Media

The Truth in News is on The Internet

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Anyone peruse YouTubewith any regularity? I know a lot of people that do and it’s not just because they have a lot of How to and DIY videos there for almost any task you can think of. but a lot of videos of people posting their lives, some of it interesting, some not. I just started watching regularly a few months ago and I instantly found a couple of shows that I do watch every Sunday: Each show is a young woman renovating a house, mostly by themselves. But that’s just 2 of, I don’t know how many. I watched an entire series of a guy building a small cabin on some property up north. From nothing, to a livable, off grid, cabin.

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And Now, For Your Entertainment Today…

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As much as I try to, I can’t avoid politics here as uh as I’d like to. It’s become endemic in our lives, hasn’t it? The the advent of cable news over the past 40 years or so (CNN premiered June 1, 1980), it doesn’t seem we are able to avoid what passes for news today. In fact, what we regularly receive is not news in the classical sense, but infotainment, you know, something with just enough of what might be referred to as news, wrapped up t be fun and engaging. At the end of the day, are we any better informed than we were? I don’t think so.In fact, we can look at hundreds of examples, daily, and see how those that present as news attempt to manipulate their audience into believing something that is clearly, on second (maybe third) look, is blatant propaganda, pressing forward an ideology, whether it be political or cultural, instead of just informing.

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We Own the Truth

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I want to be clear to everyone: questioning policies of our government is not being disloyal to that government. It is exercizing exactly what our founders desired but had to separate from England to establish: the right to free speech. We often interpret that to mean, well, everything, but the founders were considering the tyranny and oppresion of their government, so the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights to the constitution is the most important and those today questioning others patriotism based on questioning actions taken or not taken by our government is a discredit to those that wrote those famous words placed on paper in 1789.

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Saving Face

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As I write this, the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran that was supposed to end tomorrow, has just been extended by our president, indefinitely because Pakistan, the host for the negotiations, asked for an extension. That’s right, there’s no time limit associated with it and the excuse is that Iran has not made any proposals of their own and the U.S.will give them time to(47 more years, I guess) come up with a response to the U.S. proposals over the kinetic action (not a war) with Iran. This is what’s called saving face.

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The Kettle Calling the Pot

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I’ve been seeing the word grift used a lot lately, online and in the media. Like most things that rise out of nowhere, it looks as if either people don’t know what the word means or they just found a way to insult those they dislike without showing any proof of what they say. For some, I’d easily place them in the first category because, well, some people are just stupid and go along to get along, therefore will bark anything they’re told to bark. The others are the ones that lead the stupid, except in this case, it’s the stupid, leading the stupid. I don’t want to insult morons, but…

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