tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1236361622321509579..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Caveat LectorKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-19192179183058280142017-01-09T09:07:38.059-05:002017-01-09T09:07:38.059-05:00For a cross-section of opinion and analysis, I lik...For a cross-section of opinion and analysis, I like "RealClearPolitics."Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-48647058047111345652017-01-09T02:07:57.759-05:002017-01-09T02:07:57.759-05:00For those of us too old to give up print and go fu...For those of us too old to give up print and go full digital, I would add "Harper's Magazine" and the "London Review of Books." A sub to their print editions is needed to read the digital versions plus online extras like blogs and essays that don't make it into the print editions. "Harper's" archive goes all the way back to 1850, good for at least one or two citations for a high school student doing a term paper in history, politics or the humanities.<br /><br />Despite the name, the LRB does not consist entirely of book reviews, nor is it strictly UK oriented. Without a subscription, the LRB lets you read one long form essay on line from the latest edition, after which they ask you to subscribe if you want more from the current edition or the archive.<br /><br />As the say in Quebec, Bonne lecture. Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-51536518336416101032017-01-08T17:20:00.256-05:002017-01-08T17:20:00.256-05:00I started watching RT after cancelling cable some ...I started watching RT after cancelling cable some years back, although I don't watch it consistently. I get RT along with 40 other free channels over-the-air using a cheap, flat digital antenna. I wonder, how many cable companies include RT in their paid package? If it's included, so are another 200+ channels (or whatever it is nowadays), so why would the USG believe that RT is so singularly powerful and influential? Personally, I get all my information off the web and tv is just an entertaining sideshow. <br /><br />Our Orwellian USG is trying to pull a fast one on us by claiming RT is such a dangerous propaganda tool. I was trying to figure out why the USG would assume that Americans who watch RT (how many could that be?), watch ONLY RT, making us vulnerable to Russian propaganda when it occurred to me that NO ONE watches ONLY RT! RT has extremely limited programming, and if you get RT, you also get dozens of other stations (as I do) or hundreds of others if it's included in a cable package. RT viewers could easily compare what we're getting in terms of news/opinions and assess the propaganda aspects, if any. <br /><br />What they fear is that we'll learn to more easily recognize THEIR corporate-sponsored propaganda if we hear calm, thoughtful dissenting voices such as Chris Hedges on his RT show. Even PBS sounds a lot like propaganda in their news/opinion/interview programs. They now have many powerful corporate sponsors they didn't used to have, including Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and the Koch Foundation among others. They're in lockstep with the rest of the corporate media and you almost can hear the drumbeats. <br /><br />Controlling the narrative, aka propaganda, means keeping the sheep herded for slaughter on the battlefields and sheared for taxes. War has been the lucrative business of our growing empire since WWII. It's "Humanity hanging from a cross of iron" as Eisenhower said. Question More, indeed. <br /><br />In regard to getting varied news and opinions, in addition to many great sites from Karen's blogroll, I'd add: <br /><br />-Zerohedge <br />-Drudge Report, a news aggregator which is always first to announce breaking news<br />-Washington Times, representing the conservative establishment<br />-Breitbart *gasp* <br /><br />I also recommend checking out the interesting daily 'Links' on the Naked Capitalism website, in addition to the NC posts themselves.annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-53876029537505429632017-01-08T15:56:33.811-05:002017-01-08T15:56:33.811-05:00Trump's Tweets the Mutterings of a Madman by H...<br />Trump's Tweets the Mutterings of a Madman by Heather Mallick, Toronto Star 1/07/17<br /><br />hmallick@thestar.caPearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-1043283325606654182017-01-08T13:32:42.502-05:002017-01-08T13:32:42.502-05:00Wonderful. Being lied to is why I stopped watchin...Wonderful. Being lied to is why I stopped watching TV forty years ago. I'm down on lies. Whether they masquerade as capitalism or whether they're the weather on TVBillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-32055724363608167452017-01-08T12:49:59.902-05:002017-01-08T12:49:59.902-05:00Karen: great analysis of what we face everyday in ...Karen: great analysis of what we face everyday in the medium trying to find a kernel of truth somewhere. Thank you for the translation.<br /><br />I just surprisingly came upon an uninterrupted statement and appearance on CNN by Glenn Greenwald who mentioned that anything reported about Russian interference in U.S. affairs is possible. <br />But, that this is an ongoing game between countries and then proceeded to remind us of some major biased reports of U.S. Intelligence agencies from the past that resulted in chaos and eventually proven false. No one mentions this on the news. Perhaps CNN is remembering past history and becoming worried as one can only hope for.<br />Greenwald was the kernel of truth on CNN today.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-6688464753210137962017-01-08T11:46:58.601-05:002017-01-08T11:46:58.601-05:00Thanks, Karen. This is right up your alley.
Ther...Thanks, Karen. This is right up your alley. <br /><br />There are also leaks and pseudoleaks. You can easily tell the difference because Obama cracks down heavily on real leaks/leakers but never on pseudoleaks. annenigmanoreply@blogger.com