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11-26-2020, 05:17 PM
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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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11-26-2020, 05:21 PM
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11-27-2020, 10:34 AM
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11-28-2020, 08:29 AM
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Journalism, 2020 edition.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...ump-gop-440385
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
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...ump-gop-440385
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
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11-30-2020, 10:33 AM
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That time you thought the agenda was more important than providing the content your viewer-base expects:
- 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.
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11-30-2020, 04:31 PM
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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.
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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12-01-2020, 11:06 AM
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Literally impossible!
https://www.azfamily.com/news/invest...d93d15629.html
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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https://www.azfamily.com/news/invest...d93d15629.html
Arizona investigating up to 2 million fraudulent unemployment claims
- SUSAN CAMPBELL
- POSTED OCT 8, 2020
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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