Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness
New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angles Times, etc. should be very careful about how closely they align themselves with political parties, political personalities, and political issues in their effort to be politically correct.
As politicians and bureaucrats obtain more and more centralized planning they will, as Friedrich Hayek believes, employ more and more censorship and coercion. It will be more common place to prevent the free flow of information It will begin in benign and insignificant ways and then more and more pressure will be applied to FREE press to comply with political correctness.
This same approach will be used to control the usage and content of the Internet. Laws will be passed and regulations written to limit the use of the Internet with national security being the excuse for such a move. More and more surveillance of content on the Internet will happen and it will travel down this road to total control.
Historically the press has been the fourth estate that kept the government and politicans honest. With the decline of objectivity and honest reporting of facts our country is heading down a long and dusty road to a terrible ending with some brutal consequences.
Free press cannot remain free if it tries to be politically correct and does not question the legitimacy of national security propaganda.
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