Ben Shapiro recently showed up at the Podcast Movement convention in Dallas which triggered an apology from organizers after complaints that he made people feel "unsafe" just by being there and taking pictures. My take on it relates to how journalists stoke this "guilty by association" fire - leading the charge for the kind of reaction we saw in this instance.
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Immediately following my TV news career, I started a podcast, and focused on censored or suppressed speech and First Amendment issues during Covid. For almost 6 years, I have interviewed a variety of different people all with one trait in common: heterodox thinking, dissenting ideas. What did I learn? I learned that no matter how deep you dive into the dark corners of the Internet, you’ll likely never get to the “bottom of it.” The most popular and loudest messages crossing our screens are often purposefully planted by special interests to create chaos, hysteria and hate. I decided to leave this system of mind games and become a farmer so that I can actually know something to be true instead of fruitlessly searching online. Simplicity in building a real life: the kids I see running barefoot through our pasture, the vegetable I grew, the goat I milked, the dirt under my nails. Today the world is watching the memorial service for Charlie Kirk - a man who is at the center of a ...
Oh, you think you found a minute of quiet to eat your dinner? NOT SO FAST! I know every parent of littles gets this scene.
Major brain fart yesterday forgetting about the Nexstar plan to buy & merge with the TV company for which I worked at the end of my career, TEGNA. They need the FCC in their pocket to close the deal. It makes a lot more sense now why they reacted so strongly to Kimmel’s monologue. Just a reminder these “journalism” outlets are not primarily worried about Trump as a fascist if they can get something from him- that stands for any other “value” for which they claim to fight and any other political path they need to take to get there.
https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-show-cancelled-charlie-kirk-2131747
The sword arm of Rome is in full insanity mode!
Pentagon steps up media restrictions for access to credentials | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-media-restrictions-nondisclosure-8420d3a80de20a39605c588d9990c582
A showman after pawns who oppose him. But, he will never LOCK HER UP!
Trump Pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pushes-attorney-general-pam-bondi-to-prosecute-political-foes/ar-AA1N0inC
