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Word slinger files
November 2023 |
“Sadly, the news media has largely become propaganda, not journalism. Journalists tell, not sell. #hiddenagenda”
― Richie Norton |
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MEME REPORT: December 4, 2023:
November 30, 2023:
Tucker Carlson once texted he hated Trump "passionately." Now he's endorsing him for president.
Former President Donald Trump has earned an endorsement from Tucker Carlson, the conservative media figure who once said in a text that he hated the former president. "I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer. That just can't stand," Carlson said in an interview Thursday with Roseanne Barr on her podcast — the actress being no stranger to controversy herself. "I'm voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That's how I feel." (C Mandler/CBS News 11.30.23)
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Former President Donald Trump has earned an endorsement from Tucker Carlson, the conservative media figure who once said in a text that he hated the former president. "I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer. That just can't stand," Carlson said in an interview Thursday with Roseanne Barr on her podcast — the actress being no stranger to controversy herself. "I'm voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That's how I feel." (C Mandler/CBS News 11.30.23)
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November 25, 2023:
 Zorek Richards
The Way I See It:
Though I remember history classes in school where they taught about World War II. I dont recollect any great details about the Bomb except that it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I saw this movie, Oppenheimer, and was enlightened. Very good movie, good actors, and presented a complex story which was basically about science that challenged the mind. Lots of turns as two issues converged on each other at the same time: 1) can a bomb be made that will not destroy the whole world in it's first test and 2) We were at war with Germany and the concerns of secrecy and it was the beginning of the cold war and the threat of communism was just beginning. . It also left a question of whether or not we would have used the bomb on Germany had it been ready before they surrendered after the suicide of Hitler. Great movie. I like movies about time travel because of the paradoxes that can be created, No time travel or paradoxes as such in this movie but it is a good mind challenge. |
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November 20, 2023:
Warped Front Pages
Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory. Misinformation was to blame, the theory went, fueled by Russian agents and carried on social networks. But as researchers, we wondered if fascination and fear over “fake news” had led people to underestimate the influence of traditional journalism outlets. After all, mainstream news organizations remain an important part of the media ecosystem—they’re widely read and watched; they help set the agenda, including on social networks. We decided to look at what had been featured on the printed front page of the New York Times in the three months leading up to Election Day. Of a hundred and fifty articles that discussed the campaign, only a handful mentioned policy; the vast majority covered horse race politics or personal scandals. Most strikingly, the Times ran ten front-page stories about Hillary Clinton’s email server. “If voters had wanted to educate themselves on issues,” we concluded, “they would not have learned much from reading the Times.” We didn’t suggest that the election coverage in the Times was any worse than what appeared in other major outlets, “so much as it was typical of a broader failure of mainstream journalism.” But we did expect, or at least hope, that in the years that followed, the Times would conduct a critical review of its editorial policies. Was an overwhelming focus on the election as a sporting contest the best way to serve readers? Was obsessive attention to Clinton’s email server really justified in light of the innumerable personal, ethical, and ultimately criminal failings of Trump? It seemed that editors had a responsibility to rethink both the volume of attention paid to certain subjects as well as their framing. (David Rothschild/Columbia Jounraliams Review 11/20/23)
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Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory. Misinformation was to blame, the theory went, fueled by Russian agents and carried on social networks. But as researchers, we wondered if fascination and fear over “fake news” had led people to underestimate the influence of traditional journalism outlets. After all, mainstream news organizations remain an important part of the media ecosystem—they’re widely read and watched; they help set the agenda, including on social networks. We decided to look at what had been featured on the printed front page of the New York Times in the three months leading up to Election Day. Of a hundred and fifty articles that discussed the campaign, only a handful mentioned policy; the vast majority covered horse race politics or personal scandals. Most strikingly, the Times ran ten front-page stories about Hillary Clinton’s email server. “If voters had wanted to educate themselves on issues,” we concluded, “they would not have learned much from reading the Times.” We didn’t suggest that the election coverage in the Times was any worse than what appeared in other major outlets, “so much as it was typical of a broader failure of mainstream journalism.” But we did expect, or at least hope, that in the years that followed, the Times would conduct a critical review of its editorial policies. Was an overwhelming focus on the election as a sporting contest the best way to serve readers? Was obsessive attention to Clinton’s email server really justified in light of the innumerable personal, ethical, and ultimately criminal failings of Trump? It seemed that editors had a responsibility to rethink both the volume of attention paid to certain subjects as well as their framing. (David Rothschild/Columbia Jounraliams Review 11/20/23)
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November 17, 2023:
Right wing fringe
If it's from a Right Wing Source it is News it has more of a chance to be wrong and misinformation
Speaker Mike Johnson Releases January 6 Capitol Security Footage
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released security footage from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots to the public on Friday. Johnson took to X, formerly Twitter, and shared a link to a House website containing five pages of videos with roughly 20 videos per page. (Breitbart)
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released security footage from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots to the public on Friday. Johnson took to X, formerly Twitter, and shared a link to a House website containing five pages of videos with roughly 20 videos per page. (Breitbart)
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Fox News’s Jesse Watters Is Deeply Triggered over a Gay Nutcracker
Mariah Carey officially declared the opening of Christmas earlier this month, so you know what that means, right? The war on Christmas has resumed, so sayeth Jesse Watters and Fox News. This year Starbucks decided to agree to the unofficial accord that their red cups needed to be overtly Christmas-themed, so Fox News had to go seek out a different enemy. A more worthy opponent. A gay nutcracker, if you will. (Kate Hudson/The Mary Sue)
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Mariah Carey officially declared the opening of Christmas earlier this month, so you know what that means, right? The war on Christmas has resumed, so sayeth Jesse Watters and Fox News. This year Starbucks decided to agree to the unofficial accord that their red cups needed to be overtly Christmas-themed, so Fox News had to go seek out a different enemy. A more worthy opponent. A gay nutcracker, if you will. (Kate Hudson/The Mary Sue)
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Jesse Watters Slammed Over “Getting Rid of Dog” Remarks
Fox News host, Jesse Watters, is yet again facing major backlash after making an abhorrent remark on air, Newsweek reports. In a recent segment of the highly rated Fox Show, “The Five,” Watters left his co-hosts and viewers outraged after stating, “We ended up getting rid of the dog that we got.” The segment was spotlighting ways pet owners can figure out what’s bothering their furry companions,Watters didn’t clarify what he meant by “getting rid of the dog” because things “didn’t work out,” leaving many speculating that whatever happened to the pooch may have been inhumane.
(Milka Mullanda/Dog Time)
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Fox News host, Jesse Watters, is yet again facing major backlash after making an abhorrent remark on air, Newsweek reports. In a recent segment of the highly rated Fox Show, “The Five,” Watters left his co-hosts and viewers outraged after stating, “We ended up getting rid of the dog that we got.” The segment was spotlighting ways pet owners can figure out what’s bothering their furry companions,Watters didn’t clarify what he meant by “getting rid of the dog” because things “didn’t work out,” leaving many speculating that whatever happened to the pooch may have been inhumane.
(Milka Mullanda/Dog Time)
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