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Who, What is Zero Hedge
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Saturday, June 16, 2018 2:28 PM
By the way T, GOOD CALL!
I will file this away in the "Wish I had thought about this" Dept.
SGG
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matter,” Zero Hedge says.
The site claims it has never accepted a dime of funding outside of advertising revenue and that Lokey was never pressured about how to frame his articles or editorialized.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zero-hedge-unmasked-theres-more-1427301
65.html
According to the Bloomberg article, three men have been churning out all of the content at Zero Hedge, using the joint pseudonym “Tyler Durden” from the Brad Pitt film “Fight Club.” The 1999 cult film, according to Rolling Stone, is “about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage.” That ethos is frequently on display at Zero Hedge.
The three “Tyler Durdens” outed by Bloomberg reporters are Colin Lokey, who has now left Zero Hedge in a fit of pique and is responsible for handing over the internal chat sessions from Zero Hedge on traffic-building strategies and other matters. Bloomberg says “the other two men are Daniel Ivandjiiski, 37, the Bulgarian-born former analyst long reputed to be behind the site, and Tim Backshall, 45, a well-known credit derivatives strategist.”
The article notes that “Ivandjiiski has a multimillion-dollar mansion in Mahwah, N.J., and Backshall lives in a plush San Francisco suburb,” suggesting these are “not exactly reflections” of the anti-capitalism reflected in the moniker “Tyler Durden.”
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Monday, July 2, 2018 1:37 AM
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I once responded to Sig in another thread, and as I read the article she
presented from ZH, I found that the article was verbatim one that I had read elsewhere. With one small difference, it had been butchered beyond recognition.
It took me but a minute to see it was a total sham; cherry-picking at it's worst.
It was astonishing. Of course, I chuckled to myself and then it became clear.
SGGQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:No, The PRIMARY source of information is where ZH gets ITS information. If you look at the ZH links you will see that they link to the WSJ, the Straits Times, Al Jazeera, al Masdar, Reuters, the BBC, CNN, RT, Haaretz (Israel), Xinhua (China), the Guardian .... many, many more newspapers than I could scan in 24 hours. That's the beauty of news aggregators! I don't HAVE to scan all the worlds' media all of the time! ZH does it for me! But, I don't have to believe everything I read, either, and I can compare their selection to a few standard websites or broadcasts, which (btw) I do.
THUGR, do you really think that I care about "who" ZH is? As I have posted many times in the past, you have to be careful of ZH: they tend to have an apocalyptic bent to their articles ... it's either the end of the dollar, or the end of the free market as we know it, or the end of SOMETHING! - SIGNY
You think incorrectly, as many do, that you are arguing with me here on this site. These posts are all over Google. All anyone has to do is search firefly in any form and there you are SIGNYM. Always arguing with myself and others. Always looking stupid. Those who stumble upon these posts, perhaps even sharing them with others, are our judges.
Here you just admitted that a source of yours, a primary source of the information you post here, is as you described above. - THUGR
Since you're too lazy, too stupid, or too propagandized to that kind of analysis yourself, you just give your judgment over to somebody else, and let them do your thinking for you.
You gotta love this shit. Are you really this thick SIG? Let's take it from the top shall we.
Zero Hedge is an English-language financial blog that aggregates news and presents editorial opinions from original and outside sources. The news portion of the site is written by a group of editors who collectively write under the pseudonym Tyler Durden (a character from the novel and film Fight Club)
Aggregate: a material or structure formed from a loosely compacted mass of fragments or particles.
Blog: a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group that is written in an informal or conversational style. In this case SIG the blog is structured to favor Russia in order to spread Russian propaganda and havoc. As I've shown earlier in this thread, this was collaborated by one of it's creators. It can in no way to be considered factual, or be relied upon to convey accurate information, yet it is your number one source here in this threads.
T
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:04 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matter,” Zero Hedge says.
The site claims it has never accepted a dime of funding outside of advertising revenue and that Lokey was never pressured about how to frame his articles or editorialized.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zero-hedge-unmasked-theres-more-1427301
65.html
According to the Bloomberg article, three men have been churning out all of the content at Zero Hedge, using the joint pseudonym “Tyler Durden” from the Brad Pitt film “Fight Club.” The 1999 cult film, according to Rolling Stone, is “about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage.” That ethos is frequently on display at Zero Hedge.
The three “Tyler Durdens” outed by Bloomberg reporters are Colin Lokey, who has now left Zero Hedge in a fit of pique and is responsible for handing over the internal chat sessions from Zero Hedge on traffic-building strategies and other matters. Bloomberg says “the other two men are Daniel Ivandjiiski, 37, the Bulgarian-born former analyst long reputed to be behind the site, and Tim Backshall, 45, a well-known credit derivatives strategist.”
The article notes that “Ivandjiiski has a multimillion-dollar mansion in Mahwah, N.J., and Backshall lives in a plush San Francisco suburb,” suggesting these are “not exactly reflections” of the anti-capitalism reflected in the moniker “Tyler Durden.”
T
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:11 PM
Hey T,
I remember having a similar conversation, about this very topic - Zero Hedge -
with Sigs before (it was on a specific topic, which I don't recall at the time), but I was challenged to actually read the article Sigs posted. So I did
just that, read the article.
I found it a litlle odd, so I did a little digging and found that the article
was cut and pasted (which is fine, if you alert your readers to the tactic and
attribute it). Not only was it not attributed, but it was pasted out of context regarding the topic. I even pointed this out to our friend.
All those times that I ignored reading Zero Hedge, and then I found out why.
There was also a report, because Sigs was accusing me of not reading what she
had posted, so I did. The report was a total waste of time because it was so much gobble-dee-gook, that I felt my brains were being purposefully scrambled.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I can read, and it made no sense. It was then that I became aware of the total drivel that Zero Hedge is.
SGG
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matter,” Zero Hedge says.
The site claims it has never accepted a dime of funding outside of advertising revenue and that Lokey was never pressured about how to frame his articles or editorialized.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zero-hedge-unmasked-theres-more-1427301
65.html
According to the Bloomberg article, three men have been churning out all of the content at Zero Hedge, using the joint pseudonym “Tyler Durden” from the Brad Pitt film “Fight Club.” The 1999 cult film, according to Rolling Stone, is “about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage.” That ethos is frequently on display at Zero Hedge.
The three “Tyler Durdens” outed by Bloomberg reporters are Colin Lokey, who has now left Zero Hedge in a fit of pique and is r
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 6:59 PM
Quote:I don't recall any such thing, so ... LINKS PLEASE. You posted it, so it should be available, so put up or shut up
I found it a litlle odd, so I did a little digging and found that the article
was cut and pasted (which is fine, if you alert your readers to the tactic and
attribute it). Not only was it not attributed, but it was pasted out of context regarding the topic. I even pointed this out to our friend.
ZH gets its news FAST. And when it quotes other articles - which is nearly all the time because its a NEWS AGGREGATOR (as THUGR has so kindly pointed out)- it posts links to the original. ALWAYS. I have never seen them take a quote without attribution.
It's sources are The Hill and Breitbart ... and HuffPost, Vox, NYT, WSJ, and Radio Liberty ... and various bloggers like Chris Martensen, Paul Craig Roberts, Glenn Greenwald etc.
Yes, ZH has a "bent". They're hyperfocused on "markets" and with them it's always the end of something ... the end of the stock market rally! the end of the petrodollar! the end of the WORLD!!! ... so you have to follow up interesting articles with other sources. I, personally, ignore at least 80% of their content. But I find them more reliable than, say, MSNBC, which has an even MORE distinct "bent" than ZH.
So (as always) before interacting with ANY media, have your shitscreen firmly in place before you go wading in.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:27 PM
Yep SGG that's it exactly. Sig is a troll plain and simple. She posts lies created from aggregated news stories provided by zerohedge. You've witnessed this first hand. She even edits press reports or quotes them out of context herself to support her wacky conspiracies.
Almost immediately after joining this site I became aware of Sig's aversion to the truth. This explains why my responses to her posts have evolved to be complete denials of her agenda, to troll, and less about what she posts in general. I view her posts as not being worthy of consideration for all the reasons you've expressed. And for her refusal to change once confronted.
T
Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Hey T,
I remember having a similar conversation, about this very topic - Zero Hedge -
with Sigs before (it was on a specific topic, which I don't recall at the time), but I was challenged to actually read the article Sigs posted. So I did
just that, read the article.
I found it a litlle odd, so I did a little digging and found that the article
was cut and pasted (which is fine, if you alert your readers to the tactic and
attribute it). Not only was it not attributed, but it was pasted out of context regarding the topic. I even pointed this out to our friend.
All those times that I ignored reading Zero Hedge, and then I found out why.
There was also a report, because Sigs was accusing me of not reading what she
had posted, so I did. The report was a total waste of time because it was so much gobble-dee-gook, that I felt my brains were being purposefully scrambled.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I can read, and it made no sense. It was then that I became aware of the total drivel that Zero Hedge is.
SGGQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:48 PM
Quote:Please stop trying to ignore/ bury this challenge.
I found it a litlle odd, so I did a little digging and found that the article was cut and pasted (which is fine, if you alert your readers to the tactic and attribute it). Not only was it not attributed, but it was pasted out of context regarding the topic. I even pointed this out to our friend. - THUGR
I don't recall any such thing, so ... LINKS PLEASE. You posted it, so it should be available, so put up or shut up- SIGNY
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:33 PM
Hey Siggy,
That was my post. You may not recall it, but I do.
SGG
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Please stop trying to ignore/ bury this challenge.
I found it a litlle odd, so I did a little digging and found that the article was cut and pasted (which is fine, if you alert your readers to the tactic and attribute it). Not only was it not attributed, but it was pasted out of context regarding the topic. I even pointed this out to our friend. - THUGR
I don't recall any such thing, so ... LINKS PLEASE. You posted it, so it should be available, so put up or shut up- SIGNY
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:11 PM
Quote:I guess this is a case of THUGR having a FALSE MEMORY.
That was my post. You may not recall it, but I do.
Then LINK PLEASE.
I would like to see the content that you claimed ZH "cut and pasted" without citation.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Friday, October 26, 2018 10:15 PM
I think this needs its own thread. SIG pulls most of her information that she posts here from this blog and stupidly defends it as a reputable source. As she continues to do so I will regenerate this thread to remind all it is a corrupted blog designed to create havoc rather than informing.
Below are the names of those behind zero hedge. Don't miss what I've highlighted in red below. This folks is why comrade troll SIG loves to quote zero hedge.
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
All of this matches SIG's playbook here and Putin's globally; exactly.
The men behind zero hedge
Colin Lokey, a 32-year-old former Seeking Alpha director
Daniel Ivandjiiski, a 37-year-old Bulgarian-born former hedge fund employee who was barred for insider trading in 2008
Tim Backshall, a 45-year-old credit derivatives strategist
Despite its populist tone, Lokey told Bloomberg he recently left Zero Hedge because he didn’t see eye-to-eye with the others when it came to editorial vision.
“Zero Hedge ceased to serve that public service years ago,” Lokey said. “They care what generates page views. Clicks. Money.”
In addition, Lokey said he faced constant pressure to frame stories in-line with a particular world-view, which he described as “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladmir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.”
Lokey claims Zero Hedge’s focus on traffic and revenue is hypocritical, but Ivandjiiski sees things differently.
Finally, Zero Hedge addressed the accusations of systematic bias in its content.
“We are certainly ok with being the object of other’s conspiracy theories, in this case completely false ones since we have never been in contact with anyone in Russia, or the US, or any government for that matter,” Zero Hedge says.
The site claims it has never accepted a dime of funding outside of advertising revenue and that Lokey was never pressured about how to frame his articles or editorialized.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zero-hedge-unmasked-theres-more-1427301
65.html
According to the Bloomberg article, three men have been churning out all of the content at Zero Hedge, using the joint pseudonym “Tyler Durden” from the Brad Pitt film “Fight Club.” The 1999 cult film, according to Rolling Stone, is “about being young, male and powerless against the pacifying drug of consumerism. It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up rage.” That ethos is frequently on display at Zero Hedge.
The three “Tyler Durdens” outed by Bloomberg reporters are Colin Lokey, who has now
T
left Zero Hedge in a fit of pique and is responsible for handing over the internal chat sessions from Zero Hedge on traffic-building strategies and other matters. Bloomberg says “the other two men are Daniel Ivandjiiski, 37, the Bulgarian-born former analyst long reputed to be behind the site, and Tim Backshall, 45, a well-known credit derivatives strategist.”
The article notes that “Ivandjiiski has a multimillion-dollar mansion in Mahwah, N.J., and Backshall lives in a plush San Francisco suburb,” suggesting these are “not exactly reflections” of the anti-capitalism reflected in the moniker “Tyler Durden.”
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