If you are reasonably young, you may or may not recall that Larry King used to be on CNN. If you aren’t familiar with RT ‘news,’ it’s one of the troubling realities of American media today. Politico reminded readers last December that the Department of Justice (DOJ) made the “decision to direct Russian-backed English-language news outlet RT to register as a foreign agent…” But how well is that fact known? A humorous yet vexing look at a recent feature by RT, to use as a way of showing how RT does it. Our analysis will also reveal how RT has gone after someone well known in MHVille, none other than Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway and Clayton Homes. That will be our focus for this evening.
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- Bid to shake up Campbell Soup gets a boost
- Apple shares rebound after 5-day stock slide
- Facebook goes on defensive over New York Times investigation
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- Sears should close for good, creditors say
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- Sears’ extraordinary history: A timeline
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Select Bullets from Fox Business…
- Stocks claw back on trade talk optimism
- Powell credits strong US economy to Fed policies
- PG&E shares plunge on California wildfire liability fears
- US taxpayers face higher dues thanks to this new law
- Social Security’s ultimate insult
- Amazon’s NYC headquarters will displace 1,000 public school employees
- NFL’s Cleveland Browns could hire female head coach, executive says
- USPS gets record high stamp price hike as losses mount
- Wounded veteran rebuilds life starting a fudge business
- 2019 could be the fastest global growth year on record: Jamie Dimon
- Facebook says it will create independent body to monitor offensive content
- Maxine Waters threatening banks is a lot of noise, no serious action: Varney
- FDA looks to outlaw menthol cigarettes
- UnitedHealth offering Americans free Apple Watch if they do this
- American Airlines unaware of Boeing 737 Max functions related to potential hazard
- Want $10,000? This Oklahoma city will pay you to relocate
- Tesla’s Elon Musk says Model 3 can be delivered by end of the year
- Medicaid spending accelerates as states spend more than $2T
- Oracle loses $10B Pentagon contract protest as rivals fear Amazon is front-runner
- Thanksgiving dinner is getting cheaper
Today’s markets and stocks, at the closing bell…
Manufactured Housing Composite Value (MHCV)
Today’s Big Movers
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On Nov 13, 2017, “The Kremlin-backed television station RT America registered Monday with the U.S. Department of Justice as a “foreign agent,“ said Reuters.
RT is doing something that others have done in trying to influence Americans, namely, hire a reasonably well known “name” – in this example, Larry King, formerly with CNN – and put them on the air to do some news and commentary.
The Moscow Times reported that initially, RT declined the DOJ demand to register as a foreign agent.
“RT Refuses U.S. Request to Register as Foreign Agent … and the dialogue is ongoing,” said on Oct 20, 2017, said “RT’s head of communications Anna Belkina told CNN.”
For someone who follows media more closely than most of the population, its an absolute riot. Because last week, Larry King told his RT interviewer – also an ex-CNN news team member, that CNN had stopped doing news a long time ago.
Per RT’s YouTube page, “Larry King joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the tone of the 2018 midterm elections. He’s never seen a midterm election season so dominated by such intense political acrimony. He points out that establishment networks “don’t do news anymore” and thus contribute to bitterness and polarization with their constant partisan coverage of Trump.”
King says that Fox is all pro-Trump, which is obviously not true, because several Fox contributors openly oppose the 45th President, even though others obviously support POTUS Trump.
And this is the challenge with fake news. Here’s how Faked News is routinely done:
- Fake news is often a mix of something that is true, with something that is not true and/or exaggerated.
- Fake news doesn’t aim to fool everyone, it just aims to fool some viewers or readers.
- ICYMI, when the president uses the phrase, “fake news is the enemy of the people” it is a carefully chosen phrase. The White House routinely cites left-wing, pro-Democratic media outlets. But they do so on reports that are more ‘fair and balanced.’ It’s the White House’s way of saying what First Daughter and Presidential Adviser Ivanka Trump has said, that not all news is fake news. All news is not the ‘enemy of the people.’
Back to RT.
RT’s job is purportedly like the 2016 Russian efforts in the U.S. election, namely, that they wanted to divide Americans. There is every reason to think that the Russians hated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but there is no demonstrable evidence that they therefor loved Donald J. Trump. There were examples of divisive messages aimed against both Secretary Clinton and candidate Trump.
We note the RT example for several reasons, because many who don’t know the network might be surprised to know that they targeted Warren Buffett once before.
In that episode of RT’s Keiser Report, “Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s – and unto Warren Buffett (and other tollbooth operators) everything else. In the second half, Max interviews internet and tech pioneer Halsey Minor about his latest venture, Bitreserve.org, a next-generation money service built on top of bitcoin.”
YouTube marked the report above as follows: “RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.”
That doesn’t mean that RT doesn’t get some things correct. But if so, it is usually with an agenda, a purpose. That, ladies and gents, is how slick propaganda is done. Imagine what RT could do with the facts linked below.
The good news about RT? It provides a teachable moment. That is how “faked news” is done, some truth, some open or hidden agenda, some hype, spin our outright falsehood. But sadly, it happens in other American media too.
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Bloomberg Closing Ticker for MHProNews…
NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services.
NOTE: The chart below covers a number of stocks NOT reflected in the Yahoo MHCV, shown above.
NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.
LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI and LP all supply manufactured housing.
AMG, CG and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses.
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