A Russian journalist who recently threatened to reveal
allegedly large-scale corruption involving Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
forces in occupied Ukraine has been found dead. (Remarkably, reports indicate he did not
fall out a
window.)
In entirely unrelated news, David
Menzies, a reporter for Canada’s conservative Rebel News Network, was recently arrested for asking Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia
Freeland why Trudeau’s government refuses to label Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) a
terrorist organization. A now viral video of the event, posted by Rebel News
head Ezra Levant, shows Menzies strolling down a public sidewalk, keeping pace
with the Deputy Prime Minister, when a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP) stands in his way and begins to arrest Menzies, claiming that he
“assaulted” him, an apparently bogus charge. But, what the hell, Menzies had it
coming! I mean, asking a member of the royal government a question which
Freeland obviously preferred not to answer…or even hear posed! (“Freeland?” No that’s
ironic.)
Meanwhile, also entirely unrelated to be sure, members of U.S. President Joe Biden's campaign team have
been trying to coordinate media coverage and amplify their preferred narratives
while simultaneously berating reporters for "what they're getting wrong." In fact, Biden himself recently admonished reporters…and
instructed them to start reporting things “the right way.”
(If they know what’s good for them, apparently.)
According to Semafor, these "off-the-record
trips for top political reporters and editors" to Biden’s campaign
headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, are being conducted so as to review media
coverage and ‘correct’ what the campaign believes they're getting wrong.
Look at the bright side: unlike in Russia,
journalists are only being cancelled, threatened or arrested by authoritarian
governments in Canada and the United States! Surely radical leftist governments
led by the likes of Trudeau and Biden won’t go any further in their attempts to
intimidate an already mostly compliant press in North America. Right? And
surely a once supposedly free and unbiased press wouldn’t put up with any more
attempts by these regimes to shape what—and how-- they report. Correct?
Just kidding! We all know the answer to those
questions, though some may not wish to admit it.
Democracy
doesn’t “Die in Darkness.” It is simply effectively snuffed out by those beholden
to those in power-- or too craven to resist them…even in the light of day.
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