Mass media "filters" filtered out new stories and facts that are presented in major local, regional, national and international news media outlets. The five classes of media "filters" are:
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
The reporter could not get past the media filters with his highly controversial stories, even though they were well documented and fact-checked.
by mlhiss December 16, 2019
A adjective used by the weather service to make to modify characteristics of the storm such as storm surge to make it clear that people in high vulnerability with these characteristics need to evacuate.
by mlhiss August 27, 2020
Republican party members in the Panhandle of Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, etc. who are now homeless because of the lack of relief after hurricanes. This element of the party will likely grow significantly if global climate change continues to increase the number of high-intensity hurricanes and tornadoes, and as relief aid diminishes.
by mlhiss August 15, 2019
A ploy on the internet to get you to give them your personal data including your social security number, credit card information, bank account information, tax data, drivers license, email, cell, home and office address and phone numbers, codes to enter your house without tipping off security, your wife's financial information, your kids financial information and pictures of them when they were young, etc. They may as a bonus sell your personal information to a special security firm that will automatically down load all the information on your computer. Being such a VIP (very idiotic person) you may also recieve thousands of emails pornographic artists and hordes of horny woman who want you daily.
A pop up on the computer:
You Won. You are the millionth person we snooker today. Your have won a trip to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the action is. See your U.S. Army recruiter for details. Sign up early and you can travel free for the rest of your short life. Free medical and burial travel plans.
You Won. You are the millionth person we snooker today. Your have won a trip to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the action is. See your U.S. Army recruiter for details. Sign up early and you can travel free for the rest of your short life. Free medical and burial travel plans.
by mlhiss April 05, 2008
A derogatory term used to imply low flush toilets and conservation is an inconvenience, often said by someone who is full of shit who does not care about the environment.
The audience roared with laughter when he would say "...flushing 10 to 15 times", an experience that they have had well before low flush toilets.
by mlhiss December 24, 2019
Pronounced Rob'n'me Hood.
Robnmey is derived from a campaign platform that demands lowering the candidate's personal taxes by millions. The platform also advocates reducing taxes for the richest 2%. These supporters in return are exceptionally generous.
While the proposal is inconsistent with the candidates demands to lower national debt, it does lower the burden on the candidate and supporters to pay their fair share of the debt.
The platform is a hard sell since it advocates reducing basic social/health safety net, increasing taxes for the majority of the public, including the poor and the middle classes, during times when the public is desperate.
The platform also advocates getting rid of many gov regs that require financial responsibility, enforce workers rights, environmental public health protections. When regs can't be avoided the platform supports outsourcing gov jobs to the private sector (and supporters), and to countries with fewer protections for citizens, or where dictatorships can swiftly deal with the problem of unrest.
The hood term is added when the candidate has partially covered up their real identity. E.g., when they are not transparent on how they made their money and how much they have paid in taxes. Lack of transparency is also true of their generous and unanimous donors, who avoid campaign accounting, and spending limits on mud slinging, libel and slander.
Robnmey is derived from a campaign platform that demands lowering the candidate's personal taxes by millions. The platform also advocates reducing taxes for the richest 2%. These supporters in return are exceptionally generous.
While the proposal is inconsistent with the candidates demands to lower national debt, it does lower the burden on the candidate and supporters to pay their fair share of the debt.
The platform is a hard sell since it advocates reducing basic social/health safety net, increasing taxes for the majority of the public, including the poor and the middle classes, during times when the public is desperate.
The platform also advocates getting rid of many gov regs that require financial responsibility, enforce workers rights, environmental public health protections. When regs can't be avoided the platform supports outsourcing gov jobs to the private sector (and supporters), and to countries with fewer protections for citizens, or where dictatorships can swiftly deal with the problem of unrest.
The hood term is added when the candidate has partially covered up their real identity. E.g., when they are not transparent on how they made their money and how much they have paid in taxes. Lack of transparency is also true of their generous and unanimous donors, who avoid campaign accounting, and spending limits on mud slinging, libel and slander.
by mlhiss August 07, 2012
A severe and potentially highly destructive weather condition defined by the National Weather Service as having a front of prolonged wind storms associated with a very long band of rapidly moving rain and or thunderstorms over a wide area. Hurricane force wind, torrential rain, and flash flooding are commonly associated with the phenomena.
The drencho nailed 14 states with hurricane force winds, a barrage of lightning and torrential rain. Really hot weather only aggravates a temperamental drencho.
by mlhiss June 23, 2019