{"id":5281,"date":"2025-10-29T07:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:44:35","slug":"barack-obamas-new-journalism-government-approved-truth-coming-soon-to-a-censored-feed-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/29\/barack-obamas-new-journalism-government-approved-truth-coming-soon-to-a-censored-feed-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cNew Journalism\u201d: Government-Approved Truth, Coming Soon to a Censored Feed Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/29\/barack-obamas-new-journalism-government-approved-truth-coming-soon-to-a-censored-feed-near-you\/obama-facts-opinion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5282\" src=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Obama-facts-opinion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Obama-facts-opinion.png 600w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Obama-facts-opinion-267x300.png 267w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Obama-facts-opinion-134x150.png 134w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Obama-facts-opinion-300x337.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barack Obama says the quiet part out loud \u2014 it\u2019s time to \u201cexperiment\u201d with \u201cnew forms of journalism\u201d with \u201cgovernment regulatory constraints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of what we\u2019re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rp7TENsqmE\">pic.twitter.com\/Rp7TENsqmE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/1983378802894876859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"prose dark:prose-invert inline leading-relaxed break-words min-w-0 [word-break:break-word] prose-strong:font-medium\">\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Barack Obama just said the quiet part out loud\u2014again. In a speech that sounded more like a trial balloon for state media than a defense of free press, the former president announced it\u2019s time to <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cexperiment\u201d<\/strong><\/span> with \u201cnew forms of journalism\u201d and hinted at <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cgovernment regulatory constraints\u201d<\/strong><\/span> to make it happen. Translation: journalism should evolve\u2014as long as Washington holds the leash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Let\u2019s pause here. The man who once weaponized the IRS against conservative nonprofits and turned <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cspying on journalists\u201d<\/strong><\/span> into a headline now wants to<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> \u201creaffirm facts.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>This is the same political class that labels opinions they dislike as <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cmisinformation\u201d<\/strong><\/span> and calls censorship <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201ccurating content.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>If this is his idea of journalistic reform, then freedom of the press just got demoted to freedom of permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cNew forms of journalism,\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>Obama says. We\u2019ve heard that euphemism before. It usually means journalism that flatters power, worships bureaucracy, and silences any outlet not wearing an approved narrative badge. The last thing the republic needs is bureaucrats auditing reporters the way EPA inspectors check smokestacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">This isn\u2019t an idea pulled from the First Amendment; it\u2019s straight from the playbook of regimes that fear dissent more than dishonesty. Obama may call it an <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cexperiment.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The rest of us call it what it is: a government takeover of who gets to call something a fact.<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>Imagine Washington <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cexperimenting\u201d<\/strong><\/span> with journalism the way it <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cexperimented\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>with healthcare\u2014more red tape, less freedom, and the only facts protected are the ones that protect politicians.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">If journalism needs anything today, it\u2019s courage, not constraints. It needs watchdogs, not regulators; free thinkers, not fact commissars. The entire point of the press is to challenge power, not be retrained by it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">When politicians start using words like<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> \u201cexperiment\u201d and \u201cregulatory constraints\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>in the same sentence as <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cjournalism,\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>every free citizen should reach for the Constitution\u2014and their sense of humor. Because the idea that truth needs government supervision is not reform. It\u2019s a punchline.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bg-subtle h-px border-0\" \/>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama says the quiet part out loud \u2014 it\u2019s time to \u201cexperiment\u201d with \u201cnew forms of journalism\u201d with \u201cgovernment regulatory constraints.\u201d \u201cPart of what we\u2019re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Rp7TENsqmE \u2014 Vigilant Fox \ud83e\udd8a (@VigilantFox)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,171,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-free-speech","category-just-plain-dumb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}