STOP CALLING THEM “JOURNALISTS”.

| STOP CALLING THEM “JOURNALISTS.”“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.”—Joseph Pulitzer – CHARLES CURTMAN Nov 24,2025 |
Joseph Pulitzer said: “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together, An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”
Most so-called news reporters, analysts, etc. and journalists in America’s mainstream media today are actually nothing more or less than rank propagandists. The evidence overwhelming. CBS spliced and edited tape in an effort to make Kamala Harris appear smart (illustrating what it means to put “lipstick on a pig”), and BBC cut and spliced approximately an hour out of President Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech to make him appear to be a seditionist. Similar anti-Trump hijinks by major networks around the world have been exposed.
In this country, MSNBC, NBC, CBC, ABC, CNN, etc., etc. have been exposed as the willing mouthpieces that they are for the Democrat Party and the rest of the Left. The same is true of almost all of our national newspapers, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, etc., etc.
Almost all the “news” outlets in America now, nation-wide, state-wide and locally are what Pravda was to the Soviet Union and that People’s World (Successor to the communist Daily Worker is in the USA are nothing more and nothing less than sheer communist propaganda. There are plenty of good, informative and factual news sources available but the likes of the aforementioned entities.are not among them. Americans need to recognize this, and stop using the words “journalist” and “journalism” when thinking or talking about the
Words are important. They are, as someone said, “the fingers that mold the minds of men.” So, it’s important that we use the most correct words possible when when we think and talk.
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