They don’t like
it. They don’t really understand it either or they wouldn’t do and say
the things they do. The ‘lamestream’ or ‘fringe’ media as we sometimes
call them, are being increasingly marginalized by the nearly
instantaneous transfer of information available to the average person
at his or her computer keyboard today.
Back in the day when virtually the entire hard news output was
controlled by major print media and the three large television
networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, there was a virtual lock on opinions voiced
outside of these increasingly politicized outlets. With a decidedly
left-leaning message, Americans were hammered for decades with
decidedly one-sided messages. What conservative voices there were on
the right were marginalized and diminished as being eccentrics and
somehow outside the norm of American politics.
The increasing preeminence of leftist thought in our journalism
schools had really begun to be felt in the late 60’s and 70’s when I
had returned from military service and entered college. The anti-war
movement was in full bloom and the left’s grip on academia was
pronounced. As a journalism student I had numerous clashes with
professors or grad students objecting to the the conservative slant of
many of my pieces. This didn’t do a heck of a lot for my grades in
those classes, but even then I was stubbornly defending my position and
pointing out the fallacy of the liberal Utopian redistribution of
wealth model. As you can well imagine, I took a lot of heat for
speaking my mind and standing up for conservative principles.
With the advent of conservative talk radio and the personal computer
came a sea-change in the public’s access to varied points of view. The
so-called ‘mainstream’ press, both print and television, had dominated
the landscape for so long that they had taken a paternalistic attitude
that the American people really didn’t know any better. We had to have
our ‘betters’ interpret for us. Along with the information revolution
came the ability of America and the world to access information from
thousands of sources instantaneously.
America had not been sufficiently dumbed down despite the left’s
best efforts. We began to see the fallacy and the inaccuracies in what
the left was saying. We saw lies and stories created out of whole cloth
to support their socialist aims. Furthermore, we clearly saw the
symbiosis between the leftist press and their political allies in the
Democrat party and in the entrenched Washington bureaucracies. We began
to talk to each other and exchange ideas. Not necessarily the ideas of
our own party leadership either, for we had found them wanting. We came
together through our new-found information freedom fountain as never
before. The Conservative revolution was born. The country awoke and its
people felt the resurgence of hope that was birthed with the adoption
of the greatest document in history, the United States Constitution, on
March 4, 1789.
We now re-dedicate ourselves to the ideals of the Constitution and
the principles of truth, freedom and individual responsibility that has
made America the greatest country in history.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009