Guy Chamberlin

1 hour ago, nic said:

I saw this the other day. Didn't think much of it at the time. He could be disgruntled.

 

https://www.insideradio.com/free/npr-niche-public-radio-senior-editor-uri-berliner-accuses-network-of-biased-journalism/article_28a5877a-f77f-11ee-b4de-cbdb341c259e.html.

 

“It’s true, NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding,” Berliner writes. “In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”

 

Then Juan Williams says this. Of course I read NPR let him have it for saying he was uncomfortable around Muslims in airports after 9.11.

 

https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxnews.com/media/juan-williams-responds-editors-charges-npr-bias-insulated-cadre-people-who-think-theyre-right.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=17128461991779&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fjuan-williams-responds-editors-charges-npr-bias-insulated-cadre-people-who-think-theyre-right

 

"So they are a very much an insulated cadre of people who think they're right, and they have a hard time with people who are different," 

 

 

You may have missed us discussing this piece yesterday. 

10 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Are you OK? You seem kind of manic lately. Lots of posts without any substance

Oh I definitely think there's a substance involved.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

Hug each other and no longer fight, ever.    

Well you ol' softy!

10 minutes ago, teachercd said:

 Love

 

 

I hear ya, man.

4 hours ago, teachercd said:

 I am not wise.

 

It's a complicated issue. I'm glad we can at least agree on this. 

3 hours ago, Decked said:

 Let’s not pretend like Hamas hasn’t aided in those civilian casualties by placing rockets, ammo, etc in homes + civilian infrastructure to play moral superior after they are the ones who kicked this recent skirmish off. 
 

Hence the folly of negotiating with Hamas. Which is also in the habit of intercepting international aid for their own purposes. 

The sad fact is that Netanyahu has continually supported and validated Hamas over the years -- moreso than the moderate Palestinian Authority -- because he believes Hamas is his ticket for justifying the takeover of Gaza. The Palestinian people are typically the last people consulted on the fate of Palestine. Everyone is a proxy for international grandstanding. 

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

 

 

If you honestly think there will be eternal peace over there you have zero idea what it is like. 

 

 

But nobody honestly thinks that. You continue to lecture this person that doesn't exist. Why? 

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I don’t totally put the blame on the Palestinians side.  But, this seems to be a major reason why they haven’t agreed to this. 

The smart people have been able to separate the folly of negotiating with Hamas with the equally ineffective horror of killing tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, the occasional international aid worker, and sometimes the hostages themselves. 

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hostages-gaza-hamas-war-52fa9628e6284cdad6d7f7db6cc30742

On 4/4/2024 at 5:40 PM, teachercd said:

It is the way it is, period.

 

The super peace lovers here that want to talk about peace over there have zero idea of what it is really like.  There will never be peace there.  

This is another perfect example of you pretending there's an irrational contingent here than isn't is as wise as you are.

Seriously. Find me one post from a person who has zero idea what it's like over there. 

18 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I’m not putting this here because I think it’s bias. But, the only other thread is just about right wing disinformation. 
 

 

Hmmm. If they led with the most egregious missteps from both the left and the right and showed their homework, there's the theoretical chance they could change some minds. 

21 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Nice to see someone coming clean on reporting standards at NPR.  Important to note the Adam Schiff lies during Russiagate that were posted here too.  
 

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

That's an excellent if depressing article by Berliner, who is absolutely correct that diversity itself is meaningless if it's not a diversity of opinion. 

I blame rescinding the Communications Act of 1934, which perhaps ironically had the federal government requiring companies using public airwaves to operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity, including mandatory hours spent on balanced civic discourse (usually stuck in the early Sunday time slot) 

24/7 cable monetized the news, and found it could profit off narratives and identity politics. And they could profit even more if they fired working reporters and replaced them with talking heads. Easiest way to keep the story going is to have good guys vs. bad guys, and pretty soon every story coming across the transom got broken down into those two bins.

Social media made it infinitely worse.

And then Donald Trump comes into the mix, transforming one of only two parties in this country, and launching something much worse than most of us imagined. Even as I lobby for a balance of opinion, I'm just gobsmacked this guy even exists and that a cult has grown around him. Time, space, and logic appear to be broken. This f#&%er IS the bad guy, by almost every historical definition of the term, and his vision for America is by his own definition: revenge. He literally wants to overturn democracy for personal gain. They barely hide the grift anymore. 

So when even the moderate Dems at NPR, or CNN, or here on HB see what might be a legitimate story about Hunter Biden, or a Chinese Lab theory, or just Joe's cognitive challenges, the first reaction is: s#!t, this could help Trump get reelected. 

It's not a journalist's job to direct political outcomes. But sweet Jesus.....if facts remain facts and NPR is the corollary to Newsmax, I will run with their bias until Walter Cronkite returns from the dead.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

 

 

You should care 0% what I say.

 

This is a post board.  

But that would mean the end of the post board as we know it. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

It is in the nut family, for sure.  

 

What is the saying, one bad nut spoils the bowl of nut-stuff.  I don't think that is word for word.

You tend to dedicate a lot of posts to the pro nut bros, and often claim HB posters are among them, when they're not. 

9 hours ago, teachercd said:

Pro Russia stuff is as nutty as Pro Pally stuff.

Outside of a small faction of Hamas apologists, pro-Palestine sentiment is mostly about their right to exist -- like Israel -- and to stop the wholesale bombing of civilians as conducted by the Netanyahu government. Not exactly nutty. 

18 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Edey is playing like he has something to prove. 

I've got a different take on the guy. I see a competent but not especially gifted 7' 4" athlete who gets most of the team's offense funneled to him. Given so many mismatches, he's going to get his points. But with a little bit of defensive strategy and talent, he and the team become a lot less efficient. Even with his incredible advantage, he's not a great finisher. 

Mostly what concerns me, and would keep him off my draft board, is watching him stand flat footed, arms at his side, as a Husky player drives past him. How often he's out of position, or makes no real effort for rebounds. Or simply has them taken out of his hands by a more motivated defender.

I think the NBA will eat him alive.  

I think if we all compared notes, we'd realize every part of the country, down to individual cities and even neighborhoods, handled the "mandates" differently, including ignoring them completely. 

It's worth recalling that in March of 2020, our closest working example of a pandemic was the 1918-19 global Influenza outbreak that infected a third of the world's population, and killed more people than the World War that had just concluded. 

Also in March of 2020, I rolled my eyes at the oncoming hysteria, convinced it was merely the next Bird Flu. As I learned more, I learned I was wrong. 

We've been laughing about the early days of Covid, when we watched YouTube videos about wiping down your groceries as soon as you brought them into the house.

But I never felt betrayed by the information and warnings provided. It always was an evolving pandemic emergency, taking place on a global scale, with countries executing a full range of precautions having nothing to do with Anthony Fauci. I thought the scientists generally chose their words carefully, based on the best available information, and were not afraid to change course as better information became available. 

I don't think I've seen the full list of what they got wrong, but they weren't wrong to take emergency measures in the early days, along with most countries. In hindsight, perhaps schools should have opened earlier. Then again, Sweden was pretty smug about keeping everything open, including schools, until they had a delayed response that landed them among the worst COVID cases per capita in the world. Masks weren't perfect, and mandates weren't the answer, but they were always sold as the best prevention we could control, and that remains true --- as it is with every virus. 

There was no doubt an attempt to downplay the possibility of accidental or intentional Covid lab leak from China, but while evidence now suggests it's a distinct possibility, there's roughly the same evidence for the Wuhan Wet Market theory. 

Once the vaccine was available, 90%+ of COVID deaths were among the unvaccinated. Much was made about vaccinated deaths, but come on.

They weren't wrong that Ivermectin and other rumored cures were not effective and should not be taken for COVID cure or prevention. For some reason the "experts" promoting dips#!t cures to show up the Fauci lovers were not held to the same standard of vetting and blaming.  

22 hours ago, teachercd said:

Hahaha!  

 

1.  If I said this, Chamberlin would be on me like white on rice! 

Many people enjoy brown rice. Why are you always bringing race into it?

I think we have to get to the place where we accept that Joe Biden is in decline, but it can be successfully mitigated. Given the alternative and what's at stake, we accept the inside intel that Joe remains highly knowledgeable and capable on important subjects -- vastly better than Donald Trump  -- and that Joe will remain prone to both physical and verbal missteps while under constant scrutiny. The party stops pretending he's not too old and that we didn't deserve someone younger and more inspiring, but instead it transparently limits his press conferences and extemporaneous opportunities, and begins delegating more public roles to his cabinet members and spokespeople. Biden is the President and will give some perfectly good speeches when needed, but it will be a team effort. And if you look at the team Biden assembles vs. the team Trump will assemble, it's not even close. It's grown ups vs. the worst teenagers you can imagine. It's Big Ten vs Community College. 

There was a kerfuffle a dozen years or so ago, just as my kids were moving into the local Middle School. We have about a 50/50 split between White and Hispanic kids here, and this made a lot of white parents nervous about sending their kids to the public middle school, where they were scared of both non-existent gangs and Hispanics dragging down the academic ranking. The school created a series of Advanced Placement classes (can't recall if the district was involved) that certainly sounded merit based but were essentially designed as a safe space for the white kids, a fact everyone seemed to recognized by the complexion of the classrooms.  

The principal was replaced and the system was changed, and most folks were good with it, as smart kids of any ethnicity still had the chance to excel. In what was no doubt a well-intentioned move, they created a recognition program exclusively for ESL or second-generation Hispanic students with some aspirational name like Rising Achievers, but when you attended the awards ceremonies it looked like a two track system, with a patronizing nod to kids given lower expectations.

But the same district has tried to maintain the college track AP for high schoolers, and no one wants to abandon some kind of merit based option. 

17 hours ago, admo said:

So Denver is the the clear favorite to win it all again.

 

We see it with our own eyes, and I hope they run it back.  I love watching Denver play, win, dominate, while every team that plays them got no answers....

 

However let's talk about the West

 

Denver

T-Wolves

OKC

LA Clippers

NO Pels

Dallas

SAC Kings

 

Who fighting to make the play-in for the NBA playofs?

 

LA Lakers

Phoenix Suns

Golden State Warriors 

 

There is enough Super Stars on these teams, with All-stars and MVPs......the faces of the League...... And 

 

Someone won't make it.  

The network would be sad to have a playoffs without LeBron James, Steph Curry and/or Kevin Durant, but sometimes youth needs to be served and the top tier is loaded with young talent.

That being said, the Nuggets are deep, experienced, and tested, and I honestly don't know anyone who hates them. That's rare all by itself. 

27 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Not a starter

Played 6th most minutes per game

4.8 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 2.1 apg

Declare for the draft

36/67/26

 

But it will be a circus

 

 

I thought the only way this works is that whatever team gets Bronny will get LeBron James at a huge discount so he can end his career playing with his son.

I would not want to be the coach of that team. 

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

Thanks, really!  

 

But you didn't answer my question, what are your thoughts on that?

It was actually a series of stupid and slanted questions. My issue was about the qualities I'd look for in a teacher, taking your larger posting history into account. I'm sticking with that answer.

You cheerfully admit the many many subjects you know next to nothing about. So I'm honestly not being a d!(k about this. 

7 minutes ago, teachercd said:

I am not a real teacher.

 

But this is interesting.  Would you rather have teachers following the news closely and then spouting off things in class?

 

Or not following it and not spouting off things in class?

 

Or following it and not spouting off things in class?

 

It seems right now that the idea is that teachers should NOT say anything in class unless it is left-leaning.  While right-leaning talk is discouraged.  

 

I would personally just see teaches teach and not try to send any type of "message" to the students about left/right/middle.  

It's mostly that you don't seem very curious, or interested in doing the simple things that would turn your opinions into informed opinions. Kinda the antithesis of teaching, really. 

7 hours ago, Display name required said:

It would be good for college sports but we could lose a huge advantage over non big ten and sec schools and it’s vary possible that we would make less money at the same time 

I'd be willing to do what's good for college sports.