The Jimmy Dore Show
Unlike many local newspapers, alternative media is good about maintaining open and active comment sections. Several comments are posted with the video above.
In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.
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Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said was the subject of a major War on Terror bust earlier this month.
Any questions from newspeople?
He did time in the National Guard and had moved on with that part of his life by age 19. How did he manage to do that?
Where did he go to high school?
Where was he living and working in recent years?
What National Guard unit was he in?
Did he have any previous criminal record?
Did he complete any overseas deployments?
What was his job training?
Zero questions from newspeople?
Seems like someone involved in a major crime like a mass casualty shooting, etc. will have some details of their life reported on by the press.
Here is an example:
What we know about Jack Teixeira, the suspected leaker of Pentagon documents
APRIL 14, 2023 – NPR
By Juliana Kim & Jenna McLaughlin
Elimination Of Local News Reader Comments
Elimination of reader comments works against the idea of paying for an online subscription.
Years ago, I lived in several different small town areas. Places like Kingston, Port Hadlock and north of Penn Cove.
These areas had small, local newspapers and those papers featured active, online comment sections. Paying for a newspaper subscription was OK with me. There were basic rules for commenting, but it did not seem to matter what name people went by. I never cared.
I used to love the comment sections.
Local papers have stripped away all comments from past articles, and removed the opportunity to post comments to new articles.
Various newspapers in the Puget Sound area have gone with this trend.
Suppressing comments, getting away from asking questions related to public policy and telling us they need more support in the form of grant money, subscription and advertising sales, etc.
Got it.
Love to see newspeople out asking questions.
What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.
Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.
JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society:
The era of newspeople not asking questions brings on private citizens who go out and ask questions.
Instead of waiting for school teachers to teach about individual rights and limited government authority, waiting on the press to ask questions, or courts to handle cases, these guys go out and update us with a quick reality check.
These guys were also never waiting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein or the take down of any other bad guy in distant lands, as DOD defends the constitution, etc.
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