News Crap

Plenty of advertisers are willing to support a propaganda machine when it helps them to remain profitable.  That is how we have kept in business for so long. Ruining the news, by replacing it with propaganda, keeps the money rolling in.  Advertisers love gullible audiences.  Our audiences are the most gullible of all. Advertising is all about duping people into spending money. Propaganda is all about duping people into believing lies. Deception has always been profitable, whether it is legal or otherwise. Big advertisers willingly spend big money if there is a big audience willing to spend money unquestioningly. Advertising budgets can be written off against tax. Spending money with us is a great way to reduce a tax bill. But the public is not interested in learning such facts.  The public is interested in following the opinions we support. And our opinions matter to politicians because the public believes us, not them. That is probably why governments are so willing to give public mon

Extreme weather events make great news coverage. There are dramatic scenes to record and report. There are ruined lives to ruin even further with media intrusions and other expressions of insensitivity. We know tragedies sell in the same way celebrity gossip sells. We know politics sells in the same way hypocrisy sells. There are plenty petty hypocrisies to report upon while ignoring the biggest ones. There is money to be made emotively in many ways. There is little money to be made from reporting on science.  Our customers do not understand science.  If they did, they would stop buying crap. Through our science skepticism policy, we treat science as a cult, a joke and as a criminal conspiracy. We treat scientists and climate protestors as hypocrites. We can make money from science by reporting on it either accurately or inaccurately. We prefer to aim our inaccuracies at the opponents of our advertisers. Responsible scientists usually happen to be opponents of our political agenda. O