“Journalistic objectivity is a fairy tale invented purely for the consumption of the credulous public, sort of like Santa Claus. Advocacy can be hidden in a monotone, or out in the open proudly. Nobody in this business takes objectivity seriously. People should be most skeptical of anyone who claims to be objective, because they are almost always lying, whether they know it or not. "
Matt Taibi, “so called journalist”, 2005
It was risible when blue representative Debbie Wasserman Schulz lectured Matt Taibi on journalistic ethics during a congressional Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files. She scolded him for profiting from his increased substack subscriptions by revealing the machinations of the Censorship Industrial Complex, a massive, government directed blacklisting of covid dissidents by electronic news sources, willing and eager to comply. Nobody laughed. Debbie did DNC director for a quarter million a year, and paid more in sycophant salaries than Democratic campaigns in 2016. She also cheated for Hilary over Bernie and she’s still taken seriously?
A “so called representative” from the British Virgin Isles called Matt a “so called journalist.” How did she get a seat at the DIE? There’s a German word for coining the perfect comeback afterwards. Matt is feelin’ it. Another “so called journalist” Julian Assange is rotting in prison for exposing government secrets they didn’t want leaked, including Wasserman’s tilting the scales for Clinton2016, so Taibi got off lightly.
An objective journalist for a proudly liberal Berkeley radio station played extended excerpts from this, because press censorship was formerly a progressive concern. That got tossed out the window like illegal drugs when the blue lights began flashing CovidTruth. He tiptoed around their prime directive to censor objections to the covid narrative, from lockdowns, masks, herd immunity, alternative treatments, to perfectly safe and effective jabs and sudden deaths.
“Medical reporters” in the corporate press, have minds molded by the CDC and “top doctors”, so most went along with the official narratives for three years. When a recent NY Times op-ed j’accused masking science, is that a white flag of surrender or a red herring flying? Even their most trusted news source couldn’t shake the True Blues from their delusion about masks, much less lock downs and covaxxes. They barely accept natural immunity, although that’s a science thing, again.
It’s doubly ironic when a red news pundit calls out the blue panjandrums for announcing it’s time to abandon objective journalism. Neither “side” has admitted they’re not fair and balanced, each claims Truth even if they doubt it, while calling the other delusional. As someone who’s been called delusional for decades, you can’t convince ‘em, just live to dance on the graves of covaxx boosters and fast food faithful.
“A bicycle nut and health food freak” was how an “objective journalist” for the Fort Lauderdale News described me in his lede, “reporting” on my inaugural Bicycle Day parade of May 22, 1981. I’d petitioned Florida’s governor and 29 municipalities to endorse it that winter, coincidentally on my birthday. It started at the parking lot for Mother Nature, the “health food” store I worked at. It stopped at a natural history museum I also worked at, so science geek and political gadfly could have been thrown in. I called him to yell “at least get your goddamn cliches straight, it’s health food nut and bicycle freak.”
Bicycling as traffic with road rights was as fringe in the 70’s as anti-vaxx mandates Before Covid, but the times were ripe for velorution. Economy, Ecology and Egos converged in an Overton Window. Bicycle Day was welcomed by politicians as a symbol of freedom from oil, traffic jams and the expense of mass transit.
A word of caution, the window of opportunity to transform transportation in the 70’s, slammed shut with the Reagan Revolution. Vaccine Victory is not guaranteed, only warrantied. Void where prohibited. Like “freeways.” Relying on Reds to protect Medical Freedom, will be as short lived as Candidate Trump, the lone voice against childhood vaccine mandates switching to Warp Speed. Republicans riding the Medical Freedom train now, will get off at BigPharma station, the Grand Central of campaign cash.
I didn’t stop typing, just because I wasn’t being paid. Always kept a day job, or graveyard shift. Letters to the Editors, Op-Eds, small circulation magazines and newspapers. The Real Free Press. Fifty Years of typing for print publications. That Body of Work is buried out back.
The Word is the beginning of Dissent. Like mustard seeds cast among brambles, they will sprout when it rains. Electronic journalism is more freeing, and just as Free for now. It’s easy to feel useless or worthless if measured against the stars. Then again, hitch your wagon to one and you’ll likely end up off it. Better to plow away like a mule dreaming of forty acres of grass.
Medical Authorities claim credit and profit for unraveling the mysteries of death and disease. They condemn dissenters as heretics and would burn us at the stake, if still possible with air pollution regulations. The Supreme Court could rule those out for infringing on Corporate Rights. Corporate medicine ignores simple, practical, affordable health and wellness measures. Corporate Media bleats their Science of Denial.
Few physicians challenge Vaccine Myths, most publicly salute it. Parental ignorance is not bliss. Overwhelming evidence favors despair. Keeping our heads above water, like a rat swimming in a cold vat of propaganda is shortened without Hope. Any voice in a storm. Messages in bottles in a garbage gyre of propaganda.
In a roundabout way, strengthening our immune system against military/medical industrial propaganda, invisible invaders and the American Way of Life, (AWOL) is possible with the same breath. Through the nose. Breathing is Free. Everyone’s gotta do it, other wise SUDS. Big fan of inhaling. Exhaling’s essential. Box it with pendular pauses. Breathe through your Heart and floating ribs. Anything done daily for six weeks becomes habit, like perennial grass, intractable without deep discing. Just Breathe. Not near Traffic.