Donald Trump Freekin Rocks!

[TAE]

Sadly in todays whack world the masses are asses trolling for fodder to spew and chew upon, to gossip and drool over...enter our syndicated media groups to supply said fodder...Whatever that little blurb may be to make you feel all warm n fuzzy or to get y'all up in a hissy fit...It is assembled and surgically orchestrated to hit the buttons "The machine" wants them to hit. Around the U.S., from one major city to another across the states...The names and faces may change but the message is the same......all spewed, skewed and parrotted out in a pre written script to achieve the machines agenda....i.e. $$$$$$$ and ratings....

It was a really bad day for Donald Trump today, he's in deep shit over ...fill in the blank....The man we love to hate...an EZ target who's "way out there in La La type Tweets" make it like shooting fish in a barrel for the media to have a "new and improved!" Talking point every day any day... do they skew it? do they stir shit up so they have something to yap about for the next few days , weeks or months depending on how the ratings go...you bet yer ass they do...

This video illustrates how the masses are equitably and efficiently on a daily basis fed word for word (cause that's how we do it) the goings on in the world. Sadly a majority of our populous rely upon these news outlets as their #1 source of information and current event knowledge... and how they form their "individually unique" LOL world views......scary shit....

 

[bouldersoundguy]

It was a really bad day for Donald Trump today, he's in deep shit over ...fill in the blank....

...looking directly at the sun.

 

[TAE]

...looking directly at the sun.

Now that was a timely snappy comeback! ...... I think we need to start a thread of em....

 

[andrushkiwt]

This video illustrates how the masses are equitably and efficiently on a daily basis fed word for word...]

Um, looks like bad writing to me. Nothing more. If you didn't know that newcasters don't relate news off the tops of their heads, then that's another story. Every news anchor reads from a prompter. News stations employ writers who, are suppose to anyway, work well with the way that anchor speaks.

This is a case of lazy cliches. That's about it. I guarnatee you can make anorher clip of many of the cliches in English language. To stretch it into a paranoid conspiracy theory is quite amusing though. Man, people love their conspiracies. This has literally nothing to do with trump or the media coverage of him.

 

[Bobbsy]

Sadly in todays whack world the masses are asses trolling for fodder to spew and chew upon, to gossip and drool over...enter our syndicated media groups to supply said fodder...Whatever that little blurb may be to make you feel all warm n fuzzy or to get y'all up in a hissy fit...It is assembled and surgically orchestrated to hit the buttons "The machine" wants them to hit. Around the U.S., from one major city to another across the states...The names and faces may change but the message is the same......all spewed, skewed and parrotted out in a pre written script to achieve the machines agenda....i.e. $$$$$$$ and ratings....

It was a really bad day for Donald Trump today, he's in deep shit over ...fill in the blank....The man we love to hate...an EZ target who's "way out there in La La type Tweets" make it like shooting fish in a barrel for the media to have a "new and improved!" Talking point every day any day... do they skew it? do they stir shit up so they have something to yap about for the next few days , weeks or months depending on how the ratings go...you bet yer ass they do...

This video illustrates how the masses are equitably and efficiently on a daily basis fed word for word (cause that's how we do it) the goings on in the world. Sadly a majority of our populous rely upon these news outlets as their #1 source of information and current event knowledge... and how they form their "individually unique" LOL world views......scary shit....

I spent almost 30 years working (on the technical side) for an international television news agency based in London. We had more than 400 crews all over the world which allowed us to cover stories that very few broadcasters--even networks--could get for themselves. Some stories were soft like the children's happiness one, other were dedicated specialist feeds like economics or sports--and of course the majority was hard news. Even if a story was big enough to justify other broadcasters sending in a reporter we'd still be in the game, providing our pictures and resources like editing, satellite uplinks, places for reporters to do live two ways, etc.

The thing is, when we fed our stories out by satellite they were accompanied by background information, a detailed shotlist and, on some feeds, a suggested studio lead in and either a written script or an English language voice over--or both. Nobody had to use our pictures or scripts but is was an easy way to handle stories.

I have to say that, in my 30 years, I never once saw a single instance where the editorial choice was governed by political bias. The two things were "how much will it cost to get the pictures" and "how many clients will likely use it". Indeed, the same stories were often fed to opposite sides of the same conflict--and I know that, for example Israeli and Lebanese TV would often use the same stories but with totally conflicting report voices added. I have no doubt that SOME bias would slip into our scripts--they were written by people after all--but we had a pretty script style book that avoided most of the buzz words--back in the 70s we weren't even allowed to use the word "terrorist" since one country's terrorist is another one's freedom fighter. I suspect that has changed now that organisations are self professed terrorists.

On top of our feeds, a lot of networks had some form of syndication feeds to provide national stories to affiliates and local stations. For example, some bright spark at ABC named their transmissions the "Daily Electronic Feed" so they could call it the ABC DEF.

Anyway, I certainly know that some/many of the American networks DO have a specific editorial slant--largely because laws that used to demand neutrality and equal time have been (wrongly in my opinion) repealed. However, a good many countries still have such rules. The trouble now--especially in the USA--is that with a mix of networks having a specific editorial slant plus access to social networking where people look at site they agree with, an awful lot of people have a definite "confirmation bias" in what they watch and read.

 

[TAE]

The two things were "how much will it cost to get the pictures" and "how many clients will likely use it". .

Wow that's an awesome insight Bobbsy..thanks for sharing.... In regards to what I quoted of you above (which is dead on) ...that is the "bottom line" as I said in my diatribe....all spewed, skewed and parotted out in a pre written script to achieve the machines agenda....i.e. $$$$$$$ and ratings....

My rant was not that there is some kind of "political agenda" there's an agenda but it's a corporate, no holds barred let's give the people what they want so they'll "keep tuning in"...and aside from the warm fuzzy "Fireman saves cat from tree" stuff they want juicy, nasty, gross dirt on anyone that is popular or becomes popular because something they did...It's about ratings and making money. Yeah some of the stations lean one way or the other.....Trump just makes a ridiculously easy target and gives them stuff to to twist and spin every day.....

The Charlottesville riot and what Trump's speech writers wrote for him to say that included the not so well timed or explained "both sides" fire starter was fine with me......other than it was pathetic watching his disingenuous glances down at his speech ( rather than a teleprompter ....geesh! ) But then a few Trump haters jump on the band wagon going OMG did he just say that? and the media said Holy Shit we've got a live one, this is going to provide weeks, months maybe years of drivel "air time" we can spew and skew...keep em hot... ah yes for the moment "The man we love to hate"....because clearly from the absolutely true statement he made about there was fault on "Both Sides" he is a white supremacist that hates puppies, Kittens, people of color, non heterosexuals, Jews and Muslims...clear as bell....lets impeach him.... The masses are asses and this incident is just one of a gazillion examples of how they ( the masses) take the bait (provided by the media) and run with it expounding their deep well thought out ( fricking lemmings) disdain and disgust on facebook, twitter and Instagram.. And they'll be sitting in their favorite chair in their Ivory towers watching their favorite news channel tomorrow so they have something to quack about the next day to illustrate their brilliance and deep concern for our world. We're a pretty weird species.

It doesn't have to be about Politics...It just has to help with the "bottom line" It can be about Bill Cosby, Charles Manson, Hillary or Obama...all bets are off if it is going to fill up air time and increase ratings

 

[60's guy]

It just has to help with the "bottom line" It can be about Bill Cosby, Charles Manson, Hillary or Obama...all bets are off if it is going to fill up air time and increase ratings

Comcast (NBC) is still running reruns of the Cosby Show regardless of the fact that he was on trial for rape, but reruns of the Dukes Of Hazard was taken off the air . It wouldn't surprise me at all if Jello resurrected all of those "There's always room for Jello" commercials that Cosby did for them years ago. Cable television is on its way out.

 

[TAE]

This has literally nothing to do with trump or the media coverage of him.

You are 100% correct...The title of the video has nothing to do with Trump or the point I was making...

The title of the video is Proof that the news is scripted.....A handful of huge corporations control a myriad of local networks...#1 agenda is keep em watching so we can sell advertising time...the better the ratings the mo money we can charge for the air time...So no it was not coincidental "lazy Cliches" this is absolutely clone media.....read the script, don't adlib or you will be out of a job...we know what we are doing...you follow the script to the T. Now certainly these corps lean one way or the other politically and the writers know exactly which way they are expected to spin things...Some for, some against....currently there are more against Mr. T than for him so the slant against is going to be more prolific...

I tire of the endless making mountains out of mole hills, something out of nothing BS that we are being fed almost on a daily basis..... then again..Mr. T does a pretty damn good job of shooting himself in the foot on a daily tweet tweet basis all on his own...you sure don't have to dig to deep to have something negative to say about him...

 

[andrushkiwt]

A handful of huge corporations control a myriad of local networks...

True.

#1 agenda is keep em watching so we can sell advertising time...

Not really. Many media outlets frequently go in the red, knowingly, as they are unwilling to sacrifice quality, integrity, or truth. Don't underestimate the power and intention of journalism, even through the lens of business. Especially today, media businesses look to other ways to increase revenue; subscriptions, for one.

So no it was not coincidental "lazy Cliches" this is absolutely clone media.....read the script, don't adlib or you will be out of a job...

You're making many assumptions there and it's kind of scary. Have you considered that the companies that sell these stories have recommended or suggested headlines/taglines for them? And that some producers/writers are simply too lazy to change it up? I know the Associated Press is one such company that sells these run-of-the-mill stories to fill up an hour's worth of programming. If Dallas' producer for ABC's local news hour gets an AP story with a few sentences leading into the "meat" of the story, does he really care if Miami's show is going to keep the same summary? Probably not. Those companies provided catchy phrases to lead into the story, and enough of them will change it up to not make much of a difference. What does it prove that 10 stations across the country used the same tagline? What about the other 300? And what about the rest of the story? Is every word throughout the same? Unlikely dude. And, importantly, where is any proof that failing to read the tagline provided will lead to job dismissal? That's quite presumptuous.

...something out of nothing BS that we are being fed almost on a daily basis.....

I do agree, but that's why it's up to you alone to decide how to interpret a story. Look between the lines and decide for yourself. I can tell you that if your video posted above was posted as "news" that the media is out to get you, is scripted and fake, and just cares about its bottom line, then I'd be quick to never read your paper again. You're calling out others for what they read and digest, but yet you endorse that video and back it up with arguments that are full of fallacies.

 

[TAE]

Quote Originally Posted by TAE

#1 agenda is keep em watching so we can sell advertising time...

Not really. Many media outlets frequently go in the red, knowingly, as they are unwilling to sacrifice quality, integrity, or truth. Don't underestimate the power and intention of journalism, even through the lens of business. Especially today, media businesses look to other ways to increase revenue; subscriptions, for one.

When I said that statement I was speaking of TV networks but even with newspapers and magazines, subscriptions are a small part of the revenue pie...generally advertising is the piece of the pie that keeps the presses rolling... but to that point...how do you get subscriptions? Give the masses what they want...what do they want? Juicy Dirty Laundry.

You don't have to sacrifice quality, integrity, or truth to choose topics that will stir shit up and get "the masses" to watch your news channel or read your magazine or paper...There's a daily battle going on between the media machines for "the masses" attention. You have to have sales to keep the lights on...There is no major corporation the likes of which I'm speaking running in the red due to them being true to themselves to maintain their "integrity"...The bottom line is the bottom line and if it's in the red you fix it or you expire.

HERE's a link to the top 30 media outlets today. At the bottom of that list running deeply in the black is Time coming in at the bottom with a mere 2.87 BILLION in media revenue last year...
Google at the top at over 59 Billion in "MEDIA REVENUE"

I try really hard to be equitable in my decisions and skeptical when I am given "alleged facts" that I am not familiar with....I google the shit out of stuff that I am wary of....uh oh did I say Google? The most powerful, wealthiest media machine in the world? Damn!
Welcome my son....welcome to the machine...
Where have you been, It's alright we know where you've been
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream
So welcome.....to the machine.

Yeah it's a creepy world we live in. 6 billion carbon based units wrapped in a time warp.
Like ants carrying grains of sand out of the nest and bringing food back in thinking we have some kind of clue..................we don't have a clue

 

[andrushkiwt]

...subscriptions are a small part of the revenue pie...

"Twenty years ago, advertising revenue made up 63 percent of the paper’s revenues, while subscription revenue accounted for 27 percent. As of Q1, those numbers are nearly inverted: Subscriptions account for 61 percent and advertising represents 33 percent of the top line."

- How the New York Times saved itself - Recode

HERE's a link to the top 30 media outlets today...

Of course the TOP 30 companies are going to be raking in profits. That's why they're the TOP 30! I am talking about everyone else. The Guardian = over $100 million operating losses in 2015. Sydney Morning Herald is another.

I agree the largest corporations share their sources, but if you were really interested in how that taints the bigger picture, you'd be asking who they are buying from and what THAT companies agenda is. So we've determined the local news stations buy their stories from other sources, and they sometimes keep the recommended taglines...where is the conspiracy? You've failed to prove any point.

 

[TAE]

.where is the conspiracy? You've failed to prove any point.

C'mon Andy I never said there was some kind of grand conspiracy... I did say Trump is an incredibly easy target and a great tool for the media to "keep em comin" My point in regards to the video was as I said earlier

Sadly in todays whack world the masses are asses trolling for fodder to spew and chew upon, to gossip and drool over...enter our syndicated media groups to supply said fodder...Whatever that little blurb may be to make you feel all warm n fuzzy or to get y'all up in a hissy fit...It is assembled and surgically orchestrated to hit the buttons "The machine" wants them to hit. Around the U.S., from one major city to another across the states...The names and faces may change but the message is the same......all spewed, skewed and parotted out in a pre written script to achieve the machines agenda....i.e. $$$$$$$ and ratings....

In regards to the top 30 media machines...you do realize that the "majority of the masses" get their data from those 30.... I don't know what the disparity is between those main 30 leading media information machines and media sources such as the Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald would be but I'd have to expect at least 9 out of 10 or 90%.. Of course that's just a guess with the point being that "The Machine" is filling the masses heads with what they feel best suits their needs, they'll get them doggies rolling wherever they want to get em to roll to make sure that bottom line stays in the black....

 

[Mick Doobie]

Fake news. The New York Times, you're fake news.

next

 

[Bobbsy]

Wow that's an awesome insight Bobbsy..thanks for sharing.... In regards to what I quoted of you above (which is dead on) ...that is the "bottom line" as I said in my diatribe....all spewed, skewed and parotted out in a pre written script to achieve the machines agenda....i.e. $$$$$$$ and ratings....

My rant was not that there is some kind of "political agenda" there's an agenda but it's a corporate, no holds barred let's give the people what they want so they'll "keep tuning in"...and aside from the warm fuzzy "Fireman saves cat from tree" stuff they want juicy, nasty, gross dirt on anyone that is popular or becomes popular because something they did...It's about ratings and making money. Yeah some of the stations lean one way or the other.....Trump just makes a ridiculously easy target and gives them stuff to to twist and spin every day.....

The Charlottesville riot and what Trump's speech writers wrote for him to say that included the not so well timed or explained "both sides" fire starter was fine with me......other than it was pathetic watching his disingenuous glances down at his speech ( rather than a teleprompter ....geesh! ) But then a few Trump haters jump on the band wagon going OMG did he just say that? and the media said Holy Shit we've got a live one, this is going to provide weeks, months maybe years of drivel "air time" we can spew and skew...keep em hot... ah yes for the moment "The man we love to hate"....because clearly from the absolutely true statement he made about there was fault on "Both Sides" he is a white supremacist that hates puppies, Kittens, people of color, non heterosexuals, Jews and Muslims...clear as bell....lets impeach him.... The masses are asses and this incident is just one of a gazillion examples of how they ( the masses) take the bait (provided by the media) and run with it expounding their deep well thought out ( fricking lemmings) disdain and disgust on facebook, twitter and Instagram.. And they'll be sitting in their favorite chair in their Ivory towers watching their favorite news channel tomorrow so they have something to quack about the next day to illustrate their brilliance and deep concern for our world. We're a pretty weird species.

It doesn't have to be about Politics...It just has to help with the "bottom line" It can be about Bill Cosby, Charles Manson, Hillary or Obama...all bets are off if it is going to fill up air time and increase ratings

It's less about the overall bottom line and more about logistics--and judging your audience. I've been waiting for a good example to post and now have one.

I'm sure everyone here knows that there's serious flooding in Houston and other parts of Texas. As I type this, there are 30,000 people in shelters and this number is likely to go up.

However, how many have heard the, at the same time, 1,200 people have died and several MILLION are homeless in flooding in Bangladesh and Northeast India?

By any standards, the sub-continent is a more serious catastrophe than Texas. However, there are two things working against it. First, Texas is easy to get pictures from--there are satellite trucks and flyaways galore to book and lots of pictures from local broadcasters. Many overseas broadcasters have reporters permanently in the US and it's an easy domestic flight from Washington or New York.

Bangladesh, on the other hand, is difficult to get to and if you want to feed your own pictures you either have to carry a flyaway satellite earthstation or go to a major city and pay extortionate rates to the local PTT to use for an uplink. Your reports will be hours or even a day late.

Add to this the fact that, unfortunately but logically, people are more interested in first world countries than third world countries and the choice for assignment editors is easy. Cover Texas and (maybe) mention Bangladesh.

(As an aside, I know my former employers ARE doing coverage in Bangladesh/India. Some has turned up on the BBC as a short fill in after the Texas coverage.)

 

[garww]

Sorry to say when I heard about the amount of rain, I remembered Savoy Brown - Flood in Houston. Youlden sang; "It happened long ago" : )

Ya, News has gone the way of Banks . Some time ago, I made a comment about the news on Ron Paul's toob channel. They did actually go into what hasn't changed in the press, citing the era of East Coast V West Coast News around the time the Maine explosion.

I don't know if I've mentioned this story before, but I used to listen to radio at work and they had news every hour. The first hour they had a clip of Manuel Noriega saying; : Its as if we are at war with America:, Second hour the clip is; "We are at war with America". hahah Just try to pay attention to the early reporting

 

[Mick Doobie]

Often it seems Trump is the only honest one in the lot.

Well, looks like he's done it again.

With all this tearing down of statues and shit, remember when Trump said, “I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?" Remember that?

Well, as reported in The Federalist: Leftists At UVA Are Proving Trump Right About Thomas Jefferson Statues

-His remarks were characterized by historians as “absurd” and “unacceptable” and “ignorant” and dismissed as a “red herring.” At The Daily Beast, John Avlon called Trump’s comparison “immoral” and “dangerous.” At Slate, Jamelle Bouie claimed Trump’s question was “dumb,” arguing that statues of Washington and Jefferson were safe because “the reason we memorialize them is not because of their slaveholding.”

Well. Earlier this week around 100 “students, faculty and community members” gathered at of the University of Virginia and “[covered] a statue of Thomas Jefferson in a black shroud…adorning it with signs that dubbed the former president a ‘racist’ and ‘rapist.’” The protesters derided the statue as “an emblem of white supremacy,” and demanded that it be “re-contextualized,” lambasting the people who “fetishize the legacy of Jefferson,” calling on the community to “recognize Jefferson as a rapist, racist, and slave owner.”-

Trump trolls ("liberals" lack of insight and self awareness) and gets it right, over and over and over.

 

[andrushkiwt]

...and gets it right, over and over and over.

I don't believe he's gotten a single thing right, including this.

 

[Mick Doobie]

Ah man, just stop. You're proving the point! You don't want to prove Trump right, over and over and over, do you? I haven't checked, but I bet even those "non-partisan" "fact checking" websites on the innernetz begrudgingly gave at least a "half true" rating to Trump's statement. I mean, are you saying he didn't suggest that the pansy assed social justice warriors would not stop at civil war statues, but would at some point also call for the tearing-down of statues of the founders of this country and our very own Constitution? Or, are you saying unamerican enemies of all that is good are not actually calling for statues of Washington and Jefferson to be torn down and removed?

It aint fake news, brother!

 

[bouldersoundguy]

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

 

[Mack Caster]

we're probably going to see him running for a second term....crazier yet he might win....again.....

And America will be BETTER OFF WHEN HE DOES! Dems are done for the next 8 years and it is the best thing that ever happened to this country!