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Archive for 2024
April 16, 2024
WINNING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE: Hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters wreak havoc in downtown NYC, disrupt bridge traffic as cops make arrests.
IRAN MANAGES INTERNAL ISSUES: Iran state TV uses footage of crazed One Direction fans to show ‘Israelis panicking’ after missile attacks.
‘TAKE THE WIN’ – AND SHOVE IT DOWN THE MULLAHS’ CRAWS: Israel prepares air force to hit Iran ‘clearly and forcefully’ in response to missile barrage: report.
LET THE GOP TAKE NOTE: THE TORIES HAVE BEEN SO BAD THAT NOT EVEN LABOUR’S RECORD WILL SAVE THEM: Labour’s Metro Mayors and seven years of dismal failure.
NOTHING TO SEE HEAR, IGNORE THIS DISINFORMATION*: Massive cancer deaths study vindicates my warnings over covid boosters.
*Disinformation meaning: Inconvenient (to the “elites”) news.
THEIR EFFORTS TO HIDE IT ARE NEARLY AS INCOMPETENT AS THEIR EFFORTS SELLING THOSE VACCINES – IT’S LIKE THEIR WHOLE PURPOSE IS TO MAKE US EAT THOSE LIES: The vast scale of vaccine damage America tried (and failed) to hide.
OF COURSE HE DID: Biden Let Sanctions Against Iran Expire Before Attack on Israel.
INDEED: Rights don’t end at state lines.
MARK STEYN SIFTS THE SETTLING DUST: When the Dust Settles.
April 15, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Have We Already Spiraled Into a Regional War in the Middle East?
#JOURNALISM:
These two stories were published on the same day a few weeks ago 🥴https://t.co/262uDBIJZbhttps://t.co/262uDBIJZb
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) April 15, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to me, when you post.
I THOUGHT HAWKING EVAPORATION MADE THAT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT APPARENTLY THEY’VE CHANGED THEIR MIND ON THAT: Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects.
This past week, a longtime NPR journalist, Uri Berliner, blew the lid off with an article headlined “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.”
Appearing on the Free Press online Substack, the piece has gone viral, as noted in a front-page Washington Times story last Thursday.
Mr. Berliner seems to be the kind of well-intended liberal who believes, despite thousands of years of evidence, that people are basically good and that we just need more government to fix everything.He says right off the bat that he is “Sarah Lawrence-educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that.”
In other words, he isn’t some MAGA Republican wringing his hands at the outrageous liberal bias that infects most of the press — and NPR in spades.
As of this writing, he is still working for NPR, but I would guess his days are numbered there, and he knew that when he wrote his remarkably candid essay.
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The “message from the top,” Mr. Berliner recalls, was that “America’s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it.”
NPR’s staff was subjected to charges of White privilege and forced to undergo diversity training.
“Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace,” Mr. Berliner says. “Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to ‘start talking about race.’”
Affinity groups sprouted, including those representing LGBTQ employees. NPR staffers faithfully pushed transgenderism and were told to “avoid the term biological sex.”
There’s more, but you get the idea. The irony is that Mr. Berliner’s article is superbly written, first-class journalism.
I blame “late-stage capitalism” for NPR-post-2016 decline:
I almost can't believe this woman is real. Normal human beings just do not talk like this https://t.co/tpKkouRqom pic.twitter.com/6Q5FXtlONL
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) April 15, 2024
Related: ‘White Silence is Complicity:’ NPR’s New CEO Sounded More Like an Activist Than a Journalist in 2020 Tweets. Katherine Maher said ‘it’s hard to be mad’ about riots that caused up to $2 billion in damage.
UPDATE: New NPR CEO Dubbed Bill Maher ‘Racist Bigot.’
“The future NPR CEO had some choice words for the liberal comedian at the time, although she omitted any facts to back them up,” Christian Toto writes. “Why would the new NPR CEO ever say such a thing? As Bill Maher repeatedly warns, he hasn’t shifted to the Right over the past decade. Many modern liberals shifted to the extreme Left while he stood his ground. For that, he’s been savaged by his fellow progressives.”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Psychedelics Could Pose Risks For People With Personality Disorders, Study Finds.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Biden’s Middle East policy is beyond parody. “Is this ineptitude, or is it corruption? As the girl in the taco commercials says, ‘Why not both?'”
WELL, GOOD: Breaking Barriers: CPAP Alternative Matches Efficacy in Clinical Trials. “People with hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea were no less likely to see their blood pressure drop over six months if they used a mandibular advancement device (MAD), which is inserted onto the teeth similar to a bite guard. compared to a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device, according to research featured at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session. . . . MADs are designed to help keep the airway open by repositioning the lower jaw and moving the tongue forward. Previous studies have shown that CPAP devices outperform MADs in terms of apnea-hypopnea index, the standard metric used to measure sleep apnea severity. However, there is evidence that MADs may be better tolerated than CPAP, which some people find too uncomfortable or cumbersome for sustained use.”
TWO NPRS IN ONE!
Shot: Another Boeing whistleblower says he faced retaliation for reporting ‘shortcuts.’
—NPR, Friday.
Chaser: NPR’s New CEO Scolds 25-Year Veteran For Exposé Outing Network’s Bias.
National Public Radio (NPR) CEO and president Katherine Maher lashed out at senior Editor Uri Berliner over a scathing op-ed he wrote for The Free Press — in which he claimed that NPR had displayed political bias on a number of occasions and, in doing so, had “lost America’s trust.”
Maher, who stepped into her role at NPR just three weeks ago, claimed that Berliner’s assessment — made after 25 years with the outlet — was “deeply simplistic” as well as “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”
Without mentioning Berliner by name — or giving any specifics with regard to his comments — Maher simply claimed that NPR was devoted to providing information to the public, and that the outlet’s “service to this aspirational mission was called in question this week.”
“Asking a question about whether we’re living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard questions,” Maher continued. “Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”
Maher certainly seems obsessed with “identity:”
Of course, she does have other issues on her mind as well:
UPDATE: Funny, I thought a future public radio executive would be a lot more concerned about the intermingling of church and state:
NOT ANTI-WAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE: Palestine activists block Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate and roads to Chicago O’Hare airport in coordinated attempt to bring America to its knees.
UPDATE:
HAPPENING NOW: Pro Hamas protesters are preventing cars from entering SeaTac Airport near Seattle.
📸Courtesy: Frank Koumaros pic.twitter.com/GNvAme04vG— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 15, 2024
Offer not valid in Florida, however:
In Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them. pic.twitter.com/XU6ZUUf9xX
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) April 15, 2024
UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION? Measles should be long forgotten. Why are cases rising in the U.S.?
GREAT, BUT GO TO THE RANGE AND TRAIN, TOO: Californians are buying up guns after Border Patrol starts dumping thousands of migrants on streets.