William Barr shut down CNN with one message they did not want to hear Fake news CNN and other so-called mainstream media outlets keep telling Americans one giant lie. So-called journalists maintain that they are objective truth seekers. But William Barr shut down CNN with one message they did not want to hear.
Attorney General Barr spoke to the 2020 National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
During his speech Barr took on the Fake News Media as a hopelessly biased institution that views the world through the lenses of its liberal hive mind.
Today in the United States, the corporate or mainstream press is massively consolidated, Barr told the crowd. And it has become remarkably monolithic in viewpoint, at the same time that an increasing number of journalists see themselves less as objective reporters of the facts, and more as agents of change. These developments have given the press an unprecedented ability to mobilize a broad segment of the public on a national scale and direct that opinion in a particular direction.
Barr noted that a unified press damaged democracy by whipping up a tyranny of the majority.
When the entire press advances along the same track, as Tocqueville put it, the relationship between the press and the energized majority becomes mutually reinforcing, Attorney General Barr continued. Not only does it become easier for the press to mobilize a majority, but the mobilized majority becomes more powerful and overweening with the press as its ally. This is not a positive cycle, and I think it is fair to say that it puts the press role as a breakwater for the tyranny of the majority in jeopardy. The key to restoring the press in that vital role is to cultivate a greater diversity of voices in the media.
Christian Americans are specifically under assault from the mainstream press.
Homosexual marriage became legal in America largely after a sustained campaign by the Fake News Media and Hollywood to normalize it.
Once it became legal, the press and its activist allies moved on to demanding Christian bakers, florists and wedding photographers violate their sincerely held religious beliefs to participate in homosexual weddings.
None of this would have been possible if the so-called mainstream media was not monolithically in favor of homosexual marriage and hostile to Christian believers.