For a trip down memory lane to the 1970s

The Lambda Fifth Columns: Part 1 (of 4), Fall 1971

This is the first part of a new series of Fifth Columns featuring my columns from 1971 to 1973 in the Laurentian University student newspaper Lambda, that inspired me to write the Fifth Column many years later. They will be presented here in four parts.

#LaurentianUniversity #Lambda #TheFifthColumn #1970s

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The Lambda Fifth Columns: Part 1 (of 4), Fall 1971

This is the first part of a new series of Fifth Columns featuring my columns from 1971 to 1973 in the Laurentian University student newspap...

Really liked #DanAbrams here. Didn't always agree but very smart and fair. #TheFifthColumn

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Nobody Likes a Gossip Cop (w/ Dan Abrams) - #536

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We need a weekly news recap led by @robertwrighter ala #TheFifthColumn. It would actually entertain a wide variety of perspectives which TFC doesn't do anymore.
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Zohran, Epstein, and Two Decades of Bob and Mickey (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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Love this term for the #MAGA movement. #Trump does "fan service". It's like the next level of "audience capture" where a pundit/journalist changes their opinions/reporting to please the bias of their content consumers. Instead, the newsmaker acts in the world to rewrite reality. He looks at comments online and then does and says whatever will get the best response from his most devoted supporters. Not what best serves his vision or is actually best for the nation. #uspol

cc #TheFifthColumn

The boys at #TheFifthColumn are nailing it. There is waste to cut but #DOGE is taking an approach that is often illegal, misleading and will make doing this necessary work harder in the future. When you look at the success of the Clinton era #REGO process, I'm stuck wondering why they are choosing this path. Either they are dumb / unware of what was accomplished back then, or pursuing other priorities. Making government and society dysfunctional perhaps. IDK. #uspol

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#490 - Among the Bullshitters - The Fifth Column

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com

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#TheFifthColumn is complaining about what happened to #twitter and blaming the people who left for alternative services like #mastodon #threads and #bluesky. Somehow these guys also still claim to be libertarian.

#ElonMusk bought and changed the business. People decided the new service wasn't worth the price they were paying anymore. That's how it's supposed to work.

Pathetic but at least they are kinda admitting that #X isn't working for them anymore. Slow progress. #SocialWeb

#NowPlaying Originally released in 1981, “Punkanachrock” is a unique artifact of Japanese music counterculture from the 1970s. #AnodeCathode were an anonymous group, associated with #TheFifthColumn collective.

🙏 @GuyBirkin

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Anode/Cathode - Punkanachrock (self-released, 2024 reissue)

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For a little while, #TheFifthColumn was my favorite podcast. They'd talk more about the news than joking about their personal lives in elite circles, cared about more than just bashing the left and regularly had on people they disagreed with (even regarding stuff they are passionate about like Israel and Ukraine). Now they are like libertarian neo cons. It's not supposed to be possible yet here we are. Still worth listening to but I'm sorry to the people I recommended the show to.
#FanService. That's a great term for when political media plays to a specific ideological audience. Making them angry or scared of people who don't think like themselves. Never presenting alternative perspectives in a fair light, much less inviting their critics on their shows. Encouraging their audience to connect all the bad stuff into one grand conspiracy. Great for ratings and donations etc, shit for understanding the world or building a better society. HT #TheFifthColumn #LiberalValues
How to spot bad news outlets | The Fifth Column (6:22)
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How to spot bad news outlets

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