Friday, August 18, 2023

The Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV didn't want to weigh in on the tragic wildfires in Hawaii, but the media's failures leave him no choice. TSV wanted to wait until after the next week and a half or until there's an official visitation to Hawaii to assess the damage, whichever comes first, because he didn't want to seem like he's grandstanding when over a hundred people died as of this writing, because obviously doing so would be in poor taste. But the media took advantage of TSV's inherent decency and conscience, leaving him seeing none of either in the media as of today. So here's what and why TSV has to say about that. It has to do with what he sees as the media using the sirens issue as a distraction and apparent excuse not to investigate whether and why people's smartphones didn't issue an emergency alert. TSV believes no such alert on people's phones was issued, and here's what leads him to believe that. If such an alert was issued, the failure of the sirens to go off would be secondary, and the media wouldn't have gone out of their way to hold a tense press conference with that FEMA official, and TSV also believes the media wouldn't have tried to cast aspersions on the "real" reason why the official resigned after the press conference. What if it -was- a health issue? And even if it wasn't, what right can TSV possibly see as the media having in trying to pull an Ed Snowden to say, "See we told you so"? Whether the media "told you so" TSV sees as abjectly immaterial compared to the media's failures to investigate the smartphones. So why was there this failure? What else could TSV possibly see other than the media feeling the pressure from big tech not to do that investigation in case doing so casts a pall on the use of smartphones as a somehow "reliable" information source at least in the case of an emergency? And what else could TSV possibly see other than big tech leaning on the media to push big tech's one-thing-shall-replace-another narrative? Because what if those people might have still lived if they got the proper issuances from their smartphones? Most of all, why does it have to come down to ordinary joes like TSV to redress -the media- for grievances like the way one would redress -the politicians- for grievances? Is there not a first amendment right on part of the people to hold the media accountable? Otherwise, why does the media pride itself on calling itself the so-called "Fourth Estate," when surely the first amendment does not give them a blank check to do or say what they want as if the people's opinions on their reporting or failure thereof don't matter? So unless the media grows a couple and do actual investigations on people's failed smartphones in Hawaii, TSV proclaims they should expect nothing less than a big shame-fest on their hands.

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