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McLuhan's 'Media is the Message' Now 'Message of the Media


By A. Dru Kristenev ——--August 27, 2019

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<img src=" height="372" width="700" class="img-responsive" title="insert picture" />The latest salvos in the war on America's heritage exploded last week, fired-off by major media, congressional actors and stage-managed youth. After 50 years of leftist academics and media rewriting history, the New York Times is going for broke. Re-imagined history (because the Times' 1619 Project is a figment of their imagination) was built into an emotional introspection peddled as a serious examination of this nation's founding.

After 50 years of leftist academics and media rewriting history, the New York Times is going for broke

Rolling out the 1619 Project, the one-time "newspaper of record" is taking another stab at invoking the Barack Obama-Elizabeth Warren mantra, "You didn't build that." Working to mortify Americans, the objective is to replace the republic with a government of reparations, better known as socialist redistribution. Receiving an approving nod from major media outlets, the project's attempted re-invention of the past has expectation of being adopted by educators as a factual record of America's beginnings. But it's not. Reading the actual writings of the men and women who established the first colonies in the "Annals of America," students of this nation's history would be shocked to find that most of what they were fed at public schools bears no resemblance to what actually occurred. Sadly, because modern students have been shorted in their lessons of proper English, few can understand the lucid records penned by the leaders of Massachusetts Bay and other early settlements, let alone the Federalist Papers. Over the last hundred years, the definition of oppression and, by association, slavery has been twisted to convince younger generations to inappropriately apply these terms to not getting their way. The purpose in attempting to reconfigure colonial history is to justify getting something for nothing--reparations (free money), free college, free healthcare, free food, wifi and probably Starbucks gift cards.

The foolishness of the manipulated left

The foolishness of the manipulated left is such that they would willingly do away with essential components of this republic that ensure oppression and slavery (financial or physical) can't be instituted against the people. Namely, the First and Second Amendments that limit government, and the Electoral College. Education has been so skewed that outspoken socialists, from Bernie, Warren, Kamala and the squalid "Squad" to duped Parkland students and academically illiterate college vagabonds, demand they lose their own freedom to speak, worship as they wish or protect themselves against violent attack. Repressive societies rewrite history to suit the power brokers' agenda, be they military dictators, elitist educators and/or avaricious financiers, planting false "facts" in classrooms and media outlets. An example of how far the resultant entitlement mentality has penetrated into our government at all levels is an LA Sheriff's Department 21-year-old rookie faking a sniper assault, evidently to make himself appear heroic before being transferred. Elected and administrative officials defiantly employ similar tactics regularly. Also in California, Governor Gavin Newsome had the gall to enable the spreading of filth, disease and vermin in the state's major cities, then call the problem a "national disgrace" expecting to blame the Trump administration for the state's self-generated mess. Accountability? That's not in their self-serving vocabulary.

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Reworking history has one outcome--the deeper subjugation of future generations

Reworking history has one outcome--the deeper subjugation of future generations who are trained to be willfully ignorant of the past and, thus, irately arrogant in their collective stupidity. There is still a majority of Americans who know true history and will ferociously combat the turncoat media from re-inventing the nation's founding. More than complaining must be done to halt the further denigration of education, and individuals are making commitments to run for school boards as well as undertake homeschooling of their children. Much of the problem can be traced back to community-funded schools being turned over to a public entity, which very thing Thomas Jefferson warned against in his second inaugural address (no wonder the left is rewriting history). Moreso, the overly politicized media has been elevated to become the arbiter of history because, in the natural progression of social order, the office of a scribe disappeared. Can or should scribes be re-introduced? Perhaps the answer is to revolutionize the role of journalism, again. To make it responsive to the need for unbiased recording of events, in which media students today are not trained. Schools of communications have overtaken those of journalism in the universities and subsequently colored all of modern media. Has Marshall McLuhan's the "media is the message" been flipped to become "the message is the media?"

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A. Dru Kristenev——

Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.


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