Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Another modest proposal
Via NiemanLab: Some Americans still have trust in local news, but they’re unwilling to pay for it. As usual the “journalists” who caused this problem can’t figure it out. Well, send me something worth paying for and I’ll pay. I love to pay for good products and good services. I won’t bother to tell you…
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Return to local
“Journalists” are trying to create new “local” media, which means new copy-paste outlets for DNC and new LBOs for private equity predators. The same “journalists” complain that video media like Youtube and Tiktok are overcentralized. As fucking always they’ve got it backwards. Fortunately humans no longer listen or watch the perfectly centralized “journalists”. We’re too…
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How soon they forget
Newspapers are mad that Google’s new AI has stopped linking to them, because Google links were a main source of subscribers. Before the web, papers didn’t rely on the Yellow Pages to gain subscribers. They CERTAINLY didn’t rely on competing papers! The Bugle didn’t wait for the Gazette to mention it. Newspapers sold their own…
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General Delivery
Our idiot “mayor” and grotesque brainless “council” have passed a new “law” telling businesses to avoid asking for addresses on new employees. Supposedly this will make it easier to hire the homeless. I doubt it. First reaction: WOKE SHIT! Second reaction: Well, like much of the woke shit in education, this is actually a return…
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More pointless bitching.
Today is pointless bitching day. I’m tired of being ORDERED to listen to all sides. First, it’s futile. People naturally seek encouragement and respect, NOT contempt and disgust. Second, it’s bad business. Persuaders of all sorts know that you can’t keep customers by hammering them with opposition. You have to start with pleasure and improvement.…
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Rang several bells
This little item reprinted on substack caught my attention. It’s a filler, the sort of thing I used to enjoy in newspapers. Frankfort also rang a bell. It’s straight north of Manhattan, not far from the north end of Tuttle Creek Lake. I don’t think I’ve ever been there, but I used to see the…
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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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