If you read my 8 AM post this morning, you’ll know I don’t make resolutions at New Year’s because the idea behind them is part of my everyday. That does not diminish the opportunity to use the cultural paradigm of a calendar flip to leverage improvements among bad actors, be it misfeasance or malfeasance. I’m talking about local media: newspapers, weeklies, our biased local network television news channel(s).
No, I don’t think the nationals can be saved or are worth saving – let them rot on their petrified vines fed by years of lies and omissions.
And no, I’m not looking for competition. The ‘Grok is one of the few places for daily news and opinion in New Hampshire and the Northeast, where anyone could end up in the rhetorical woodshed. The truth, even if we miss it or parts of it at first, matters. We tell the story you can’t or won’t find covered in the locals, complete with snark, edge, a few adult words, and a complete disregard for party politics. Taking their crappy look and challenging it or adding context they ignore or avoid is a big part of what we do, and almost anyone can take anyone to our woodshed, including us.
If we get it wrong, readers and commenters are quick to say so or email a response that we are willing to share, whether we agree or not. The goal is to get people thinking outside media-approved boxes by tossing a few hyperbolic bombs.
The internet was made for this, but even internet news and opinion sites aren’t always ready or able to go there. We do (with joy!), and I think it informs debate and heightens awareness, and “the media” needs to get on board or drown in the swill that’s made them so untrustworthy.
Nice Try
Local media has and will continue to use their op-ed pages and letters to the editor (comment sections are rare or nonexistent) to allow some “opposing “different” opinions “air” but are as likely to pick ones that make that opinion look stupid. It happens a lot, and sometimes you need to do it. Let someone show the world their ass. It comes with the territory. Big moves risk big bombs, but it opens up the debate, assuming you are willing to share that.
But most reporting in our state and yours is unbalanced, often unfair, and usually incomplete. So-called “media” in any state, county, or community leaves a lot out and never bothers to correct the record when they’ve been proven demonstrably wrong.
The best examples are national stories covered locally that carry water for a narrative even after it’s been sufficiently questioned or proven false. COVID is the best example, but the lies about Donald Trump come second. There are more like Biden’s mental acuity or even the Covington Kids. Obama, Kamala, we could go on for a long time but Trump is fresh in our minds.
An entire industry – journalism – and a political party (Democrats) went to great lengths to normalize behavior (use of government force) based on the presumption that no one would ever rise high enough to use that against them.
If it destroyed the country in the process, that’s fine. Wrecking everything on purpose is a necessary part of the Democrat-Socialsit agenda that they will never openly admit (do you recall their glee when black neighborhoods were burning, their businesses looted, and lives lost)? The Biden administration, taken from 30,000 feet, advanced systemic chaos and decline as far as anyone in recent memory. But the more contemporary examples of COVID and Trump show us how dangerous the Democrat Party leadership (Dems lead the bipartisan effort, in case you forgot), the Blob, and the Swamp are to Americans, Liberty, and our posterity.
They will do whatever it takes to destroy their political opponents even when they are at least on paper on their side. They don’t care. Liberty and democracy are dangerous to their ability to control who is in power. The Republic is dangerous and must be dissolved. The 17th Amendment did a lot to ruin us, as would the National Popular Vote. They will do anything to anyone, and as I often remind you, none of those civil rights they go on about will protect you.
The media has long since abrogated any authority it may have had as the watchdogs ready to protect you from them. They are them, not just CNN, MSNBC, or the Alphabets. Local media in your state is in their league and aids and abets. While I appreciate their continued effort to drive up my readership and, increasingly, our viewership, America is more important.
The stakes are high. It was so high that the media itself was willing to put itself at risk, making them, in my opinion, deserving of any well-deserved implosion.
Precedent
Joe Rogan was talking to former Illinois governor and Federal inmate Rod Blagojevich about how the criminal justice system had railroaded him. Locals know it well if they know Jerry DeLemus or his story. Trump pardoned Blagojevich, and Blago is not shy about his experience with a weaponized DOJ or how it mirrors what they tried to do to Trump.
Joe Rogan goes off on this during the interview, which everyone, especially the media, needs to hear. It is an inspirational rant that should elbow them to step forward and add a bit more skepticism to future reporting, even if it’s about public or political figures they don’t like.
Rogan Rant: An Insanely Dangerous Precedent To Set.
