Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Naive or clever?
Listening to discussion of last year’s NYTimes brouhaha over publishing an op-ed by HORRIBLE REPOOFLICAN Tom Cotton. First thought: I wonder what Oliver Holmes would think? He wrote the “legal” test for boundaries on freedom of the press. Inciting a riot is outside the bounds. This little dispute was about the Holmes test. The Repooflican…
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Another move toward Fairness Doctrine?
The downfall of Don Lemon at CNN is an extremely small event, mainly interesting to the few people who still watch cable soap operas. Maybe it indicates a real change in the management of CNN, a genuine retrenchment from all-Trump all the time. Lemon mastered the idiotic art of turning everything into a slam against…
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Expertly gaming the algo
If you think you’re gaming the system, beware. There’s always somebody who games better than you! Via Reddit, dozens of TikTok livestreamers are sitting on the sidewalk in one highway underpass. Each is using the same type of circle light, and each is sitting on a low platform. Each is arranged so her camera can’t…
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Maybe he’s just dumb too.
Is Taibbi also dumb like Craig Wright? I doubt it. Taibbi is trying to expose internal propaganda, which he “believes” to be relatively new. = = = = = START QUOTE: Worse, messages from these institutions are parroted more or less automatically by our corporate press, which has decided that instead of a network of…
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Correct present, wrong history
This piece by Terry Mattingly is frustrating. He accurately describes the current atrocity of total unabashed bias in all media, but he’s wrong about the history. Basically, the world’s most influential newspaper is moving away from the old free-speech liberalism of what historians call the “American model of the press,” with little public commentary about…
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Satanic limbo
Still looking for a newspaper replacement. One author on Medium mentioned NewsBreak so I looked at it. NewsBreak is a pure aggregator, sensing your location and picking up “stories” from a variety of “local” media. It picks the most sensational, the best inducers of fear and panic. It also features national “stories” as seen from…
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Shannon at last!
Been halfway watching the Elon/Twitter crap, waiting for Shannon info, and vowing to wake up if any real facts appear. Well, I’ll have to pay my implicit bet. We finally have a fact that genuinely couldn’t have been predicted from existing knowledge. In Taibbi’s coverage of the ‘Hamilton 68’ anti-Russian fakery, it’s clear that Twitter…
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More rambling on newspapers
Recently I tried to separate out the parts of a newspaper that I really enjoyed. I decided that the fillers and the human interest pieces were the sections I always read to completion. The other stuff like national “news” was incidental. Ideally and neurally, news means actionable information, telling you how to prepare for the…
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Odd correlation
The US Commerce department wrote this book in 1929. It’s an impartial description of radio systems and radio advertising in every country of the world, for the guidance of American advertisers who want to reach foreign markets. There’s a STRONG and backward-seeming correlation between advertising and government style in Europe. The countries that we called…
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Fill the reader or fulfill the writer?
Both sides are sticking to the peculiar Shared Lie that newspapers are supposed to “hold power accountable” or “speak truth to power”. The two sides have different party-based definitions of which truth and which power, but they’re both essentially wrong. Newspapers were ALWAYS working for one party or for the owner’s business interests. Newspapers are…
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Clicking for anger isn’t new
We believe that the use of disgust and anger to create ‘engagement’ is new. It’s not. These polls from a 1946 book about radio and advertising surprised me. First an unsurprising poll on general attitudes: Radio was slightly more favorable than newspapers, and local government was lowest on the approval scale. Another unsurprise: The Fairness…
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Before WP rudely interrupted me…
Back to regularly scheduled snark. Taibbi discusses his parents who were both journalists: My father had a saying: “The story’s the boss.” In the American context, if the facts tell you the Republicans were the primary villains in this or that disaster, you write that story. If the facts point more at Democrats, you go…
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Boss vs boss
Wandering through ‘Elon Twitter’ for chuckles, ran across a surprisingly non-partisan take from an unexpected source, a wonderful reversion to how entertainment used to function under the Fairness Doctrine. Bon Appetit is for gourmet cooks. They focused on Twitter’s wildly expensive free lunches: Musk’s incessant tweeting, mass layoffs, radical changes to the platform, and public…
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