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This morning I am seeing reports that Kash Patel will be named as acting head of the ATF. When? Oh, sometime next week. Probably. I think that would be a good thing, but as someone used to say, I’ll believe it when I see it. It reminded me that for a while now, it’s bothered … Read more
After compiling a yuuuuuge file of links that I’ve seen plus my comments, and from my Jarhead friend, and seeing how long it’s gotten, I’m putting it here this time – separate from the memes. But a few memes scattered within as well. I don’t want the links that I’ve compiled – important stuff IMHO – to overwhelm Monday’s meme post.
Peruse as you will.
The Internet has eroded institutional control over what ordinary people see as “news.” Corporate media are still thieves, but not as they used to be, while locals have been obliterated in print and online. Many struggle to keep the dream alive, but with significantly reduced staff and declining coverage, and now wealthy progressive foundations have come to the rescue.
Like everything else in the 21st Century America, the news cycle has evolved. This evolution has been happening for decades as we watched the slow death of print newspapers to digital versions. Still, even on a cellphone or tablet, the American attention span is inadequate to read news stories.
So #australia is rapidly going CBDC and soon to be followed by all of #europe, no doubt. The Potato Obama doubtless has plans as well.
Perhaps not hate but certainly don’t Trust them. Chart is over the period of 1993 to 2022: The post is concentrating on 2022 and neither can rise to the level of being unacceptable in providing platforms that shine in the light of the First Amendment. However, look at the 1993 numbers – both sets are … Read more
Much of our recent growth has come from breaking stories that go national. The Windham incident and the Exeter School branding scandal are two recent examples. Sites like Breitbart and Gateway Pundit have helped this cause. But there are others, and we want you to know about them.
One of the most amazing things about our continued dominance in Alexa Rank across New Hampshire is the absence of a payroll. Authors work for free, no budget, no ad managers, or salespeople—just a few folks with some ideas on the internet.
The left is having spasms of glee over the passing of Rush Limbaugh. That is reason enough to miss the man and his contribution to the debate. He was a singularly unique individual with whom I have a very small (tiny sliver of a) connection. He once mentioned my name on the air.
Former news co-anchor Robert MacNeil describes the features of successful news programs this way. Keep everything brief. Do not strain the attention of anyone. Instead, you must provide constant stimulation. To that end networks use variety, novelty, action, and movement.
TMEW, who generally doesn’t get political at all, had one of her few outbreaks herself on the news that there has been “two new outbreaks at Hackett Hill Center and Mountain Ridge Center” (Manchester and Franklin). She exclaimed WHY does it seem they are rolling out these announcement every couple of days; they’re ALL infected … Read more
Joe Biden didn’t just tell a Detroit autoworker he was full of Shiite, the other day. He wagged his finger at him and threatened to slap him in the face. In the name of truth and unbiased reporting, NBC (not unexpectedly) edited that part out.
According to Nashua, Alderman (and NH State Rep), Jan Schmidt ‘Grok Hates Women – with a passion. Especially if they speak up.’ That might be news to Kimberly Morin, Susan Olsen, Michelle Levell, Ann Marie Banfield, Ellen Kolb, Judy Aron. Wait, I’m not done.
For years the Drudge report aggregated news content that helped surfers find something outside the main-stream media diet. Drudge has since been overcome by TDS. But we have good news. Dan Bongino has taken his podcast success and done us a solid with the Bongino Report.
Venice is experiencing ‘record flooding™’, and it has probably flooded into your news feed. Experts are all up in arms. But about 40 years before you probably had a “newsfeed,” experts predicted Venice would be gone by 1990.
The majority of the recent change is the result of advances in communications inter-connectivity. The ability of people to get a lot of information for free is very recent. Was this one of the biggest tactical blunders in history? Was this decision to give away access to knowledge for free a mistake?
The Climate News Network (CNN) gave a platform to ten candidates over 7 hours of continuous Climate fraud. (As opposed to the non-stop fraud the Collusion News Network typically peddles?) The good news for CNN? It did better than their regular programming. But still worse than anyone else.
When I clicked the “button,” to find out what was wrong…Seriously? Steve “tweeted” out actual news and the twits at Twitter banned GraniteGrok? The only remedy they give is to remove the tweet or do an “appeal”. It’s not fake news, not hate speech, no rant. Steve reported the actual New Zealand vote to take … Read more
Before we were hacked in April GraniteGrok climbed up the Alexa Rankings (for Online news or media sites in New Hampshire) to do battle with the top 5. The redirect did some damage to that, and we almost dropped out of the top ten.
That was not great, and we’ve written about the redirects that plagued readers, but some good has come out of it. We amped up the fundraising and our new Web site, which Skip lovingly refers to as Grok 3.0, is under construction. The new security is a lot better and we’ve got some very serious plans for this platform that will, yes literally, take us to the next level.
So what level are we on now? I asked Alexa’s ranking where we stood in the New Hampshire Political/News interwebs and here’s what I learned.
What the…fudge happened in the past week that deserves the WTF classification? More than we could ever cover in 15 minutes, but here are a few recent examples, just to get you started.