Posted on 02/03/2019 4:26:38 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
As good as it gets,tells the story of the meida invest ten bucks and sell your investment for seven.No wonder they are slowly dying.Heres a clip from your link:
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A decade ago, a 643,000 square foot shrine to the media went up off the Washington Mall. The media funded organization behind it boasted that its Great Hall of News atrium was taller than the Sistine Chapel. The pseudo-religious metaphor continued with 50 tons of Tennessee marble being used to “create the First Amendment tablet on the building’s Pennsylvania Avenue façade”.
The thousands of artifacts included a 3,262 year old cuneiform brick from ancient Sumeria and a
2,756 year old statue of the Egyptian god Thoth, the mythical inventor of writing, worshiped by the media.
Last week, the $450 million temple constructed by the media to worship itself was sold off for $372 million to Johns Hopkins. There’s no word on whether they threw in the statue of their fallen god.
The fall of the media temple comes just as the media is on the defensive after fallout from a fake news hate campaign targeting a 16-year-old boy based on an out of context video clip. And the only thing that the media can say in defense of its lies about Covington Catholic is that it got them from social media.
That’s also its epitaph. The media doesn’t make the news. It’s just the noisiest part of the echo chamber, amplifying messages from lefty politicians from above and lefty social media trends from below.
The media temple was a project of the Freedom Forum. The Forum was backed by media giants like the New York Times, Bloomberg, Comcast, ABC, NBC and Time Warner. And much of the cash came from the Gannett media titan. In 1999, it commanded over $1 billion. By 2001, it was down to $700 million. Blowing through $450 million on a temple, complete with idol, couldn’t have helped.
The original Newseum had cost $50 million and offered free admission. The new Newseum was pure media hubris, stuck between the Capitol and White House as if it were another branch of government.
Fortunately or unfortunately this post says a lot about the Catholic church and its evolution. What the locals are able to accept in the name of convenience is sad at best.
what we do works good evidence is that the Gov. of Va. will be resigning soon and its 100% due to Freeprers.
As a followup on our conversation Sunday .... someone else besides Alveda King is “connecting the dots” (I’m just posting a relevant excerpt - better to read the whole thing):
Northam: Once More With Feeling
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/northam-once-more-with-feeling.php
On the other hand, maybe we should work harder at connecting Northam’s abortion-uber-alles position with his racial “insensitivity.” Recall the infamous quote from Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” It may be the case that this isn’t Ginsburg’s actual view (this is what her apologists claim), but that she was merely reporting a wider climate of opinion. I’ll be happy to give her that, so long as it is understood that in fact that view was widespread on the left. Ginsburg in fact later tried to clarify, and tacit admits exactly this point:
“At the time, there was a concern about too many people inhabiting our planet. There was an organization called Zero Population Growth. In the press, there were articles about the danger of crowding our planet. So there was at the time of Roe v. Wade considerable concern about overpopulation.” [Ginsberg]
You’d expect the raw numbers of abortions by whites to be higher because the white population is much larger. But black, hispanic, and “non-hispanic ‘other’” (Asian?) total abortions come in at 567,380—about one third more than the white total.
The white abortion rate is 10.0 per 1,000 women; the black abortion rate is 27.1, and for hispanic women, 18.1.
This is probably why Northam likes abortion absolutism so much.
Omg!!!
Back when I was a liberal I was a serious believer inZPG. So much so that I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
I ONLY HAD ONE CHILD!!!
I thought I was too cool for cool.
I regretted that choice every day of my life since.
Anyway I heard Alveda and indeed I was surprised.
The poorer females.sadly, often use abortion as a form of birth control.
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