Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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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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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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