Yet more keen links one might want to share

[Gravdigr]

Pretty good write-up (five pages) on George Patton, immediately-post-war til his death, over at National Interest.

My ancient version of FireFox didn't love the site. It worked, just pretty laggy.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Introduction
Unbiased political media coverage is vital for a healthy democracy (1). Most Americans want their news free from political bias; indeed, a dominant majority (78%) of Americans believe that it is never acceptable for a news organization to favor one political party over another when reporting the news (2). Journalists hold strong norms to eschew bias in their coverage of politics (3). However, when asked about the coverage of news organizations in America less than half can identify a source that they believe reports the news objectively, less than 30% trust the media to get the facts straight, and less than 20% trust the media to report the news without bias (4). Since 1989, the number of Americans stating that there is a great deal of bias in news coverage has nearly doubled (4).

Simply put, many Americans believe that the news media do a poor job of separating facts from opinion (4). With the strong influence that the media exerts on citizens (5–7), the increased salience of fake news (8–10), and “unprecedented” levels of violence against journalists (11), understanding the potential biases of the media is vital. Ideological bias is central to the concerns that Americans harbor about the news media. Concerns about liberal media bias are widespread. Many Americans believe liberal media bias is prevalent and pernicious.
According a 2017 Gallup poll, 64% of Americans believe the media favors the Democratic Party (compared to 22% who said they believed it favored the Republican Party). Indeed, consternation over the liberal bias in the mainstream media runs rampant— making its way into commentary of the state of the news media from political pundits (12) and academics (13), into too many social media discussions to even begin to mention, and even into the stages of presidential debates and townhalls.
There are reasons to expect that this perspective may comport with reality. Some evidence suggests that journalists have more liberal views than the general public (14). Given this, we might expect political ideology to fundamentally shape journalists’ views about what is and is not newsworthy (15). Yet, it is also possible that the public perceives ideological bias because they are psychologically motivated to see bias in the news (16).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ifmpw7fr7w...ssion.pdf?dl=0

[Undertoad]

TL;DR:

Even though the ideology of journalists looks like this (from the study):



...journalists of every stripe are writing about both Trump and AOC

So there is NO LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS

...in the news political journalists choose to cover.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Kids, are they lying more than they used to, or maybe less than they used to?
They have been doing these polls for years, I assume they're anonymous questionnaires, but who knows what information is
gathered only that it hasn't ever been revealed. Kids today know about data breaches and how fast shit travels on the net which
makes participation in this a little more intimidating.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You can check out how many people it takes to get accurate data on Electroejaculation in the Rhinoceros.
Go ahead... you know you want to... you're dying of curiosity.

[Griff]

Your rhino porn is less than complete.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Either through censorship or good taste it's limited to those three pages.

[fargon]

Done.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Very good gentlemen as a reward I give you the Girl Museum.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh boy, ya done good, they were up about 10,000 bowls yesterday, thank you.

[BigV]

This is done.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Why a Coronavirus may take a long time to create despite headlines.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Why a Coronavirus vaccine may take a long time to create despite headlines.

FTFY

[xoxoxoBruce]

Thank you.

Now check out June Almeida, the smart but poor Scottish girl who became so proficient with an electron microscope she invented protocols they still depend on.
She was the first one to see a corona virus, in fact the first 2 times she saw one and wrote a report they didn't believe her. (Dumb broad wasting the time of those educated scientists.) But in 1964 she spotted one for the third time and they finally believed her... of course they took most of the credit.

Almeida went on to identify a host of viruses including rubella, which can cause complications during pregnancy. Scientists had been studying rubella (aka three-day measles) for decades, but Almeida was the first to see it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The website is, “The Imaginative Conservative”... I know, I know, bear with me.

The title is, “Higher Education Is About to Implode”.

I think it's well researched and written, brings up valid points, and worth a read.

https://theimaginativeconservative.o...r-zubatov.html