A bit of heartening news: the NYT published an article about Berliner's suspension and the comments are overwhelmingly critical of NPR and the suspension.
I could focus on the irony of someone commenting about another news organization in the NYT that "It is no longer a news organization but rather a social justice advocacy organization that uses stories to advance policy agendas," when that's also an apt description for the NYT, but let's take the victories where we can find them. The FP hit an absolute home run with this story and deserves to take a victory lap. NPR might be beyond saving, but there's now broad public recognition of what it's become.
A federal judge says no males in female sports violates Title IX…I can’t say I’m shocked. The most educated people have consistently shown themselves to be the biggest morons in the country over the last several years.
I'm pro-liberal democracy/democratic republic, pro- electoral college, pro- liberal education, pro-free speech, pro-responsible capitalism, pro- merit, pro -blind justice, pro- private property, pro-animals and the environment, pro- men and pro-women, pro- Judeo-Christian underpinnings of Western societies. If you're a man who wants to be a woman that's fine, but do not step on my rights by mandating what I can think or say; that I call any individual "they" or be punished for the thought crime of not regarding you as an actual woman. I'm anti-DEI, anti-censorship, anti-real racism, against any race; anti- tribalism, anti- groupthink, anti-"disinformation" cons, anti-politicization of law enforcement at every level. I have a particular aversion to indoctrination. I believe in an additive, not zero-sum approach. Don't tear down, often literally, white founders -- of the country or Harvard -- add to them. Don't destroy or bowdlerize the Western Canon -- add to it. Most of these things are dead center. The left and the New York Times keep moving the goal post on labels. Anything that is not "progressive," which has become a euphemism for a pastiche of anti- Western, anti- American, anti- white, anti- semitic Marxism, is somehow on the "right." AOC is never described as a Marxist. Most people are not are all Column A or all Column B. Most are in the center -a little to left of center, a little to the right. We should use "center" more often if for no other reason than it must hold.
I read the USC Muslim's social media posts. They were about the lack of human rights, women's rights, gay rights, Christian rights, Jewish rights, minority rights and journalist free speech rights in the 2 billion, 41 Islamic Apartheid nation world...just kidding.
Kudos to Oliver on today's column. More journalism and less opinion. Regarding censorship ( and its sister conformity of thought), this is the issue that launched Common Sense and it is only getting worse. Make no mistake this is predominantly from the left ( USC is not MAGA country although do be careful if you venture out to a subway store at 2 am). I was would have let the Val give her hate filled speech so all can see what the young lady stands for and how deep her disgust is for western civilization and America. I am ifcthe view that she was canceled to prevent the USC rot from being exposed. The only thing that would not have been safe had she done so would have been the jobs of senior administrators at the University of Spoiled Children and decreases in alumni donations. As for Europe, the Enlightenment is now a footnote to history and the clock is tik toking before the continent and great Britain will pay the price for their decision to open their borders and abandon their heritage and history. C'EST LA VIE.
Am Appalled by FISA (702) and the expanded powers of surveillance. Also appalled that congressional members have a certain exemption from this.
BUT why this framing ‘targeting everyone from BLM protesters to January 6 rioters. ”
I would be more accepting if you called them both protestors or both rioters vs the subtle(not so subtle)insinuation that one was acceptable and the other not.
We’re talking about a kind of resurgent Maoism. You cannot have escaped hearing about chattering class agonising on how we citizens need legislation to protect us from a supposed epidemic of "misinformation". I on the other hand, can think of nothing more chillingly Orwellian than the concept of a misinformation expert. Any sane politician could not entertain such a notion without choking on their hubris sandwich. ....."
re: FISA, et al: I remember so very well when the Towers went down. My fiancée and I were talking on the telephone and watching it all unfold on TV.
She said, "My God, the damage this will do to the country."
My response? "No, that's not where the damage will come from. Yes, this is horrific, but compared to the size of the US economy, it is trivial. The real damage will come from the government's overreaction." How prescient those words have turned out to be. The natural order of things is for governments to seek more and more power - and to use every crisis as the opportunity to press that shiny jackboot deeper into the public neck.
If there were ever an election that mattered, it's the one coming up in November. Will Americans move to take back some of their Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms from the public enemies who get their mail in Washington? They got a tiny start in November of 2016. We know the Left can't win unless they cheat, and we know they are going to cheat.
Will it be enough? Maybe. I'm not hopeful.
re: 4B. They left out the most important "B." And that one is why the Passport Bros are going overseas to look for love. You can't enforce a monopoly when your customer has options. We'll breed you hog-ringed, blue-haired beauties out of existence in a generation. Enjoy your cats, Girls.
I thought that NPR would be chastened enough to wait a couple weeks before dealing with Uri. But left wing viciousness will not tolerate that. If he did not know it would end badly for him he thoroughly miscomprehends how nasty and intolerant leftists are. His having lived there for so long and thinking otherwise is telling. He said he saw hope in the form of the new CEO. Ha.
The Url Berliner story offers some interesting ironies. For example, his offense did not include revealing any proprietary secrets, or really any secrets at all . He simply explained and added context to what was already obvious to NPR listeners like me. In the Before Time, we called this journalism.
Also, the ostensible reason for his suspension is that there is apparently some rule at NPR prohibiting its staff from speaking through other media without NPR's prior consent. Do other media organizations have similar gag rules? Have any other NPR staff been disciplined for speaking - for example - through X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and other media? If not, does this imply that NPR approved their comments?
The great Matt Taibbi also has a hilarious piece on Maher's tweets (she's obsessed with Thanksgiving). She was also once recognized by the WEF as a young global leader--that pretty much tells you all you need to know.
I remember NPR's farcical bias "investigation" led by Ira Glass, where NPR - not a third party - determined that they were unbiased. It was such an absurd conclusion, like catching someone in the act and they're still denying it.
I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up, because accusations of bias at NPR are not new at all. They must be defunded. They claim tax dollars are a drop in the bucket, but even a 5% revenue hit could end an organization.
A bit of heartening news: the NYT published an article about Berliner's suspension and the comments are overwhelmingly critical of NPR and the suspension.
I could focus on the irony of someone commenting about another news organization in the NYT that "It is no longer a news organization but rather a social justice advocacy organization that uses stories to advance policy agendas," when that's also an apt description for the NYT, but let's take the victories where we can find them. The FP hit an absolute home run with this story and deserves to take a victory lap. NPR might be beyond saving, but there's now broad public recognition of what it's become.
A federal judge says no males in female sports violates Title IX…I can’t say I’m shocked. The most educated people have consistently shown themselves to be the biggest morons in the country over the last several years.
I'm pro-liberal democracy/democratic republic, pro- electoral college, pro- liberal education, pro-free speech, pro-responsible capitalism, pro- merit, pro -blind justice, pro- private property, pro-animals and the environment, pro- men and pro-women, pro- Judeo-Christian underpinnings of Western societies. If you're a man who wants to be a woman that's fine, but do not step on my rights by mandating what I can think or say; that I call any individual "they" or be punished for the thought crime of not regarding you as an actual woman. I'm anti-DEI, anti-censorship, anti-real racism, against any race; anti- tribalism, anti- groupthink, anti-"disinformation" cons, anti-politicization of law enforcement at every level. I have a particular aversion to indoctrination. I believe in an additive, not zero-sum approach. Don't tear down, often literally, white founders -- of the country or Harvard -- add to them. Don't destroy or bowdlerize the Western Canon -- add to it. Most of these things are dead center. The left and the New York Times keep moving the goal post on labels. Anything that is not "progressive," which has become a euphemism for a pastiche of anti- Western, anti- American, anti- white, anti- semitic Marxism, is somehow on the "right." AOC is never described as a Marxist. Most people are not are all Column A or all Column B. Most are in the center -a little to left of center, a little to the right. We should use "center" more often if for no other reason than it must hold.
I read the USC Muslim's social media posts. They were about the lack of human rights, women's rights, gay rights, Christian rights, Jewish rights, minority rights and journalist free speech rights in the 2 billion, 41 Islamic Apartheid nation world...just kidding.
Pardon my ignorance, has a “left wing” event ever been shut down for safety concerns?
Kudos to Oliver on today's column. More journalism and less opinion. Regarding censorship ( and its sister conformity of thought), this is the issue that launched Common Sense and it is only getting worse. Make no mistake this is predominantly from the left ( USC is not MAGA country although do be careful if you venture out to a subway store at 2 am). I was would have let the Val give her hate filled speech so all can see what the young lady stands for and how deep her disgust is for western civilization and America. I am ifcthe view that she was canceled to prevent the USC rot from being exposed. The only thing that would not have been safe had she done so would have been the jobs of senior administrators at the University of Spoiled Children and decreases in alumni donations. As for Europe, the Enlightenment is now a footnote to history and the clock is tik toking before the continent and great Britain will pay the price for their decision to open their borders and abandon their heritage and history. C'EST LA VIE.
Am Appalled by FISA (702) and the expanded powers of surveillance. Also appalled that congressional members have a certain exemption from this.
BUT why this framing ‘targeting everyone from BLM protesters to January 6 rioters. ”
I would be more accepting if you called them both protestors or both rioters vs the subtle(not so subtle)insinuation that one was acceptable and the other not.
"A growing closed-mindedness across the West".....the scariest bit for me is the rise of the "Misinformation Expert": https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts
We’re talking about a kind of resurgent Maoism. You cannot have escaped hearing about chattering class agonising on how we citizens need legislation to protect us from a supposed epidemic of "misinformation". I on the other hand, can think of nothing more chillingly Orwellian than the concept of a misinformation expert. Any sane politician could not entertain such a notion without choking on their hubris sandwich. ....."
re: FISA, et al: I remember so very well when the Towers went down. My fiancée and I were talking on the telephone and watching it all unfold on TV.
She said, "My God, the damage this will do to the country."
My response? "No, that's not where the damage will come from. Yes, this is horrific, but compared to the size of the US economy, it is trivial. The real damage will come from the government's overreaction." How prescient those words have turned out to be. The natural order of things is for governments to seek more and more power - and to use every crisis as the opportunity to press that shiny jackboot deeper into the public neck.
If there were ever an election that mattered, it's the one coming up in November. Will Americans move to take back some of their Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms from the public enemies who get their mail in Washington? They got a tiny start in November of 2016. We know the Left can't win unless they cheat, and we know they are going to cheat.
Will it be enough? Maybe. I'm not hopeful.
re: 4B. They left out the most important "B." And that one is why the Passport Bros are going overseas to look for love. You can't enforce a monopoly when your customer has options. We'll breed you hog-ringed, blue-haired beauties out of existence in a generation. Enjoy your cats, Girls.
I thought that NPR would be chastened enough to wait a couple weeks before dealing with Uri. But left wing viciousness will not tolerate that. If he did not know it would end badly for him he thoroughly miscomprehends how nasty and intolerant leftists are. His having lived there for so long and thinking otherwise is telling. He said he saw hope in the form of the new CEO. Ha.
It should be pointed out that Mr. Berliner loves NPR enough to put his career on the line for it.
I can only wonder what the management who suspended him love. And could I live up to his example?
The Url Berliner story offers some interesting ironies. For example, his offense did not include revealing any proprietary secrets, or really any secrets at all . He simply explained and added context to what was already obvious to NPR listeners like me. In the Before Time, we called this journalism.
Also, the ostensible reason for his suspension is that there is apparently some rule at NPR prohibiting its staff from speaking through other media without NPR's prior consent. Do other media organizations have similar gag rules? Have any other NPR staff been disciplined for speaking - for example - through X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and other media? If not, does this imply that NPR approved their comments?
Bravo Uri.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” GO
The great Matt Taibbi also has a hilarious piece on Maher's tweets (she's obsessed with Thanksgiving). She was also once recognized by the WEF as a young global leader--that pretty much tells you all you need to know.
If Trump’s strategy wasn’t working why was there peace in the Middle East and elsewhere for that matter.
I remember NPR's farcical bias "investigation" led by Ira Glass, where NPR - not a third party - determined that they were unbiased. It was such an absurd conclusion, like catching someone in the act and they're still denying it.
I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up, because accusations of bias at NPR are not new at all. They must be defunded. They claim tax dollars are a drop in the bucket, but even a 5% revenue hit could end an organization.
Good riddance.