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They really went all-out, and it's paying off for them for the time
being. $3.5 trillion for one gimmick, and $2.2 trillion for another,
and the American people barely even notice that money missing. They
would have never pulled off these heists without having invested in television (and other institutions.)

Of course. But now people feel it through inflation and a down economy. The Propaganda Ministry (aka Mainstream Media) keeps gaslighting us and telling us that what we can see with our own eyes is false.

So the Elitists have taken over the instututions and now the instutitions are failing because the public no longer trusts them.

I had DirecTV Now for a while, and I enjoyed OANN. Senate Democrats
became wise to it and they convinced DirecTV to get rid of OANN, but
yet they still carry Fox News. (Red flag!)

Yup. I currently get OANN through the internet. But for a period of time my cable company actually blocked their DNS entry.


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The Propaganda Ministry (aka Mainstream Media) keeps gaslighting us and telling us that what we can see with our own eyes is false.

So the Elitists have taken over the instututions and now the
instutitions are failing because the public no longer trusts them.

Fox News is probably telling the truth about how they're "the most watched cable news channel," because people probably think that they are correcting themselves by making the switch from CNN (for example) to Fox. The sad part is that they're just going to get propagated in a slightly different way.

Yup. I currently get OANN through the internet. But for a period of
time my cable company actually blocked their DNS entry.

I noticed that I can't go to oann.com. It has to be www.oann.com. For most web admins using Apache2, that's an easy fix, but I wonder if there's something or someone preventing OANN from setting up that redirection.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Fox News is probably telling the truth about how they're "the most
watched cable news channel," because people probably think that they
are correcting themselves by making the switch from CNN (for example)
to Fox. The sad part is that they're just going to get propagated in a slightly different way.

Which is why I call Fox News "Controlled Opposition".

I noticed that I can't go to oann.com. It has to be www.oann.com. For
most web admins using Apache2, that's an easy fix, but I wonder if
there's something or someone preventing OANN from setting up that redirection.

We may never know.

That's part of the problem today: We see things, but can't see EVERYTHING. So there's too much of what we don't know. We can either assume the worse, or assume the best. But neither of those choices is correct.


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Hello Aaron!

01 Aug 24 09:06, you wrote to Ron L.:

Yup. I currently get OANN through the internet. But for a
period of time my cable company actually blocked their DNS entry.

I noticed that I can't go to oann.com. It has to be www.oann.com. For
most web admins using Apache2, that's an easy fix, but I wonder if
there's something or someone preventing OANN from setting up that redirection.

It is any easy fix. It's apparent the incompetency at that organization goes deeper than just their reporters and editors.

oann.com does not have an A record in DNS. "www.oann.com" points to cloudflare (which is a SaaS firewall/CDN system)



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I noticed that I can't go to oann.com. It has to be www.oann.com. For most web admins using Apache2, that's an easy fix, but I wonder if there's something or someone preventing OANN from setting up that redirection.

It is any easy fix. It's apparent the incompetency at that
organization goes deeper than just their reporters and editors.

oann.com does not have an A record in DNS. "www.oann.com" points to cloudflare (which is a SaaS firewall/CDN system)

Yea, I don't see any way that this is anybody's fault besides their own. They have a great looking website. I don't get why they wouldn't want non www visitors. Visitors will try it without the www, fail to establish a connection, and then never visit the site again.

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I noticed that I can't go to oann.com. It has to be www.oann.com.

For AT> most web admins using Apache2, that's an easy fix, but I wonder
if AT> there's something or someone preventing OANN from setting up that

redirection.

It is any easy fix. It's apparent the incompetency at that
organization goes deeper than just their reporters and editors.

oann.com does not have an A record in DNS. "www.oann.com" points to
cloudflare (which is a SaaS firewall/CDN system)

Yea, I don't see any way that this is anybody's fault besides their own. They have a great looking website. I don't get why they wouldn't want non www visitors. Visitors will try it without the www, fail to establish a connection, and then never visit the site again.

Let's be fair, their target demographic will type "OAN.COM" into the Google search box and click on the first link that pops up.

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Yea, I don't see any way that this is anybody's fault besides their o They have a great looking website. I don't get why they wouldn't want www visitors. Visitors will try it without the www, fail to establish connection, and then never visit the site again.

Let's be fair, their target demographic will type "OAN.COM" into the Google search box and click on the first link that pops up.

Yea it's not a good domain name because the spelling of it isn't straightforward enough. It would be smart for them to own OAN.COM in addition to OANN.COM.

But despite their dumb web admin, they have excellent news reporters.

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Yea, I don't see any way that this is anybody's fault besides their

o AT> They have a great looking website. I don't get why they wouldn't
want AT> www visitors. Visitors will try it without the www, fail to
establish AT> connection, and then never visit the site again.

Let's be fair, their target demographic will type "OAN.COM" into the
Google search box and click on the first link that pops up.

Yea it's not a good domain name because the spelling of it isn't straightforward enough. It would be smart for them to own OAN.COM in addition to OANN.COM.

But despite their dumb web admin, they have excellent news reporters.

Oof.

Both OANN and Newsmax get a "Low/Mixed" rating for factuality by Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias Fact Check, two very reliable organizations that have incredibly good track records at categorizing news media organizations, both right and left.


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Both OANN and Newsmax get a "Low/Mixed" rating for factuality by Ad
Fontes Media and Media Bias Fact Check, two very reliable organizations that have incredibly good track records at categorizing news media organizations, both right and left.

It's better to check facts for yourself instead of listening to what private companies have to say. Fact-checking "organizations" serve a very obvious purpose, and that purpose is not to "check facts."

A while back there was a Verizon commercial that said "According to Ruemetrics, Verizon is the most reliable network." The silly thing is that the commercial infers that "Ruemetrics" is some well-known source of information and that people should believe whatever conclusion they concoct. However, nobody ever heard of Ruemetrics then, and now it doesn't even exist anymore.

Having a mechanic check your transmission fluid is a good idea, but having a graduate from Bard College check your facts is a bad idea.

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Both OANN and Newsmax get a "Low/Mixed" rating for factuality by Ad
Fontes Media and Media Bias Fact Check, two very reliable organizations
that have incredibly good track records at categorizing news media
organizations, both right and left.

It's better to check facts for yourself instead of listening to what private companies have to say. Fact-checking "organizations" serve a very obvious purpose, and that purpose is not to "check facts."

A while back there was a Verizon commercial that said "According to Ruemetrics, Verizon is the most reliable network." The silly thing is that the commercial infers that "Ruemetrics" is some well-known source of information and that people should believe whatever conclusion they concoct. However, nobody ever heard of Ruemetrics then, and now it doesn't even exist anymore.

The problem is you got the name wrong. It's "RootMetrics", a company that's been publishing network data gathered from corowdsourced and independent data gathering groups for over 15 years.

They were bogut by Ookla a few years back, to expand Ookla's extensive and extremely reliable network/systems monitoring platforms.


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A while back there was a Verizon commercial that said "According to Ruemetrics, Verizon is the most reliable network." The silly thing is the commercial infers that "Ruemetrics" is some well-known source of information and that people should believe whatever conclusion they concoct. However, nobody ever heard of Ruemetrics then, and now it do even exist anymore.

The problem is you got the name wrong. It's "RootMetrics", a company that's been publishing network data gathered from corowdsourced and independent data gathering groups for over 15 years.

They were bogut by Ookla a few years back, to expand Ookla's extensive
and extremely reliable network/systems monitoring platforms.

You talk about checking facts for yourself, then you make statements that clearly indicate you don't practice what you preach

I see my mistake here. But at the same time, my mistake proves my point: Rootmetrics doesn't ring a bell either. The general public doesn't know what Rootmetrics is, but the elites at Verizon inferred that we all should.

How and why would anyone know about Rootmetrics? What is the significance? How does it apply to daily living?

It's NOT a household name. We know who Verizon is, we know who Pepsi is, but when someone says "Rootmetrics" it makes us think about measuring the roots of our potatoes to see how well they've grown.

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