In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

𝕏 is the #1 news app in the UK. This is exactly why the BBC, The Telegraph and other UK legacy media keep pushing negative fake attacks on Elon Musk. They are getting destroyed in the rankings. The British public has rejected them. Legacy media is finished. They are lashing… pic.twitter.com/UBdVCU65eM — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) June 18, 2026 This post here from last weekend gives just a glimpse of the UK uniparty's program to control media coverage of migrant stabbings and grooming gangs, and in fact, UK legacy media has been generally cooperative. The problem is that, just as in the US, people are bypassing legacy media to get their news. In the post embedded above, the legacy BBC, equivalent to the US PBS, is ranked fourth behind X, reddit, and something called Nextdoor: Neighbour Network. I asked the AI oracle if Nextdoor: Neighbour Network is legacy media, and it answered, No, Nextdoor is not a legacy media organization. It is a hyper-local social networking platform....

A recent piece, The Inexplicable Suicide of Hollywood , inadvertently ties the disastrous underperformance of the two latest summer blockbusters together: Since starting this article, Hollywood has experienced a summer blockbuster phenomenon with the success of two thrillers, Obsession , an indie produced by a YouTuber making over $230 million on a budget of $750,000 and Backrooms , a larger indie distributed by A24 making $118 million on a $10 million budget and directed by twenty-year-old. Audiences showed up to theaters for these two movies while shunning a $165 million Disney Star Wars movie released at the same time. It looks like he submitted his piece before this past weekend's disappointment with Spielberg, which just reinforces his point. To be fair, there really isn’t one single cause, but the ones you don’t hear are probative. You’ll never hear that the content just sucks; that we just haven’t been producing entertainment that’s widely enjoyed. And that we’re wi...

In connection with my recent posts on migrant-related stabbings in the UK, I've mentioned a related problem referred to there as "grooming gangs". According to Wikipedia , Several government reviews have reported failures by British institutions in preventing, identifying and prosecuting the widespread cases of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation that mostly occurred between the 1990s and 2010s. Allegations of governmental and institutional failures to respond to the problem or to downplay or cover up the issue have been described as a grooming gangs scandal. . . . Media coverage and political discourse around these crimes has especially focused on the ethnic and religious background of perpetrators in high-profile cases, most of whom were Muslim men of Pakistani descent, and whether this prevented proper investigation. Data in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire shows that, in the 2020s, men of an Asian ethnic background are dispropo...

The value of a college education : In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2022, down from 72 percent in 2002. The study also revealed a parental gap among high school students, with only 33 percent of first-generation students aspiring to a bachelor’s degree in 2022, compared to 60 percent two decades earlier. . . . Historically, the prestige of higher education relied on a form of geographic and information monopoly. In 2002, the narrative surrounding a teenager’s future was tightly managed by local gatekeepers—parents, high school guidance counselors, and FCC-regulated television networks that uniformly reinforced the traditional American Dream. If these gatekeepers insisted that a bachelor’s degree was the sole gateway to a middle-class life, a teenager had few tools to verify or challenge that claim. The cultural value of the...

The more I read or see reviews of Disclosure Day , the more I wonder if Steven Spielberg's head is stuck somewhere in the 1970s, or maybe his private fantasy of the 1970s. This review has two insightful points; first: Disclosure Day is a movie that is hanging on to the value of legacy media, with the overarching journey trying to get the stolen footage on network television. There’s an archaic quaintness to this, and it’s a willful one, as O’Connor’s whistleblower seems heavily inspired by Wikileaks, so Spielberg and Koepp know the internet exists. The reason for the focus on network television may be entirely functional - the movie needs a ticking clock. It has two - Wardex chasing our heroes as they try to release the footage and WWIII brewing in the background as North Korea starts acting up significantly. In other words, we're back to Woodward, Bernstein, and "Deep Throat", using the white hats at the Washington Post to catch the Nixon administrati...

🚨 JUST IN: Outrage erupts after a 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL was ST*BBED in broad daylight in England These ANIMALS feel emboldened! The 17YO is now being treated in the hospital after major wounds to her neck 🙏🏻 The animal, 30, is "suspected" of attempted murderer IT'S GETTING OUT… pic.twitter.com/p7KgWwTdaH — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 12, 2026 A more complete story is at legacy BBC : A girl who was stabbed in the neck as she walked down the street has been released from hospital. The 17-year-old was attacked as she walked along Wood Street in Brierfield, Lancashire, at about 15:00 BST on Friday. A 30-year-old, described by Lancashire Police as a British man of Pakistani heritage, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of the teenager, who the BBC understands is also of Pakistani heritage. "This was a very serious incident but thankfully the girl's injuries were not life-threatening," a police spokesman said. This seems not to have...

I asked the AI oracle, "Has Disclosure Day been getting bad reviews?"It answered, Yes, Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Disclosure Day has been receiving a significant amount of mixed and negative reviews. While it has a decent audience score of roughly 75% on platforms like Rotten Tomatoes, critical reception has been polarizing. "Polarizing" is a polite word for it; a good example is the YouTube review embedded above, for which I can only give an extreme bad language warning. The Critical Drinker makes the point that the two big summer blockbusters released so far, The Mandalorian and Grogu and Disclosure Day , have been runnming behind a pair of low-budget horror flicks made by YouTubers, Obsession and Backrooms , although my barber says although Obsession is good, even Backrooms isn't worth the time and money. I haven't seen any of these, but I'll speculate on why nobody's interested in Disclosure Day . In some ways, t...