The KARE Bears are “fact checking” people over, apparently, a run on iodine pills.
No, iodine pills won’t protect you from most radiation effects in a nuclear attack
Which is true as far as it goes…
..but they’re not intended to protect you from “most radiation”.
They’re intended to protect you from one particular kind of radiation – radioactive isotopes of Iodine, which are incredibly prone to getting absorbed into the body and and infiltrating the thyroid – one of the body’s most delicate and temperamental organs – and causing thyroid cancer very quickliy.
It doesn’t, and isn’t intended to, prevent the side effects of other elements of a nuclear detonation – Cesium, Strontium 90 – but then those elements are generally responsible for much longer-term effects (strontium is liked with all kinds of bone cancers)…
…and it’s irrelevant, because the article isn’t about nuclear attacks. It’s about fears in Europe over nuclear plants in Ukraine melting down while under Russian attack.
Modern “fact checkers”; they aren’t “fake news”, per se. But they are fake journalism.
I hope the theft of the election profited someone, somehow. Be a shame to waste this kind of disaster.
So many things they could be reporting on but don’t.
Here’s a story.
Negro woman and 26 yr old son shoot a burglar in their yard. Burglar was unarmed, woman had a pistol, son had a rifle.
I say again; 1 pistol, 1 rifle
DA says:
“After repeated warnings and additional warning shots, the man was shot once in the chest and died from his injuries. He was unarmed. Freeman’s office said it “cannot be said with absolute certainty which of the guns fired the bullet that killed him.”
Either:
A. Alpha news quoted the DA wrong
B. Hennepin county is completely incompetent
C. The DA is a fucking liar, and is afraid to charge blacks.
My daughter in Finland says that they had some friends over for dinner last week, and the guests brought them a bottle of iodine pills as a gift.
(Finland had been in the path of the Chernobyl leak years ago.)
Modern “fact checkers”; they aren’t “fake news”, per se. But they are fake journalism
I don’t know that this is true. I mean, what is journalism? And if “journalism” is the means by which those who voluntarily consume its products are served up to advertisers, is it really fake?
As to fact checkers, they’re just a particularly earnest subset of midwits, probably their first job, looking to make a name for themselves. How would you otherwise explain the widespread examples of fact checkers using Babylon Bee articles as topics of serious investigation? But, again, there’s an audience for this; willing to exchange advertising for feeling like they know shit without having to do any of the hard work of investigating on their own.
Blade – I fully expect the episode you referred to will find its own post here soon.
jdm, it is really quite simple, just look at the derivation of the word journalism/journalist. It comes from the word “journal”. Anyone who writes things down in a journal is a journalist, practicing journalism. Nowhere in the word does it say or imply fact or truth or integrity or honesty. Just the act of writing shit in a journal. So don’t you go demeaning and belittling all those true journalists doing what they do best – writing shit in journals.
As Orwell said, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Massive kudos to Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova,
Some time ago some academic researchers looked at the spread of what they called covid misinformation and concluded that the word “misinformation” is very difficult to quantify (despite DHS declaring misinformation and its purveyors Public Enemy #1). Unless you are reading a scientific treatise all the journalism you consume is opinion journalism.
The NY Times was given a Pultzer Prize for its Russiagate conspiracy reporting, despite the fact that its entire premise was misinformation promoted by the FBI working in concert with Hillary campaign people.
I usually understand the basics of the inane narratives from Woolly, but this really is now just Idiocracy.
You never have given any indication of understanding what I, or any other SITD commenter has written, Emery.
Go peddle your wacky misinformation elsewhere.
^ I believe in the inalienable right of intellectual down-punching.
What a tragedy. A cameraman died covering the war for a TV network that airs a pro-Putin propagandist as its top-rated primetime host.
/Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine/
https://www.foxnews.com/world/fox-news-cameraman-pierre-zakrzewski-killed-ukraine
Emery Incognito on March 15, 2022 at 11:19 am said:
^ I believe in the inalienable right of intellectual down-punching.
Admirable, since you are so frequently its target.
Like most liberals, Emery talks about Fox News more than any conservative I know.
They gotta be deranged about something. Since giant multinational media corporations have banned Trump, and Rush Limbaugh is dead, they have to direct their daily 2 minutes of hate at someone else. I guess lately it is a private citizen named Tucker Carlson, a man whose qualifications to make pronouncements on world affairs is a baccalaureate in history from a liberal arts college.
I believe in the inalienable right of intellectual down-punching.
Boy, you been down punched so often, you’d be pissing blood if it was physical.
Killed reporting the news while anchors are safe at home twisting it.
Sorry guys, but I just came across this and though it was worth sharing. Delete if you wish.
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Reading Malone’s substack will get you your own Agent Friendly to monitor your IP.
Linking to Malone’s substack will get you put on a list.
truth? you can’t handle the truth!
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Emery is about to tell us about his children, who are all volunteers (but officers) in the 473rd US Army Air Corpse.
In the meantime, more winning by brilliant Diplomat™ and adults in the WH™ (emphasis mine):
Saudi and Chinese officials are in talks to price some of the Gulf nation’s oil sales in yuan rather than dollars or euros, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The two nations have intermittently discussed the matter for six years, but talks have reportedly stepped up in 2022, with Riyadh disgruntled over the United States’ nuclear negotiations with Iran and its lack of backing for Saudi Arabia’s military operation in neighboring Yemen. Nearly 80 percent of global oil sales are priced in dollars, and since the mid-1970s the Saudis have exclusively used the dollar for oil trading as part of a security agreement
Another epic fail by “foreign policy wonk” Slow Joe Biden. Don’t you know he was on the Senate foreign relation committee for decades?
A cynic might look at Slow Joe’s choice of committee selection and think that he might have chosen them to maximize his graft.
But we aren’t cynics here, are we? We know that people who seek public office have done so at great personal sacrifice.
And Slow Joe says that he has covid, and then backs away from the claim, because he didn’t know that the phrase “First Husband” referred to himself.
Words fail me.
Mostly i believe that US presidents are smarter than I am, because they were raised in upper middle class households, given the best education that their wealthy parents could afford, and so on.
But Biden is an f’n idiot. I’m pretty sure that most or all of SITD commenters would have managed to graduate from Syracuse school of law ahead of Joseph Robinette Biden.
BTW, do you know what Biden was best known for before Obama selected the Old White Guy to be his VP? He was senator from Delaware, a state with about the size and population of the Twin Cities. He was known for pushing the agenda of credit card companies and the damned mesothylisinoma class action lawyers. Also for threatening to beat to death, with a length of chain, a black guy Biden has yclept “Corn Pop.” Jesus what a lame excuse for a president.
“yclept” is one of many Old English words that should be revived, it means something like “name-fashioned.”
You can’t day “corn pop” without reminding everyone that he was a bad dude
Ha! I just remembered that the reason Obama chose Slow Joe as a running mate, aside from being an “old white” with a mythical affinity for the working class, was that Biden supposedly brought foreign policy gravitas to the ticket.
Funny, isn’t it? Conservatives were mystified when Democrats pointed to Slow Joe as a foreign policy wonk way before 2008, but the dems, as usual, can’t see what is obvious to normal people, namely that Slow Joe’s foreign policy expertise put him on the wrong side of many foreign policy events when they weren’t simply eccentric.
Kori Schake, in the Atlantic was prescient about Slow Joe’s fp weakness in July of 2020, before Biden’s incompetence was revealed in the Afghan surrender.
Joe Biden has been wrong a lot on foreign and defense policy. A lot. This year’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee voted against the 1991 Gulf War, in which the United States and a broad multinational coalition quickly achieved their goals, and in favor of the 2003 Iraq War, and regretted both votes. Years into hostilities, he opposed the troop surges that brought some stability to both Iraq and Afghanistan and even insisted that “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” He argued for carving Iraq into sectarian statelets even as Iraqis voted for cross-sectarian political lists. And he opposed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. These stances suggest not only that he lacks a philosophy of how to use military force effectively, but also that his instincts on when to use it are often faulty.