Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part I

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Media Commentaries

 

The pink envelopes are on the way as Signs of the Collapse of Corporate Media Influence Are Everywhere:

 

Once the affirmative action of carriage fees through pay TV comes to an end (where you are forced to subscribe to a cable/satellite package that includes channels you never watch and those channels still receive an unearned piece of your monthly payment) CNN and MSNBC will no longer be profitable. They cannot survive on merit (advertising fees based on viewers), but they will always be around because soulless liars like Joy Reid, Jake Tapper, Brian Stelter, Nicole Wallace, Rachel Maddow, and Dana Bash do and say what their corporate and Deep State masters tell them to do and say.

 

But, their willingness to be the soulless catspaws of leftist insanity may not matter.  Their might not have a network, and they may not have jobs.  Since the election, as of 11/12/24, MSNBC's numbers dropped by half, and CNN's already dismal numbers dropped another 25 percent.  

Let's star with ABC where they're looking to revamp The View, and are looking to hire Pro-Trump voices voice as ratings tumble, but as you read on what they want is "a" pro-Trump voice, who will be outnumbered, interrupted, talked over, and denigrated.   So, good luck with that.

 

Why did it take so long to come to the conclusion Whoopi and company are dumb as dirt?  Whoopie claimed Jill Biden was a great doctor and should have been made Surgeon General, and not one dingle berry on that panel bothered to ask her what was Dr. Jill's medical speciality.  Did any of them know her degree was in education, not medicine?   If they did it shows what contempt they have for facts and truth, and if they didn't, it shows just  how ignorant they are.  

 

Whoopi has brought that same valuable depth of knowledge and intellectual insight into the debate regarding Pete Hegseth's nomination as Secretary of Defense saying he "clearly does not know anything about the military".  And we know Whoopie knows all about the military.  

Remember Whoopi played Guinan on Star Trek Next Generation, so, while she wasn't a Star Fleet officer, she "clearly knows everything about the military" from that experience.  Kinda like Alex Baldwin who acted in Hunt for Red October knew from that experience how to handle fire arms safely.  Star Trek is fiction, and Guinan was a bartender like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Whoopie makes Sheila Jackson Lee look like an intellectual, and makes Nancy (we have to pass the bill to see what's in it) Pelosi look like a wise sage.

 As Silvio Canto Jr. pointed out:

Once again, I don't watch "The View." Like many of you, I get my "views" on internet posts that feature the latest from Joy, Ana, Whoopie, and Asuncion aka Sunny. Thirty-second clips are all I can take from this crew. Thanks to all those who post the clips so I don't have to watch it.  Not surprising that ABC is looking for a little more diversity on the show. Diversity like having cast members who represent those 80% of U.S. counties that voted Trump.

 

Unless they're willing to make it half and half, and choose real conservatives who are knowledgeable, and intelligent, and won't back down or be intimidated,  forget it.  Better they just go down the tubes, that's what competition is all about, and make no mistake, if they had a 50/50 make up with actual conservatives,  their entire viewing audience, which are as brainless as the current hosts, find anything that disputes the tenets of leftist religion unbearable that could unleash a volley of pure hate and rage, like the lesbian who was married to a trans woman, and murdered her father over the election declaring she felt "liberated".  That's the quality of their audience.

 

When you bring in vile ignorant people as hosts, you should expect to find the same kind of vile ignorant people watching the show, and while it's changing,  based on past rating numbers, America has a ton of vile and ignorant people who somehow think these five nitwits are smart and knowledgeable. 

 

Whoopi says she's all in on anti-Trump sex strikes telling men "they’re not going to “get any” if they speak out of line", and if they look anything like Whoopi, and from the pictures I've seen of them, including shaving their heads, I don't think that will be a problem.  

 

Truth be told, I think there's something seriously wrong with her.  She recently claimed a bakery refused to serve her because of her politics.  But the owners of the shop weren't having it and struck back, and now that story is backfiring with a cry for the network to fire her, business at the bakery has exploded as a result of all this.

 

Now that network executives are looking to dump their troublesome high priced help, this presents a good opportunity for Whoopie to be sent home, alone. 

Americans Pretty Much Disgusted With The Big Media: I&I/TIPP Poll

Terry Jones 2 comments

Among major American institutions, the media have had a particularly rough ride over the past year. Public trust in the media’s integrity and performance has soured significantly in recent months, with big media credibility continuing to sink, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.  The most recent data come from our May online nationwide poll of 1,320 adults, taken from May 4-6. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 points.  Each month since March of 2021, poll respondents have been asked the following two questions:

1. “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the traditional or established news media (Example: Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CBS News, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”
2. “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the alternative news media (Example: New York Post, Washington Times, NewsMax, The Daily Caller, RealClearPolitics, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”

For the more mainstream “established” media in the first question, the poll shows how poorly in the public’s esteem the news outlets are: Only 37% of those who responded said they had either “a lot of trust” (15%) or “quite a bit of trust” (22%) in the media............To Read More....

If You Read It In The Mainstream Media, It's Wrong -- Plastics Edition

  November 16, 2021/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

By now you must have noticed how many of the big news stories that have political significance to the left, and are hyped for months or years (or even decades) on end throughout the mainstream media, turn out to be false. Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to hack and steal the 2016 election. Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist vigilante who went to Kenosha to make trouble. There is no such thing as Critical Race Theory taught in K-12 schools. “Climate change” is an existential crisis that can be easily solved at little cost by building wind turbines and solar panels. Saturated fat in your diet is bad for you. Feel free to add your own ten or a hundred examples to this list.

One that I had paid little attention to up to now was the narrative about the evils of plastics — that they cause terrible pollution problems, that they have accumulated in vast amounts in the oceans, that they kill sea creatures by the millions, that they accumulate forever and never degrade, and so forth. While I haven’t been paying attention, this narrative, like so many others, has swept to universal acceptance in progressive precincts, which of course includes my own New York City.

It was a couple of years ago, as this anti-plastics narrative gained traction, that plastic straws first began to disappear from New York City restaurants, generally replaced by paper straws that are much less pleasant to drink from. And the campaign against plastic convenience items has only accelerated. A ban on single-use plastic bags in grocery stores was enacted to take effect in March 2020. That ban got delayed by litigation, but the state prevailed, and enforcement has gradually kicked in over the intervening period. Today, if you go to a grocery store, the formerly standard plastic carry-home bags are gone. You will need to pay to get a paper grocery bag, or alternatively pay even more for a “reusable” bag made of some kind of textile. The disappearance of plastic straws in restaurants has been gradual, but according to this article in the Daily News, an actual ban took effect just a couple of weeks ago on November 1 of this year.

So clearly, there must be something really horrible about these plastic bags and straws, and probably everything else made of plastic. At this point it’s one of those things that everybody just knows.

I thought it was time to learn something about the issue, and therefore when the Competitive Enterprise Institute invited me to an online presentation today on the subject, I signed up. The main presenter was a guy named Chris DeArmitt. DeArmitt calls himself a “plastics materials scientist,” and he has made a detailed study of the relative environmental impacts of plastic versus other alternative materials for applications including bags and straws, as well as other things such as textiles and cars. DeArmitt also has a recent book by the title “The Plastics Paradox,” and a website called plasticsparadox.com.

And of course it turns out that plastic bags and straws (as well as many other items made of plastic for many different applications) have minimal environmental impacts, and most importantly, have far lower environmental impacts than any reasonably available alternatives for the applications in question. DeArmitt points out that there is a formal method of analysis of environmental impacts called “life cycle assessment,” or LCA, that takes account of all of the environmental impacts of use of a given material for a given application at all stages of the process, from extraction through disposal. And there are dozens upon dozens of environmental LCA studies of plastics versus other materials, among which there will be multiple studies for any application you can think of.

So consider the situation as to plastic bags. DeArmitt:

Lifecycle assessments (LCA) are the only internationally accepted method for comparing the environmental impact of materials and products. They are used by governments, companies and environmental groups, including GreenPeace and are independently audited. The LCA method takes into account all the energy, materials, water, emissions and so on associated with the manufacture and disposal of a product. No tool is perfect, but LCA is by far the best, most widely-accepted way to see what is really green.

DeArmitt found some 24 LCA studies considering the subject of environmental impacts of plastic bags versus alternatives. The results:

LCA analyses are done by government agencies in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Denmark. They all agree that the single-use polyethylene bags we use today have much lower environmental impact than potential replacements such as bioplastics, paper, unbleached paper, cotton or organic cotton. . . . To replace plastic bags with paper bags requires 2.7x more energy, 1.6x more carbon dioxide emissions and 17x more water usage. It has also been estimated that replacing the plastic bags in the EU would require cutting down an astonishing 2.2 million more trees per year and require 60 000 Olympic swimming pools more water.

Here are some conclusions from the above:

I was surprised to find that our traditional PE and PP bags are far greener than the alternatives that are being thrust upon us. That means that the bans being implemented are actually harming our environment. . . . I was also deeply disappointed with the so-called environmental groups. I had assumed that they had done their homework and given us good advice. After all, they collect millions in donations and have had decades to find the best path forward. How is it that with all that funding they did not find ten minutes to type “LCA plastic bag” into Google? Why are they advocating bans that harm our planet? It makes me seriously question their competence and motives.

DeArmitt has generated enormous amounts of information that can keep you busy learning about the environmental benefits of plastics for as long as you have time available. As examples, plastic beverage bottles are far lighter than glass, leading to large saving in energy consumption for transportation. And similarly, plastic components in cars and trucks are also far lighter than the alternatives, leading to much less energy consumption in use of the vehicles.

The big mystery of the campaign against plastics is the seeming religious zeal of the big environmental groups and of the mainstream media in the efforts to get rid of them. Could it really just be that they are too lazy to “find ten minutes to type ‘LCA plastic bag’ into Google,” and if they did that they would promptly come around to rationality? Unfortunately, I think that DeArmitt is deceiving himself there. When a religious or quasi-religious cause is in play, the human mind quickly becomes impervious to rational thought and appeals to evidence. That’s the essence of progressivism. I don’t expect the return of plastic bags or straws any time soon.