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September 15, 2021
#001
Much is spoken and written of information sources without any coherent over view of what’s what and why. Digital, print in its various forms, video, and general broadcast should all be viewed as methods of publishing.
Black’s Law Dictionary 9th Edition (2009 p 1352 – 2):
publish, vb, (14c) 1. To distribute copies (of a work) to
the public. 2. To communicate (defamatory words) to
someone other than the person defamed. See INTENT TO
PUBLISH. [testamentary & procedural definitions follow]
Digital is the current popular format using computers, ‘smart’ phones, tablets, and any other device, such as an automobile, using a screen, touch or otherwise, wherein one views the ‘printed’ material through a display. The source material is generally unverifiable and subject to change at the server by anyone with access to the server. Wikipediais an excellent example of the problems with all digital sources. Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has been telling of the abuse by the company in changing facts and articles to suit the management’s various agendas, for more than ten years. One of many such changes involves the treatment of various scientists in their biographies to even edit one to declare that the person in question has stated a direct belief that the moon is actually made up of green cheese. The reliability of digital sources because of the ability of server accessors to it, is low, especially with ‘fact checkers’ being unknown sources with no reliability. Recent articles in The Wall Street Journal from verified sources and documentation show that Facebook has knowingly and willfully falsified news stories through picking and choosing what gets posted using their XCHECK algorithm. Another series of articles in TWSJ regarding FB and its subsidiary Instagram, again from inside sources with documentation, shows the knowledge set of management in how detrimental their services are to users, especially young women and girls.
Much has been made of how Google and other search engines present search results to comply with both their personal agendas and placement payments. Pay Google a fee, and your product or service, regardless of its quality or desirability, will be placed higher on the search results. Be in accord with their personal agendas of arrogant ignorance, and your personal agenda will also be placed higher up than competing positions, provided, of course, that your competitors are not completely censored +/or canceled. The climate change hoax, the attacks on News Corp’s FOXNEWS and the attempts to shut them down are only two of many examples. One need only point to how digital media treated the pervert and convicted felon William J. Clinton, and the 45th president, Donald J. Trump.
The only control over digital that I can see is that of when it is published in conjunction with a print copy as when one dual subscribes to TWSJ. News Corp. allows clients to purchase a stand-alone digital edition, a stand-alone print edition delivered to your door or nearby newsstand, or one subscription where you will receive both. Most newspapers follow this model, with a few exceptions such as The Denver Gazette, which is all digital. With the print edition in one’s hand, available at most public libraries, one may compare articles, op-eds, &c, thus making it impossible to claim that one said one thing when one did not as the print edition will always be, barring forensic shenanigans that are generally provable in court, proof dispositive of the initial communication. Note how video broadcasts, such as when Madeleine Albright declared at the United Nations that Clinton Foreign Policy towards The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was to make the PRC a super-power because we couldn’t allow These United States to be the stand-alone superpower. Her statements on camera are no longer available for viewing. Another such incident involves Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the New Orleans levees. Video coverage of the days immediately after the storm show a barge, negligently docked in Lake Pontchairtrain, breaking from its moorings, floating through the canal, an ear mark for a local congressman, and smashing into the levee and breaching it, thus flooding the residential neighborhood. This bit of video has also ‘disappeared’ thereby making FEMA and The Army Corps of Engineers responsible and the national taxpayer on the hook for the incompetence and corruption of politicians and the crony capitalist who owns that barge company.
For those who claim that making a PDF and then printing it, thereby making a ‘hard copy’, all rules require that the original source be the proved sourced as anyone with any know-how will know how to enable the editing function regardless of how blocked by the author. This issue was discussed, and in my opinion decided wrongly, by the American Bar Association in determining whether or not the courts should allow electronic filings, which the courts have decided to allow.
The number of such changes can only be guessed at. Consider Janet Reno and the FBI’s assault at Ruby Ridge TX; or how many changes have been made during Biden’s Afghan withdrawal debacle, or how none of the major networks are showing the old statements and documentation to what they are now broadcasting.
The only method available to proof such news video is to be able to record it, save it to an untouchable source, and to be able to compare, or ‘proof’, it to the original by yourself or within your own organization. Considering the amount of time and resources necessary, and then to be able to publish your own refutation of the fraud published, it’s not going to happen. A most notable example is how Judicial Watch has done this, and even litigated these fraudulent publishings, to no avail. JW’s seminal work on voter fraud shows that 54 of Colorado’s counties have over 100% of those eligible to vote as registered voters and since Colorado has had mail-in voting for several years, those ‘registered voters’ over the 100% have been getting ballots mailed to them. On a personal note, we have lived in this apartment for over three years. For the 2020 election, we received from a source claiming to be Denver Voting Registrar, three registration forms each with a cover letter declaring that their records showed that no one at our address had voted recently. Each of these six forms had the last four SSN numbers pre-entered on the form.
Video’s reliability is dependent upon the archival source and whoever controls the archive.
General broadcast is unreliable on its face. Standing on a soap box in Hyde Park without any reliable recording of the event is so open to misrepresentations that it is not worth commenting on.
Context of edited segments has been dealt with elsewhere on the blog. Suffice it to say, only the print version of anything used as a proof can show whether or not something is being repeated in or out of context. Again, all that one has to do in looking for examples, is compare how media sources treated the Democrat candidates and President Trump in this last election. Both Harris and Biden campaigned stating that they would not take Trump’s vaccination as it was probably detrimental to your health, and how now they are mandating that everyone be vaxxed even though those with natural immunity and those with certain morbidities should not be exposed to either the vaccine or the substance used in its manufacture. Checks on these videos are only available because FOX is making them using their own archives and archivists.
Print presents in four major categories: newspapers, magazines, correspondence, and books.
Newspapers, whether daily such as The New York Times (NYT), or weekly, such as Barron’s, are on pulp paper in columned broadsheet format. Content was determined by the publisher who was usually the owner, until the acceptance of corporate ownership became prominent. Before corporate ownership, publishers could be held personally liable and were accountable for the paper’s content under libel laws, which have gradually become irrelevant to the point that, as the NYT’s has proven so many times during the last, recent twenty years, claiming an anonymous source for calumny is accepted by the courts. Now, the claim of protection by virtue of the 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights of The Constitution of the United States, a false claim constantly denied by the courts as law but allowed by not citing or holding the paper/publisher accountable in any meaningful way, is still presented to protect such fraud.
Newspapers, outside of these United States, are, with no exception that I can think of, predominantly biased to specific points of view of politics and economics, thus giving propaganda outlets to their core markets by their editorial boards. Keep in mind that the transition from individual ownership to corporate, did not in most cases mean anything more than that the family owning the paper was able to get capital financing for plant improvements, while in fact keeping complete control over all facets of the enterprise. Note how the NYT is still owned, published, and edited by the same family as it was 100 years ago. The most humorous and accurate delineation of this is a bit in the BBC series Yes, Minister, where Sir Humphrey in conversation with Sir Arnold mentions each London paper and who reads it.
Newspapers with these United States still, regardless of provable fact, claim to be unbiased, with the possible exception of Mother Jones. Where the divergence between fact and bias is most significant, is that between business and professional news sources, and everything else. This is why the Murdoch Family’s News Corp., including its New York Post, are so superior to other sources for general news for the general population and The Enquirer not even fit for toilet paper, although it has a circulation in the millions.
Consider: all non-business papers rely on emotional content, most especially fear and hate, to attract readers. It matters not at all if the reporting is accurate as long as the reader gets his fillip, up or down, thereby guaranteeing continued readership. However, if TWSJ is inaccurate, the reader will invest badly and lose money. Continued loss of money by the reader means that the reader will stop buying the paper. The success of News Corps. weekly publication, Barron’s, over the span of its existence, proves this. Those who have subscribed to Barron’s and followed its analyses of the various industries and the equity and debt instruments used by those businesses, and done the appropriate personal research which rarely means no more than reviewing the technical charts, over the long haul have shown a 40% annual return above the market indices.
The almost exception to this is Bloomberg. Prior to Bloomberg’s presidential candidacy, all of the Bloomberg business publishing has been considered golden. However, during his very short campaign, he was recorded on an all-hands editorial phone call telling everyone to not publish anything detrimental to any Democrat or the Democratic Party. Further, they were to go after Trump. Thus, Bloomberg Services, as did all of the non-News Corps. entities, refuse to publish the Hunter Biden lap-top stories as well as reminders of such events as quid pro quo China Joe’s Burisma escapade in interfering with the internal affairs of Ukraine.
Magazines are the hybrid of newspapers and books. Unlike newspapers, magazines are almost exclusively single subject publications of various sizes and shapes. Veracity and accuracy follow the same pattern as do newspapers. Some are gossip rags, US and People, some in-depth analysis of a particular subject, Journal of the American Bar Association, some are general analyses and reporting, Popular Science, but they all have the central facet of dedication to one subject.
Books are divided into the general categories of fiction and non-fiction. Occasionally various fiction works will purport to some truthful foundation, but they are still fiction and should always be treated as such no matter how much one wants to believe. Roots is just one such example. Completely based on unverifiable familial oral traditions, the author and publisher claimed to be real, and it was, in fact, unproven familial stories not even of the author’s family. Too many people accepted this tale as fact.
Non-fiction, is books based on facts, scholarly and academic research. Keeping to Roots as an example, the reality of history and the enslavement of Africans brought to the Americas, of which less than 9% ended up in the British colonies, is much, much worse than Alex Haley portrays. For those interested, read Roots, then read Hugh Thomas’, the Slave Trade; a history of the North Atlantic Slave Trade, and Charles Adams’ Slavery, Secession and Civil War. The Truth of the matter is much more horrific than Haley’s portrayal.
As noted earlier, once published in a book, the author cannot go back on what he’s broadcast to the public.
As important as format is, content is more important. Those that ignore this, harm, frequently extensively, everyone else while whining that they did not mean for this result. Notice how The Left, particularly when they don’t get what they want regardless of the cost to the rest of us, particularly the taxpaying citizen, claim that they have failed in their messaging +/or perception of the issue to the voters. The legal community refers to this as form over content.
The obvious recent example is how people perceived Biden as a unifier, as competent, as a leader, &c., even though his fifty years in government even led to people in his own party declaiming as to how he’s been wrong on every foreign affairs issue in his life time; how publicly he had bragged about the Burisma quid pro quo; how his medical records showed several brain aneurysms and the necessary surgeries and obvious cognitive deterioration, &c., all being public record for those who did the research. Posed against Trump’s vocal extravaganzas, blustering, exaggerations, and being a Twitter Twit, but ignoring his very successful policies and the Deep State interference, all substance, form won over substance.
There are two main viewpoints in the news. One, and the dominating source, is The New York Times. The second, and much less respected as it is considered nouvous since becoming owned by the Murdoch Family, is News Corps. The Wall Street Journal. Broadcast and published news is centered in New York City. When the editors and producers of news broadcasting get on the train to go to their offices, they buy one of these papers to read on the train, or in their chauffeur driven company limos, and they base their day’s work and the direction on the news broadcasts exclusively on what they read in their preferred papers. This is what accounts for the similarities for both format and content in all of the major networks and the less major cable broadcasts. The wire services, The Associated Press (the “A” “P”), Reuters, and International Press (IP), are where the NYT gets much of its source material. TWSJ, as readers will attest by pointing to the by-lines, is mostly done by individuals, as well as by editors selecting items off of the wire services. The NYT editors pick and chose their stories and the other papers editors and TV & Cable producers read the NYT and broadcast what they’ve read in the paper. This is readily seen in the conformity of the substance in those sources.
The ‘news’ cycle is divided into two segments; midnight to noon, and noon to midnight. Sports and weather are not included in this. Notice the similarity between the morning and noon broadcasts, now that there is only one edition in print news, and that of the Six O’clock and News at Eleven, as proof of this. As noted in the prior paragraph, across the broadcast spectrum, what the NYT thinks is important, is what is published.
Moving passed form and into substance, we’re forced to deal with the European model of bias as news, news as bias, and in some circumstances, information used for rational decision making.
At the Far Left is CNN and MSNBC for the general subscription cable channels. There are podcasts and specialty channels available through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google/Alphabetand the like who cater to specific interests and emotional interests. Fear of facts +/or reality need not enter here. Two of the obvious examples are Joy Reid and her insanity, and Chris Cuomo. Look how Reid, in a fifteen minute “interview,” refused to let Rufo explain the climate hoax as she harangued him and yelled at him. As far as Cuomo is concerned, while infected with COVID he was wandering around Nassau County without a mask and in public spreading the disease. Then, when Andrew Cuomo was being removed from office, a reporter found and started to interview Chris Cuomo as to the ethics of his involvement, and right behind Chris Cuomo was his Ford F-250 Heavy Duty pick-up truck, which is obvious that his work as a CNN pundit required him to drive in order to pollute so that he could personally prove man-made climate change.
The NYT, one-time premier news source, is almost as bad as CNN. It is hard left of center having left facts and truth behind in order to inflame its readers into its erroneous, pro-global, anti-American politics and global economy. Too many stories have been proven false with no apologies or retractions from the NYT. One only need look to the years of Jason Blair, the NYT having full knowledge of the reporter’s falsehoods, and letting them occur. The Blair tradition having been so successful, it was taken up by the others, and it fostered approval by the owners and editors.
TWSJ has a split personality. Many in the news room are left of center. The editorial staff and business reporters are, because of the business accuracy requirements, center. It’s not until you get to Barron’s that News Corp., moves slightly right of center. So far, it’s here and with the other Murdoch sources, such as the New York Post, that reliable news pokes out its head. FOX cable news is pretty much fair and balanced as advertised on the general access cable channels.
Here’s where we start getting some serious, steady reporting still generally accessible or with a small subscription fee, broadcast or print.
One America News Network (OANN), Glenn Beck TV, The Epoch Times, American Greatness, Lifetime (not the TV channel), YouTube Podcasts, various individuals, and these are but a few.
By no means are either list exclusive. There are many more sources, most are biased one way or the other or in or for some specific issue or position. However,
The most perceptive and accurate news and information source that I have come across is a centuries old naval intelligence agency gone private. You have probably seen books published by them on several military issues, predominantly on weaponry or military readiness. Janes. You can get a surface subscription on a bunch of different subjects where you will get four or five paragraphs on your chosen subjects, such as ‘terrorist activity in South America’, or ‘cartels’, or ‘weapons sales’ (at least the publicly known ones) ‘force readiness assessments’ or, if you have the resources, you can get a full subscription.
Throughout I’ve pointed to the climate hoax. There are too many books to list proving that it is a hoax, however, I’m trying to point out news/information postulates and hope to get you to start looking for reliable sources, and get away from digital propaganda as your information source for making informed decisions.
There may be more, but there aren’t less, these are the ones that I am aware of and my source material may be suspect, so y’all will need to check on these things before stating them as solid facts. Joe Bastardi runs a global meteorological service out of, I believe, Dallas-Fort Worth. Joe is a real meteorologist. He predicts global weather patterns. He is a climate denier. Why? Because he understands and has a grasp of the whole system. He predicts weather patterns for shipping companies so that their ships don’t get sunk costing him, his insures, and his clients, billions of dollars. Airlines also use his services. Without getting the corporate weeds, I cannot tell who owns them, but there appear to be two more such services, one in London, and one at the Yokohama ship yards. None of these people believe in man-made climate change.
In order to make rational decisions, you need a good-sized knowledge base, truly only available by reading books, and then have a subscription or access to a subscription of fact-based news. I have tried to point out that the starting point should be TWSJ, News Corp., and move right a little, not to far, from there. Access Janes as much as possible, but stick to TWSJ and Barron’s.
Books for your foundation, news for decisions.
[Reported today, 11/12/2021, now that the Durham investigation into the Steele Dossier has started handing out indictments, The Washington Post has gone back over its articles for the last five years and started deleting whole articles, sections of articles, and ‘facts’ from articles, that the Durham indictments have shown to be false. This means that anyone doing research on the matter of Trump Russian Collusion who uses The Washington Post as a reference source, will get false material and their research conclusion will be inaccurate!]
[Op-Ed commentator Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., In Durham vs. the Press, … Mr. Jenkins recites how the Washington Post retracted numerous stories on the Russia Hoax because of Mr. Durham’s investigation bringing out so much that news sources should’ve done. Digitalization has allowed the corrupt to corrupt history. Stick to print! TWSJ p A-15, Sat/Sun Feb 19-20, 2022 Vol. CCLXXIX No 41]]
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