February 22, 20223 yr Rittenhouse is going to sue……everyone it sounds like. And he’s announcing a foundation to go after the outlets that gave them a platform to slander him.
March 22, 20223 yr How did this slip all the way to page two with the "Don't say gay" hysteria going on in the MSM?
April 1, 20223 yr 57 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Please try to keep up: The administration was already terrible at record-keeping... They kept even less records on Jan. 6 when the Capitol was being overrun by rioters called on by Trump. WH staff used their personal lines to make calls, which is why the calls in question are not on the official record. Was it (not) done on purpose? A lot of things went wrong that day and it all points back to Trump and his administration.
April 1, 20223 yr Never lose hope, no matter how many times the rug gets pulled out from underneath you.
April 1, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, The_Omega said: Never lose hope, no matter how many times the rug gets pulled out from underneath you. You must have low standards if you can vote for a chump like Trump. He's so incompetent it might be criminal. Some of us expect a little more.
April 1, 20223 yr On 3/29/2022 at 2:28 PM, toolg said: Speaking of cognitive decline... Sean Hannity! Speaking of cognitive decline… You’re in the wrong thread.
April 1, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, SB52 said: Speaking of cognitive decline… You’re in the wrong thread. Hannity Fake news Looks like the correct thread to me, but you should definitely be both concerned and upset.
April 1, 20223 yr 28 minutes ago, SB52 said: Speaking of cognitive decline… You’re in the wrong thread.
April 1, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, SB52 said: Speaking of cognitive decline… You’re in the wrong thread. Dang, you're right. Hannity isn't media. He's a paid entertainer. Only a fool listens to him
April 1, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, toolg said: You must have low standards if you can vote for a chump like Trump. He's so incompetent it might be criminal. Some of us expect a little more. Wouldn't it be nice if both parties could put up a competent candidate? Imagine voting FOR someone instead of voting for any body but so and so.
April 1, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, GreenReaper said: Wouldn't it be nice if both parties could put up a competent candidate? Imagine voting FOR someone instead of voting for any body but so and so. Yes. That would be nice for a change.
April 1, 20223 yr Report: Meta hired GOP consulting firm to amplify negative messages about TikTok Zuck’s been watching a little too much House of Cards. According to a Washington Post report, Meta hired a top Republican consulting firm to help spread negative messages about rival TikTok in a campaign reminiscent of Frank Underwood’s political schemes. The consulting firm, named Targeted Victory, orchestrated anti-TikTok opinion pieces in local newspapers, proactively pushed for negative TikTok coverage across the media, and worked behind the scenes to pressure lawmakers into increasing their oversight of the app. Here are a few specific examples from the campaign. (Warning: You might need a napkin because they are juicy.) Pushing stories about harmful TikTok trends: Targeted Victory enlisted local operatives to promote stories about some social media trends—such as the "Slap a Teacher TikTok challenge”—that might freak parents out. Thing is, the challenges referenced in the stories began on Facebook, not on TikTok. Orchestrating letters to the editor: Two anti-TikTok letters to the editor ran on the same day, March 12, in the Denver Post and Des Moines Register. Both pieces were the brainchildren of Targeted Victory, though it was never disclosed that a consulting firm working on behalf of Meta was involved. Meta’s response Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said, "We believe all platforms, including TikTok, should face a level of scrutiny consistent with their growing success.” TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, has certainly been scrutinized over its ties to the Chinese government and its impact on the mental health of young people. Earlier this month, a number of state attorneys general launched a probe of the app’s effects on young users’ mental health. Meta, meanwhile, is desperate for someone else to play the role of the social media bad guy. While its long-term success hinges on its big metaverse play, those ambitions are being overshadowed by a short-term shellacking at the hands of TikTok. Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its history in the final quarter of 2021. During that earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly blamed TikTok for snagging users’ attention, saying, "People have a lot of choices for how they want to spend their time, and apps like TikTok are growing very quickly.”—NF https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2022/03/30/report-meta-hired-gop-consulting-firm-to-amplify-negative-messages-about-tiktok?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew&mid=0028532056159c51c0bc66e22238ef7f Let's hope they take each other down 🙂
April 2, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, GreenReaper said: Wouldn't it be nice if both parties could put up a competent candidate? Imagine voting FOR someone instead of voting for any body but so and so.
April 4, 20223 yr Fox viewers transformed after watching CNN for 30 days, report finds Fox News viewers who were paid to watch CNN for 30 days eventually became more skeptical and less likely to buy into fake news, according to a new study. The study titled "The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers” by David E Brockman and Joshua L Kalla was conducted in September 2020 and published last week. "Of 763 qualifying participants, we then randomised 40 per cent to treatment group. To change the slant of their media diet, we offered treatment group participants $15 per hour to watch 7 hours of CNN per week, during Sept. 2020, prioritising the hours at which participants indicated they typically watched Fox News,” the study said. The study found changes in attitudes and policy preferences about Covid-19, evaluations of then president Donald Trump and Republican candidates as well as elected officials. "Despite regular Fox viewers being largely strong partisans, we found manifold effects of changing the slant of their media diets on their factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views,” the authors of the study said. They found that participants became more likely to agree that if Donald Trump made a mistake, Fox News would not cover it. "CNN provided extensive coverage of Covid-19, which included information about the severity of the Covid-19 crisis and poor aspects of Trump’s performance handling Covid-19. Fox News covered COVID-19 much less,” said the study. It found that Fox News gave viewers information about why the disease is not a serious threat, while CNN provided a lot more information about the disease itself. Fox News covered racial issues "extensively but selectively about Biden and other Democrats’ supposed positions on them and about outbreaks of violence at protests for racial justice in American cities”. The study found that CNN provided little information about either.
April 4, 20223 yr On 4/1/2022 at 6:54 PM, The_Omega said: McEnany went right onto FoxNews. Sean Spicer is on Newsmax (admittedly, after some time passed). You want to start asking ethical questions now?
April 4, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, toolg said: McEnany went right onto FoxNews. Sean Spicer is on Newsmax (admittedly, after some time passed). You want to start asking ethical questions now? No they didn't. There was a short period between when they left the government and when they joined a company. There is no record of them negotiating with a company while they were still in an administration. Try again.
April 4, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, The_Omega said: No they didn't. There was a short period between when they left the government and when they joined a company. There is no record of them negotiating with a company while they were still in an administration. Try again. Are you sure about that? LINK
April 4, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, toolg said: Are you sure about that? LINK That date is after the inauguration, right? Does it say when she reached the agreement? There may be impropriety but at least she wasn't dumb enough to allow reporting of the discussions months in advance.
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