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talking about the tyranny of the “Government-Media Complex.”
In his last days in office, President Eisenhower warned the nation about the gathering strength of the “military-industrial complex.” As a career U.S. Army officer and former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, his warning was sincere and powerful.
In March 1998, at the famous Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, I warned the public about the growing power of the Government-Media Complex. As a radio host with an audience of more than 10 million listeners and author of many bestselling books, I know the media inside and out. Like Eisenhower, I know what I am talking about. And I have the guts to say it. In my speech, I demonstrated that the elite media—the television networks, the major newspapers, the big magazines, the radio stations and the wire services—were aligned with the governing class of the country.
The press is supposed to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” but now they are cozy cronies of the government.
They are supposed to be watchdogs, but now they are lapdogs.
They are supposed to be Rottweilers, but now they are Shih-Tzus.
And they carry out their servile duties in two ways: highlighting the stories that the government crowd wants pushed and ignoring the stories that hold the government accountable.
Here’s what I told the Commonwealth Club on March 12, 1998. As you can see, all of it is still accurate today:
It is censorship by default as well. What do I mean by censorship by default? Where the commercial interests of the media moguls are so intertwined with government policy as to create an overly friendly image of government officials and their policies. It may not be as clear as a close conspiracy to bias the news, but it results in the same form of censorship of dissent.
Now this bias is not limited to the left. It is largely a product of left-wing bias when it comes to certain social issues such as Affirmative Action and “gay” rights. But the right also biases the news when it wants to shape fiscal issues to its benefit. Example, Rupert Murdoch and the China scandal a while back.
I first began my file on the Government-Media Complex several years ago. I noticed an alarming bias, and I knew this could sink the ship of truth. Surely other administrations have had their friends in high media places. Still, there were many voices and many views of dissent that found their way into the national media. But now we have a growing media blackout of some serious crimes and misdemeanors, all unsolved to the satisfaction of those with critical faculties of reason. . . .
Each and every issue as reflected in the old-line news media—that is, the TV network news and the establishment newspapers and magazines—is a parallel reflection of official Clinton policy.
Listen to this carefully if you will. Tell me if you agree. Hoover Institution historian Robert Conquest said that in the former Soviet Union the press was totally under the control of the state. All editors were members of the Communist Party. Here in the United States of America a frighteningly imbalanced Washington press corps exists. Eighty-nine percent of these apparatchiks of the DNC voted for Bill Clinton in 1992!
Let me repeat, “The media is needed by the public to be and remain a thorn in the side of the government in order to keep the government relatively honest. But when the media instead becomes a thorn in the side of the skeptical private citizen, the media then becomes an arm of the government.”
Is this not worrisome? “Beware the Government-Media Complex.”
And today, the Government-Media Complex is more dangerous and more powerful than ever. In a moment, I will show you irrefutable evidence that the so-called mainstream media wouldn’t dare report.
But first let’s take a tour of the Government-Media Complex.
The New Pravda
When I was kid in the 1950s, journalists and government officials didn’t go to
In his last days in office, President Eisenhower warned the nation about the gathering strength of the “military-industrial complex.” As a career U.S. Army officer and former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, his warning was sincere and powerful.
In March 1998, at the famous Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, I warned the public about the growing power of the Government-Media Complex. As a radio host with an audience of more than 10 million listeners and author of many bestselling books, I know the media inside and out. Like Eisenhower, I know what I am talking about. And I have the guts to say it. In my speech, I demonstrated that the elite media—the television networks, the major newspapers, the big magazines, the radio stations and the wire services—were aligned with the governing class of the country.
The press is supposed to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” but now they are cozy cronies of the government.
They are supposed to be watchdogs, but now they are lapdogs.
They are supposed to be Rottweilers, but now they are Shih-Tzus.
And they carry out their servile duties in two ways: highlighting the stories that the government crowd wants pushed and ignoring the stories that hold the government accountable.
Here’s what I told the Commonwealth Club on March 12, 1998. As you can see, all of it is still accurate today:
It is censorship by default as well. What do I mean by censorship by default? Where the commercial interests of the media moguls are so intertwined with government policy as to create an overly friendly image of government officials and their policies. It may not be as clear as a close conspiracy to bias the news, but it results in the same form of censorship of dissent.
Now this bias is not limited to the left. It is largely a product of left-wing bias when it comes to certain social issues such as Affirmative Action and “gay” rights. But the right also biases the news when it wants to shape fiscal issues to its benefit. Example, Rupert Murdoch and the China scandal a while back.
I first began my file on the Government-Media Complex several years ago. I noticed an alarming bias, and I knew this could sink the ship of truth. Surely other administrations have had their friends in high media places. Still, there were many voices and many views of dissent that found their way into the national media. But now we have a growing media blackout of some serious crimes and misdemeanors, all unsolved to the satisfaction of those with critical faculties of reason. . . .
Each and every issue as reflected in the old-line news media—that is, the TV network news and the establishment newspapers and magazines—is a parallel reflection of official Clinton policy.
Listen to this carefully if you will. Tell me if you agree. Hoover Institution historian Robert Conquest said that in the former Soviet Union the press was totally under the control of the state. All editors were members of the Communist Party. Here in the United States of America a frighteningly imbalanced Washington press corps exists. Eighty-nine percent of these apparatchiks of the DNC voted for Bill Clinton in 1992!
Let me repeat, “The media is needed by the public to be and remain a thorn in the side of the government in order to keep the government relatively honest. But when the media instead becomes a thorn in the side of the skeptical private citizen, the media then becomes an arm of the government.”
Is this not worrisome? “Beware the Government-Media Complex.”
And today, the Government-Media Complex is more dangerous and more powerful than ever. In a moment, I will show you irrefutable evidence that the so-called mainstream media wouldn’t dare report.
But first let’s take a tour of the Government-Media Complex.
The New Pravda
When I was kid in the 1950s, journalists and government officials didn’t go to
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