Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Good regardless of motive
Facebook has decided to stop using DNC censors, falsely called “fact-checkers”. The check in this phrase is the original etymological meaning as in checkmate. Check means stop the opponent’s move. Zuck is doing it to pacify Trump, but I don’t give a fuck. It’s a good thing. That’s all. The Fairness Doctrine would be better,…
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Y no Gates?
Picking up WWV for New Year pulled me back into shortwave, at least for a while. (I have real work to do right now, and I don’t have enough spare gumption to delve into another sideline.) I’m reminded again of the fact that shortwave is a vacant resource. Broadcasters and commercial communication services have moved…
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Why “local” media fails
“Local” radio and TV and newspapers are collapsing, while informal online groups like local Facebook pages are trusted. From Spokane News FB page, a serious incident in the Valley area: Headline: E 22nd Ave & S Pines Rd. Stabbing reported. PD on scene requesting medics for a Stabbing. PD searching canvassing the area for the…
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Starting to like Tangle
Tangle News is slow-moving but (so far) solidly objective. They take GREAT pains for maximum transparency. In this case they’re transparent about how they try to create transparency! = = = = = START QUOTE: On Friday, we identified Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) as (R-NC). This error came as the result of our editors testing…
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Might be a good source?
I’m always ready to try out “news” sources that claim to be objective, continuing the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine. Until now all have failed quickly. Most were immediately transparent, just another DNC talking point vendor. Today I’m trying Tangle News. So far I haven’t seen any blatant shibboleths or hidden assumptions. They don’t move…
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Y no News Bureau?
After noticing for the 10000th time that “journalists” are incurably destructive, I thought again about which parts of news are really needed. I don’t need to know what some politician said or promised. Politicians never keep their promises, and the verbal stageplay is only mind-wrecking. I don’t need to know what’s happening in some country…
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Two possibilities?
Big Science, especially the public-facing side in magazines or TV, has been totally corrupt for at least 40 years. Journalism’s public side is permanently corrupt. No history of objectivity at all, except for the years when the Fairness Doctrine ruthlessly censored broadcasters into objectivity. BUT: Out of the public eye, and away from the magazines…
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The fact is there but unseen
Here’s an article in a “journalism” trade publication that actually cites a fact for once, but dismisses the fact. The author asks whether loss of trust in media causes people to tune out, or tuning out causes loss of trust. Given the author’s profession, she naturally concludes that people lost trust AFTER they stopped watching…
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Instead of messaging…
Continuing from previous item on persuasion. I’m talking to the Democrat party now. You don’t need to persuade or message better. You don’t need to find a Blair or Clinton “third way”. The “third way” is exactly why you’re losing now. You only need to COPY your own best president. COPY the only president who…
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Policlicks
I know I’m writing solid stuff when I have exactly zero readers for a long time. The only items that get readers are the occasional stupid mentions of political crap. The rule is getting more and more solid. In the last two weeks I’ve written several pieces about Mutual Benefit Societies, and some historical items…
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Same fakery in two areas
I’m tired of people who believe (or pretend to believe) that the media used to be fair and objective. They want it to return to its pre-Eden purity when it published the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Both of those revelations are PROOF of unfairness. The Papers, which were written in the ’60s, were “revealed” in…
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Stoller has a point
Dems are screeching after Bezos refused to let his pet newspaper endorse Harris. From my viewpoint this is a small return to something like objectivity, a small move toward normal business where you try to sell stuff to EVERYONE, not just to an exclusive club. Stoller, the monopoly dude, sees it differently. At first I…
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Good diagnosis, bad fix
Seen at Reddit: = = = = = START QUOTE: I’m tired of boomers telling Gen Z and millennials to “suck it up” when we say that a salary of $60k or less shouldn’t trap us in a mediocre lifestyle, sharing apartments, skipping dining out, avoiding social outings, or never taking vacations. No, these things…
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For the first time…
Amazing! For the first time, an article at NiemanLab gets EVERYTHING right and reaches the correct conclusion. Mathew Jordan, a prof of media studies, writes the 100-year history of AM radio and gets every detail right. He’s talking about a “law” being considered by congress that would require automakers to keep the AM band on…
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Not responding to the guilt trip
Advocates often insist that everyone MUST read things that disagree with our side, in order to have a chance of changing our mind. Nope. I have no obligation to eat stuff that tastes bad, nor do I have an obligation to mentally consume stuff that tastes bad. I shouldn’t try to PREVENT OTHERS from seeing…
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