Principle news channels make me sick
Principle news channels make me sick
BBC
Story on wealthier citizens of Baton Rouge campaign to create a new city (Saint George) in order to get a better tax base and therefore better standard school. It's not a racial issue (well, at least not predominantly). In fact, 30% of the population is expected to be black (versus 50% in Batin Rouge I think it is). "This is racism!, was the strident editorial slant of BBC. None of the monied blacks who are signing the petition were interviewed. And even if there are very few (which I suspect is not the case) how is their absence the responsability of wealthy people who happen to be white? Seems to me that it is BBC that is being racist.
CNN
Whenever the subject is business or arts or news, anchors can be women or men - doesn't seem to matter. But if the subject is African, they always get a black Australian or Brit, sometimes a local to fo the interview. South Africa has a large white population, yet how often do you see a white interviewer?
Ditto 'women's issues' You'll never see a man. Can you imagine a business person or singer who happens to be a white person, that for such an interview the station insists on sending a white, because it is 'more appropriate'.
So, who is being sexist?
Why not just whichever human is best for the job?
Makes me want to stop watching the news. Deutche Welle, which used to be my favourite, has also become very politically correct. And Australian TV? Don't get me started. It's so bad I refuse to watch it. None of these corporate or state/run stations has an iota of independent perspectives on crucial matters. And I'm not suggesting they be anarchist or libertarian or classic liberal (i.e. 'conservative') but that they have some diversity of opinion. I don't care if they are Marxist or Fascist, as long as they are honest and are presenting the facts.
Had to turn off BBC with it's special on the 'stigmatization' of people with Ebola. What do you expect when you have a communicable disease?
Story on wealthier citizens of Baton Rouge campaign to create a new city (Saint George) in order to get a better tax base and therefore better standard school. It's not a racial issue (well, at least not predominantly). In fact, 30% of the population is expected to be black (versus 50% in Batin Rouge I think it is). "This is racism!, was the strident editorial slant of BBC. None of the monied blacks who are signing the petition were interviewed. And even if there are very few (which I suspect is not the case) how is their absence the responsability of wealthy people who happen to be white? Seems to me that it is BBC that is being racist.
CNN
Whenever the subject is business or arts or news, anchors can be women or men - doesn't seem to matter. But if the subject is African, they always get a black Australian or Brit, sometimes a local to fo the interview. South Africa has a large white population, yet how often do you see a white interviewer?
Ditto 'women's issues' You'll never see a man. Can you imagine a business person or singer who happens to be a white person, that for such an interview the station insists on sending a white, because it is 'more appropriate'.
So, who is being sexist?
Why not just whichever human is best for the job?
Makes me want to stop watching the news. Deutche Welle, which used to be my favourite, has also become very politically correct. And Australian TV? Don't get me started. It's so bad I refuse to watch it. None of these corporate or state/run stations has an iota of independent perspectives on crucial matters. And I'm not suggesting they be anarchist or libertarian or classic liberal (i.e. 'conservative') but that they have some diversity of opinion. I don't care if they are Marxist or Fascist, as long as they are honest and are presenting the facts.
Had to turn off BBC with it's special on the 'stigmatization' of people with Ebola. What do you expect when you have a communicable disease?
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Re: Principle news channels make me sick
Most news has become entertainment. Mostly because of the internet actually... they have to compete for ratings with thousands of "news" outlets now when before there were maybe dozens. So they had to step up their game and get more entertainment and conflict oriented instead of just reporting on the facts.
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Try switching to Aljazeera from Doha......quite acceptable....less brain washing.
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht
In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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yeah, I caught some Aljazeerah while staying in a guesthouse. Reminded me of how news used to be. It's now used to condition ppl to responses favorable to government and business, as far as I'm concerned.
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There are fanatics within all ideologies. Lefties like to make fun of climate change deniers for being anti-science but when science reaches unPC conclusions these lefties squirm. Do they acknowledge facts that are not PC? Such as Africans having higher rates of HIV than whites, ditto gay men vs hetero men.Georgina wrote:Had to turn off BBC with it's special on the 'stigmatization' of people with Ebola. What do you expect when you have a communicable disease?
Equality has reached such extreme levels that some think that all people are identical and homogenous and the only reason police would stop-and-search blacks more often than whites is due to the colour of their skin even if blacks continue to commit more crime than whites whilst enduring stricter enforcement. It boggles the mind sometimes.
There are extrimists within Buddhism too. How many Cambodians have complained or expressed displeasure at the sight of restaurant spit-roasts? Yet a law banning these from public view was passed a couple of years ago.
The BBC and CNN are pretty useless at analysis that requires an open mind.
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my doctor has warned me off it- literally.
i have severe anxiety, so not good.
like the cigs though, i cannot keep away.
i have severe anxiety, so not good.
like the cigs though, i cannot keep away.
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My favorite anti-science is that the same people who will damn conservatives for being climate change deniers will also likely be anti-gmo or anti-vax.
because science only matters when you want to believe what it's told you.
because science only matters when you want to believe what it's told you.
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an educated cambodian woman told me she would never kill a chicken because it is a sin and against buddhist doctrine.
we were eating bbq chicken at the time.
we were eating bbq chicken at the time.
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^I like that type of dissonance.
Silly hypocrites.
Silly hypocrites.
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I am a firm believer in climate change - as part of the Big Cycles of climate. I am yet to be convinced that humans are causing or contributing to climate change. If we are indeed causing it or contributing to it, it's time to drop the global village "we're all to blame" PC nonsense (in this context) and force China and India to clean up their act. Until that happens, any other discussion in the west - when we consider how exponentially those two countries pollute - is ego, cult, or commerce. Like veganism, it's the new religion, and someone somewhere is getting off on the power trip.
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