No, she's absolutely right. "They" wanted him out because he figured out how to put his fingers into the pie and he was starting to pull out all the plums which "they" wanted for themselves.
Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
- sugar magnolia
- Posts: 3635
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:54 pm
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
"Incredibly crupt" isn't even English.
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
No idea about the Duckers, but Spawn were totally clean shaven till after the 2016 election. They must have made a decision to pop the facial hair after that for some reason.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:09 am Weren't both Trump bois clean shaven until about the same time the Duck Dynasty bois grew beards to look less like California surfer bois and more like Deliverance rejects?
Knowing him., it would not surprise me that someone said to Daddy that the spawn looked really well, and he took it at a criticism of himself and ordered Facial hair.
Hic sunt dracones
- Slim Cognito
- Posts: 6990
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:15 am
- Location: Too close to trump
- Occupation: Hats. I do hats.
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Who are "they?" It can't be the dems, because if we cheated, we've have kicked McConnell, etc, to the curb. So "they" must be Republicans.
My Crested Yorkie, Gilda and her amazing hair.
x4
x4
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- Volkonski
- Posts: 12052
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am
- Location: Texoma and North Fork of Long Island
- Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
-
- Posts: 320
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:59 am
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
She would gladly pay her property taxes if Fox finds and returns her legs.
You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Atticus Finch wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 5:57 pm She would gladly pay her property taxes if Fox finds and returns her legs.
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
OAN, brought to you courtesy of AT&T. As it turns out.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media- ... 021-10-06/Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”
Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.
Herring has testified he was offered $250 million for OAN in 2019. Without the DirecTV deal, the accountant said under oath, the network’s value “would be zero.”
Dallas-based AT&T, a mobile-phone and Internet provider, also owns entertainment giant Warner Media, which includes CNN and HBO. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015 and in August spun off the satellite service, retaining a 70% share in the new, independently managed company. AT&T’s total U.S. television subscriber base, including satellite and streaming services, fell from 26 million in 2015 to 15.4 million as of August.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- Frater I*I
- Posts: 3373
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:52 am
- Location: City of Dis, Seventh Circle of Hell
- Occupation: Certificated A&P Mechanic
- Verified: ✅Verified Devilish Hyena
- Contact:
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Time to find a new cell service provider....
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingr ... ic-societyFrom the October 5, 2021, edition of Quake Media's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): Once you have the idea that a person has constitutional rights and the consent of the governed and the official serves the people and not vice versa, then all sorts of wonderful things happen.
You can -- you can address problems with a majority vote. You can have courts that are not based on tribal affiliations. You can hire people that are not just your first cousin.
It's a meritocratic idea, and it's not based on this primitive -- it's very primitive. I mean, we don't like to use that word, but when we start identifying by our superficial appearance and we say, "We're going to pick that person because he looks like us," or "Those people over there have a particular ethnic cachet," then it all unwinds.
And I think it'll unwind very quickly, because there's no record I know of of any multiracial, multi-ethnic society that made it other than maybe the Ottomans and the Soviets for a while in the Roman Empire, that -- they used the level of coercion that we find, you know, antithetical.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- Volkonski
- Posts: 12052
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am
- Location: Texoma and North Fork of Long Island
- Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Volkonski
- Posts: 12052
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:06 am
- Location: Texoma and North Fork of Long Island
- Occupation: Retired mechanical engineer
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- keith
- Posts: 4038
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:23 pm
- Location: The Swamp in Victorian Oz
- Occupation: Retired Computer Systems Analyst Project Manager Super Coder
- Verified: ✅lunatic
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
I'm told that in Australia, the Murdoch press has has flipped and gone all climate change warrior. 8 page wrap arounds explaining the issue, and straight out admissions that the editorial position has changed. But the arent firing their vile commenters, or directing them to change their tone.
I have no way to verify this, as I don't read his papers, watch his TV or listen to his radio.
I have no way to verify this, as I don't read his papers, watch his TV or listen to his radio.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
-
- Posts: 4217
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:50 pm
- Location: Down here!
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/ ... /100056660
FACT CHECK
How large is Rupert Murdoch's reach through News Corp in Australian media, old and new?
RMIT ABC Fact Check
Posted Wed 14 Apr 2021 at 8:53amWednesday 14 Apr 2021 at 8:53am, updated Sun 2 May 2021 at 9:05pm
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd's petition to establish a royal commission into media diversity in Australia attracted more than half a million signatures and took aim at Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire Mr Rudd labelled a "cancer on democracy".
Another ex-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull also weighed in, branding it "an absolute threat to our democracy" and "the most powerful political actor in Australia".
Mr Rudd's petition, with support from Mr Turnbull, led to a Senate inquiry into Australia's news media and Mr Murdoch's role in it.
So, just what is his reach?
In this fact file, RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a look at the breadth and popularity of Mr Murdoch's Australian media outlets, relative to their competitors.
Given the focus by Mr Rudd and Mr Turnbull on Australian democracy, this analysis is limited to the coverage of news and current affairs in Australia.
Print newspapers
Digital newspapers
Online news
Television
Social media
Facebook
YouTube
Radio
FACT CHECK
How large is Rupert Murdoch's reach through News Corp in Australian media, old and new?
RMIT ABC Fact Check
Posted Wed 14 Apr 2021 at 8:53amWednesday 14 Apr 2021 at 8:53am, updated Sun 2 May 2021 at 9:05pm
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd's petition to establish a royal commission into media diversity in Australia attracted more than half a million signatures and took aim at Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire Mr Rudd labelled a "cancer on democracy".
Another ex-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull also weighed in, branding it "an absolute threat to our democracy" and "the most powerful political actor in Australia".
Mr Rudd's petition, with support from Mr Turnbull, led to a Senate inquiry into Australia's news media and Mr Murdoch's role in it.
So, just what is his reach?
In this fact file, RMIT ABC Fact Check takes a look at the breadth and popularity of Mr Murdoch's Australian media outlets, relative to their competitors.
Given the focus by Mr Rudd and Mr Turnbull on Australian democracy, this analysis is limited to the coverage of news and current affairs in Australia.
Print newspapers
Digital newspapers
Online news
Television
Social media
YouTube
Radio
-
- Posts: 4217
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:50 pm
- Location: Down here!
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Media Watch is almost always on target...
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episo ... h/13539698
If News Corp is about to take global warming seriously, rather than just on its younger-aiming website News.com.au, it really would be something.
And in the US, The New York Times and Vanity Fair were excited by the news.
But plenty of people warned them not to believe it, with veteran climate scientist Michael Mann quipping:
“Color me skeptical,” … “Until Rupert Murdoch and News Corp call off their attack dogs at Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, who continue to promote climate change disinformation on a daily basis, these are hollow promises …”
- The New York Times, 6 September, 2021
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has accused News of doing enormous damage to the world through climate denialism, was also unconvinced:
“... If there’s a change there, that would be significant,” ...
“I’m not going to give them credit for something they haven’t done yet.”
- The New York Times, 6 September, 2021
And another former PM Kevin Rudd agreed with both of them, branding it greenwashing and tweeting:
It’s all politics. They want to accommodate Morrison …
- Twitter, @MrKRudd, 8 September, 2021
Casting further doubt on the supposed change of tack, several senior figures at News Corp last week knew nothing about it.
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episo ... h/13539698
If News Corp is about to take global warming seriously, rather than just on its younger-aiming website News.com.au, it really would be something.
And in the US, The New York Times and Vanity Fair were excited by the news.
But plenty of people warned them not to believe it, with veteran climate scientist Michael Mann quipping:
“Color me skeptical,” … “Until Rupert Murdoch and News Corp call off their attack dogs at Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, who continue to promote climate change disinformation on a daily basis, these are hollow promises …”
- The New York Times, 6 September, 2021
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has accused News of doing enormous damage to the world through climate denialism, was also unconvinced:
“... If there’s a change there, that would be significant,” ...
“I’m not going to give them credit for something they haven’t done yet.”
- The New York Times, 6 September, 2021
And another former PM Kevin Rudd agreed with both of them, branding it greenwashing and tweeting:
It’s all politics. They want to accommodate Morrison …
- Twitter, @MrKRudd, 8 September, 2021
Casting further doubt on the supposed change of tack, several senior figures at News Corp last week knew nothing about it.
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Acosta: The reason why federal investigators and millions of Americans are terrified by right wing violence is because it keeps happening and Tucker Carlson is inciting more of it… The Murdoch family is cashing in as American democracy is being set ablaze
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Magic Eight Ball says "It is decidedly so"
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- RTH10260
- Posts: 16029
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
- Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
- Verified: ✔️ Eurobot
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Yeah - Democrats are taking their time - waiting for the bamboo to arrive from China - those damn supply chain issues....
- Slim Cognito
- Posts: 6990
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:15 am
- Location: Too close to trump
- Occupation: Hats. I do hats.
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Yeah, dog forbid we actually count the ballots.
My Crested Yorkie, Gilda and her amazing hair.
x4
x4
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
Because everyone knows that getting tested every day prevents you from getting sick.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
He was talking about the Tuckers of the world, not about, y'know, sane people.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:05 am
Because everyone knows that getting tested every day prevents you from getting sick.
- Slim Cognito
- Posts: 6990
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:15 am
- Location: Too close to trump
- Occupation: Hats. I do hats.
- Verified: ✅
Re: Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other TV purveyors of fake news
STOP MAKING ME AGREE WITH GERALDO!
My Crested Yorkie, Gilda and her amazing hair.
x4
x4