Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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Who are they talking to?
Repooflicans are returning to Reagan-era slogans or even Truman-era slogans. Who are they talking to? Nobody under 60 even knows what a commie is. I suppose they’re talking to my generation, but we don’t need any training or reinforcement. Most of us are still watching MSNBC/FOX, getting our daily dose of the Good Old Stuff.…
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Deeeee licious
Love love love the smell of unemployed “journalists”. Latest example out of thousands:Axios is firing 10% of its monsters, citing a “volatile media environment.” Translation of “volatile media environment”: Customers finally got tired of being punched in the face. Customers got tired of seeing nothing but fear and panic, with far less than zero factual…
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Why the shift?
Last week I was thinking about the universal convergence of former activists against Trump’s holocaust. All of them in my circle have now become Trump cultists. I remembered that Vietnam protesters DIDN’T flip. After the war was done we moved into normal life concerns, but none of us fell in love with LBJ or Nixon.…
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Journalism is a cult.
After trying to read more weirdly lunatic shit from NiemanLab, I reached a conclusion. Journalism isn’t entirely crazy, it’s a high-status cult like Scientology. The members live in a completely isolated bubble of thought, surrounded by their fellow cultists and hearing only their fellow cultists. Reprint of a more general version from 2017, which isn’t…
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Loss of filtering
In former times, news and entertainment media served as a noise filter for both money swindlers and political swindlers. They devoted considerable time to dramatizing scams. The Fairness Doctrine REQUIRED media to skip partisanship and pay attention to reality. Frank Edwards, the best newsman of that era, did the best job of filtering political noise.…
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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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