THE POINTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES

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    The Pointer Institute for Media Studies points out the pointlessness of the Poynter Institute and points the media toward intelligent points in reportage.  The Pointer Institute (PI) is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism, with a resource center, and seminars that can be scheduled, and the famous standing "media debate challenge" and other educational debates, to teach media the "point" of personal and economic freedom and point them toward relevant resources, and away from socialism. 
    Spearheaded by an internationally published journalist with a degree in mass communications (journalism) and a degree in law, the Pointer Institute helps the media to understand constitutional rights (including the 2nd amendment), and why the media are proof that government schools are an unconstitutional impediment to the First Amendment right to freedom of the press.
    The Pointer Institute sponsors continual exposés of the lie of "objectiveness" in the media.  PI points out the need for Objective reporting ala the Objectivism of Ayn Rand.  PI points out object lessons in journalistic gullibility and statism/socialism in media, socialistic sycophants in the media, and explains the important point of personal and economic freedom.
    PI sponsors the POINTER AWARDS that praise any media examples of libertarianism and capitalism, and simultaneously condemn the media for its socialism and statism.  Please send any nominations for the most libertarian media personalities and/or stories.  And also send nominations for the best examples of media ignorance of simple economics or of liberty.
    The Pointer Institute is imperative because media today have developed a horrible trait wherein opinion journalists will dance around a topic and never make any point other than the veiled call for socialism that "the government needs to do something." Examples are on the media page of this website at http://rexcurry.net/media.html
    PI is helping media become winners, not wieners, and not whiners.  In a free society the media is taken seriously, but as our society slides into socialism, "objective" news reporting becomes high camp.


Nelson Poynter, founder of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper, and namesake of the "Poynter Institute," was one of the "point men" in Hollywood for the USA's worst president, the socialist FDR.  Poynter acted as a promoter of socialism in films of the day, censoring anything that was too pro-liberty, and even seeing that movies produced in that era had to pass inspection by the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics located in New York (see MGM's 1940 movie "Song Of Russia," a blatant propaganda movie glorifying the socialist misery of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Roosevelt administration's Office of War Information (which claimed the right to "comment" on film scripts) had the script for "Song of Russia" vetted by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

No one should wonder why the Saint Petersburg Times is called "Pravda West."  It has a horrid heritage. Its heritage is so horrid that the journalist and historian Rex Curry helped launch the Pointer Institute to counter-act the Poynter Institute.  The Poynter Institute and the St. Petersburg Times are both examples of why government schools are unconstitutional, and have destroyed a free press, and must end.

The USSR was so bad that it is considered part of the socialist trio of atrocities that caused the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million dead under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million dead under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. 

To this day, the St. Petersburg Times employs writers who deliberately use the word "Nazi" in an effort to NEVER write the actual name of the horrid Party: National Socialist German Workers' Party (and on at least one occasion, after being specifically asked (during the writing of an article) to identify the actual full name of the Party, a St. Petersburg Times writer refused to do so in print).

For more on the topic read "Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood" by Robert Mayhew. It recalls Ayn Rand's testimony about the movie "Song of Russia" before the the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Ayn Rand debunked the movie as pro-Soviet propaganda and deliberate lies about the miserable reality of life under socialism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The author Robert Mayhew supports each part of her testimony that indicts the historic mess of the Soviet socialists.  Mayhew reveals Rand right in each respect.

Dr. Mayhew even interviewed the surviving co-writer of Song of Russia, ex-"Communist" Richard Collins. The book is a scary revelation about socialist influence in Hollywood - and Washington.

Dr. Mayhew goes beyond the presentation of historical facts. He discusses the political, philosophical and ethical impact of the HUAC investigations regarding free speech, blacklists, "naming names," and truthfulness regarding wartime propaganda, etc. He gives Ayn Rand's views, based in part on previously unpublished work, and his own illuminating analysis.

Dr. Mayhew also reveals the hypocrisy and lies of socialists in Hollywood and of their successors their and in the newspaper business and media everywhere.  He refutes their smears of Rand, which continue to this day.

The book also provides even more proof (as if any were needed) that FDR and Herbert Hoover were actually of the same socialist persuasion, the so called Progressives.   FDR lied (in order to gain election) about his intention to cut government and then FDR expanded the massive socialism that Hoover had previously launched.