:::::::INFOWARS News Thread:::::::

[TychoMonolyth]

Apparently no one watched the second hearing .

Fuck I'm Canadian and I watched it. I'm sure some Americans did too. The rest will only get sound bites.

 

[xavier7995]

Some people look at infowars with as much seriousness as they would look at the onion - or any other joke site - but still, you never know what questions you might come up with after reading some of their articles - they do often pose questions and make reports on stuff other news agencies do not - whether true or fabricated - it still holds the interest - to at least investigate and try to find out if any of what some might consider spurious claims hold any truth at all - These days, with so many news agencies gone political, so having their own agenda's - it can take a while to sort the chaff from the wheat - it takes a lot of reading, checking and comparing news reports - to be able to come to any sort of reasonable and factual opinion on the subject matter - and that takes time.

If the end goal though is to have a fact based opinion on issues, and given the massive amount of data being fed to people, doesnt it make sense from a separating the wheat from the chaff perspective to kick out data sources that continually are show to be bs. You wind up spending so much time refuting each bs article point by point that the conversation doesnt advance.

 

[White Beard]

Its become plain to me that we are being, and have been socially engineered by the media and educational institutions to lean in a certain political way - whatever suits the ruling elites - for a very long time - so it is imperative that we at least try to see thru this fog of favour to one side or another of the political divide - a division that is there to suit the purposes of that same ruling cabal - to obfuscate and confuse our vision of how we are ruled over and by whom - and for what reasons -


The press here in the UK can be very partisan - as it is in the USA - there again you have to conscientiously sift thru the articles, with that in mind -

Agreed: no matter what your source, you still need a bullshit detector *and* the skills to operate it effectively *and * the common sense / life experience to form a foundation for your sifting.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Just about every news media source I can think of has put out news that has turned out to be B.S./fake in the past - either because of a genuine mistake - or due to an underlying agenda - Its what they don't report on that causes the real problems - when people are kept in the dark over things that will directly effect their lives -

- and I do enjoy a good mystery - so no matter how outlandish a report may be - its always fun unravelling the truth/reality behind it - if there is any of course.

If the end goal though is to have a fact based opinion on issues, and given the massive amount of data being fed to people, doesnt it make sense from a separating the wheat from the chaff perspective to kick out data sources that continually are show to be bs. You wind up spending so much time refuting each bs article point by point that the conversation doesnt advance.

 

[h.h.]

Like breathing underwater. Stay in long enough you’re gonna drown.

Try to stay away from the bottom feeders. Doesn’t matter how good you think you swim.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

What legislation was it that president Cheney deep six? Fairness in Reporting or something like that. You know, the thing that gave rise to Fox News?

News used to have to report on both sides of the issue. Now everyone picks a side and we're left with NO news.

 

[White Beard]

What legislation was it that president Cheney deep six? Fairness in Reporting or something like that. You know, the thing that gave rise to Fox News?

News used to have to report on both sides of the issue. Now everyone picks a side and we're left with NO news.

Not Cheney, Reagan - busted up the Fairness Doctrine, which required media to present more than their own opinions and seek to inform the public. Was probably done in order to enable Ailes’ plan for a wholly one-sided political misinformation effort...which became desirable during the shellacking they were taking over Iran/Contra...during the Reagan regime.

 

[xavier7995]

Just about every news media source I can think of has put out news that has turned out to be B.S./fake in the past - either because of a genuine mistake - or due to an underlying agenda - Its what they don't report on that causes the real problems - when people are kept in the dark over things that will directly effect their lives -

- and I do enjoy a good mystery - so no matter how outlandish a report may be - its always fun unravelling the truth/reality behind it - if there is any of course.

Fair enough, but legitimate news sources admit their errors and print retractions. Getting something wrong by mistake isnt the same as intentionally misrepresenting whats happening on a continuous basis.

 

[packerfan79]

Not Cheney, Reagan - busted up the Fairness Doctrine, which required media to present more than their own opinions and seek to inform the public. Was probably done in order to enable Ailes’ plan for a wholly one-sided political misinformation effort...which became desirable during the shellacking they were taking over Iran/Contra...during the Reagan regime.

The Fairness doctrine was put in place, because the right was dominant in talk radio. It was a way to force right wing radio to give equal time to left wingers. It's an abomination of freedom of speech. It had nothing to do with Fox news. It also did nothing to prevent CNN, MSNBC, and the other leftist media from being one side bullshit.

I would be surprised if you could EVER not be a brainless leftist.

 

[packerfan79]

After the fiasco of the Muller testimony, it must suck even more to be a loser leftist. I swear The Democrats are trying hard to get Trump reelected.

 

[h.h.]

Not Cheney, Reagan - busted up the Fairness Doctrine, which required media to present more than their own opinions and seek to inform the public. Was probably done in order to enable Ailes’ plan for a wholly one-sided political misinformation effort...which became desirable during the shellacking they were taking over Iran/Contra...during the Reagan regime.

FCC regulates the airwaves, not cable.
Most cable news is commentary.

 

[redlaser]

After the fiasco of the Muller testimony, it must suck even more to be a loser leftist. I swear The Democrats are trying hard to get Trump reelected.

little early in in the day for sand in your vag dude.

 

[White Beard]

FCC regulates the airwaves, not cable.
Most cable news is commentary.

True, and in a less “conservative” time, the doctrine would work for cable on the same principle: bandwidth in either spectrum is the public domain and while its true that the Fed auctions off bits of bandwidth, those slices of spectra are use permits only.

For newcomers, resources are supposed to be public domain: you can’t rent air, you can’t own all the water, etc. has broken down a lot since the private sector decided to break the public sphere into ownable, isolatable ‘markets’, but it’s the basic idea behind utilities and infrastructure. This includes bandwidth as much as spectrum.

Therefore, the same logic of a duty to actively and honestly inform and educate in exchange for use of a public resource makes sense. IMO it would be sound policy. It was sound policy before, and it’s sound policy today; whatever was wrong with the way things were with the media back then, it was nothing like the shit-show things have turned into. Controlling for bias was easy back then. Still is, really, but too many have no idea what it even means, and it shows.

Now that I think about it, it’ll be hard to implement a fairness doctrine under our current rulers (GOP) at all - we’d probably find ourselves with only “conservative” voices, ‘in fairness to the American people’, of course.

Best not to let them get that far.

 

[Cannavore]

After the fiasco of the Muller testimony, it must suck even more to be a loser leftist. I swear The Democrats are trying hard to get Trump reelected.

I know you don't give a shit about being accurate but I take offense to calling Democrats leftists. They are not.

Leftists are the people that are setting Democrats AND Republicans hair on fire.

 

[White Beard]

I know you don't give a shit about being accurate but I take offense to calling Democrats leftists. They are not.

Leftists are the people that are setting Democrats AND Republicans hair on fire.

Tru fax

 

[packerfan79]

little early in in the day for sand in your vag dude.

A little early in the day to try to remove your head from your ass. All that methane must be melting your brain.

 

[redlaser]

Finally trump can relax after yesterdays victory lap.

Would think blood pressures would be lower, yet that doesn’t seem to be the case.

 

[Microbeman]

I think he was being sarcastic....

D'ya think?? [perfect example ]

 

[Frylock]

little early in in the day for sand in your vag dude.

Flawless victory.... Fatality

 

[minds_I]

After the fiasco of the Muller testimony, it must suck even more to be a loser leftist. I swear The Democrats are trying hard to get Trump reelected.

Hello all,


Awww snap!


The House has already opened an impeachment investigation against Trump
Forget the political optics. As a matter of law, the Judiciary Committee’s actions are clear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...opened-impeachment-proceedings-against-trump/

minds_I