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Unfreedom of the Press QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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

8 " 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

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " 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

17 " 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

18 " 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

19 " 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

20 " 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