Message from @mer.at

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2019-01-24 04:10:15 UTC  

A lot of pages are blank for me @Achlys

2019-01-24 04:12:13 UTC  

ya its on that dumb website where u need subscription i think

2019-01-24 04:12:42 UTC  

click the download button

2019-01-24 04:12:47 UTC  

try that way

2019-01-24 04:13:18 UTC  

apparently u need a FB or google account

2019-01-24 04:13:24 UTC  

wow

2019-01-24 04:13:46 UTC  

or email signup

2019-01-24 04:14:10 UTC  

why in the world would u need that just to download public document

2019-01-24 04:14:15 UTC  

so annoying

2019-01-24 04:15:30 UTC  

yep it went thru

2019-01-24 04:15:40 UTC  

hopefully it will show the whole document

2019-01-24 04:15:44 UTC  

3 MB lol

2019-01-24 04:16:47 UTC  

Obama bragged about having close ties with Mexican political parties

2019-01-24 04:17:41 UTC  

we have to wonder which political parties lol

2019-01-24 04:18:01 UTC  

i mean having ties to the muslim brotherhood is bad

2019-01-24 04:18:26 UTC  

but there are 'far worst' ones out there i gues

2019-01-24 04:18:59 UTC  

Salanis Parties

2019-01-24 04:19:22 UTC  

Page 30 points 113 and 114

2019-01-24 04:28:02 UTC  

Yeah, that is a shit show

2019-01-24 07:57:58 UTC  

So on an idea in response to the covington fiasco, and how to make journalists more accountable: lets take away the tax-free airwaves from MSM. They were supposed to be providing a service by keeping people informed and have instead gone for ratings. Lets legislate that all news COMMENTARY be clearly labeled and displayed as such to separate it from the news. Either that or somehow elevate actual journalists so it's easier to separate fact from opinion.(edited)
The idea from what I remember was that the news were providing a service by informing the people, so they got a special tax exempt status.
They've become increasingly commercial.

2019-01-24 07:59:15 UTC  

just ban them from every government press conference

2019-01-24 07:59:50 UTC  

So basically like every authoritarian country?

2019-01-24 07:59:57 UTC  

why?

2019-01-24 08:00:32 UTC  

any responsible news outlet can attend, but not unresponsible ones

2019-01-24 08:00:57 UTC  

Just for sake of curiosity, how would you define 'responsible'?

2019-01-24 08:01:20 UTC  

where's the bar? next time a "lee harvey oswald" just says he is a journalist, and now he can enter every government press conference?

2019-01-24 08:01:39 UTC  

have an error rate lower than X

2019-01-24 08:02:49 UTC  

But then how does one determine an error rate? Keep in mind that in this hyper speed age; people rush in on a story and bound to make errors

2019-01-24 08:04:38 UTC  

that's the problem

2019-01-24 08:05:07 UTC  

how does the government decide on who may send journalists to their pressconferences now

2019-01-24 08:06:24 UTC  

i don't consider every mistake a real grave mistake. like reporting that 4 people died in a school shooting, when it was only 3, in the first minutes, is normal.

2019-01-24 08:06:42 UTC  

not watching a video, and pushing your own agenda, is clearly a violation of what journalism is.

2019-01-24 08:09:15 UTC  

and i'm pretty sure that the government would be allowed to never hold a press conference for the next 2 years. that has nothing to do with an authoritarian regime. journalists could still do their work. but the government is not constrained to do X press briefings each week.

2019-01-24 08:10:01 UTC  

silencing journalists is what authoritarians do

2019-01-24 09:10:23 UTC  

@Ace K banning press from a press conference is much much different from making it illegal for them to report on anything. It does prevent them from asking questions at the conference but that is no different than the White House just making a statement.

2019-01-24 09:11:07 UTC  

If anything, the press is most likely not going to get anything but propaganda from a press conference.

2019-01-24 09:34:32 UTC  

yeah. nobody can force someone to answer questions.

2019-01-24 09:34:59 UTC  

i'd ban every cnn (and similar) journalist from press briefings

2019-01-24 09:35:19 UTC  

but handout every open seat to a proper journalist

2019-01-24 09:35:28 UTC  

e.g. tim pool instead of acosta :p

2019-01-24 09:39:08 UTC  

Has Tim ever done a story on the CBS/Netflix lawsuit for copyright violations? They stole the concept of tardigrades and other material from a guy's game and it's in the courts. MSM isn't covering it. I know Tim is a Star Trek fan. I'd love him to put his eyes on this story, keep getting the word out, and bring more attention to this. CBS has been so oppressive going after people for even the hint of anything Star Trek and then they go and steal a major component of STD. Tim also hates hypocrisy, and this is as hypocritical as it gets.