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Common Sense Alt Media

Many of you reading this blog are amateur journalists; we met back when everyone was a exercising their First Amendment rights with blogs and the like.

Now, writing online – blogs, tumblr, Facebook, whatever – is fine. And audio podcasts are OK.

But nobody really needs video. It’s just too much.

I’ve worked as a real reporter; I’ve had actual training with real video. And if you don’t believe me, believe many, many professional journalists, who’ll tell you – regular people just don’t need video.

It’s common sense.

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16 responses to “Common Sense Alt Media”

  1. kel Avatar
    kel

    the primary strength of video appears nominally to be veracity.
    In fact the most common use of video is to support or in some cases to establish(see Moore, Couric, Riefenstahl, etc) pretty much the whole spectrum of logical fallacies primarily by the use of video juxtaposition and peev & DGs favorite tool; conflation.

  2. Dog Gone Avatar
    Dog Gone

    Note From Mitch: I’m graying out Dog Gone’s text, since she tends to “poop and run” – leaving condescending, insulting comments with no intention of discussing them. Discussion is the purpose of this comment section – not providing “Dog Gone” a metablog at my expense.

    It’s not the insults that bother me – consider the source.

    It’s not the condescension – unearned snootery earns its own mockery.

    No, it’s the pooping and running.

    When Dog Gone changes that behavior, I’ll stop singling her comments out.

    You have never been much of a journalist. You fail to follow the most minimal journalistic practices, standards and ethics. You’re pretty much a propaganda pusher.

    Your claims about video are specious — although I would point out that you can watch streaming video apparently of your unpaid radio show.

    And no, neither Pen nor I use conflation Kel. We do sometimes use video to document factual events however. More rarely we post something of a particularly good example of an analytical presentation.

    The new age of phone video has been very useful in documenting events as they occur, rather than relying on perceptions and recollections. For example there is some great footage of the violence by right wing fascist thugs who are – not surprisingly – Trump supporters, from the Sacramento stabbings.

  3. Mr. D Avatar
    Mr. D

    Way to step on the rake, Mrs. Teasdale.

  4. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    Well, ordinary people don’t need video. But some people are more equal than others – certain politicians, for example, and Oprah and possibly Nick Coleman – so it’s okay for them to have it. But you, you don’t “need” video and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to have it. That’s just common sense.

  5. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Once again, Dog breath, you post nothing but crap! There have been no reports, other than those that your fellow faux journalists made up, that any of them were Trump supporters.

    The fact that the KKK was being counted among the agitators, proves that left wing radical hate mongers were involved.

    And “propaganda pusher”? You hypocritical loser! You have made it an art form, you hack!

  6. kel Avatar
    kel

    “And no, neither Pen nor I use conflation Kel.

    you use it all the time it’s one of your top 10 go to methods of argument. You clearly don’t know what the word means. Go educate yourself and then come back and we’ll discuss it.

  7. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    DG,

    First things first: You missed the point of this post. Completely.

    And unlike you, I’ve actually worked as a journalist. Not a bad one, actually. You’re deluded if you think you are a journo, or could pass for one the way you “write”. You’re a polemicist and propagandist who copies and pastes lefty chanting points and bellows that they’re “FACT!”.

    And I wouldn’t say you “don’t use conflation” so much as you (pl) use so may logical and factual fallacies, conflation gets crowded down the list.

  8. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    We have to stop those scary, assault-videos. No one needs more than 30 seconds; heck, they really don’t need more than 7. The framers never envisioned video when they wrote the First Amendment.

    Look at all the trouble that Benghazi video caused. It’s time for common-sense video control.

  9. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    Re-read the post, DG.

    Then re-read NW’s comment, above.

    Hear that bell ringing yet?

  10. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Oh dog, you’ve missed some FACTS.

    One of the leftist thugs stabbed a White Lives Matter protester, who then took the thug’s knife away, and stabbed the thug plus 4 more of his thug pals with it.

    I call that pretty good tactics.

  11. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Perhaps DG would understand better if we accused her of conflatulation?

    OK, to the subject, I’ve listened to a lot of nice podcasts, but can’t stand video. For that matter, I’m no great fan of watching the news, either. Too much opportunity for manipulating emotions and such.

  12. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Correction: 6 leftist thugs got cut in self-defense, not 5.

  13. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    Let me take this oppurtunity to plug Andrew Klavan’s podcast:
    https://soundcloud.com/andrewklavanshow. Klavan is a Hollywood guy + a writer of YA fiction. He is a bit weak on social conservatism, but no one is better at pointing out the weaknesses and contradictions that form the basis of Leftist political positions.

  14. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    Here is a fine example of “journalistic standards”:
    http://wapo.st/28VPsQl
    Milbank accuses Trump of anti-semitism, based not on anything Trump has said or done, but on emails and IM’s he has received from people who claim that they are Trump supporters. Well, Who can argue with that! I mean, a real journalist wouldn’t stoop to trash talk like that, but Milbank is no ordinary journalist! He is one of many, many mainstream “unbiased” journalists who move fluidly between straight political coverage and highly partisan opinion writing. Milbank last accused Ted Cruz of anti-semitism, based on his forthright support of Israel. I think.
    Milbank, in the linked column, says that he considers himself to be on the center-left. He also supported Sanders for Prez, even though Sanders is so far left that he cannot call himself a Democrat. Needless to say, Milbank considers every Republican to the right of Arne Carlson to be on an extreme or ultra right winger.

  15. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Bento, there is no one the WaPo spends more time censoring comments to protect than Milbank. Even so, his papspew gets shot so full of holes dog could sift her kush through it.

  16. Bento Guzman Avatar
    Bento Guzman

    I pick on Milbank so much because he is in my local rag twice a week. Each week I get Milbank X 2, Krugman X 1, guest liberal columnists X 3 and 1 ‘conservative’, who voted for Obama in 2008, like Kathleen Parker or David Brooks.

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