Sunday, February 21, 2021

Sunday Morning Comin' Down: Grind to a Uniform Consistency Edition

For going on 16 years now I've been writing on my little blog out here in the exurbs of respectability about what an absolute, democracy-poisoning travesty the network's Sunday Shows.

By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, that comes to several hundred thousand words.  At least a "Lonesome Dove"'s worth.

After all of that time and energy and visceral material expended for so years by so many people who have been "documenting the atrocities" this is what we have to show for our efforts:


Armed insurrectionists storming the United States capitol changed nothing about the way the American corporate media does business because the executives who run the American corporate media do not live and work inside the United States capitol.

And suddenly, the Lincoln Lads want to live on my corner.  

Where would they be without Liberals to rip off?



No Half Measures

2 comments:

Meremark said...

I love this so much I share it for a few daring to focus.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/516095-nytimes-critical-thinking-wrongthink-lockstep/

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Critical thinking is dangerous, according to a Times editorial urging readers to vet sources with Wikipedia lest they fall into traps set by evil conspiracy theorists and be tricked into questioning the paper’s iron-clad truths.
Charlie Warzel, a Times columnist who styles himself an expert in “online radicalization,” has implored his readers not to “go down the rabbit hole,” in a Thursday op-ed luridly depicting the dangers of evaluating new information, questing out into the internet armed with nothing but one’s own mind. Thinking critically can lead to giving away one’s precious attention ...

Warzel cites a professor who warns that “the goal of disinformation is to capture attention, and critical thinking is deep attention,” implying that to think critically about some forbidden morsel is to fall victim to the evil mastermind who created it. “The natural human mind-set is a liability in an attention economy,” he continues, making very sure the reader gets the point that “it allows grifters, conspiracy theorists, trolls, and savvy attention hijackers to take advantage of us and steal our focus.” You wouldn’t want that, would you? Close that browser window NOW!

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ROTFLMFAO


Robt said...

If you have a memory. with Putin's election victory helping Trump.

Republican's were everywhere. High and low. In the water and on the land. soaring through the air and orbiting in space.

All telling everyone to, "GET OVER IT".

Tell me you do not recall how loud and boisterous they were. How condescending?

You cannot 'inquire about Russia attacking our election. I won't allow it. Trump won, get over it. And now, They won't pipe down over Trump being a loser.

Mar 4th. Trump Hotel. Be there for Trump's inauguration.