I can't say that I'm particularly surprised or even upset by Palin's comments. While she is wrong in every meaningful technical sense, since the media is not legally an organ of the state, she is not wrong in the sense that it relates to her. After all, one would have to be either daft or an ideologue (did I just create a false dichotomy there?) to have not observed the increasing tendency of the majority of the mainstream media to act like a propaganda ministry for the state. In every practical sense, the media has act as a ferociously partisan, auxiliary of the state on behalf of Barack Obama against Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Sarah Palin and even Hillary Clinton.
As a civil libertarian who has grown sick and tired of the feckless mainstream media's lack of a desire to hold government accountable for its corruption and abuse of the public, I understand her perspective. Too often the mainstream media is complicit in helping the state hurt the public to such an extent that one can easily forget that technically, it's still private business.
As a civil libertarian who has grown sick and tired of the feckless mainstream media's lack of a desire to hold government accountable for its corruption and abuse of the public, I understand her perspective. Too often the mainstream media is complicit in helping the state hurt the public to such an extent that one can easily forget that technically, it's still private business.
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