Dear KUSI:
Letâs talk.
Signed, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade
I am beginning to seriously mistrust any blond Barbi TV reader. Are they all manufactured as Fox airheads?
âAfter we informed them about our past reports, they declined to hear from usâŚâ
So you admit your reporting is biased? Were you to report âfactsâ and adhere to journalistic standards you would not have felt the need to say such a boneheaded thing.
Oh lookâŚanother right wing media stunt. Yawn.
Interesting WWII documentary on last night. Part of it had to do with Hitlerâs obsession to build a wall. He apparently became obsessed about building it as his paranoia deepened when he realized America had decided to join the Allies. And it was 3,000 miles long, from France to Norway - but barely got 50% completed. Didnât have the human resources and used kid soldiers to work on it - while losing 2,000 hardened troops a day on the Eastern Front. The kid soldiers who fortified the Wall at Omaha beach spent 2-3 years waiting for the Allied invasion, doing very little other than playing the beach, writing home how they enjoyed their time in France.
And the German army also conscripted about 30,000 civilians as slave labor to help work on Hitlerâs Wall. So thereâs always that.
we demand propaganda time
So let me get this right: a local station, presumably staffed by near-amateurs, calls CNN and offers one of its reporters out of the blue. Does this station schedule everybody who calls them up? Itâs called âthe editorial processâ asshats. CNN unquestionably did the right thing
Yeah, and some jerk at The Hill was already whining about this terrible injustice today.
Buncha morons.
Turn the Union-Tribune redder as San Diego gets bluer? Brilliant.
The paper used to make phone calls and set up tables in big grocery stores to sign people up for free or highly discounted trial subscriptions. I always told the reps that I wasnât about to pay money for the partisan editorial view.
The failure of developer and former U-T owner Doug Manchester to leverage the power of the newspaper into approvals of a downtown football stadium suggests that voters here have grown used to ignoring what the paperâs owners want. Still, it is the sole daily in Califâs second-largest city, so those with the money seem willing to pay for what influence it has.
Looks like we have a Sinclair Broadcasting situation. The McKinnon family, who own this station, are rabid right wingers.
As a San Diego local I can assure you KUSI does its best to be the local version of Fox news. The reporting - especially the business reporting is always slanted to anti-oversight and tax reduction as the solution to everything. The owners are from Texas and gave Rick Perry tons of airtime including long interviews before he decided to run for President.
This âscandalâ is exactly what you think it is.
Read the article. âThursday morning, @CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if a reporter could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdownâ.
aha. a McKinnon station. 'nuff said.
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To be fair, it actually too us several hours to push several hundred thousand men through that wall at five different locations once we decided to attack on June 6, 1944. Now that was an invasionâŚ
Could you be thinking of this guy?
Huh, who knew there were snowflakes in San Diego?
Now that was an invasionâŚ
Yes it was. Hitler pulled Rommel from Africa to oversee the building of the wall when he realized it was possibly never going to be completed. Rommel determined, if the Allies won the beach, the war would be lost. So he had smaller fortifications built with interlocking fire zones. facing the beaches and not the ocean. Brilliant guy. Almost worked - and might have if Hitler had released the Panzer tanks sitting in Calais, where he was certain the Allies would land first.
Carefully read the text of KUSIâs tweet. Theyâre using a propaganda technique that has become common on the right over the last two decades: state two (or more) true facts next to each other, and rely on the viewer or reader to infer a causal connection between them that supports an intended narrative. The causal connection doesnât have to be real, and in the extreme doesnât even have to make sense. All it has to do is further the intended narrative. This is a very powerful technique for three reasons:
- Each reader or viewer infers their own, personal causal link between the statements. This makes it hard to shake and hard to argue against, because people are extremely unwilling to abandon conclusions they figured out for themselves.
- The propagandist doesnât have to take the risk of explaining a causal link. Explaining is always risky because the more you lay out on the table, the more likely it is your intended audience will try to pick apart your argument, challenge your evidence, or notice that something is âoffâ. In extreme cases, any explanation whatsoever only makes it obvious the whole thing is nonsense.
- If accused of lying, the propagandist (or supporters) can always point to the facts independently and say, âWhich is the lie?â And of course, on their own, the propositions are true.
Thereâs also a variation of this technique in which a chosen falsehood is buried among a set of true (usually non-controversial) facts. The falsehood is usually central to the intended narrative. When the factuality of the falsehood is questioned by others, the propagandist and their audience repeatedly divert the argument to into a supposed attack on the other propositions, any of which can be easily defended.
No, it was a young German kid watching propaganda movies about the wall and the fortifications. So when he was assigned as a soldier to Omaha Beach he thought it was magic. Then he got there. DOâH. But they never said (documentary) what happened, if he survived the invasion or not. It was sad in some ways, kid soldiers spending 2-3 years on Omaha beach, swimming and playing soccer. Was probably the best years of their young lives.