Saturday Morning Thoughts: Social Media, ICE, and a 5-Year Old Child

Back in 1964, a communication theorist named Marshall McLuhan wrote a book in which he theorized that “the medium is the message”. What he meant by that is that the form of media in which an idea or fact is conveyed makes a difference as to how it is accepted and how many people it reaches.

We are living in an age where Social Media including facebook, X formally known as Twitter, and Instagram have become the main forms of communication for a lot of Americans, booting the Legacy Media off of their throne.

The problem that we’re having with this new purveyor of news is the fact that, as Ronald Reagan quipped, “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Their influence has become so prolific that Legacy Media has given up their oath to be objective and has join the liberal political pundits on Social Media creating a propaganda machine for the Democrats.

In fact, even the late night talk shows have stopped entertaining and started propagandizing.

The latest example is the story that ICE agents took away a five-year-old boy from his father. When you actually read what happened, the father was an illegal immigrant with a record and when ICE came to apprehend him, he ran away leaving the little boy with the woman he was with who was reportedly the boy’s mother. She refused to take care of the boy so the ICE agents did, consoling him while they looked for his father whom they eventually caught. Now, the father wants to take the boy back to his home country with him.

For a couple of days in the 24-hour news cycle both the Legacy Media and Social Media were filled with shouts of shame, riling up their readers against these agents when in fact the agents did their jobs and showed compassion for that child.

There’s a lot of people who need to wake up and smell what these so-called purveyors of news and truth are shoveling.

Have a great Saturday, Stay safe in the storm. God bless.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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