SHE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? Jack Phillips, Public Accommodation, Monopolies, and Social Media.
Archive for 2019
June 15, 2019
FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING: America’s Fabian revolution: Prelude to a Second American Revolution.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE, TOO: Sci-Fi Scribe Rejects PC Groupthink Via New Anthology.
IF YOU DARE DISSENT FROM “ORANGE MAN BAD” YOU WILL BE DESTROYED: Here’s a brave person.
THOSE WHO WOULD OBLITERATE HISTORY ARE DESTINED TO BE BIT IN THE BUTT BY IT WHEN THEY LEAST EXPECT IT: Civil War Days Event Killed by Political Correctness.
THESE AREN’T THE CRAZY YEARS. THESE ARE THE RUNNING AROUND WITH PANTS ON THEIR HEADS GOING WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP YEARS. AT LEAST FOR THE LEFT: Jennifer Rubin Says Hope Hicks Testimony Will ‘Crack Trump’s Wall’.
PERHAPS NOT THE SANEST RESPONSE, BUT I SYMPATHIZE. SAY IT WITH ME: SENDING YOUR CHILD TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS CHILD ABUSE! Jamie Rathburn Became a Bully to Fight Bullies.
MORE OF THESE PLEASE: The Bell Tolls: Oberlin College’s $33 Million Lesson.
June 14, 2019
OPEN THREAD: Opinions: Share ’em if you got ’em.
DEBATE ALL THE CANDIDATES! DNC Announces the Twenty Candidates Who Will be on the Stage for First Debates.
HOW GREG GUTFELD’S SUCCESS EXPOSES THE MEDIA’S CULTURAL BLINDSPOTS:
As Variety noted in May, “Year to date, Fox News’ ‘Gutfeld’ has secured a bigger average viewership – more than 1.73 million – than any of TV’s late-night offerings except CBS’ ‘Late Show’ and NBC’s ‘Tonight Show.’” A Washington Examiner analysis of Nielson data for the year compared Gutfeld’s average audience on Fox News to his competitors’, and the results were illuminating:
Gutfeld’s show, which airs on Saturdays at 10 p.m. EST, has an average of 1.7 million viewers. Meaning his show averages more viewers than:
-HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” (1.5 million viewers)
-NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (1.2 million viewers)
-CBS’ “Late Late Show with James Corden” (1.2 million viewers)
-HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (1 million viewers)
-TBS’ “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (835,000 viewers)
-Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” (732,000 viewers)The difference between Gutfeld’s show and the programs eating his dust is a steady drumbeat of media coverage inflating their cultural influence. Outlets regularly pluck clips from every late-night show trailing Gutfeld’s while virtually ignoring him, despite the gaps in viewership.
It’s a smaller-scale version of the Mad Men effect, as spotted by veteran media critic Richard Rushfield in 2011: “Mad Men at its height was watched by 2.9 million viewers. In contrast, CBS’ military police procedural drama NCIS last week was seen by 19.7 million viewers. As far as I can tell, NCIS has never been featured on the cover of any major American magazine apart from TV Guide and one issue of Inland Empire, the magazine of California’s suburban Riverside and San Bernadino counties…It would be one thing if the papers (and the New York Times certainly is not alone in this) were to say, here’s our picks for the new season or what we think is the most interesting show on TV, or perhaps more to the point, here’s what we believe that the rarified niche of upscale, urban readers that we target will be interested in reading about. But they don’t; they still operate under the frayed pretence that they are covering the ‘news’ of culture, giving their readers a report on what the most important developments of the day in the entertainment world. By that standard, the ‘flood the zone’ coverage of Mad Men is completely unjustified in comparison to the information blackout on NCIS.”
GOOGLE IS GIVING BETO’S CAMPAIGN ACCESS TO AD TYPES OTHER CANDIDATES CAN’T GET.
It can be hard to keep track of all 23 Democrats running for US president, we know, but Google’s advertising enforcement systems don’t seem to realize that Beto O’Rourke is one of them.
Google has been treating Beto’s campaign ads as if they weren’t political content, raising questions over whether Google is capable of keeping its already anemic promise of transparency for political ads.
Just think of Google as Democratic Party operatives with a near-monopoly on Internet searches, and it all makes sense.
THIS IS FAR TOO ON BRAND: The DNC Has Spent More Money Than It’s Raised This Year. And as the metadata tag on this Bloomberg article notes, “Democrats’ 2020 Odds Against Trump Clouded by Party Finances.”
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Steve Scalise Was Shot Two Years Ago Today. Why Is The Media So Silent On The Anniversary?
Because…
Earlier: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
POWERLINE SHINES THE LIGHT ON ONE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES’ SLEAZIEST POLITICAL FRAUDSTERS: I am referring to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Powerline’s Scott Johnson has stayed on several tawdry Omar stories that the mainstream media ignores — actually covers with a pillow, to employ that brilliant quip. The link leads to Scott’s sixth post in a series looking into Omar’s campaign finance shenanigans (crimes) and likely bigamy. Check out the entire series of posts. You’ll see he’s also fencing with his local Democratic Party propaganda organ, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Once again powerlineblog is breaking news biased media won’t break.
PAULA BOLYARD: Pinterest Blacklists PJ Media, Other Conservative Sites and This Is Just the Tip of the Censorship Iceberg. “Worse, when I tried to add an image to the pin and clicked ‘save from site,’ which ordinarily brings up images from the website you’re linking to, I got this message:”
Of course, we don’t allow nudity on PJM—in fact, it is our editorial policy to blur it out when it appears in an image that is necessary to explain a story. We are not a po*rn site either, although we do write about it from time to time, most often in the context of pointing out its deleterious effects on the culture and on the relationships between men and women. That doesn’t stop the Big Brothers of Big Tech from categorizing us that way in order to shut us up.
PJM reached out to Pinterest for an explanation but received no reply.
STACY MCCAIN ON CORPORATE CENSORSHIP: A Short History of the Social Media Thought Police Regime.
Read the whole thing.
HOMETOWN CROWD VOTES THUMBS DOWN: Unthinkable: Could Kamala Harris Finish Fourth…In California?
HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I HAVE A NEW BOOK OUT? Don’t just sit there, buy a copy. And maybe one for your local library.
RIP: Denver Broncos mourn the loss of owner Pat Bowlen, “who passed away late Thursday night at age 75 following his courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.”
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Joy Behar: Climate Change Could Prevent Joe Biden From Curing Cancer.
Joe’s been personally fighting global warming since 1987, and only curing cancer since 2015. If anybody can multitask both “Sputnik Moments” quickly to completion, it’s him.