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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4759685" data-attributes="member: 63706">I vehemently disagree with your claim that America is deeply anti-intellectual. And your issue with the anti-war journalists, that you keep bringing back up, is absolute nonsense. It&#039;s like Lenin said, you focus on the hypocrisy, against which there can be no defense, and that is one way you agitate and divide. But this is a fake hypocrisy, made up because you can&#039;t think of better evidence to accuse the system over.Journalists&#039; jobs are to report the facts without putting their views into it. The fact that this almost never happens any more is more of a concern than anti-war journalists&#039; views being stifled. If they wanted to report on the real reasons for the wars, with evidence, and report on the terrible things that happened as a result of war, there was nothing stopping them. If they got fired for going against their employer&#039;s wishes, sometimes that&#039;s the price of doing the right thing. They could just as easily founded their own outlet and established their own editorial guidelines. I assume that&#039;s probably what some did.So you can stop beating that dead horse of non-self censorship.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4759685, member: 63706"] I vehemently disagree with your claim that America is deeply anti-intellectual. And your issue with the anti-war journalists, that you keep bringing back up, is absolute nonsense. It's like Lenin said, you focus on the hypocrisy, against which there can be no defense, and that is one way you agitate and divide. But this is a fake hypocrisy, made up because you can't think of better evidence to accuse the system over. Journalists' jobs are to report the facts without putting their views into it. The fact that this almost never happens any more is more of a concern than anti-war journalists' views being stifled. If they wanted to report on the real reasons for the wars, with evidence, and report on the terrible things that happened as a result of war, there was nothing stopping them. If they got fired for going against their employer's wishes, sometimes that's the price of doing the right thing. They could just as easily founded their own outlet and established their own editorial guidelines. I assume that's probably what some did. So you can stop beating that dead horse of non-self censorship. [/QUOTE]

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