Quotes From Essays On The Media

Some more random thoughts culled from my upcoming book Essays On The Media:

I write like the world depends on it because my voice is a human voice. For all its flaws and shortcomings it is a voice of an individual in a world filled with the sound of machinery and conformity. Too many of us only see our value in terms of how we can serve the machine, too few of us willing to ask if the machine serves humanity or the long-term viability of life on Earth.

I cannot help thinking the media that exists today exists to crush the individual. Perhaps it is only a necessary byproduct of the crushing of the individual, but it tends to crush the ability to think clearly, as well. Assuredly it crushes the tendency to talk respectfully towards others.

You know what MSNBC and FOXNews have in common? Neither one of them has done any sort of investigation into the unlikely suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.

If a conspiracy involving trafficking girls under the age of consent to some of the world’s most powerful people is not permitted to be spoken of in mainstream media, you have to start asking what else is not permitted to be discussed. You have to start wondering how trustworthy are the sources you have entrusted to keep you informed. And you have to begin to realize just how fundamentally corrupt are the media whose job it is to…