Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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Nobody’s ever said it?
RFK appeared with Kim Iversen, and rather oddly discussed the firing of Carlson: “It’s kind of shocking that they threw him off. He was saying things that nobody has ever said on TV before. He was talking about advertisers dictating content — pharmaceutical advertisers getting newscasters on the networks to say things about vaccines that…
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Not weird to the addicts
Continuing from previous item. I remember that regular watchers of the “news” soap opera don’t find Lemon and Carlson weird at all. I was one of those regulars from 2000 to 2010. At the moment in 2011 when I finally tossed the TV after trying to “light beer” it for a year, I had a…
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0 IQ = 0 IQ
This sort of shit is not my department, but it’s just too weird to leave alone. Apparently the last straw for CNN bosses was Don Lemon’s interview with Vivek, who is allegedly running for president. Both of these dudes are observing reality through slogan lenses. Lemon has proved his disconnect many times, especially “women are…
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Back door Fairness Doctrine
CNN supposedly decided to cut down on its partisan lunacy after QT forced media to pay more attention to PROFIT. /// Update: And CNN fired Don Lemon today after leaving him in purgatory for a while. Nice symmetry! Now Fox is moving in the same direction, forced by a lawsuit about the lunatic “election” crap.…
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Fairness Doctrine applied
Wolf Richter always provides Parkinsonian realism. One of the VERY FEW online commentators who applies the Fairness Doctrine, though it’s no longer required. In today’s wonderful article on the “debt ceiling” comedy routine: = = = = = START QUOTE: The debt-ceiling farce being performed currently in Congress could turn from a mildly entertaining political…
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It’s an old truth
Buzzfeed is shutting down the “news” part of their service and continuing the part with quizzes and listicles and such. They’re realizing a very old truth, which pre-TV newspapers and radio understood well. Facts are not commercially valuable. Normal people don’t want to pay for facts because normal people have eyes and ears and neighbors.…
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Tremendous assets
In connection with this year’s crowning of Charles, American Radio Library has picked up a 1953 BBC magazine about a similar ceremony. Most of the magazine is about the American extension of the coverage, not BBC’s own. = = = = = START QUOTE: The whole of the scheduled programmes over the CBS-TV network are…
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Eastasia Eurasia Eastasia Eurasia
One of the Wendy Connors UFO collections at Archive.org has a lengthy and informative review, written in 2013. During the earlier years, these reports were taken more seriously than today and public discourse included scientists as well as senior figures in the US military. The panel-show format hadn’t become quite as ossified as it currently…
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Vector thinking
Following the bees… Nikki Haley is using an old political platitude while claiming to be non-platitudinous. Bring us together! Uniter, not divider! She seems to mean it, but she’s not dancing about it, not giving us the vector to the honey or the terrain we can expect along the way to the honey. We can…
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Learning yet?
Elon’s admirers are finally catching on. He’s a demon. He’s Deepstate. Elon handed carefully filtered “revelations” to naive dummy Taibbi, and Taibbi plastered them all over Substack. Now Elon has officially tinfoiled Substack and refuses to let people link there from Twitter. Will the naive dummy start learning about real life? I doubt it. His…
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Partly trustable
Hersh’s latest scoop is about CIA’s conflict with the Kennedys. His “retired” CIA source told the story of the Castro campaign from the CIA’s angle, which doesn’t sound right to me. The facts are well known. CIA trained and armed Castro as Our Revolutionary, but Castro broke his promise and supported his own people, then…
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Using the trustifying rule
Taibbi received a personal visit from an IRS agent, which is unusual. Normally the IRS sends paper letters to bill you or request corrections. Here’s a good application of my rule for trustifying. Follow personal experience. When I’ve been observing or dealing with an entity for a while, how often has the entity disagreed with…
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