Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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From an extremely different era 17
A 1950 ‘meet the press’ style program had 5 reporters talking with Betty Hutton. Atypically the preserved recording is an uncut version, with frequent ‘offstage’ pauses where the reporters try to figure out who goes next, or check with Hutton to see if a question is acceptable. She had an interesting life. Like most reporters…
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Probably right
Saagar and Krystal interviewed Dylan Ratigan about stocks and crashes. Before they got into the subject, Ratigan offered up a more likely scenario for the Young vs Rogan “fight”. Rogan wants this “fight” because he wins either way. If Spotify fires him, he gets a massive payout from the terms of his contract, and he…
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Abstractification
Kirn points out that journalism is now purely involuted, purely about other journalism. The trend started a long time ago. It seemed to coincide with the rebirth of Deepstate in 1946. Before the switch, radio news was realistic, and radio entertainment was empathetic. You could recognize real events in the news, and you could recognize…
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Not a conflict
I’ve made a habit of watching all Batya interviews, at least until they turn boring. I know Batya’s story by now, but she has the old-fashioned journalistic knack of interviewing the interviewer. The interviewer’s story is sometimes interesting. This clip with three Bros got boring soon, with the Bros doing the usual Bro things about…
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Hint of the Fairness Doctrine?
Batya is impressively non-partisan. She’s an elite Jew who had been writing conventional elite stuff in mainly Jewish publications. A few years ago she stood back and realized that the elite media was genocidal. Trump gave them permission and ammunition in their long war of attrition against normal working people. Now Batya is closer to…
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