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Some of you weighed in on this story that FTVLive posted yesterday. We thought we would share a few with you.

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Your post brings attention to a critical point many will just gloss over. 

Your quote: "Reporters need to get tougher with their questions, not softer. Right now, it seems as if Reporters are resorting to playing nice with public officials for the sake of having them speaking on-camera for the newscasts."

We do not live in normal times. This government is not normal. Yet national and local mainstream media treat those who wish to destroy long established institutions with calm and tolerance, regardless of what they say into a microphone. JOURNALIST Terry Moran chose his humanity over journalism SOP to call out fact. He chose to call out evil as it factually and openly presents itself.  Journalists are willing to allow public officials to make statements filled with lies and misinformation without being truly being held accountable. Why? Their corporations will fire them if they push back with vigor. The NAZI party used German media in the early 1930's to broadcast their own misinformation and mislead an entire society. Instead of protecting German citizens from evil, they became the very tool that helped those in power unleash the horrors that would lead to the Holocaust. The mainstream news community needs to WAKE UP and realize that an authoritarian regime wants to overrun our democratic principles for the sake of money, position and power. The fight against all this begins in our local communities. Perhaps it's time to focus energy on calling out those who wish to willfully misinform the public and silence those who wish to speak truth. Book banning, censorship, citizens being detained without due process, public websites being purposely manipulated to erase history, gerrymandering. All stories that are unfolding in our local communities. Yet far to many are spending valuable time covering what is irrelevant or dancing on tik-tok. "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and cannot be limited without being lost." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Currie, Jan 1786. 

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Couldn’t agree more with your assessment of the state of the media.  They need to get tougher on all politicians.

Keep up the good work.

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Scott,

Your story about how the media has gone soft on politicians was on point. I’m afraid that the corporate media owners really don’t care about journalism. It’s just about lining their pockets and sucking up to whomever they need, to keep the money flowing in.