Failure of the marketplace of ideas
Opinion January 17, 2021
Last week saw a mob of armed insurrectionists, numbering in the thousands, storm Capitol Hill and burst into the halls and offices of the Senate and Congress.
Trump-friendly media outlets (Fox News, Newsmax, One America News Network) and online groups and fora (QAnon, Parler, conservative Twitter) had been feeding them a steady diet of a single message since before the first vote was cast for the 2020 presidential election: Democrats would rig / did rig the election. This repetitive messaging, this brainwashing, had not let-up even after the election was called for Joe Biden.
Whenever discussing politics or examining public policy, it’s always wise to ask how the Founders might have acted regarding the issue or question. So, I will ask rhetorically, how might Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison…
The right of free speech and the right to hold one’s own opinions and to express them peacefully in a distinct way is not endowed by any government, sitting president, social media oligarch or regime.
Fox News?
It seems that the company is going through quite a storm after it alienated much of its audience with its handling of the presidential election. It’s not looking so good for the network that, for decades, represented conservative thought on broadcast media.
The company recently restructured its daytime lineup amid plummeting ratings. The network is currently struggling to regain the audience it lost in 2020. Even worse, it is currently performing worse than
CNN and
MSNBC, which are left-leaning media activist organizations. It seems that only shows hosted by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are keeping the network afloat.
Donald Trump Will Make Decision On Pardoning Assange, Snowden & Ulbricht By The Weekend, Commentator Says
Conservative commentator and One America News Network anchor Jack Posobiec claimed on Thursday that Donald Trump will soon decide whether to pardon Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Ross Ulbricht. Can confirm the President has now seen this poll. His response, We ll see by the weekend, he tweeted.
Posobiec was referring to a Twitter poll he posted earlier in the day that asked Trump supporters whether the outgoing head of state should pardon the trio. The results as of Thursday evening show that 95 percent of respondents over 67,000 thus far said yes.