Unfreedom of the Press Quotes

“Unlike the early patriot press, today’s newsrooms and journalists are mostly hostile to America’s founding principles, traditions, and institutions. They do not promote free speech and press freedom, despite their self-serving and self-righteous claims. Indeed, they serve as societal filters attempting to enforce uniformity of thought and social and political activism centered on the progressive ideology and agenda. Issues, events, groups, and individuals that do not fit the narrative are dismissed or diminished; those that do fit the narrative are elevated and celebrated.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“The whole point of American journalism has always been detachment from authority so that critical analysis is possible.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Shafer and Doherty conclude that “[n]early 90 percent of all internet publishing employees work in a county where Clinton won, and 75 percent of them work in a county that she won by more than 30 percentage points. When you add in the shrinking number of newspaper jobs, 72 percent of all internet publishing or newspaper employees work in a county that Clinton won. By this measure, of course, Clinton was the national media’s candidate. . . . The people who report, edit, produce and publish news can’t help being affected—deeply affected—by the environment around them.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“On September 12, 2013, the Atlantic, a progressive media outlet, reported that there were at least twenty-four journalists who transitioned from media jobs to working in the Obama administration.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“It bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America’s founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939 to 1945.”16 In”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“What ails us most is not what we have done with America, but what we have substituted for America. We suffer primarily not from our vices or weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality. To discover our illusion will not solve the problems of our world. But if we do not discover them, we will never discover our real problems. To dispel the ghosts which populate the world of our making will not give us the power to conquer the real enemies of the real world or to remake the real world. But it may help us discover that we cannot make the world in our image. It will liberate us and sharpen our vision. It will clear away the fog so we can face the world we share with all mankind.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“what of the enormous power exercised today by lifetime-appointed judges, who micromanage more and more of society; unelected bureaucrats employed by scores of government departments and agencies, who legislate not through elected members of Congress but by the issuance of untold regulations and rules; and, the surrendering of sovereign legal and policy authority to international organizations, thereby conferring governing decisions to organizations that exist outside the Constitution’s framework?”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“press has been campaigning alongside Democratic politicians, officials, consultants, and surrogates for President Trump’s impeachment since even before his nomination.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“But the historical evidence paints a picture of a colonial press that is courageous, vigorous, and openly partisan about America’s principles in promoting and defending the cause and arguments for the revolution”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Therefore, while the revolution was undeniably a transforming event, it was not about the “fundamental transformation” of American civil society itself, as President Barack Obama would proclaim about his own election. Moreover, its purpose and principles were the antithesis of and incompatible with the philosophies that undergird the modern Progressive Movement, such as those espoused by German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, and later American progressive intellectuals including Herbert Croly, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey, and Walter Weyl, among others.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“In other words, journalists should not seek and report facts as news, but launder their news gathering priorities and the facts themselves through a progressive ideology to give them meaning and purpose.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“As many regular consumers of news can attest, this condescending elitism, a fundamental characteristic of progressivism, abounds in the attitude of journalists, and undoubtedly in the environment of newsrooms in all their platforms.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass—a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see. The”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Indeed, the Commission on Freedom of the Press had specifically emphasized that the media must pay special attention to the difference between fact and opinion.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“These instruments can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed when they enshrined the freedom of the press in the First Amendment to our Constitution.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“The Commission on Freedom of the Press (also known as the Hutchins Commission) was organized in 1942 by Time and Life magazine publisher Henry Luce to explore whether freedom of the press was in danger and the proper function of the media in a modern democracy.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America’s founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“single political party and ideology, they not only destroy their own purpose but threaten the existence of a free republic.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“defines a media-created “reality” whether or not it has a basis in true reality, around which individuals organize their thoughts, beliefs, and, in some cases, their lives.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Indeed, social activism, progressive groupthink, Democratic Party partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news, the staging of pseudo-events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old-fashioned, objective fact gathering and news reporting.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“The call for journalists to adopt objectivity was an appeal for them to develop a consistent method of testing information—a transparent approach to evidence—precisely so that personal and cultural biases would not undermine the accuracy of their work.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“George Mason professor Tim Groseclose…developed an “objective, social-scientific method” in which he calculates how the progressive political views of journalists and media outlets distort the natural views of Americans. It “prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead, we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass - a glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservatives want us to see. The metaphoric glass affects not just what we see, but how we think. That is, media bias really does make us more liberal.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“George Mason professor Tim Groseclose argues that another effect [of a liberal media] is the “extremism-redefined principle,” in which “the terms ‘mainstream’ and ‘extreme’ take on new meaning within the group. When the group is, say, very liberal, mainstream Democratic positions begin to be considered centrist, and positions that would normally be considered extremely left-wing become common place.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Indeed, during the last several decades alone, poll after poll and survey after survey have demonstrated that the media are more liberal than the public at large.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“newsrooms and journalists have also traveled far from the substantive principles and beliefs that animated the early printers, pamphleteers, and newspaper publishers who gave birth to press freedom and American independence.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“journalism has become an overwhelmingly progressive enterprise, and the disingenuousness with which it is mostly denied, defended, or even celebrated often leads to a pack mentality, groupthink, repetition, and even propaganda presented as news.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“should be to assemble not only a newsroom that might resemble the community but also one that is as open and honest so that this diversity can function.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press

“For the first time in our history, the news increasingly is produced by companies outside journalism, and this new economic organization is important.”
― Mark R. Levin, Unfreedom of the Press