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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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Funny how the USian "national news" had plenty of time to blather about Beyoncé cracking $1B in wealth, but nothing about this?
My niece began as an intern at CBS news and now 'writes' for the morning news broadcasters. She's told what stories to feed into the teleprompter for the talking heads.
She says every CBS affiliate has someone like her that receives the same directions; incorporate these specific stories into this morning show.
They feed the teleprompters the stories they are told to feed into the teleprompters, from coast to coast.
Safe to assume the other majors do the same; NBC, FOX, ABC....
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Safe to assume the other majors do the same; NBC, FOX, ABC....
Yup. I was flipping around between the three networks, trying to find something besides "severe weather" hysteria, fawning over a "celeb", and other touchy-feely nonsense. I have been barking, for years, about how little news there is in the "news".
Interestingly, while the media natters about the "fraud" in Minnesota, I don't hear them saying much if anything about the Billions of taxpayer dollars that a program to house the homeless in California has sent to money heaven. Is Newsom, somehow, exempt from criticism?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 6
I don't hear them saying much if anything about the Billions of taxpayer dollars that a program to house the homeless in California has sent to money heavenI object to your characterization of what happens to funds that are supposed to alleviate 'the homeless problem.' Homelessness is a huge problem and it's going to get huger as homelessness grows due to the well-known reasons (AI, DOGE, COL increases, medical/insurance crises, etc).
Homelessness in California, contrary to what some reports claim, is a national problem. Reports categorize anybody who has been housed in CA for a few years as 'californian', even if that person has lived most of their life elsewhere. They are now the problem of 'the land of milk and honey.'
A guy stood up at a congressman's town hall (Mike Levin) and said 'we need to build the wall... on our EASTERN border.' He got a big round of applause from the packed house. It's hard to fault a homeless person for fleeing hostile red states. Unlike Hawaii, putting them on planes back to Oklahoma doesn't keep them from getting on the next bus back to the beach.
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/0...
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Homelessness in California, contrary to what some reports claim, is a national problem. You need to look to find reporting about it. Seems to be a lot of fraud going on in the program in Cali, like real estate developers and contractors taking big piles of money for projects like renovating old motels into housing units, and not delivering the housing as contracted.
California homeless crisis: DOJ accuses real estate developers of $50M funding fraud
As part of a special federal task force investigating where a staggering $24 billion designated for homelessness in California has ended up, the Department of Justice revealed initial findings on Thursday, announcing new criminal cases against two LA area real estate developers who the federal government says misused roughly $50 million in a combination of federal, state and local dollars earmarked for homelessness.https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-ho...But the "main stream media" doesn't seem to be interested in rich "JCs" robbing the government. They only seem to be interested in "foreign, Muslim, non-white, Somalis" robbing the government.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 5
I'm not saying it's a bullshit story ...but..
1) It's Fox. They have to write to their audience, and their audience wants worst case scenarios.
2) They're using information from Trump's DoJ... an agency that is now no more credible than Fox because... the entire administration is, for all intents and purposes, Fox.
a staggering $24 billion , the Department of Justice revealed, announcing new criminal cases against two LA area real estate developers who the federal government says misused roughly $50 million in a combination of federal, state and local dollars earmarked for homelessness.
3) Hold the phone..... $50 million out of $24 BILLION! Hell, that's kinda a rounding error compared to the grifts the orange asshole is perpetrating.
4) Always remember and never forget that many of the real estate developers and contractors in CA are grifting MAGAts who don't give a flying fuck about California beyond what they can extract from it. Our state GDP attracts MAGA scum. Part of Trumps hatred of the Golden state is due to his inability to sell his shit here. To wit, they hate him in Palos Verdes and he hates them. He had to settle for defrauding people who bought into the Don/Ivanka/Erik/DonJr Baja COndo scam, to prevent getting his families clock cleaned in litigation. He hates that he cannot take any credit for California's success, him being persona non grata.
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3) Hold the phone..... $50 million out of $24 BILLION! Hell, that's kinda a rounding error compared to the grifts the orange asshole is perpetrating.As noted before, only the pikers are actually prosecuted in Shinyland, as "enforcement theater", like Bernie Madoff. The real crooks, who have size, get off scot-free. Like Jamie Dimon. Like Rick Scott.
1) It's Fox. They have to write to their audience, and their audience wants worst case scenarios.
2) They're using information from Trump's DoJ... an agency that is now no more credible than Fox because... the entire administration is, for all intents and purposes, Fox. OK, here's some reporting from that Commie cabal at TYT.
Ana EXPOSES Gavin Newsom’s Fraudulent Housing Policy!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxPX4mO8sgThis is being ignored, for now, by the MSM, probably to protect the "JCs" involved. If Newsom is foolish enough to run for POTUS, this will blow up in a hot second.
Steve
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OK, here's some reporting from that Commie cabal at TYT.
Wanna know how much cable news I watch?
What's TYT?
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Wanna know how much cable news I watch?
What's TYT?
"TYT" is "The Young Turks". They post pieces on youtube, like the one I linked to. They also have a streaming channel that is on both the free service that "smart" Samsung TVs are pre-programmed for, and on Roku.
I got really aggravated with the Roku stick when I first got it (on sale for $20, and Best Buy had sent me a $10 off coupon, so my $15 Salvation Army store rescue TV is now up to date). I kept telling the thing "The Young Turks", the full name of the channel, and it claimed it could not find it. I tried saying "TYT" and it went right to it.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 3
"TYT" is "The Young Turks". They post pieces on youtube
I don't watch cable and internet pundits. They talk fast and loose, leaving little opportunity to digest/fact check. I do watch the actual speech or event if I want context without the editorializing talking heads sell.
As others have noted, it's faster to read a report than watch somebody explain it. A story that takes 15 minutes to watch can be read in 5 minutes.... and one can open multiple browsers to check sources when something smells funny on a 'printed page', whether it Faux, PBS, Epoch or the NYT.
Alsooo.... the comments on an article in , for example, the NYT, frequently validate or debunk points in the story.
One doesn't get that opportunity listening to rapid fire punditry.
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