{"id":9339,"date":"2012-09-24T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/24\/a-free-press\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:44:41","slug":"a-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/24\/a-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free Press?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/the-fantasy-house-of-barack-obama\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is not really any free press anymore, but instead a Ministry of Truth, in which PBS, NPR, the <em>New York Times,<\/em> the <em>Washington Post,<\/em> CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, <em>Newsweek, Time,<\/em> AP, McClatchy, and Reuters are de facto <a href=\"..\/..\/eddriscoll\/2012\/09\/06\/hey-the-non-official-campaign-for-obama-needs-its-swag\/\">extensions of the Obama campaign<\/a> \u2014 far more highbrow and adept in disguising their partisanship than an overt Hannity or Limbaugh. Their \u201cjournalists\u201d are fed favorable administration leaks when in the old days they had to sue to publish a hit piece. They care little whether ambassadors are left unguarded, or that the U.S. suffers the most costly attack on its air assets since Vietnam, or that administration officials offer lies about Libya that they know cannot be true.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;Ministry of Truth&quot; is an allusion&#0160; to an eponymous agency in Orwell&#39;s <em>1984<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160; Hannity and Limbaugh announce their conservative tilt; the lamestream media shills mendaciously refuse to admit their bias.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson: There is not really any free press anymore, but instead a Ministry of Truth, in which PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Newsweek, Time, AP, McClatchy, and Reuters are de facto extensions of the Obama campaign \u2014 far more highbrow and adept in disguising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/24\/a-free-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Free Press?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}