The Chattanooga Times Free Press newspaper, center, where I worked 24 years as an editor, is closely identified with establishment narratives that it promotes as unbiased news. Amid acres of sunlit empty parking lots, the chain-owned paper is a leading “fogbomber” in Chattanooga. (Photo Google Earth)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, July 12, 2025 — Because government is a criminal enterprise, major cases in court do not get press coverage from its supporters in the media if such cases go too far in raising doubts about government’s premise.
Newspapers, TV stations, news platforms and radio stations are effective defenders of “the way we do things here,” or convention. The agreement on the winds blowing all in the same direction, with few crosscurrents. The job of Chattanooga media is to make its customers comfortable with the way things are, with fundamentals not to be questioned.
Its cohorts don’t want to disturb audiences with the scary news of misfeasance, malfeasance, oppression, mass harm, fraud, and violation of oath of office. When they cover a dissenter or a reformer, it appears within an established framework.
You’d think they’d be eating up developments in court cases I’ve fought, as rich as any murder trial and affecting far, far more people than an instance of private crime.
- Lawsuit alleging fraud, martial law, illegal overthrow of government and the constitution in March 2020 under the pretended corporate-capture “Covid-19” emergency, 878 days in court — no coverage except five graphs on a jump page.
- This reporter’s false arrest covering illegally secret judicial conferences in 2022 — no coverage even after 6th circuit appeal denied, an arrest focus of two lengthy YouTube videos.
- Fraud on massive scale in service of insurance industry starting July 2023, 40,800 false criminal convictions annually in state courts, federal lawsuit fought, state lawsuit in action, 68,000 false criminal convictions of innocent since beginning of my litigation — no coverage.
- Longstanding abuse of general warrants and criminalized traffic stops and federal suit filed November 2024 — no stories or interviews, even as the case goes up on appeal to the federal 6th circuit.
These cases and coverage here and on radio are not worth telling about. Our work raises foundational questions about constitutional guarantees and whether we can obtain court orders for officials to obey clear law. We have these guarantees, but neither challenges to the status quo nor judicial gaslighting about them is worth telling about. Their audiences are better served by their readers and viewers not knowing.
I have talked with news editors, new directors and news site managers who view the work I do is on the margin. To them, it appears these court battles are based on ideas not familiar to them and not likely to succeed, not provocative in a right way, and not news. John Wilson, who runs Chattanoogan.com, is opposed to traffic stop reform as a danger to the public and blacklists all press releases I send.
“Let us know when you win,” two local news chiefs say.
Reporting final results only?
In issuing a press release recently to the Times Free Press, I sent a followup e-mail to news editor Ricky Young.
Rick, do you need to continue protecting TFP readers from word of traffic stop abuse because they are better off not knowing about the legal infrastructure and its requirements for violence-free administration of the traffic laws? The brief attached is going to tie up a county attorney for the next 3 weeks — that’s a public expense, sir. Worth reporting?Your newspaper, where I worked 24 years, should cover murder trials from the moment of the arrest and stop waiting until the jury gives a verdict to make report. It should cover disputes from the first complaint and not wait until conclusory statements emerge. It should cover legislative developments from the filing of the bill and cover debates, and not wait until Gov. Lee inks the paper.News judgment should dictate the paper shouldn’t wait until a “final vote” or a “verdict” issues, and maybe not even then. People have a right to know how officials you depict as honest are abusing the public trust.
Mr. Young is kind enough to answer, and to express the best in news judgment.
David, as I mentioned in the lobby, this case will be of great interest to us if you win. Please keep us posted.
People can challenge the system, but their ideas must be sufficiently within the system for their efforts to be “promoted” and their cause aired.
When the state is extortioner — as in support of the auto insurance industry and two commissioners’ use of financial responsibility law — the reader or viewer is better served with other news.
The movie “Shooter” had a great line from Ned Beatty playing the part of a crooked senator, “The law is whut AH SAY it is.” That is what is going on everywhere plus, “We always done it that way” and “Driving is a privilege.”