Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Whoda thunk it?
Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it. Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.…
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Reprint on confidence and immunity
Following on previous item, here’s a reprint from July 2020. This was before RFK took over ACU and guided it into the OPPOSITE form of panic. Were we being prepared for this fake emergency? The ACU’s own Youtube channel doesn’t have many of the press conferences, but it does have some useful interviews on the…
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Broader Fairness Doctrine needed
FDR gave us the official Fairness Doctrine for R vs D partisanship, which also applied to other denominational teams like churches. Broadcasters had to take both sides, which meant in practice that they took NO SIDE. The result was much less national division along party lines. Lately I’ve been feeling generally non-confident and fearful, which…
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Making the case, fucking the case
Perfect contrast between two pieces on the writers strike and AI and such. (1) The Ankler flawlessly makes the case that AI is worth worrying about, and a strike to control it is worth supporting. He rigorously avoids all politics and religion and cultural crap, following the oldest persuasive advice to perfection. Fairness Doctrine all…
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More pointless thoughts
Continuing thoughts on the universal dividers. Rulers generate divides to keep the people weak and distracted so every bad event can be symmetrically scapegoated. R blames D, D blames R, nobody blames the permanent Deepstate. A few of the side-makers are controlled by Deepstate, especially the rioters and protesters. A proper riot needs government support…
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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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