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Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 19:13:06 UTC 2017


Here's an example, Grace. Now I know  you may say that the Daily Kos is a
"liberal site", and for the most part it is, but the writer has a valid
point here.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/25/1624950/-NPR-isn-t-liberal-so-stop-thinking-that-it-is-Because-it-s-not
A lie is a lie. It isn't an "alternative fact" or anything else. It's a lie.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm interested in your comment about NPR, Jay. That's where I get most of
> my news...along with the BBC news Hour--and I hadn't noticed that shift to
> the right. In fact, I've noticed that if they do interview folks on the
> right, they challenge them pretty directly, sometimes arguing persistently.
>
> > On Jan 25, 2017, at 11:34 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I want reasonably unbiased news, I tend to go to The Guardian-US and
> > Al-Jazeera English. I've given up on NPR because it's taken a hard turn
> to
> > the right, and I don't subscribe to WaPo or NYT because I don't pay for
> > online subscriptions.
> >
> > Arresting journalists for doing their work is typical of totalitarian
> > regimes.
> >
> > And what, pray tell, is "disgusting and obscene" about a pink (or other
> > colored) hat with cat ears? Really.~smdh~
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Well, he pulled the NYT's credentials for awhile during the campaign,
> and
> >> I fully expect him to do that again at least for the near future. Same
> with
> >> the Washington Post.
> >> And, in case you haven't seen it, 6 journalists who were covering the
> >> protests during the actual inauguration were arrested and arraigned on
> >> felony charges. Hearings will be in March or April, I forget which.
> >> "1984" no longer seems like fiction--Alternative Facts are the modern
> >> version of New-speak.
> >>
> >>>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/25/2017 9:17:55 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >>> kristin at verumsolum.com writes:
> >>>
> >>> . My  only workarounds so far are withdrawal and using foreign media
> >>> (BBC, CBC,  etc) instead of domestic. I still get the high(?) points of
> >>> US political  news, but without the need to hear every reaction in
> quite
> >>> so much detail  nor with the need to be bipartisan (since their
> audiences
> >>> are not US  voters).>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I get plenty of reassurance from the evening fare of MSNBC which will
> >>> serve up solid news for four hours or so weeknights.
> >>>
> >>> When the august USA "paper of record," the New York Times, starts to
> >>> call Trump a liar, it leads me to understand I'm not the only one
> >> feeling
> >>> that way.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> David S.
> >>
>


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