kill their own writing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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Despite their valiant defense of the man who discovered America, Mayor Lori Lightfoot sided with the BLM mob and had the statue removed anyway. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3 law enforcement personnel with the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service may face permanent eye injuries after having lasers shined in their eyes by Black Lives Matter rioters. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E12 police officers were injured in Seattle by attackers throwing rocks, bottles, and fireworks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dc0Zb0RXgbk\/XyG_OFNxJ-I\/AAAAAAAAST0\/Eeru6gsh5oUchC88S32AaF0fCNssH7_UQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/minneapolis%2Briots.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dc0Zb0RXgbk\/XyG_OFNxJ-I\/AAAAAAAAST0\/Eeru6gsh5oUchC88S32AaF0fCNssH7_UQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/minneapolis%2Briots.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are some of the injuries suffered by large forces in a matter of days. By early June, I had tracked the cases of over 400 injured law enforcement officers in under two weeks of BLM riots. A month later, there are too many cases and too little reporting to even begin assembling any kind of complete picture. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week after I complied my list, over 350 NYPD officers had been listed as injured in the BLM riots. By the middle of June, 75 law enforcement officers had been injured in the Denver Black Lives Matter riots. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERifles, explosives, lasers, power tools, and firebombs are routinely used at the mostly peaceful protests. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaw enforcement officers have come away from what the media continues to falsely describe as \"mostly peaceful protests\" with fractured skulls, eye and ear injuries, and broken bones. Officers have been hit with bricks, baseball bats, and broken bottles. They've been shot, stabbed, and run over by vehicles. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe full total is not in the hundreds: it’s in the thousands. That’s a war zone. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s just the law enforcement officers. No count has been kept of the civilians assaulted by the rioters. No one has assembled a list of store owners beaten and robbed by Black Lives Matter rioters. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERough estimates place the scale of damage in the billions of dollars. Walgreens alone suffered $75 million in looting damage. Minnesota estimated damage to 1,500 businesses totaling $500 million. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is wildly inconsistent with the media’s repeated false claims that the Black Lives Matter riots have been “peaceful”, “mostly peaceful”, “largely peaceful” or any other weasel words and modifiers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProtests that injure thousands of police officers and cause billions in damage are not mostly peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey are mostly violent. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECarnage on this scale is not an accident or the work of a handful of unrelated people, as the media continues to falsely insist. When riots wound thousands and cost billions, the violence is not the aberration, it defines what the protests are and what they are intended to accomplish. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen marchers at a peaceful protest bring along crowbars, fireworks, and baseball bats, it’s not a peaceful protest. A genuinely peaceful protest would not allow marchers to bring weapons. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The violence and pain and hurt that's experienced on a daily basis by black folks at the hands of a repressive system should also be visited upon, to a degree, to those who think that they can just retreat to white affluence,\" is not what a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest organizer sounds like. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe calls for violence and the acts of violence that define Black Lives Matter are not peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Black Lives Matter were a peaceful organization, it would not draw its inspiration from Assata Shakur, who is wanted for murder by the FBI, and was the first woman on the Most Wanted Terrorist List. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENationwide riots by a group that draws its inspiration from a domestic terrorist are not peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has covered this up by making a mockery of cause and effect and offering ridiculous euphemisms for violence that explain how mostly peaceful protests have ravaged entire cities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified,” ABC News offered. According to the media, when a peaceful demonstration “intensifies”, buildings start burning and police officers are assaulted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if violence is the result of a peaceful protest “intensifying” then it’s not a peaceful protest. Intensifying a thing brings out its true nature, rather than transforming it into something it’s not. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Boston's Peaceful Protests Turn Violent at Night,” a Voice of America headline claims. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAre Black Lives Matter protests werewolves who turn violent when they see the full moon? Does the night have some magical power that turns formerly peaceful protests into violent assaults? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"What changes a protest from peaceful to violent? Aggressive law enforcement,\" CNN falsely claims. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a protest is inherently peaceful, aggressive law enforcement won’t change that. Reopen protests by conservatives faced aggressive enforcement without resulting in rioting and looting.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the worst Black Lives Matter riots have taken place in progressive cities like Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle, under the watch of lefty politicians and black police bosses. If aggressive policing led to violent riots, the worst rioting should be in the least progressive cities, while progressive cities should be experiencing the least violent protests. Instead it’s the other way around. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe violence of the riots correlates with the left-wing politics of the elected officials in charge. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECities with the most left-of-center politicians are likely to experience the worst riots. It’s not aggressive law enforcement that causes violent riots, but the lack of decisive intervention against the rioters. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has tried to blame the police and the time of day for the riots, instead of the rioters. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA peaceful protest is not defined by the absence of violence, but by the presence of peaceful intent. The repeated false claims that the protests are peaceful completely distort the basic meaning of the word. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media continually claims that every riot is really a peaceful protest that unexpectedly turned violent. But a peaceful protest wouldn’t turn violent. Only violent protests turn violent. A peaceful protest aims at peaceful change. A violent protest begins with hateful rhetoric and ends with violence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Neo-Nazi rally doesn’t turn violent. A Communist march doesn’t turn violent. Black Lives Matter was founded by self-described Marxists. The movement is interlaced with ties to the Nation of Islam. The rhetoric of its marches is violent, punctuated with obscenities, false claims of genocide, and racist taunts aimed at white people. These are not the components of a peaceful, but of a violent racist movement. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter marches are mostly peaceful in the way that KKK marches were mostly peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EViolent movements are not violent all the time. Not even the most violent fanatic is always violent. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe false claim of “mostly peaceful protests” rests on that strawman. But Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer were mostly not killing people. That didn’t make them mostly peaceful. A murderer can spend 99.0% of his time not killing people, only to be deemed evil for the 0.1% of the time during which he happens to be killing people. Mostly not killing people isn’t peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERioting, burning, looting and throwing explosives only at night or on the weekend is not peaceful. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERacial nationalist groups, whether it’s the KKK or BLM, have a First Amendment right to protest. They have a right to threaten violence in the abstract, to brandish weapons, and to otherwise engage in posturing. But once that posturing turns into real violence, they don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they certainly don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt when their hate rallies repeatedly degenerate into violence in cities across the country leading to thousands of injuries and billions of dollars in losses.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only people who think otherwise are their political allies among Democrats and the media. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir mostly peaceful protests have devastated cities and they mostly won’t stop lying about them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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Network news programs rose 39% since last year, gaining over 8 million viewers for their best numbers in over a decade. Cable news networks have become the most watched channels on cable and network news has been beating prime time programming. The pandemic is the next best thing to Walter Cronkite rising from the dead. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times is up to 6 million subscribers with an increase of 587,000 digital subscriptions that it attributes to \"widespread interest in news of the coronavirus pandemic\". Last year the paper was struggling to make it to 5 million subscribers. Digital subscriptions are up across the industry. Digital subscriptions rose 29% at the Dallas Morning News, 17% at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and the Poynter-FactCheck's Tampa Bay Times boasted of tripling the rate of digital subscriptions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(That didn’t stop the Tampa Bay Times from getting an SBA loan at the expense of small businesses.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith 87% of Americans saying that they’re closely following news of the coronavirus pandemic, while many of them are trapped indoors, the media is experiencing an unprecedented boom. And with millions of kids out of school, it’s even begun launching new ventures to exploit the pandemic like NBC News' coronavirus newscast for kids. It’s a terrible time for Americans, but a great one for the media. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing that could rain on the media’s pandemic parade would be the country reopening. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TEPKQymjP9k\/Xs_56BhpqkI\/AAAAAAAASKQ\/pO1UzJjGpaIPnV03J2B8wkqfO0UwwIMYQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/coronavirus%2Bcnn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"675\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TEPKQymjP9k\/Xs_56BhpqkI\/AAAAAAAASKQ\/pO1UzJjGpaIPnV03J2B8wkqfO0UwwIMYQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/coronavirus%2Bcnn.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EA Captive Audience \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERight now, the media has the American public right where it wants it, trapped indoors, and closely following whatever combination of reporting, propaganda, and lies it chooses to feed to them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the polls show that it’s working. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of the country is afraid. A not insignificant percentage of the electorate is convinced that it will die if its cohort leaves the house without a mask, and would like to keep receiving government checks forever. Media hysteria not only trashed the economy, but sold millions on the socialist lifestyle. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the Russia hoax, a botched impeachment, and more hit pieces than even historians will be able to count, the media is achieving its grand ideological goal of endangering President Trump’s reelection. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the media had to do was scare the public within an inch of its life into crawling under the bed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo quote the nation's first Republican president, \"you may fool people for a time; you can fool a part of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” That’s always been the problem with the media’s business model. It has a core audience that it can fool all the time. But it can’t have any real power unless it reaches beyond the urbanites and suburbanites concentrated in a few blue areas. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the warmer weather swept in, social distancing began to collapse, accelerating reopenings in red states, and putting pressure on blue states to step up. Even New York and California have been forced to move up their timetables while struggling with the crowds headed to the beach or socializing in parks.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery state has now moved toward lifting their lockdowns to one degree or another. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the people aren’t waiting for the politicians to act. The median distance people have been traveling, based on cell phone data, doubled from half a mile to a mile. The shutdown is being shut down. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow it’s the media’s turn to be afraid. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Atlantic condemned Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen Georgia as an \"experiment in human sacrifice\". But, Coronavirus cases have dropped 20% since the reopening. So, the media has doubled down on its false claims by spinning conspiracy theories about the Georgia and Florida numbers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a Florida state employee who had been inputting numbers into the state’s virus dashboard was fired, the media insisted that she had been silenced for refusing to cover up the “real” numbers. The media neglected to mention that she had been arrested for cyber-stalking and revenge porn. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt has since moved on to suggesting a cover-up at the CDC. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a matter of weeks, the media has gone from urging evidence-based policymaking that follows the numbers, to telling its viewers, listeners, and readers to ignore the numbers because it’s a conspiracy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThey’re out to get you… out of the house. And away from your TV. \u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECNN has taken the lead in spinning conspiracies about Georgia, Florida, and the CDC, while failing to disclose to its viewers and readers that it has a major vested interest in maintaining the lockdown. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoliticians have wrongly deemed the media to be non-essential. That means that CNN can remain in business while calling for lockdowns of countless small businesses and forced unemployment for millions even as its ratings soar because all the people it put out of work are at home watching TV. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond the ideological conflict of interest, CNN has a huge economic conflict of interest. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo does the rest of the media. The lockdowns are a form of economic discrimination that structurally benefits the media, freeing it to produce original programming while most television and film production has been shut down. Now the nerds at the news desk are able to beat everything else. All they had to do was make sure that not a single professional sports league was still playing in the USA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf only they’d thought of that back when they were working on the high school paper. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet, at no point in time, has the media bothered explaining this simple fact to its viewers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media is resisting any effort to lift the lockdowns because the closure rules don’t apply to it. They never did. CNN was able to keep its staff working even while the pandemic was ravaging New York City. While viewers saw that top anchors were working from home, that was as much of an illusion as Chris Cuomo’s quarantine. The anchors stayed home, but much of the rank and file workforce did not. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother way of looking at the lockdowns is that they act as media rent-seeking programs, providing a lifeline to a struggling industry by shutting down its rivals and creating a captive audience.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media wants America to stay closed forever. And if it were up to it, that’s what would happen. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the corrupt media cartel have nothing to gain from the country reopening and everything to lose. And the cartel is corruptly influencing public policy with propaganda, with disinformation, and with conspiracy theories in order to serve its own interests. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pandemic has been a disaster for America and a huge gift for the media’s fear-based programming. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans look out at a country that they no longer recognize. They see a place where the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply, where neighbors and loved ones have been indoctrinated by the media to fear each other, and where the recent economic boom seems like a distant memory. But the media sees a vast captive audience and it has no intention of releasing its #StayAtHome captives without a fight. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery media article, segment, and story against the lockdown is nothing more than digital slave owners fighting to keep its captive audience on the plantation. The reopenings are a liberation, not only allowing people to go back to work, to school, and to reunite with their loved ones, but freeing millions of people hiding indoors, in thrall to the media’s fear campaign, and releasing them into the light.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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