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Well, boy howdy, Paul. You're making us other deplorable types look pretty koo-koo for Cocoa Puffs with that kind of talk.
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Paul has mentioned in this thread that he's autistic. Please keep that in mind.
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As are a number of us on this forum, Michael. A step back and a deep breath really should be on his immediate agenda.
I can say I have Tourettes Syndrome. I should be able to post vulgar words with impunity in this forum.
Is Autism the reason he believes that "Public Radio is totally politically biased"? I don't see the connection and I'm pretty sure his belief is not shared by everyone with that condition...
Not to downplay anyone's struggles (and we all have them), the difference between having Tourettes and a live microphone and having Tourette's here is that there's a screen for you to look back to see what you said, a backspace key to erase it and keys to write something else before hitting "Post Reply".
Here's the exact quote:
I think I'm probably safe in saying there are things that all of us believe are "the truth" that at least some of the rest of us would say are simply our opinions.
He's entitled to his opinions. And I, and you, and anyone else on this forum, are entitled to counter them with facts. In fact, that's my condition. I can't help myself. If someone posts an opinion the facts don't support, I gather the facts and respond with them.
I may have retired, but the journalism gene hasn't gotten the message.
I've mentioned before that we had a group of a half-dozen to ten people associated with news... stringers for AP, Reuters and Prensa Latina/TASS (Cuba and Russia) and a local newspaper and myself being among them. We'd gather and compare our coverage of major events.
A story about changes in oil pipeline regulations might be headlined "A major setback for workers" in Prensa Latina to "Ecuador makes its oil more attractive on the world market" in Reuters to "major revenue losses for provincial governments in new petroleum legislation" in my own coverage.
The same story could have a half dozen totally accurate but very differently focused versions. Sort of like Thanksgiving dinner where one relative won't eat the dark meat of the drumsticks, another demands ham intead of turkey and still another doesn't like stuffing. Same dinner, divided up in multiple ways (As long as it is drowned in gravy, I eat it all).
As a (retired) journalist, I have to do the "yeah, but..." here.
Headlines are the bane of a journalist’s existence. It's insanity defined to distill 800 words down to nine. One of the things that I loved about broadcast journalism as opposed to print was being freed from the headline.
And the real pain is that often, the headline is all that gets read.
Here's a non-political example. Almost six years ago, I began writing car reviews for the Los Altos Town Crier. A weekly newspaper in an unspeakably wealthy San Francisco Peninsula suburb.
My first review was a rather critical one on the 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). It had limited electric range, a small gas tank and was underpowered. But when it published, it ran with the headline:
PHEV is A-OK
Because the headline was written by someone else who couldn't figure out how to condense my criticisms and decided to just go for a play on words instead.
As for the oil pipeline regulation story, if I'm writing it, the lede is going to---has to---incorporate all three elements, because each is true. "New pipeline regulations will make Ecuador's oil more attractive on the world market, but will also cause major revenue losses for governments and are considered a major setback for workers (finish the sentence with what effect it has on the workers and attribute it to whoever's saying it)."
The "just a different viewpoint" thing is all too often rooted in the facts not having been properly laid out in the first place.
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And while we're on headlines, let me share probably my single favorite comic strip ever. From the early days of "Bloom County", when 11-year-old Milo somehow has a job at the local newspaper, the Bloom Beacon, and decides that the small-town paper needs to be a more interesting read:
Sacramento Bee wants more details from Cap Radio Audit:
www.insideradio.com
Sacramento Bee Lawyers Demand Missing Information From CapRadio Audit.
The findings of an audit of Sacramento, CA’s Capital Public Radio published in August have come into question by attorneys at The Sacramento Bee, who have demanded CapRadio release an
dont lump all public stations into one group.... were not all like that
Hey! It's Paul again!
Nobody's gonna let it slip through the cracks or get covered up. Beyond the Bee, CapRadio has done remarkable work covering the story:
Latest updates: CapRadio finances
Ongoing coverage of financial issues at Capital Public Radio, including staff layoffs and an audit showing "significant mismanagement" at Sacramento's NPR member station.
And there's an ongoing Sacramento Sheriff's Office criminal investigation of the previous GM.
You can tell the snooty stations by their large lobbies, right?
Publicly-supported radio asks for money for operations, not to finance the GM's lifestyle and you know that.
Keep in mind, when this was all discovered, the station laid off staff and cut programming, and is currently in the process of repaying all the debts caused by this. Plus the state is in the middle of a criminal investigation of the former GM. It's not being covered up. The Bee wants the information from an ongoing criminal investigation.
I thought Paul didn't trust NPR, so why would he believe another liberal rag like the Bee? It's amusing that "Mainstream Media" is only legitimate under certain circumstances for some people...
and when you tell those people their news outlet of choice got sued for nearly $1bil and lost, they either dont have anything to say, brush it off or bring up something else the democrats did
"I love big lobbies and I cannot lie." Those are the secret lyrics to the All Things Considered theme, you know.
There's also significant accountability through IRS filings and the like.
Also, if you record a fund drive and play it backwards, you'll hear:
Our anacondas don't want none
unless you got funds, hun
Jane Fonda's Honda is even mentioned in the lyrics, so NPR must be full of Communists - Right?😑
I wonder if Paul objects to the lavish lifestyle of someone like Joel Osteen? He relieves his followers of their money quite effectively...
An awful lot of that awful lot do an effective job of separating their followers from their lunch money so they themselves can live a lavish lifestyle, jet around on their own Gulfstreams, vacation in the nicest places. The donors don't seem to know or care why they're relegated to eating cat food after these folks Hoover up all the loose change from their wallets and couch cushions.
BTW, I've seen this play before. Paul, how about coming clean and telling us why you have so much contempt for CapRadio. It can't only be the square footage of their lobby. Did you apply for a job and get rejected, or ignored?
Absolutely cannot stand that crook. Or any of the others like him.
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