COMRADITY

Section 230 must be amended to restore public trust in media

COMRADITY — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:05:15 GMT

As a pre-Section 230 media professional, I respect the sense of responsibility to earn the public’s trust that the Communication Act of 1934 realized.

The principle is simple: Protecting consumers' right to think for themselves, consistent with the individualism that differentiates America from the rest of the world's class system.

US law protects busines…

WTF

COMRADITY — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:10:56 GMT

This week we remember the millions who have sacrificed for us in the US Army. It was founded 250 years ago when the Revolutionary War began to win Independence from a King.

For some reason, legacy media is promoting the false information that the purpose of this tribute to the Army, which was planned over 2 years ago, before this administration was elec…

Better globalization.

COMRADITY — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:02:40 GMT

For decades, efficiency has been the dominant business objective: copy competitors and sell it for less. Globalization has been a way to sell for less. The effect is a “copycat” culture all around the world, with little customer choice, repressing artisans and small businesses with unique ideas and de-emphasizing creativity in corporate America, which t…

Zelensky-Trump Oval Office . . .

COMRADITY — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:18:54 GMT

As I wrote about Leadership Communication, the objective is to win trust and respect. Today, there are at least two reasons the traditional method of controlling the narrative doesn’t work anymore: the public’s capricious belief in rumors and gossip which are impossible to control, and, the suspicion today’s audience has of production techniques like ed…

Leadership Communication

COMRADITY — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:00:33 GMT

Recently, I set out to review what “experts” say about leadership communication. Searching for “What makes a leader a good communicator”, honestly, I’m surprised that what I discovered is not very helpful. First, it’s subjective (with no research or even examples of great leadership speeches to back it up). Secondly, these characteristics are relatively…

Mr. Musk, Elon, thanks for cutting waste . . . but could you identify what works, too?

COMRADITY — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:37:10 GMT

The DOGE has exposed opportunities to reduce fraud, failure, and corruption of media. It has also revealed tech’s ethical limitations which could be compounded by automation through AI.

DOGE:

exposes fraud (e.g., fake social security claims)
exposes lack of legislative oversight in the Administrative Procedure Act enacted in 1946 resulting in unelected adm…

Perfection isn’t.

COMRADITY — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:13:32 GMT

When you work with clay, you have to like, or not be afraid of, getting your hands in the mud and all its messiness. You have to believe you can turn that muck into something that creates a pause in someone’s life, a moment to smile or feel comforted.

What is Leadership?

COMRADITY — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:53:46 GMT

Today, Biden made history and pardoned his son. Sure other presidents have pardoned relatives . . . after they served time for crimes they’ve been tried and convicted for. But no President has ever pardoned anyone for crimes they’ve never served time for or haven’t been charged with.

Some will cover this news with shock and outrage (a betrayal or worse) …

“wink-wink, you know what I'm talking about"

COMRADITY — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:52:06 GMT

But Kamala wasn’t alone, we’re now learning from liberals and democrats who secretly voted for Trump and are “coming out”.

For example, Justine Bateman, as published by Michael Shellenberger on Public.

“Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years,” she wrote. “I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A ve…

Think for Yourself

COMRADITY — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:16:19 GMT

The Thinker by Vince Sansone

Ambiguity is “a situation where a statement, sentence, action, or term can be interpreted in more than one way”, according to GOOGLE AI.

It is also a way to distract people from the truth. Take a look at this NYT headline:

Trump Put Musk on Phone With Zelensky During Call

Buried in the body copy is this:

“A third person briefed o…

Gaslighting Lost. Public Mistrust Won.

COMRADITY — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:33:56 GMT

Joe Biden was elected to be president to unify the country with centrist, common sense policy. He divided the country with a progressive agenda, hoping to secure loyalty of young voters. But young voters +10 swung to Trump in 2024. Thankfully, the youth may understand what was going on better than the rest of us.

Kamala Harris withdrew from the 2019 Dem…

Two Questions I’d ask Candidates

COMRADITY — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:34:02 GMT

As background, most of today’s internet giants got started by losing money. They offered free content ripped from legacy news sources. By taking their source of revenue, GOOGLE search and Social Media companies have made all news media vulnerable to corruption.

During the early days of broadcast media, politicians, who remembered the yellow journalism …

Debate

COMRADITY — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:57:17 GMT

After the horrible presidential debates, the Vice Presidential debate was surprising to many - as in “oh, that’s what a debate used to be like” - actually lighting a glimmer of hope for a better future in politics.

Yesterday, I had another reminder of how valuable debate is, as a volunteer Incubate Debate judge in Lakeland, FL.

I volunteered after reading…

Right to Be Weird

COMRADITY — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:08:19 GMT

On Sunday, September 29, in Washington DC, the right to free speech was celebrated. So far, The Wall Street Journal is the only MSM news to cover it, with the headline: “Coalition of the ‘Weird’ Mobilizes for Trump”. Apparently, all those who have exited the Democratic Party are weird, but Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris isn’t.

There were sp…

We need to fight for the truth.

COMRADITY — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:36:16 GMT

When the Pearl Harbor attack launched us into WWII, we were the “Isolationists” who didn’t want to go to war.

Now, the “Isolationists” are the media who have ignored “the threats we face” and related candidate performance.

It took two months for the so-called news media to come out of isolation and announce a bi-partisan report issued in July, that descr…

The Art of Questioning

COMRADITY — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:07:48 GMT

Recently, I came across the word “entropy” and I wasn’t quite sure what it meant, beyond “chaotic”. The word emerged from thermodynamics. Here’s what today’s screenshot looks like when searching GOOGLE:

Censorship isn't just wrong, it will not work,

COMRADITY — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:11:42 GMT

Western governments are deploying a censorship policy strategy that is as ineffective as “Whac-a-mole” and violates free speech. There is a better policy strategy.

In 1996, the US government created this problem for the rest of the world by not treating Internet Media companies the way it treats broadcast media companies. Although both profit from publi…

New York Times Disinformation about Free Speech on the Internet.

COMRADITY — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:02:21 GMT

Today’s New York Times newsletter covers the pending Supreme Court decisions regarding the Internet and the First Amendment. According to the David McCabe, who writes the article, the key question is:

“How should we balance freedom of speech with the flood of slanderous statements, extremist manifestoes and conspiracy theories that proliferate on the in…

Review of Nellie Bowles' book "Morning After the Revolution"

COMRADITY — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:02:04 GMT

I’ve said that this book is like watching a car wreck – no matter how shocking and surprising, you can’t look away.

My understanding is that each chapter is a story that Nellie investigated and wrote in 2020 for The New York Times that they didn’t print.

I’m glad she published the stories because without this accounting, we will forget. It’s amazing how f…

Sunset Section 230?

COMRADITY — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:56:36 GMT

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On May 20, 2024, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced a Communications and Technology Subcommittee legislative hearing titled “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications …