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| Kit Knightly |
November 09, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - The media have called the election for Biden, but the counting goes on and there is a legal case in the offing. But whoever emerges from this deluge of sludge, fraud and propaganda to become president of the United States, there has undoubtedly already been one big loser – freedom of speech.
Late on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump – the elected President of the United States – emerged from the White House to make a speech.
He accused the Democratic party, the political establishment, the media and tech giants/social media companies of working together to steal the election and put Biden in the Whitehouse.
You likely didn’t see all of it, because most of the mainstream news channels simply refused to broadcast it. Watch this clip:
Late on Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump – the elected President of the United States – emerged from the White House to make a speech.
He accused the Democratic party, the political establishment, the media and tech giants/social media companies of working together to steal the election and put Biden in the Whitehouse.
You likely didn’t see all of it, because most of the mainstream news channels simply refused to broadcast it. Watch this clip:
Earlier that night, MSNBC had cut away from Trump’s first speech claiming victory, with anchor Brian Williams claiming it was “not rooted in reality” and “dangerous”.
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There is no absolute right to free speech and this article proves it. Broadcasters and social media organisations have a duty to correct the gross and inflammatory falsehoods that Trump has been saying about the US election results. His questioning of the results which have been declared satisfactory by all the election officials in the "swing seats" and called as accurate by all major media outlets is part of a coup which Trump is attempting to thwart the will of the majority of the US people.
ReplyDeleteHis appointment of ideologues and cronies to the Defence Department needs to be seen in the light of the attempted putsch as well.
When Trump lies as shamelessly about the election outcome as he has throughout his Presidency then public service broadcasting outlets have a responsibility to pull the plug on behaviour that is not out of place in Belarus, Democratic Republic of Congo or Zimbabawe.
When the author of this article asserts the right of the "elected US President" to be heard, they might reflect on the 300,000 African-American electors in Georgia removed from the electoral roll through voter suppression and doubtless elsewhere.
Bottom line Trump lost and in not recognising this fact he threatens a basic democratic precept; that the loser accepts their loss in order to facilitiate the orderly transition to a new administration. Media organisations are under no obligation to threaten this transsition by giv ing space to the man-toddler in chief.
Barry - you really do believe in the value of censorship.
DeleteI take the opposite view. One of the reasons France faces criticism in its bid to assert the free speech of cartoonists is its laws that forbid Holocaust Denial. People should be free to deny the Holocaust and be ridiculed as a result of it.
Nor can these matters be reduced to a freedom to speak issue. It is as much about the freedom to hear. If I prefer not to hear something I'll put my own fingers in my ears rather than have you put yours in.
" Broadcasters and social media organisations have a duty to correct the gross and inflammatory falsehoods that Trump has been saying about the US election results."
DeleteBroadcasters have a duty to inform the public of NEWSWORTHY news, The POTUS saying the election is rigged is , in my humble opinion, very much an interesting story. They should have broadcast it THEN DEBUNKED IT.
Instead you have broadcasters editing what we hear, and as I've already pointed out on another thread these News outlets are invariably in the pay of private corporate interests who have a vested reason for only one narrative being pushed, and you can be damn sure it's not the public's wellbeing at the forefront of their mind.
Sean Mallory comments
ReplyDeleteI always hold it is better to have these people air their views in public rather than in secret....