The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 18th March 2016
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On the Standard Grim supports Donald Trump against Greenwald
Yesterday the case against Trump was put here by the Green contributor ‘Esoteric Pineapples’, with the implication that Trump was corrupting the USA media and he was a media jackup ( as if the USA media wasnt bought and corrupt already) . He quoted
Glen Grenwald on “objective” journalism and Donald Trump
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/14/the-rise-of-trump-shows-the-danger-and-sham-of-compelled-journalistic-neutrality/
Esoteric Pineapples put this same argument on The Standard and the reply by Grim is worth repeating here:
Grim 11.1
17 March 2016 at 12:07 pm
“IF anything Trump has been exposing Media corruption and bias, this makes me question Glen Grenwald’s objectivity.
Rupert Murdoch,Koch Bros, George Soro, Kissenger, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,
partial list of people financing media campaigns against Trump,
Vilification of Trump on this site on a daily basis, sourcing their”information” from unknown bloggers, twitter and face-book journalists.
When media tries to shape my opinion, instead of provide me with facts so I can form an opinion of my own that is propaganda.”
(Question: Is Greenwald now to be trusted?)
Who actually does own USA media? It is owned by largely by six corporations and mainly Jewish
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
http://www.rense.com/general44/sevenjewishamericans.htm
100% Chooky the media is now just a self serving trumpet for corporations and they greedily seek to extract THE TOP DOLLAR DOING WHAT THEIR PAYMASTERS WANT MOST OF AND NOTHING IS PLACED IN THE PUBLIC INTERST