Ignorance Is All The Rage

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@fevengr9245 Год назад

Rule changes are not done arbitrarily by some random bureaucrat but rather through an structured, public process. Rule changes begin with an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) which is published in The Federal Register which is issued daily online and is free and open to the public. The approval process includes a 60 day public comment period and usually includes a Cost-Benefit Analysis along with a Regulatory Impact Analysis. There is nothing secretive or sinister about this process.

@ScottGrammer Год назад

"Ignorance Is All The Rage." Truer words have never been spoken. Or at least, not lately. And the statement is true on so many levels.

@chrispomphrett4283 Год назад

People seem to be proud of their ignorance too...

@govcorpwatch Год назад

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain

@ThePeaceableKingdom Год назад

*"Ignorance* is *All The Rage."* And Vice-Versa, I might add...

@CiscoWes Год назад

@@chrispomphrett4283 That, or the Dunning-Kruger effect

@theedspage Год назад

Willful ignorance.

@randseedbin9440 Год назад

One of the easiest ways to keep an "under educated" population loyal to a cause or a person is to make them afraid of what would happen if their side lost, and then make them angry over such a possibility. Fear and anger will keeps them coming back.

@bowencreer3922 4 месяца назад

Yes, there’s no way educated and informed people fear any possibilities or consequences of any side winning…..

@Legomanfred Год назад

We stopped using tungsten light bulbs in Canada ten or more years ago. Everybody still got up and went to work. The sun still rose and set. However, my hydro consumption went down. Unfortunately, ignorance is anybody's illness. Great video. 👍❤️💪

@abbush2921 Год назад

But you didn't say 4 regular bulbs was about 4 .99 now 1 is is 8.99 , you must be extremely well off .

@Legomanfred Год назад

@@abbush2921 Home Depot up here sells the LED bulbs in econo packs, it's actually pretty economical.

@topfacemod Год назад

@@abbush2921 Except the 8.99 lasts and lasts 20x the hours of the Tungsten. That means for 8.99 you have saved $91 in Tungsten bulbs. And that doesn't mention the energy savings.

@va3ngc Год назад

Actually you can still buy them in Canadian Tire.

@Legomanfred Год назад

@@va3ngc Why am I not surprised.

@sesra5076 Год назад

Believe me...... I had classes on how our government works. All the students were either goofing off or asleep-- didn't give two shits about it (or learning in general, for that matter). 35 years ago I looked around me realizing with some level of horror, "These people are going to vote... they will even hold office."

@kmcq692 Год назад

6:49 about 15 years ago my mom was helping her friend (connected through AAUW) put in place a STEM-like educational program in schools, calling it CHiPS-Civics, History, Political Science. Some schools in Oregon did things like bring students into courtrooms to watch proceedings, or teach how to debate with each other.

@Jivolt Год назад

I wish I had so little to do in life that I could be OUTRAGED at light bulbs. Just sad that everyone that needs to watch this video will probably never watch this video.

@rolon-will3362 Год назад

The internet has created and accelerated a divide between the people who use it to learn and gain new skills, and the people who use it to vent and form mobs to endlessly complain or troll.

@SuperShecky Год назад

"Imagine a congress where nothing would get done." Now that's just crazy talk, Fran.

@friendlyone2706 Год назад

If only... Just four years in row with no law changes....just four years of being able to predict the game I'll be playing next year....

@artlew27 4 месяца назад

Fran, you are so articulate, intelligent and bright. Watching your videos is always a source of clarity and wisdom on so many topics. Your delivery is always mixed with a dose of healthy wit and well placed sarcasm. 😊. From a fan in PHL,.. Thank you. Thank you.

@WaskiSquirrel Год назад

When I was a high school, I worked in a restaurant that used a heat lamp as lighting in the bathrooms so the water wouldn't freeze. They opened outdoors and had no heating in them. It was a vivid illustration to me of the energy a bulb gives off that isn't light. As for the rest, I was reading about North Korea where it is illegal to read anything other than state produced media. There are no independent movies, newspapers, or anything else. Nothing from outside can be read. And it is sad here in the US to see the consolidation of newspapers and other media into larger and larger companies.

@jonsnow1123 Год назад

The thing is, traditional newspapers are on the decline. However. Online there are a myriad of opportunities.

@_JustinCase_ Год назад

Excellent video, Fran! What has always irked me are the folks who complain about "too many regulations" and want regulations "rolled back" but are the first to complain about lack of regulations after some catastrophe.

@FortitudeAndResiliencee Год назад

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

@jatoav8or Год назад

I think your most important point of many was the increasing lack of oversight. I live in a small rural town in Washington state, we still have a local newspaper but unfortunately the staff has been culled which has impacted the coverage of local government. It’s decisions made in my county and legislative district that have the most impact on my life and that’s the reporting that’s going away.

@zyzyking Год назад

I cannot stand the super bright LED head lights on cars. They are blinding when driving at night. Does anyone else feel the same as I?

@HowievYT Год назад

I agree - it's some, but certainly not all, leds. The projector types can really blind for a couple of moments of angle when cresting toward you.

@ericablue32 Год назад

Most people believe our government is a democracy, but we are actually considered a democratic republic. However, I personally believe we live within an oligarchy.

@mistermac56 Год назад

Haven't used a incandescent bulb in years. Although I was always concerned with the CF and the mercury issue. Happy using the LED bulbs now. As for newspapers, I subscribe to the electronic version of several newspapers. Ignorance is not bliss.

@mikethebloodthirsty Год назад

I stopped watching news, and reading papers. I was more ignorant when I read them...

@nebulousvoid Год назад

If ignorance was bliss, there'd be a lot more happy people around here. Mark Twain Paraphrased

@RandomUser25122 Год назад

“If you disagree and you’re not informed, then I do not care what your opinion is” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@youtuuba 8 месяцев назад

When I was in high school in the mid-70s, no student could graduate without taking the 2 semester American Government class, and other Civics related classes were also offered as electives. The government class could be potentially boring, but we had a firebrand of a teacher. He was a black, green-fatigues-and-beret-wearing and was named Bronco. He was reportedly a graduate of a political science curriculum at Berkeley in California, and we were given to believe that he had once been a Black Panther (I suspect that was a fiction, but he seemed to be putting on something of an act, although his rhetoric was fiery and the image was easy to accept). He gave great, entertaining lectures that did not seem like lectures; more like attending a political rally. But he always made the intended points. Funny thing was, his wife was a locally celebrated lyric soprano singer in the city's opera.

@donkeyboy585 Год назад

The maddening part is we’ve never had easier access to actual information… literally at our fingertips. “ dammit my right to burn my fingers unscrewing a bulb is in the constitution!!!” Sadly though apparently where I grew up in Philly you DO seem to be allowed to own heroin :(

@sn1000k Год назад

Heroin barely exists anymore it's all Fentanyl, which is far deadlier

@donkeyboy585 Год назад

@@sn1000k Yes and now I’m hearing about the Narcan resistant varieties

@FPVREVIEWS Год назад

That’s funny 😆 I was one of the first to buy all LED lights for my house even when they were very expensive. That said, lighting is not exactly plutonium. The problem people have with regulation is if the regulations are ridiculously overbearing . You have to pick your battles.

@govcorpwatch Год назад

Statutes and regulation only apply to "your" "legal identity" but do not actually apply to real physical human beings. Like this: Your "legal identity" is like a monopoly game piece that has been given the label "person" but is not actually a person. when you call yourself a "person", you are saying you are a game piece. Statutes and Regulates are rules of the game for game pieces. There are laws for forcing the gov't to respect the separation between the player (you) and their game piece force you (legal identity). The gov't does NOT respect its own laws when it stops the gov't crimes, eg. gov't does not respect the law separating the player from the game piece. The gov't is the game. EVERYTHING legal is fiction. there is no such thing as a legal right.... that's just fictional unicorn thinking. If you believe yourself to be a citizen or have a "legal identity" or "legal name" then you are ignorantly confusing yourself with the gov't game piece for you. Everything you think you own is, according to gov', owned by, as, and through your game piece... you already own nothing and are ignorantly happy about it. If you think you are a citizen or have/use a legal name, you are AGREEING to the gov't OWNING your body above your own "authority"!! This is literally slavery by all attorneys, magistrates, judges, and legal fictionally and lethally (but unlawfully) enforced by sheriffs and cops!!! To them, NON_LEGAL is ILLEGAL!!!

@dingalarm Год назад

Indeed, as an RC enthusiast, you would no doubt be aware of regulations (including Remote ID) that are "ridiculously overbearing", thanks to the arrogance & stupidity of the FAA and AMA.

@ew1743 Год назад

How dare you!! I'll give you my faux outrage (about something vague I just heard about that's not relevant and/or understood by me) when you take it from my cold, dead mind.

@earthoid Год назад

As long as I can get tungsten bulbs for my lava lamps I'll be happy. Or at least I will be until the ignorant Americans among us elect a fascist president and democracy comes to an end. Thanks Fran for doing what you can to help save us from ourselves.

@Chris47368 Год назад

I have a lava lamp too, the bulbs seem quite readily available in the UK online - despite us banning incandescent bulbs some time back... Lava lamps are very neat! 😁

@Noctudeit Год назад

The problem with regulatory authority is the lack of oversight and accountability. Once imbued with power by congress, an agency becomes self governing and inevitably increase their own power over time with no input from the people or their representatives which is inherently undemocratic. Agencies are just as prone to corruption as political bodies if not moreso which is how we get terrible gas cans that are supposed to save the environment but instead dump gas all over the place.

@hanzzarkov7690 7 месяцев назад

Fear not, those same agencies are intentionally/politically underfunded to a point where the term 'self oversight' has become industry standard. Maybe focus less about 'corruption' in these agencies and more on the fact they are underfunded and understaffed.

@richardblackshire8450 Год назад

In the UK about 10 years ago we had the same. I got angry and bought a huge box of tungsten bulbs. Guess what. They are still in the attic. We have just all switched to LED. Why would you not

@JohnCarroll-f9s 4 месяца назад

I am in complete agreement with you and thank you for your cogent presentation. I might add that a certain segment of our population cannot be shamed by the exposing of multiple hypocrosies

@bkturley9964 Год назад

I waited out the vid to say this: I see a trend for institutionalism over individualism. Regulatory agencies: ignore them

@dhpbear2 Год назад

1:45 - ..and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Not sure why these three items were lumped together!

@Chris47368 Год назад

@fanman421 True - but the point OP is probably trying to make is that the science behind the dangers of weapons vs psychoactive substances is pretty different. I would personally prefer if all weapons(guns, explosives) were regulated by one body - while all psychoactives/food generally were regulated by the FDA...in my mind that would make much more sense anyway...

@jonsnow1123 Год назад

Well, for some, all three are pleasurable vices.

@Madmax714211 Год назад

When I was a kid, we had rocks, and liked it! 😂

@firefly5981 Год назад

We still haven't adopted Metric like most of the world either.

@SolderBrothers Год назад

Well said. John Goodman's ending speech from Red State, "people do the strangest things when they believe they are entitled. They do even stranger things when they just believe...

@fazergazer Год назад

I took Civics in junior high. Mr. Merrill managed to make it fascinating. We need that.❤

@mnoxman Год назад

People are making "custom" 6V6's a simple tungsten bulb will be made and on Etsy.

@spikeyflo 3 месяца назад

From Australia. Well said Fran!

@Rick_Hoppe Год назад

Let’s not forget the majority of the population is ignorant of Science and what science really is. What is the Scientific Method? What does it mean to isolate variables in a study? What is Peer Review? What is Scientific Consensus? Most people think it’s just the OPINION of “pointy headed intellectuals”.

@hawk6dm7 Год назад

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day"....Douglas Adams

@qtronicqilt8898 Год назад

*"Bulb"* is the slang term for a *"Lamp"* because it looks like a *"Bulb"* you plant in the garden. Like *"Seagull"* when there is no such thing, its a *"Gull"* .

@dryster123 Год назад

I have a secret stash of 40W tungsten bulbs for two den lights that are touch sensitive, the other 90% of lights in the house are LED and I don't think we have changed one in six years.

@jimmyonkeys Год назад

Thank you Fran!

@gsibertjr 9 месяцев назад

Amen, and preach on! And I am agnostic.

@betsyr4724 Год назад

It’s a stupid law. Why does the FDA allow things to be put in our food at the same time against law in UK?

@Voodoodrul Год назад

“All the rage is from ignorance” I see what you did there. Approved.

@samuelkellett Год назад

OH NO. What will I do? My Easy bake won't work?

@jamesblackwell5141 Год назад

"Yeah, news papers are so yesteryear!!" "What do you have today?" ...... We have Fox News, CNN, Facebook, TIKTOK etc.... "So basically, you have rumor, innuendo and scandal...."

@00Skyfox Год назад

What’s sad and pathetic and all too frequent is actual members of congress who don’t know how government works and will blame the president as a scapegoat for whatever some regulatory agency does or can’t/won’t do.

@Th3SilentObserver Год назад

Best. Thank You

@johnwsimpson3153 Год назад

You are right that regulatory agencies are created by Congress, but they are in the Executive Branch, which is headed by the President. And don’t leave out the well-paid lobbyists - they are essentially a fourth branch of government, and they are not on government salaries. Money is power, and some of the wealthiest zip codes are in the Washington DC area. I haven’t heard of any efforts by the President to influence how light bulbs are regulated, but there have been efforts recently in other fields, such as student loans, border enforcement, oil pipeline approvals/disapprovals, armaments for Ukraine.

@skip1835 Год назад

Sounds kind of awkwardly funny and I'm not dissing Fran here: "cut down the load on the power grid" - - - so, no more tungsten light bulbs - ok - - oh - - btw, the regulators, or what it really is, our government, wants us all driving electric cars - - hmmm. 🤔

@iomio3598 9 месяцев назад

One of my favorite papers was the weekly paper from Lebanon Ohio (20 years ago). It had a section of all the police reports for the week. The City of Kettering OH has a blotter that they post to FB, but I'm thinking I need to get a scanner, and a new setup for the CB. People on the ground know what's happening. Brodcastify is a good site, but it is unreliable. When the Memorial Day tornadoes hit Dayton, the live feed had a 2hr delay. We do need a comeback of the papers. They are a hard copy record.

@tfritzon Год назад

True! Every single word of it!

@leagarner3675 Год назад

Agree that our First Amendment and in particular Freedom of the Press is the greatest and most essential thing about our country and our freedoms.

@missingna404 Год назад

I love this message you have about staying objective and impartial to all information until you have read it in full. I feel like ego also contributes to close mindedness. Maybe if there if there was some form of infrastructure we could give the local newspapers so that they could bring the newspaper to our phones it could help keep them thriving(I'll be honest I have no idea how that would work or if it could I'm just brainstorming). I agree with you, I want to live in a world that values freedom resist totalitarian ideals!

@r.mtn.7477 Год назад

But that's exactly the problem she's warning about: Newspapers sent to your phone (which already exist, plentifully) drastically alter the way readers engage with news, because of digital algorithms that feed you "more of the same." Actual, printed daily newspapers gave us daily educations; we've been robbed of that in the name of "progress."

@r.mtn.7477 Год назад

Think of it this way: The difference between digital news delivery and actual, printed newspapers is like the difference between a vending machine and a lavish buffet.

@SocialAutism Год назад

Yeah. Regulatory committees are still beholden to congressional and judicial intervention. There's this whole concept of checks and balances that permeate our political system, that every seems to ignore. Regulatory committees/bodies are not the sole arbiters of law in these matters. Their rulings/regulations can be challenged. That's what I hope is the basis for most outrage, is the lack of checks from our body politic. People can petition their legislators to challenge the constitutionality of any and all regulations.

@va3ngc Год назад

Still available here in Canada, though I don't know why you would want them unless you need one for your oven. That is about the only application that LED bulbs wont work in. LEDs are great except for one thing. They don't last as long as they should. They seem to last no longer than incandescent bulbs. That has to be a designed obsolescence thing. LEDs themselves are very robust. If the product is designed right, there is no reason it cannot run for decades. Too bad the regulators don't go after the manufacturers for that, as they end up in the landfill as much the old. I agree with you about the ignorance. My impression from the outside, is that many Americans wear ignorance like a badge. They are proud of it. That is something I don't understand.

@beefchicken Год назад

Do they last as long as they should? No. Do they last longer than incandescent bulbs? Definitely. I keep the light on in my oven range hood 24/7. I have had the same two LED lights in there for over 7 years. That’s more than 61,000 hours.

@richardpurvis4532 Год назад

Here in UK i was one who was pro tungsten , mainly the way the change was.... introduced. All of a sudden we were told how bad it was for landfill etc only to supply us with not cheap "mercury" bulbs. Since then LEDs have come to for front and now can see the light so to speak.......keep it up Fran

@shadowstate552 Год назад

That's why I saw a guy selling tungsten bulbs outta the trunk of his car.

@randycarter2001 6 месяцев назад

A social studies teacher one told me, "You have no right to complain about government if you didn't vote in the last election."

@KK4CNM Год назад

Fran Blanche, a voice of reason in an illogical time.

@LakeNipissing Год назад

15:50 . . . I totally agree. I would rather come across things myself than have 'recommended' articles put in front of me. Getting a VPN has really changed this.

@tracyupshaw7862 Год назад

Incredible video here.... she really shows people the "light"... and from reading the comments people are clearly still in the dark about what the real focus of this video was really about... God help us all....

@gcmisc.collection45 Год назад

A very, basic, educational pod cast. Thank you. It is a pity the average person no longer indulgences in a wide conversations.. They just eat the same Media Fast food. Take care.

@linuxbeastmaster9192 6 месяцев назад

Finally found proper channel, thanks for being here Fran

@JerikkaBenton 10 месяцев назад

Honest question - why can't that oversight -- copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc. -- exist in an online medium? I'm not talking about social media or RU-vid, I'm talking about literally the newspaper being digital instead of ink. To me, it's just a medium -- and companies are going to use the most cost effective medium. I guess what I'm asking is -- if I can trust the printed version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette -- why can't I trust the online version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette if they decide it's more cost effective to put up a website rather than print? Can't they have the same copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc.?

@justusgronts3882 Год назад

I was born to the age of "ignorance is it's own punishment". But for many decades now ignorance is not only a viable career option but a lucrative one. sigh! Every freedom even when not legislated still has the social imperatives. Civilization cannot exist without universal observance of the "social laws" Your "rights" end at the edge of my "rights" and the edge of everyone around our / their "rights". Bristle at an Officer of the law , , , he will bristle back (and vice versa). Constantly paying attention is still cheaper than the cost of a single poorly chosen moment of inattention. imho rock on Fran 10👍/10

@adamaremus Год назад

Thx for your content, Fran. Hope to see you on a livestream sometime again.

@mikenewbold1699 Год назад

lmao what is wrong with you

@derekbrown9633 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for your comments. It's very refreshing to see an American make criticism of it's own culture. As an Australian we too are cursed with the shut down of local news paper's. It is a sad day when the paper the paper that survives has a biased view of local issues. Good luck America!! from what I've seen lately you're going to need it.

@FirstLast-vr7es Год назад

I think major brands need to do a better job engineering LED bulbs so that they don't fail prematurely. That's my only complaint with the newer bulbs. Either through negligence or intent, they often fail far too early. Even the much more expensive name brand bulbs.

@russell_szabados Год назад

I've had the complete opposite experience. I held out buying LED bulbs until I had no choice, then went on an expensive light bulb shopping spree and stocked up in 2021. Every bulb I replaced with LEDs is still running perfectly. Our master bathroom and guest bathrooms are notorious for eating incandescent bulbs alive, but the LED bulbs have held on for over two years as of July 2023 (yes, I wrote down when I changed them. LOL). I'm very impressed.

@Name-rz5up Год назад

@@russell_szabadosabsolutely agree👍 LED lights last the longest and create more light per watt than any incandescent lamb.

@ordinaryaverageguy76 Год назад

"everybody immediately blames the President" Yes, and often it is ignorant to do so, but those regulatory agencies are part of the Executive Branch, are they not? So, as the chief of the branch, he does have influence and authority over them if he chooses to do so. If he thought they'd overstepped their constitutional &/or delegated authority, he would/should act to correct them. Do we still think "the buck stops here"?

@johnbogle6475 Год назад

Gotta say, I love the slogan "Freedom Bulbs". Thanks!

@ReginaDailey Год назад

I'm convinced the majority live in the Bay Area. I've started referring to it as the land of the ignorant, thin skinned, and perpetually outraged!

@davidg4288 Год назад

This was a good rant, I couldn't have said it better. Even the "Fahrenheit 451" rant at the end was worth listening to. Never underestimate the power of the typewriter and copy machine. Nowadays you might have to wear your medical mask and pay cash for your printer if you want your newsletter to remain anonymous.

@madmagyver9981 Год назад

I think that has been our country's motto since 2001

@13abcde Год назад

You're breaking my heart!

@DiodeGoneWild Год назад

In the EU, they banned lightbulbs for household use. Now some shops sell them as industrial lightbulbs, and some, funnily, sell them as heaters or HEATBALLS :).

@alanhall2795 Год назад

H G Wells wrote The Time Machine. He predicted that humans would speciate into two distinct races: The Eloi (pretty but stupid) and the Morlocks who were dwarf-like violent savages who lived underground. All of mankind's knowledge would crumble. Personally I am finding it difficult to avoid morons. They are outbreeding the Eloi.

@mikemorgan4774 Год назад

"Imagine a Congress where nothing could get done". It's not so hard to do.

@jamesburge1983 Год назад

Oh addressing people who have no idea how Govt. works getting upset about something they refuse to understand. Welcome to the U.S.A.

@FREEMAN-fx3ef Год назад

OK I’m tripping! WTF what am I gonna do with all this friggin plutonium I have! 💡

@samuelrieder5480 5 месяцев назад

The only opinion that matters is an informed opinion. That's a nice sentence!

@waynegnarlie1 Год назад

After that rant, and finding no holes in any of your points, I've decided to buy a couple of acres on the shore of Arizona Bay.🤨

@franklittle8124 Год назад

Yeah, it didn't occur to me that with sea level rise, the Gulf of California will intrude out of Mexico into the SW corner of AZ.

@crhonda500 Год назад

This town has alot of solar pannels to lower the grid load,so why are we paying more for electricity!?

@BrianPetersen-l2w Год назад

Well said.

@atkelar Год назад

I still think that getting tungsten bulbs should always be an option for special use cases (and in my case some classic stuff) but the "main day to day use" should use better energy alternatives. And all those people crying "freeeeedom" are just edge cases of sovereign citicens to me.

@HowievYT Год назад

Yep. it works like that in NZ - I have to go looking for incandescents, but there are a couple of specialist with all, all the special lamps. LIke chrome-caps for photography and big round orange ones for '70's chandeliers. Everywhen else in my life, I prefer led.

@bettywing52 Год назад

William Burroughs wrote that the most free American society was in 1910.

@Globovoyeur Год назад

But, if plutonium is outlawed, only outlaws will have plutonium! /s

@therealxunil2 Год назад

As a one-time scientist, willful ignorance infuriates me.

@randycarter2001 6 месяцев назад

In America you have the right to do anything you want UNTIL it impinges on the rights of others to what they want.

@joeolejar Год назад

I delivered the Pittsburgh Press and the Post Gazette and for a short time the Sun Telegraph. My brothers and I delivered the news from 1957 to 1970. The local paper in Alamance County NC is thrown from a car. It is a faint shadow of the papers I delivered and read.

@krwd Год назад

Yep, totally agree, as a Pittsburgher i can relate those papers and the Beaver County Times

@sumtingwong63186 Год назад

this worshipping of our corrupt government has me worried Fran

@bigjd2k Год назад

I use fluorescent at home (which is also being banned), got a nice stash of new tubes as I don’t like the light from LEDs. However my solar panels generate way more than they use. Everyone should try and help the environment in some way or other!

@franklittle8124 Год назад

Fluorescent tubes eventually release their mercury into the environment one way or another. The phosphor coating in the tubes is a pollutant too. And which light from which LED's dont you like? LED's now come in all ranges of color temperature - so you can certainly find a level of light you like.

@stephenwabaxter Год назад

I'm not quite so pessimistic about the future of the press. From the UK I can access for example the New York Times and the Washington Post online which pre-internet it was impractical/too expensive for me to do. There is a superb range of news and current affairs channels on RU-vid that I consume a lot of.

@bigjd2k Год назад

Think that’s very true about newspapers, the quality of editorial has been going down year after year here in the UK. Unfortunately the mainstream papers were bought by big business decades ago. Shouldn’t have been allowed, as it allows them to cover things up easier. The shift online hasn’t exactly improved anything either. Lots of local papers have either gone bust or are just full of ads.

@DonWillis607 3 месяца назад

So Many Good Points Fran. Newspapers Rule (or once did) I Used To Be Able To Read WSJ,NYT,Dallas Tribune,Star etc etc. It Gave Me Insight Into What Was Really Going On . Even My Friends (50;s 60's70's) Scream " Its All Online Now" What's Wrong With You? No Watchdogs Locally Here Anymore. Politicians Do What They Do. No One Is Informed. But They All Howl " How Silly! How Did This Happen?" Too Late . Even Our Local Rag Is Basically Compiled Stories (90% AP Wire) Extreme Bias, Prejudiced...Same Ol Tired News Narratives..Very Few Details. No Follow up. Makes Me Yearn For The Old TV Show " Lou Grant"...Maybe A Reporter Like "Rossi". LOL. It Was Left Wing But At Least We Knew Where They Stood. I Am Older, Staunch Fiscal Conservative, Socially Liberal. My Choices Now Are WSJ, NPR Radio, BBC Radio Which I Take With A Great Dose of Salt! But No Other Orgs or Doing Journalism . None! Strange Ways Her We Come. Peace Unto You And To Your House. Enjoy Your Videos.

@earlgriffith3592 Год назад

THANK YOU! what a great commentary on WHY! I didn't realize that Civics classes had been dropped from our educational system. That certainly supports your thesis that folks don't understand how our government works. Its too easy for folks to just blame the President. Or the "other" party. No wonder we are so polarized...

@jonsnow1123 Год назад

While I agree, the fourth estate serves a crucial purpose, it doesn't change what America has always been. A highly dysfunctional country. Newspapers haven't fixed that and never will. Once upon a time they wrote on papyrus and lambskin. We also drove buggies. It's not like the information disappeared. In fact, the opposite. It is now ubiquitous. As for cookies. You can control cookies. You just have to take the time to learn how.

@Robbie-sk6vc 4 месяца назад

Actually, congress is supposed to make the rules. The agencies then enforce those rules. But congress has not done much as of late in that area. So the agencies have started doing both jobs.

@stephenlawrence6259 Год назад

With you 100%

@sinebar Год назад

I stopped buying tungsten bulbs as soon as LED bulbs were available.

@Adssat Год назад

Só verdades ditas sou do Brasil e aqui não está diferente.

@orionfl79 Год назад

It also doesn't really help when you have some ... unnamed politicians screaming from the stump about this agency or that agency being out of control or whatever. That in turn sort of shifts the focus back to the politicians and leads people to believe they're the ones you should be complaining to instead of whatever agency. :P