President Putin Gives Leadership Lesson to Dumbshit American Journalists (There Are No Other Kind)
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President Putin Explains Reality to Dumbshit American Journalists (there are no other kind)
Americans have not seen leadership in so long that they no longer know what it is. Here is
Putin with a leadership lesson.
(Republished from PaulCraigRoberts.org by permission of author or representative)
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You have to realize that a journalism career is now an insinecure, dependent upon succor of both the politically powerful oligarchs who own the remaining monopoly media and their mendicants, the politicians who can end journalistic careers by shunning those who do other than act as mouthpieces for them. No career can survive that double whammy, and thus speaking truth to either power or the public by paid mainstream journalists – presstitutes, as you put it – is now as rare as it was in any late Soviet propaganda oasis, and as dangerous to livelihood.
I can’t see why this matters. All lives offer what seems like the easier path to anyone willing to ignore moral constraints. I mean, anytime you have an agent, you have an agent with self-interest who can pursue it at the expense of his client. It’s observers like Roberts and Macadam paying attention, passing judgement, and promoting social consequences that might encourage reporters to be better agents.