Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Bad design
Why are we designed to make life so damn easy for the dividers and conquerors? It takes hard mental work and long experience to avoid both teams. Ockham and Machiavelli warned us in specific ways. Jesus and his disciples warned their flock. Out of curiosity I checked the book of Proverbs, which I hadn’t read…
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Bud Licht
Licht’s statements are remarkably candid and POWERFULLY TRUE. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the 15,000-word piece, he spoke disparagingly of the network’s staff and how they’d covered topics before he came on board. Mimicking their approach, he said: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID! Look at the case numbers! Look at this! Look at this!…
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Endless modifiable horizons
From Apple’s announcement of its expensive Metaverse: With Vision Pro, you have an infinite canvas that transforms how you use the apps you love. Arrange apps anywhere and scale them to the perfect size, making the workspace of your dreams a reality — all while staying present in the world around you. Browse the web…
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Some companies have learned.
The corporations who haven’t yet figured out QT are properly making news and causing boycotts. It’s worth noting that SOME big corporations have caught the wind change and altered their steering. Starting around 2018, USBank and Citibank both used the same rotating set of splash screens for their logins. The pictures showed aggressively Die-Verse and…
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Trying to clarify
Inspired by Mabel, trying to clarify my thinking about the line between publisher and common carrier. First: Section 230 of the Communications Act was a bad piece of “law”, undoing a very old balance and a very old distinction. In the 1990s the new online publishers like Yahoo and Myspace didn’t look like newspapers, so…
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Modern version
Somebody once said that politics is Hollywood for the ugly. The modern version: Politics is Tiktok for the insane. The public parts of politics serve ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTION. Congress and the executive have deliberately surrendered their own legal power to the courts and Deepstate. When they couldn’t surrender it to another branch, they placed non-legal…
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Gotchapower
Listening again to a 1950 Hollywood gossip show called Hollywood Byline. This episode is valuable because it’s uncut, including the offstage chatting and negotiating among the actors and producers. You can tell easily when the onstage parts start and end; all the voices are clear and organized and grammatical. I was comparing this on/off variable…
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Edwards = Empathy
A newly uploaded issue of a Los Angeles radio mag at American Radio Library contains a feature on Frank Edwards, the archetype of GENUINE independence and empathy. = = = = = START QUOTE: Four or five hours a day, news analyst Frank Edwards is spending his time deliberately provoking conversations with total strangers. Sometimes…
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Three-way flasher
Speaking of medicalized: In the grocery store checkout this morning I was behind a highly overweight older couple who (1) properly self-gagged with M95.78854377 as per CDC instructions (2) brought their own shopping bag as per Our Dear Prophet Inslee’s instructions (3) bought white bread, lunchmeat, frozen dinners, and a case of Bud Light as…
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Can’t leave a cult
Ever since the 1980s days of BBS and Compuserve, the web has been a team sport. Every forum on every subject has Team A and Team B, and woe betide the unfortunate novice who tries to walk in the DMZ. After you figure out the gradients, you either slide quickly onto one team, or you…
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Almost aptronym
Elon has appointed a full-fledged WEFoid to head Twitter. Yaccarino was in charge of the publicity campaign for ballgags and vaxes. (Her name should be Vaccarino for a perfect aptronym.) Now regular WEF programs can resume on Twitter, and the usual suspects can safely return. Not that they ever REALLY departed. The folks who foolishly…
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Will this be on the test?
When I was teaching at DeVry in the 80s, I was constantly frustrated by the pressure toward memorized theory and against job-type experience. Even in an officially job-oriented school, most students just wanted to memorize and get done. From their viewpoint it’s completely understandable. They were only seeking a CREDENTIAL so they could start EARNING.…
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So I sez
Beautiful example of Malicious Compliance. Ryan Webb, an ordinary white man, redefined his identity as an Indian Womxn, and dared the activists to VIOLATE THEIR OWN FUCKING RULES by questioning his newfound identity. Malicious Compliance has always been an effective weapon against tyrants. It hasn’t been used recently. Drafted soldiers were formerly masters of Malicious…
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Poor assumption
This writer has some interesting details of digital journalism, but he starts from the assumption that “news” and “investigative journalism” are intrinsically valuable products that NEED to be made, whether profitable or not. Bad assumption. Nobody actually needs “news” as it’s commonly formed. We could use prior warning of incoming weather and demonic government projects…
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Trust ceiling
Still thinking about media, Batya, etc. Looked at a Gallup page on media trust to see if anything new is happening. Nothing fresh, but noticed this long-term graph that shows what media wants. Everyone says that Watergate was a shining example of Letting It All Hang Out, and renewed our trust in media. Nope. Watergate…
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