The Secret Hate Speech Of The Media

Adjectives and adverbs are the secret hate speech used by the media to prejudice your thinking on topics. They are the insidious means they use to bias you for or against all sorts of issues. They slip them into their sentences to worm their way into your thought processes without you even noticing its happening.

And both sides do it, it's just that the left controls so many more sources of "news" that they are the fire hose and the right is the garden hose.

You can pick nearly any article or report on any political or social topic from virtually any "news" source and find these little devils riddling the report as they attempt to sway your thinking to the reporters point of view.

Let's take a look at a paragraph from the New York Times this morning:

An executive order gave the right-wing agitator Stephen K. Bannon a full seat on the principals committee of the National Security Council, a startling elevation of a political adviser.

If this were an article written to inform you of the news rather than to turn you against the action they were reporting on it would have been more on the order of this:

An executive order gave Stephen K. Bannon, a political adviser, a full seat on the principals committee of the National Security Council.

Everything else in that paragraph was propaganda intended to sway your opinion to a negative position about this occurrence.

I'm not saying the NYT can't have these opinions or publish them. It's just that they ought to be on the Op-Ed page under opinions. While the kernel of the story was fact, all of the surrounding verbiage, the adjectives and adverbs if you will, were placed there in order to subtly adjust your opinion of what they are telling you to a negative one.

This is NOT reporting, but is instead a subtle form of propaganda.

Once I started paying attention, I've noticed it even down to our local TV news. And now I realize that it's been happening for years. Even venerable old Walter Cronkite regularly did it with the help of Dan Rather, Morley Saffer, et. al. But we weren't sophisticated enough to notice.

The "News" outlet's have been playing us like fiddles for decades. From the way they reported on Vietnam, to Bill Clinton's philandering, to Donald Trump, they've been leading the majority of the undiscerning consumers around by the nose. Influencing them on just what to think about the various topics they chose to report on or not to report on. For example, "The Tea Party is dangerous", while choosing NOT to report on the whole pay to play aspect of the Clinton Foundation and the Hillary Clinton tenure as Sec. of State. If the military were doing this to an enemy, it would be called psy-ops, but since it's the "press" we are supposed to swallow it whole.

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not related to Linda Lovelace and this is to much for me to swallow. I'm calling for an end to the tyranny of the modifiers being wielded by the press! No more secret adjective based hate speech by the press!

I challenge you to listen for these sneaky attempts to influence you and point them out to your friends and loved ones. Let's shine the light of actual unbiasedness on this insidiousness and try to stamp out this hate speech and banish it back to the opinion pages where it belongs.

Or so it seems to an old farm boy.