FOX "news"

**Humbert** · 21-11-2016, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Not really. Most of the toxic products that caused the financial crisis were never regulated by Glass Steagall in the first place.

Is that true Harry? I would have thought that if the commercial and retail functions would have been separated the fallout would have been more contained?

**SKkin** · 21-11-2016, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Do you have any idea how many Peabody awards have been won by the Australian organizations you cite v. American broadcasters?

Peabody Awards - American mainstream media pats itself on the back...with a stray nod to foreign media here and there.

**bsnub** · 21-11-2016, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by SKkin

American mainstream media

Any person with half a brain can navigate through the mainstream. It is when you completely reject it that there is an issue. When you are so paranoid to thoughtfully navigate through it and reject real journalism because it fits the narrative that is convenient to your beliefs. Facts be damned.

**Humbert** · 21-11-2016, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by SKkin

Peabody Awards - American mainstream media pats itself on the back...with a stray nod to foreign media here and there.

Do you teach 'know-it-all' or is it just a hobby?

**harrybarracuda** · 21-11-2016, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Not really. Most of the toxic products that caused the financial crisis were never regulated by Glass Steagall in the first place.

Is that true Harry? I would have thought that if the commercial and retail functions would have been separated the fallout would have been more contained?

That's a rather simplistic view.

**bsnub** · 21-11-2016, 06:18 PM

^ You had your tea.

**Humbert** · 21-11-2016, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

**SKkin** · 21-11-2016, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Do you teach 'know-it-all' or is it just a hobby?

Originally Posted by SKkin

Peabody Awards - American mainstream media pats itself on the back...with a stray nod to foreign media here and there.

Nailed it!

**SKkin** · 21-11-2016, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Do you teach 'know-it-all' or is it just a hobby?

Let me give you the courtesy of a serious reply to that even though I realize it's a sarcastic question...and even though nobody here @TD really gives a shit.

I am what happens when a former diehard fanatic of all things sports with its attendant trivia(l) pursuits gives that up and turns attention, energy and time to other things. Mainly reading all I can get my hands on(on and offline), connecting dots and figuring out how things really work regarding the political/geopolitical quagmires we find ourselves in.

Along the way I've lost all vestiges of my former self. That includes religious beliefs, partisan loyalties and ideological convictions. Cousin Storekeeper can vouch for that. He knows how I was raised and who I formerly was. In my real life I keep most of these changes in myself on the down low...especially with my elderly parents. I've really become quite the recluse when I'm not on the road. Forums like this are my outlet for how I really think and feel currently. They're my therapy...it should be pretty clear I need therapy.

Fortunately I'm blessed with a work schedule that allows me the time for these new pursuits. I work six days out on the road where you'll not hear a thing from me because I have no 'smart' devices, then I have eight days off in which I have plenty of time on my hands.

Yes, I guess you could call it my hobby.

Lets clear one other thing up while I'm ranting and raving. I went by the 'esoteric1' nick at Ajarn Forum, 'clutch' at SubZero Siam(changed from 'eso' due to popular demand at the time) and 'eso' at Ratpack. Now I'm 'SKkin' here...SK(StoreKeeper) kin. Blame SK for my presence here, he's how I found my way to these Thai related forums. Btw, I'll try to tone down on the "know-it-all" thing.

[Maybe all this should have been in my TD 'newbie' thread I never did.

]

Ok I'm done...and dammnit all, my eight days off are about up.

**harrybarracuda** · 21-11-2016, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

Or perhaps you could do some simple research on Google. It's not difficult.

The link below explains how not only would Glass-Steagall have not stopped the actions that precipitated the crisis, but would actually have prevented the acquisition of distressed assets that ended up stabilising things.

Forbes Welcome

**Humbert** · 22-11-2016, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

Or perhaps you could do some simple research on Google. It's not difficult.

The link below explains how not only would Glass-Steagall have not stopped the actions that precipitated the crisis, but would actually have prevented the acquisition of distressed assets that ended up stabilising things.

Forbes Welcome

Thank you. I know hard that was for you.

**harrybarracuda** · 22-11-2016, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

Or perhaps you could do some simple research on Google. It's not difficult.

The link below explains how not only would Glass-Steagall have not stopped the actions that precipitated the crisis, but would actually have prevented the acquisition of distressed assets that ended up stabilising things.

Forbes Welcome

Thank you. I know hard that was for you.

Next time do your own fucking homework Humbert!

**Cold Pizza** · 22-11-2016, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by SKkin

Peabody Awards - American mainstream media pats itself on the back...with a stray nod to foreign media here and there.

Do you teach 'know-it-all' or is it just a hobby?

SKkin is more knowledgeable than you.

Are you jealous?

**Cold Pizza** · 22-11-2016, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

That's your discussion style, Humbert.

Asking rhetorical questions.

Because you cannot discuss.

**David48atTD** · 22-11-2016, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by david44

To be fair to Oz both SBS and ABC are far superior to US media

Do you have any idea how many Peabody awards have been won by the Australian organizations you cite v. American broadcasters?

Damm it, I knew we would be outed one day.

Australia is just the boil on the ass of the USA's mighty media machine.

The 2016 Peabody Awards ... apparently the Worlds Benchmark of Journalism ...

So, lets have a peak at the ... News, radio, podcast, public service, and web honorees[9]

PBS NewsHour (PBS and WETA-TV/Washington, D.C.) "Desperate Journey", a series of reports on those fleeing Syria and other war-torn areas of the Middle East

WXIA-TV/Atlanta, GA "911: Lost on the Line", an investigation revealing government oversights and technical shortcomings in smart phones and telecommunications infrastructure that led to needless deaths across the country

WTAE-TV/Pittsburgh, PA "Burning Questions", an investigation into response inefficiencies of Pennsylvania volunteer fire departments

WMAQ-TV/Chicago, IL Award for an investigation uncovering procedural infractions and disinformation from the Chicago Police Department in regards to an officer's fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald

HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, for "The Killing Fields", a report examining Africa's illegal ivory trade

NPR News Award for a report on the U.S. Army's testing of mustard gas on soldiers during World War II

This American Life Award for three episodes examining the benefits and effects of school desegregation WQXR-FM/New York, NY

Meet the Composer BBC Public Service recognition for the broadcaster's coverage of the European migrant crisis

Upian, National Film Board of Canada, Arte, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and

CBC/Radio-Canada Do Not Track, an online interactive documentary examining Internet economic and privacy issues.

So, damm it, the rest of the World has been discovered as a journalistic inept media backwater and the USA is the focus of all that is good in the Media world.

If I could be so bold as to suggest that the USA is an amazing country, full of wonderfull (and a few, not so wonderfull) people, the USA view is not the World view and to suggest that the quality of Media is proportionally represented by the Peabody Awards is farcical to say the least.

IMHO
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**Humbert** · 24-11-2016, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

That's your discussion style, Humbert.

Asking rhetorical questions.

Because you cannot discuss.

It wasn't a 'rhetorical' question. Obviously you need to look that word up.

And I gladly admit that I do not know everything and Skkin may know a lot more than me on a range of subjects and I may know more than him on some subjects.
However you pretend to be an expert on everything and know fuk all about anything. And lately you feel the need to insert yourself into every exchange, which only adds to your reputation as the most despised poster on TD. Now, run off and get to your students at whatever shithole English school you are teaching at this month.

**Cold Pizza** · 24-11-2016, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That's a rather simplistic view.

It's not a view its a serious question. I'm asking because I don't know. If answering the question is beneath you maybe someone else can help.

That's your discussion style, Humbert.

Asking rhetorical questions.

Because you cannot discuss.

It wasn't a 'rhetorical' question. Obviously you need to look that word up.

And I gladly admit that I do not know everything and Skkin may know a lot more than me on a range of subjects and I may know more than him on some subjects.
However you pretend to be an expert on everything and know fuk all about anything. And lately you feel the need to insert yourself into every exchange, which only adds to your reputation as the most despised poster on TD. Now, run off and get to your students at whatever shithole English school you are teaching at this month.

Give specific examples of me "being and expert on everything and know fuck all about anything. "

I think you need to look a lot of words up.

Insert myself into "every" exchange? That = 100%.

You're an intellectual lightweight here.

**Storekeeper** · 25-11-2016, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by SKkin

Btw, I'll try to tone down on the "know-it-all" thing.

Don't do that mate. You fit right in here with a "know-it-all" attitude. I doubt if you can top bsnubbie or harrybarracuda or OhOh or just about anybody who posts in this forum.

**Humbert** · 25-11-2016, 06:25 AM

^Is that 'cousin love'?

**Cold Pizza** · 25-11-2016, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by SKkin

Btw, I'll try to tone down on the "know-it-all" thing.

Don't do that mate. You fit right in here with a "know-it-all" attitude. I doubt if you can top bsnubbie or harrybarracuda or OhOh or just about anybody who posts in this forum.

I've never perceived SKkin as displaying a 'know-it-all' attitude.

He has his opinion, like everyone else. He's knowledeable.

**bsnub** · 26-02-2017, 02:08 PM

Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – has criminal convictions in US, no connection to Swedish security

Fox News continues to focus on the debate about how immigration is breaking Sweden. One guest last night, described as a ”Swedish defense and national security advisor”, spoke about the problems caused by criminality in Swedish cities and suburbs. But neither the Swedish Defense Ministry nor Foreign Office have heard of the expert. Nils Bildt, who called for an “open and honest” debate on crime, has previously been convicted of a violent offence in the United States.

President Trump's statements about Sweden, based on a report on his favourite TV-channel Fox News, continue to drive the debate about the country in the United States. Sweden is portrayed as a nation plagued by crime and rape, in large part due to immigration.

This friday the matter was the focus of debate during the conservative Fox-presenter Bill O’Reilly's show, where Nils Bildt confirmed Donald Trump's negative view of Sweden. Nils Bildt was introduced by Fox as a ”Swedish defense and national security advisor”, which has caused more than a few raised eyebrows.

Marie Pisäter at the Swedish Defense Ministry says that no-one called Nils Bildt works there. ”We have no spokesman by that name”, she said. The Foreign Office also denies that he works there. ”We do not know who he is.”

Nils Bildt is the son of Sven Tolling, well know in Swedish equestrian circles. Nils Bildt emigrated from Sweden in 1994. Nine years later he changed his last name from Tolling to Bildt, and he now runs several security companies in the United States. His last known address, according to Swedish registers, is in Tokyo. It is unclear if his companies are still in business.

Nils Bildt, who spoke on Fox News about crime in Sweden, is convicted of a violent offence himself, according to documents from Arlington General District Court in Virginia. Bildt was arrested on the 19th of June, 2014, for assaulting a law enforcement person and for obstruction of justice, after threatening an official. He was sentenced to one year in prison on the 10th of November the same year. He was also convicted of public inebriation at the same time. Nils Bildt, in an e-mail to DN, says he is ”unaware of the allegations” and therefore cannot comment.

Nils Bildt sent a short e-mail to DN earlier on Friday, explaining why he was given the title of ”Swedish defense and national security advisor”: ”I appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News. The title was chosen by Fox News's editor – I had no personal control over what title they chose. I am an independent analyst based in the USA”, he wrote.

Johan Wiktorin, a former defense analyst at the Military Intelligence and Security Service, MUST, says that he has never heard of Nils Bildt. ”He is unknown in Sweden as an expert on national security. The depiction of Sweden as a problem country in American media is a disturbing trend.”

Fake Sweden expert on Fox News ? has criminal convictions in US, no connection to Swedish security - DN.SE

**harrybarracuda** · 26-02-2017, 02:17 PM

I have a feeling O'Reilly didn't know about this and may well explode.

**tomcat** · 13-03-2017, 10:02 AM

...piss and vinegar, personal denigration and enthusiastic windiness rarely change anyone's views...just ask the frustrated folks at Fox...

**Farangrakthai** · 13-03-2017, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

rarely change anyone's views...just ask the frustrated folks at Fox...

i watch them all (cnn, msnbc, fox news), but the frustrated ones must be cnn and msnbc due to lower ratings (than fox) and the fact that democrats have lost the congress, presidency and 2/3 of state legislatures and governorships.

latest ratings:

https://www.onenewsnow.com/media/201...msnbc-combined

“February 2017 was the network’s 182nd consecutive month as the most-watched cable news channel in total viewers,”

Looking more specifically at the most-viewed cable news shows, it was also found that Fox decimated the competition, boasting 13 of the top 15 programs offered in cable news overall.

The only two news programs that broke into the top 15 with Fox are produced by MSNBC.... Coming in seventh was MSNBC’s The Rachael Maddow Show and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell came in 13th – the only non-Fox programs on the list.

**bsnub** · 13-03-2017, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Farangrakthai

but the frustrated ones must be cnn and msnbc due to lower ratings (than fox)

Its been pointed out countless times on here that the reason why fox news has high rating is because its viewers are old and that is the demographic that watches cable news. The younger generations typically look elsewhere for news.

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