tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post7233607979100133130..comments2023-11-05T05:09:14.089-05:00Comments on Goldman Sachs: Information, Comments, Opinions and Facts: An Important Way to View Goldman Sachs's Role in Monetary PolicyRobertMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960912417983904202noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5724181159639068489.post-65641456419872197892011-12-31T19:37:30.859-05:002011-12-31T19:37:30.859-05:00The Constitution and the Fourth Estate
I have a r...The Constitution and the Fourth Estate<br /><br />I have a right, even a duty, to resist, with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.<br />—The Great Debaters—<br /><br /><br />Government is a living, breathing organism that exists to <br />perpetuate itself. There is nothing that says evolution must create a <br />pleasing government better suited to individual liberties. History <br />paints an altogether different picture. Possibly the single largest <br />selection pressure is money. It has always bought political favor. When <br />our government was a few percent of GDP and the industrialists were <br />buying favors while building a nation, government had little power to <br />wield. When money commandeers the machinery of a huge government, <br />however, you have a monstrously expensive and intractable problem. <br /><br />We should be particularly nervous as money commandeers the <br />press. The media is a critical mechanism by which we transmit freedom of<br /> speech: it is an essential tool of a democracy. Mainstream media has <br />collapsed like a dream sequence in Inception. Fox News gets a disproportionate share of the blame. The blogosphere discovered that Roger Ailes's formulated his plan for Fox News<br /> in the 1970's. It sounds very Orwellian but so what? Different news <br />agencies are privately owned and, consequently, have different angles. <br />The problem I see is that they all appear to be captured. With a remarkable regularity, The Daily Show includes montages in which the different news anchors parrot identical<br /> talking points. A severe affliction that first appeared during the 2008<br /> presidential election—Ron Paul Blindness—continues unabated. He's <br />rocking in Iowa—some claim he's leading at this moment—but the press <br />want no part of it. Both he and Howard Dean do not fit somebody's image <br />of a viable candidate. Only journalists with editorial control seem to <br />provide a fair treatment. I find credible news comes from some of the <br />most unlikely sources: Russia Today, Al Jazeera, Asia Times, the London-based Telegraph, Zero Hedge, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and, of course, The Daily Show. That's pathetic. Thank God for the internet.<br /><br />http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/2011-year-review-david-collum/67586?#constitutionReflectnoreply@blogger.com