We All Want To Be Banned, Too! And a Call to Support the Press...

[tgards79]

BTRTN on the cachet of being banned...and what we must do in response...
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/02/hey-donald-please-ban-us-too.html

[reggieandlee]

1. Good comparison to the media environment in the Vietnam era

Don't be misled... it starts out as a comedic piece but makes a sharp turn into a very serious and important discussion. Here's a sample...

"If Walter Cronkite had made his famous damning critique of LBJ’s Vietnam policy in today’s media environment, the only people who would have seen it would be the people who were already against the war. Fox News would have lambasted Cronkite for biased reporting and reassured their audience that victory in Vietnam was imminent. The President would have tweeted CRONKITE = FAKE NEWS to thirty five million unquestioning faithful. The majority of news reporting on Vietnam would have been controlled, in shocking measure, by the very people who were making government policy. And we would have been stuck in the mud of the Mekong Delta for a decade longer, with thousands more young Americans asked to die for a mistake..."