The Fourth Estate as Fifth Column

The Fourth Estate as Fifth Column

Our system of government both permits and encourages dissent as long as that dissent is not expressed violently or used as incitements to violence. In those cases, freedoms of speech and of the press can border on sedition and should be supressed to preserve order.

America’s mainstream media, the MSM, may not yet be guilty of sedition but may be guilty of crimes far more reprehensible: giving aid and comfort to the enemy and serving as handmaidens to a repressive government.

The motivations of the MSM are beyond this observer’s comprehension. Even after the president’s grudging acknowledgement that we are engaged in a war with al Qaeda, various elements of our media continue reporting falsehoods and/or concealing truths.

Examples would include continuing to bury facts concerning the Fort Hood murderer’s contacts with al Qaeda as if Major Hasan deserved some media protection, or in order to conceal the scope of Islamic terrorism in America.

More incomprehensible is that it took Obama, this most brilliant of men, over a year to come to the determination that we are engaged in a war against terrorism and, even then, it took an attempted al Qaeda bombing on Christmas Day to provide the catalyst for his concession to reality.

One has to assume that the MSM reporters and editors . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1418 )