Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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CNN’s mother
CNN and Fox figured out how to pose a soap opera as “news”. Stories run for months or years without any real plot movement. Shit happens, but shit has no consequences. The characters just keep on doing more shit. CBS introduced the genre in 1949. Only a few episodes of Wendy Warren and the News…
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Stupidest game
Ordinary people solve problems all the time, in life and in work. Politicians make problems, and when they’re not making problems they write stupid stageplays that look like solving problems. This one is a very old Repooflican game. “President Biden is prioritizing politics over his own people,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a signing…
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Makes sense.
Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting. Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews. Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake. Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience…
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More stony continents
Falling back yet again to the one surviving Frank Edwards newscast, from 1954, for an example of Ockham in action. Edwards features a recorded message from Congresscritter Wayne Aspinall of Colorado. = = = = = What should be alarming the nation today is the sharp drop in farm income. We only have to look…
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Tiresome false comparison
Continuing along the Hersh line… One of Kirn’s commenters gave this tiresome trite false comparison, which totally hides the REAL comparison. In the Age of Trump, who has been relying on the Establishment Press for anything but hostility? Use Carl Bernstein as an example. So right during Watergate and so wrong since 2016. Woodward and…
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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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