Another nail in the coffin of the MSM. I do not & would never subscribe to 99% of the crap out there. Not even our two local "news" papers.
Go here (copy & paste) to see another egregious example of the MSM's SocLib bias:
http://angrywhitedude.com/?p=2470
It's enough to piss off a saint.
B Woodman III-per
September 16, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Anonymous said...
More and more people are going off the grid even where I live, not to mention ignoring Statemedia garbage.
At my nearest sporting goods retailer, Bernzomatic "Fat Boy" 1-lb portable propane cans, kerosene, and camp lanterns are flying off the shelves faster than guns and ammo. More people are ditching Con Edison and National Grid and are using their own power. The survivalist forums are buzzing with newcomers filled with questions about living off the grid and using your own energy.
There is no truth in Tass (the news agency) and there is no news in Pravda.
September 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Anonymous said...
"FOX ratings are soaring, the listenership of talk radio is spiking and the Internet is humming precisely because our side doesn't believe the state-run media anymore."
For the most part I think you're right - and do get your point. BUT - do you really believe that FOX isn't apart of the "state-run media". I would say controlled opposition would be more of an accurate description.
If you were right about FOX, they wouldn't leave Judge Andrew Napolitano in the basement while Glenn Beck, the self professed Libertarian, gets to lead the conservatives like the Pied Piper led his rats. - Keeping us healthily in the Left-Right paradigm. Leading us right where they want us.
Interesting... the Pravda cover with Lenin says at the bottom:
"The newspaper - not only the collective propagandist and the collective agitator, but also the collective organizer."
Turned out to be more true than they thought, huh?
September 16, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Happy D said...
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, "Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel". They should not start a war with people who by ammunition by the truck load and make their own.
Mike was that the Stalin's mustache joke where the proctologist has to remove it and the rest of his head? Or the one where it tickles? :)
September 17, 2009 at 4:57 AM
"What do you think about what happened last week, Comrade?"
"I don't know. I haven't read my Pravda this morning."
-- Popular joke of the Soviet Union. [Image]Comrade Lenin read Pravda.
Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. The Pravda newspaper was started in 1912 in St. Petersburg. It was converted from a weekly Zvezda. It did not arrive in Moscow until 1918. During the Cold War, Pravda was well known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of Soviet Communism. (Similarly Izvestia was the official voice of the Soviet government.) As the names of the main Communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant "the truth" and "the news" respectively, a popular Russian saying was "v Pravde net izvestiy, v Izvestiyakh net pravdy" (In the Truth there is no news, and in the News there is no truth). -- Wikipedia.
I thought about Pravda when I read this at Politico.com today. It reminded me of another joke from the Stalin era:
Every morning a man would come up to the newspaper stand, and buy a copy of Pravda, look at the front page and then toss it angrily into the near-by bin. The newspaper-seller was intrigued. 'Excuse me,' he said to the man, 'Every morning you buy a copy of Pravda from me and chuck it in the bin without even opening it. What do you buy it for?' 'I'm only interested in the front page,' replied the man. 'I'm looking out for a death notice.' 'But you don't get death notices on the front page,' said the newspaper-seller, taken aback. 'I assure you, the death notice I'm looking for will be on the front page.'
The death notice I'm looking for is that of the state-run media. Go to the Politico link and read the story, I'm not going to waste the time reprinting it here. The editors of the New York Times and the networks are as sensitive to serving Comrade Barack's every propaganda need as their Pravda intellectual brothers of the past were about Stalin.
But the people are not fooled.
The state-run media is mystified why their sales and ratings are tanking.
They shouldn't be.
Another joke from the late Soviet period, during "the confusing time when the western newspapers were claiming thousands of Chernobyl casualties while the Russians were insisting there had only been two deaths, the East Europeans were no more convinced by Pravda than were the people of the west:"
The day after the Chernobyl accident a great crowd suddenly appeared asking Saint Peter for admission to heaven. "Where did you all come from?" he asked. "From Chernobyl," they answered. Saint Peter pulled out his copy of Pravda and said, "I'm sorry, I see I am only authorized to admit two of you."
FOX ratings are soaring, the listenership of talk radio is spiking and the Internet is humming precisely because our side doesn't believe the state-run media anymore. This will continue, and their sales and ratings will continue to plummet, until the collectivists get the nerve to directly attack these avenues of access to the truth.
When that happens, they will only infuriate us more and the proto-tyrants will risk an armed people's wrath.
I can't wait to see them try.
Until then they will continue to get our derision, disrespect and disbelief.
Did I tell you the one about the New York Times, Walter Duranty and Stalin's moustache?
""Правда." Pity the Poor Pravda Press -- Nobody Believes Them Anymore."
7 Comments -
Another nail in the coffin of the MSM. I do not & would never subscribe to 99% of the crap out there. Not even our two local "news" papers.
Go here (copy & paste) to see another egregious example of the MSM's SocLib bias:
http://angrywhitedude.com/?p=2470
It's enough to piss off a saint.
B Woodman
III-per
September 16, 2009 at 10:13 AM
More and more people are going off the grid even where I live, not to mention ignoring Statemedia garbage.
At my nearest sporting goods retailer, Bernzomatic "Fat Boy" 1-lb portable propane cans, kerosene, and camp lanterns are flying off the shelves faster than guns and ammo. More people are ditching Con Edison and National Grid and are using their own power. The survivalist forums are buzzing with newcomers filled with questions about living off the grid and using your own energy.
September 16, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Interesting. Fox news has as many viewers as all the other news stations COMBINED.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/16/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-september-15-2009-fox-news-25-54-primetime-demo-nearly-equals-combined-competitions/27394
wow.
September 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Since we're doing Russian humor:
Ni pravda Tass. Ni tass Pravda.
There is no truth in Tass (the news agency) and there is no news in Pravda.
September 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM
"FOX ratings are soaring, the listenership of talk radio is spiking and the Internet is humming precisely because our side doesn't believe the state-run media anymore."
For the most part I think you're right - and do get your point. BUT - do you really believe that FOX isn't apart of the "state-run media". I would say controlled opposition would be more of an accurate description.
If you were right about FOX, they wouldn't leave Judge Andrew Napolitano in the basement while Glenn Beck, the self professed Libertarian, gets to lead the conservatives like the Pied Piper led his rats. - Keeping us healthily in the Left-Right paradigm. Leading us right where they want us.
Republicans good, Democrats bad. --- Bahh bahhhh
And the game continues...
September 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Interesting... the Pravda cover with Lenin says at the bottom:
"The newspaper - not only the collective propagandist and the collective agitator, but also the collective organizer."
Turned out to be more true than they thought, huh?
September 16, 2009 at 8:42 PM
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, "Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel".
They should not start a war with people who by ammunition by the truck load and make their own.
Mike was that the Stalin's mustache joke where the proctologist has to remove it and the rest of his head? Or the one where it tickles? :)
September 17, 2009 at 4:57 AM