home.social

#freepress — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freepress, aggregated by home.social.

  1. CN at 30: The Knowledge & Experience of Insiders
    consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/
    Consortium News is comprised of former insiders at senior levels of intelligence and mainstream media who broke with the establishment to share their unique insights about the world with our readers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at…
    #Politics #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Media #C.i.a. #CathyVogan #CentralIntelligenceAgency #CorinnaBarnard #DanEllsberg #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #JohnPilger #MikeGravel #OliverNorth #PatrickLawrence #RayMcgovern #RobertParry

  2. #CPB helps fund both #PBS & #NPR, but most of its funding is distributed to more than 1,500 local #PublicRadio & #television stations around the country.

    The corporation also has deep ties to much of the nation’s most familiar programming, from NPR’s “#AllThingsConsidered” to, historically, “#SesameStreet,” “#MisterRogers Neighborhood” & the documentaries of #KenBurns.

    #law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #autocracy #Trump

  3. Thoughts for today: Jamuary 20, 2025

    While my political views are for the most part completely opposite of the late Senator Barry Goldwater, I do find many quotes attributed to him both insightful and thought provoking. The quote below seems especially thought provoking for today:

    “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. ”
    ― Barry Goldwater

    #USPolitics #AbsolutePower #Despotism #FreePress #HumanRights

    Reference: Good Reads - goodreads.com/author/quotes/36

  4. #Politics #Censorship #editorialcartoons #protest #AnneTelnaes #SteveBrodner #freepress #politicalcartoons #MartinRowson

    We Stand With Ann
    Cartoonists Unite for Anne Telnaes and the First Amendment
    STEVE BRODNER
    “American Association of Editorial Cartoonists decided to take a group action and finish Ann’s sketch, in our own styles.”Here is Martin Rowson:
    Ref: “Two masked al Qaeda-linked gunmen with assault rifles stormed what were then the offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people.