Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalFeels like just the other day...
It was a time of genius. And every day we remember just how much our nation and world were robbed of greatness.
One who survived to Reagans day was Abbie Hoffman. He wrote about the October Surprise in the October, 1988 Playboy where the Ayatollah did Casey and Poppy Bush a major and was suicided six months later. Just the other day, we have new confirmation from Ben Barnes (D-Texas), the same guy who arranged for Smirko Bush to jump to the top of the Texas Air National Guard waiting list. Such survive and thrive.
Thank Goodness for Justice and History. Both are on our side. Today, because of Dimdonnie the Traitors incompetence and criminality, we have a darn good chance to end their warmongering days and lock more than a few of them up.
Kansas is full of great people.
Why do they listen to GOP crapola?
Because for 40 years, pretty much all they heard broadcast were variants of
Current CNN issues foretold by Robert Reich last year.
The changes at CNN look politically motivated. That should concern us allBrian Stelters very popular and commerically successful show was axed. The reason? Follow the money
by Robert Reich
The Guardian, August 24, 2022
Excerpt...
CNNs new corporate overseer is Warner Brothers Discovery Inc, which now owns what used to be Time Warner, including CNN. The CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery is David Zaslav.
Zaslav has been prodding Licht to reposition CNN to the center, and be a network preferred by everybody Republicans, Democrats.
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The anti-democracy movement in America (as elsewhere) is among the biggest issues confronting us today. Is reporting on it considered straight news or opinion? Wouldnt failing to report on it in a way that sounded alarms be a gross dereliction of duty?
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The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. (Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN.)
Malone describes himself as a libertarian although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trumps inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has actual journalism. Malone also wants the news portion of CNN to be more centrist.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/the-changes-at-cnn-look-politically-motivated-that-should-concern-us-all
Absolutely. And Alan Ford almost didn't get the role.
He was on his third or fourth interview and forgot to put on his contacts and had to wear his glasses that time. Guy Ritchie saw him and knew at once. And I do mean knew.
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/joes-film-flashback-snatch-2000-524690
The Media Monopoly
A phrase thats not heard on TV, coined by the late Ben Bagdikian.
Ben Bagdikian, Visionary
Jeff Cohen
Fairness and Accuracy In Media FAIR, March 12, 2016
EXCERPT...
Before almost anyone else, Ben warned about the impact of the modern wave of media mergers that accelerated during the Reagan years (and accelerated further during the Clinton administration). In the first years of FAIR, I heard from various sympathetic journalists in mainstream media who said they were thrilled that, finally, a proworking journalist media watch group had formed . . . but that we were off-base to emphasize the impact of corporate ownersthat the problem was in the newsroom far more than the boardroom. A few years and a few mergers later, these same journalists told us that wed been right, almost propheticthat boardrooms were undermining journalism, often quite nakedly.
But we werent the visionaries. It was Ben Bagdikian who was the seer.
Ben was a journalists journalistfrom his years as a local reporter to his years at the Washington Post (where he played a crucial role in publishing the Pentagon Papers and went undercover as an inmate in a maximum-security prison). He served the public, not the boardroomand luckily for him, he got out of corporate media before the conglomerate era.
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Bens motto through all these decades could have been: Tell the Truth and Stand Strong.
The New York Times obit for Ben (3/11/16) quotes his message to his journalism students at UC Berkeley:
Never forget that your obligation is to the people. It is not, at heart, to those who pay you, or to your editor, or to your sources, or to your friends, or to the advancement of your career. It is to the public.
SOURCE: http://fair.org/home/ben-bagdikian-visionary/
Additional info on corporate owned news:
http://www.corporations.org/media/
https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaMonopoly_Bagdikian.html
Media Monopoly: Great for the Billionaires, another disaster for Democracy.
If so, Fascism is what's for dinner.
"I look at a White Nationalist as a Trump Republican' - Tubby the NAZI
My grandfather and his brothers fought a war to end Fascism. His grandfathers fought in the Civil War to preserve the Union and to end slavery. I am so ashamed to write that today turds like Tommy Tubberville work to normalize NAZISM.
GOP Senator Under Fire Doubles Down:
I Look at a White Nationalist as a Trump Republican
By David Badash
The New Civil Rights Movement, May 12, 2023
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is not walking away from the firestorm he lit earlier this week when he declared white nationalists are simply Americans. Now, doubling down, the former college football coach has announced a white nationalist is simply a Trump Republican.
Tuberville, already under fire for holding up 184 U.S. Armed Forces promotions or appointments, has been promoting white nationalism by claiming hes just trying to help the military meet its recruiting goals
NBC News Julie Tsirkin asked Senator Tuberville, Do you want to clarify your comments?
The Democrats characterize all MAGA Republicans in the military as white nationalists, Tuberville incorrectly told her. Wrong. Okay, we cant get politics in the military. This has nothing to do with extremists and all that this, you know, my first day here was January 6 had several senators stand up on the Senate floor saying to me we got too many white nationalists, I mean, what the heck is that?
We all got different beliefs. You know, Im a church Christ, Catholics, we got different people. And we all have to make one military. We cant start distinguishing different types of people. Okay. Thats all I say.
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https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/05/us-senator-under-fire-doubles-down-i-look-at-a-white-nationalist-as-a-trump-republican-video/
Alabama was so different before Rove railroaded Don Siegelman.
The Visuals
Hong Kong newspaper shuts down cartoonist on Beijing's orders.
Hong Kong newspaper to stop publishing drawings by prominent cartoonist after government complaints
by Kanis Leung
AP, May 11, 2023
HONG KONG (AP) A Hong Kong newspaper announced Thursday it will stop publishing drawings by the citys most prominent political cartoonist after they drew government complaints, in another example of restrictions on speech and media after a Beijing-led crackdown.
Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao did not explain why it is ending its 40-year partnership with Wong Kei-kwan on Sunday. Wong, better known by the pen name Zunzi, told The Associated Press the decision was made through mutual consultation.
Everyone knows why publication has to be halted, but no one will confirm the reason, he said in a text message to the AP with two emojis showing a laughing face.
His comic drawings caricatured Hong Kong societys frustrations since before the then-British colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-political-cartoonist-censorship-zunzi-bd360ca03a062c88efae356e39955578
They check their tiki torches at the door?
What made me sad was letting someone who should have been in the audience interview the traitor.
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