COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PETER PRESTON IN THE
GUARDIAN
"Fairness and
balance falters before Trump in the US media"
You have that much right.
But look to the publication you're running in as well as
other British papers such as The Independent.
Bias, bias, bias, everywhere in the press about Trump. So
overwhelming, it's almost beyond endurance for a fair-minded person.
I am one of those people who regard fairness and facts as
the mother's milk of civilization. And I see and hear them nowhere.
It would be fine if there were genuinely negative things
about Trump to report, but it is not fine to literally manufacture stuff daily,
some of it close to lunacy as one writer in The Guardian writing that Trump was
"too un-American."
At the same time, Hillary Clinton's acts before our eyes are
appalling, such as vote fraud and voter suppression against Bernie Sanders or
groveling for money from the most terrible special interests, and the
establishment press doesn't even mention them.
Her history is even more appalling, but you would only know
about it if you read independent-minded people and publications on the
Internet, judging as the great I.F. Stone advocated by comparing critically,
effectively cross-examining resources, and approaching something resembling the
truth.
And then we have the outright prejudiced attacks, as in the
witch hunt over non-existant anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn - likely
qualifying, in my view, as the most disgraceful "yellow journalism"
I've ever seen outside the old USSR or America’s old Hearst papers.
Maybe, it all derives from the press treatment of, and
involvement with, the Neocon Wars, a terrible trail of blood which has not once
been honestly reported on by the mainline press, cozying up to ugly American
government policy and working to give it a benign face.
Well, there is nothing benign about killing maybe two
million people, destroying several societies, and sending millions running for
their lives as refugees, and in the end threatening the very stability of Europe.
I suspect the common thread in the treatment of Corbyn and
Trump is to be found there. Whether left or right, they are not people to just
carry on with the slaughter, smiling as Obama does.
And the other side of the coin is that Hillary exactly and
precisely the person to carry on with the slaughter. The insiders and
establishment love her, so the press doggedly embraces and defends her.
Well, in the end, you are either a journalist or a
propagandist, a legitimate news publication or an insider's house organ.
You cannot have it both ways.
The press, both in Britain and America, is absolutely
squandering any reserves of goodwill and trust with the public, just as our
political establishment has already done.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
But we do not have a true democracy, either in Britain or in
America.
It's been clear for years, but recent events are branding it
into our brains.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
BBC was torn apart by Tony Blair for even daring to suggest
some truths about events around the invasion of Iraq.
It has never recovered, and I believe government will not
allow it to do so.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
In a democracy, there are no bad decisions, so long as they
are arrived at democratically.
Your very way of putting things points to an underlying
belief in authority and deciding right and wrong.
That's religion, not politics, and certainly not democratic
politics.
