# 1 - AMERICANS ARE STARVING FOR INTEGRITY IN JOURNALISM!

 # 1 -AMERICANS ARE STARVING FOR INTEGRITY IN JOURNALISM

"SOVIET POLITICS, AMERICAN STYLE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. DEC. 24, 2020

 

"WALL STREET JOURNAL" - SOVIET POLITICS, AMERICAN STYLE*, By David Satter, Wed. Dec. 23, 2020, AND "A PANDEMIC OF MISINFORMATION" By Scott W. Atlas, Tues. Dec. 22, 2020  Excerpts                                                                                         

 Congratulation! Honest journalism is alive and well at the Wall Street Journal!

 

* "On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhil Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union,gave his farewell speech and more than seven decades of Russian revolutionary socialism came to an end. A generation later, the spirit of the Soviet Union has re-emerged with mass support in the U.S...

    For the past four years, potted histories have warned about the rise of fascism in the U.S. But the real danger is the transformation of "tolerance" into an ideology with its own courts, informers and punishments, all of them reminiscent of the Soviet Union. One of the pillars of the Soviet Union was a controlled press in which all coverage was organized to confirm a mendacious ideology....

 

    Soviet practices would have once been unthinkable in the U.S. media. But in August 2016, Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for the New York Times, wrote that if journalists believed that Mr. Trump was a "demagogue playing to the nation's worst racist and nationalist tendencies," it was necessary to "throw out the textbook of American journalism."The Times started to characterize Mr. Trump's statements a "lies" in news stories and suppress news that worked to Mr. Trump's advantage, such as the Hunter Biden story this fall.  

    

    The Times also advanced an ideological account of U.S. history, according to which the American Revolution was undertaken to defend slavery, and promoted it over the objections of historians and the paper's own fact-checkers. [The New York Times is committing treason.] ...

    

    The Soviet style has become a reality in the U.S. Speakers are routinely canceled on ideological grounds: in July the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbour, Maine, canceled a virtual talk with Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society because of "the moment of reckoning our society is going through." At my alma mater, the University of Chicago, the English department announced that it would "only accept applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies."

 

    The Soviet Union finally counted on the readiness of people to betray even family and friends. The regime held up Pavel Morozov (1918-32) as a martyr. He lived in the village in Ural when the regime was collectivizing agriculture. When Pavel learned that his father was helping peasants hide grain, he walked 35 miles to the nearest town to report him to the secret police. His father was arrested and Pavel was stabbed to death by relatives.

    I thought of Pavel Morozov when I read a June op-ed in the New York Times by Chad Sanders, a black writer. He told his white friends that he didn't need their "love texts" and suggested that the instead they cut off contact with family members until they sent money to Black Lives Matters or joined their protests. ...

 

    It is true that Marxism is a more coherent system of thought than "wokeism." But even an intellectual hodgepodge can engineer totalitarian habits if it fulfills an emotional need and becomes a device of interpretation.The antidote is fidelity to higher values. But that requires a moral seriousness that a world at peace and in thrall to superficialities does not inspire. "The West does not know and does not want to know what shaped it," writes Cardinal Robert Sarah, a Guinean [Catholic] prelate. "This self-asphyxiation leads to a new barbaric civilizations." 

 

    The Soviet Union is dead, but its ghost wanders an unsettled world. Finding a lodestar for society's moral development is the most important challenge facing the U.S. today.

MERRY CHRISTMAS,

George H. Kubeck,

P.S. The above is the most serious article published in this blog. Next month, President Trump will present Veritas: Fraud decided the Nov. 3rd election. A nation cannot live with Marxist deceit and lies.