Because of my inaccurate charts — a problem I’ve now fixed — I missed a big hit from 1944 during this ongoing listing of number one hits of the 1940s. With nine weeks at the top of the charts, it was one of the biggest hits of that year.
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San Diego School System Changes Grading System to Be ‘Anti-Racist’
Breitbart | 10/19/20San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is changing its grading policies in an attempt to “make them more anti-racist.” The new grading removes “non-academic factors,” with the school district using the example of turning in homework late.
“For months, the district has been working on multiple areas of its operations, including grading, in efforts to make them more anti-racist and equitable, partly in response to social justice protests that erupted over the summer in response to George Floyd’s death,” reported the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Now, the school district’s new grading system will no longer take into account what the district calls “non-academic factors,” such as handing in classroom work late and student behavior, as some students may have struggles related to home, or other responsibilities that affect their ability to turn in their work on time or learn content before a test.
“Students will no longer be docked in their academic grades for turning work in late or other factors related to work habits,” reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. “Those aspects of student behavior will be judged in a separate citizenship grade.”
History is interesting.
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NPR Refuses to Report on Growing Biden Scandal: We Don’t Want to Waste Listeners’ Time
Brietbart | 22 Oct 2020 | Penny StarrA tweet from the National Public Radio Public (NPR) Editor on Thursday — on the day of the presidential debate — explained why the taxpayer-funded news outlet has been ignoring the growing scandal surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and the family’s business dealings in China.
“Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story,” the tweet said. “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste listeners’ and readers’ time on that stories that are just pure distractions.”
… And yet, at the same time, they want you to believe that this story was contrived by Russians to influence the election — surely that’s “really a story,” not a “waste of time,” nor a “pure distraction.”
Can’t have it both ways.
I think there is much truth in this comment on a news site:
It’s much easier to understand, and predict, the actions of America’s mainstream media when you understand they are not merely “biased.”
They are controlled. They are pure propaganda arms. Just as Pravda was to the Soviet Government, our mainstream media are to America’s permanent bureaucracy and deep-state organs of the deep state.
Why do they never get embarrassed by their failures? Why do they not care about dismal ratings or falling sales? Why do all their propaganda efforts all fall around the same few themes? Why do they continue to exist?
You are not the customer, your opinion does not matter. The only opinion is that of those who control them.
