I don’t fail to appreciate the power of the media, I fail to assign to it the mythic function you seem to assign to it, or ascribe to it values that the rest of society does not live by. Yes, it is true these things constitute the last firewall against authoritarianism. That’s also why many democracies have given way…

But that’s just the thing...it doesn’t. This obligation that we imagine the press has is a philosophical ideal, one that is out of step with the real ideology of the world we live in. The real ideology of the nation is capitalism, it is that if there is money to be made, you go out and make that money. Now this is…

If the press has an obligation, it is to the nation which affords them unique freedom, not to the shareholders of their corporate overlords. By “the nation” I mean the people, of course.

Pretty wild that Stormfront can’t find a single fucking grammar nazi.

Wow I really was getting ready for Cubs fans to act like assholes all year because they won. Now I almost (not quite but almost) feel bad that I will spend all year being the asshole by reminding them that my team won it’s World Series.

One would think those Cub fans would be used to taking the L.