HOW can ANYONE possibly believe this CRAP?

[HiloJulie]

I saw this the other day on the news, and it just makes me shake my head in wonderment.

How can any sane, reasonable person believe in this absolute CRAP?

And then, how can, what is supposed to be considered "Mainstream Media" even think of airing this nonsense?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I appreciate when the local tv stations run fluff pieces because it means they didn’t have enough terrible news to broadcast on that day.  

Best local Hawaii lede:  Tonight! Breaking news! Water main break on Kalakaua Avenue!

[HiloJulie]

I'm all for fluff pieces on the news when there is no real news to report - but let's keep it to fluff pieces based in reality.

How about a fluff piece on the benefits of always backing your car/truck into a parking space at Wal-Mart, even if it takes you 5 minutes, a dozen zig zags back and forth and has traffic blocked up for 2 city blocks?

Or a fluff piece on the benefits or non-benefits of mailbox parks in substandard subdivisions?

A fluff piece on the history of Kilauea eruptions? The beauty and destruction?

But to do a fluff piece of someone's good fortune, or lack thereof, being based on "the moon is in the Seventh House" and when "Jupiter aligns with Mars" is just plain ridiculous!

At any event, the sun just came out, so it's time to let it shine in!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

but let's keep it to fluff pieces based in reality.

The reality is that the astrologer probably knows someone at the tv station.

[Punatang]

WHY does ANYONE care?  Half of the country believes most of the propaganda nonsense the TV morons tell them. It's TV! Mostly only idiots are paying attention. It's paid for by the advertisers who have a great deal of influence over the content.  Ever think much about who is doing most of the advertising (AKA producing the show)?

People believe all sorts of CRAP. The dumber the viewers are, the more sanctimonious they become when the captured biased TV entertainers assure viewers that the smart people are dumb. 

At least astrology won't kill the morons.  

The bull is in Uranus.

https://www.theplanetstoday.com/astrology.html

   
Uranus (retrograde) in Taurus. Uranus goes Station Direct in Taurus at Thu Jan 30 2025 06:22
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Uranus (retrograde) in Taurus. Uranus goes Station Direct in Taurus at Thu Jan 30 2025 06:22
GMT-1000 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)Uranus (retrograde) in Taurus. Uranus goes Station Direct in Taurus at Thu Jan 30 2025 06:22
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Uranus (retrograde) in Taurus. Uranus goes Station Direct in Taurus at Thu Jan 30 2025 06:22
GMT-1000 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time)

[randomq]

No one actually wants to pay for investigative journalism, or news content in general.  I wonder if a Puna lobbying organization existed and produced pieces on our way of life and issues affecting us, might the TV stations just air them?  Maybe we can use the greediness/laziness of the media to get our own agenda out there?

(Not that we could agree on an agenda, aside from not having astrologers on the evening news.  Or that hippy dippy verbal diarrhea New Dimensions that comes on HPR on Sundays when I'm running trash to the dump....)

Some ideas for pieces:
- The time it takes an ambulance to reach someone in the substandard subdivisions
- Attempts by the county to erode property rights
- Code enforcement leading to homelessness not actually being better than letting people live on their own acreage
- The solution to homelessness (less regulation, more prefab homes, allowing new technologies, etc.)
- All the commercial land being owned by a few oligarchs and what that does to small business
- What it's like to live within your means in a home you built yourself, without a mortgage
- How much Foodland and Malama mark up their groceries, and who profits.
- The cost of gas that magically never goes down in Hawaii, and who profits.

[HiloJulie]

"The reality is that the astrologer probably knows someone at the tv station."

Either that, or the stars were in total alignment!

   

"At least astrology won't kill the morons."

Hold that thought:

[Punatang]

No one actually wants to pay for investigative journalism, or news content in general.

Many people pay for it and it is readily available, it's just not in the places where the weak minded look for their free circuses and gather their "knowledge".


Hold t

[HiloJulie]

Punatang is 100% correct!

Now, apologies for going off the keep it Puna/Hawaii rule, but, in the context of this thread and how the media and journalism does affect Hawaii and its people, I offer you a Bill Maher "New Rules" clip done about 7 months ago where Bill introduces 5 "rules of thumb" in dealing with today's media, which, could not be more spot on!

(I will caution that this clip does contain adult humor, political viewpoints and may be considered offensive by some)
(But its 100% TRUE!)

[randomq]

Well, keeping it local of course, where should I look for investigative journalism on Puna and the Big Island?

I occasionally see some critical thinking on Civil Beat or Hawaii Free Press.