Letters to the Editor
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Che Pasa
I really like what you said. You seem to accurately limn the media and who it serves. But I think the purpose of calling them out as Glenn does is educational in the following sense. What you so clearly see about the media was not always so clearly seen, for example, by me. I bought into the claims of their serving the public, the fourth estate, etc. etc. It is folks like Glenn calling them out and taking them at their word that they serve the public, and exposing the hypocrisy, that made it possible for me to come the the point where it is clear to me that the media has and always will be a tool of the elite power classes. But it is so revelatory to take them at their word that they are not doing this, and then to call them on their hypocrisy, for the purpose of helping people come to see the actual situation. I used to do that as an Army officer: well, I took an oath to be honest, and a gentleman, etc., so I cannot in good conscience do x, y, or z. And those in power think you are being an idiot: but those who you are in charge of see it, and think about it. A kind of Socratic examination, in a sense, and I think that is what Glenn and folks like him are doing: helping to educate us all.