I think I have an idea for getting NPR to pay attention to folks like us - storm the Capitol (METAPHORICALLY, folks - metaphorically!!!) and make Congress defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, thereby eliminating a partially hidden leg of support for NPR (and PBS).
I know, I know - “What about Masterpiece Theatre and Rick Steve’s Europe?” Make them go the way of Sesame Street. HBO saw the value of that show and bought it to broadcast on their network, right? With cable outlets and - ta-daaaaah - THE INTERNET, these programs are pretty much available to everyone in America, anyway.
Get rid of the CPB - it’s pretty much the liberal version of Radio Free Europe for Americans, now, and what purpose does it serve anymore?
> But the thing is—I’m using the words carefully here—the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t have an authority in the Wikipedia system: the website, its talk pages, the various bureaucratic structures. It just doesn’t have the authority to shut things down. So, if Big Pharma or their government representatives want to shut down a description of their research of a Covid-critical biochemist, I want to know how that happens. And I think the other people who are at work on Wikipedia, we want to know how that happens.
I can tell you how it happens. You try to update a wikipedia page, with carefully sourced facts, with information that should be out there. Then an army of other Wikipedia editors will overwhelm and bully you, reversing any edits that conflict with their narrative. To learn the real scoop on a wiki page, go to its Talk and View History pages which will catalog all this.
The rise, amongst our vast Leftist intelligentsia, of the concept of a 'Misinformation Expert' is beyond scary: "We’re talking about a kind of resurgent Maoism. 2024 is seeing a surge of chattering class agonising about 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. Anyone with a grasp of man’s inherent epistemological limitations could not seriously entertain such a notion without choking on their hubris sandwich. This CBS News item manages it though......so cosily wrapped up is it in its own legacy-media self-satisfaction....." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts
The even more scary thing is that there are now millions of Katherine Maher clones marching around in the Western world like groupthink Daleks. But I take this opportunity to also say Chris that it's absolutely brilliant how you have managed to dredge up her beyond-parody social media history. Well done!
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American non-profit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.[2] It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.[3] It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress.[4]
I think it’s time. You, Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles, Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, the crew at the Baylon Bee and (heck) throw in Elon Musk to collaborate and maybe write some satirical musical theater about the times we’re living in. I am first in line for opening night tickets. Let’s do it! This ridiculousness needs to be chronicled and vilified with humor.
Seems to me that our 250+ year experiment is being unwound by evil and no one is noticing… if they even care. Seems that when a constitutional republic is treated as a democracy that it will devolve into mob rule… which is the “kiss of death” for society. We as a people (given the current trends) will migrate into a new dark age and given the technology the population will be culled (again over time). This will be a sterile society. Interestingly the classics will be stashed away and truth (though suppressed) will remain latent. There will always be a segment of society who will seek truth. This group will be the germ from which man will regain reason and back to a just, moral society. It’s going to be ugly and we’ve been here before. There is nothing new under the sun. In the interim… educate yourself and your loved ones. Push back at the local level. Support likeminded business and fight these bastards wherever possible. We’re not out but we are down. Pax
I and hundreds of others were treated for advanced cancer by a Doctor who used highly unconventional but scientifically sound protocols.
Yet his Wikipedia site only presented negative information about him despite the efforts of his supporters and others to present an objective description of his remarkable work.
His work was clearly much too threatening to big medicine and big Pharma as his protocol did not rely on chemotherapy radiation or even pharmaceutical drugs.
This was perhaps 10 or more years ago but having experienced that I approach every Wikipedia article with the greatest of skepticism.
He hasn’t been paying attention if any of the current situation surprises him. When the term mRNA vaccine first appeared in the press in 2020, I looked it up on Wikipedia because my medical school training from decades before had not mentioned it. The entry was factual. It gave the history of research into the area, and credited Robert Malone as a key figure in developing it. It also pointed out that no mRNA vaccine had been approved for human use by the FDA due to concerns about potential adverse effects including autoimmune disease.
When Dr Malone publicly expressed concerns about rushing the untested technology out to the world at large with little evidence for safety or efficacy, within a couple of weeks the entry on mRNA vaccines had been radically changed. Malone’s name had been scrubbed. The developers from Pfizer and Moderna were credited with inventing it. No mention of potential problems.
I knew from that moment that no entry on Wikipedia was free of political bias and censorship. Regardless of who is responsible, it is no longer capable of neutrality.
Wikipedia is trustworthy on many topics. However, on some topics there are barriers. I tried to edit about the "𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬" by Matt Taibbi published at 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 (hosted at Substack). I ran up against the fact that because news outlets on Wikipedia's list of "Reliable Sources" did not cover the "𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬" in any way that could be cited, I was not successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources.
Examine the "Reliable Sources" that are acceptable to understand why it is difficult to provide viewpoint diversity in Wikipedia on current events.
Thanks for your commitment to the truth. If the Republicans were serious they would defund NPR but we know that they aren’t. The speaker wants to fund the corruption in Ukraine and continue to illegal spying on American citizens and further fund the invasion of America I wonder what will rise from the ashes of the Republican Party.
Larry Sanger, "It is getting to the point where you can’t accuse people like Katherine Maher of hypocrisy anymore, because they’re not being hypocritical.'
I refer you both to the article by Gary Saul Morson, "The New Criterion" October 2019 issue on Leninthink. He says, "a true Leninist does not decide whether to lie. He automatically says what is most useful, with no reflection necessary...a true Bolshevik is not even a hypocrite." I believe this applies to Maher at NPR, Professor Gay at Harvard, and perhaps to President Biden as well.
I shout at commentators calling out a politician for hypocrisy. They don't hear me. They also don't understand Morson's point. To adjust to current times, we only have to replace words like "Leninist" with "Progressive" and 'Bolshevik (which means majority in Russian) with Democrat. Restated, "a true Progressive does not decide whether to lie. He [/She] automatically says what is most useful, with no reflection necessary...a true Democrat is not even a hypocrite." The word hypocrisy is meaningless.
Such an important discussion. Great job, Chris! Seeking the truth has become terribly more difficult and time consuming.
Doors are closing all around us, thanks for pushing some open.
I think I have an idea for getting NPR to pay attention to folks like us - storm the Capitol (METAPHORICALLY, folks - metaphorically!!!) and make Congress defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, thereby eliminating a partially hidden leg of support for NPR (and PBS).
I know, I know - “What about Masterpiece Theatre and Rick Steve’s Europe?” Make them go the way of Sesame Street. HBO saw the value of that show and bought it to broadcast on their network, right? With cable outlets and - ta-daaaaah - THE INTERNET, these programs are pretty much available to everyone in America, anyway.
Get rid of the CPB - it’s pretty much the liberal version of Radio Free Europe for Americans, now, and what purpose does it serve anymore?
> But the thing is—I’m using the words carefully here—the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t have an authority in the Wikipedia system: the website, its talk pages, the various bureaucratic structures. It just doesn’t have the authority to shut things down. So, if Big Pharma or their government representatives want to shut down a description of their research of a Covid-critical biochemist, I want to know how that happens. And I think the other people who are at work on Wikipedia, we want to know how that happens.
I can tell you how it happens. You try to update a wikipedia page, with carefully sourced facts, with information that should be out there. Then an army of other Wikipedia editors will overwhelm and bully you, reversing any edits that conflict with their narrative. To learn the real scoop on a wiki page, go to its Talk and View History pages which will catalog all this.
The rise, amongst our vast Leftist intelligentsia, of the concept of a 'Misinformation Expert' is beyond scary: "We’re talking about a kind of resurgent Maoism. 2024 is seeing a surge of chattering class agonising about 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. Anyone with a grasp of man’s inherent epistemological limitations could not seriously entertain such a notion without choking on their hubris sandwich. This CBS News item manages it though......so cosily wrapped up is it in its own legacy-media self-satisfaction....." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/take-me-to-your-experts
The even more scary thing is that there are now millions of Katherine Maher clones marching around in the Western world like groupthink Daleks. But I take this opportunity to also say Chris that it's absolutely brilliant how you have managed to dredge up her beyond-parody social media history. Well done!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American non-profit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.[2] It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.[3] It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress.[4]
Congress needs to put an end NPR
Christopher,
I think it’s time. You, Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles, Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, the crew at the Baylon Bee and (heck) throw in Elon Musk to collaborate and maybe write some satirical musical theater about the times we’re living in. I am first in line for opening night tickets. Let’s do it! This ridiculousness needs to be chronicled and vilified with humor.
Seems to me that our 250+ year experiment is being unwound by evil and no one is noticing… if they even care. Seems that when a constitutional republic is treated as a democracy that it will devolve into mob rule… which is the “kiss of death” for society. We as a people (given the current trends) will migrate into a new dark age and given the technology the population will be culled (again over time). This will be a sterile society. Interestingly the classics will be stashed away and truth (though suppressed) will remain latent. There will always be a segment of society who will seek truth. This group will be the germ from which man will regain reason and back to a just, moral society. It’s going to be ugly and we’ve been here before. There is nothing new under the sun. In the interim… educate yourself and your loved ones. Push back at the local level. Support likeminded business and fight these bastards wherever possible. We’re not out but we are down. Pax
I and hundreds of others were treated for advanced cancer by a Doctor who used highly unconventional but scientifically sound protocols.
Yet his Wikipedia site only presented negative information about him despite the efforts of his supporters and others to present an objective description of his remarkable work.
His work was clearly much too threatening to big medicine and big Pharma as his protocol did not rely on chemotherapy radiation or even pharmaceutical drugs.
This was perhaps 10 or more years ago but having experienced that I approach every Wikipedia article with the greatest of skepticism.
He hasn’t been paying attention if any of the current situation surprises him. When the term mRNA vaccine first appeared in the press in 2020, I looked it up on Wikipedia because my medical school training from decades before had not mentioned it. The entry was factual. It gave the history of research into the area, and credited Robert Malone as a key figure in developing it. It also pointed out that no mRNA vaccine had been approved for human use by the FDA due to concerns about potential adverse effects including autoimmune disease.
When Dr Malone publicly expressed concerns about rushing the untested technology out to the world at large with little evidence for safety or efficacy, within a couple of weeks the entry on mRNA vaccines had been radically changed. Malone’s name had been scrubbed. The developers from Pfizer and Moderna were credited with inventing it. No mention of potential problems.
I knew from that moment that no entry on Wikipedia was free of political bias and censorship. Regardless of who is responsible, it is no longer capable of neutrality.
I’m old enough to remember a free and open Internet. But the Regime would not put up with that.
Wikipedia is trustworthy on many topics. However, on some topics there are barriers. I tried to edit about the "𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬" by Matt Taibbi published at 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 (hosted at Substack). I ran up against the fact that because news outlets on Wikipedia's list of "Reliable Sources" did not cover the "𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬" in any way that could be cited, I was not successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources.
Examine the "Reliable Sources" that are acceptable to understand why it is difficult to provide viewpoint diversity in Wikipedia on current events.
I think what they're saying is more like "We're in control and we don't care what you think."
Thanks for your commitment to the truth. If the Republicans were serious they would defund NPR but we know that they aren’t. The speaker wants to fund the corruption in Ukraine and continue to illegal spying on American citizens and further fund the invasion of America I wonder what will rise from the ashes of the Republican Party.
Maher represents Marxist control over speech and should be fired forthwith
Marxism is permeating the culture. Beware and fight it.
Larry Sanger, "It is getting to the point where you can’t accuse people like Katherine Maher of hypocrisy anymore, because they’re not being hypocritical.'
I refer you both to the article by Gary Saul Morson, "The New Criterion" October 2019 issue on Leninthink. He says, "a true Leninist does not decide whether to lie. He automatically says what is most useful, with no reflection necessary...a true Bolshevik is not even a hypocrite." I believe this applies to Maher at NPR, Professor Gay at Harvard, and perhaps to President Biden as well.
I shout at commentators calling out a politician for hypocrisy. They don't hear me. They also don't understand Morson's point. To adjust to current times, we only have to replace words like "Leninist" with "Progressive" and 'Bolshevik (which means majority in Russian) with Democrat. Restated, "a true Progressive does not decide whether to lie. He [/She] automatically says what is most useful, with no reflection necessary...a true Democrat is not even a hypocrite." The word hypocrisy is meaningless.