Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts

Thursday, December 5, 2019

More Winning: OC Weekly (Weakly) Shuts Their Doors

The winning!

It just never stops!

I am so excited, so excited!

This is so cool what has happened.

I found out about this on Thanksgiving Day, but the good news came down the day before.

OC Weekly, the hateful rag which pollutes and corrupts the news feeds, which attacks and shames conservatives for standing for truth, for standing up for what is right, has shut its doors for good.



The OC Weakly announced that the shop was shut in their faces, pretty much without notice to the editors and reporters:
The winning! It's just too much! I can't contain myself.

Of course, I couldn't help but celebrate.


and

So much winning! I just can't contain myself! Things are going so well, and to see these hateful propagandists shut down, well, it's so vindicating!

"And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife." (1 Samuel 25;39)

and

"8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;" (Psalm 91:8-9)

and above all (the same verse that OC Weekly had quoted me sharing:

"17No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54:17)



Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The Decline and Fall of the Los Angeles Times: Major TRONC Media Layoffs

It's a sad, sad day in the mainstream media world.

Who would have known, who would have predicted that the once might titan of news the Los Angeles Times would be selling itself off and spinning away its legacy to hedge-fund managers and venture capitalists who realize that the liberal print media is no longer a viable business model.

Nobody wants to read fake news!



  
Tronc cuts dozens of employees, including former Times Editor Lewis D'Vorkin
Lewis D'Vorkin was named chief content officer for Tribune Interactive in February 2018.

Wow, that was a fast hiring and firing, now, wasn't it?!

Former Los Angeles Times Editor in Chief Lewis D'Vorkin was fired by Tronc Inc. on Thursday and several dozen other employees of the company were laid off.

D'Vorkin was the chief content officer of Tribune Interactive, a newly formed digital business unit of The Times' parent company. The reason for his removal was not clear.

D'Vorkin said the decision to part ways with the company was mutual. He noted that his "heart just wasn't in" the various initiatives that Tribune Interactive was planning.

Sure it was mutual ... sure it was. I have heard that kind of rhetoric many times before. 

Not buying it.

"In discussions with the company that were going on for a while, finally I said, 'You know, it's time for me to move on and explore new ventures that take me back to my entrepreneurial roots,'" he said. "Those are the things that are appealing to me."

In other words: "My services are no longer needed here, because the propaganda of the newspaper is no longer wanted by the general public."

The layoffs, which included Tribune Interactive's Los Angeles-based video and online content teams that operated separately from The Times, were due to a change in the company's business strategy, according to a source familiar with the cuts who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The new business strategy is most likely: "Decline gracefully and close up shop quietly."

A spokeswoman for Chicago-based Tronc declined to provide details, citing personnel privacy.

Departing employees in Los Angeles said they were laid off en masse during a staff meeting early Thursday afternoon that was originally supposed to be led by D'Vorkin. But he did not appear for the meeting, and instead, employees were told by a human resources manager that they were being let go. The manager cited a reorganization, according to people who were there.

OUCH! There is an easy schadenfreude in all of this, however. The corrupt left-wing media in this country has done so much damage to this country. They promoted some small-time state senator turned US Senator who had no business serving in the White House. They created Barack Obama and covered for his failures, fraud, sin, and anti-American animus. Only now are we learning that he was not just a friend of race-baiting hate-monger Jeremiah Wright, but he had close to Jew-hating Louis Farrakhan, too.

So much evil, so little time. How could the press be so incompetent and misleading?

Because they had a progressive, left-wing racist agenda dedicated to overtaking this country for decades.

The news comes after a tumultuous few months for Tronc and The Times, starting in August when several top editors were ousted from the newspaper. Tronc named Ross Levinsohn, a former Yahoo and Fox executive, as Times publisher.

Red wedding for the Los Angeles Times.

Levinsohn in October named D'Vorkin editor in chief of The Times. D'Vorkin's tenure was brief — just three months — and marked by several hostile encounters with the newsroom.

In January, Levinsohn was placed on unpaid leave after NPR reported that he had been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits earlier in his career and engaged in "frat boy" behavior in work settings before joining The Times. He was later cleared of wrongdoing after a company investigation into his conduct and was made chief executive of Tribune Interactive.

#MeToo controversies in Big Media. Why is anyone still surprised? They covered for Big Hollywood, Big Media, and Big Academia for decades. The sins, crimes, and perversions of corporate media will only get worse as more is revealed. What a staggering failure of the media industry. 

Staggering.

Levinsohn remains with the company.

Also in January, The Times' newsroom voted overwhelmingly to join the NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America — in part out of frustration with corporate ownership and concerns about pay.

And how has that worked out? More layoffs. So much

A month later, Tronc announced that it had entered an agreement to sell The Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune to L.A. biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. The deal is expected to close this month.

Tribune Interactive was formed after news of Soon-Shiong's agreement to purchase the papers; many of its employees previously produced digital content for The Times.

In announcing the formation of the business unit in February, Tronc Chief Executive Justin Dearborn said Tribune Interactive would "deliver value for our shareholders through growing digital audiences for our award-winning journalism, new creative content and product initiatives, and growing digital and diversified revenue streams."

But how it would accomplish that was unclear. In recent weeks, Tribune Interactive employees in Los Angeles said they were not given tasks and felt abandoned by management. They were especially concerned when several Tribune Interactive executives, including D'Vorkin, moved out of their downtown L.A. offices to the Westside without alerting them.

That's because they were getting FIRED!

Thursday's layoffs came a few weeks after layoffs at the Chicago Tribune and other Tronc publications. On Wednesday, journalists at the Tribune announced that they had decided to form a newsroom union.

Final Reflection

LA Times headquarters is moving to El Segundo. Who knows how long the paper is going to last in the "Mayberry by the Sea". It's clear that the newspaper is under the pressure of creative destruction. The industry has to shift considerably now because of rapid technological advances, and they can't stop it.

The press rebelled against reality and lost. They can't stand up to innovation, either. The regressive left which has taken over the state of California is locked in a dying battle that they cannot win. The press had carried water for socialist, communist principles for decades.

Now they are being carried out to the graveyard of old and dead ideas. It's over.


Monday, April 9, 2018

Letter to the Editor: "Sir, You Nailed It!"

On the Liberal Press.  Sir, you nailed it.  Encapsulated the exact problem.  

As one of those great unwashed, I can only boycott the stuff they put out.  I have no other power.  So, I have no newspaper, no TV, etc.  And still it's impossible to avoid.  It permeates non-news media as well, as I'm sure you know.  The mental battle is exhausting.



The question is, what now?  They'll never change.  They'll just keep getting worse.  Seems hopeless to me.  There needs to be a parallel education system from pre-K to university where reality is once again acknowledged as the basis for living on the planet.



Anyway, thank you for so beautifully articulating my personal thoughts on the matter that I am woefully incapable of articulating myself.

-- 
Thank you,

Paul

Monday, March 26, 2018

Trump Supporter at March for Our Lives Talks to the Young Turks

                       

I had so much fun taking down Brown Fabio of the Young Turks.

He really thought he was going to put me and others on the spot, but from the moment he started asking questions, I put him and the rest of the media "institution" on the spot.

"Does Cenk Uygur acknowledge that the Armenia Genocide occurred?"

Wannabe Fabio above assured me that he acknowledges the unprecedented mass slaughter of Christians by the Turkish (Muslim!) Government in 1915 through 1920. While the Turkish government to this day denies the genocide.

At any rate, here comes Brown Fabio, looking to take down a couple of "clueless" Trump Supporters.

The interview didn't go they way he had hoped. When I mentioned Steve Crowder and the massive number of statistics and research he has produced on the contentious yet essential Second Amendment, he rolled his eyes and scoffed.



Why?

It should not matter who is the source in and of itself. What should matter is whether the reporting is true or not. The obsession without ethos apart from logos is destroying the civic fabric in our country. Should we only believe something or someone because of the flagship title or brand?

Word to all conservatives, to all Trump supporters when confronting the media.

Don't be afraid to question them, to hold them accountable for the lies and distortions of their network. Make them the story while they are interviewing you.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

The Self-Immolation of the Los Angeles Times

The Washington Post has struggled with its growing struggle of integrity and staffing issues. They were fishing around for the worst story they could find to impugn the character of Judge Roy Moore in his special election bid for the US Senate.

Even though the hollow, hateful smears brought down his bid, the Washington Post has lost what little integrity they claimed to carry from henceforth.

Another liberal rag, the Los Angeles Times, published a hit piece against me, but in spite of their best efforts, more people came out in support for me and what I stand for. Those liberals who tried to use the story against me, would have attacked me with or without the LA Times article.

Now the Los Angeles Times is the featured story as the paper's circulation crumbles and the editorial staff gets purged.

‘Anything could happen’: Amid newsroom clashes, Los Angeles Times becomes its own story
By Paul Farhi January 26 at 6:09 PM 

The news has been frenetic lately for reporters at the Los Angeles Times. Massive wildfires swept a region just getting over a historic drought, followed by deadly mudslides, and then the explosive Turpin family child-abuse saga — a chain of events that tested the chops of the prizewinning newsroom.


They are losing staff every day. They can't keep up with operating costs, and more readers are fed up with fake news

But some of the biggest news at the Times has been coming from within its downtown headquarters. The paper — one of the largest and most important news organizations in America — has been beset by turmoil the past two weeks, prompting questions about its future.

The Tribune Company has sold off shares and interests in buildings and other real estate. They have been laying off workers, and they have cycled through one editor after another.

After decades of successful resistance by management and years of demoralizing cutbacks, the Times’s journalists voted overwhelmingly last week to unionize. Before bargaining can begin, however, reporters are concerned about a plan by the Times’s management to reorganize the way the paper produces news.

The push to unionize is a last-ditch attempt for those overpaid liberal propagandists to hold onto their jobs. What they do not realize, however, is that unionization does not guarantee a job. They are not the owners of all the resources and staffing. The company owners get to decide what they do with their printing presses, digital machines, etc.

They can choose to shut down the paper altogether, sell off all their materiel, and put all the journalists on the street.

Under a new “pyramid” structure proposed this month, a network of nonstaff contributors would produce the bulk of the information the Times publishes online. Reporters say the paper has quietly begun hiring a cadre of editors to supervise the reorganization, which would effectively create a new company within the company.

Yes, people who will not act like a bunch of entitled social justice warriors who think that the world owes them ... everything. These hacks are predominantly straight out of college, where they have been taught to see the world through a Marxist conflict-theory lens.

They don't report the news as much as promote a narrative.

The man who introduced the plan — blindsiding the newsroom when he presented it to an investor conference in New York — was publisher Ross Levinsohn, the fifth person to hold that title in the past five years. Last week, Levinsohn was suspended by the paper’s owner, Chicago-based Tronc, after NPR revealed a series of sexual harassment allegations against him in previous jobs. The company said it is investigating.

Ouch! More #MeToo

The state of play at the Times, as well as the existential dread swirling around it, was neatly summarized in a tweet this week by Matt Pearce, a Times national reporter and an organizer of the union effort: “Basically, anything could happen at this point at the L.A. Times and people in the newsroom could only be half surprised by it. We’re hiring [editors] that aren’t being announced to the newsroom, our publisher wants to turn us into a pyramid, and by the way, he’s under investigation.”

In fact, more shoes are dropping.

On Thursday, reporters protested after top editor Lewis D’Vorkin suspended Kimi Yoshino, the Times’s financial editor. His reason was unclear — neither party would comment — but Times reporters say D’Vorkin suspected that Yoshino had been a source for other media reports about the Times, including an unflattering profile of D’Vorkin in the Columbia Journalism Review, which dubbed him “LA journalism’s ‘Prince of Darkness.’ ”

Now the reporters are ratting out their editors. So much distrust, but the reporters can thank themselves for creating this hostile environment. Unions create conflict rather than resolve conflict. The pit workers against workers, and workers against management, and objective journalism is completely lost in the process.

“We were very upset to learn yesterday that Kimi was abruptly asked to take a leave of absence and not even permitted to return to her office to collect her belongings and turn off her laptop,” said a letter signed by Times business journalists and promptly disseminated online. “This treatment of Kimi is a serious cause for concern.”



Aww. Poor babies!

Did they forget that the newsroom belongs to the owners, not the workers? I wonder also how much money the reporters are losing because they have to pay union dues to a union which has no incentive to work for the workers.

A spokeswoman for Tronc said it could not comment on employee matters.

D’Vorkin, who took over as Times editor in November, is a controversial figure in media circles. At Forbes, he undertook some unorthodox steps to arrest the magazine’s declining fortunes — including setting up a network of outside contributors to write stories for Forbes.com, some unpaid and some compensated on the basis of how many readers their stories attracted. He also permitted ads that blurred the lines between promotional content and news stories.

OK ...

In other words, D'Vorkin recognized the shifting media market and responded accordingly. Unions will never learn.

As the Times newsroom organizing committee characterized it in a letter to Tronc’s board on Tuesday, D’Vorkin “devalued Forbes’ journalism by sullying it with unpaid contributor content, pay-for-clicks schemes and troubling presentations of advertorial.”

Such is the fate of journalism. Everyone of us can tell stories, now, that no one can silence. The corporate leaders along the coasts cannot stop the news from coming forward anymore. Times are changing, and liberal corporate media cannot adjust anymore.

Only days into his new job at the Times, D’Vorkin drew the enmity of many in his newsroom by his response to complaints lodged by the Disney Co. over a Times series that detailed Disney’s influence over city officials in Anaheim, home of Disneyland. In the face of Disney executives’ protests, D’Vorkin ordered his journalists not to promote the Times’s own stories on social media. The entertainment giant is a key advertiser as well as a news source for the Times.

Wow! Media giants have turned into media whores! But this is not really news. The Los Angeles Times has been covering for liberals and Democratic politicians for decades. They are just getting really sloppy and brazen about it.

He also declined to reveal details of his meeting with Disney executives about the issue or to publish more than a few paragraphs about the paper’s discussions with the company, which had drawn national attention. D’Vorkin declined to comment for this article, referring a reporter to Tronc’s corporate spokesman.

Newspaper journalists are turning into spokesmen trying to sell a product. Nothing more.

The non-response appears to go to the heart of one of the central complaints by people at the paper: that a company engaged in communications doesn’t communicate very well with its own employees.

Why should they? The paper has not communicated the truth with the public for decades.

“It’s frustrating to hear about plans that we weren’t consulted about,” Anthony Pesce, a Times data journalist, told The Washington Post. “This paper is comprised of smart and engaged journalists who want nothing more than to see [the paper] succeed.”

Smart? Not really, considering that one of their reporters openly advertisers her connection with rabid anti-Semite Helen Thomas:





Amid the tumult, the Times has produced some of the best journalism in its 136-year history. In addition to its penetrating series about Disney, it broke a huge scandal in July involving a former dean at the University of Southern California’s medical school. It has been a leader in revealing sexual harassment allegations against leading Hollywood figures, such as directors James Toback and Brett Ratner. And in 2016, it won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, its 44th Pulitzer.

But even those triumphs have come at a price. In August, Tronc fired the paper’s four top editors following an investigation triggered by staff complaints about the handling of major stories, including those about the USC dean.

WOW!

Tronc (the unusual new name is shorthand for Tribune Online Content) is an offshoot of the long-troubled Tribune Co., which emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2012. Tronc owns what had been Tribune Co.’s newspaper assets, including the Times, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News.

And these newspapers are practically giving away their online content, offering 10 weeks of unlimited access on websites for $1.

And still it seems that most readers are not biting.

Like almost every newspaper in the United States, the Times and its parent company has been buffeted for years by a precipitous decline in advertising and the flight of subscribers. During the 1990s, the Times had more than 1,000 journalists. It now employs about 400. Still, the events of recent days seem to have left both the newsroom and its readers a bit dazed and unsure of what’s coming next.

Bankruptcy. Layoffs. Oblivion.

One Times reader conveyed the bafflement in a tweet on Friday: “I subscribe to LAT b/c I think it’s impt to support my local paper, & their journalists do great work. But what’s going on there is awful. Is it helpful or counterproductive for me to cancel my subscription?”

Helpful.

Final Reflection

I am glad to see that Los Angeles Times go up in flames, and to see the conflagration break out within its own ranks. Elected officials, conservatives, Christians, grassroots activists concerned about their communities have had to contend with the liberal Fake News media for decades. There was so little that individuals could do at the time, since newspapers were the biggest megaphones in the public sphere and they dictated what people knew and did not know.

We lost Vietnam in large part because Walter Cronkite declared that the US forced has lost Vietnam. In fact, the military expeditions were becoming successful, and it is all wrong. The media had inordinate power and little accountability. They printed a false story, and the devastating consequences lasted for months if not years. Retractions were never adequate, and in many cases, media giants were printing lies or unsubstantiated reports.

Not good.

Now the corrupt, liberal media is getting the epic comeuppance! Boy, do they deserve it,

Monday, January 29, 2018

He Broke Them! 2018 Grammy Awards Ratings Worst on Record

There is so much winning for Trump supporters in particular, for working, everyday Americans in general.




President Trump slammed liberal elitist Jay-Z on Twitter just before the Grammy Awards:

That simple tweet was a great takeover to distract and then take down the Grammy Awards.

Rich, elitist actors, musicians, and celebrities have picked fights with President Trump.

Every time, they lose.

Look what happened to the Grammy Awards broadcast, for example:

Variety reports:

Viewership of Sunday’s 60th annual Grammy Awards looks to be down significantly from the 2017 telecast, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.

How about that?

No one wants to watch that self-righteous tripe!

The show in Nielsen’s overnight metered markets averaged 12.7 household rating and 21 share in the 56 overnight metered markets, which cover about 70% of U.S. TV households. That’s down from a 16 household rating for the 2017 telecast.

OUCH!

Despite the drop, the Grammy telecast that handed big wins to hitmaker Bruno Mars still gathered a big crowd that will rank among TV’s most-watched events of the year. CBS handily won Sunday night against mostly repeat competition on the Big Four networks.

Variety goes to any length to put lipstick on this pig. "Look at the big winners! Check out who was dressed, and how!"

Yawn.

Nobody cares anymore. Television is losing market share like crazy, and there's nothing that can be done about it. Men and women have too many choices when it comes to news, media, and informative content now that we have YoutTube and other social media outlets.



The elitist, arrogant, out-of-touch cultural anarchists of Silicon Valley and Hollywood are meeting their match. Donald Trump is hastening their demise like never before, and it is spectacular.

Yep, it's true:

Donald Trump just broke the Grammy's, too!

Thursday, December 28, 2017

DRUDGE: Trump and Obama Had Same First-Year Favorable Polling

Drudge Report slams the polling bias and the media bias covering the supposed "epic" low approval ratings for President Trump"


The New Media is undermining the corrupt Old Order of the Big Media and corrupt corporate organizations dedicated to pushing their left-win narrative at the clear expense of the truth.



So, President Trump's numbers are not nearly as bad as I had feared. Polling numbers for the President don't have a clear effect on the Congressional ballot going into off-year elections either.

Court Victory: Project Veritas Defeats Big Labor in Michigan

Project Veritas

Arthur,

Project Veritas just scored another huge victory in the courts -- after a judge in Michigan ruled against the teachers’ union boss that was trying to shut us down.

Read now about how Project Veritas keeps winning in the courts--and why this victory has big implications about what’s to come from our team in 2018.

Like I’ve always said: when you expose the truth, as Project Veritas so often does, you make a few enemies.

Sometimes, these enemies try to take advantage of their deep pockets and their power -- by filing ridiculous lawsuits intended to drain our resources, weaken our resolve, and ultimately silence our voices.

More often than not, these lawsuits against Project Veritas are completely thrown out by the courts -- with the realization they are baseless and a manipulation of the system.

As our organization grows -- as Project Veritas drives increasingly high-profile investigations in 2018 -- I expect the threats from our enemies to grow too. I expect more nonsense lawsuits, more direct threats, and more attempts to shut us down.

But Project Veritas has the truth on our side. And, with your help and support, our team intends to keep fighting back -- and make sure the powerful can’t hide the truth from the American people any longer.

Find out more about Project Veritas’ latest major court victory -- and why this matters for our 2018 investigations.

Thanks again for your help.

In truth,

James

P.S. Project Veritas is winning in the courts -- but our enemies aren’t giving up. Here’s what David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers branch in Michigan, said even after their big legal loss:

    "It is far from the end. We will go after Project Veritas for any and all violations of the law."

The court ruled that Project Veritas didn’t violated the law -- but our enemies don’t care. They’ll continue to use every shameful, underhanded tactic they can think of to take us down.

Our team can’t take them on without your help. Will you pitch in $26 -- or even $52 -- to help Project Veritas continue to take on our enemies and win in the courts?

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

Conservative Pressure Forced Twitter to Go After Rosie O'Donnell?!

So, Rosie O'Donnell went after Ben Shapiro with some very offensive tweets and retorts.

For the time being, just take my word for it. At one point, Rosie said to Ben "suck my d--ck".

Does that mean that Rosie O'Donnell is actually a man? It would not come as a surprise, at this point.



At any rate, Shapiro reported Rosie's tweets to the Twitter authorities.

At first, they refused to do anything.

Then they sent a second message to Shapiro, and acknowledged that Rosie's tweets were, well, not so rosy:


The conservative backlash is working!

People on the right have every right to fight to ensure that they can speak freely and be heard on social media. The Left has gotten away with all kinds of hateful rhetoric and vulgarity. Enough is enough!

Thursday, December 14, 2017

El Segundo City Staff Order LA Times to Pay Up or Remove News Stands

                        

Last week, a noticed a number of signs on news racks along Sepulveda in the city of El Segundo. The notices informed the public that the news racks were out of compliance with municipal code. Every news organization that owns a rack must obtain a permit and pay a fee.

In the past, this process was quite contentious, since municipalities didn't want massive numbers of news racks cluttering up the sidewalks. They opened up a lottery system every day for which newspapers would go where, or if they would get a news rack for that day at all.

Because of rapid advances in technology and communications, news racks are going away, and most media companies are staving off print media to go directly into digital. Some of the news racks have been long abandoned, covered in graffiti and rust from misuse and neglect. I've seen them many times because of the walks I take down that street and in the El Segundo area.

It's stunning how the Los Angeles Times has neglected their own news stands, including one station under the Green Line station on the corner of Aviation and Imperial Highway. People aren't reading the Times anymore, or at least they don't want to read the print version. One of the three at this public meeting informed me that they get a free copy of the Sunday edition of the Times! The media company needs to keep their distribution numbers high so that advertisers continue to work with them!

It doesn't look as if the LA Times is going to be in charge or in print much longer. How long with everyday reader continue to tolerate left-wing bias, anti-conservative smears, and distortions of local as well as statewide news and events?

What a telling development, that the Los Angeles Times has turned into a dead-beat organization, refusing to even pay their permit fees for the news racks in local cities!

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

LA Times Reporter Lies About Me, Doesn't Like Getting Trolled in Turn?

Los Angeles Times "reporter" Hailey Branson seems to have disappeared.

Not sure what to make of it. Perhaps being called out for her apprenticeship under rabid anti-Semite Helen Thomas turned her off to writing more stories about me or other Trump supporters.



At any rate, I guess she claimed "bullying" when I urged other people on Twitter to contact her and demand answers about her dubious, if not disturbing, relationship with Helen Thomas:





She has no problem smearing Trump supporters with lies ... but she doesn't like being exposed or held accountable for it?

That's strange. 

Shame on the corrupt corporate media. They like shaming conservatives, patriots, and pro-American activists.

But they can't handle it when they get exposed in turn!




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Friday, December 8, 2017

Another Social Justice Warrior Media Site Closes Down

So much winning!

So much winning.

Even while YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter shut down outspoken conservatives, libertarians, and free speech activists, the liberal news sites promoting open borders, destruction of life and family, and the corruption of our constitutional form of government are going down in flames.

Image result for cracked.com
"Cracked" is cracking up

LA Weekly is folding up fast.

OC Weekly is losing staffers.

LAist shut down all its journalists and websites.

Buzzfeed had to lay off a large number of staffers.

And now CRACKED is cracking apart!



Cracked has given the pink slip to most of its main contributors and senior editorial staff after a tumultuous run following its embrace of social justice politics.


If you grew up on the Internet, then there’s a pretty good chance you stumbled upon a Cracked listicle or two detailing something like the “insane fan theories about movies that make great movies better,” or “creepy urban legends that turned out to be true.

This magazine used to be a wannabe "MAD Magazine" parody spoof. Then it went SJW, and now it's DOA!

Winning!


Monday, December 4, 2017

James Lacy Slams Fired OC Weekly Hacks for Attempt to Silence Him

James Lacy is a California conservative commentator who has provided refreshing insight on political developments in Washington DC, across the country, and even in California. He has spoken on local public television about the state of the California Republican Party, but has maintained respectable optimism for conservatism's long-term gains.



Lacy supported President Trump early on, too, and was unfazed by damaging reports in the media as well as the heavily slanted polling in Hillary Clinton's favor. The disparaging mockery of the left-wing media elites never distempered him, despite their best efforts.

Trump won, we are all winning, and the media is losing big time in terms of ratings, revenue, and respectability.

Of course, Lacy's dreams and determination have not stopped the diminished, corrosive liberal media from attacking him with abandon. Their unethical efforts to write nasty hit pieces against political opponents have become so overt, it's amazing that anyone takes them seriously, or treats them even level above parody mags like MAD or National Lampoon.

When Lacy wanted to discuss and learn more about the new leadership for the flailing Alt-Media rag LA Weekly, Gustavo Arellano threatened him with a hit piece by muck-raking has-been R. Scott Moxley.

California Political Review reports:

There is a controversy on social media going on regarding the new ownership of the LA Weekly newspaper.   But Gustavo Arellano, a former writer for the OC Weekly and Voice of Orange County ...

Lacy is too charitable. Arellano refused to lead his failing alt-media rag, since all the pot and porn ads aren't bringing in enough money. The owners of the OC Weekly old La Cucaracha Arellano to cut the overpaid staff by half. Gustavo offered to cut his own salary as part of a different means to save the other hack writers. The ownership said "No!", and Arellano decided to quit.

Wow! Just thinking about it show what a win-win that was! The owners gut the staff, and Arellano threw himself on the funeral bier for added fun. So much winning.

Now, about LA Weekly, last week's headlines announced that a new company had taken over that alt-weekly, and terminated nine of the editors and reduced the office to one staffer.

Lacy commented on social media about this, but Arellano seemds to have a problem with other people exercising their First Amendment rights:

[He] threatened me from participating in the debate on social media by tweeting to me after  I made a comment:

“But with you popping in, don’t get @RScottMoxley interested!”

Should we really be scared of former SoCal award winner Moxley, though?

Lacy continues:

R. Scott Moxley describes himself as a person whose “award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades.”  Moxley’s pieces include very negative exposes, often targeting conservatives, like me.  So, what Arellano was conveying to me in his tweet, now deleted, and blocked from his account, is that if I had anything more to say about the LA Weekly newspaper ownership issue, that I could draw a retaliatory negative story from his friend Moxley at the OC Weekly.

Arellano has a habit of attacking people in the social media sphere, then retreating, deleting, and finally blocking those whom he has criticized. Not much courage there, folks, and his influence is diminishing considerably by the day. Where is he writing now? At least we don't have to settle for his anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-American rants in print anymore.


Journalism is great when it “touches nerves” and exposes hidden truths.  But journalists are quite shameful individuals when they threaten to use their contacts to suppress public participation in debate.  

The double standard on freedom of speech lies with the left. They want freedom of speech, but only if you are talking about what they want to hear. Anything controversial or in conflict with their brittle worldview, and they lash out.

Yet it is very clear that Gustavo Arellano intended to bully me into silence, and for this he deserves to be outed for the bully he is, and he owes me, and his profession, and even R. Scott Moxley, an apology.

They are bullies, but the good news is that conservatives are finding more--and easier--ways to punch back twice as hard. These hollow leftist are falling back, unable to counter the conservative alternatives which Saul Alinksy warned about.

I do believe, however, that justice will be swift indeed. They had written a hit piece against me in December 2016. Friends and followers of mine actually celebrated, because if I was getting the attention of these left-wing hacks, it means that I was really becoming a mover and shaker in the SoCal scene. Incidentally enough, however, their usual coven of readers (all five of them) mocked Moxley and the editors for printing a hit piece against "little ol'" me. Am I really that important? Better question: is OC Weekly important?



Funny but true, the corrupt, hateful, bigoted, anti-liberty left-wing media are getting taken to the cleaners. Conservatives are fighting back and winning the policy and political debate. President Trump took off the gloves and beat down the media as no other President would--or could. Now we are watching their once invincible army falling apart all around them!