By Jo Nova
The Blob are losing control of the message
Even Gallup admits the US is suffering from a crisis in confidence in their institutions, and the least trusted of all is “the media”.
For some reason, telling readers that they are selfish, small minded people who are screwing up the world isn’t resonating with the Rednecks. In 2020 40% of US Citizens thought the media was trustworthy, but now only 31% do, an all time record low. This is the same media that told us elections were secure, vaccines were safe and effective and Joe Biden was sharp as a tack right up until the day everyone discovered he had dementia.
The Pullitzer-prize-guys fell for every bureaucratic lie they could — Hunter Bidens laptop was Russian disinfo, ivermectin was horse-dewormer, and an unarmed mob with a horned hat and flags staged an insurrection against the largest military power in the world.
There’s a price to pay for lying and the media have barely began to pay it.
Obviously they need to censor blogs and social media
The big question is why do 31% still trust the media?
Possibly their paypacket depends on believing the program. And welfare is so much easier to take with a dose of Media entitlement-sauce.
It’s a long term decline
The full graph shows just how different things used to be. Once upon a time, 70% of the people believed the media.
Imagine a tool so effective, with such a brand, that 70% of voters believed it. Such a tool would be a magnet for the rich and powerful to control for other purposes, and so it has come to pass…
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
The media are impartial professionals, of course, but for some reason the audience are biased:
Over half of Democrats like what they hear, but only 1 in 8 Republicans do.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
Trump’s Fake News meme in 2016 hit a nerve with Republicans and it stuck. The hate campaign against him only proves his point to Republican voters.
Since the media are supposed to be the watchdogs, the graph is almost a proxy for the decline of The West.
People should just trust Blogs like this one.
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Blogs, like the big media corporations, have their own bias. Very few – if any – tread a path of absolute neutrality. But that’s fine while there are plenty of options on both sides of every issue and the blogs themselves don’t lie about or deny their bias in the way that Big Media does.
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And read widely and make up your own mind. Be sceptical as well.
As Ronnie Rayguns once said – Trust, but verify –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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Agreed
The only way to be informed in today’s partisan media environment is to read sources from both sides an issue, and decide for yourself which one is closer to the truth and which one is engaging in spin. It is an absolute must to read sources you disagree with as well as ones you agree with.
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in my view people should not trust anything.
they should use their own critical judgment and come to a conclusion based on evidence (nullius in verba).
of course in that one may come to the view that some resources are more reliable (credible) than others.
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Most things are testable. The best way of learning is by doing. I have seen people spend years designing something like a boat or a house with perfection as the goal and get too old to see the end result.
I have observed that open oceans cannot exceed more than 30C. I have a reasonable understanding of why and know it is a function of cloud formation over tropical warm pools. I am yet to nail the exact mechanism and why the regulation process is so tight just below 30C. However, from this I know that there cannot be CO2 induced global warming. The real cause is the sun and Earth’s changing orientation to the sun.
I do not trust anything that I cannot verify but have learnt it is impossible to know everything. I am truly impressed with the way we can stream media. I have a vague understanding of how it is achieved but the ability of thousands or even millions of people to be observing the same program but at different stages of the program is really impressive. As is what can be crammed into a smart phone. Voice recognition has improved tremendously over the last decade.
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Blogs like this can be 100% trusted but I am concerned that this and similiar pro-truth blogs will be targeted under Australia’s proposed censorship laws and the e Safety Kommissar.
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Blogs like this can be 100% trusted…
I doubt that.
I’ve read on this blog, (in the comments), that hydrocarbon fuels keep regenerating, they are formed in the mantle and just bubble to the surface.
Anyone believing that really has problems with science.
Also, if two comments are counter to each other, then the blog can’t be 100% correct.
Even articles from Jo can be counter to each other, sometimes it’s just time elapsed that will change an opinion/content. Sometimes it’s later information/facts.
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Sometimes it’s sarcasm.
BTW, there is a difference between trusting the blog and trusting those who add comments to it.
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Yes but this Blog opens your eyes to stuff that you would never see on the MSM, ABC, Guv’ment sources, etc, etc.
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spoken like a true modern scientist.
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more like:
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An example: https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/australian-lawmakers-wake-up-and-call-for-worldwide-mrna-ban-we-fd-up/
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Why the brief uptick after 2015 ?
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Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Democrats love watching/reading MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. call Trump a racist, a Putin puppet, and a fascist (among other things). Seriously, look at the graph by political identification. Republicans and Independents continue the downward trend that existed before 2015, but Democrat trust in the media shot up to levels not even seen in the 1970s. That sugar high lasted through Trump’s entire presidency, and about halfway through Biden’s before Democrats could no longer deny that the media is lying to us about Biden’s competency, the effectiveness of Covid public health interventions, the efficacy of the clot shot, the lawfare against Trump, and so on and so forth ad inifinitum.
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It is up to you guys to believe me or not but I can not watch (still pretty frequent) videos on Biden.
I am only couple of years younger but I’d run to help him to cross the street if I was near by.
He is the Commander-in-Chief, etc,.. etc,.. and Kamala gets her daily tasks from him while boasting her excellent medical reports.
Oh, God ! What a world we live in…
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It was all to do with Donald.
‘Donald Trump received more than a quarter of all time devoted to campaign coverage on the Big Three TV networks’ evening newscasts between January and November 2015, according to analyst Andrew Tyndall (Trump didn’t even declare his candidacy for the GOP nomination until June, but Tyndall says there was little coverage of the presidential race on networks’ evening newscasts before that month). And because Trump is a viewer magnet, media outlets’ responses to him have exposed just how much ratings, audience and revenue can drive news coverage.’ (npr.org)
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dead cat bounce
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Because the Democrats believed in the Russian Hoax and all the anti-Trump garbage in the lefty media.
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Unrelated – but this doozy is worth sharing.
“Renewables” solar farm gets renewed by Hurricane Milton:
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/10/14/whats-happens-when-a-tornado-goes-walkabout-in-a-solar-farm-n3795796
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Don’t worry – it’s renewable.
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I recall the very moment I noticed something wrong.
I was reading ‘The Hill’ on line just as Trump was getting a bit of traction as a POTUS candidate late 2015.
Every headline had his name in it and I thought it strange that he was getting so much attention.
I now understand that Trump broke the brains of the DC Administrative State and their media sycophants.
They went mad as hatters.
Went further down the rabbit hole with George Floyd and Pandemic.
A madness the Deep State psyche warriors have taken full advantage of, and their wantonness has relived them of their judgment.
Their is a Crazy Central somewhere in the Western political construct.
I don’t think this ends well.
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Very interesting interview by Tucker Carlson of Mark Halperin about the US election – long but fascinating! I watched on X but it is on the Tucker Carlson network too.
“Mark Halperin has better political sources than anyone in media. He now believes Donald Trump is likely to win. If that happens, Halperin predicts the psychological collapse of the Democratic Party — “greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”
(1:23) The State of the Presidential Race
(6:37) Does Kamala Harris Stand For Anything?
(12:23) What Is Harris’s Relationship Like With Joe Biden?
(14:34) Harris Can’t Answer This Simple Question
(17:26) Mark Halperin’s Reporting That Biden Would Give up the Nomination
(28:45) The Worst Scandal in American Journalism
(31:09) Was the Biden/Trump Debate a Setup?
(40:17) Covering the Trump Campaign
(51:54) How Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama Took Out Biden
(1:02:19) Corporate Media’s Self-Destruction and the Future of News
(1:10:43) Black Men Are Voting for Trump
(1:16:32) Why Is Our Voting System So Complicated?
(1:18:58) Who’s Winning the Swing States?
(1:39:21) War and NATO
(1:53:48) Who Is Running the Country Right Now?
(1:55:11) Trump Derangement Syndrome Will Be the Biggest Mental Health Crisis in American History
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Although… Mark does reveal right at the end that he’d rather have a Harris win because the mental health crisis if Trump wins will be too colossal! And he was quite patronising to Tucker at the end too, saying people kept asking him ‘whatever happened to Tucker?’ and that he would be able to tell them ‘he’s fine, with his nice desk and studio…’ Tucker Carlson gets millions of views on his interviews. Bit more than fine.
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The media are much like Wikipedia – reliable only when absolutely no one has a barrow to push.
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Trust is usually the default position . There are people who you can trust , but working out who is lying only comes with experience . It’s called a bovine excrement detector and mine is now the default setting . As JR stated above “trust but verify” . It’s my belief that the “smart” people are the easiest to fool because they think it can’t happen to them….
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“The big question is why do 31% still trust the media“?
This may be about the same percentage that acquired the DJT virus and now have TDS.
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Yes, I think you’re right. The 30 to 35 percent figure often comes-up in all sorts of topics. I think this represents the “true believers” of the left. These are the people totally possessed. The people that bemused Solzhenitsyn in the gulag as, even in the gulag, with the horror of the system devouring them, they steadfastly remained true believers. Nothing he said could move them. So that 31%, I think, is probably as low as it can go.
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Had the same thought. The last Oz election comes to mind. As does oddly “renewable” capacity factors and % penetration that really starts the ball rolling on costs and instability.
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John,
There is always a “hard core” of people who will think and vote a certain way despite it being obviously contrary to their wellbeing . They are what Stalin called “the useful idiots” and they are like turkeys voting for Christmas and thanksgiving. They are prey for the psychopaths .You can’t fix stupid .
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Just being careful —
” ivermectin was horse-dewormer”
Indeed it was and is. I’ve used it many times.
A major use is de-licing kid’s hair. I still have some for the horses I no longer have. It is said to taste like apples, but I haven’t tried it. It is a challenge get a proper doze into a horse without a small application to one’s self.🤣
Media and anti-Trump types became silly about this.
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There are apple-flavoured horse wormers, (licorice too), but the ones I’ve seen aren’t just ivermectin but a combination or other wormers like pyrantel pamoate etc so guessing they’re probably not as good for us.
The ones with just ivermectin don’t taste too bad but since you’re supposed to deposit it on the back of the tongue, its down the throat before much tasting has happened.
With horses the trick for fussy ones is to hold the head up high until they’ve swallowed but the odd horse will object, hold it in their mouth and avoid swallowing it, and spit it out or dribble it out later, hence the occasional mess.
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And as I’ve said over and over, by the MSM’s complicity in government lies and narratives they are sealing their own fate too, but won’t wake up to that fact until it’s too late, and that time is here.
MSM – the modern equivalent of Blockbuster video, soon to be shuttered en-masse, cobwebbed, not forgotten or really missed.
On a sidenote, I’m seeing a move away from the likes of Youtube to censorship free platforms like .tv
Where goes MSM goes Youtube.
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Where are you seeing that?
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Indeed- I suggest it is lagging the real basis for trust and confidence by a decade or so.
The psychology of media marketing itself has gradually changed.
There was a time when that psychology was used to build empathy for the product and grow confidence of media users.
Increasingly, the media is building barriers, creating enmities, defining people by political and social sect, and promoting itself as a prosecutor of heresies on behalf of a narrow class of authoritarian corporatists.
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The only real problem I have with media bias is with the news bulletins. Opinion or commentary shows can be as biased as they like, it doesn’t worry me.
When I watch the news however I want it to be factual and in context.
About 40 years ago I think most of us believed what was reported on news services. For the most part I believe they were all pretty truthful or tried to be.
Now I believe all news services are biased to some degree. Some are down the rabbit hole more than others. This is a stain on so-called journalists and their profession.
Finally…trust, once lost is very hard to earn back. The news arm of the MSM have only themselves to blame.
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That 69% of people don’t trust the media is easy to understand.
It is a mystery that 31% do.
I’d be willing to bet that 100% of the 31% a Demon-rat voters.
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Yesterday Jo did the story about Port Hedland council calling for the suspension of the mRNA jibby jabs. The councillors voted 5-2 for that motion. Apparently the mayor voted no. He was later reported as saying he thought the motion was ” anti vaxxer” and then went on to comment that the vaccines saved lives and prevented people falling down in the street from COVID. So, that flog is part of the 31% and believed all the original BS from China showing people collapsing in the street. Probably also believes in boiling oceans, ice caps melting and possibly still wears a face mask. That, or it was tongue in cheek.
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Interesting timing with the passing of George Negus. I was racking my brain trying to think of a mainstream journalist/s who come anywhere close to the old definition of “investigative”. Anyone?
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Investigative Journalism: If we can’t ignore it, how can we spin this to favour the Left?
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Used car salesmen have a low approval rating, despite all the promises, all the inspections, all the warranties on offer, they are still distrusted.
Trust. Once you’ve lost it. It’s lost forever.
I cannot see the current crop of media outlets regaining the ground lost due to the recent scams, climate, covid, politics, brexit, the war in Ukraine, etc.
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FWIW
“A Modest Sidebar on EwTube & DuckDuckGo:
First DDGo:
They seem to have started putting a couple of paid ads at the top of any search that might have a product as an answer. For example, I did a search on “Home Depot inverter” and the top return was:”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/using-yandex-browser/#comment-173178
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I have heard that DDG has gone the way of google and search engines of the like and incorporated similar biased algorithms. I have read on a blog somewhere Brave is currently giving the best less filtered results as far a searches are concerned
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I have used Brave (free) for a couple of years – it works fine for me (am not in a rush!), but my old man thinks it doesn’t find enough results fast enough, compared to google.
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Chiefio on U tube –
“I suspect that as this progresses, EwTube will degrade into a swamp of AI hallucinations with a few decent human channels floating in it…”
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I’m assuming “Mass Media” = “Mainstream Media”or MSM.
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Contrary to the nonsense from the MSM, pollies, lefty extremists etc, the so called scientists sometimes admit that their climate mitigation is just more BS and nonsense.
Here’s what they really believe and say about wasting 100s of trillions of $ forever……..
“Slam on the climate brakes”
“What would happen to the climate if we were to stop emitting carbon dioxide today, right now? Would we return to the climate of our elders? The simple answer is no. Once we release the carbon dioxide stored in the fossil fuels we burn, it accumulates in and moves amongst the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, and the plants and animals of the biosphere. The released carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Only after many millennia will it return to rocks, for example, through the formation of calcium carbonate – limestone – as marine organisms’ shells settle to the bottom of the ocean. But on time spans relevant to humans, once released the carbon dioxide is in our environment essentially forever”.
But don’t forget that they want to return us to the joys of the LIA, ( SARC) but they also truly believe it won’t happen for many thousands of years.
But by then the Earth may be heading into the next 90,000 + year full glaciation anyway.
Again, does anyone really understand any of their delusional lefty lunacy?
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Here’s “The Conversation”link and the quote is about midway into their article.
https://theconversation.com/what-would-happen-to-the-climate-if-we-stopped-emitting-greenhouse-gases-today-35011
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Again The Conversation article used the Scientist’s data from The Royal Society claims about so called climate mitigation. Or so called net zero.
Here’s the link to the Royal Society question 20 and their answer.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-20/
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How long does it take for a phytoplankton to take in some carbon, die, and sink to the bottom of the ocean – thus taking the carbon completely out of circulation? I suspect that it isn’t all that many thousands of years, in spite of the climate scientists claiming that it is. The lifespan of a phytoplankton is something like 0.000001 to 0.00001 thousand years.
Of course, the contribution of phytoplankton to carbon sequestration is pretty trivial, after all, they are only estimated to be responsible for approximately half of global primary production. Patrick Moore estimates that total carbon sequestration by phytoplankton is only about 100,000,000,000,000,000 tons. No wonder the climate scientists ignore it.
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70% don’t trust the msm but they want to make them immune from misinformation and disinformation
because they are ‘trusted sources’!
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Is there some data indicating that the 70% above want only the corporate media to be immune from the evil mis/dis laws?
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I get all my reliable info these days from X, Substack, podcasts and blogs like this. I make a habit of either listening to a couple of local radio bulletins per week or maybe watching one FTA TV news bulletin. But that’s it. For the FTA stuff these days, I cant believe that in a previous lifetime I may have listened or watched the news at least 3 or 4 times per day. Most is just repetitive narrative nonsense and often not even up to date. More and more I am listening to the long play podcasts where a commentator gets the time to fully explain a situation. Not some 15 second sound bite between ads. Plus, I dont mind paying subscription for that service. Jo should really go on Substack or similar. She would be an outstanding contributor, particularly with her science knowledge and journalistic style.
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– “the media” : Covid vaccines are “safe and effective.”
– the independent media, from Substack:
‘CDC Finally Released Its VAERS Safety Monitoring Analyses for COVID Vaccines via FOIA’ Jan 5, 2023
The CDC analysis shows that the number of serious adverse events reported in less than two years for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is 5.5 times larger than all serious reports for vaccines given to adults in the US since 2009 (~73,000 vs. ~13,000).
Twice as many mRNA COVID-19 vaccine reports were classified as serious compared to all other vaccines given to adults (11% vs. 5.5%). This meets the CDC definition of a safety signal.
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– “the media” NBC news : “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” the FDA tweeted from its official account on Saturday
– from a French magazine: ‘Capital’:
In March 2020, when the Covid-19 epidemic was already in full swing, another epidemic, of scabies, occurred in a nursing home in Seine-et-Marne(in France). To treat this parasitic disease, doctors have been prescribing for decades a well-known and effective drug: ivermectin (IVM). This is how Dr. Charlotte, dermatologist at the AP-HP Henri Mondor Hospital, treated all 121 residents (69) and employees (52) of the establishment.
The rest is less commonplace: in this retirement home where the average age of residents is 90 years, with 98% of people with a comorbidity at risk, the Covid-19 virus has done virtually no damage. Only 1.4% of the occupants (including staff) had the virus, with moderate symptoms (no oxygen or hospitalization) and no deaths were to be deplored.
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Brownstone Institute:
‘Bedard: From Covid Amnesty to Covid Amnesia’
By Thomas Buckley October 10, 2024
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Oster kept her job. Oster got famous. The pandemic was good for Oster.
The pandemic was also good for bureaucrats, multi-nationals, putative experts, the mindless media, and internet scolds. It was good for woke adults who want to remain children, it was good for the national security-industrial complex, it was good for hiding behind, it was good for expanding societal power.
It was not good for people.
Dr. Bedard – we will never forget that. And don’t ever ask again.
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I had a bad reaction to an mRNA “vaccine”, involving inflammation – OK it wasn’t as bad as some of the effects that others suffered, but it put an 18-month hole in my life. When it started, I went to a specialist who looked me straight in the eye and told me the mRNA vaccine could not cause inflammation. I looked it up in VAERS that night, and found well over 30,000 cases of mRNA causing inflammation. I have not been back to that specialist.
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Do you feel you have recovered Mike? And if so, what worked for you?
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The whole business of news has changed. Google has done that. Youtube. Facebook. Blogs. By taking all the advertising revenue. Everyone else is broke. So they pander to the fringe because the fringe pay. Even revolutionary CNN, cable news, is dying.
And journalists don’t exist. If you are over fifty you are a veteran. An expert. A sage.
Too many of the commentators are just kids. And they are chasing sensationalism or pandering to their own views of the world.
Crooks like Biden and Harris would have been pulled to pieces in past years.
There is just no money in the truth.
And the DOJ and Joe Biden and prosecutors around the country have tried to jail Trump for decades.
They make it extremely obvious. Over 700 unarmed people were jailed after 6 January. None with weapons.
And on illegal charges. Exactly as Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi wanted.
Joe Biden is in the news today wanting Trump in jail.
If there is evil afoot today, it is coming from the White House.
And applauded by the news services who long ago gave up being independent. There’s just no money in it.
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The Conversation link appears to be comedy. The very first sentence is a joke – ‘Earth’s climate is changing rapidly.’ Wrong. Not ‘rapid’ at all.
Then this, even funnier, – ‘The primary cause of that change is the release of carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural gas.’ Wrong. As far as I know, the primary causes are natural and only around 3-4% is caused by humans burning fossil, or more correctly, natural, fuels.
It is always good to get both sides of the story, as mentioned above, but sometimes it’s difficult to get beyond the first paragraph without retching.
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