The originator of infotainment actually goes to Fox News. CNN copied their format when they started to lose market share. Roger Ailes had incredible insight into how conservatives processed information and leveraged that to help get Nixon elected. Because of his success in television and politics Joseph Coors tapped him to breath life into the dying TVN, the original conservative news outlet. Even though that interest withered and died on the vine, the lessons he learned there helped turn Murdoch's FNC into a juggernaut with conservatives. Ailes pushed the talking head personalities and panel shows, pulling in top ratings because of the high production values. FNC became a money machine and forced the other outlets to change format and chase down the competition. CNN ended up hiring Jeff Zucker from NBC Universal and it was he who pushed CNN to what it is today. Zucker promotes the format as politics being sport, and covering it accordingly. CNN still has some of the best journalists around, just pushed into a ridiculous format and expected to perform like trained bears.
This is true and I think this fight will become irrelevant in a decade. People think the fight is between conservative and liberal views within tv, hollywood, internet and newspapers. But that's not where the real fight is.
The fight is between radio and podcasts. Conservatives absolute dominate talk radio. Drive anywhere in the states and turn on any radio dial and it's conservative talk shows all the time. Heck even here in Calgary it's conservative talk radio QR77. But as older people who listen to radios die off and are replaced by millennials who listen to podcasting, it's all liberal. That's where the liberals will win the war if they stop continually shooting themselves in the foot.
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This is true and I think this fight will become irrelevant in a decade. People think the fight is between conservative and liberal views within tv, hollywood, internet and newspapers. But that's not where the real fight is.
The fight is between radio and podcasts. Conservatives absolute dominate talk radio. Drive anywhere in the states and turn on any radio dial and it's conservative talk shows all the time. Heck even here in Calgary it's conservative talk radio QR77. But as older people who listen to radios die off and are replaced by millennials who listen to podcasting, it's all liberal. That's where the liberals will win the war if they stop continually shooting themselves in the foot.
Well stated Girly. Media consumption is definitely a game changer and will continue to be in the future. The problem with podcasting is getting caught up in your personal bubble and never being exposed to other ideas. This is ironic as millennials are the way they are because of expose opportunities to other races, cultures, and identities that weren't around so much even 20 years ago. Exposure to different things makes us better people, more open to other ideas. If the possible media consumption habits create epistemic closure, will that create a less open society in the long run? Just something to chew on.
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Well stated Girly. Media consumption is definitely a game changer and will continue to be in the future. The problem with podcasting is getting caught up in your personal bubble and never being exposed to other ideas. This is ironic as millennials are the way they are because of expose opportunities to other races, cultures, and identities that weren't around so much even 20 years ago. Exposure to different things makes us better people, more open to other ideas. If the possible media consumption habits create epistemic closure, will that create a less open society in the long run? Just something to chew on.
That radio dial never changes either. Hopefully the newer generations can be exposed to other things while not forgetting the core problems as well. Or else they just stay in their own bubble as is what is happening now. It's just a different bubble.
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So Donald not only likes to follow Fox & Friends, Breitbart, and InfoWars, but he's a big reader of reddit too by the looks of it. Seems his CNN video tweet was ripped right from the threads of reddit. Sad. Bigly sad.
Pretty sure that's Don Scavino feeding him the Reddit stuff
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The attorney general of Maryland released a blistering statement criticizing President Donald Trump’s voter integrity commission on Monday, joining a growing number of states in rejecting the group’s request for voter roll data.
Brian Frosh, the attorney general, said in a statement that the commission’s request that Maryland officials provide them with voter data is “repugnant” and “appears designed only to intimidate voters and to indulge Trump’s fantasy that he won the popular vote.”
An appeals court Monday struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s two-year suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells, a decision that could set back the Trump administration’s broad legal strategy for rolling back Obama-era rules.
In a 2-to-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the EPA had the right to reconsider a 2016 rule limiting methane and smog-forming pollutants emitted by oil and gas wells but could not delay the effective date for two years while it sought to rewrite the regulation.
“The court’s ruling is yet another reminder, now in the context of environmental protection, that the federal judiciary remains a significant obstacle to the president’s desire to order immediate change,” Richard Lazarus, an environmental-law professor at Harvard Law School, said in an email.
“The D.C. Circuit’s ruling today makes clear that neither the president nor his EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, can by fiat unilaterally and instantaneously repeal or otherwise stay the effectiveness of the environmental protection rules put into place during the Obama administration,” he added.
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Since the late 1970's, the National Rifle Association and other firearm advocates have successfully fought to make armed self defense increasingly acceptable in everyday life. A wealth of survey data—the most recent of which came via a major Pew poll released last month—shows that Americans have grown more comfortable with the toting of concealed guns in public. Self defense is now the most common reason cited for owning a firearm, leading handguns to become the most popular kind of weapon in the American arsenal. Those attitudes and behaviors mark major shifts: In the mid 1990s, Americans primarily owned guns for recreation, and as recently as 2005, a strong plurality thought only police officers should carry guns in public.
At the heart of this campaign for the hearts, minds, and holsters of America has been an article of faith that the NRA and its allies have preached since at least the 1990s: that people enhance public safety by carrying guns to defend themselves. Economist John Lott first developed this "More Guns, Less Crime" theory in his 1998 book of the same title, and has since popularized it via frequent legislative testimony and op-eds.
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In a new working paper published on June 21 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, academics at Stanford Law School ran that data through four different statistical models—including one developed by Lott for More Guns, Less Crime—and came back with an unambiguous conclusion: states that made it easier for their citizens to go armed in public had higher levels of non-fatal violent crime than those states that restricted the right to carry. The exception was the narrower category of murder; there, the researchers determined that any effect on homicide rates by expanded gun-carry policies is statistically insignificant.
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At the heart of this campaign for the hearts, minds, and holsters of America has been an article of faith that the NRA and its allies have preached since at least the 1990s: that people enhance public safety by carrying guns to defend themselves. Economist John Lott first developed this "More Guns, Less Crime" theory in his 1998 book of the same title, and has since popularized it via frequent legislative testimony and op-eds.
Back when I was allowed to post on Fox News, I actually had a dialogue with John Lott, in the comments of one of his opinion pieces, or gun worship stories.
Anyways, Google "John Lott debunked" if you want the real story on his study back then.
Basically he can't prove anything.
It's also funny pro gun groups still reference this study, and yet won't back a new one, even though they pretend they're right on guns.
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Forty-one states have defied the Trump administration's request for private voter information, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.
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the commission, which is chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, seemed to misunderstand voter privacy laws nationwide. Every state that responded said it could not provide Social Security numbers, for example. Others said they consider information such as birth dates and party affiliations to be private.
What's more, Kobach asked states to supply the information through an online portal. Many states have rejected this specific request, noting that the commission should file a voter information request through established state websites, as any other party would.
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Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, also a Republican, took the criticism a step further.
"My reply would be: They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico, and Mississippi is a great state to launch from," Hosemann said in a statement Friday. "Mississippi residents should celebrate Independence Day and our state's right to protect the privacy of our citizens by conducting our own electoral processes."
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EDIT: I like how he's saying Japan might not put up with it any longer. Someone better tell Trump about Japan.
Didn't he give a stiff warning to NK a week ago about nuclear missile testing? Trump has no clue what to do with this madman and it's likely just another "redline" statement that goes nowhere.
Stakes are a lot higher than a gas attack though.
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I believe Japan has repealed Article 9 of their constitution to be able to play more than a self-defense role. The days of Japanese pacifism are close to over. CaptainCrunch, do you have some insight?
