Fox News and the Freedom of the truth?

In the past we used to think that peo­ple are free to express their opin­ions and indeed that free­dom is writ­ten down in the Con­sti­tu­tion. 

The First Amend­ment pro­vides that Con­gress make no law respect­ing an estab­lish­ment of reli­gion or pro­hibit­ing its free exer­cise. It pro­tects free­dom of speech, the press, assem­bly, and the right to peti­tion the Gov­ern­ment for a redress of griev­ances.

This real­ly says it all but is it real­ly some­thing that you can do or is it some­thing that oth­ers decide if you can have that right or not. 

In broad­cast jour­nal­ism often it seems that we do not have the right to free­dom of speech or opin­ion or clos­er to the truth we only have the right to opin­ion when that opin­ion is the same as those broad­cast­ers, pub­lish­ers like Fox News. 

In some ways you can under­stand that pub­lish­ers like Fox News might need to con­trol some of the con­tent that we see how­ev­er there is a thin line between con­trol­ling the things that hosts say on TV and sup­press­ing all oth­er voic­es and opin­ions. 

When you choose to sup­press opin­ions because those opin­ions are not in agree­ment with what you believe to be true then you begin down a slip­pery incline. 

We will nev­er be in com­plete agree­ment on every­thing but there seems to be this idea that when it comes to the media its only one view point or a very lim­it­ed dis­cus­sion of point counter point. 

When there is no oth­er opin­ion allowed this is not free­dom. 

At one time most peo­ple believed the world to be flat. 

Sad­ly there are some that still think this though you might won­der why they want to believe that when we have over­whelm­ing proof that is not true. 

The main rea­son why peo­ple are upset with Fox News is that they have cho­sen to lim­it the dis­cus­sion and if you don’t have the same view as they do then you are silenced. 

That is why peo­ple are turn­ing against Fox News even though Fox might be one of the few media out­lets that per­mit dis­cus­sion they have betrayed the peo­ple and the adver­tis­ers that once trust­ed them to do the right thing. 

It is a great respon­si­bil­i­ty to report the news and sad­ly the media as a whole has left that behind and instead have focused only on one point of view. 

Any one that dares to dis­agree are silenced and fired. 

This is wrong and we have known that this is a prob­lem for a long time yet still we strug­gle with this elite men­tal­i­ty of my way or the high­way fee­ble thought process­es. 

When you decide that you are right and the whole world is wrong and you then pro­ceed to silence those that say the world is not in fact flat then you are part of the prob­lem. 

Fox News has become a prob­lem but there are many oth­ers that are worse. 

Even­tu­al­ly we will loose the free­dom of speech entire­ly and it will be because com­pa­nies like Fox News who have failed to uphold the stan­dard. 

What is the stan­dard. 

The stan­dard is a sim­ple one and that is to report the truth free of opin­ion and it is this free­dom that the con­sti­tu­tion was cre­at­ed to address. 

When com­pa­nies like Fox News fails this stan­dard they are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ruin of soci­ety because we trust­ed them to do the right thing and at one time in his­to­ry it was this stan­dard that was the most prized pos­ses­sion of all mankind. 

We trust­ed the media to act in a way that revealed the lies con­cealed in the dark­ness. 

News papers report­ed hor­ri­ble truths about chil­dren made to work in hor­ri­ble con­di­tions that often result­ed in their deaths and if they had failed to report those truths our world would have been affect­ed in a ter­ri­ble way. 

What if in the past the news papers had just done what Fox News is doing today to par­tic­i­pate in the lies to allow chil­dren to be destroyed all because they were afraid to report the truth?

That would have been hor­ri­ble and frankly unthink­able but that is what we are faced with today and if you dare to name the truth you are labeled by more lies you can even loose your free­doms. 

They call you names they say your crazy… 

That is not the Spir­it of Amer­i­ca that was born in 1776. 

Peo­ple are upset with Fox News because we need­ed them to report the truth but they have failed us and it seems like they are not going to do the right thing at all. 

Amer­i­ca is based on free­dom and that free­dom was not free it came with a price that many men and woman have freely paid with their lives. 

How can we sit here and do noth­ing when evil appears to be in con­trol and it seems like no one is will­ing to do any­thing to stop it. 

For the last sev­er­al years we have seen lies report­ed as if it were fact. 

We have seen this over and over again and even when those lies are revealed as lies they still refuse to report the truth. 

Com­pa­nies like Fox News have a duty to do the right thing but they appear to not be all that inter­est­ed in actu­al­ly doing the right thing. 

Fox News like most oth­er media com­pa­nies make mon­ey by adver­tis­ing. 

They sell time dur­ing their broad­casts often to oth­er com­pa­nies that are will­ing to pay a lot of mon­ey to have an adver­tise­ment shown to those that are watch­ing the pro­gram­ming in the news. 

When these com­pa­nies refuse to do the right thing and “sell out” that trust that the peo­ple have in the media then that adver­tis­er has become a par­tic­i­pant in the lies and in the half truths that often are part of the pro­gram­ming. 

Per­haps that is why they call it pro­gram­ming. 

This should not be… 

When an adver­tis­er sup­ports the pro­gram­ming of a media com­pa­ny by pay­ing for that adver­tis­ing there comes a point where the con­tent begins to act in such a way that the view­er is harmed by the con­tent more so when that con­tent is not truth­ful. 

This is what is wrong with just about all of the media and you can see it in how much mon­ey they make. 

When you think about it, the more lies the media tell and the more often then try to sup­press the truth the less mon­ey they make and you can see that in oth­er media com­pa­nies that have already told so many lies that they are close to finan­cial ruin yet they still keep on doing what is wrong. 

Fox News is head­ed down this road and if they con­tin­ue to believe that peo­ple are not smart enough to see what they are doing then they will con­tin­ue to make less mon­ey. 

Like so many oth­er peo­ple I am dis­ap­point­ed in how Fox News has cho­sen to do busi­ness and like so many oth­ers I am tired of all the lies in the media even when we can see the truth they con­tin­ue to lie about it. 

They say you did not real­ly see that video that proves the truth … 

Like the Star Wars movie where the Jedi say “these are not the droids you’re look­ing for” this implies that peo­ple that have weak minds can be con­trolled by the “force” but it is that force that the media have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to uphold. 

The force in this case is respon­si­bil­i­ty to do the right thing. 

It would seem that for more than 40 years we have slow­ly watched the media become more cor­rupt until we are now look­ing at an event where even video evi­dence that proves what they are say­ing is a lie is sup­pressed by those peo­ple we trust to reveal the truth of lies. 

They believe their own lies and that is the most dan­ger­ous harm of all. 

There can be no free­dom when only one way of think­ing is ever allowed and when that hap­pens we can no longer grow as God intend­ed. 

When we are faced with harm because of a few peo­ple who are rich and pow­er­ful that nev­er ends well and that is what will hap­pen in the future if com­pa­nies like Fox News con­tin­ue to refuse to report the truth and sup­press free­dom by silenc­ing voic­es that are impor­tant to our future. 

Fox may not go out of busi­ness but they will become more like CNN and they will nev­er grow or thrive in the future and that is a shame but if they can­not tell the truth or report the truth then that is what they deserve. 

Fox does not deserve to become wealthy by enslav­ing peo­ple by their lack of con­vic­tion and their fail­ure to do the right thing.