Thread by @MZHemingway

"The increased power of the press is so dangerous today because we are very close to one-party control of these institutions." Federal Judge Laurence Silberman warned in a dissent yesterday. cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini…

"The New York Times and The Washington Post are virtually Democratic Party broadsheets. And the news section of The Wall Street Journal leans in the same direction." Judge Silberman noted.

"The orientation of these three papers is followed by The Associated Press and most large papers across the country (such as the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Boston Globe). Nearly all television—network and cable—is a Democratic Party trumpet," Judge Silberman added.

"As has become apparent, Silicon Valley also has an
enormous influence over the distribution of news. And it similarly filters news delivery in ways favorable to the
Democratic Party," wrote Judge Silberman, highlighting the shocking suppression of stories about Biden family.

"ideological homogeneity in the media—or in the channels of information distribution—risks repressing certain ideas from the public consciousness just as surely as if access were restricted by the government," -- Silberman

"It should be sobering for those concerned about news bias that [Fox/NYP/WSJ] are controlled by a single man and his son. Will a lone holdout remain in what is otherwise a frighteningly orthodox media culture? After all, there are serious efforts to muzzle Fox News," he writes.

Don't miss Silberman's epic footnote in which he acknowledges that some Fox commentators lean as far to the right as "commentators and REPORTERS of the mainstream outlets lean to the left." (emphasis mine)

And another footnote taking aim at the feckless folks who frequently defend Big Tech's relentless assault on free speech. Judge Silberman calls repression of political speech in large institutions with market power "fundamentally un-American."

"the overwhelming uniformity of news bias in the United States has an enormous political impact." Judge Silberman notes a decade-ago academic study showing that bias gives Democrat candidates an 8-10 point advantage. Problem has gotten dramatically worse since then, obviously.

"And now, a decade after this book’s publication, the press and media do not even pretend to be neutral news services." Silberman notes.

!!! "It should be borne in mind that the first step taken by any potential authoritarian or dictatorial regime is to gain control of communications, particularly the delivery of news." Silberman writes of leftist control of media and Silicon Valley.

Here's the concluding paragraph about our leftist media's "willingness -- if not eagerness" to distort. Wow.