George Rebane
Yellow journalism is the practice and bailiwick of conservative media. I am literally nauseated listening to so-called “fearless” journalists on outlets like Fox News. According to my lights a professional and ethical journalist will not let an interviewee’s obviously erroneous statements, diversions/evasions, and lies stand, and simply proceed to the next question or topic. The uninformed and mostly lightly read audience deserves to hear the journalist respond to such interviewee answers with, “From your response I see that you neglected to answer my question (repeated)”, or “your answer contradicts the information widely supplied by (citation)”, or “perhaps you can cite some evidence for our audience to support your allegation”. You get the idea – as a journalist with balls, don’t just skedaddle on to the next question when your last one went unanswered.
Leftwing journalists and outlets cannot be so accused. It is not and never has been their intention to accurately inform their audiences. In their reports and interviews they will purposefully incorporate erroneous statements, diversions/evasions, and lies – they have a collectivist ideology to promote.
Apropos to Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for NYC mayor. It is nothing but the next ratchet in the Left’s program to control the populations of the country’s big urban centers. The means to do this is to restructure the financial and cognitive make-up of its inhabitants. Their method is simple, transparent, and direct – “Forget the chatter about ‘abundance.’ The left hopes to solidify control of cities by driving the middle class out.” WSJ columnist Allysia Finley outlines this process in her 5jul25 ‘The Progressive Paucity Agenda—From Mamdani in New York to California’.
A miss to Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, who promised, “Give me four years to teach the children and the communist seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Well now, in America we have given him three generations of children to teach socialism in our public schools and academia, but today barely half of our population has been converted into reliable supporters of what he has sown. A sorry record indeed. [This was submitted to The Union for their Hits & Misses column.]
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