i had to nurse another migraine this morning (and i have another one now), so i didn't get out until early in the afternoon, and did some running around for the day, eventually getting back a bit before 19:00 (on what is likely my last venture outside for the rest of the month), before making some pasta and sitting down to eat around 20:00...

i wanted to watch some news, so i looked up the real news, my old go to, and i couldn't believe how awful it was - something i've been noticing for a while, now. i decided a while back that they signed their death warrant the day they let cenk uygur in the door. that guy is death, personified. but, what happened to paul jay, anyways? where's he posting, now?

i bumped into this...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/11/paul-jay-and-sharmini-peries-ousted-from-the-real-news-network-in-june-current-fundraiser-hides-that-fact-falling-viewership-and-liberal-turn-result.html

i think i saw this coming a while back, and if you look at some videos from i don't know how long ago, you can see the rest of the staff beginning to mutiny. paul was never really in the democratic party consensus; he's a canadian from, i think, winnipeg, that is somewhere between the progressive conservatives and the ndp. so, he just doesn't see the world from a democratic party filter, and he just was never going to fit in.

that's why people liked him.

what the real news is, now, is just saturated content. i don't care what kids in their 20s think about much of anything. and, i can't fucking stand marc steiner. there's a thousand other sites like that out there; it's lost it's niche, and is no longer worth watching. without paul, they have absolutely nothing of value, and they appear to be too stupid to figure that out.

the article seems designed to eliminate speculation that he got shut down for deviating from the party line. those questions won't go away until he sets the record straight, himself. and, i hope that paul gets out of this and gets back up somewhere else.

as a very long time viewer - i used to watch counterspin - my best guess is that the reason the process is dragging out is that paul actually wants to keep the name. that is, i would expect that he intends to walk away from this with his brand. i couldn't imagine him giving it up without a fight.

whether he gets out with the real news or with something else, my interest is in paul jay and his network of guests, it's not in the other people that work there or their saturated content and facile analysis.

let this be a lesson, though - this is why you don't let capitalists in the room. paul slept with the devil, and got fucked.