I like the plants in the background, because she really is visualizing the people as plants. Watch for her snarky snicker when she knows she's characterizing NPR's news as manure for us to take root in and grow in the direction that pleases her.EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher doesn't just want to "stamp out bad information" on the internet. She wants to replace it with "good information"—i.e., left-wing narratives—and force the public to "sit within that good information" as "a collective."
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 18, 2024
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April 19, 2024
Sitting within good information.
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Unless the interviewer followed up with "What do you do when your 'good information' turns out to be false*? What is your step then?" this is just a conversation between two bubble-dwellers who think they know best, when they don't.
*COVID information; "Russian Collusion" etc etc etc.
Fry voice and up-talk both!
"stamp out bad information" on the internet. She wants to replace it with "good information"—i.e., left-wing narratives—and force the public to "sit within that good information" as "a collective." Big Sister has arrived."
From my comment in the previous thread:
"You can also see this in action with a huge cohort of the human population - women. If you just believe something is true hard enough and manipulate others to believe in it hard enough and socially ostracize those who don't, it becomes true! It is the reason The Assemblywomen of Athens resonates even today, and why socialism and communism are fundamentally feminine in nature."
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
Never pee on an electric fence.
What's the fuss all about? Principles of free expression recapitulate a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." Obviously our tax dollars should support her mission.
Remember, wrongthinkers, Katherine and her ilk are the best people.
Maher is the most real life Umbridge I've seen.
Corn Pop was eaten by cannibals.
This will be new information for most of you. Sit within it. Absorb it. Feel the nutrition throbbing in the veins of your psyche. Now grow, muthafuckas. Grow like the wind.
Nothing creepier that a Radical American White Left Female.
Take NPR from center-left to full on Soviet?
She's the gal you want.
She should hook up with Adam Schitt(D)
Tag team white left lie machine. For the common good.
She doesn't say true information and false information. She says good and bad information.
It doesn't have to be true to be "good" and "bad" doesn't mean it's not true.
This is a fundamental of Progressivism and always has been.
The idea that we should try to figure out what is actually true and false is an antiquated notion.
Your duty and your obligation to yourself and to the collective is to choose to believe the good the things so you can be successful, because if you choose to believe the bad things, you will find there is no place for you among the successful.
Maher is not an isolated case. Now you can see why Google's Gemini AI turned out the way it did.
When it comes to super liberals, emotions matter more than the truth. Emotion is what motivates Ms. Maher's intense animosity for White men (especially Jews) and Donald Trump. Who gets up at 3 in the morning to rage tweet about how racist Donald Trump is? Who in their right mind would subject a random man to a lecture on the patriarchy or White privilege or whatever.
These people, mostly White women, are not good for our democracy. They protest and engage in activism like all the damn time and way more than normal people. They are a minority, buy they are always the loudest voice in any room. Their activism and protest has stifled honest debate and has silenced dissident voices. These people, starting with Ms. Maher, need to stop yelling and start listening.
"What do you do when your 'good information' turns out to be false?"
"Impossible! If we believe it, it must be true and anyone who disagrees is spreading disinformation. Don't you see how simple this is?"
"Sit within it. Absorb it. Feel the nutrition throbbing in the veins of your psyche. Now grow, muthafuckas. Grow like the wind."
I am suddenly consumed by a desire to sniff little girls, make up random shit, and swim naked in the presence of the secret service. But alas, I have forgotten the point...and who the fuck are all of you?
"She doesn't say true information and false information. She says good and bad information."
One of Maher's clips circulating on the internet is of her declaring there is no truth, only "my truth ".
Great choice, NPR.
Like pods in a tidal pool, these are the handmade tales of our life.
Sitting, stewing, marinating for a twilight brew, is the fate that befell Hansel and Gretel who followed the breadcrumbs to the witch's clinic.
I certainly want to live under the thumb of a White Left Female and her speech/information crack-down.
We will be made to obey.
Lysistrata?
You're soaking in it!
I find my commitment to free speech wavering as I listen to her sneer. Some people really should be silent.
She relies on the MSM method that declares that the lies told by them in prior debunked slanders is assumed to be real forever. Then she can never be confronted with truth that is semi illegal to even think.
Maybe we can have a rating system for the quality of the information:
- Good information
- Plus good information
- Doubleplus good information.
The same for bad information, too.
She and the "journalists" of NPR has two choices: either examine what Berliner wrote and question whether it was true, and if so fix it; or get all pissy and prove him right.
They of course chose the latter because they had as much chance of looking objectively as we do of lifting ourselves off the ground. As a tweeter explained: NPR hasn't changed. It's just that the country and news media have moved so far right that it only seemed like they had.
The beauty of uptalking is sinister intentions always sound like harmless suggestions.
but what does she identify as?
"Sit within it"...? Ewww. I need a shower.
I think the left hates Rowling really because she made Dolores Umbridge a villain.
"Sitting within good information."
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did somebody drop an \h/
I could copy and paste me comment from an earlier thread this morning and have it be relevant here. However, I will just add that it seems to me that the left would rather do harm as long as they have good motivation rather than doing good with less pure motivations. Good-think is better than good outcomes.
How long before this self-important elitist who doesn’t know when to shut up leaves NPR to pursue other interests and to spend more time with her family?
She's more like an archetype than a stereotype. It's not so much that she represses politically incorrect thoughts but rather that she is incapable of even thinking such thoughts....The left will rally around her. After President Harris finishes out Biden's second term, perhaps Kamala can choose Maher as her running mate. Maher clearly enunciates Kamala's many inchoate thoughts..... She's not bad looking either. Maybe Hollywood will choose her to be the new James Bond, or maybe Disney can feature her in a live action Pinocchio. It's kind of sexist to always make Pinocchio a little boy. It's time for a Pinocchia or better yet a Pinocchix. Anyway, in the new version, every time the little whatever says a politically incorrect truth their nose grows. It's only when they start talking like Maher do they become fully human and--twist!--get to join the Barbie community.
A good car is one that starts every morning and takes me where I want to go.
What is good information? And don't tell me, "I can't define it but I'll know it when I see it."
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” (Noam Chomsky)
She is Titania McGrath come to life. The prophecy is fulfilled. Defund NPR.
Gaze and listen in wonder at the sheer vapidity of this malevolent moron.
She does a disservice to dumb blondes everywhere.
Corn Pop was eaten by cannibals.
That is disinfo, Bob. Cornpop ate Uncle Bosie. So sad. Poor Joe.
Definitely AWFL.
I think she might be happier in Russia or China or Venezuela.
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...
Nothing creepier that a Affluent White Female Leftist.
Makes a catchier acronym.
She says NPR is "manure" to grow; I say that I've always thought of much of what NPR had to say as manure in the punchbowl. I decided I'd never drink the stuff myself.
I've seen folks who have swallowed that "good" information from NPR (one of my regular golf partners back in the day used to listen to NPR Saturday mornings on his drive to the course).
A fellow who seemed reasonably intelligent during the work week became something of a fool after having absorbed 30 minutes or so of that good old NPR "stuff".
And, here we are again, discussing existential questions. Any organization, barring explicitly far left organizations, that voluntarily puts this woman in a position of power has seriously lost its way, and the only real question at this point is it can be salvaged or not.
The Wikipedia reveal is especially disheartening. A corrupted Wikipedia is worse than useless.
Pretty good performance for a freshman seminar.
Beyond that, boring; and all the rest Pretty-Girl-Privilege. That has probably worked against her, long-term.
Will someone please ask her if she would be OK with her worst political opponent running the government censorship administration instead of people aligned with her, and if not, what safeguards she might envision to prevent that? I'd follow up with asking if a constitutional amendment forcing the government to avoid infringing the rights of free press and belief and association and speech might be worthwhile?
Betting the first question would stump her, as it is inconceivable to the Left that anyone disagreeing with them would ever be in power. And the second one she might twig to the ridicule expressed in the question, but then again, she might not.
Excellent use of the excrement tag!
You'd think a middle-aged woman would realize how stupid up-talk makes her sound.
Pride goes before destruction. NPR is the epitome of arrogant wealthy urban left pride. Does she see eye-to-eye with John Fetterman Democrats...nope..
These kind of attitudes arise very, very late in a cultural lifecycle. She does not under the concept of skating on thin ice or that payback is a bitch.
In Marie Antoinette's last foolish words, "Let them eat cake."
Steve Innskeep of NPR takes on Uri Berliner. Really (predictably, expectedly) good stuff from the customarily careful and professional Innskeep.
"Big Mother" is catchier than "Big Sister", also more ominous.
Big Mother is watching you.
She farts like the rest of us.
Pretty sure she was created in a lab somewhere, I find it impossible to believe that an actual human being could be just a giant taking point
As delusional as it is dangerous. Totalitarianism is always presented as "for the common good". How ironic to hear that pig-piffle on the 249th anniverary, to the day, of Lexington and Concord.
@Wa St Blogger: However, I will just add that it seems to me that the left would rather do harm as long as they have good motivation rather than doing good with less pure motivations. Good-think is better than good outcomes.
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
― T.S. Eliot
I find my commitment to free speech wavering as I listen to her sneer. Some people really should be silent.
And SILENCED if they can't stay silent. The more I see of our "elites" like this horrible person, the more I fear the only escape from their tyranny is an American Pinochet.
A dismaying thought indeed; I used to be a very fervent Libertarian.
She's a walking advertisement for the potential upsides of Sharia law.
Hey, she can eat my shit any day!
It's the Big Nurse, in real life, equipped with modern vernacular. The only thing missing is Louise Fletcher's hairdo.
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According to tax forms just released last week, the outgoing Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher got $623,286 in severance pay in 2021:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikim...
She made a total of $798,632 that year.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikim...
Don't you guys go attacking Chuck's NPR!!!!
I for one support this effort on her part to stamp out “bad information”. It is about time we had an organization that knows what the correct position is on any topic and can provide it to the masses so that they don’t have to try and figure it out for themselves. How else could then know if it is Eurasia or Eastasia that has always been our enemy.
She’s perfect to run NPR.
She's from the same school of thought as the Bud Lite vice president of marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid.
And SILENCED if they can't stay silent. The more I see of our "elites" like this horrible person, the more I fear the only escape from their tyranny is an American Pinochet.
Well, you don't believe in free speech, do you?
She should be canceled just for the Up-Speak.
A good car is one that starts every morning and takes me where I want to go.
A good car is one that NPR says is good for the planet and one made by a company NPR says has correct policies in place. Whether it gets you where you want to go is irrelevant.
What is good information? And don't tell me, "I can't define it but I'll know it when I see it."
I can't define it, but I'll know it when I hear it on NPR.
Well, you don't believe in free speech, do you?
I'm not as principled as I once was, that's for sure. I'm playing the "tit for tat" strategy now.
This woman and a lot of people like her are claiming the power to muzzle what I may hear and say. If I am offered no other choice by the leftist enemies of humanity, I will support policies and politicians and direct actions that will erase them from the public sphere permanently and definitively, rather than go on living under their intolerable tyranny. I owe my Revolutionary forebears no less.
But if they leave me alone, I will leave them alone, no matter how much I may disagree with their stupid unworkable ideas.
Something's off in Maher's appearance.
Oh, I know. She's not wearing her Junior Anti-Sex League sash. Guess she outgrew it, or it's not an acceptable part of the uniform at MiniTrue.
"Richard said...
I for one support this effort on her part to stamp out “bad information”. It is about time we had an organization that knows what the correct position is on any topic and can provide it to the masses so that they don’t have to try and figure it out for themselves. How else could then know if it is Eurasia or Eastasia that has always been our enemy."
In that vein, all news media should be employees of the government. This way, only government-approved information will be released to the public. The Ministry of Truth will be in charge, and all news outlets will be named "Pravda".
Blogger Chuck said..."Steve Innskeep of NPR takes on Uri Berliner. Really (predictably, expectedly) good stuff from the customarily careful and professional Innskeep."
I read this Chuck. It's remarkably weak. So much so I'm surprised he wrote it. His two arguments of any substance are that he has no party registration ("Some in the crowd gasped.") and that other leftwing media companies also did not report the Biden laptop story until the coast was clear (i.e. the election had passed). That this is the best he can do speaks volumes.
Well, you don't believe in free speech, do you?
And yet he's still more liberal, Classically Liberal, than you have ever been. He's just more honest. He sees the gatekeepers and editors who claim to be defenders of speech are in reality willing slaves to the Regime. She's proud of subjugating Wikipedia to the Regime censors. Shouldn't such willing slaves at least be given a benevolent master for a change instead of the hideous evil people in charge now?
That might be what it takes to shake Liberals from their nasty habit of supporting Leftists because of constant scaremongering about what the Right might do.
Look how bad this one is. She stumbles over "recapitulating;" she falters again later as though her memorization had failed her. She also looks a lot worse; the hair so different. Who says "with the best of intentionality" instead of the normal usage, intentions? She seems like a bot whose rubber band has stretched a little bit out of tension and she's started glitching.
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1781124505282506986|twgr^7e4efe40cbab8fcaf23ceec606d4ab08111367fe|twcon^s3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F642497%2F
New face of the Matriarchy.
Boomers reacted against 50s puritanism; now there is a reaction against boomer libertarianism and self-congratulation for accepting about as much evil in the world as necessary. Are the woke as stupidly conformist and self-righteous ("virtue-signalling") as the 50s suburbanites? As Allan Bloom liked to say, better books were published in the 50s than the 60s. And today?
Aging boomers, increasingly afraid to die, have taught the woke. They have a lot to answer for.
Annoying uptalk and vocal fry aside, what is it that makes these young women's voices so shrill? They all need to take up a bourbon and pack-a-day habit for a while to help drop their voices by an octave. If they sounded less like Barbie and more like Lauren Bacall it would be easier to tolerate.
Anyone who would control the speech of others is in her group. She's just more blunt about her goals.
Freder Frederson said...
And SILENCED if they can't stay silent. The more I see of our "elites" like this horrible person, the more I fear the only escape from their tyranny is an American Pinochet.
Well, you don't believe in free speech, do you?
What we know is that people like you take away our free speech whenever you get the chance.
We will not have a free high trust society until you shitheads are defeated and driven from power.
We will have a free high trust society.
It is up to you fascist shitheads to decide how much pain there will be between here and there.
Lloyd W. Robertson asks: "Are the woke as stupidly conformist and self-righteous ("virtue-signalling") as the 50s suburbanites?"
Absolutely not. Not even close.
They are 1000x worse than 1950s suburbanites, because they are such enormous social-media addicts that they know INSTANTLY when the groupthink opinion on anything is (and so alternate opinions don't ever get a chance to bubble up), and they are massively self-righteous because everything they read or hear from the overculture—in contrast to those 1950s suburbanites—tells them how wonderful they are.
The Puritans in 18th-century Salem couldn't even dream of approaching the self-righteousness of woke white women 2014-2024. Those Puritans at least thought that pride was a sin. Karen Maher and others like her are nothing but pride--even their "self-confessions" of privilege (and they are among the 1% most privileged people who have ever drawn breath on this planet) are actual brags of how they are more enlightened than you AND they go to Pilates class. (There's a self-righteous Pontius joke in there that I don't have energy to make).
I keep saying that I fear that what is coming for these people will be on balance a bad thing because of how much good will get washed away with the corruption (just as in the Dissolution of the Monasteries), but My God, listening to this woman talk for more than 30 seconds made me better understand why almost no one in 1536-39 really objected when Henry VIII seized the monastic estates and sent all the "monks" packing.
Lenin said "worse is better"
Someone prone to wearing a tinfoil hat might say that appointing someone so over the top would make people question involuntary taxpayer funding for NPR.
Or perhaps it's a coincidence.
Via stupidity, malice or plan it might be what we need to cancel NPR money
If she were more reasonable, people would grumble but not get worked up to do something.
Works for me.
John Henry
n.n. - more like "handmaiden tales" each full of sturm und drang while others wonder what all the fuss is about.
Those who do not learn history sound like her. A Goebbels plastercaster.
Those who do not learn history sound like her. A Goebbels plastercaster.
All the commentary above is besides the point. Why do NPR and PBS even exist? At the minimum, NPR should be sold off, the frequencies have a significant value. There is so much spending that needs to cut before the country goes under from debt that if this minor and worthless spending can't be cut the nation is going down the tubes.
The governing bodies of NPR and the CPB much have known about Maher's viewpoints and worldview.
What this really comes down to is who butters the bread of NPR. I'd say it's people who listen that share Maher's worldview.
NPR must believe Maher will be the key to reviving listenership.
Was a little disappointed in Steve Inskeep's article regarding Berliner. He brought up some good points, but skipped over issues that Berliner mentioned including covering COVID-19, etc.
There's clearly some problems at NPR. Alicia Montgomery at Slate discusses some from her perspective.
Maybe NPR can figure this out. Unknown.
Isn't state controlled media kind of the essence of fascism?
John Henry
Yancey, it it's Dicks NPR, let dick support it.
You do fund NPR generously, don't you, dick?
John Henry
Well, you don't believe in free speech, do you?
Neither does she.
However, I'm forced to pay her salary.
See the difference? No?
Shocker.
Here is her profile on LinkedIn
Katherine Maher is CEO of NPR. She previously led Web Summit, the world's largest technology conference. Prior to Web Summit, she led top-ten online platform Wikipedia, as CEO of Wikimedia Foundation. She is an independent board director for various private and non-profit boards, including Web Summit, System, and Clue, the American University of Beirut, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Consumer Reports. She has worked with UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now on technology in the public interest.
She is on the U.S. Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Security Fellow at the Truman Project. She is a longtime advocate for free and open societies, and has worked around the world leading technology and innovation in human rights, good governance, and international development.
How do people get jobs like these? Who applies to be on the Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board? Or be Security Fellow on the Truman Project? She was a WEF Young Global Leader. I don't remember seeing that job posting. All paid a ton of money.
Gosh she seems like a real embodiment of the entitled elite.
I feel sick.
Just reading Julia (by Sandra Newman. Julia is the female protagonist in 1984. Good but chilling)and I keep thinking of Stalin's purges and the Cultural Revolution with all these female Red Guards watching and reading her output.
"Karen Maher and others like her are nothing but pride--even their "self-confessions" of privilege (and they are among the 1% most privileged people who have ever drawn breath on this planet)..."
"Sure, I'm white and privileged, but I'm not going to give up my spot to someone with a more intersectionally-approved skin color."
They're like human land acknowledgements.
"Isn't state controlled media kind of the essence of fascism?"
You mean like how Democrats are the essence of racism? Yeah, pretty much.
If that woman didn't exist, we would have to invent her.
Also, three federal government gas no business funding broadcasting if any kind.
She is the epitome of motherhood. Mothers don't want the boys to think outside the bounds of convention. They want at best rule followers who go to med school, but will accept whimpering conformists. The only thing that saves civilization is that teen boys eventually stop listening to mommy.
Lloyd W. Robertson said...
Aging boomers, increasingly afraid to die, have taught the woke. They have a lot to answer for.
***************
The Japanese have a phrase that seems to capture your attitude:
"shinde wabite kudasai".
"Please atone, by dying."
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/19/wikipedia-founder-says-website-is-corrupted-by-nprs-katherine-maher-who-may-have-worked-with-intel-agencies/
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR.
“For the ex-CEO of Wikipedia to say that it was somehow a mistake for Wikipedia to be ‘free and open,’ that it led to bad consequences—my jaw is on the floor,” Sanger told the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher F. Rufo. He added: “I can’t say I’m terribly surprised that she thinks it, but I am surprised that she would say it.”
Sanger, responding to Maher‘s claim, acknowledged that she likely worked with U.S. intelligence agencies to suppress political dissenters.
‘PROBABLY THE CIA.’
“We know that there is a lot of backchannel communication and I think it has to be the case that the Wikimedia Foundation now, probably governments, probably the CIA, have accounts that they control, in which they actually exert their influence,” Sanger said, continuing: “And it’s fantastic, in a bad way, that she actually comes out against the system for being ‘free and open.'”
Christopher Rufo has the same intuitive brilliance as the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials. Except that, unlike the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials, Rufo repeatedly states in public "I'm going to do everything I can to present things out of context to destroy the lives of people I dislike, can you believe everyone keeps just going along with me when I do that?"
It seems to me that the easiest, least expensive way to "stamp out bad information" on the Internet is to shut down NPR. As a bonus it gets “bad information” off the airwaves, too.
That’s assuming that by "bad information" we mean information that is patently untrue. As Althouse points out in the post, however, that’s not what Maher means.
Rich wrote
"Rufo repeatedly states in public "I'm going to do everything I can to present things out of context to destroy the lives of people I dislike, can you believe everyone keeps just going along with me when I do that?"
That looks like a direct quotation. Link, please.
Otherwise you've just made up the quote. Lied, in fact.
This is her self description on X/twitter
Web Summit boss lady. Previously CEO
@Wikimedia
. Now 🤔 various places. Human curiosity, generosity, and dignity. She/her.
Human curiosity, generosity, and dignity.
She's actually an Inner Party person. In the Soviet Union, she would have been living in the House of Government.
No discernible achievements, but she's floated effortlessly to the top.
She talks of folx, not folks. She talks of intentionality. She speaks Newspeak fluently.
And she's not in the slightest embarrassed by her tweet history.
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