Media Corruption

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

NPR now stands for Not Popular Radio

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Best wishes for all of those NPR employees who got their layoff notices.
It's not nice at all to get the word that you are out.

This is the story:

NPR itself confirmed Thursday that it had cut 10% of its workforce on Thursday, impacting roughly 100 employees, adding that it tends to roll back the workforce from 1,200 to an estimated 1,050 employees, the "largest reduction in staff since the 2008 recession."
"We literally are fighting to secure the future of NPR at this very moment by restructuring our cost structure. It's that important. It's existential," NPR chief executive John Lansing told NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik.

Apparently, ad revenue will drop $30 million in 2023.

Back in the 1980s, I lived and worked in Mexico and would listen to NPR's "Morning Edition" every morning via Armed Forces Radio on my Radio Shack shortwave radio. In the evenings, I would catch "All Things Considered" when I was wrapping up my day or making a few more phone calls.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court



There are 383 Google employees who are subject to the legal hold in this case, and about 40 of those are designated as custodians. Google could have set the chat history to "on" as the default for all those employees but chose not to, the judge wrote.

"Google falsely assured the Court in a case management statement in October 2020 that it had 'taken appropriate steps to preserve all evidence relevant to the issues reasonably evident in this action,' without saying a word about Chats or its decision not to pause the 24-hour default deletion," Donato wrote. "Google did not reveal the Chat practices to plaintiffs until October 2021, many months after plaintiffs first asked about them."

The judge then chided Google at greater length:

The Court has since had to spend a substantial amount of resources to get to the truth of the matter, including several hearings, a two-day evidentiary proceeding, and countless hours reviewing voluminous briefs. All the while, Google has tried to downplay the problem and displayed a dismissive attitude ill tuned to the gravity of its conduct. Its initial defense was that it had no 'ability to change default settings for individual custodians with respect to the chat history setting,' but evidence at the hearing plainly established that this representation was not truthful.
Why this situation has come to pass is a mystery. From the start of this case, Google has had every opportunity to flag the handling of Chat and air concerns about potential burden, costs, and related factors. At the very least, Google should have advised plaintiffs about its preservation and related approach early in the litigation, and engaged in a discussion with them. It chose to stay silent until compelled to speak by the filing of the Rule 37 motion and the Court's intervention. The Court has repeatedly asked Google why it never mentioned Chat until the issue became a substantial problem. It has not provided an explanation, which is worrisome, especially in light of its unlimited access to accomplished legal counsel, and its long experience with the duty of evidence preservation.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

From Fascism To The Forbidden Fruit And More, Morning Joe On The Trump Indictment Had It All!



Al Sharpton gloried in the fact that Alvin Bragg, "a black man whose great-grandfather had no rights," could indict the former most powerful person in the country. Obviously, if a black Republican indicted a Democrat, this wouldn't be celebrated as cosmic comeuppance on MSNBC.

Jon Meacham, the scholar who as the top editor of Newsweek promoted the "biblical case for gay marriage," turned to the Book of Genesis to make a strained analogy to the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden [see screencap of him seeming to reach for it.] The Republicans are all versions of Adam, so intoxicated by the appeal of power that they reached for it, and are unwilling to give up that apple, even though they believe Trump to be a bad person.

In a country-club allusion, Meacham referred to mainstream Republicans like Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia: "These are men's grill enablers, right? These are 19th hole enablers of a quest for power above all." Jon the Preacher suggested our American experiment could die because Republicans obsess over "tax rates above all."

Joe Scarborough, fulfilling his contractual obligation to work "fascism" into every conversation concerning Trump, then added "the men's grill enablers of Trumpism, a form of fascism. Hope those drinks on the 19th hole are enjoyable for 'em."
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member





Soros donated $1 million to a PAC and they donated to Bragg’s campaign. In every other discussion of political funding by big-money donors, EVER, this would be considered ‘funding his campaign’. Not so, when George Soros is the donor, because the Left believes they can shield those criticisms behind garbage smears of antisemitism (more on that later).

‘John got paid today.
He gave his wife, Jane, $40 to buy pizza and drinks for them and their children.
Jane went and bought the pizza.
John did not fund the pizza. Jane did.’ – Glenn Kessler fact check

We apologize for the grade school math class word problem flashbacks.






Kessler, obviously reeling from the virtual ratio beating he’s been taking, doubled down and blamed the Community Note entry on ‘Twitter trolls’.

LOLOLOL!

We have access to Community Notes, so we can tell you he’s getting fact checked on this tweet too! LOL.

Keep in mind what we’ve told you about how Community Notes work. Notes from trolls do not get displayed. If enough people in the community decide the note is accurate, it will receive enough positive ratings to be displayed. All we can tell you is that it is accurate:

A Community Note correcting a tweet from Glenn Kessler


 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member



Teddy Amenabar writes:

When you’re talking to someone who believes in a conspiracy theory, [professor and political scientist at the University of Wisconsin Mike] Wagner said it can be helpful to ask: Who’s benefiting from your believing this? Who’s raising money or making money because of the audience they’ve built from this?
Wagner said that it can be helpful to remind people that if somebody at a mainstream news outlet such as The Washington Post or NPR reports something that’s false, they can be fired.
“People who work for really ideological talk shows or podcasts don’t have the same worry,” Wagner said. “They don’t get in trouble in the same way.”

Name anyone from the Post who was fired for publishing disinformation about Russia or the coronavirus or Nick Sandmann or the Wuhan lab-leak theory or Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Speaking of the lab-leak theory, remember this?














 

herb749

Well-Known Member





Soros donated $1 million to a PAC and they donated to Bragg’s campaign. In every other discussion of political funding by big-money donors, EVER, this would be considered ‘funding his campaign’. Not so, when George Soros is the donor, because the Left believes they can shield those criticisms behind garbage smears of antisemitism (more on that later).



We apologize for the grade school math class word problem flashbacks.






Kessler, obviously reeling from the virtual ratio beating he’s been taking, doubled down and blamed the Community Note entry on ‘Twitter trolls’.

LOLOLOL!

We have access to Community Notes, so we can tell you he’s getting fact checked on this tweet too! LOL.

Keep in mind what we’ve told you about how Community Notes work. Notes from trolls do not get displayed. If enough people in the community decide the note is accurate, it will receive enough positive ratings to be displayed. All we can tell you is that it is accurate:

A Community Note correcting a tweet from Glenn Kessler





That's the whole Soros didn't pay these DA's story liberals use defending him. Then when the part about him giving money to these PACS is brought out they still fall back on he didn't give them money directly. Then you are called anti- semantic.
 

StmarysCity79

Well-Known Member
That's the whole Soros didn't pay these DA's story liberals use defending him. Then when the part about him giving money to these PACS is brought out they still fall back on he didn't give them money directly. Then you are called anti- semantic.

Soros is just a bogeyman. Much like CRT and Drag queens. They use these things to scare you into listening to them because they have no policies or ideas that anyone likes.

Please try to think for yourselves for once.
 

herb749

Well-Known Member
Soros is just a bogeyman. Much like CRT and Drag queens. They use these things to scare you into listening to them because they have no policies or ideas that anyone likes.

Please try to think for yourselves for once.

Or for people on the left, Fox News & the Koch brothers.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
Please try to think for yourselves for once.
That...coming from you.....
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