I found this highly entertaining – is there a central script writing service for local TV stations that functions like the UPI or the AP? There is a reason why I gather my news on the web and not from talking heads.
Hat tip to the people populating the No Agenda group on Google +
Gareth Fairclough says
February 24, 2013 at 9:09 AMBack on the rise? Are we sure that they’re sure?
Good find Rod!
Engineer-Poet says
February 24, 2013 at 9:17 AMIt’s Pravda, what do you expect?
Engineer-Poet says
February 24, 2013 at 9:18 AMAargh, I thought the first one failed to post.
Daniel says
February 24, 2013 at 10:56 AM@ Engineer-Poet,
A bit of history about Pravda. During the ‘steel curtain’ era, the political cartoonists enjoyed freedom of speech to the same degree as newspapers in the western world.
A seldom known fact.
Atomikrabbit says
February 24, 2013 at 11:15 AMIs there any doubt why some call it “the Lamestream Media”?
Ever notice that the biggest advertisers on the dinosaur broadcast network’s nightly news shows are drug companies, especially those catering to the middle-aged or elderly?
The current trend with younger people is to get their news and information off the Internet. Depending on their critical thinking abilities, whether this will reveal or obscure the facts remains to be seen.
The nuclear PR organizations, such as they are, should be monitoring the content of reader-edited sites such as Wikipedia, which is considered by many to be authoritative. As I explore nuclear topics there it never ceases to amaze me how much FUD has been gratuitously inserted by self-appointed antinuclear editors. They are already insidiously shaping the minds of the next generation.
James Greenidge says
February 27, 2013 at 9:06 AMRe: ” As I explore nuclear topics there it never ceases to amaze me how much FUD has been gratuitously inserted by self-appointed antinuclear editors.”
If you try to insert nuclear advocacy facts and comments and corrections on Wiki, they seem to disappear after a couple of days, no matter which nuclear feature page. Outside YouTube there seems no mass-info alternative to get the nuclear truth out. 🙁
James Greenidge
Queens NY
G.R.L. Cowan says
February 24, 2013 at 12:39 PMThat lady at the end totally went her own way: she left out the word “back”.
Rod Adams says
February 24, 2013 at 12:50 PMThat is what is called a “bad read”, not independent thinking.
John Tucker says
February 24, 2013 at 6:01 PMGood Lord.
Thats really more scary than funny. If you haven’t taken the time and watched Big Sky Big Money ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/big-sky-big-money/ ) You probably should.
The infrastructure can easily and reasonably be extended to other issues. Obviously. Then the echo chamber itself picks up where “central scripts” leaves off.
Don Cox says
February 26, 2013 at 2:05 PMSome interesting research on problems of wind power:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/02/25/rethinking.wind.power
Engineer-Poet says
February 26, 2013 at 8:42 PMInteresting article, but the question that needs answering is “is it true?” (really, “how much closer to truth is it than the current models?”).