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Anyone,
I am an example (perhaps a very poor example) of a modern day Journalist.
I have spent about 3 decades working on Journalism, if, and only if, the term Journalism has a specific meaning.
In the report by Real News there is information offered by someone to anyone. That means that someone has consumed their life, their power, their time, their energy, and their resources to gain the information and then to publish, or offer, the information that they have gained, and that means that there is a reason, a motive, for spending that power of life to accomplish that goal.
1. A choice is made to expend effort in the necessary work required to gain specific information.
2. The motive behind the choice to expend effort in the necessary work required to gain specific information is specific in each case that the choice to expend effort in the necessary work required to gain specific information is made.
What is the motive behind the choice, in any case, to expend the necessary work required to gain specific information?
I can assume a few things about motives in specific cases that I will offer as a response to this Real News report on journalism.
1. Paul Jay has a motive.
2. Dahr Jamail has a motive.
3. I have a motive
4. Alex Jones has a motive
5. Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn had a motive.
6. Edward Bernays had a motive.
7. Thomas Paine had a motive.
8. Opra Winfrey has a motive
9. Bob Dylan has a motive
10. Glen Beck has a motive
In order to begin understanding the nature and purposes that exist in the decisions to expend human effort in the work required to gain information it may help to expend some work toward the accurate identification of the most common motives.
Examples:
1. For fun. People decide to expend the work that is necessary to gain information because it is not work for them, it is fun for them.
2. For equitable monetary gain. People decide to expend the work that is necessary to gain information because it is work that produces something that can then be offered to someone else, or many other people, in exchange for money, or something of value, such as the value in money called Purchasing Power.
3. Necessity. People decide to expend the work that is necessary to gain information because people become aware of the necessity of gaining information, to avoid potential injury, or to gain necessary power, to know how to survive, and to know how to prosper while surviving.
4. Crime. People decide to expend the work that is required to gain information because people decide to target other people so as to exploit other people, to get something from other people inequitably, to gain at the expense of the targeted victims.
5. Generosity. People decide to expend the work that is required to gain information because people decide to use their own power so as to make other people more powerful.
While listing many possible common motives a significant understanding emerges as the majority of reasons can be understood as reasons that are either productive reasons or reasons that are destructive reasons.
A. Productive (equitable, defensive, productive)
B. Destructive (inequitable, offensive, destructive)
A few other obvious characterizations become apparent:
A.
Productive, equitable, and defensive reasons for gaining information tend to be open, public, free (open source), distributive (able to flow to anyone at any time and from anyone at anytime desired, or two way, not one way), voluntary, honest, accurate, desired, welcome, agreeable, reasonable, understandable, scientific, universal, competitive, inspiring, hopeful, concerned, sympathetic, empathetic, and subject to rigorous, and intense, scrutiny.
B.
Destructive, inequitable, and criminal reasons for gaining information tend to be closed, private, costly (for the victims, while profitable for the criminals), secretive, false, dishonest, inaccurate, fictitious, duplicitous, unreasonable, exclusive, monopolistic, apathetic, fearful, paralyzing, hurtful, torturous, murderous, and ignorant.
Therefore the decisions to gather information can understandably belong to one of three possible general categories and those specific examples sited above are specific examples that can fall into these categories if the idea is to choose to gather information so as to know something.
A. Productive reasons
B. Destructive reasons
C. Unknown reasons (not obviously productive or destructive reasons)
Paul Jay, by his own words, reasonably falls into the category of productive reasons. The decision to gain information is decided upon so as to offer the information to anyone else, to give it away, so as to accomplish that goal, to give away the information, to make the information available to anyone, anytime, and to thereby help other people know specific things that Paul Jay thinks that other people may want, or may need, to know. The costs, or expenses, Paul Jay assumes, or consumes, in the process of gathering, and then publishing, information is paid, in part, by voluntary donations from other people who also give, generously, to help keep the information flow going, in the direction the information is flowing, in that network of people who make up The Real News Network. Voluntary, welcome, universal, networked associations.
Moving down the list to Edward Bernays, by his own words, and his own deeds (when his words did not match his deeds), the obvious, reasonable, and understandable, category that Edward Bernays belongs in, is the criminal category, as his decision to gather information is a decision by which the information gathered will then be used in the process of exploiting a targeted group of victims. Anyone reading my words, here, may not yet understand this fact, and this forum isn't the place for me to cover all those facts, I'm just linking one source to the readers who may have an interest in knowing a criminal version of journalism.
I can move then to my own reasons. My reasons for deciding to expend my limited power in the work that is necessary to gain information are selfish in the long term, and generous in the short term, a balance of reasoning, and one that I can honestly, and accurately, report to be productive reasons, and measurably not criminal reasons.
I have worked, and I have found, for example, the information that clearly identifies two diametrically opposing forms of government, and now that I have this provable, supportable, reasonable, accurate, and useful information, I have decided to publish this information, to make it available to anyone, any time, for their own good, without any short term compensation from anyone to me, in return for my effort. In the long term I can profit as the power of criminals governments lessen in proportion to the power gained by honest productive people who may, or many not, decide to invest, voluntarily, in honest, and productive, forms of government.
It has become clear to me that the decisions I make to publish information that uncovers the crimes being committed by the people running criminal governments is a decision that may expose me to some risk; risk that I can avoid having to face if I decide to keep the information I have found secret, in the short term, while in the long term my decision to keep the information that exposes the criminals governments a secret, are decisions that aid, and abet, and offer measurable support to the criminals governments, empowering the criminals, at the expense of the victims, including me.
This is not news, this has been covered before:
Thomas Paine:
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
Moving then to Dahr Jamail the case can be made that the decision to blow the whistle on criminals running governments is life threatening, as the decision goes well beyond short term self enriching monetary gain, obviously, and much closer to some unexplained reasoning for exposing one's own life to extreme hazard, so as to gain first hand, timely, on the scene, information - and then use that information to accomplish another goal, such as the goal of informing other people.
If the people running the governments are criminals, committing crimes, then the people deciding to gather information for generous reasons, to help other people, even while risking personal injury, are going to be subjected to laws, and actions, aimed at anyone making those decisions to expose the people who are criminals who are running governments, and aimed at them to make them less powerful, such as gag orders, and such things as Alien and Sedition Acts.
At what point does a government turn from a productive one into a destructive (criminal) one?
The answer is found inside the Real News Report.
The idea is to demand, by way of deceit, and by way of threats of violence, and by way of acts of violence, payment from the targeted victims, a demand made by the criminals who run the criminals governments, in a word: subsidy, so as to get power flowing from those who create power to those who steal it.
Involuntary taxation is the source of subsidy, and taxation, if it is involuntary (gained by deceit, threats of violence, or acts of violence0, is deceitful, a self contained confession of deceit, since the accurate word is crime, not taxation.
Where does the stuff that makes up a subsidy come from?
If the source of the subsidy is the honest productive people who produce surplus wealth, and if the power that is employed in the work of transferring that subsidy from the honest productive people, to the government people, is a deceptive power, and a power that is made up of threats of violence, and a violent power, so as to move the productive power from those who produce it, to those who steal it, then, as that power flows from those honest productive producers, it flows to the criminals who employ deceit to get the power stolen by deceit, and it flows to the criminals who employ threats of violence to get the power stolen by threats of violence, and it flows to the criminals who employ violence to get the power stolen by violence, and it does so even if the criminals call themselves presidents, and congressmen, and journalists, and even if the victims call the criminals, presidents, and congressmen, and journalists.
If the subsidy flows from the people who produce surplus wealth, the stuff of subsidy, the tax stuff, if the money stuff flows from the honest productive people voluntarily, without deceit being employed to cause the flow of power, then the subsidy flows without deceit being employed to cause that flow of power.
Why call it subsidy if it is charity?
Why call it subsidy if it is short term investment?
Why call it subsidy if it is long term investment?
Why call it subsidy if it is voluntary exchange between people who willfully decide to exchange, or donate, and do so without being subject to deceit, fraud, misrepresentation, false advertisements, subliminal messages, behavioral modification, lies, half truths, falsifications, hidden agendas, response conditioning, false propaganda, brainwashing, threats of violence, and acts of violence?
Who is inventing, employing, supporting, and perpetuating subsidy, and what is it, exactly?
That is all I have to say at this time.