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Society is stuffed full of news and information, while it desperately starves for wisdom and common sense. Since we are fully immersed within the silly season of electoral politics, this could be the understatement of the year.

As the world accelerates even faster on the Autobahn of the Information Age, the last thing it needs is some benign editor taking it upon himself to edit a columnistโ€™s work because he didnโ€™t believe the ending worked. โ€œIt will just confuse readersโ€ was his objection. The column he is referring to was last weekโ€™s offering.

Mr. Editor took it upon himself to request an edit to a column he obviously did not agree with.ย He was the only editor among a dozen that had an issue with the piece. Refusing to make the edit, I told him via email if he doesnโ€™t agree feel free to kill the column. His reply minutes later was equally concise, โ€œConsider it killed.โ€ Yet those like him in this business โ€“ and there is an army of them โ€“ wonder why the newspaper industry remains in a death spiral.

Mr. Editor treats his readership like the deplorables he believes they are.

Proof can be found at the MediaNews Group, a Colorado-based publisher and a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital a Manhattan hedge fund, who cuts his checks. The group bought Pottsvilleโ€™s The Republican Herald and three other regional newspapers from the family-owned Times-Shamrock Communications of Scranton, Pennsylvania in August 2023.ย 

The groupโ€™s credo is โ€œtransforming the future of mediaโ€ which taken at face value can mean virtually anything.ย If censorship is considered โ€œtransforming,โ€ then count me out. And you can bet they certainly will and at the whim of one rogue editor. The two prior editors who I had submitted my work to over the past eight years both left within the past 60 days.ย As the paper shrinks, so does its masthead and staff. Mr. Editor is not on the masthead of The Republican Herald, but toils at a sister publication.

Unlike many who spill their opinions weekly and, in some cases, weakly, consuming all modes of news and commentary is a must. Most of it is generated by the mainstream media that serves as the Democratsโ€™ house organ. A columnist or any op/ed writer does their readers a major disservice not to because it reveals what the left is thinking and ultimately doing. Some of its sour fruit delivers satirical and sarcastic material practically writing itself. Such a broad-based perspective affords balance, something every op/ed page should provide but doesnโ€™t.ย 

The credo of any op/ed page should be balance and everyone is entitled to their opinion, while the rest of us are entitled to ignore it.ย Mr. Editor only accelerates his dwindling readership by acting as their appointed censor. Too many media types and so-called influencers are apt to delete any material that isnโ€™t ideologically pure. They make the whitewashing of Hillary Clintonโ€™s computer servers seem amateurish.

The censorship-industrial complexโ€™s ascent is reminiscent of the predictable Warsaw Pactโ€™s historic overreach, and underscores how the need for critical thinking and advancing truth is not only needed but paramount. 

One paradigm is how Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story from being shared. Facebook concealed the story, while Politico said it might be โ€œRussian disinformation.โ€ The Washington Post called it โ€œlaughably weak.โ€ Then there are Hunterโ€™s gun crimes, tax evasions, and foreign cash extractions that came with the implied promises of benefits and threats from โ€œthe big guy.โ€ย 

Note to the FBI: The RICO Act doesnโ€™t only apply to Italian-Americans.

This censorship of Hunter Bidenโ€™s crimes is corrupt as the crimes themselves.

Power is found in knowledge, information and experience, which grows from the ground like a banana stem.ย If you lose touch with that, you are ripe for the peeling.

Censors want submission and unquestioning conformity. There are no exceptions especially for nonconforming columnists.

The mediaโ€™s blatant censorship is a miscarriage of civility, justice, and the rule of law; it is nothing short of a treasonous arson of our representative republic.ย These Marxists want the cost of speaking freely so high that Americans would rather just keep their mouths shut to avoid the hassle and cost.ย 

I will not acquiesce and neither should you.

Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca is a New York City native and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who writes for TTC. He resides in the Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work can also be found in The American Spectator, NewsBreak, Daily Item, Republican Herald, Standard Speaker, The Remnant Newspaper, Gettysburg Times, Daily Review, The News-Item, Standard Journal and more.

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