Fake fund drives .. Archived Message Posted by Shyaku on February 20, 2024, 4:12 am, in reply to "Is the Guardian dying?" When this has happened to certain erstwhile left outlets in the US that became intelligence assets (naming no names at this point), the plan seems to be as follows: (1) Announce a fund drive. (2) At the start of the fund drive, announce an “angel donor” prepared to put up a matching half of the required funds, if the remainder can be found among donations. For the Fraudian this would be $20 mill. So the fund drive is to raise the other 20 mill. The angel donor is supposed to be, like, a rich lawyer or celeb who wishes to remain anonymous, anti-rightwing market trader, or some such convincingly left-enough rich boy. (3) Turn the screws big-time on the readers/listeners/viewers, saying that if their 20 mill is not raised, the match will not be forthcoming either and its THE END. (4) At some point towards the deadline of the fund drive, stop giving numbers for funds raised because they are obviously not going to make the goal, but tell the audience “we are on track to be closing down immediately” and “if not us then who?” (The same line used, by the way, by Democrat party candidates on the Black community, so it is tried and tested). But also naturally accepting “we could do some things better, and we intend to” :-) (5) After the fund drive ends “We reached our fundraising goal this time around! Can be found on the media entity’s website” as validation for the skewed output - which then continues on as normal to the next fund drive, in fact, slapping in the faces of the audience with a particularly egregious article of some kind. - I assume this, then, to be the new model for government funding: Some intelligence cutout pledges $20 mill. The permanently impoverished media entity in question genuinely tries to raise some or all of the remainder in good faith. When that naturally fails, mockingbird backstops just enough of the shortfall for an invaluable asset to continue to limp along, perhaps with a loan in place also, to keep it permanently weak and begging. I could be wrong, but they always reach the goal, always continue to exist, and never respond to criticism. Message Thread: Is the Guardian dying? - scrabb February 19, 2024, 9:43 pm Re: Is the Guardian (and the rest of MSM) dying?: Music to my ears : ) nm - t February 19, 2024, 10:42 pm Fake fund drives .. - Shyaku February 20, 2024, 4:12 am Re: Fake fund drives .. - Sir Michael Mouse February 20, 2024, 9:07 am Re: Fake fund drives .. - Shyaku February 21, 2024, 12:56 pm Fake fund drives .. - Auribus February 20, 2024, 7:23 pm Well put. - Shyaku February 21, 2024, 12:54 pm Re: Is the Guardian dying? - RaskolnikovX February 20, 2024, 5:36 am Oi! - Keith-264 February 20, 2024, 9:13 am   Searching