Interviewed by CSPAN last week, Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, in a rare moment of honesty, acknowledged that most reporters are liberals, and facts are really incidental to their high-minded elitist agenda ~ [Source: Publius Forum]
 

“I mean most journalists I know are liberal…”
… I think any journalist worth his salt often has a real moralistic kind of righteousness to them somewhere in their soul. And I think that’s a, you know, we’re gonna protect the — and we talk in grand terms about ourselves, you know, afflicting the powerful and comforting the afflicted.”

 
This of course comes as no surprise to those of us who have been paying attention for years – and checking reality against msm fiction. But it is awfully rare for one of them to allude to the fact that honest reporting is not their primary objective. Apparently, Hastings considers deliberate deceit to be “comforting the afflicted?” For all his self-righteous smugness, do you think he realizes that he’s totally undercutting any credibility he may have had? If you’re actually insinuating that you’re distorting the truth, why should I listen to anything you have to say?
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Hannah Arendt’s book “The Origins of Totalitarianism” was written in the wake of World War II, an analysis of the various factors behind the Nazi’s rise to power. She had this to say about the propaganda pushers:

Without the elite and its artificially induced inability to to understand facts as facts, to distinguish between truth and falsehood, the movement could never move in the direction of realizing its fiction. The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with the reality. Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality.

 
As the Germans learned in the 20th century, when lies triumph over transcendent truth, tyranny prevails.