On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?

[simple schoolboy]

It's a network for training the same old propagandists and promoting feel good stories showing that the system works. It's founded by traditional media outlet cronies, funded by the most powerful people on earth. Forgive me if I don't give them the benefit of the doubt. At best they're no threat to the people that fund them.

The website is nothing. This video is incredible. Just utter content free nonsense. If I randomly came across it I'd think it was a joke.

Their Muzak is familiar. Did they steal it from an NPR opening?

[BurtReynolds]

I'm sure on a ground level there are nice people just trying to be useful to local communities, but when the Christian missionary comes to your pagan village saying he just wants to help, be wary.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[BurtReynolds]

Palin's suit against NYT about to get dismissed. Would love to hear from:

Burt
4/5
GH

It's nice of the judge to let the jurors pretend they have a say.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[4/5]

Palin's suit against NYT about to get dismissed. Would love to hear from:

Burt
4/5
GH

It's nice of the judge to let the jurors pretend they have a say.

yeah that's a good hot take

I don't have much for you. Personally, I've liked how difficult it is to win a libel case so I'm okay with the extremely high bar that Sullivan set, namely that you must prove malicious intent. With that standard her case never had a chance. Maybe she wants the Supreme Court to overturn or scale back Sullivan, idk.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Mickey]

Scaling back Sullivan has been on the conservative wish list for years, I'm certain someone in Palin's orbit had that objective, even if she herself was just along for the media attention.

[simple schoolboy]

Scaling back Sullivan has been on the conservative wish list for years, I'm certain someone in Palin's orbit had that objective, even if she herself was just along for the media attention.

In general I prefer the US standards on libel and slander, but making it functionally impossible for a public figure to prevail seems unreasonable.

[Norah]

Conservatives: Dead kids at school are the price of doing business for having a robust second amendment, but the reputations of public officials is a price not worth paying for a robust first amendment.

[simple schoolboy]

Conservatives: Dead kids at school are the price of doing business for having a robust second amendment, but the reputations of public officials is a price not worth paying for a robust first amendment.

Alternatively: no libel/ slander laws, but legalize dueling.

[simple schoolboy]

I didn't realize that Glenn Greenwald had an alt.

[BurtReynolds]

[elliseamos]

Our goal is nonsense!

[BurtReynolds]

We're not obsolete! We're not obsolete!

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[McParadigm]

I hadn’t watched a moment of CNN in eight months until yesterday, when I was at a coworker’s apartment and they had it on.

Headline: “international markets collapse in wake of Russian invasion.“

Nothing if not consistent. I’m surprised they weren’t interviewing people in a diner about it.

[McParadigm]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... p-1319698/

[wease]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeff-zucker-cnn-resign-affair-cuomo-trump-1319698/

Until I read that, I didn’t know Cuomo was fired from CNN.

[BurtReynolds]