85 car motorcade

[Champakian]

Jets and planes in the air.

On the way to argue against carbon fuels...



Is Joe so old and out of touch that he cannot use videoconferencing?

Or has he just reached that station in life where rules for thee don't apply to me?

There sure are a lot of other well-know climate activists that fall into that category...



We're all Alec Baldwin now.

 

[JohnnySavage]

When he was in Europe earlier this year, he took Air Force 1 for a 200 mile trip.

Like I said, those waging their finger at me, should have a carbon footprint as small as mine.

Analogous to my policy of never donating to a charity that has staff making more than I do.

 

[bellisarius]

How The Money & Power Grab Of Global Warming (& Other Crises) Works.

 

[Champakian]

Briggs again.

 

[Champakian]

Pull quote:

Again, as with Experts and bureaucrats, the media, anxious as ever to serve their masters, enters the fray.

Many leading journalists, or owners of media firms, are cynics. They’re happy to preach whatever the official line is, with seeming sincerity, even if that line inverts itself. Whatever, they say. I’m just reporting.

Reporters aren’t terribly bright, but they do look to their leaders, like any group, and because of their limited mental capacity, they become true believers faster. They can never remember what they say from one crisis to the next, which is why we have so much fun looking at their old statements, contrasting them with new ones. This Reality exposure doesn’t faze them in the least. They keep looking up.

Meanwhile, the oligarchs and elite Experts begin gleaning the wheat. It’s damn lucrative. There are trillions involved in the climate crisis (far outshining the coroandoom).

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Crowds gathered along the sidewalks shouting “Let’s go Brandon” as the motorcade passed.

 

[Champakian]

 

[oggbashan]

"Reporters aren’t terribly bright,"

What a condescending generalisation. The journalists I know all have substantial university degrees and the ability to get behind the press release to the real story.

 

[Champakian]

We've discussed degree inflation for many years now.

I would submit that after the education campus
comes the journalism campus when it comes to intelligence (lack of).


When asked why they wanted to get into journalism, the average grad does not say,
"to report the facts," but rather to "make a difference," i.e., to become moral busybodies...

 

[bellisarius]

"Reporters aren’t terribly bright,"

What a condescending generalisation. The journalists I know all have substantial university degrees and the ability to get behind the press release to the real story.

You don't live in the USofA. One of the reasons that I watch BBC from time to time.

However, your reporters fall victim to the same tendency. Carrying the politicians water guarantees them access and access equals news.

 

[oggbashan]

There are three full-time reporters on our local newspaper. Their degrees? PPE from Cambridge; Engineering from Imperial; and Chemistry from Imperial, and all have post-graduate journalism qualifications as well.

How do I know? One of my daughters was also a reporter for them until the owning company decided that all employees should be full-time, which she couldn't be because of child care. She had the lowest qualification at first - a full-time degree course in Journalism but then she added an MA.

I would not describe any of them as 'not terribly bright' or led by the nose by politicians. Yes, our local politicians want favourable news reporting and all the local journalists are in touch with most of them weekly, but the reporting is unbiased and sometimes challenging.

PS. All four used to curse the sub-editors who could wreck a finely crafted story in the interest of space.

 

[Champakian]

Fallacy: The exception proves the rule.


:shrug:

 

[oggbashan]

Fallacy: The exception proves the rule.


:shrug:

They are NOt untypical of UK reporters. Maybe the US has different standards?

PS. My local paper has a full-time solicitor to defend against accusations of libel, most of which come to nothing because:

1. the report is true, and

2. the knowledge that the paper (and the reporter's union-backed defence lawyer) will fight the case,

means that the case doesn't proceed, and if it does, the complaint loses because of 1.

They also have to have security staff because local criminals can object to their latest conviction(s) being reported in the paper.

 

[Champakian]

We have no standards other than,
you must hate Conservatives and traditional America.

Reporters are advocates for Big Government and against the individual.
The bigger the government, the more power the press has as its advocate.

Here's the tell: we have an industry where former Democrat officials are hired by the Fourth Estate...

 

[Champakian]

Corollary: on the local level, you might be a damned good reporter,
but that is precisely what bars you from being in the Big Leagues.

The people who hire and fire in the establishment press are
dedicated to campaigning solely for Democrats.

 

[bellisarius]

There are three full-time reporters on our local newspaper. Their degrees? PPE from Cambridge; Engineering from Imperial; and Chemistry from Imperial, and all have post-graduate journalism qualifications as well.

How do I know? One of my daughters was also a reporter for them until the owning company decided that all employees should be full-time, which she couldn't be because of child care. She had the lowest qualification at first - a full-time degree course in Journalism but then she added an MA.

I would not describe any of them as 'not terribly bright' or led by the nose by politicians. Yes, our local politicians want favourable news reporting and all the local journalists are in touch with most of them weekly, but the reporting is unbiased and sometimes challenging.

PS. All four used to curse the sub-editors who could wreck a finely crafted story in the interest of space.

The key word there is "local" ogg. We have some damn fine reporters locally as well. Reporters with a healthy dose of skepticism. Go to our National scene and the landscape changes, drastically. You become quickly aware that they aren't reporters, they're advocates.

 

[Champakian]

PS - This is why the Left hates, just hates, FOX News with a white-hot passion.

It broke up their monolithic, oligarchical and unquestioned control of information.

 

[oggbashan]

I am sorry that US reporting is seen so badly,

At the National level in the UK, there are papers with a bias that is well known. But if you compare reports of the same event across all of them from the populist to the serious, there is usually very little difference in the 'facts'.

Editorial comment on the event will vary and reflect the paper's bias but even in the most lurid, the distinction between the report and the comment is very clear.

 

[Champakian]

Our (political) news reporting has morphed into editorializing...

 

[zipman]

We've discussed degree inflation for many years now.

I would submit that after the education campus
comes the journalism campus when it comes to intelligence (lack of).


When asked why they wanted to get into journalism, the average grad does not say,
"to report the facts," but rather to "make a difference," i.e., to become moral busybodies...

Typical right wing thinking.

You guys bash education to keep your idiot voters stupid.

You bash journalists do you can push back on news that you don't like and call it fake.

It's obvious and no one is buying it except for the inescapable voters who deny reality and support your failed ideas.

 

[Champakian]

Hey, stupid, we push back all the time.

It's called the internet.

You are a small, petty excuse of a man...



... at best.

 

[zipman]

Hey, stupid, we push back all the time.

It's called the internet.

You are a small, petty excuse of a man...



... at best.

Lol, you push back.

That's hysterical. You only push back against facts that go against your"beliefs."

You have no morals, and no integrity.

 

[bellisarius]

I am sorry that US reporting is seen so badly,

At the National level in the UK, there are papers with a bias that is well known. But if you compare reports of the same event across all of them from the populist to the serious, there is usually very little difference in the 'facts'.

Editorial comment on the event will vary and reflect the paper's bias but even in the most lurid, the distinction between the report and the comment is very clear.

Over here the issue is that 3 major corp. own something like 80%+ of the newspaper outlets. And they are all of the same mind. Even the "news" is reported in an editorialized manner. The same goes for the major broadcast networks.

I can read almost any story or watch almost any broadcast and pick it apart, fact vs opinion/editorial and most of them will be 20% fact and the rest of the information is telling the reader/viewer what to think.

 

[Champakian]

I left bitter off the list.

We're all sorry that life did not treat you as you dreamed it would...

 

[zipman]

I left bitter off the list.

We're all sorry that life did not treat you as you dreamed it would...

Lol, as always, you resort to personal attacks when you can't refute an argument.