“Newspapers”, heck, “news” barely exists today. Whatever you read or hear on MSM outlets is almost 99% propaganda for the “State”.
You have to be extremely cautious about whatever you’re reading or hearing because there’s an agenda in almost everything being leveraged - left and right.
It is not a coincidence that at this last WEF Summit the #1 topic on their agenda was how to be more aggressive in fighting “mis-, dis-, and mal- information”. In other words, how to more forcefully stifle and suffocate the truth, or any dissent against the powers that be and their oh so benevolent plans for further enslaving us and destroying the world as we’ve known it.
The First Amendment, Freedom of speech in particular, is become their #1 enemy, closely followed by the the 2nd Amendment. If they should succeed in smothering the First, they’ll come face to face with the Second.
That pesky Constitution still has some life left in it yet!
We couldn't afford a newspaper when we were first married. No joke. We were that cash-poor. Then my husband got a promotion, and we were transferred to a new community. My new neighbor was getting me acquainted with everything and said that of course I'll want to subscribe to the local paper. You get to read who's getting into all sorts of trouble, she said. So we subscribed to the local paper, and guess whose husband ended up headline news years later?
The damage done to traditional journalism by The Washington Compost, the Failing New York Times and those of their ilk cannot be overstated. We in flyover country may not be as smart as the Elite, but having been raised on farms, we are keenly attuned to the smell of bullshit. Nobody trusts these people now, and the sad fact is that trust is built over decades, destroyed in minutes. If they survive - and I'd lay odds most won't - it's going to be a long uphill pull.
Newspapers had ultimate power. The owners with their yellow journalism were responsible for fostering the Spanish American war, watergate, and our defeats in many recent conflagrations. Social media took their mantle, until Elon Musk bought twitter. Newspapers are the selectric typewriter in the computer age.
Just the other day, when CNN said they canceled a failing program, I told my wife, "All these idiot bullshitters have to do, is report the news of the day––straight down the middle. Just the news. No opinions, no discussion. The one who does it first will own the TV news market. But they are run by dumb bells who can't see their way out of a paper bag. Amazing, isn't it?
Re the poll: I answered "comics", but I meant funny, none leftist comics, or the interesting ones like Dick Tracy. When the Boson Globe cancelled Scott Adams I cancelled it.
We unsubscribed to the NYTIMES about 5 years ago after being 40-year readers. It just got to be so stupid and not informative. The editorial became comedy and tragedy depending on the topic. We don’t miss it at all. That said, the Wall Street Journal published the stupidest editorials today; one on Trump and his interest in reevaluating NATO after 75 years- a well worn topic. And another on something that Elise Stefanik said but is no longer applicable because laws have changed. Two very silly and uninformative pieces. There’s a lot better writing to be had on Substack.
My mother gave part of my upbringing up to Dear Abby and her sister Ann Landers…I had to read it every day and I’d better have an opinion on it by dinner.
Thanks to Feminism, Woke-ism, university Journalism schools and the D-rats both up here and in the US, it really looks like Newspapers have not only dug their own graves but keep digging. I get my news from CFP, Rantingly, a news source up here and select accounts on X. I bet most of us do something similar.
But here’s the rub kids. When the grid goes down and its not a question of if. What do we do then? Maybe time to look into that ham radio course you’ve been putting off taking , no!
I have never subscribed to a newspaper until recently, and I am 73. I could get the Washington Times for free when it first started up. Now I subscribe to The Epoch Times. Like TWT, they are sneered at by the established rags, probably because they do real journalism.
"Democracy thrives when people with different viewpoints are able to debate and discuss contrasting views with respect and civility. That cannot begin to happen when people cannot even agree on the facts."
A couple of thoughts regarding this most important statement:
(1) Whether one-sided reporting is done with paper or electronics it is a critical control factor for the deep state. That is, to keep inquiring minds from cross-pollinating and curating a complex understanding. Keep everyone in the dark about what really is happening. Don't forget that Fox removed Tucker's voice from the news cycle and Tucker struggled for an outlet for his work. It wasn't until Musk bought and reversed Twitter (X) that he gained a platform. How long before they take out Musk?
(2) This is why PDJT had to use Twitter to blitzkrieg the media with aggressive language. He was one voice fighting Goliath. It seems even the NYT has recently admitted they were wrong about some issues they blindly reported.
(3) Despite internet channels offering diversity of opinion - and even dialogue on topics - we can't get overconfident it will be any different (see #1 above). The major gatekeepers of news search stifle different opinions through censorship and biased algorithms. One has to work to find the few places to engage with news. It has been said we will own nothing and be happy. Applying that goal to media, the deep state wants us to be clueless and unquestioning and eventually disinterested in what is happening to us.
(4) As long as Don Surber is typing, he will fight this fight and we will help him.
Haven’t subscribed to the paper (Columbus Dispatch- which I carried as a boy) since 2003 or so. Our son was home from his first tour of duty in Iraq w/ Army Reserves (which, in my day, was a weekend/mth, 2 wks every summer).
First morning home he picked up the paper and read on first page the a few Marines had been killed the day before. He said, “Damn, if we had to read this shit every day, we’d never leave the compound.”
It was the same with Vietnam, at least on the evening news.
“Newspapers”, heck, “news” barely exists today. Whatever you read or hear on MSM outlets is almost 99% propaganda for the “State”.
You have to be extremely cautious about whatever you’re reading or hearing because there’s an agenda in almost everything being leveraged - left and right.
It is not a coincidence that at this last WEF Summit the #1 topic on their agenda was how to be more aggressive in fighting “mis-, dis-, and mal- information”. In other words, how to more forcefully stifle and suffocate the truth, or any dissent against the powers that be and their oh so benevolent plans for further enslaving us and destroying the world as we’ve known it.
The First Amendment, Freedom of speech in particular, is become their #1 enemy, closely followed by the the 2nd Amendment. If they should succeed in smothering the First, they’ll come face to face with the Second.
That pesky Constitution still has some life left in it yet!
Good morning, all.
I miss newspapers most for their use as training pads for incontinent puppies.
Have a great week, everybody!
I miss using Silly Putty to transfer off color comics panels.
We couldn't afford a newspaper when we were first married. No joke. We were that cash-poor. Then my husband got a promotion, and we were transferred to a new community. My new neighbor was getting me acquainted with everything and said that of course I'll want to subscribe to the local paper. You get to read who's getting into all sorts of trouble, she said. So we subscribed to the local paper, and guess whose husband ended up headline news years later?
The damage done to traditional journalism by The Washington Compost, the Failing New York Times and those of their ilk cannot be overstated. We in flyover country may not be as smart as the Elite, but having been raised on farms, we are keenly attuned to the smell of bullshit. Nobody trusts these people now, and the sad fact is that trust is built over decades, destroyed in minutes. If they survive - and I'd lay odds most won't - it's going to be a long uphill pull.
Newspapers had ultimate power. The owners with their yellow journalism were responsible for fostering the Spanish American war, watergate, and our defeats in many recent conflagrations. Social media took their mantle, until Elon Musk bought twitter. Newspapers are the selectric typewriter in the computer age.
Why do newspapers think they are protected from economic law of Creative Destruction. Let Adam Smith's invisible hand crush this dinosaur 🦕 .
What I really miss are the obituaries. Need to check if I am in them.
Just the other day, when CNN said they canceled a failing program, I told my wife, "All these idiot bullshitters have to do, is report the news of the day––straight down the middle. Just the news. No opinions, no discussion. The one who does it first will own the TV news market. But they are run by dumb bells who can't see their way out of a paper bag. Amazing, isn't it?
Re the poll: I answered "comics", but I meant funny, none leftist comics, or the interesting ones like Dick Tracy. When the Boson Globe cancelled Scott Adams I cancelled it.
We unsubscribed to the NYTIMES about 5 years ago after being 40-year readers. It just got to be so stupid and not informative. The editorial became comedy and tragedy depending on the topic. We don’t miss it at all. That said, the Wall Street Journal published the stupidest editorials today; one on Trump and his interest in reevaluating NATO after 75 years- a well worn topic. And another on something that Elise Stefanik said but is no longer applicable because laws have changed. Two very silly and uninformative pieces. There’s a lot better writing to be had on Substack.
My mother gave part of my upbringing up to Dear Abby and her sister Ann Landers…I had to read it every day and I’d better have an opinion on it by dinner.
Thanks to Feminism, Woke-ism, university Journalism schools and the D-rats both up here and in the US, it really looks like Newspapers have not only dug their own graves but keep digging. I get my news from CFP, Rantingly, a news source up here and select accounts on X. I bet most of us do something similar.
But here’s the rub kids. When the grid goes down and its not a question of if. What do we do then? Maybe time to look into that ham radio course you’ve been putting off taking , no!
I have never subscribed to a newspaper until recently, and I am 73. I could get the Washington Times for free when it first started up. Now I subscribe to The Epoch Times. Like TWT, they are sneered at by the established rags, probably because they do real journalism.
I tried reading my local paper over the weekend and just couldn’t. There was a time I would gladly read 3 papers in a single day.
"Democracy thrives when people with different viewpoints are able to debate and discuss contrasting views with respect and civility. That cannot begin to happen when people cannot even agree on the facts."
A couple of thoughts regarding this most important statement:
(1) Whether one-sided reporting is done with paper or electronics it is a critical control factor for the deep state. That is, to keep inquiring minds from cross-pollinating and curating a complex understanding. Keep everyone in the dark about what really is happening. Don't forget that Fox removed Tucker's voice from the news cycle and Tucker struggled for an outlet for his work. It wasn't until Musk bought and reversed Twitter (X) that he gained a platform. How long before they take out Musk?
(2) This is why PDJT had to use Twitter to blitzkrieg the media with aggressive language. He was one voice fighting Goliath. It seems even the NYT has recently admitted they were wrong about some issues they blindly reported.
(3) Despite internet channels offering diversity of opinion - and even dialogue on topics - we can't get overconfident it will be any different (see #1 above). The major gatekeepers of news search stifle different opinions through censorship and biased algorithms. One has to work to find the few places to engage with news. It has been said we will own nothing and be happy. Applying that goal to media, the deep state wants us to be clueless and unquestioning and eventually disinterested in what is happening to us.
(4) As long as Don Surber is typing, he will fight this fight and we will help him.
Haven’t subscribed to the paper (Columbus Dispatch- which I carried as a boy) since 2003 or so. Our son was home from his first tour of duty in Iraq w/ Army Reserves (which, in my day, was a weekend/mth, 2 wks every summer).
First morning home he picked up the paper and read on first page the a few Marines had been killed the day before. He said, “Damn, if we had to read this shit every day, we’d never leave the compound.”
It was the same with Vietnam, at least on the evening news.
Wasn’t that way when last we actually won a war.