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No Spin: Killing Bill O'Reilly
After 21 years at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, who entered the national media market as an infotainer with CBS's tabloid-gossip nightly, "Inside Edition," is out. According to Fox, "After a thorough and careful review of the [sexual harassment] allegations, the company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel." In other words, after paying more than $13 million to hush sexual harassment suits in recent years, once the complaints became public, advertisers pressured Fox to can O'Reilly.
Though we have criticized O'Reilly in the past, particularly over his libelous "biography" of Ronald Reagan, he was an effective promoter of some conservative ideas, mostly by over-talking his guest victims. That effectiveness is precisely why The New York Times exposed his transgressions.
Regardless of what you think about O'Reilly, the real story here is the calculation by the Times that exposing O'Reilly would result in advertisers boycotting the show — and the network. Thus, Fox News, which is first and foremost devoted to maintaining market share (a.k.a. advertising revenues), had to fold its hand. Fox already has to blast now-ubiquitous "Fox News Alert" banners, ad nauseum, in order to keep its viewers interested through their 24/7 news cycle. As that tactic wears thin, so will ad revenue, and the network could not afford to keep O'Reilly on.
While this episode publicly exposes the power and influence that advertisers have in regard to who is delivering the news, the question every consumer of news from any commercial outlet should ask is this: How often do editors make decisions about what news to cover, and how, based on their concern for how advertisers will respond? The answer: Every day, all day.
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Putin Mobilizes Troops and Equipment
To North Korean Border
by Mac Slavo
{shtfplan.com} ~ We can all pretend like there is nothing going on around the Korean Peninsula and hope that cooler heads will prevail, but if history is any guide, when the militaries of multiple nations begin to mass troops at borders... it takes only a single, often seemingly inconsequential, catalyst to plunge the situation into all-out war. That’s exactly what’s happening in North Korea today. Two weeks ago China deployed some 150,000 troops to the North Korean border and put their entire military on high alert in anticipation of a U.S. military strike on Kim Jong Un. Now we learn that Russia is rapidly deploying troop and equipment to their border with North Korea, as well... http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/tension-builds-vladimir-putin-mobilizes-troops-and-equipment-to-north-korean-border-fears-u-s-is-preparing-to-attack-the-united-states1_04202017
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Soros Accused Of Racketeering, Extortion, Fraud, International Manipulation In New Lawsuit
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Many American patriots have wondered why George Soros is allowed by those in power in our country, the ones who we want to believe he still doesn’t control, to engage in blatant social destruction and subversion... against our nation without suffering any consequences. It’s been particularly obvious since Donald Trump came on the scene, that Soros and his lackey liar-nObama are pursuing their anti-America plot for world domination at the expense of the United States and all nations of the world. President Trump would seem to be the major benefactor of a crackdown on the global puppet master and racketeer, yet nothing happens. He just continues to manipulate our political, judicial and economic systems and those of virtually every nation in the world with impunity. Soros has made plenty of enemies around the globe and one of them has decided to take action. It’s an Israeli company that has suffered at the hands of “the evil one,” filing a lawsuit on Friday which identifies Soros as everything we know him to be, including an extortionist and a “racketeer billionaire” who “puppeteered” governments... http://rickwells.us/soros-accused-racketeering-extortion-fraud-international-manipulation-new-lawsuit/
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Sen Lee Wonders Why America Is Funding
George Soros’ Leftist Subversion Of Europe
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It's almost as if Senator Mike Lee hit himself in the side of the head after realizing he could have had a V8. Suddenly he’s concerned about American “aid” money going to line the pockets of George Soros and his anti-American causes across the globe... If he’s really worried now, just wait until the UN climate reparations money tap gets turned on, a real possibility now that the neocons have taken root in the White House. That infamous sucking sound will once again return in a deafening manner to the DC swamp, but it won’t be the swamp that’s being drained, just our treasury, the Soros slush fund. The information was readily available and known to everyday Americans, but Congress is apparently only now catching on, and asking questions, about the siphoning of our money into the coffers of the number one enemy of our Republic. Based upon this “new” information, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote a letter to the State Department... http://rickwells.us/sen-lee-wonders-america-funding-george-soros-leftist-subversion-europe/
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Christianity Being Snuffed Out
Across the Middle East
by Larry Estavan
{pamelageller.com} ~ Prospects of Christianity surviving in its birthplace, the Middle East, appear as grim this Holy Week as they have at any time in the last two millennia... Persecution of the world’s largest religion has intensified throughout the 20th century and that trajectory has only intensified in recent years, especially in Muslim-dominated countries. Jihadists appear to have repeatedly carried out one of their oft-stated goals of erasing any trace of Christianity in some regions, while in others persecution against Christians and other religious minorities are being held at bay — for now. The actual prospects facing Christianity in three of its longest-standing strongholds, Syria, Egypt and Iraq, vary significantly. But a blind eye is often turned by the mainstream media and others when it comes to anti-Christian atrocities, which have become an all-too-common way of life for many in the Mideast... http://pamelageller.com/2017/04/christianity-snuffed-out.html/
.Life insurance for terrorists? America's
1st Somali legislator says 'yes'
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ She burst on the scene last August when she upset a 44-year incumbent Democrat in the Minnesota state primary elections to become the nation’s first female Muslim state legislator... Ilhan Omar, the 34-year-old community organizer who came to America as a refugee from Somalia, was touted by Democrats as a model success story. “From a refugee camp to the State Capitol with intelligence and insight,” beamed former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who endorsed Omar. “This is a wonderful story to tell as Americans, and a great source of pride for the state of Minnesota’s open arms.” She was one of only two members of the Minnesota State House to vote against a bill that would allow life insurance companies to deny payouts to the beneficiaries of terrorists who die in violent attacks on Americans. The House voted 127-2 to pass the bill, which now moves on to a vote in the State Senate...This is whats happening in America?
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