LETTER TO THE EDITOR: National media now weaponized – The News Herald

Brandon S. Todd of Wewahitchka writes: Its all a political-machine, intended to be a circus, for the primary purpose of distracting us from the real, tangible, and fixable issues affecting our property, wallets, and families.

We live in very chaotic and confusing times.

The stories and reports we Americans get are sometimes too much to absorb. Most of us simply are trying to get by," the last thing we need is a mendacious media.

The media has force-fed us lie after lie, till it has appeared as truth the Left announces falsities as truisms. The American media has become a partisan-agent of chaos; television news is all synchronized, so propaganda knows no limits here now.

Local journalism is the back-bone of any city; local newspapers and stations still matter tremendously to the nation. However, the national high-tower companies are peddling quantity over quality partisan opinion over investigative fact.

Its troubling to know that Fake News is actually a real thing. Narratives are created day-in-day-out. Character assassinations are performed hear sayers have open-mic sessions on national television now.

To put it very bluntly, the news media have been weaponized; political correctness and half-truths are what they shovel. Very partisan political-factions have merged with journalistic institutions, and now the past, present, and future are all narratives.

"Control the narrative, control the nation."

Those in power are swaying journalism in America; we have a polarized, more than corporate institution that was once united for truth and founded upon egalitarian principles. Now media, especially TV, have become 'Orwellian' in nature; facts are no longer the media's concern.

The weaponization of the media is a threat to all of democracy. The free press must remain utterly free to operate for the American people. Propaganda is inevitable. However, mass-deception should not be the norm to allow MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, etc., to keep getting away with deceiving the public must not be allowed.

Its all a political-machine, intended to be a circus, for the primary purpose of distracting us from the real, tangible, and fixable issues affecting our property, wallets, and families.

America is ranked as one of the deadliest places to be a journalist, behind Afghanistan, Syria, Mexico and Yemen.

No wonder we cant get the truth to tell it is quite risky.

Brandon S. Todd, Wewahitchka

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