News Blackouts

This from Steven Chase:

SATURDAY STIMULATION....
The way the mass media have begun simply ignoring major news stories that are inconvenient for the powerful, across not just some but ALL major news outlets, is extremely disturbing. It means any time there's an inconvenient revelation, mainstream news institutions will just pretend it doesn't exist.
Seriously think about what this means for a moment. This is telling whistleblowers and investigative journalists that no matter how hard they work or how much danger they put themselves in to get critical information out to the public, the public will never find out about it, because all mainstream news outlets will unify around blacking it out.
You want to talk about a threat to the press? Forget jailing journalists and whistleblowers,

how about all news outlets of any real influence unifying to simply deny coverage to any major information which comes to light? This is a threat to the thing the press fundamentally is. More than a threat. It's the end. The end of the possibility of any kind of journalism having any meaningful impact
- C. Johnston, a very Left-wing philosopher in Australia. I am waiting for other leftist intellectuals to chime in.... (For Godot)

Tim adds:

The Left seeks to control all the flow of information. They actually believe they can change reality by changing our perception of reality. So they spike some stories and gin up others. The Monica Lewisnky story is a prime example of that; Michael Issikof had the story written but it was spiked to protect Clinton. Matt Drudge made his fame by running with it when nobody else would touch it, and thus brought the first impeachment of a President since Andrew Johnson. Had that happened before or in our current era it would have been just another conspiracy theory by "kooks".

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