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WNB February 2013
From my old website, Free Kentucky.
Re-titled: There's no such thing as an unbiased reporter published sometime in the year 2000, found
here.
Why Free Kentucky?
by Barry Bright, Free Kentucky web author
A few years ago when I graduated college with my fresh degree in print
journalism I read The Courier Journal and other mainstream newspapers like
they were gospel.
I watched the evening news and other televised news outlets and listened
intently to radio news reports with the innocence of a child waiting for
Santa Claus or the tooth fairy.
But over time, with more and more exposure to life in the real world, I lost
my belief in red-suited gift bearers, fairies, and the mainstream newsmedia.
My distrust began to build in the early 90s when I listened to James
Squires, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune and author of "Read All
About It, The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers." Squires told us
that at that time only about three percent of large American daily
newspapers were still privately owned and that most of what is published in
all newspapers is "distortion."
In his book he decries the loss of control by key newspapers such as the New
York Times and the Washington Post of the information flow. These newspapers
once set the tone for "coverage" with most other large dailies following
their lead. This has changed with the introduction and growth of the
electronic media such as television. The TV news programs, absurdly short
for a world as complex as ours, and now mostly designed to entertain rather
than inform, now often set the tone of what is "news."
Of course local ownership is no guarantee of an "unbiased" report. My own
experience has proven that there is no such thing as an "unbiased reporter"
despite what they teach in journalism school. It's just not humanly possible
for a person's values, belief system, education, ignorance, irrational
fears, political leanings or perception of reality not to influence how he
covers or reports the news.
What most people don't understand is the power the newsmedia wields by
simply ignoring, often purposefully, certain issues or facets of important
issues.
The international corporations that own many of our nation's newspapers
influence our political process in two ways: with the printed and televised
word and with huge donations to the Democratic and Republican parties.
These same foreign-owned newspapers, often staffed by Marxists, can endorse
whatever candidate they please and cover elections in whatever way they
please and then support or oppose any legislation they please. As most
communities and states have only two-three major publications at best, they
cannot begin to claim to represent the individual's "freedom of speech"
acknowledged by the First Amendment. They stifle rather than encourage free
speech. Most of them hide behind and mock the first Amendment while
pretending to uphold it.
Even a well-known "conservative" newspaper, The Washington Times, is owned
by a foreign investor, the Korean-based Unification Church.
The newsmedia in times past has been used, and its owners have used their
own power, to start, win and end wars.
But the best evidence that the modern mainstream newsmedia deserves our
distrust comes form the mouths of its own practitioners.
When the internet comes to its full fruition it will equal if not exceed the
importance of the printing press in the difference it will make in the
dissemination of information. And like the printing press, it is already
angering those who arrogantly believe it is their place to tell the common
people what to think.
This was made plain in a statement by mainstream newswhore Doyle McManus,
Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. During a discussion on a
PBS newscast about the internet's affect on the information flow he said:
"We no longer have a choice about what we keep out of the public view."
How could the arrogance of the mainstream newswhores possibly shine more
brightly than in that simple statement?
They should never have had a "choice" in the first place.
Choosing the mainstream news-distorters as an information source is the same
as choosing ignorance. Choose ignorance long enough and eventually you have
no choice.
It's time we all grow up and reject the myth of a Free Press in America. As
has been often said: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who
own one."
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
future security." -
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America,
Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776
(To the Founders, 'state' meant independent sovereign nation state,
that was voluntarily entering into the union and could theoretically
un-volunteer later.)
Watch to see what we should be teaching kids
to do to "Liberals" so they'll actually
have a future in a free country:
"No small shot gun, during my residence of seven
years of war in America, was ever kept in the house of a backwoodsman. You
will often see a boy not over ten years of age driving the cattle home, but
not without a rifle on his shoulder; they never stir out on any business, or
on a journey without their rifles. Practice from their infancy, teaches them
all distances…
"I never in my life saw better rifles (or men who
shot better) than those made in America. They are chiefly made in Lancaster,
and two or three neighboring towns in that vicinity in Pennsylvania. The
barrels weigh about six pounds two or three ounces and carry a ball no
larger than thirty-six to the pound; at least I never saw one of a larger
caliber, and I have seen many hundreds and hundreds." - Colonel George
Hanger, captain of a Hessian Jager corps of the American Revolution, as
quoted in Muzzleloader Magazine's 'The
Book of Buckskinning.'
“A well-grown boy, at the age of twelve or thirteen
years, was furnished with a small rifle and shot pouch. He then became a
fort soldier and had his port hole assigned to him. Hunting squirrels,
turkeys and raccoons soon made him an expert in the use of his gun.” – Dr.
Joseph Doddridge, in his 1824 book ‘Notes on the Settlement and Indian
Wars,’ quoted in Michael Edward Nogays book ‘Every Home a Fort, Every Man a
Warrior’
Wouldn't the freaks freak out if we started teaching young men and women
what they are going to be forced to know some day because their parents sat
on their asses and pretended Liberty could be won back with 'peace and
love.?
What a pathetic lot we amerikans are. Especially the peace nicks in the
so-called Liberty movement who are mimicking the commie insurrectionists of
the 'anti-war'(pro-commie) movement of the 1960s whose real goal was to
pacify their enemies so they wouldn't fight back. They apparently succeeded.
Our civilization has been taken from mindless aggression to mindless
pacifism. The latter is the most dangerous by far. We must put knowledge of our
most basic right, that of self-defense, back into the hands and minds of the
young, or they are doomed to be mindless pacified slaves, and most importantly
'victims' who can be used as pawns by those who seek to maintain their power over us all.
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"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of
freedom." - John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the
people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when
young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) Founding
Father
Start them young, train them well, for you know not what they may have
to do...
They're so cute, couldn't resist posting this. With the right parenting
they won't grow up to be mindless pacified sheeple willing to bend over
for their would-be bosses, whether in the government or at their place
of employment. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 22:6 KJV
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who
approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but
downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined... The
great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have
a gun." – Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
June 5, 1778
Folk music records what Vermonters responded to British soldiers who
would impose their will upon them:
"Why come ye hither, Redcoats? Your mind what madness fills? For there’s
danger in our valleys and there’s danger on our hills. Why hear ye not
the singing of the bugle wild and free? Full soon you’ll hear the
ringing of the rifle from the tree! For the rifle, for the rifle: in our
hands shall prove no trifle."
"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet
sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of
not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being
right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But
tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
- Thomas Paine, the first paragraph of his Pamphlet, “Common Sense.”
For more quotes that matter or if you don't understand the above, start
with my Favorite Quotes page.
Would you sign? Or step out your door to an uncertain fate?
April 19 needs to be
our biggest holiday. That was the day they left their homes, went to face government employees and shot back. That took more courage than signing a piece of paper.
It will have to be done again. Don't understand? Start
here.
It will have to be done again.
If you sit home waiting
your turn you deserve to have your gun taken from your cold dead hands.
The Founders didn’t wait for the Brits to knock down their doors. They
gathered at the green and stood up like men and they killed government
employees all the way back to Boston.
What will you do when it’s time to hunt NWO hacks, republicrats and
commies(“Liberals” and ‘progressives’)?
Don't understand? Follow my links. Read the quotes page first.
When will you step up?
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