摘 要 註 | Fox News host Mark Levin shows how those entrusted withnews reporting today are destroying freedom of the pressfrom within: "not government oppression or suppression,"he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias byomission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news. Levin takes the readeron a journey through the early American patriot press,which proudly promoted the principles set forth in theDeclaration of Independence and the Constitution, followedby the early decades of the Republic during whichnewspapers around the young country were open andtransparent about their fierce allegiance to one politicalparty or the other. It was only at the start of theProgressive Era and the twentieth century that the idea of"objectivity of the press" first surfaced, leaving uswhere we are today: with a partisan party-pressoverwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology buthypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its realnature |