Germany’s Censorship a Frightening Idea for Way More Than 60 Minutes
What is truth? Pontius Pilate asked in an attempt to evade the answer. By contrast, CBS shared breaking news about which nation concluded it could calculate whether speech is unfailingly accurate. Unfortunately, the claim is false, which undermines their dream of arresting those who say what’s wrong.
I refuse to think the 60 Minutes segment that fawned over Germany’s completely not unsettling habit of arresting those who they deem to have said hurtful things should lead to arrests even if it’s a rather appalling crime against expression. Press members against free speech do more to harm their own job security than this internet fad. There must be a German word for suckering a news program into endorsing censorship.
Sunday was a busy day for CBS, which does not necessarily mean it was productive. The diabolical channel that inflicted The Big Bang Theory on an innocent world held Teutonic Censor Day. The erstwhile Tiffany Network first used some of its morning time to peddle cubic zirconia. Paramount executives wish they could detain anyone drawing attention to how Margaret Brennan used free speech to contend the Holocaust was caused by same. It may surprise someone who’s as biased as she is ignorant to learn Nazis were not particularly known for respecting any sort of rights.
An American broadcaster is disconcertingly enthusiastic about Germany at its most German. Going to war with the world is a habit the Fatherland assures us they’ve broken. The allegedly reformed authoritarians are pledging to behave this time as they attempt to control ideas. Don’t post doubts about their intentions from Dresden or Stuttgart unless you want to be silenced in what I presume is a very clean prison.
Nobody is more organized about oppression. Adolf Eichmann was proud of how efficiently he got trains moving to signify his country’s commitment to productivity no matter the morality. The text of the First Amendment famously opens Mein Kampf. That’s a lie. I would be unable use the defense of joking in a place not quite known for comedy.
I hate your speech. It’s therefore hate speech. This is fun. Aspiring thought police officers always figure they’ll be the ones who determine what words break laws. They wish they could apprehend me for noting they’re shortsighted wannabe despots.
A 60 Minutes exclusive from inside a Supermax cell would offer a fun twist. The inadvertently best part of a fantasy by fascists is that they’d be the first arrestees. It’s still not worth imposing no matter how much we’d enjoy giggling at the standard they praised.
Most egregiously, the infamously timed show recently used many of their seconds to indisputably lie on behalf of their preferred candidate. I’m impressed by any attempt to make Kamala Harris appear coherent, but the goal is appalling no matter how much effort it took.
It’s easy to lie about lying. The ghastly urge to flog the mendacious is as dreadful as the practical attempts to define what constitutes a fib. Take the theoretical field of communications. Every single edit could be classified as a distortion of reality. That’s notably so for the flagging CBS flagship.
Disregarding how they’d be punished by their own precedent is a rich detail. Advocates of a horrid natural rights violation shouldn’t need to ask how it would affect them to realize they ought to be opposed. But applying a chilling notion personally is apparently needed to unearth empathy for those who are so useless that they had to major in journalism. I’d never get arrested for maintaining CBS reporters are poor examples of their profession and humanity.
The recurring defined timeframe was appalling enough without praising Germany’s naughty tendencies. 60 Minutes approaches 60 years of a stuffy, airless presentation set in a creepy void that matches the content. It’s perfectly represented in its way by the horrifyingly sterile ticking stopwatch indicating both the end of football until 8:15 and the lamentably approaching weekend coda.
A shameful dispatcher’s latest transgression against sense and decency is hypocritical on top of it all, as the chronic fabulists wouldn’t be allowed to note how they’ve used their newsmagazine to cheer for their pet nitwit causes. It’s easy to meet my personal code of not lying as much as 60 Minutes.
They’re at least self-serving enough to not call for banning irony. A news magazine that’s neither scolded America for allowing hatefully toxic content as they churn out just that. It’s like they just discovered this so-called Bill of Rights and are especially appalled by the first one.
CBS stooges are honorary Germans, at least of a directional one. The soft reboot of Aktuelle Kamera steered hard into tyranny. Regrettable correspondent and honorary Young Pioneer Sharyn Alfonsi presumably misses the Berlin Wall even if it couldn’t prevent catty words from escaping.
The Resistance cheers government deciding what truth is. The only thing worse than letting someone announce what’s legally true is letting elected dictatorial dolts to so. Government is as good at establishing facts as it is making eggs affordable. As for a foreign state’s public relations firm, 60 Minutes is enchanted by Germany incarcerating those it deems liars for the same reason liberals take money from earners spurs the economy: they believe government is ultimately in charge of everything and deserves to be so.
Irksome contrarian speakers use their free will to issue opinions just like they buy what they wish. Exchanging ideas is a free market, which autocrats hate in any context. Letting people sort out assertions involves encountering outright lies. Commoners are not protected from self-appointed guardians of veracity. They’ll have to figure out on their own how many fabrications are in each 60 Minutes segment.
Lusting for infringement upon words in a specific order could only get more appalling if practitioners are in the business of sharing information. In other words, it’s the status of 60 Minutes. That is one lousy hour. The media’s most sacred principle is most easily discarded. The best excuse of censorious CBS goons purportedly in the news division for endorsing limits on speaking is that they’re not journalists. I agree. That’s the truth.
