Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Maybe interesting?
The Spokane newspaper is turning itself into a nonprofit, operated by a foundation that is basically its editor. For more than a century the Cowles family owned the newspaper, downtown, and the “city” “government”. The nonprofit is supposedly divorced from Cowles. If this article can be believed, the nonprofit is a business, not a charity.…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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It’s all Duane Jones
When you favor or oppose an action for reasons that don’t align 100% with Team A or Team B, it’s much harder to maintain your own opinion. I had this trouble with bitcoin. I oppose it for solid experience-based reasons. I was a bookkeeper for years, so I know how real ledgers work. Bitcoin is…
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Magnificent observation!
The Full Press podcast includes Tara Henley, Peter Menzies and Harrison Lowman. All three are hardass realists about journalism, holding no hope for renewal or reform. Around 17 minutes in this episode, Henley gives one MAGNIFICENT rule. TRUTH SHOULD BE REPLICABLE. Best observation on journalism I’ve ever heard, and the FIRST time I’ve heard a…
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Counterintuitive
Pew has a counterintuitive survey about news influencers. The result: ‘News Influencers’ are a lot more balanced than we think. Most of them treated Harris and Trump evenly. The specifically partisan Influencers do fit our stereotype, but partisans are NOT the majority of Influencers. Pew defines a News Influencer as one person, not representing an…
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Can’t sympathize
Taylor Lorenz is bitching that the Tiktok shutdown closes off an important channel for young Democrats. She cites impressive stats about Tiktok’s job share and economic contribution, and complains that the D billionaires aren’t helping to maintain a public voice on their side. Without any doubt the shutdown will destroy jobs, which is of course…
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Greenwald shows how it’s done
While everyone else in “journalism” marches insanely to the same tyrannical beat since 1945, rigorously defending the Democrat team and killing all peasants, Greenwald shows how the Fairness Doctrine works. On the latest little “issue” with Zuck and Elon switching to Trump’s side, everyone else, and I mean EVERYONE, diligently pursues the Shared Lie. Zuck…
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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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