socialistexan: aka14kgold:steviemcfly: He’s literally threatening to shut down media outlets
socialistexan: aka14kgold: steviemcfly: He’s literally threatening to shut down media outlets that criticize him and people will still deny that he’s fascist. FREEEEEEEEEE SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH Poor DonDon, he still thinks that it applies to his desire to say anything, even as, you know, the representative of government. “No such idea of adversarial journalism, of subjecting the actions of state to investigation and scrutiny, was to infect the minds of the nation’s newspaper writers and editors. Rather Mussolini contended that “Fascism requires militant journalism,” the country’s newspapers presenting themselves “as a solid bloc,” committed to “the Cause” and obscuring or outrightly burying any fact or story antithetical to it. Even more than post-factum censorship, Mussolini favored this kind of proactive steering of the press, hardly subtle and clearly defining his expectations as both military and civilian leader of the people. In Fascist Italy, social and political pressures—and the resultant self-policing by the media—were at least as important as actual legal proscriptions, probably much more important.” -- source link