The more I read Jim Avila, the more I realized why he blocked me on X (the former Twitter), and his last pieces defending the current evening news heads (and then some) and snipping on Conservative Media is proof that he likes dishing it out, but can’t take any criticism from even reasonable minds. You try to have a conservation with these people, but they are no different than Cool Hand Luke. We have failure to communicate, and Avila you and I, can’t reach. After skimming his piece knocking conservative media and defending PBS’s journalism as an apology for forgetting them in the first place. Then he drives the final stake saying this;
Turn off Fox News and enjoy these instead. You know, the good old legacy media that you need to trust with your Heart, Body, and Soul. For these outlets are the guardians of democracy and everything that is good...cause we say so.
Let me say right off the bat, that while Fox News has its warts, office issues, and corporate political issues, etc., etc., I still take them over ABCCBSNBCPBSetc. Avila admits to being a fan of Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace both on MSNBC, and Jake Tapper on CNN. Yet he wants to tell us how great George Stephanopolous (Democrat hack, and especially for Bill & Hillary Clinton), Norah O’Donnell, Jane Pauley (married to cartoonist Garry Trudeau who created the leftist newspaper strip Doonesbury), and Lester Holt are. They have one thing in common; they are all center Liberal to hard Left (or La Gauche). It does not bug me as much if Glenn Beck (used to work for Fox News), Steve Deace, Chris Plante (his late father Bill Plante was a White House Correspondent for CBS News and Chris himself once worked for CNN), Megyn Kelly (used to work for Fox News), Howie Carr, Trish Regan (used to work for Fox News), tells me to turn off Fox News. It angers me however, when someone who has the back of the legacy media tells me that. Cause they are seeking in my honest opinion, absolute control of the political and cultural narratives.
Mr. Avila, WHO are you telling to turn off Fox News and return to the legacy media? Conservatives? People who do not understand you? Common People who just do not know about how the legacy media really operates and believes they are fair and objective? Useful idiots that work in media? I know of Conservatives that are turning off Fox News, but they are going to other conservative outlets like Newsmax, The Blaze (BlazeTV), World Magazine, Townhall (Salem News Network), just to name a few. They are not going back to the Dominat Liberal Establishment Mass Media (aka DLEMM; as retired Denver radio talker Mike Rosen called them) for sure. With the death of Rush Limbaugh, the DLEMM/Democrat Party Press/Legacy Media wants their monopoly of sorts back (like they had back in the days of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite), and they still claim to do just news and not give opinions. They still have lots of power (Sleepy Joe Biden is finally President of the United States) and about 30 million viewers combined, but they want more. They really want to shape American in their own image. "Fundemental Transformation" of America, indeed.
It is a good thing that I have a copy of Mark Levin’s Unfreedom of the Press close to me in a time like this. I skimmed the opening chapters of the book, just to be reminded of the likes of John Dewey (father of progressive education, but also made impact on our modern news media as well) and Jay Rosen who both see the news business as a means to advocate for civil and social change. Public and Civil journalism indeed.
Avila in my honest opinion is dishonest, if not a flat-out liar. Its one thing to defend the business you love. Its dishonest to tell us that you are defecating on our shoes and telling us its rain water rather than urine. I am tried of people like him defending Stephanopolous, The New York Times, Norah, and the list goes on. I warn you Conservatives; Don’t fall for it. You are entering a burlap bag (not Wild E, but a different Coyote in a Native American tale) and about to be pelted by a bunch of blackbirds with their stones if not bigger rocks.
Dennis Prager’s latest piece is a classic example of why we need to push back against the legacy media. More Americans in this day and age, are willing to give up their liberty and freedom for security from Big Brother. Also, that very same media that Avila speaks for will make it possible for the powers that be to have the power (coupled with the public education system) to turn your children against you and likely have you put to death (like other empires before us), opening them to being exploited and mutilated but as long as they become part of the American Left’s never-ending revolution…nothing else matters. Plus the class warefare games, higher taxes, less liberty, more government (with empty promices to take care of all of us). The consequences will be devastating and we are starting to feel the pangs of it now.
Turn off the Legacy Media and seek sources that embrace a Conservative Worldview, but are also objective (not just Fox News, but they have the bucks and resources for better or worse). That includes sources of Faith as well (like The Christian Post, World Magazine, The Worldview in 5 Minutes just to name a few). After reading these pieces from this legacy media hack, I truly despise if not hate Jim Avila. He is using the First Amendment, to destroy it…just like so many that are part of the American La Gauche. In journalism and elsewhere they have taken control.
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