19 Replies to “Indeed”

  1. Oh yeah, I remember:
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    In the middle-term, the GOP should turn to its financial backers — and those backers should move to take over major media players.
    There’s real money to be made playing the news game fairly — and most of the major liberal media are financially weak, with many of their strongest people sidelined for harboring inappropriate political views. Gannet, Time Warner, and McClatchy are all horrifically unbalanced but great properties nevertheless. Republicans should buy these — and run them as real news and entertainment businesses, not as propaganda outlets.
    What’s killing the traditional media isn’t technology or the market; it’s their absolute focus on supporting only the low-information, solidly Democrat voter. Remove that limitation, and the GOP gets a level playing field, the American public gets information from both sides, and the new owners get to make money the old-fashioned way: by refocusing undervalued assets on the business, not somebody else’s political goals.
    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/it_aint_over_til_its_over_what_to_do_now.html
    —
    by the world’s greatest writer – ah, me, of course.. 🙂

  2. Oopsy.
    The trendy Globull Warmimg commies must have missed the twinkle in Rupert’s eye
    which meant that when he said “heritage” he was referring back half a century.
    That was back when an honest upright NatGeo kept Kodacolor in business.
    The later whoring itself out to scam science wasn’t a heritage to normal people.

  3. It’s amazing the writer can say at the same time… “The National Geographic Society has long stood for science, research, and investigation. Murdoch’s companies have long stood against all three” while at the same time saying with some kind of straight face “While it does feature many pieces on scientific endeavors, it also has featured shows such as Doomsday Preppers and Chasing UFO’s which lacked much of the respectability of the print magazine.”. Without the slightest realization it was the former that corrected the latter!
    When I win the lottery, I’m gonna’ so think like a liberal!

  4. National Geographic has been sliding leftward for years. I subscribe no more. Maybe Murdoch can return it to what it once was. Maybe he could do the same for Scientific American – to which I also no longer subscribe

  5. I still have a 2007 Nat Geo downstairs, their global warming special edition, a whackjob science fiction comic book predicting an imminent heat wave turning the entire planet into a baking desert as the oceans rise and drown the coastal cities. Here we are, more than seven years later, not a trace, not a hint, of what they predicted as an imminent emergency.

  6. Oh the shame, the horror! That the Wall Street Journal may wish to concentrate on business as opposed to on the latest librul social justice lie. Oh the treason to the God demanded librul narrative!

  9. Regarding the second (BoingBoing) link, in 1967 National Geographic predicted 43 years of global cooling. When Cory Doctorow refers to the supposed betrayal of the magazine’s “heritage” by virtue of it not having a sufficient amount of global warming propaganda, does he really believe that, or is he just rogering history, facts, etc., for the convenience of an argument?
    His tone of outrage and betrayal about this supposed loss of “heritage” is instructive:

    When the climate-change denier/evil billionaire bought National Geographic, National Geographic Society CEO Greg Knell promised that “there won’t be an [editorial] turn in a direction that is different form (sic) the National Geographic heritage.”

    To believe that Greg Knell lied, you’d have to believe in a singular piece of royal bullshit: that the “heritage” of NG is that of being an activist arm for whatever hideously time-bound propaganda today’s whining progressives are trying to bludgeon their more informed and rational contemporaries with.
    Progressives have achieved a death-grip on virtually all supposedly non-political (i.e. cultural) media properties, so it’s not surprising that they would be outraged by an historically esteemed magazine falling into the arms of an “evil” conservative.
    They’re propagandists to the core, each and every one of them. Because they’ve been taught since grade school that people who haven’t been propagandized are evil, they have a dangerous belief that they have not just a right but a duty to control the expressions of their opponents. The very, very queer belief that a conservative shouldn’t be allowed to purchase a media property that the whining prog has no proprietary interest in is just an extension of this belief, which can be summed up as “You have to shut up, for it has already been determined that I am right and you are wrong.”

  11. Was that the special”The Science of Global Warming”?
    Which had zero science in it.
    Last news stand bucks NG will ever see from me.(Under those owners)
    Murdock might want to do some retro runs, with corrections.
    I would buy that and what a hoot to write it would be.

  12. Want more influence for your buck? Buy a liberal media outlet or better yet a women’s magazine.
    Either that, or be a flamboyant egotist like Trump. Style over substance is what wins nowadays.

  14. Well said! Particularly, “Progressives have achieved a death-grip on virtually all supposedly non-political (i.e. cultural) media properties,…?
    Stalin’s people did their work well in the 50s and 60s.

  15. Whoa there Stradivarius. I had always been impressed with your comments, but this one is surprising and disappointing. Trump is the frontrunner because there intelligent life forms in the USA and they are finally realizing that their politicians have sold out. In short, they are rebelling against fascism.
    Since Trump and Carson are the only people to admit to this and are prepared to remedy it, the more vocal of the two happens to be the leader in the race.
    Seems pretty simple to many in the US.

  16. …the more vocal of the two happens to be the leader in the race.
    I’m from Missouri, we shall see…one thing I do know, Trump is for what’s good for Trump.

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