Los Angeles Times leftist editorials editor resigns after owner insists on balanced coverage of presidential candidates. LA Times not to endorse either Trump or Harris.
Posted by freedomforall 1 week ago to Politics
Hopefully she'll emigrate to Venezuela where she belongs.
Wapo Chicken$#it Bezos thinks this will protect them if Trump overcomes the obvious Democrat cheating ??
Let's hope the Wapo and Bezos get exactly what lying traitors should get as punishment.
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"I came across Bezos' opinion piece in his own newspaper and found two (at least two statements) I feel lack credibility.
One is this: "We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement." Mr. Bezos, you are also failing on the first. Your statement that you are failing on the second of course doesn't imply you are failing on the first; however, you are.
And the second is an outright, if not lie, a mistruth: "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” Many people ARE influenced by your or any news outlet's endorsement of a candidate or issue. That you said this implies either you do not understand human nature, or you want to stay in business. In either case, well, in either case it is misinformation or as the Left likes to call it in conservative leaning outlets, 'fake news'."
by the censorship that has been done by Bezos' WaPo, NYT, LATimes, and by
Bezos' fellow billionaires suppressing truth on Facebook, Wikipedia, and LinkedIn,
or by articles representing views opposing the fedgov on http://rt.com. None of the
censorship of the facts about Covid19 or the effective inexpensive treatments for it
or the falsehoods published regarding the so-called vaccine's effectiveness were
needed because people are never affected by published or spoken word.
Bezoz is a lying waste of skin.
I believe either the media should be regulating itself, as Hollywood says its doing, or intelligent Americans will stop reading them.
If you've watched any movies or tv in this century you'll have recognized that
white men are portrayed as evil, murderous, wife-beating, thieving, selfish,
shiftless, child-abusive, rapist, sociopathic, racist, misogynistic, hate-filled,
moronic criminals.
Review the villains in 21st century drama and 99.9% will be white men, even
though the evidence is that a much larger percentage of black men are actually
the perpetrators of such crimes and are more likely to have the traits mentioned.
When a black or brown man is portrayed as a criminal by the entertainment
moguls, invariably he isn't responsible for his actions because he was either
forced to do so by a white man or he had a difficult childhood in a bad
neighborhood where the police always accused blacks of crime without evidence.
Hollywood is at least as guilty of this rubbish as newspapers trying to earn favors
from D.C. corrupt politicians or advertising revenues from Big Pharma.
Perhaps Trump should punish them by banning all advertising by Big Pharma
which would have the effect of cutting tv ad revenues by about 40%.
There's a job for Kennedy.
I enjoy Poul Anderson's writing and I'm downloading it now from its publication in Analog Magazine (in 3 parts July '60 through Sept '60).
Michael Crichton's Timeline might be of interest as its a tale of time travel to the same age (albeit with the restriction of trying not to change history.) I enjoyed that novel a lot, but the movie was a disappointment.
http://luminist.org/archives/SF/AST.htm
hundreds of issues to download
In the same issue with the first installment of The High Crusade, there is a short story called: The Brotherhood of Keepers, by Dean McLaughlin. I liked that one too.
You might enjoy James Hogan's Kicking the Sacred Cow, too.
Hogan and Crichton both died too young.
Both had views that were critical of 'acceptable' science 'facts'.
For Crichton it was global warming that was a fraud.
Hogan challenged a number of generally accepted theories in Kicking the Sacred Cow.
"...I seem to discern the firm belief that in philosophizing one must support oneself upon the opinion of some celebrated author, as if our minds ought to remain completely sterile and barren unless wedded to the reasoning of some other person."
"But I must not neglect to show, for his benefit and in their defense, how implausible is his deduction that their science was poor from their having had few followers."
"The crowd of fools who know nothing, Sarsi, is infinite. Those who know very little of philosophy are numerous. Few indeed are they who really know some part of it, and only One knows all."
"Hence I consider it not very sound to judge a man's philosophical opinions by the number of his followers."
But today, it seems that consensus is taken as proof.
For instance, Neil Degrasse-Tyson.
I had a conversation with a black professor of physics once, about maybe eight years or so ago, who told me Galileo wasn't important because he wasn't the first. That's all he could get out of Galileo---Copernicus and Kepler had the idea of a helio-centric world system before Galileo.
The truth is, Copernicus and Kepler were NOT the first; ancient Greek astronomers broached the idea, but some clung to a stable earth.
Two, Galileo never claimed to be the first. He built his telescope after someone in I think the Netherlands or somewhere had built one. But what he DID do, and what got him into trouble with the pope, (and the Inquisition) Urban VIII I think, was that he had proved it, and said he had proved it. He used his telescope, and his observations of the moons of Jupiter, and of sun spots. And he never gave in, until he was accused of atheism, even though he was quite religious, and that hurt.
So back to the point, this black professor of physics couldn't understand that Galileo's great contribution to science, greater than any other, was his realization that it is man's individual mind that determines truth and reality, not the pope, not other scientists. And that realization released the pent-up frustrations of the Europeans, so they could advance science beyond any degree beforehand.
Have you ever read Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"? He raises the question, why was it the Europeans who took off and became the originators of modern science and technology?
And that's a completely separate issue.
Just to clue you and other Gulchers in, there is an article on RT: "CNN Requests RT Contributor's Comments for Hit Piece Just Before U.S. Election". The RT article reports, "CNN published a lengthy hit piece on Wednesday, claiming that the broadcaster’s journalists, together with Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, supposedly uncovered a sprawling disinformation network backed by Moscow and spreading narratives that are then amplified by various popular US speakers."
https://www.rt.com/news/606761-cnn-re...
Not sure exactly what the hullabaloo is all about, but I posted this:
"I still don't get it. Can anyone help me out? Who, WHO, is the ultimate decider if information is misinformation? I mean, if I tell the truth, and I always tell the truth, who, WHO, has the authority to say I am lying?"
Because of Galileo's fight with the Pope, the motto of the Royal Society became: On No One's Authority But My Own.
The Democrat-Socialist-Marxist-Communist Party in America wants to send civilization all the way back to a time before Galileo, even before Aristotle.
And remember Rand stated there were only three philosophers worth reading, the three A's: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn Rand.
Crichton, in his book, had footnotes for every statement he quoted from 'alter' scientists. But what really impressed me was his realization that in trying to keep something from happening that humans have thought was happening, men have made it worse.
Pharmaceutical companies should sell to doctors, not patients.
The TV shows of my youth: the westerns where we knew who were the good guys---the white hats, and the bad guys, along with several farm-type sit-coms were taken off the air completely about 1972 or 1973, in what was knows as 'the rural purge'. Movies like "Deliverance" and "Midnight Cowboy", showing westerners and cowboys as mangy apes were produced instead. Good bluegrass bands like the Dillards were shown or talked about as backwards and dumb.
I think I will post a topic about an SF book written by Poul Anderson in 1960 that I find is needed to help white folks 'unburden' themselves of the unearned guilt imposed on them by the Left.
Rand said, in We the Living: "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt".
Wonder if she'll apply to the Washington Post?
But Venezuela is an even better place for the leftist brain-addled.
Bezos bailed on the WaPo endorsement of sKamala, too.
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