Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Reprint from 2016
In previous item I was bitching about modern podcasts failing to show the real balance of male and female in marriage. A similar change happened in drama and comedy, with a pivot point around 1960. Before the shift, spy shows and adventure shows had teams of men and women with everyone participating in appropriate ways.…
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WWJD?
This week I’ve been quoting Duane Jones’s 1955 book on marketing and business practices. What would Jones say about Bitcoin and Metaverse and NFT? Facebook is primarily an advertising agency, so it certainly fits inside the topic. Jones couldn’t have imagined such MAGNIFICENT STUPIDITY. He worked in a period (1930-1960) when businesses functioned on PROFIT,…
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GREAT Fairness Doctrine work
StraightArrowNews wins the blue ribbon with this feature on the border wall. In just a couple minutes they dissolve the partisan crap from both sides. Clear graphics show how long the border is, where the walls are and where the gaps are, and the LONG process of gradually strengthening the wall. After seeing this, no…
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Fairness Doctrine with a vengeance!
I’ve been noticing some small-scale attempts to recapture the Fairness Doctrine, like StraightArrowNews. Via Kirn yet again…. The Disney-backed streaming service Hulu is refusing to run political ads on central themes of Democratic midterm campaigns, including abortion, guns and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting fury from the party’s candidates and leaders.…
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Gedankenexperiment rides again
Listening to Hoeg’s detailed presentation of the latest turn in Elon vs Twitter. I’ve been puzzled by the importance of the bot count. Why is this the absolute deal-breaker? The political to gangster transform answers the question. Change the characters from political gangsters to old-fashioned non-political gangsters to spot the underlying pattern. Twitter is a…
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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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