Posts by bohm

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What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

LUHE: This is the 3rd terror attack made up by the administration in 30 days and you distract to the Swedish media in a massive effort of "whataboutery". You should follow the Russian news, it will make you allergic to that strategy in two weeks.
Either your standard for reporting is that ethnicity of criminals and victims should play a major role or it shouldn't. If you decide it should, Trump should be called out for not reporting on other incidents of hate crimes that he is strangely silent about, like the attack in Canada or the vandalizing of synagogues in the USA by neo-nazis.
Instead he talks about muslim terrorism to the point where he runs out of actual acts of terrorism and has to make them up. There seems to be some ethnic bias involved.. i just can't quite put my finger on it...
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

freemindfade:
Oh come on those two guys again!
Pewdiepie has a well-established record of making jokes with nazis that just aren't funny (this is my subjective belief); i.e. more or less putting Hitler randomly into his content. Wallstreet journal reported on this and Disney decided that they would rather not associate their brand with a guy who makes nazi jokes and stopped their sponsorship.
Kind of like how there is a limit to how many nazi jokes you can make in any publically-facing job; this has nothing to do with a limit of free speech. Pewdiepie has as much right to a Disney sponsorship as I have: none!
That wall street journal is reporting on nazi jokes in videos is just ... what is it called ... free speech. It would almost seem like Sargon of Akkad is complaining that free speech is hurting feelings ;-)
Best part: Sargon of Akkad complains about cherry picking, "unflattering articles", etc.: L-O-L.
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

A thing Trump could mention is the mass shooting in Canada or the synagogues being vandalized with swastika.
But oh no... sweden..bowling green..atlanta...
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

VI: What happened in Sweden?
Oh, are you missing out!
What happened was that the day before yesterday Trump saw a program on Fox about Sweden and crime (in general). He then slept for 5 hours and turned that into something that happened "last night in Sweden" which he then mentioned in his speech:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.html
This is the kind of thing that would worry me a lot if one of my parents were doing it.
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

I think the big mistake the media is making right now is thinking that *they* are the story.
I think when the president of the USA attacks the free press using chekist slogans and launch a fund-raising campaign to "fight" the press that is news.
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

LUHE: Yes, Sweedish media typically don't report the ethnicity of the criminals unless it is relevant to the story... you can think that is good or bad but it isn't exactly a media blackout of some forms of crime and you can find debate about immigrants in the Sweedish media if you go look.
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

Simon: Oh, "code". So what is being claimed here, exactly? That the Swedish media does not contain negative news stories about immigrants?
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

Zeb: Currently in Sweden it is against their code to report 'immigrants' for creating mayhem, arson rape in their once pristine cities.
Do you have a source that shows which part of Sweedish law makes it illegal to report immigrants?
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

Re. a biased press, yesterday we learned that ca. 1000 Russian operatives were spreading propaganda during the election.
...and that Donald Trump thinks it is the MAINSTREAM press which is the "enemy of the American people".
The mind boggles.
491
What is your opinion of the news media?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.
bohm

Berengaria: My thoughts exactly. Also worth noting that some details of the dossier have now been corroborated...