Just woke up, my morning chores are aplenty with feeding dogs, cats, medicines, picking up poop, cleaning litter boxes--I usually start while making a cup of coffee--then take a quick gander at CFP or SubStack while the dog kibble soaks up water...
MKnight, your comments were the first thing I read after Chris's post today--and I laughed out loud by myself at 0640.
Thank you. I imagine you'd be a delight to share a cup of coffee with.
That’s kind of you! My kids wouldn’t agree, but maybe that means I’m doing something right. 😂 Glad to have substack so we don’t feel so insane in this world.
"Just woke up, my morning chores are aplenty with feeding dogs, cats, medicines, picking up poop, cleaning litter boxes--I usually start while making a cup of coffee--"
Far too ambitious for me at that time. I'd have real concerns about crossing wires and loading coffee into the litter box and making a nice fresh pot of cat litter.
Years ago, but in middle age, I finally realized I could brush my teeth while sitting on the toilet. Major progress toward improving my multitasking in other areas of life and generally improving efficiency, such as making twice as much coffee as I need for one day so I have leftover the next day.
And who do they worship? I think his name starts with Klaus. Hold on let me look it up..."Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[3][4] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime." - Wikipedia, of all places.
How can we confirm that anything in the MSM is true? They can claim whatever they want -- and you have to take their word for it ... because the MSM is owned by the Ministry of Truth ... and generally the outlets are in lock step on the lies...
Here's a rare moment of truth slipping out
The Reform activist filmed by Channel 4 using a racial slur about Rishi Sunak while campaigning in Clacton has turned out to be an actor who is well-spoken but specialises in ‘rough voices’ – though the activist and Channel 4 have denied that he was a plant. Isabel Oakeshott broke the story on TalkTV this morning.
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I read this morning that two Lesbians had been beaten up in Halifax Nova Scotia by a group of men on the last night of Pride Month. My immediate thought wasn’t, ‘that’s terrible’. My immediate thought was “I wonder if this is another Jussie Smollett?”
There was a story out of London (ON) about a bunch of "Pride animals" (big flaming trans-hamsters or something) at some sort of petting zoo that were all poisoned by unknown evil, transphobic critter killers. CBC headline: HOMOPHOBIC CUTE ANIMAL TRAGIC KILLING. A few days later, London Police: accidental poisoning. Crickets. Essentially a smaller-scale version of the "mass graves" hoax that led to dozens of churches being set on fire.
But this is standard operating procedure for Canadian media now: pre-set narrative, "activists" and "advocates" given all the air time, no skepticism, sympathetic comment from brain-dead politician and then....the *actual* truth emerges.
It’s far more efficient to write stories in advance and insert names, places & dates instantly after an event. Corrections are passé - witness “Fine people on both sides.”
You know, I used to get annoyed at the “everything is fake” people. But they are more right than they’re wrong. What a freaking messed up world where our emotions and perceptions are the psychological playground of horrible, horrible people.
Exactly. All the talking heads saying Biden is a genius up to the debate then flipping the switch and proclaiming he is in cognitive decline, the next day. Rush Limbaugh was a master at the talking head montage. I miss him more every day. The countries rapid decline accelerated without his daily analysis.
A friend has written up his observations on the subway shooting said to have occurred in New York City on Tuesday morning. Here’s the video that he analyzes (the segment starting at 35:40):
Well, yeah - they're set to gain power in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and most of the rest of it too. Anybody that doesn't support the unitary globalist government like we're told to do by theses chuckleheads is obviously a Nazi.
The most I can say about the mainstream press in their straight reporting (set aside opinion journalism for a moment) is that sometimes they inadvertently report enough detail that you can figure out the truth using some simple deductive logic or even basic arithmetic (journalists are particularly math averse). Just ignore their spin and conclusions and look for specific numerical details that seem credibly reported.
It's like a secret power. If you did that, you would have figured out in like April or May 2020 that COVID wasn't a huge deal to anyone under 70 and conducted your life accordingly (by reading the mortality stats off the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was about as good of a well-bounded study as you could get at that point with known case numbers and - critically - a known total population; that would have given you enough hard data to justify ignoring all the other fact-free fear porn). There are a thousand other little truth nuggets that will change your life if you learn how to find them and ignore the chaff.
But the whole situation more than a little bit like Pravda, where to get anything useful out of such mainstream reporting you basically have to cross examine it like Perry Mason and not accept the plain reading of whatever narrative their trying to spin at face value.
Here's another one: when 51 intelligence officials say that Hunter Biden's laptop has "all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation," they're telling you that it's *not* in fact a Russian intelligence operation. They're not bound by some code of medical ethics not to publicly diagnose at a distance. If they can't bring themselves to say in so many words "in my opinion, it is more likely than not that the laptop is a Russian intelligence operation" it's because they don't truly think it's a Russian intelligence operation. They just think that it's a real authentic story that by coincidence shares some traits with Russian intelligence operations and they want to trick you into thinking they've diagnosed it as a Russian operation, even if they technically never said that. Because a shocking number of those officials were lawyers trained at top-tier law schools and they think that this clever sort of wordplay saves them from sin.
And don't get me started on mainstream opinion journalism.
What I'm waiting for isn't for everyone to realize that it's all bs all the time. I think that's mostly already the case. What I'm waiting for is for people to realize that the majority realize it's all bs all the time and that they can freely talk about it as such. That the people who swallow the official narrative are actually the tinfoil hat minority.
I think that we are actually pretty close to that point, and that things could get really messy, really fast when we reach it.
Party loyalists are loyalists by nature. They aren't loyalists by virtue of a rational assessment of the issues. They are loyalists because of a psychological need to feel safe inside something they believe in. Facts, truth, that point out the faults of their party threaten their sense of safety and security. For some, no amount of evidence, of cold hard facts, will shake their need to believe in the authenticity of their party.
With all the facts out on the table, it’s clear that the better statement is that Russian intelligence operations have all the hallmarks of Hunter’s laptop.
The spontaneous "drop him now" reaction to Biden's debate performance was interesting. First it was everywhere, then it was nowhere several hours later. Surprised me! I expected a unified front of disinfo but instead we saw competing factions wrestling for control of the media. All of it absolute BS and far from truth, but a surprise nonetheless.
I like to ask people, especially my students, “As a percentage, how closely does everything you see and hear in the media resemble what you’ve learned to be actual, literal truth?”
To date, even the most extreme leftists report 0%….but I live in eastern Germany. The American leftists stay emotionally primed for battle.
Bannon's War Room always has a cold open featuring the Usual Suspects opining about all of us fascists. I quit watching several years ago because I knew exactly what they were going to say on every topic no matter what. They are like Orwell's sheep in "Animal Farm" bleating "four legs good, two legs bad" or some similar derivative. It's also why I turned off all MSM national and local news programs, as they are all the same, using the same words/phrases, with the same policy positions. I learn much more from you and other Substacks, plus, now that X is back to a free speech platform for the most part, from Musk.
Trump is a threat to our democracy. As is Chris Bray....and Danny Huckabee..
After seeing the Michael Brown narrative dissolve in 2014 since the grand jury indictment was posted online for all to see, and then CNN and the like started to remove the comments sections, it became clear that the MSM is Pravda, so I started reading the news more (both sides). I figured maybe if I read the news, rather than watch it, I can read in between the lines. Conclusion: We are in trouble!!!!!
I cancelled my NYT Sunday edition subscription in 2016 with the onset of the Trump derangement, reading it became unbearable. I would have to date it to around that time for the mainstream media.
It would be a massive improvement if the MSM replaced their op-ed writers and news anchors with something as sophisticated Magic 8 Balls. The opinions would become more interesting and insightful overnight.
The MSM does not exist to inform - it exists to control what you think.
The only reason I look at the MSM ever -- is to see what the Ministry of Truth agenda is on a given day.
I do not expect revelations. I expect propaganda... lies...
But the MSM does have value. Whatever they publish insisting it is truth ... can be ruled out as an explanation for the issue involved. So that shortens the list slightly when one is searching for the truth.
Here are two massive issues that the MSM is lying about -- The War in Ukraine - Global Warming
Here is my attempt to drill down to the truth about each issue
Well, regarding the Mars helicopter, I know one person who helped write the software for it so I do believe it flew. Don’t have an answer for the charging, but the rovers also recharge with solar panels. Maybe with no atmosphere the sun is stronger? The helicopter was a “technology demonstration” which means that it didn’t actually have to perform, it was experimental. And a massively successful experiment in my opinion.
Just because he wrote the software is meaningless... I suspect the helicopter depicted in that video exists... but again that is not evidence that it every left the film studio... it is not evidence that it flew on Mars.
It amuses me -- the truth ... the evidence... is irrefutable ... you cannot charge a battery in extreme cold... yet the jury is still out...
This is why the PR Team has such an easy job of fooling most people all of the time...
"... delivering premasticated symbol-food to the dumb poors, who need to be fed like baby birds." Love that!
Once upon a time, the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour on PBS would have four experts discuss an issue on their show. And they were actual discussions! Nobody was arguing. Nobody was trying to win the argument. They DISCUSSED, and we LEARND. Brilliant concept!
*the* demise of truth….and the fact that so many people continue blame blame blame only exacerbates the problem by shifting responsibility away from where it belongs:
I admit to not being as sharply cynical as I have become in recent years. Part of me, now dead, would argue "they can't dissemble about everything, why would they?" I woke up, and I have hope that more and more of us will wake up, and openly stand against [the current thing].
I know that not everyone will wake up. One unreported result of the famous fable was there were 'true believers' who continued to post photos of the Emperor wearing his New Clothes on instagram despite the closeup and detailed photos of the Emperor's shriveled appendage. "Cheap Fakes" apprently.
I agree with your observation that the mainstream media don't say very much but I'd add that it's even worse than that.
My everyday newspaper — The Guardian — has endless articles saying "Famous Person X will say something interesting (*) tomorrow." They have nothing interesting to say about yesterday so they make up stuff about tomorrow.
(*) Spoiler: it wasn't interesting.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that we know everything already. In the old days, we could read the headlines that "The General Belgrano has been Sunk with the Loss of 1000 lives" or "Atomic Super-Bomb Strikes Japan" and we genuinely didn't know it. But everything that newspapers might tell us now, we already read on the interwebs. There is no news that is new. So they are left with commentary but there are only so many comments they might make and we have read all of those too. It's the same with news on the TV. It's going to get worse for them too now that all the best commentators are on Substack.
Anyway, in answer to your question, I'd say "about once per month".
Everyday, I think I should give the Guardian up but it's hard to drop habits you have had for 35 years.
I dunno - I saw a headline today that Nazis were poised to take over the government of France. Or something. That was surprising. 😂
Went around the Maginot Line again?
To be fair, I think the “line” is only being guarded by those Just Stop Oil people. So.
Just woke up, my morning chores are aplenty with feeding dogs, cats, medicines, picking up poop, cleaning litter boxes--I usually start while making a cup of coffee--then take a quick gander at CFP or SubStack while the dog kibble soaks up water...
MKnight, your comments were the first thing I read after Chris's post today--and I laughed out loud by myself at 0640.
Thank you. I imagine you'd be a delight to share a cup of coffee with.
bsn
That’s kind of you! My kids wouldn’t agree, but maybe that means I’m doing something right. 😂 Glad to have substack so we don’t feel so insane in this world.
Hear, hear!
Best thing since Usenet went feral.
Were you the one that "ran amok in Kent?"
"Just woke up, my morning chores are aplenty with feeding dogs, cats, medicines, picking up poop, cleaning litter boxes--I usually start while making a cup of coffee--"
Far too ambitious for me at that time. I'd have real concerns about crossing wires and loading coffee into the litter box and making a nice fresh pot of cat litter.
BidenLite, you see...:^(
Years ago, but in middle age, I finally realized I could brush my teeth while sitting on the toilet. Major progress toward improving my multitasking in other areas of life and generally improving efficiency, such as making twice as much coffee as I need for one day so I have leftover the next day.
Well they are based in Belgium these days.
Really ? Seems to me that a lot of cultural poison hails from America
And who do they worship? I think his name starts with Klaus. Hold on let me look it up..."Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and Erika Epprecht[3][4] in Ravensburg. His parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for the Nazi regime." - Wikipedia, of all places.
Schwab is just a minion.
Easier to just start there.
HAHAHAHA!!!!
🤣
lol
Hah! Hah! :^)
The thing is...
How can we confirm that anything in the MSM is true? They can claim whatever they want -- and you have to take their word for it ... because the MSM is owned by the Ministry of Truth ... and generally the outlets are in lock step on the lies...
Here's a rare moment of truth slipping out
The Reform activist filmed by Channel 4 using a racial slur about Rishi Sunak while campaigning in Clacton has turned out to be an actor who is well-spoken but specialises in ‘rough voices’ – though the activist and Channel 4 have denied that he was a plant. Isabel Oakeshott broke the story on TalkTV this morning.
She said: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/28/racist-reform-activist-filmed-by-channel-4-is-an-actor/
This is real...
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I read this morning that two Lesbians had been beaten up in Halifax Nova Scotia by a group of men on the last night of Pride Month. My immediate thought wasn’t, ‘that’s terrible’. My immediate thought was “I wonder if this is another Jussie Smollett?”
There was a story out of London (ON) about a bunch of "Pride animals" (big flaming trans-hamsters or something) at some sort of petting zoo that were all poisoned by unknown evil, transphobic critter killers. CBC headline: HOMOPHOBIC CUTE ANIMAL TRAGIC KILLING. A few days later, London Police: accidental poisoning. Crickets. Essentially a smaller-scale version of the "mass graves" hoax that led to dozens of churches being set on fire.
But this is standard operating procedure for Canadian media now: pre-set narrative, "activists" and "advocates" given all the air time, no skepticism, sympathetic comment from brain-dead politician and then....the *actual* truth emerges.
All so goddamn tiresome.
It’s far more efficient to write stories in advance and insert names, places & dates instantly after an event. Corrections are passé - witness “Fine people on both sides.”
"All so goddamn tiresome."
I could not agree more.
bsn
me too
You know, I used to get annoyed at the “everything is fake” people. But they are more right than they’re wrong. What a freaking messed up world where our emotions and perceptions are the psychological playground of horrible, horrible people.
“…our emotions and perceptions are the psychological playground…”
But we are forewarned and therefore forearmed. I believe nothing I see or hear from the MSM. Nothing.
It is quite irritating ... because they are so good at faking stuff... it's impossible to differentiate between what is real and what is fake...
It is the same conundrum as when putting together a book listing poisonous mushrooms. Is it a warning or a guide?
Concocting news to fit their views; pretty much had to happen, I guess.
Exactly. All the talking heads saying Biden is a genius up to the debate then flipping the switch and proclaiming he is in cognitive decline, the next day. Rush Limbaugh was a master at the talking head montage. I miss him more every day. The countries rapid decline accelerated without his daily analysis.
That's fucking terrifying!
A friend has written up his observations on the subway shooting said to have occurred in New York City on Tuesday morning. Here’s the video that he analyzes (the segment starting at 35:40):
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/some-reasons-to-suspect-that-subway
The Associated Press said it was France's farthest turn to the hard Right since Vichy. I wish I had made that up.
Right. But I was still surprised at the hysterical coping by crying “Nazi!” Why am I still surprised? I shouldn’t be. 😂
They're not into subtlety, are they?
lol LIKE
Not so ... Marine le Pen is the Donald Trump of France. I was expecting nothing less.
Well, yeah - they're set to gain power in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and most of the rest of it too. Anybody that doesn't support the unitary globalist government like we're told to do by theses chuckleheads is obviously a Nazi.
The most I can say about the mainstream press in their straight reporting (set aside opinion journalism for a moment) is that sometimes they inadvertently report enough detail that you can figure out the truth using some simple deductive logic or even basic arithmetic (journalists are particularly math averse). Just ignore their spin and conclusions and look for specific numerical details that seem credibly reported.
It's like a secret power. If you did that, you would have figured out in like April or May 2020 that COVID wasn't a huge deal to anyone under 70 and conducted your life accordingly (by reading the mortality stats off the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was about as good of a well-bounded study as you could get at that point with known case numbers and - critically - a known total population; that would have given you enough hard data to justify ignoring all the other fact-free fear porn). There are a thousand other little truth nuggets that will change your life if you learn how to find them and ignore the chaff.
But the whole situation more than a little bit like Pravda, where to get anything useful out of such mainstream reporting you basically have to cross examine it like Perry Mason and not accept the plain reading of whatever narrative their trying to spin at face value.
Here's another one: when 51 intelligence officials say that Hunter Biden's laptop has "all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation," they're telling you that it's *not* in fact a Russian intelligence operation. They're not bound by some code of medical ethics not to publicly diagnose at a distance. If they can't bring themselves to say in so many words "in my opinion, it is more likely than not that the laptop is a Russian intelligence operation" it's because they don't truly think it's a Russian intelligence operation. They just think that it's a real authentic story that by coincidence shares some traits with Russian intelligence operations and they want to trick you into thinking they've diagnosed it as a Russian operation, even if they technically never said that. Because a shocking number of those officials were lawyers trained at top-tier law schools and they think that this clever sort of wordplay saves them from sin.
And don't get me started on mainstream opinion journalism.
I just re-read 1984. The book keeps becoming more and more true. You'd think that, at some point, everyone would catch on.
I was reading that a couple of months ago and got so depressed at the accuracy and had to pause. 🤦🏻♀️
I think that most people have caught on to some extent. It's a question of degree though.
Here's a fine example. The absolute majority have always doubted the official JFK assassination narrative: https://news.gallup.com/poll/165893/majority-believe-jfk-killed-conspiracy.aspx
What I'm waiting for isn't for everyone to realize that it's all bs all the time. I think that's mostly already the case. What I'm waiting for is for people to realize that the majority realize it's all bs all the time and that they can freely talk about it as such. That the people who swallow the official narrative are actually the tinfoil hat minority.
I think that we are actually pretty close to that point, and that things could get really messy, really fast when we reach it.
Party loyalists are loyalists by nature. They aren't loyalists by virtue of a rational assessment of the issues. They are loyalists because of a psychological need to feel safe inside something they believe in. Facts, truth, that point out the faults of their party threaten their sense of safety and security. For some, no amount of evidence, of cold hard facts, will shake their need to believe in the authenticity of their party.
With all the facts out on the table, it’s clear that the better statement is that Russian intelligence operations have all the hallmarks of Hunter’s laptop.
All the good stuff is here on substack.
YES
I don't watch the so called news,it is an endless round of chewing the cud.There is no truth in any of it,they are all reading the same script.
An utter frustration and waste of my time and energy.Thank you for sharing.
The MSM has its use - in the event of a rare non-nauseous entertainment program, a breaking news story/chyron alerts me to check a real news source. 🤣
The spontaneous "drop him now" reaction to Biden's debate performance was interesting. First it was everywhere, then it was nowhere several hours later. Surprised me! I expected a unified front of disinfo but instead we saw competing factions wrestling for control of the media. All of it absolute BS and far from truth, but a surprise nonetheless.
It seemed to reveal there are factions within the deep state battling for control and outcomes.
One can only hope they devour one another as leftists tend to do in the end.
“When was the last time you read something in the mainstream news media”?
You could have ended the question there.
yep
I like to ask people, especially my students, “As a percentage, how closely does everything you see and hear in the media resemble what you’ve learned to be actual, literal truth?”
To date, even the most extreme leftists report 0%….but I live in eastern Germany. The American leftists stay emotionally primed for battle.
like
Bannon's War Room always has a cold open featuring the Usual Suspects opining about all of us fascists. I quit watching several years ago because I knew exactly what they were going to say on every topic no matter what. They are like Orwell's sheep in "Animal Farm" bleating "four legs good, two legs bad" or some similar derivative. It's also why I turned off all MSM national and local news programs, as they are all the same, using the same words/phrases, with the same policy positions. I learn much more from you and other Substacks, plus, now that X is back to a free speech platform for the most part, from Musk.
Trump is a threat to our democracy. As is Chris Bray....and Danny Huckabee..
Danny Huckabee
After seeing the Michael Brown narrative dissolve in 2014 since the grand jury indictment was posted online for all to see, and then CNN and the like started to remove the comments sections, it became clear that the MSM is Pravda, so I started reading the news more (both sides). I figured maybe if I read the news, rather than watch it, I can read in between the lines. Conclusion: We are in trouble!!!!!
The difference is between actively reading, and passively watching.
The group who tends to watch, tends to follow. The group who reads, tends to think, analyze and decide.
I shifted to ‘observing’.
If we are talking about mainstream, corporate television "news" aggregate programs? When was the last Tucker Carlson episode aired on Fox?
I cancelled my NYT Sunday edition subscription in 2016 with the onset of the Trump derangement, reading it became unbearable. I would have to date it to around that time for the mainstream media.
It would be a massive improvement if the MSM replaced their op-ed writers and news anchors with something as sophisticated Magic 8 Balls. The opinions would become more interesting and insightful overnight.
lol, like
The MSM does not exist to inform - it exists to control what you think.
The only reason I look at the MSM ever -- is to see what the Ministry of Truth agenda is on a given day.
I do not expect revelations. I expect propaganda... lies...
But the MSM does have value. Whatever they publish insisting it is truth ... can be ruled out as an explanation for the issue involved. So that shortens the list slightly when one is searching for the truth.
Here are two massive issues that the MSM is lying about -- The War in Ukraine - Global Warming
Here is my attempt to drill down to the truth about each issue
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-war-is-fake/
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-three-pillars-of-bullshit
Trust Fast Eddy? Or trust the people who told you that Covid shots were safe and effective... who told you we have walked on the moon ... who told you a helicopter can be charged on frigid Mars... etc... https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/how-did-they-charge-the-mars-ingenuity
Well, regarding the Mars helicopter, I know one person who helped write the software for it so I do believe it flew. Don’t have an answer for the charging, but the rovers also recharge with solar panels. Maybe with no atmosphere the sun is stronger? The helicopter was a “technology demonstration” which means that it didn’t actually have to perform, it was experimental. And a massively successful experiment in my opinion.
Just because he wrote the software is meaningless... I suspect the helicopter depicted in that video exists... but again that is not evidence that it every left the film studio... it is not evidence that it flew on Mars.
It amuses me -- the truth ... the evidence... is irrefutable ... you cannot charge a battery in extreme cold... yet the jury is still out...
This is why the PR Team has such an easy job of fooling most people all of the time...
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/there-is-no-cure-for-stupidity
Excellent analysis! I have a new way to think about the American Pravda.
Spot on
"... delivering premasticated symbol-food to the dumb poors, who need to be fed like baby birds." Love that!
Once upon a time, the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour on PBS would have four experts discuss an issue on their show. And they were actual discussions! Nobody was arguing. Nobody was trying to win the argument. They DISCUSSED, and we LEARND. Brilliant concept!
The American public is directly responsible for directly or indirectly supporting to demise of truth.
*the* demise of truth….and the fact that so many people continue blame blame blame only exacerbates the problem by shifting responsibility away from where it belongs:
-With You And Me-
Well said Mr. Beers.
I admit to not being as sharply cynical as I have become in recent years. Part of me, now dead, would argue "they can't dissemble about everything, why would they?" I woke up, and I have hope that more and more of us will wake up, and openly stand against [the current thing].
I know that not everyone will wake up. One unreported result of the famous fable was there were 'true believers' who continued to post photos of the Emperor wearing his New Clothes on instagram despite the closeup and detailed photos of the Emperor's shriveled appendage. "Cheap Fakes" apprently.
I agree with your observation that the mainstream media don't say very much but I'd add that it's even worse than that.
My everyday newspaper — The Guardian — has endless articles saying "Famous Person X will say something interesting (*) tomorrow." They have nothing interesting to say about yesterday so they make up stuff about tomorrow.
(*) Spoiler: it wasn't interesting.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that we know everything already. In the old days, we could read the headlines that "The General Belgrano has been Sunk with the Loss of 1000 lives" or "Atomic Super-Bomb Strikes Japan" and we genuinely didn't know it. But everything that newspapers might tell us now, we already read on the interwebs. There is no news that is new. So they are left with commentary but there are only so many comments they might make and we have read all of those too. It's the same with news on the TV. It's going to get worse for them too now that all the best commentators are on Substack.
Anyway, in answer to your question, I'd say "about once per month".
Everyday, I think I should give the Guardian up but it's hard to drop habits you have had for 35 years.
agree
Oh, but those people could die overnight without any such tape or similar.
Behind every one of them, at least two more - even worse - stand ready to slouch forth.