Great Moments In Journalism – small dead animals

NOTE: This American Life has retracted this story because we learned that many of Mike Daisey’s experiences in China were fabricated.

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So “dramatic license” is the new politically correct term for “lies”?

I like the little puff piece at the beginning of the article:
“This American Life” — a well-watched, higher end radio magazine show
It raises so many questions. Do people watch the show on those new-fangled radios that come with the nifty video screens? Is it a show about a magazine whose subject is higher end radios?
Or is the more pertinent question “what type of wells” watch the show? Oil wells? Water wells? Dawn Wells?
Skiiiipppppperrrrr!

Orson Welles.

Oh, too funny. I had dinner about two weeks ago with several people who included a fairly prominent local journalist (he also teaches). He was going on about Steve Jobs and terrible conditions in Chinese factories. I was a bit puzzled, but I conceded that Chinese factories are likely not nice places to work. Now I get it. I think I’ll forward this to him.
(I also asked him what he thought about Mark Steyn. His basic take was that it was a pity that a man of Steyn’s talent had signed up with the “Cheney Neocons”, and was prostituting himself so shamelessly. As Shaidle likes to point out, lefties love to believe or pretend to believe that noone could really possibly be a conservative out of conviction; it’s all just for money and fame.)

Todays motto for Journalism with exceptions. : If you can’t plagiarize it, make it up!!
Tall tales from the Champaign class, or working impaired scriber of today.
Remember as well, may Marx & Engels alway be your guide.

“fake but accurate”

Why in the hell are liberals such sociopaths? Cognitive dissonance? Are they that desperate for recognition and adulation?
It’s not just a cliche, liberalism truly is a mental disease.

Should be good for another Pullitzer prize — either the one for fiction, or the other one for fiction.

Not another Harvard grad or some such! Highly educommied like the oBummer and his terrorist friends? A pox on American lefties.

Way to do a disservice to the truth there, liberal flakey.

Someone had better do some serious checking, this retraction story may not be true.
This may be the result of a liberal false-false-flag operation (So would that make it true?)

Uhhhmmm.
Let’s check the score.
Communist China: 1
Apple at $600+ a share: 1
Reporter who took license: 0
Remember that GE powered Natzi Germany with coal shoveled by internment camp slaves and ran power generating sites that should have been routinely bombed to curb Germany’s war machine but were not.
This retraction is high on damnation and low on detail. Apparently the reporter assembled a montage of real occurrences and attributed them, conveniently, to places he visited. The truths of the report are inconvenient for Apple and Communist China.
Best case scenario: We just saw the snake bite its own tail.
Worst case: We have been subverted into the condemnation of a reporter by the communist Chinese and Apple.
Watch the globalists very closely. The “New World Order” is a bag of snakes.

ABC did a report on FoxConn (the Chinese company over who the fuss is about).
They said it was dreadfully boring work, and the wages were low by our standards ($2/hour), but it was in no way a sweat shop and that it was better than many of the alternatives in China.

Climatologists love to talk about energy being trapped by carbon dioxide and thus not exiting at the top of the atmosphere (TOA.)
It is nowhere near as simple as that. All the radiation gets to space sooner or later. Carbon dioxide just scatters it on its way so you don’t see radiation in those bandwidths at TOA. The energy still gets out, and you have no proof that it doesn’t, because you don’t have the necessary simultaneous measurements made all over the world.
In the hemisphere that is cooling at night there is far more getting out, whereas in the hemisphere in the sunlight there is far more coming in. This is obvious.
When I placed a wide necked vacuum flask filled with water in the sun yesterday (with the lid off) the temperature of the water rose from 19.5 deg.C at 5:08am to 29.1 deg.C at 1:53pm while the air around it rose from 19.0 to 31.9 deg.C.
What did the backradiation do at night? Well from 9:15pm till 12:05am the water cooled from 24.2 deg.C to 23.4 deg.C while the air cooled from 24.2 deg.C to 22.7 deg.C.
According to those energy diagrams the backradiation, even at night, is about half the solar radiation during the day. Well, maybe it is, but it does not have anything like half the effect on the temperature as you can confirm in your own backyard.
This is because, when radiation from a cooler atmosphere strikes a warmer surface it undergoes “resonant scattering” (sometimes called pseudo-scattering) and this means its energy is not converted to thermal energy. This is the reason that heat does not transfer from cold to hot. If it did the universe would go crazy.
When opposing radiation is scattered, its own energy replaces energy which the warmer body would have radiated from its own thermal energy supply.
You can imagine it as if you are just about to pay for fuel at a gas station when a friend travelling with you offers you cash for the right amount. It’s quicker and easier for you to just pay with the cash, rather than going through the longer process of using a credit card to pay from your own account. So it is with radiation. The warmer body cools more slowly as a result because a ready source of energy from incident radiation is quicker to just “reflect” back into the atmosphere, rather than have to convert its own thermal energy to radiated energy.
The ramifications are this:
Not all radiation from the atmosphere is the same. That from cooler regions has less effect. Also, that with fewer frequencies under its Planck curve has less effect again.
Each carbon dioxide molecule thus has far less effect than each water vapour molecule because the latter can radiate with more frequencies which “oppose” the frequencies being emitted by the surface, especially the oceans.
Furthermore, it is only the radiative cooling process of the surface which is slowed down. There are other processes like evaporative cooling and diffusion followed by convection which cannot be affected by backradiation, and which will tend to compensate for any slowing of the radiation.
This is why, at night, the water in the flask cools nearly as fast as the air around it. The net effect on the rate of cooling is totally negligible.
The backradiation does not affect temperatures anywhere near as much as solar radiation, even though its “W/m^2” is probably about half as much.
And there are other reasons also why it all balances out and climate follows natural cycles without any anthropogenic effect. This is explained in detail in my peer-reviewed publication now being further reviewed by dozens of scientists.
http://principia-scientific.org/publications/psi_radiated_energy.pdf

So another liberal scam dissolves, leaving behind nothing but dust and malice.
Where would leftism be without all their false narratives? Never forget these liars are the people who reserve the right to sit in judgement of all who disagree with them.