This is written for Substack, as it is all old news here. I don’t yet know what to make of that outlet, but time will tell. I linked to this piece on X (Twitter), so I might endure there, as with Facebook, another lifetime ban. Censorship is wild and unchained, not even hidden from us anymore.
Every day we hear new scare stories about climate change, most recently that our days are getting longer, and before that other nonsense tales, like the Great Barrier Reef going to hell, Siberia melting, Antarctica caving into the ocean, and polar bears (which are alive and well in such numbers that natives up there want them dead), are going extinct. It is as if Mrs. Olsen’s high school freshman creative writing class is now published on the front pages of the New York Times.
These are agreed upon lies told by fake scientists and blindly repeated by fake journalists. If you are reading this and cannot stick your head out your car window while driving your highly efficient and nonpolluting fossil fuel motorcar, and see that the climate is not (or just barely) changing, then leave now. You won’t like what I write. Do not, under any circumstances, subscribe. It does not get better.
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Have you ever seen one of these dramatic courtroom presentations where, upon leaving the courthouse, the lawyers and defendants are swarmed by journalists and cameras? I can’t be sure, but I do not think that happens in real life. Journalists are kept not on leashes, but rather choke chains. As Ben Bagdakian (1920-2016) made clear in his book , The Media Monopoly (1983), young journalists are trained to rein in their curiosity, to not get emotionally involved, to get a quote from both sides and move on. TV drama would have them off the leash looking for stories, challenging powerful people, and in general, being a pain in the ass to the comfortable … doing their job. Ain’t so. Ain’t done. I know this from my own life experiences … journalists do not know how to do the one thing that one would think was their calling … to search for truth.
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