thwarts to intellectual freedom everywhere

[frugal-one]

Al Gore certainly didn't anticipate the directions it has taken.

I don't listen to news podcasts and I'm sure there are good ones, but feel like I can get along fine with mainstream news. Some things are worth digging into a little and there's not a perfect news source. Or at least one that agrees with all of my opinions. Some news is worth ignoring. I do occasionally catch BBC world news in the evening and have streamed al jazeera in the past. It's interesting to get a point of view from an outside source.

I do the same. It is interesting to check out BBC ... a look at how the world views us and sometimes hearing about things here that are not televised.

[Alan]

I don't listen to tv that has hosts giving their opinions either. Who cares? Make your own decision.

I thought you were a big Maddow fan?

[bae]

I do the same. It is interesting to check out BBC ... a look at how the world views us and sometimes hearing about things here that are not televised.

For real fun, check out Pravda:

https://english.pravda.ru/

[frugal-one]

I thought you were a big Maddow fan?

Interesting facts....

Maddow has explained that she is in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

In January 2008, she became a political analyst.

Maddow has stated that her show's mission is to increase the amount of useful information in the world. She often begins a broadcast with a lengthy and in-depth monologue that sometimes lasts up to 24 minutes. She researches history and shows how it has shaped today's world. If this is considered opinion, then I am guilty as charged.

Among Rachel's several books, her New York Times Bestseller, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, was published in 2012. It's about the role of the military in postwar America.

[jp1]

JP, the logical extension of your argument is that we deny all sources of information to those who cannot process that information adequately. And by “adequately” I mean a way that meets with your approval. That probably means coming up with conclusions you agree with.

Perhaps you do in fact think that all information should be run through the Ministry of Truth?

And perhaps you think everyone is entitled to their own truth. The logical (and actual) result of that is 300 people running for office who think (or at least state publicly) that they think the seditionist head of the Republican Party actually won the last election.

[frugal-one]

For real fun, check out Pravda:

https://english.pravda.ru/

"fun"... that is heavy stuff!

[iris lilies]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-c2eUltH58

I enjoyed Bill Mahr’s piece about cancel culture “Explaining Jokes to Idiots.” In it he offers a sobering comment about how George Carlin stopped performing at mainstream venues and for homogenized audiences so that he could truly be himself and offer real truths to his audiences.

You know where Carlin went to do this comedy? college Campuses. And now they are the center of wokeness, the least tolerant of audiences.

edited to add: Mahr said. “ Kids once went to college to lose their virginity. Now they go there to lose their sense of humor.”

to anyone who thinks cancel culture is not real, you are not paying attention. The canaries in the coal mine are professional comedians who have their gigs canceled, their material constrained, their livelihood affected. As Mahr said we should require a moment of silence in our society for the loss of insightful jokes because the number of off-limit subjects deemed offensive is growing exponentially.

[iris lilies]

Interesting facts....

Maddow has explained that she is in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

In January 2008, she became a political analyst.

Maddow has stated that her show's mission is to increase the amount of useful information in the world. She often begins a broadcast with a lengthy and in-depth monologue that sometimes lasts up to 24 minutes. She researches history and shows how it has shaped today's world. If this is considered opinion, then I am guilty as charged.

Among Rachel's several books, her New York Times Bestseller, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, was published in 2012. It's about the role of the military in postwar America.

Of course it is opinion work Maddow offers.

Also, she is not a trained journalist. Her degrees are not in journalism. But if someone wants to put her on the air as a journalist, and people want to watch her and consider a journalist, so be it.

I could offer many NYT bestseller titles by Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, and etc etc.

So what? What does NYT bestseller status convey about being correct?

[Alan]

What does NYT bestseller status covey about being correct?

Nothing.

[frugal-one]

Of course it is opinion work Maddow offers.

Also, she is not a trained journalist. Pedigrees are not in journalism. But if someone wants to put on the air as a journalist, and people want to watch her and consider a journalist, so be it.

I could offer many NYT bestseller titles by Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, and etc etc.

So what? What does NYT bestseller status convey about being correct?

I have not and will not read her book. I mostly listen to the info she has researched and backs up...