midcan5
10-28-2017, 06:17 AM
"Reading, and reading widely, is for me the great means of expanding my being. It is in reading that I have learned all I know about thinking." Alan Jacobs
When everything is a lie or fake, where does the sane person turn. There are actually several media sources worth your time today. On TV, 'Deadline: White House', with Nicole Wallace and 'the Beat' with Ari Melber are both worth a listen or a DVR. In print, The New York Times and Washington Post still make sense, I especially like Kathleen Parker of Washpo, and Bret Stephens of the NYT. Jonathan Swan of Axios is often on target, in two words he defined Trump's appeal as 'emotional sustenance'. Of course Trump only cares about Trump. See my thread the 'Emasculated American' too.
And while there are many excellent media sources one has to ask so what? Democrats, liberals and progressives appear unable to understand the power of social memes. As noted in my thread 'Dog Whistle Politics' the right knows how to spread the word. There are several links below for the educated reader. Information is power an helps you think too.
On the web:
https://www.vox.com
http://theweek.com/
https://www.propublica.org and https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/task-force
https://www.commondreams.org
https://www.brookings.edu
https://qz.com
Also of broader interest: https://aeon.co
Conservative sites such as Breitbart, The Federalist, Drudge Report, Townhall, the American Thinker, and Newsmax among others are 'dark money' funded ideology for their followers. Their goal while not always dishonest is often slanted when it isn't total BS as defined by Harry Frankfurt. Anyone every check Breitbart comments? So much whining, so many comments, you seriously have to wonder at the number and the repeated finger pointing. Is it for real or is it feeding some beast? One conservative site that often gets it right is 'the American Conservative'. http://www.theamericanconservative.com
"What if the right-wing media wins? Conservative critics of the press want more than just a louder voice. They want The New York Times and The Washington Post to go away." https://www.cjr.org/special_report/right-wing-media-breitbart-fox-bannon-carlson-hannity-coulter-trump.php
Fox isn't news, I wish there were a better word for whatever it is they think they are doing. They are still bamboozling their fan base with Hillary's emails and Uranium, and from this old news covered and covered and covered they come to grand conspiratorial conclusions, I love the strained faces they make when reporting, almost like they have gas. Constipation has a news face, Fox. They and Trump are the 'emotional sustenance' for the aggrieved who haven't figured out yet they are being played by 'dark money'.
For checks on fake news and even political positions see these sites.
https://www.snopes.com
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/
https://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
OP Examples:
Bret: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/the-happy-hooker-conservatives.html
Jonathan: https://www.axios.com/million-dollar-tax-bracket-trump-2501439805.html
Kathleen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-saying-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name-is-so-important/2017/10/24/52fafda8-b8f6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
"(A) nation in which 87 percent of eighteen - to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely “intellectually sluggish.” It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything …” Morris Berman or
A few books, you know books, those paper things for the reader willing to challenge themselves. Wanna understand America today, read them.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2751831-invisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724304-the-making-of-donald-trump
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state." Adolf Hitler
"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms." Philip K. Dick
When everything is a lie or fake, where does the sane person turn. There are actually several media sources worth your time today. On TV, 'Deadline: White House', with Nicole Wallace and 'the Beat' with Ari Melber are both worth a listen or a DVR. In print, The New York Times and Washington Post still make sense, I especially like Kathleen Parker of Washpo, and Bret Stephens of the NYT. Jonathan Swan of Axios is often on target, in two words he defined Trump's appeal as 'emotional sustenance'. Of course Trump only cares about Trump. See my thread the 'Emasculated American' too.
And while there are many excellent media sources one has to ask so what? Democrats, liberals and progressives appear unable to understand the power of social memes. As noted in my thread 'Dog Whistle Politics' the right knows how to spread the word. There are several links below for the educated reader. Information is power an helps you think too.
On the web:
https://www.vox.com
http://theweek.com/
https://www.propublica.org and https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/task-force
https://www.commondreams.org
https://www.brookings.edu
https://qz.com
Also of broader interest: https://aeon.co
Conservative sites such as Breitbart, The Federalist, Drudge Report, Townhall, the American Thinker, and Newsmax among others are 'dark money' funded ideology for their followers. Their goal while not always dishonest is often slanted when it isn't total BS as defined by Harry Frankfurt. Anyone every check Breitbart comments? So much whining, so many comments, you seriously have to wonder at the number and the repeated finger pointing. Is it for real or is it feeding some beast? One conservative site that often gets it right is 'the American Conservative'. http://www.theamericanconservative.com
"What if the right-wing media wins? Conservative critics of the press want more than just a louder voice. They want The New York Times and The Washington Post to go away." https://www.cjr.org/special_report/right-wing-media-breitbart-fox-bannon-carlson-hannity-coulter-trump.php
Fox isn't news, I wish there were a better word for whatever it is they think they are doing. They are still bamboozling their fan base with Hillary's emails and Uranium, and from this old news covered and covered and covered they come to grand conspiratorial conclusions, I love the strained faces they make when reporting, almost like they have gas. Constipation has a news face, Fox. They and Trump are the 'emotional sustenance' for the aggrieved who haven't figured out yet they are being played by 'dark money'.
For checks on fake news and even political positions see these sites.
https://www.snopes.com
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/
https://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
OP Examples:
Bret: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/the-happy-hooker-conservatives.html
Jonathan: https://www.axios.com/million-dollar-tax-bracket-trump-2501439805.html
Kathleen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-saying-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name-is-so-important/2017/10/24/52fafda8-b8f6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
"(A) nation in which 87 percent of eighteen - to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely “intellectually sluggish.” It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything …” Morris Berman or
A few books, you know books, those paper things for the reader willing to challenge themselves. Wanna understand America today, read them.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2751831-invisible-hands
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724304-the-making-of-donald-trump
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
"Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state." Adolf Hitler
"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms." Philip K. Dick