Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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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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