What did the National Catholic Register, KHOU-TV and City Journal share in common Saturday? All three were cited as news sources in my weekly wrap-up of the news.
The voices in my head told me that Mark Twain once said “If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed” Don won’t quote that because it can’t be verified, but I am under no such constraint. Newspapers … we don’t need no stinking newspapers.
Surprising how often we hear “We don’t need no stink in’ “ This is from the very old movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre staring Humphrey Bogart. Bandits come into a camp of minors claiming to be Federales. Asked for badges, they say “We don’t need.....
Great column, Don. It's so refreshing not to have the MSM (including Fox) telling us "it's too complicated for you to understand but here's what you should believe as the "truth"..."
I used to fly a lot before retiring. Then the TSA was born and now I rarely fly. Still have my pilots license to fly bug smashers and do so with a friend now and then. Your comment refers to Boeings problems I suspect but don’t believe all you hear. Yes, they have to get their act together and back to building safe a/c instead of just making money but when I do fly commercial I always try to schedule flights using Boeing planes. Best aircraft in the world. There is a sly slandering going on today against Boeing. Suspect it is promoted in some monetary way by Airbus and others. The playing field among a/c manufacturers is not level. Airbus is heavily subsidized by European countries. Hard to be competitive in the plane game if you are not “nationalized” in some respect. Many of the articles citing plane issues cite that it was a Boeing plane but fail to m mention the actual cause of the mishap, leaving one to assume it was a manufacturing failure on Boeing’s part. Stuff falls off a/c almost everyday somewhere in the world and the planes land safely. News companies are not your friend.
Yep, Boeing has been taken over by the money men, and the consequences of that are showing up in the 737 MAX program. And, of course, Diversity is also a factor. A lot of fun has been made of Boeing lately about parts falling off, but is it really their fault? I don’t think so. I blame most of these incidents on the airlines and vendors, also infested with money men, and shoddy manufacturing and maintenance practices. It’s just unfortunate that the aircraft manufacturer has to shoulder the blame.
Used to fly on a regular basis from New London, CT to Rota, Spain. Also Pearl Harbor to Guam. That was when I was in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club and you had to go where the boat was. Still didn’t like it.
It is my understandign CNN paid to be in airports but stopped. I now see other news broadcasts. Fox for one. Ah well, just some more undocumented information for your Monday morning
I'm a staunch free-speech defender (until it becomes threats and incitement, neither of which Trump ever did, by the way) but I just do not know what the SOLUTION is to stop the "MSM" from their lies and gas-lighting and propaganda!! I have one idea but it's not anything I would write publicly for fear of having my door bust open and ending up in a gulag. 🤪
I love that snopes FINALLY had to correct their "misinformation" regarding Trump's statements regarding Charlottesville and now that he is going after FJB regarding the lies he continues to tell about that situation
Well, my thoughts on the matter were depicted in the super FUN book by Vince Flynn called "Term Limits". Let's just say I'd like to see it applied to media sources too.
(Or another radical 'underground' novel is "Unintended Consequences" that also has an idea that definitely colors outside of the lines.)
If Flynn had not tragically passed away way much too young from cancer, I'm SURE he'd be on a govt watchlist.
Outside of the Democrat Party, are there even 3 or 4 Americans who don't believe that the MSM is simply an extension of the Socialist-Communist-Marxist regime currently running this country into the ground?
Check out this article from El Gato Malo’s Substack where he reveals this “school”, aided and abetted by the UN, specifically created for so-called journalists to learn how to imbed within literally every story they write about with some form of “climate change” angle.
There’s very few, if any at all, established news organizations that have not sold their soul to the devil. They should now all come with warnings: “Read At Your Own Risk. Have Been Found to Pollute Minds.”
It’s all about the power. News doesn’t affect peoples actions but presenting it with hidden messages and one-sided accounts does change peoples actions. This is the age of Pravda 2.0.
According to this Ellwood guy, who made a laughably unpersuasive attempt to look unbiased, "Musk’s contemptuous behavior amplifies the toxicity of our divides. Not only that, it’s self-defeating ..."
If it's self-defeating, why obsess and waste ink -- I mean, keyboard clicks -- over it? Follow the sage political rule that if your enemy is busy destroying himself, you don't interrupt him.
I see it as propaganda to place blame for “toxicity” and divides on our side of the aisle. When I read that, I thought of how divisive and even toxic Biden’s speeches have been to our country as he, too, attempts to place blame on conservatives. Not to mention the weaponization of the IRS, FBI, and DOJ. But no, he’s saving Democracy. Right.
Speaking of the NY Slimes, I remember that back in 2016 they were so gobsmacked by Trump’s victory that they announced they would henceforth become a more balanced newspaper. I’d say that we were still waiting for that to occur except for the fact that none of us actually waste our time on the Slimes.
I don't understand why a businessman like Bezos doesn't fire 20 percent of the WP staff? He owns the place, writes the payroll checks. The Pareto Principle is 20 percent of anything has an 80 percent impact. Firing the left leaning leaders and their acolytes would certainly tighten the butt holes of the rest of the staff. Am I missing something?
Who said old chrome dome didn’t like it? The Post is his firewall to news he doesn’t like affecting his companies. It is a blip in terms of monetary impact to his income. It’s cheap insurance.
The Washington Post is the intelligence agencies mouthpiece. Also, if you want to watch a judicial shit show Fulton County's, RICO, prosecution of the rapper Young Thug and his cohorts.
A small addition to your comment about the NYT failing to return its Pullitzer related to the Russiagate hoax: it has never returned the Pullitzer it received in 1931 for Walter Duranty's articles about the wonderful state of affairs in the old USSR under Joe Stalin. (Their "official" position is that they simply no longer have possession of the physical prize. LOL!) The shameless pandering of the NYT to dictators foreign and domestic has a very long and ignoble history. It has long served as nothing more than a propaganda organ for the democrat-socialist cabal that began in the FDR administration and continued up to and including the present.
Elwood P. Dowd would do better reporting with Harvey the Rabbit as far as imaginary stories and sources go. Elwood Blues at least knows music and Chicago.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter did as much for freedom of the press as the Bill of Rights.
Amen Mark.
The voices in my head told me that Mark Twain once said “If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed” Don won’t quote that because it can’t be verified, but I am under no such constraint. Newspapers … we don’t need no stinking newspapers.
Surprising how often we hear “We don’t need no stink in’ “ This is from the very old movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre staring Humphrey Bogart. Bandits come into a camp of minors claiming to be Federales. Asked for badges, they say “We don’t need.....
I was actually wearing a sombrero and a fake mustache when I posted that with a fake Mexican accent in my head. It sounds much better with the accent.
Well done, Sir Don. I nominate you for the Rush Limbaugh award in journalism.
Great column, Don. It's so refreshing not to have the MSM (including Fox) telling us "it's too complicated for you to understand but here's what you should believe as the "truth"..."
The NYTimes, Washington Poop, Clinton News Network and Associated Depressed less reliable than the Babylon Bee.
I wish the would get CNN out if the airports and run cartoons instead.
Just do what I do, don't fly. Stopped flying after suffering a DVT. Stopped flying in 94 guess what don't miss it.
I didn’t enjoy air travel, even when parts weren’t dropping off the plane.
I used to fly a lot before retiring. Then the TSA was born and now I rarely fly. Still have my pilots license to fly bug smashers and do so with a friend now and then. Your comment refers to Boeings problems I suspect but don’t believe all you hear. Yes, they have to get their act together and back to building safe a/c instead of just making money but when I do fly commercial I always try to schedule flights using Boeing planes. Best aircraft in the world. There is a sly slandering going on today against Boeing. Suspect it is promoted in some monetary way by Airbus and others. The playing field among a/c manufacturers is not level. Airbus is heavily subsidized by European countries. Hard to be competitive in the plane game if you are not “nationalized” in some respect. Many of the articles citing plane issues cite that it was a Boeing plane but fail to m mention the actual cause of the mishap, leaving one to assume it was a manufacturing failure on Boeing’s part. Stuff falls off a/c almost everyday somewhere in the world and the planes land safely. News companies are not your friend.
Agreed. Most of the recent Boeing aircraft incidents are the result of faulty maintenance by the carriers.
Yep, Boeing has been taken over by the money men, and the consequences of that are showing up in the 737 MAX program. And, of course, Diversity is also a factor. A lot of fun has been made of Boeing lately about parts falling off, but is it really their fault? I don’t think so. I blame most of these incidents on the airlines and vendors, also infested with money men, and shoddy manufacturing and maintenance practices. It’s just unfortunate that the aircraft manufacturer has to shoulder the blame.
Thx for this perspective.
Hard to go to Europe and Hawaii though, eh?
Been there did that no need to go back
I can go any time I please in my mind - and do.
Used to fly on a regular basis from New London, CT to Rota, Spain. Also Pearl Harbor to Guam. That was when I was in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club and you had to go where the boat was. Still didn’t like it.
CNN's readership is dropping like a shot cow....
It is my understandign CNN paid to be in airports but stopped. I now see other news broadcasts. Fox for one. Ah well, just some more undocumented information for your Monday morning
I’m pretty sure CNN stopped broadcasting in airports in early 2021. Claimed it was because of COVID. Right…
my vote is for contunuous loop of Howdy Doody Time, plus ninety-five cent White Castle sliders.
I'm a staunch free-speech defender (until it becomes threats and incitement, neither of which Trump ever did, by the way) but I just do not know what the SOLUTION is to stop the "MSM" from their lies and gas-lighting and propaganda!! I have one idea but it's not anything I would write publicly for fear of having my door bust open and ending up in a gulag. 🤪
I love that snopes FINALLY had to correct their "misinformation" regarding Trump's statements regarding Charlottesville and now that he is going after FJB regarding the lies he continues to tell about that situation
It's a case of CYA.
They belive Trump will be our next president.
Me too, but if you read the snopes post, they still manage to denigrate Trump's comments anyway.
I would still never trust them.
It’s the question we all ask ourselves often. Its changing but not fast enough to save the business.
Well, my thoughts on the matter were depicted in the super FUN book by Vince Flynn called "Term Limits". Let's just say I'd like to see it applied to media sources too.
(Or another radical 'underground' novel is "Unintended Consequences" that also has an idea that definitely colors outside of the lines.)
If Flynn had not tragically passed away way much too young from cancer, I'm SURE he'd be on a govt watchlist.
Hell, he might still be on one anyway!
Outside of the Democrat Party, are there even 3 or 4 Americans who don't believe that the MSM is simply an extension of the Socialist-Communist-Marxist regime currently running this country into the ground?
Check out this article from El Gato Malo’s Substack where he reveals this “school”, aided and abetted by the UN, specifically created for so-called journalists to learn how to imbed within literally every story they write about with some form of “climate change” angle.
There’s very few, if any at all, established news organizations that have not sold their soul to the devil. They should now all come with warnings: “Read At Your Own Risk. Have Been Found to Pollute Minds.”
It’s all about the power. News doesn’t affect peoples actions but presenting it with hidden messages and one-sided accounts does change peoples actions. This is the age of Pravda 2.0.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/propaganda-playbook-for-climate-activists?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=145669025&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=kyfzz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Don, a priest can't hear confession at the court. You have to have a soul to confess and at least 3 don't.
Keep the faith, baby
...nor does ACB...
According to this Ellwood guy, who made a laughably unpersuasive attempt to look unbiased, "Musk’s contemptuous behavior amplifies the toxicity of our divides. Not only that, it’s self-defeating ..."
If it's self-defeating, why obsess and waste ink -- I mean, keyboard clicks -- over it? Follow the sage political rule that if your enemy is busy destroying himself, you don't interrupt him.
I see it as propaganda to place blame for “toxicity” and divides on our side of the aisle. When I read that, I thought of how divisive and even toxic Biden’s speeches have been to our country as he, too, attempts to place blame on conservatives. Not to mention the weaponization of the IRS, FBI, and DOJ. But no, he’s saving Democracy. Right.
Isn’t the phrase “pink slime outlets” homophobic?
Speaking of the NY Slimes, I remember that back in 2016 they were so gobsmacked by Trump’s victory that they announced they would henceforth become a more balanced newspaper. I’d say that we were still waiting for that to occur except for the fact that none of us actually waste our time on the Slimes.
“voices-n-my-head journalism” I know it when I see it and now have a label for libels.
I don't understand why a businessman like Bezos doesn't fire 20 percent of the WP staff? He owns the place, writes the payroll checks. The Pareto Principle is 20 percent of anything has an 80 percent impact. Firing the left leaning leaders and their acolytes would certainly tighten the butt holes of the rest of the staff. Am I missing something?
Who said old chrome dome didn’t like it? The Post is his firewall to news he doesn’t like affecting his companies. It is a blip in terms of monetary impact to his income. It’s cheap insurance.
He gets to write off the loss.
I think that Bezos approves their message
Surely you’re not calling for the firing of “journalists”, are you? Gosh, they might have to learn to code! (And I’ll stop calling you Shirley.)
The Washington Post is the intelligence agencies mouthpiece. Also, if you want to watch a judicial shit show Fulton County's, RICO, prosecution of the rapper Young Thug and his cohorts.
A small addition to your comment about the NYT failing to return its Pullitzer related to the Russiagate hoax: it has never returned the Pullitzer it received in 1931 for Walter Duranty's articles about the wonderful state of affairs in the old USSR under Joe Stalin. (Their "official" position is that they simply no longer have possession of the physical prize. LOL!) The shameless pandering of the NYT to dictators foreign and domestic has a very long and ignoble history. It has long served as nothing more than a propaganda organ for the democrat-socialist cabal that began in the FDR administration and continued up to and including the present.
Elwood P. Dowd would do better reporting with Harvey the Rabbit as far as imaginary stories and sources go. Elwood Blues at least knows music and Chicago.