Thought you were trying to say the Rams were moving again.

I’m like, “wait a minute… Just cuz they lost the Lakers, doesn’t mean they get the Rams as a consolation…although this team isn’t much of a consolation *rimshot*”

Next year’s team will be a bit of a salve for this past season. I really believe that.

What kills me is that it’s not like the MSM CAN’T break big stories.

Hell, Mary Mapes and Dan Rather broke Abu Ghraib.

I really regret being part of that whole “font mob” when it came out. Funny you should mention that.

I just saw the movie, Truth, based on the book by Mary Mapes with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford. It was…illuminating. And it does make a pretty potent statement. Even without the documents, the big slam is that Bush likely went AWOL and Viacom and Bush had SIGNIFICANT corporate interests, prior to and after the report went on air including Bush’s veto of Budget because it included allowing one company to own 43% of all media in the country. People were super upset about that at the time. He settled for 39%, the exact amount Viacom owned so they wouldn’t have to sell any assets.

Since Mary Mapes and CBS canning everyone south of the President of CBS who touched that story including executives overseeing the story, the MSM simply cannot be counted on to break another story about a sitting President.

Now, it’s LAUGHABLE. At least the Bush story got on air. Now? Not a chance.

That’s how crazy this all is. Even as compromised as the MSM was… as late as 2004, the MSM could still break a story about a sitting President.

CBS won a Peabody for Mary Mapes reporting/producing work at Abu Ghraib. Amazing. And they touted their Peabody win, but I sure couldn’t find any positive attribution to Rather and Mapes. Just CBS saying, “yay, we won”.

The hardest part about all of this is that we need BIG MEDIA for one thing. Lawyers. When the state wants to go after media, it takes resources to fight back. You think a fucking BLOGGER could have published the Pentagon Papers? You think Assange could publish WikiLeaks without funding and serious access to legal counsel?

Sure, the current Alt-Media landscape can act like meta-critics and critique the media… but they can’t really BE the media because…resources. Very few venues can do what TYT did and send a reporter to Standing Rock for weeks and actually deploy a drone to catch the corporation lying. Normally, that’d be big media. But now that it’s corporate media… who fills that gap?

It’s not some blogger or comedian.

Now we have a Corporate media that merely plagiarizes the dying print media (“from a report in the Detroit Free Press… from a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer… from a report in the LA Times… etc). When print finally dies, corporate media won’t even have THAT content and infotainment won’t even have watered down info to peddle.

Not that it matters. The biz side will simply see it as “how do we get more viewers” and don’t see the News as a duty like the giants of news did. They don’t see producing the news any different than Big Brother or Survivor or any other reality show…

bnw wrote:

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Well I dunno. I dont know what you mean by ‘leftist bias’.

It’s bs.

If you look at any normal faculty ratio there are invariably as many conservatives as leftists if not more.

This is the kind of thing said by people who swallow Limbaugh nonsense whole and do not really know the situation they’re trying to talk about.

I know for a real hardcore fact it’s bs.

…

Proof please.

Does it matter if you won’t accept the proof?

You act like it’s any surprise to anyone here that the US Gov’t has been offering aid and comfort directly to our own enemies not just recently, but for decades.

Honestly, I don’t know who you’re responding to…

It’s like there’s this phantom Hillary supporter that you desperately want to do battle with…except, they’re just not HERE.

hey bnw, this is a serious question.

You have certain outlooks. Is there ANY data that would change your mind on anything.

You took me calling you dogmatic as an ad hominem attack. I think it’s the exact opposite, but I’m really curious.

What actual piece or pieces of data on ANY subject would change your outlook on ANY topic?

Imagine that… sanity breaks out.

I figure we’ll either invade, overthrow their government or assassinate their PM any day now…

Or maybe a string of CIA backed terrorists attacks so that they forget their humanity like we forgot ours…

What? Too soon?

ZOMG!!!! That’s gonna be on my list of movies to see in the theaters.

I see so few, but that one’s gonna make the list!

You’re killin’ me, Smalls…

bnw, a question.

Do you not understand that you and maybe Waterfield are the only partisans here?

I’m certainly not a damn Democrat, so you spitting some anti-Democrat screed is just misplaced. Who are you talking to? I didn’t vote for Hillary, I think the name calling is juvenile, by the way, and I can assure you no one is interested in tilting with you regarding partisan nonsense.

Hildabeast? Really? That’s your aspiration? (inb4 “yeah, well, there’s been criticisms of Trump on the interwebz, so I have a blank check to be as bad as I wanna be because standards and principles are for elitists, apparently.)

You got policies? Bring those. Awesome. Let’s talk about those all the live long day.

But whatever. I gotta learn to just leave all these posts alone.

But c’mon.

That’s bullshit.

The earth is only 6000 years old, ya freakin’ commie.

I just don’t want to live in the Holy Christian Fascist Caliphate that substitutes for what was the USA. Well, that seems to be the plan, anyway…

I mean, you’re free if you’re a white male evangelical Christian.

But…wait…

If a few more state houses go Republican… you think Mike Pence won’t work with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to use the Nuclear option in the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and then start passing and ratifying Amendments to the Constitution that MOST Americans actually don’t want, but thanks to gerrymandering, corrupt Dems and hard right evangelical Christian Republicans… we could easily see…

An Amendment criminalizing homosexuality. Not just gay marriage…but homosexuality en toto. Those statements are already on the table and we’re only a few state houses away from this being a reality.

An Amendment enshrining the permanent lack of privacy. Forever. Domestic spying will become not only the norm, but we’ll have gone from “we have privacy” to “if you have nothing to hide…” Habeas Corpus is already becoming a distant memory…

An Amendment which establishes that America is a Christian nation. Yep. That’s coming. BELIEVE IT.

I also expect everything just south of an amendment enabling the expansion of coal, oil and nuclear power with subsidies. Even as the problems with all of these continue to become more evident…and the business case for each becomes more tenuous in the changing economy (the economic case for innovation used to not just reside in Silicon Valley)… and the social and environmental costs are born including potential disasters (we have old nuclear power plants near major population centers. Indian River Nuclear Power plant is near NYC AND is near a fault line, so when the Trump federal gov’t forces through national fracking as is likely… Indian River isn’t capable of handling even a 5.0 earthquake. And it’s the same design as Fukushima….and NYC is within the fallout radius. What could go wrong?

I just don’t get it.

I mean…I do…and I don’t.

It’s being made abundantly clear that through shrewd political gamesmanship, this minority viewpoint will be attempted to be made manifest.

Based on the last few weeks and how the Dems are looking to corporatists Corey Booker and Kristen Gillibrand, two massive corporate hacks and basically an Obama and a Hillary doppleganger, respectively, I have little hope that there will be any progress in the 2018 elections. And the MSM will still be scratching their heads… “how can this be happening???”

What if I want to live with atheists? Gays? Lesbians? Transgendered people? Muslims? Hebrews? Hindus? Buddhists? Disabled (other than myself)? Black people? Hispanic people? Asian people? Middle-Eastern people (Arab, Semitic, etc)? What if I WANT to live in a diverse country that CELEBRATES that diversity?

I thought that is what America stood for. I thought that is what America, ultimately, after all the crap was washed off was about.

So, when the White Christian Caliphate legislation stuff starts coming…and it will… are those who are going to say that this post is an overreaction going to stand up and fight against it?

Or is everyone supposed to magically become evangelical white males?

Remember, I’m the pattern guy. This may not come to pass, but the pattern has been laid for it to happen. And forces are being put in place for it to happen. That’s a fact.