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Originally Posted by Bajingo (Post 1587182)

Iirc CNN took a pot shot at you guys after the Trump interview. But I can't find it now.

Yeah, they were jealous. And slightly pissed off.

Who'd have thought that if you devote a large percentage of your air-time to defaming a specific person, that person might not grant you exclusive, long-form interviews?

Gotta be honest, we were all shitting bricks in master control the whole time that interview was coming down the line. We had two different dishes pointing at the bird, each with two separate receivers feeding two recorders. We had our sister station in Indianapolis downlink it as well, just in case. (There's a 1gb/s dedicated pipe between us, so they can stream us material in faster-than-realtime.)

It was odd, since we do this kind of thing every day for sports, but that one had a lot of eyes on it.

And, yes, the bias-check team actually sat in Post Two for the entire edit, looking over Terry's shoulder.

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1587181)

How might that happen, apart from them deciding to do actual journalism?

I forgot to answer this. Same thing they did to Trump, pot shots at every opportunity.

Well, I happen to be - ahem - a TV personality.

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Originally Posted by Godless Commie (Post 1587197)

Well, I happen to be - ahem - a TV personality.

:bowrofl:

You, my good friend, are a personality indeed.

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Originally Posted by Bajingo (Post 1587104)

Wonder where taxation is theft fits on that chart.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...252a949c7c.jpg

Fox news ratings is why you don't piss off your viewer base to appease Mickey Mickey

Is it odd i personally know one of the most week respected tv personalities in this country? And his wife.

Reading her Wikipedia page is wonderful. I like her.

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1587175)

In my own specific experience, yes, very much so.

... in certain contexts.

Thanks, Joe.

It's heartening there's still some integrity in the industry, but it's obviously an uphill battle. And we are a long way down the slippery slope....

Technically, taxes are extortion.

There's no technicality about it, they are extortion/armed robbery.

Journalism, 2020 edition.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...ump-gop-440385

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GOP finds silver lining in Trump’s landslide California loss

The president got steamrolled statewide, but 2020 was the best year for California Republicans in more than a decade.

Imagine what the results would be like if they only counted real votes....

% wise, he did better this year than 2016.*

*impossible to know the real totals

That time you thought the agenda was more important than providing the content your viewer-base expects:

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Neil Cavuto drew 2.192 million viewers in August. By November he was attracting only 1.3 million.
The Five also suffered a big loss, going from 3.772 million in August to 2.883 million in November–minus 889,000 viewers.
Bret Baier suffered a significant decline of 1,139,000 –3.256 million in August to 2.117 million in November.
Martha MacCallum fared worse—she shed 50% of her audience, collapsing from 3.201 million to 1.613 million.
Tucker Carlson also has taken a big hit–dropping from 5.719 million in August to 3.444 million in November. That is a drop of 2.275 million.
Sean Hannity’s shining star is flaming out. His viewership plummeted from 6.838 million to 2.839 million. That means almost 4 million people fled his show.
And Laura Ingraham bled out–she dropped from 4.82 million to 2.114. She lost 2.706 viewers.

These are consequential numbers. Fox has committed media suicide.

^^^ That wheel diagram is worth publishing.

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Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1587520)

(A reasonable analysis of why some people are compelled to believe in, and proselytize, conspiracy theories.)

That's a reasonable analysis. It is very much complimentary of what I wrote back in post 20108:

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1586788)

A common trait among conspiracy theorists is their need to derogate critics. Criticism must be devalued because it threatens the comfort provided by the conspiracy. This is done in one of two ways. Either the critic is too dumb to see the intricacies of the conspiracy, and is thus contributing to it by ignoring it; or they're actively helping the conspirators to cover up the truth. The unconsidered third option: that the critic is just not convinced by the evidence, is undesirable because it would create a reason to doubt the comforting belief.

The two ways of derogating critics have distinct, self-serving functions. In believing that some critics are too dumb to see their special knowledge, theorists establish their superiority. In believing that other critics are part of the conspiracy, theorists are manufacturing evidence to support their special knowledge.

I'm assuming that's not what you meant when you posted it. My assumption is that you view that piece of proof the media are trying to cast doubt on the validity of conspiracy theories, and discredit the theorists, and find it intuitively obvious that everyone else should see it the same way, or else they're part of the conspiracy to discredit the conspiracy theorists. I like that notion. I mean, it's kinda fun. Conspiracies can be nested fractally.

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Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1587520)

peak journalism, 2020:

https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...b5&oe=5FE9FAD7

Now what Gazette?!

https://media.thedonald.win/post/EDpCoh4f.jpeg

Literally impossible!

https://www.azfamily.com/news/invest...d93d15629.html

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Arizona investigating up to 2 million fraudulent unemployment claims

SUSAN CAMPBELL
POSTED OCT 8, 2020

Arizona may have been hit with as many as 2 million fraudulent unemployment claims, 3 On Your Side has learned. The new number dwarfs previous estimates, as scammers continue to target taxpayer dollars in unemployment systems across the country.

DES believes scammers are using random in-state addresses in an effort to circumvent common fraud indicators, which include out-of-state addresses.
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