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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Fact, I post what is being reported in the news. I post facts.
FACT, this is your first mistake, thinking that "the news" "reports" "facts".
FACT, what "the news" publishes isn't "news" and aren't "facts". It's not even opinion. It's a consensus narrative. If you start treating "the news" as "a story you're being told" (instead of as "reported" "facts") the less often you'll be led astray by whoppers like "Trump/ Flynn/ Manafort Russia collusion" and "Ukraine is winning" where you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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"An Open-Minded Spirit No Longer Exists Within NPR" - NPR Veteran Excoriates Outlet Over Hunter, Russiagate Activism or ...
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
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Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.
It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.
What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.
Russiagate was not NPR’s only miscue.
In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye. Here’s how NPR’s managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.
Politics also intruded into NPR’s Covid coverage, most notably in reporting on the origin of the pandemic. One of the most dismal aspects of Covid journalism is how quickly it defaulted to ideological story lines. For example, there was Team Natural Origin—supporting the hypothesis that the virus came from a wild animal market in Wuhan, China. And on the other side, Team Lab Leak, leaning into the idea that the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab.
The lab leak theory came in for rough treatment almost immediately, dismissNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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THUGR:
Fact, I post what is being reported in the news. I post facts.
FACT, this is your first mistake, thinking that "the news" "reports" "facts".
FACT, what "the news" publishes isn't "news" and aren't "facts". It's not even opinion. It's a consensus narrative. If you start treating "the news" as "a story you're being told" (instead of as "reported" "facts") the less often you'll be led astray by whoppers like "Trump/ Flynn/ Manafort Russia collusion" and "Ukraine is winning" where you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Why don't you post the TYT video about the 7 dumbest Biden* comments?
SPOILER ALERT: TYT hates your guy too.
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Indiana will get $9 billion from the infrastructure bill — here's how it'll be used
INDIANAPOLIS — President Joe Biden just signed the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law. It will direct billions of dollars towards new construction on roads, bridges and airports, along with things like expanding broadband internet.
Here's how the money will be put to work in Indiana:
From the concrete highways we drive on to the information highways we surf on, the surge in federal funding will touch nearly every part of our lives.
Indiana's getting nearly $8 billion of the massive federal investment.
"It's one of the largest investments on the federal infrastructure side that we've seen in our country's history," said Brian Gould, executive director of the Build Indiana Council, which advocates for long-term transportation funding for Indiana.
Here's where the money from the infrastructure bill will go in the state:
$6.6 billion for roads
$401 million for bridge repairs
$751 million for water system upgrades
$100 million for electric vehicle charging stations
Ports and airports are getting cash, too.
"$170 million dollars for airport development ranging from Kokomo and Peru and Huntington to Indianapolis International, there's going to be some airport money. So yeah, it really is going to touch every aspect of our lives," said Brian Howey of Howey Politics Indiana.
RELATED: Indiana joins five-state pact to build electric vehicle charging network in Midwest
More Hoosiers will get access to high-speed internet because of the investment, as well. That's something Gov. Eric Holcomb has been pushing for. Now, there's federal funding to make it happen.
"There's going to be $100 million designated to not only expand high-speed internet, but make sure it's high speed enough so you can use streaming service and that kind of thing," Howey said.
RELATED: What the $65B broadband service plan in the infrastructure bill will do
On our interstates and roads, we'll see perhaps the biggest physical impact. You can expect more cone zones, with eventual safer travel.
INDOT plans and funds projects on a seven-year timeline. While the agency didn't share specifics, they say the additional money will speed up projects already in their timeline and perhaps add some projects that normally would fall just outside that window.
Between fixing bridges and expanding highways, the construction industry is expecting a big boost, too.
"Lots of jobs. We're still looking at which projects may or may not be selected, but something of this scale, I think you're talking thousands of jobs," Gould said.
Gould also pointed out that about 25% of this funding will go to local road projects. All of the investment is expected to happen over the next five years.
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/how-biden-administrati
on-infrastructure-bill-will-impact-indiana-roads-airports-bridges-internet/531-aee679d5-ef74-48be-8185-7b3c4c0a61c4
Go Joe...
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Oh that infrastructure bill that added 20% to the price of everything you buy.
Yeah. Great. Thanks Joe.
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If you see someone posting percentages without sites which often happens in these threads, you know they are pulling them out of their ass. Especially if they are attributing them to something they have no evidence to offer showing they, and the quoted percentage are correct.
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Oh that infrastructure bill that added 20% to the price of everything you buy.
Yeah. Great. Thanks Joe.
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If you see someone posting percentages without sites which often happens in these threads, you know they are pulling them out of their ass. Especially if they are attributing them to something they have no evidence to offer showing they, and the quoted percentage are correct.
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Food prices jumped 25% since 2020. A financial educator in Illinois has these tips for cutting costs
https://ipmnewsroom.org/food-prices-jumped-25-since-2020-a-financial-e
ducator-in-illinois-has-these-tips-for-cutting-costs/
Californians face higher costs for goods and services than before the pandemic despite inflation slowing
https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/03/california-inflation/
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Pandemic-era inflation has fallen from its peak two years ago, but the costs of many goods and services continue to rise and are still higher than before the onset of COVID-19, a couple of closely watched economic indicators show.
Prices have grown about 20% overall since 2020, according to an analysis by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office based on the most recent consumer price index data. Over the past couple of months, prices in California appear to have risen slightly more than the country as a whole, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From California and Illinois. Unlike you, I don't post the facts from partisan shill agencies and I go OUT OF MY WAY to find biased news sources from your side caught in the act of lying. Usually by omission.
Go check my post history. When do I post anything from Fox News or Newsmax or the like? That's what you do every time you post something from MSNBC or the Lincoln Project. That's exactly why I go out of my way to avoid any links from Fox News or the like unless I find something just extremely amusing about the article, and usually at their expense.
I HATE FOX NEWS. I HATE WLS.
But they're nothing but the flip-side of that coin that you're always polishing up and reposting here.
As for who's responsible for Bidenflation?
STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU BELIEVE THAT RUSSIA DID IT.
You are easily manipulated like a puppet on a string because your memory is a sieve and you are a very, very stupid person.
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