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Mini-Movie Reviews, 4

All three of the following movie are worthy in one respect or another

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4 months ago

January 17, 2023

Jeff Davidson

All three of the following movies are worthy in one respect or another:

The Good Nurse — with Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne is one of the gems of the season. Both of them knock it out of the park in this medical drama about a male nurse who is fixated on subtly killing patients.

Empire of Light — starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, and a newcomer headed for stardom, Micheal Ward, recreates England in the early 1980s and is an unheralded, little seen movie that is tastefully done.

Women Talking — offers an excellent ensemble cast headed by Rooney Mara and Claire Foy. This is a compelling movie even with its pale lighting, pale colors, and drab scenery. Because of dire circumstances, the women of a Mennonite community might vacate their village to start new lives, but the plot holes are enormous:

They all have been continually abused by village men for years, but only determined the culprits the day before the story takes place. All of the men are away from the village at the same time. The women cannot read or write yet have extensive vocabularies and outstanding command of the English. They’ve never been out of the village, have no money, have no knowledge of the outside world, and have never seen a map. On and on it goes. Regardless, this is still a good movie.

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Mainstream Media: Intentionally and Diabolically Unfair and Unbalanced

All pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone

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3 days ago

May 25, 2023

Jeff Davidson

by Jay DeLancey and Jeff Davidson

The grandest mistake the American populace committed in the last half-century was assuming that our media was even somewhat fair and balanced. Likewise proceeding in the last two decades as if the Internet giants had no dog in the political arena proved to be a mistake of historical proportions.

Today because so many people, still, are conditioned as such, the mere fact that say, a CNN, has a website prompts some people to believe that the network have something of value to offer. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose focus is classics and military history, says that the New York Times is “a shell of what it used to be.”

Nothing Objective to Offer

The paper always leaned to the left, since it’s founding, but it did an intermittently semi-decent job in reporting the facts. The Times sent their reporters out to the streets to do hard-core reporting. The mission was to gather relevant data, identify sources, talk to people, find eye witnesses, speak to bonafide experts, attain corroboration, and then when they were sure of what they had written, submit the story or feature.

Their articles probably never represented a 50-50 balance – perhaps 55-45 or 60-40 in favor of the left. Today, no rational media observer would contend that the balance is 70-30, or even 80-20. Study after study reveals, say, in the case of covering Donald Trump, that 92% of all features are negative, and that is not to say the remaining 8% are positive. Mostly, they’re neutral.

If you are a Trump or DeSantis supporter, or a Republican running for Senate or the House of Representatives, for governor in your state, or for any other position of prominence, you simply cannot expect a fair shake from the press, nationally, and in most cases locally. Indeed, you’re likely to be demonized, endlessly, over issues for which Democrats receive a free pass.

Compromised to the Breaking Point

The New York Times and The Washington Post of old, as biased as they might’ve been, at least offered some semblance of up-to-date information, with facts and figures when they had them, and timely reporting as situations unfolded. Hansen remarked that today the people who run these newspapers are trading on the decades of hard work and the reputations built up over more than 100 years.

Those who put in the seed work are dead and gone and thus, obviously, have no say about what’s going on today. The Times and the Post, in less than a generation, are destroying their own reputations. The people who currently run these ‘news’ organizations are dragging them down at warp speed and don’t even recognize the damage that they are doing.

By 2030, what is now a shell of an organization will be less so, and it wouldn’t be too wild to predict that the Times could totally morph into something else. The Post is not far behind in devising its own demise.

The Pretense is Gone

Each of the countless newspapers that feed off of these two publishing giants suffer as well. All such pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone. The good news, if you could call it that, is everyone on the right is now vitally all aware that this has happened.

Those who strive for integrity in elections, those who are on the right, and those who are routinely demonized by the left, understand what’s occurring to the nth degree. It’s not fair, but to know what you face is a benefit of sorts.

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