I still get my news by perusing web sites, but the list is a lot shorter than it used to be. Its too much work trying to figure out what isn't propaganda anymore. Its safe to assume its all propaganda...
I'm curious if you have ideas for how, or even think it might be possible or desirable, to reverse this process and restore new media to some semblance of seriousness? Obviously, substack has arisen as a place where mainstream challengers can work, but do you foresee issues with subscriber ideology dictating content? Must we simply hope that there are enough people of integrity out there and ignore the rest?
I remember as a kid in the 90s thinking, wouldn't it be great to be able to watch/read whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted? Then came the Internet and streaming services. Then as an adult in the early aughts, I thought, wouldn't it be great if I could just pay for the channels I wanted? And now everything is a subscription. I don't have a problem with the concept, but I only have so many dollars to devote to $5 or $6 subscriptions per month. : /
I have a relative that has advanced math degrees/works for Facebook.
I spoke to him about his work and how they would overcome some perception/acceptance problem they felt the public had about something Facebook wanted them to do/believe.
It came down to me asking him if you guys think you can just "math out" the problem with whatever algorithm they manufacture and without hesitation he said "yes".
Maybe he was just dumbing it down for me, but I think it is more likely that these people really believe that they can get you just by using the correct math.
Lester Holt just received an award for "advocacy journalism". His speech was something like ... don't let the absence of facts get in the way of the correct messaging. His award was for sanctioned lying, and he admitted it on the spot.
Look no further than the Universities ... During my own education in the 1970s I had a professor of Marxist philosophy, Douglas Kellner, who summed up freedom as a shallow thing... the freedom to buy the products you like. He is now at UCLA and has a long CV that reads ... messaging through education is the new product. It's especially successful in America where our ethnic and familial bonds are scissored through by multiculturalism. His educational progeny have been infiltrating public education for 2 generations. It's been a bottom-up transition inside the public schools. It will take another 2 generations to purge this intellectual filth from society.
What is a "member of Antifa", exactly? Were you at these protests? Did you get people's names to cross-reference with the official Antifa Membership List?
You are completely mistaken about the WiSpa incident, this is very disappointing from you. There have been 5 women who've lodged complaints about trans women entering the womens section of that spa. A spa staffperson in the video confirms there was a trans gender person in the womens section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HGsAaaVBc0&t=3s . The article that originally claims it was a hoax is from a Calif. LGBT publication, who sent a reporter to the spa to ask very cursory questions. The piece in this screenshot debunks the findings of that original article https://twitter.com/adhib/status/1420145315504664582?s=20 . This gentleman was THERE when it happened and confirms the incident was real https://twitter.com/bennetkelley/status/1416561456741421056 . This was very lazy on your part.
Several posters frame the problem/solution in terms of logic and reason. I think that will mostly miss the mark. We now have a journalism that by aim or by carelessness creates fact sets that are untrue. Science the same. The result of applying good logic to a false fact pattern is rot. I am back to Descartes myself, searching for anything I can take to be true.
Yes, we should reverse Ronald Reagan's legacy and restore the FCC rule that media NEWS outlets cannot knowingly report anything they have not independently documented as fact AND only report the fact-based truth. They may editorialize elsewhere, but they cannot call that "news." One would expect the algorithm you describe from the New Republic and FOX News, but credible journalism is still happening at the New York Times, the L.A. Times and elsewhere around the globe. When I independently research some of their news stories, I rarely find inaccuracies of fact or only one-sided political spin. To lump all news outlets in the "algorithm boat" exaggerates the scope of the pandering exaggerations sold as news today by unscrupulous outlets like FOX and their friends.
Yeah. So true. But the author does equilize the two sides of our polarized nation despite the objective fact that the left alternately denies and hold up as truth the institutions of science and history according to their preferred narrative.
Great piece Leighton! As a side note if you want to correct it -- there is no "The" in "Red Scare". Thanks for the piece!
I still get my news by perusing web sites, but the list is a lot shorter than it used to be. Its too much work trying to figure out what isn't propaganda anymore. Its safe to assume its all propaganda...
I'm curious if you have ideas for how, or even think it might be possible or desirable, to reverse this process and restore new media to some semblance of seriousness? Obviously, substack has arisen as a place where mainstream challengers can work, but do you foresee issues with subscriber ideology dictating content? Must we simply hope that there are enough people of integrity out there and ignore the rest?
I remember as a kid in the 90s thinking, wouldn't it be great to be able to watch/read whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted? Then came the Internet and streaming services. Then as an adult in the early aughts, I thought, wouldn't it be great if I could just pay for the channels I wanted? And now everything is a subscription. I don't have a problem with the concept, but I only have so many dollars to devote to $5 or $6 subscriptions per month. : /
waiting for you to acknowledge that you were wrong about the WiSpa incident - https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/some-mainstream-outlets-cant-even?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTI2NTg3NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDA4NjcxMDksIl8iOiJkTkJqYyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMDY4MzU5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjMwNjg3MTk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDgzMyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.c82tYOxH31x8JWBzAvGeY6jKFKACEahMteIb7eyLuBk
I have a relative that has advanced math degrees/works for Facebook.
I spoke to him about his work and how they would overcome some perception/acceptance problem they felt the public had about something Facebook wanted them to do/believe.
It came down to me asking him if you guys think you can just "math out" the problem with whatever algorithm they manufacture and without hesitation he said "yes".
Maybe he was just dumbing it down for me, but I think it is more likely that these people really believe that they can get you just by using the correct math.
Lester Holt just received an award for "advocacy journalism". His speech was something like ... don't let the absence of facts get in the way of the correct messaging. His award was for sanctioned lying, and he admitted it on the spot.
Look no further than the Universities ... During my own education in the 1970s I had a professor of Marxist philosophy, Douglas Kellner, who summed up freedom as a shallow thing... the freedom to buy the products you like. He is now at UCLA and has a long CV that reads ... messaging through education is the new product. It's especially successful in America where our ethnic and familial bonds are scissored through by multiculturalism. His educational progeny have been infiltrating public education for 2 generations. It's been a bottom-up transition inside the public schools. It will take another 2 generations to purge this intellectual filth from society.
if we did not have Fox news we would have NO news.
What is a "member of Antifa", exactly? Were you at these protests? Did you get people's names to cross-reference with the official Antifa Membership List?
You are completely mistaken about the WiSpa incident, this is very disappointing from you. There have been 5 women who've lodged complaints about trans women entering the womens section of that spa. A spa staffperson in the video confirms there was a trans gender person in the womens section https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HGsAaaVBc0&t=3s . The article that originally claims it was a hoax is from a Calif. LGBT publication, who sent a reporter to the spa to ask very cursory questions. The piece in this screenshot debunks the findings of that original article https://twitter.com/adhib/status/1420145315504664582?s=20 . This gentleman was THERE when it happened and confirms the incident was real https://twitter.com/bennetkelley/status/1416561456741421056 . This was very lazy on your part.
Several posters frame the problem/solution in terms of logic and reason. I think that will mostly miss the mark. We now have a journalism that by aim or by carelessness creates fact sets that are untrue. Science the same. The result of applying good logic to a false fact pattern is rot. I am back to Descartes myself, searching for anything I can take to be true.
Yes, we should reverse Ronald Reagan's legacy and restore the FCC rule that media NEWS outlets cannot knowingly report anything they have not independently documented as fact AND only report the fact-based truth. They may editorialize elsewhere, but they cannot call that "news." One would expect the algorithm you describe from the New Republic and FOX News, but credible journalism is still happening at the New York Times, the L.A. Times and elsewhere around the globe. When I independently research some of their news stories, I rarely find inaccuracies of fact or only one-sided political spin. To lump all news outlets in the "algorithm boat" exaggerates the scope of the pandering exaggerations sold as news today by unscrupulous outlets like FOX and their friends.
Yeah. So true. But the author does equilize the two sides of our polarized nation despite the objective fact that the left alternately denies and hold up as truth the institutions of science and history according to their preferred narrative.