Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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No mystery
Nieman has an article on a nonprofit local news startup in Wichita. It’s failing quickly, and the reasons are not mysterious. 1. The Wichita paper was a branch of a more successful paper in KC, and the management in KC thought they should be handled the same way. I’ve lived in both cities. Wichita is…
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Profit leads to sanity
Via Variety, Scripps-Howard is laying off a large part of its “journalists”, along with everyone else in the deservedly dying “news” biz. = = = = = START QUOTE: “Amidst an already difficult linear television advertising marketplace, many brands and agencies have decided that advertising around national news is just too risky for them given…
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We’re supposed to waste our emotions
As usual we have dozens of overdoses every day, some fatal. There are two responses. Dark humor and caring. Dark humor is winning, as more and more people realize that caring is a fraud. Media and rulers want us to CARE about everything so they can feed our caring with solutions that make things worse.…
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Bankruptcy is the solution.
Denyse comments on the latest evidence that “science” has totally abandoned science for politics. SciAm outright endorsed Harris instead of Trump, AFTER FIRMLY SUPPORTING WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID IN 2020. This is the exact opposite of the “independent” activists, who worked hard to oppose WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID, and now are universally working FOR Trump.…
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Real reporting
Greenwald is probably the closest thing to objective in today’s media. He’s clearly on Trump’s side now but can’t stop being fair-minded. His piece on last night’s debate started with a wandering tour of the venue by his reporter Michael Tracy, who did some REAL journalism. He showed us what was happening among the media…
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Got it right finally!
Stoller provides an informative history of the Section 230 exemption, which was finally knocked down this week by a circuit court decision. Section 230 was ALWAYS wrong. The distinction between a publisher and a carrier is perfectly clear if you understand what Press Freedom means. The standard misconception is that a publisher is free to…
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Democracy exists, but only…
I often say that “democracy” is a meaningless word. It doesn’t exist and can’t exist. Trying for more precision… If the word means that decisions are formed by negative feedback, sensing the will of many people, then democracy does happen in some situations, but not governments. Competitive businesses MUST satisfy a large enough number of…
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Credit where due
Relentlessly pursuing the Fairness Doctrine! I had the annual Medicare Wellness Visit this week. It’s clear that Kaiser Permanente is trying to restore some of the trust they violently threw away in 2020, plus even a bit more. Long before the holocaust they had a ‘mandate’ that aggravated me. They wouldn’t let me renew the…
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Perfection
This podcast by Gallup is PERFECT. They’re discussing the sins and virtues of media, both traditional and social. They get EVERYTHING right. They grasp the vast sins of the media, and they grasp the needs and desires of real people. They don’t softpedal or downplay anything. They don’t pretend that media used to be better.…
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