Oswald Mosley on the media

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The Press [should] not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people but a tyranny over their minds and souls. Much humbug is talked on this subject. What is Press freedom ? In practice it means the right of a few millionaires to corner newspaper shares on the stock exchange and to voice their own opinions and interests irrespective of the truth or of the national interest.

Newspapers are not made any longer by news or journalism. They are made by sheer weight of money expressed in free gift schemes, etc. They serve not the interests of the many but the vested interests of the few. In that service they will stoop to any lie or any debauch of the public mind. This must be stopped, and the freedom of the National Press to serve great interests at the expense of the nation must be curtailed.

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The solution could be worse than the problem.
What will the punishment be?

Actual reporters and whistle-blowers will be accused of lies or treason, and put in prison. Which already happens.
Some just end up dead ("suicide").
Scientists with different but real results will be accused of lies. Many already get accused and lose their jobs.

Who will determine what is true?
- Fact-checkers? Snopes is a complete fake. Like almost every other "fact"-checker.
- Propaganda machines? The North-Atlantic Council, Israel and other war machines.
Or agencies as Correct the Record, Cambridge Analytica.
- Institutions? Most institutes create fake reports like the 911 report.
- "Experts"? Most experts are locked in group-thinking and can be manipulated far too easy. (Climate change?)

Who will actually get the punishments?

I think that there could be a solution, but we need to be very careful not to make it worse.