When shown facts, On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone runs as fast from them as she can — and blocks you from contacting her again. Than, she berates Trump for imitating her. Go figure!

By Lev Tsitrin

The angle from which NPR’s On the Media — a weekly show that, according to its mission statement  “explores how the media ‘sausage’ is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad” commented, in a segment titled “Trump’s Fact Eradication Program.” on “President Trump’s recent firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics within a larger effort to discount facts that aren’t politically convenient” surprised me, given my experience of asking Brooke to do a segment on why judicial fraud (federal judges adjudicating judges’ own, rather than parties’, argument when arriving at their decisions — in clear violation of due process, a swindly “procedure” which they defend when sued for fraud with the self-given, in Pierson v Ray, “absolute immunity” for acting from the bench “maliciously and corruptly”) was not worthy of reporting (even while Trump’s immunity generated volcanic amount of it — aren’t all branches of the government “co-equal”?) only to discover that her promises to read the material I sent her were lies, and my in-person access to WNYC (where On the Media is produced) was blocked (along with my email addresses and phone numbers).

With this knowledge of MSM’s lying through its teeth by filtering out the facts they want the public to not know (my experience of federal judges routinely falsifying argument to make it fit the desired decision, being perhaps the most glaring example), I expected her to say something like “President Trump illustrated superbly how we in the media treat facts, trumpeting those that fit our agenda, and turning blind eye to those that don’t. Behold “how the media ‘sausage’ is made!””

But surprise, surprise! This is not the moral Brooke drew from the story. Instead, she chose to self-righteously contrast her sterling and shiny factual probity with Trump’s presumably blatant disregard of facts. Hear this self-declared ardent champion of fact speak! “Ever since I got into this business, there have been times that have served as sharp reminders that the mission is to speak truth to power, but the current moment suggests that perhaps the more crucial mission, especially since power is no longer listening, is to speak truth to each other.”

Given that I know from my personal experience of talking to her that Brooke does not give a hoot about the truth, I am at a loss as to whether to laugh or to cry. Given the gap in our social positions — her voice is broadcast (and re-broadcast three times a week) to all of America via NPR’s network of stations, so to me she is a representative of the “power” — in fact, of the very power that refuses to hear truth — one would think that she should find it the easiest thing in the world to understand Trump’s stance which she condemns. All she needs to do, is just look in the mirror.

But, of course, she refuses to do that. Apparently, hypocrisy is an incurable disease. “Physician, heal thyself” is fully applicable to On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone, to WNYC that produces it, to NPR that broadcasts her lies countrywide, and the lying MSM generally — of which Brooke is a typical example.

Before talking of Trump, Brooke, drink the medicine you prescribed to him. See a beam in your own eye before pointing to a mote in Trump’s, you liar.