Media is the system of producing, packaging, distributing and consuming information. The major media are TV, film, radio, electronic, and print.
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Lord Dampnut’s Four D’s
Preemptive Framing (Distracting),
Diversion,
Deflection,
Trial Balloon (Decoying)
George Lakoff interview
by annieli
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 08:53 PM PST
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While many remain distracted by the hope that Lord Dampnut will “die in jail”, others need to see how GOP immigration enforcement is really a PIC profit center. It is a capitalist’s wet-dream to be able to profit from criminalizing your presence.
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by annieli
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 05:34 PM PST
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Donald Trump has done journalists a huge favor, inadvertently using his insane unpopularity to boost voters' trust in them. Apparently when you get attacked by a pr*sident who has the lowest approval ratings in the history of presidential approval...
by Kerry Eleveld
38 comments
on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 07:48 PM PST
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Trump. It’s almost all you see here and elsewhere. And that is a problem.
No narcissist has ever got such coverage.
A New York Times reporter tried to go a week without Trump, but could not escape:
The new president doesn’t simply dominate...
by TomP
113 comments
on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 08:57 AM PST
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It's "Wednesday's Child is Full of Whoa! Wednesdays" on The After Show. We were going to call it "Germanic Mercury" but you know what they say, one cannot live on Greek and Roman gods, alone. At least, not in America.
Maryland teachers are forced...
by justiceputnam
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 07:50 AM PST
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The loss of democracy is an inevitable result of the ascension of unelected political power. Over the past 40 years in the US. we have witnessed the return of this cyclical phenomenon of our capitalist economic system--the gradual rise of corporate...
by psychomax
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 11:35 PM PST
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The disaster in which America finds itself today owes a great deal to lousy, superficial analysis in the media, social media and beyond. Trump and his ilk are able to get away with shading the ...
by kindler
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 03:00 AM PST
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Now that Infowars has decided to serve as the “White House plumber” proxy in accusing alleged WH staff leakers by name — we could now decide to challenge @roguePOTUSStaff as a news source, or even as rank entertainment.
As if giving press...
by annieli
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37 PM PST
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Damn Milo’s had a tough week — and it’s only Tuesday. First CPAC disinvites him from giving the keynote speech at their event, then Simon & Schuster cancels his $250,000 book deal, and, finally, Breitbart employees threatened to resign if the...
by wagatwe
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 12:16 PM PST
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Trump’s problem with the media is not that it is dishonest or lacks objectivity.
His objection to, say, the New York Times, isn’t that there’s a liberal bias in the paper that gets in the way of its objectivity, which I think would be a fair...
by azindy
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 12:16 PM PST
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In NY-1 our Representative, Mr. Lee Zeldin, announced this morning that he will be hosting “Telephone Town Halls” (note plural) starting this Thursday. The response on his Facebook and Twitter posts were immediate that this is not an acceptable format...
by deejayd
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 11:59 AM PST
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“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes , @NBCNews , @ABC , @CBS , @CNN ) is not
my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” — Donald Trump, February 17, 2017
A round up of the ...
by RETIII
6 comments
on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 02:31 PM PST
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Red Sky at Morning Tuesdays on The After Show means only one thing, it's Tuesday, and the refraction of light on the horizon portends something is a-brewing.
Lawyers for the Department of ...
by justiceputnam
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 07:50 AM PST
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by Bill Prendergast
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 05:26 AM PST
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Here’s another twist in the CPAC/Milo Yiannopoulos saga — fellow Breitbart employees are getting ready to quit their jobs if the company doesn’t sack Yiannopoulos. Apparently two employees, one of whom is a senior editor, spoke with...
by wagatwe
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on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 03:13 PM PST
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This morning I read an article from Time magazine, that really wasn't an article but a transcript of a lecture by Brett Stephens. “Bret Stephens delivered the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture this week at the University of California, Los Angeles”. For...
by Stankupchin
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on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 10:13 AM PST
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It's Metaphor Monday on The After Show . This is the day when we call things what they are. No Similes allowed. Not today.
A top National Security Council official ...
by justiceputnam
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on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 07:50 AM PST
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Normally one wouldn’t trust Tories, especially ones who have worked for reactionary sites like Heat Street. However, this one is married to the manager of Metallica, so at least from the perspective of SF Giants baseball, there’s something there worth...
by annieli
52 comments
on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 02:20 AM PST
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Iran-Contra will soon have an updated sequel to the GOP franchise, because the Venezuelan Veep is a drug kingpin with an Arab(sic) name… and ZOMG … a Syrian, and a… wait for it, a son of a Ba’athist! And no Russians … anywhere!
RW MEDIA DOTS...
by annieli
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on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 12:28 AM PST
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Why stop there, don’t just let Russia “lease” Crimea like Britain’s “lease” of Hong Kong or even the US “lease” of GITMO.
The problem is always with forfeiting the damage deposit.
Because (neo-) Colonialism … or (neo-) Imperialism has bagmen...
by annieli
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on Sun Feb 19, 2017 at 06:36 PM PST
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