The Wall street Journal censors it's own subscriber's comments.
I used to be a WSJ paid subscriber. They regularly censored not just my comments, but I noticed comments by others with a conservative point of view would be disappeared. I non-renewed my subscription, and then progressively wrote the different layers o…
The Wall street Journal censors it's own subscriber's comments.
I used to be a WSJ paid subscriber. They regularly censored not just my comments, but I noticed comments by others with a conservative point of view would be disappeared. I non-renewed my subscription, and then progressively wrote the different layers of management to complain about their censorship and explain why I wasn't renewing. Silence. Finally got a reply from some low-level flunkie named Louise Story. She ignored what I was saying for a couple of cycles of emails. "We'd love to have you back!" When I finally got her to understand, she wrote me the WSJ doesn't publish defamatory comments. I replied, all the unkind things I wrote about the Democrat party were factual. "Defamatory" means "false." My comments weren't defamatory.
I'm not going to pay someone to censor me. Haven't paid to get through WSJ's paywall for years.
And another thing. Why is it whenever I open Microsoft Edge there are always slanted "news" stories? The bias of the "reporting" is obvious to anyone with half a brain.
You can't get away from Ministry of Truth agitprop just by ignoring their mouthpieces. They try to force-feed it to us.
Yes - and have you ever tried to “personalize” that page? It is reminiscent of Henry Ford’s quip about the Model T, “you can have any color you want — as long as it’s black.” In an age of RSS it should be dead easy to subscribe to feeds and truly personalize the page, but instead I merely get to select from Microsoft’s “curated” and pre-chewed food.
Yes, Steve, I have tried. I was determined to get rid of the propaganda.
It took a couple of hours of online searches to finally get the info on how to disable it. It can be done, but they seem to go out of their way to make it difficult.
Good on me. But how about those poor dumb bastards who get fed this stuff, and delude themselves into thinking they're informed?
Like you, I finally realized I could only disable it - not truly personalize it - and that meant several wasted hours I can never reclaim. It was truly disappointing to realize you could only "choose your shade of black" and were prevented from having anything approaching a true color palette at your disposal. So, I continue to just use My Yahoo as my primary portal [ironically, in part, because it allows me to suppress Yahoo! News ;-)]. It is one of the few homepages I have found that allows me true personalization with RSS feeds containing only what I want - not what Big Tech wants to push at me. In contrast, Microsoft has managed to deliver a product that is analogous to the USPS not delivering the mail, but instead "curating" what I get in my mailbox. It's utterly disgraceful.
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the outstanding historical minds we have, left the National review after publishing there for 20 years, for similar reasons. All the think tanks and publications I used to read are dead to me. It's invigorating and I feel freer now.
Same for me. When I allowed myself the freedom to really explore all those 'woo' subjects we were instructed were nonsense or "conspiratorial" I started my best education. Among the things I learned was how the CIA weaponized that word to undermine anyone who criticized official narrative of JFK's assassination as well as about Project Mockingbird, which never went away; it got bigger and bigger and now we're living with the results of the media take-over.
It's not just the NYT.
The Wall street Journal censors it's own subscriber's comments.
I used to be a WSJ paid subscriber. They regularly censored not just my comments, but I noticed comments by others with a conservative point of view would be disappeared. I non-renewed my subscription, and then progressively wrote the different layers of management to complain about their censorship and explain why I wasn't renewing. Silence. Finally got a reply from some low-level flunkie named Louise Story. She ignored what I was saying for a couple of cycles of emails. "We'd love to have you back!" When I finally got her to understand, she wrote me the WSJ doesn't publish defamatory comments. I replied, all the unkind things I wrote about the Democrat party were factual. "Defamatory" means "false." My comments weren't defamatory.
I'm not going to pay someone to censor me. Haven't paid to get through WSJ's paywall for years.
And another thing. Why is it whenever I open Microsoft Edge there are always slanted "news" stories? The bias of the "reporting" is obvious to anyone with half a brain.
You can't get away from Ministry of Truth agitprop just by ignoring their mouthpieces. They try to force-feed it to us.
Yes - and have you ever tried to “personalize” that page? It is reminiscent of Henry Ford’s quip about the Model T, “you can have any color you want — as long as it’s black.” In an age of RSS it should be dead easy to subscribe to feeds and truly personalize the page, but instead I merely get to select from Microsoft’s “curated” and pre-chewed food.
Bastards.
Yes, Steve, I have tried. I was determined to get rid of the propaganda.
It took a couple of hours of online searches to finally get the info on how to disable it. It can be done, but they seem to go out of their way to make it difficult.
Good on me. But how about those poor dumb bastards who get fed this stuff, and delude themselves into thinking they're informed?
Like you, I finally realized I could only disable it - not truly personalize it - and that meant several wasted hours I can never reclaim. It was truly disappointing to realize you could only "choose your shade of black" and were prevented from having anything approaching a true color palette at your disposal. So, I continue to just use My Yahoo as my primary portal [ironically, in part, because it allows me to suppress Yahoo! News ;-)]. It is one of the few homepages I have found that allows me true personalization with RSS feeds containing only what I want - not what Big Tech wants to push at me. In contrast, Microsoft has managed to deliver a product that is analogous to the USPS not delivering the mail, but instead "curating" what I get in my mailbox. It's utterly disgraceful.
Change your browser. I use Firefox. No politics No tracking Your bookmarks sync from each device you use
Has anyone besides me thought about dropping DISH because they dropped RT?
We don't even have a television in our home.
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the outstanding historical minds we have, left the National review after publishing there for 20 years, for similar reasons. All the think tanks and publications I used to read are dead to me. It's invigorating and I feel freer now.
Same for me. When I allowed myself the freedom to really explore all those 'woo' subjects we were instructed were nonsense or "conspiratorial" I started my best education. Among the things I learned was how the CIA weaponized that word to undermine anyone who criticized official narrative of JFK's assassination as well as about Project Mockingbird, which never went away; it got bigger and bigger and now we're living with the results of the media take-over.
It's like were living in the "kinder, gentler" version of Hitler's vision.
Agree. TPTB have tied up pretty much tied up all legacy media. Every once in awhile something slips past, but mostly everything should be doubted.
Gates funding of most of the influential media in the West must play a pivotal role in forming opinions -
https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/
Yup - money can certainly buy an awful lot of influence can't it?
Yes I have noticed this too.