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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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The misleading perspective is your generalization from things that have happened to things that haven’t happened. The system as it currently exists - overzealous immigration enforcement which is often but not always enjoined - cannot ship me to El Salvador. It’s true that there’s a big danger of someone building a different system that could change that! Preventing that from happening is the key political challenge o…
Why do you think it can't ship you to El Salvador when it's shipping people who shouldn't be shipped to El Salvador to El Salvador? I can guess the reason: your name is white-sounding. The system's mostly been shipping people who seem Hispanic to El Salvador.
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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You must understand, the culture war types are so absurdly radical that BEN SHAPIRO's adult cartoon was considered "woke" because it had a gay character who was the butt of every joke, and that was not harsh enough to satisfy them . They do not want LGBTQ people to be acknowledged in any way, or be allowed to exist. They would ban the Golden Girls if they could. They WILL try.
> so absurdly radical that BEN SHAPIRO's adult cartoon was considered "woke" because it had a gay character who was the butt of every joke So I was curious and went searching, and I assume you mean the animated "Chip Chilla" series which has drawn some unflattering comparisons with Bluey. However I didn't find that particular character or critique, maybe somebody else will have better luck.
The show is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Birchum
It was produced by DailyWire+, which is a media firm founded by Ben Shapiro.
It only made 6 episodes because the market it shot for, right wing people who hate "woke" rejected it. There is plenty of market for those people consuming what is essentially ragebait and hate content.
They don't seem to want to consume actual media though. Right wing grifters have been trying to target them for a while with "alternative" content, but they don't actually want to enjoy anything. They just want to watch Ben Shapiro tell them that woke is bad, liberals are evil, and "Go woke go broke".
This is the same market that Russia Today was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to people like Tim Pool to shout at.
Ironically the reception seems to be it could be an average show if it wasn't so intent on yelling about how much it hates "woke". It's brought down by the amount of virtue signalling it does.
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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Good lord. So now there's no objective truth, yes? Just which media is trusted by whom? So the government no longer has the remit to report, and to insure reportage of objective truth? My point is that while BBC may only be trusted by 45% of the population, that doesn't matter: They are doing their best to report objectively. So is PBS and NPR. You can make whatever accusations you want about trust, or bias, but can…
There is such a thing as objective truth. Note that NPR's former head doesn't believe that [1]. Anyway, most people in Britain disagree that the BBC does its best to report it. Here's a simple reality check: how does the BBC describe right wing politicians? Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE is a former Tory MP, government minister and campaigner for Brexit. She has a degree in economics, spent 20 years in Parliament and she ju…
You can always find examples. But it's a question of frequency. I can turn on Fox and in 1 second hear a falsehood. The key is the process ... NPR, BBC, PBS always have to show their sources and are required to have verification of sources. That's how news used to work, but now it doesn't in the 24-hour infotainment cycle. The fact that these public sources must have 2 sources means 99% of what they report is accurate. And when they get it wrong, they print retractions. Until we get back to these journalistic ethics, we will have a public that believes black is white. Somebody must like that.
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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There is such a thing as objective truth. Note that NPR's former head doesn't believe that [1]. Anyway, most people in Britain disagree that the BBC does its best to report it. Here's a simple reality check: how does the BBC describe right wing politicians? Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE is a former Tory MP, government minister and campaigner for Brexit. She has a degree in economics, spent 20 years in Parliament and she ju…
You can always find examples. But it's a question of frequency. I can turn on Fox and in 1 second hear a falsehood. The key is the process ... NPR, BBC, PBS always have to show their sources and are required to have verification of sources. That's how news used to work, but now it doesn't in the 24-hour infotainment cycle. The fact that these public sources must have 2 sources means 99% of what they report is accurat…
How does showing sources equate to correctness? If you use false or biased sources then the problem still exists yes?
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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You can always find examples. But it's a question of frequency. I can turn on Fox and in 1 second hear a falsehood. The key is the process ... NPR, BBC, PBS always have to show their sources and are required to have verification of sources. That's how news used to work, but now it doesn't in the 24-hour infotainment cycle. The fact that these public sources must have 2 sources means 99% of what they report is accurat…
How does showing sources equate to correctness? If you use false or biased sources then the problem still exists yes?
Everything comes down to statistics. There are no perfect solutions. But showing multiple sources reduces the obvious errors to an error margin that ensures most people are well-informed. And they have to be real, verified sources, not facebook posts or tweets.
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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There is such a thing as objective truth. Note that NPR's former head doesn't believe that [1]. Anyway, most people in Britain disagree that the BBC does its best to report it. Here's a simple reality check: how does the BBC describe right wing politicians? Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE is a former Tory MP, government minister and campaigner for Brexit. She has a degree in economics, spent 20 years in Parliament and she ju…
You can always find examples. But it's a question of frequency. I can turn on Fox and in 1 second hear a falsehood. The key is the process ... NPR, BBC, PBS always have to show their sources and are required to have verification of sources. That's how news used to work, but now it doesn't in the 24-hour infotainment cycle. The fact that these public sources must have 2 sources means 99% of what they report is accurat…
You need to double check all your beliefs about the media before continuing this thread. There's no nice way to say this, but your posts have been a stream of totally made up "facts" that are making this discussion worse.
- You claimed Fox never reported on the stock market crash, something easily disproved with a five second web search.
- You claimed having two sources yields 99% accuracy, a made up number.
- You claimed NPR, BBC and PBS have to show their sources, although they regularly report single-sourced or anonymously sourced stories.
- You claim you can hear a falsehood within one second of turning on Fox.
You're in the habit of routinely inventing numbers whilst criticizing others for perceived failures to be accurate. Given you're talking about the importance of an informed populace that's ironic and embarrassing.
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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How does showing sources equate to correctness? If you use false or biased sources then the problem still exists yes?
Everything comes down to statistics. There are no perfect solutions. But showing multiple sources reduces the obvious errors to an error margin that ensures most people are well-informed. And they have to be real, verified sources, not facebook posts or tweets.
So if those multiple sources are all biased, like news media tends to be, then really you’re masquerading as having balanced sources that prove your point yet they’re all biased.
Right?
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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Yeah, no. I'm getting my passport today. I've started looking at what's required to get a skilled work visa. My personal line is when the admin starts imprisoning and renditioning people that don't agree with them, and we basically heard a congressional committee make approving comments about that this week. If it starts happening, well, time for me to cash out and move abroad.
The problem is that this kind of thing can follow you around if you never push back. I left Russia 20 years ago for very similar reasons. I didn't think I'd be facing the same choice in US, yet here we are. There's a difference, though. In Russia, liberals are something like 10% of the population - the groupthink is really authoritarian overall, so there was no realistic hope of fighting back in any meaningful, non-s…
If 'legitimate political tools' are no longer viable, then I'm heading to the nearest border with a bitcoin wallet memorized. From my read of history, once a democracy falls it's often down for the count, replaced by an endless string of strong men. Russia isn't going democratic when putin dies, for example
Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
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What a poor example. As a German, we are forced to pay much more than that, about 220 euro annually. Only a small percentage actually goes into news and such, most are entertainment programs. I don't know anyone who is younger/my age that is in favor of it or consumes it. It is basically the boomers forcing us to subsidize their shitty crime shows. Annually they collect about 9 billion euro, no surprise the author of…
Reality skews heavily left. Should the news be about reality or ideology?
Reality is indifferent to our political views.