Karen Kwiatkowski is always worth reading. This snippet is great but the whole article is:
The media’s stumbling incoherence during a Trump 47 press event (while he signed executive orders) on Inauguration Day reveals their lack of practice, and their incompetence. Did they fear, as happened the previous week, that asking the wrong question
might be cause for being roughly physically ejected from the press event? Not at all! Out of long habit, they feared asking questions to which they didn’t already know the answers, and being chastened by their editors or blacklisted from future media events. Like chained dogs, they accept their prior condition, and embrace it.
Turns out, in observing our elected leadership, we don’t need professionals to translate, or fact checkers to fact check. The instantaneity and reach of information today provides whatever we need, in whatever volumes we prefer, to figure out if our prejudices and frameworks deliver for us, or need to be adapted. We are our own headline writers. Trump is modeling, imperfectly and with occasional missteps, a kind of transparency that is wholly inconsistent with centralized big government. Mainstream media and the remnants of the modern Democratic Party see Trump’s transparency and public conversations as signs of Trump the Totalitarian. They have it exactly wrong. Transparency and talking things through are the biggest weapons we all have against totalitarianism, oligarchic controls, state corruption and war.
The difference between old and new can be seen in the nature of Trump’s pardons, and those of his predecessor, occurring within weeks of each other. Biden’s are critiqued from left and right as being engineered to hide information, crimes, and suspicions. Trump’s, on the other hand, are aimed at unleashing information, exposing crimes, and openly labeling suspicions, inciting or inspiring an open review of the facts. Will legacy media rediscover journalism, and conduct exploratory interviews with the Trump pardon recipients, to see what their experience has been, to revisit their “crimes” and their “punishments?” While some complain that the BLM and Antifa rioters were treated too kindly in terms of legal penalties, if we wish to see what a big bad government can do to people – in several cases,
people not even in Washington on January 6th, 2021 – we need to hear from the recently pardoned.
We also deserve
media assessments and interviews with Ross Ulbricht, who spent nearly a decade in jail for writing software. A lot has happened in that decade, and this pardon, like others that Trump has granted, opens to door to a greater understanding of truth – about technology, responsibility, and about the nature of the state.
Trump is making many things happen simultaneously. Two of them – transparency of the state and ridicule of the state – perfectly match America’s mood, and will determine her future. The world is overwhelmed by the rate and depth of the changes the new administration is making. Around 185 million...
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