Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Fairness can’t be monetized
All the alleged “independents” worked hard to build up a movement against Trump’s biggest crime in history. Now all of them are slotting back into the Trump cult seamlessly, without even observing the change. It’s disgusting but no longer surprising. Machiavelli wrote the tech reference manual 500 years ago. More narrowly, the big “independents” got…
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Shifting balance
Quick polls and other measures of real support show an abrupt shift toward D after Harris definitely became the candidate. This makes sense from my own perspective. I gave up on the two teams a long time ago. Until 2020 I was just not interested in “voting” at all. After 2020 I became a strictly…
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Fairness Doctrine comes first
I have absolutely no reason to defend ANY politician, let alone Biden. BUT: DailyMail makes some unfair evaluations of his performance in today’s interview. Assuming their transcripts are accurate: (1) They say Biden claimed to be the inventor of the computer chip. He supposedly said: “We used to have 40 percent of computer chips. We…
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We stopped because
If reporters have any purpose at all, they should be remote sensors or antennas. They should go into places where ordinary people can’t afford the time or money to go, or where ordinary people aren’t allowed. Reporters should talk with people who know stuff, not available to us by money or time or status. And…
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Relative prospects
Expanding on cars vs religion. Major food companies always offer a wide variety of subtypes within their one specialty. Each company offers at least three types of soup or pickles or cheese or wine, often hundreds. As I noted last week, successful car companies did the same. One size fits all = bankruptcy. Religions are…
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Fairness Doctrine vs d’Aurignac
In previous item about modularity I didn’t mention the Fairness Doctrine. It’s an important part of the platform vs publication distinction. The FD censored broadcasters for a specific reason. Ideally censoring a platform should be wrong, but every platform has rules to keep the traffic going smoothly. Streets have stop signs and speed limits. The…
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Modularity is the key
The latest appeal from Brownstone: = = = = = START BROWNSTONE: It became clear in 2020 and following that a major purge was on. It hit academia, media, government, and industry. The vaccine mandates helped cull the dissenters from many institutions. Censorship also worked wonders. The demonization of the resistance was ferocious. It remains…
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Getting hardass
SpokaneNews has gone beyond lively to SERIOUSLY HARDASS. = = = = = START SPOKANENEWS: Imagine if the Fire Department and Medical Responders stated that they will no longer respond to Drug Overdose calls. This isn’t far fetched. Did you know that if caller reports a person passed out in a vehicle they don’t respond…
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Why we hate “journalists”, part 1566834523466487987940896045
Headline from AP: Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum Hey assdevils! Why don’t you worry about the NON-IMMIGRANTS for just fucking once in the entire history of your utterly evil unprofession??!??!??! If you were concerned with the welfare of your READERS, the headline would simply reassure them that…
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News doing its job
The SpokaneNews facebook page has been livelier than usual lately. Maybe they have a new employee or something. Tonight they published a notice with a nice moral note, which would NEVER be seen in “mainstream” “news”. Just a reminder! The police pursuit law changes back at 12:00am June 6th. No longer restrictions like before and…
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Up to him
Meanwhile, some of the non-independent “journalists” are getting what they deserve at last. The upper management at WaPo has replaced the chief editor with an old-fashioned hardass who is trying to restore the BUSINESS. He told the young idiots: “Nobody is reading your stuff”. Readership has dropped by half. In response they launched a tweetfest…
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Some good info
Lots of good info in this conversation. Why congress is totally useless, who really has the power, when things changed, who changed things. I appreciate people who start with reality. These guests don’t bother with the textbook crap about “legislation” and “branches” and “rights”. They simply talk about what happens in DC. Their overriding rule…
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Different jobs
Headline says it all: Harvard will no longer make public statements on political, social issues, administration says Starting to get a teensy bit smart, starting to relearn the Fairness Doctrine. Schools and businesses are NOT politicians. Schools and businesses and politicians have DIFFERENT JOBS. A school is supposed to generate profit by training people. A…
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Are they starting to learn?
Somebody on Substack noted, with figures to prove it, that NYTimes is quickly becoming more of a gaming company than a “news” company. Fits with something I’ve seen lately. NYTimes occasionally sends me email spam. Most of it was the usual FUCK TRUMP! PEASANTS ARE HORRIBLE! In recent months the usual is gone, and the…
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The answer
Ryan Grim seems like a plain vanilla commentator, sort of vaguely Libertarian but not unusually incisive. In this clip he shows a UNIQUE GRASP OF REALITY. No other public speaker has ever caught this basic fact of life. He’s talking about an international survey asking people if they feel their country has democracy. In US…
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