The Hot Button by David Poland

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THB SuperTweet: No Crushing, Please

THB SuperTweet: No Crushing, Please

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Jul 25, 2022
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I have a lot of respect for conceptual arguments.

I have a lot of respect for breaking away from conventional thinking.

Most days of my life, I read a majority of “journalism” that is just log rolling… and the log was made by corporate publicists.

It is the basis of my success and my failure that I will not just roll the log uphill or accept being rolled over by the log on the way back down the hill.

There are big ideas - and I am sure its true in every area, not just the entertainment industry - which are just plain false. They get repeated over and over and over again and smart people often end up repeating the deeply misleading non-facts as fact for long periods of time.

It pains me. I do not spend my life in pursuit of being right. I spend my life in the pursuit of factual truths that should be as fundamental as the sun rising in the east, even if the New York Times (just an example) has a habit in some departments of claiming it rises in the southwest.

Anyway… too much explaining my…

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