Connecting the Dots

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Connecting Dots I've been getting e-mail from an entity called Connectivity.  This morning I opened one.  Turns out that it's a Roll Callventure.  Roll Call is of course a news paper "Covering Capitol Hill Since 1955."  Because the congressional seat of power has pretty much been a Democrat bailiwick (until Newt), like most news organizations covering the "Hill," Roll Call's Rolodex is, I'll guess,  pretty much a Who's Who of the Democrat party.  Their point of view then has been, in my observation, DNC centric.  So, even without  this preamble I'll guess that most readers will come immediately to the same conclusion after reading this blurb *he said jumping up and down*.  Lunch Links: Net Neutrality, Email Acquisition, Google+ Hangouts The significant online coverage of net neutrality has not spilled over into traditional media channels, the Pew Research Center has found. Studying 23 newspapers and 30 news programs, Pew researchers found only a handful of mentions of net neutrality between Jan. 1 and May 12 of this year. The issue came up only 25 times over 2,820 news broadcasts on network and cable TV — and six of those mentions were on (Algore's) Al Jazeera America. Was I right?  My reaction is here—in, invisible ink. You stupid twats.  Of course the traditional media are not going to rail against anything the freaking Democrat party supports!!! Sheesh!

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One American News Network

“ OANN Dear Rodger, I was surprised to learn of this news network from a nephew and wondered if you'd heard of it. One America News Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News Fios 116 Regards, Tom (Mann) No, Tom, I'd never heard of OAN.  I do have Verizon FIOS, so I immediately dialed in 116.  I saw what appeared to be a BBC style news program; rapid fire news being delivered by news readers; deadpan expressions; no voice inflection editorializing.  Below are the news topics covered for 20 minutes and 20 seconds, beginning at 7:39 AM 0n April 21, 2014. At one point a news reader advised, "Remember, if you see any area of the news that is not being covered, contact us at ... ." Here's what The Daily Beast has to say. “The news used to be you would confirm your source multiple times, you would report the fact, and you would leave it up to the viewer to determine what we should or should not do. That is missing,” he (founder Charles Herring) said. Soon Rupert Murdoch’s behemoth won’t be the only conservative cable news station around, the founder of One America News Network, set to be unveiled at CPAC today, tells David Freedlander. A new right-wing news and talk station is coming to cable boxes later this year, The Daily Beast has learned.[...] One America News Network, on the other hand, has a two-tier mission: providing opinion-free straight news reporting and right-leaning talk shows. I'll let this commenter to the Beast column sum up. Apr 20, 2013 TheresaEaley Judging by the majority of the comments on here I find it quite amusing how threatened people (mostly libs, progressive, and Dems) seem to be by the thought of this new conservative news channel. Maybe they are worried that some of their ilk might watch and start questioning things. Thanks Tom ”