BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR
https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel
“We believe the role of Robbie Gibb, both on the Board, and as part of the Editorial Standards Committee, is untenable. We call on the BBC to do better for our audiences and recommit to our values of impartiality, honesty and reporting without fear or favour.”
A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age…
#Truth & #Credibility - #Obliterated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktCGRL-mCw
Fox host turned #TrumpVIrus performer, #Hegseth ,,,, vs #reality #sobriety #depth
So it's "You bad #media !! Whaaaa!
Leak real documents, & question our lies!"
Holy WMD, Batman! Seems like deja vu, like the wonderful cast of "Iraq War"/Bush
Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb made this fair comment about dishonest press secretary Karoline Leavitt:
“I don’t think creepy Karoline — when she speaks — I don’t think anybody in America really takes her seriously on a matter of substance":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ty-cobb-new-nickname-karoline-leavitt-tariff_n_6839d65ee4b03a503eaabddf #media #credibility #politics
"As these tools become more powerful and affordable, #skepticism in #media will grow. But the question isn't whether we can trust what we see and hear. It's whether we can trust who's showing it to us. In an era where anyone can generate a realistic video of anything for $1.50, the #credibility of the #source becomes our primary anchor to #truth. The medium was never the message—the #messenger always was."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/
Jake Sullivan: "When you see the car start careening toward the cliff, you've gotta say something. And what I've seen in less than 100 days is terrible damage to America's #credibility and trust with our friends and allies, and terrible damage to #America's appeal ... most of all what I've seen is #China reaping the benefits."
Most #Americans say US losing global credibility under Trump
59% of Americans think that Trump is costing their country its #credibility on global stage, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll
Concerns about US global credibility under #Trump are shared by roughly 1/3 of #Republicans
Survey shows growing #dissatisfaction with Trump policies on multiple issues. His overall approval ratingis lowest since he returned to the White House in January.
https://kyivindependent.com/most-americans-say-us-losing-global-credibility-under-trump-poll-shows/
"Israel: kill, lie, kill, lie, kill, lie" [ ± 1min]
by OwenJonesTalks [Apr 8, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6dQ7OQR1Y8U
#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JusticeForHindRajab #JusticeForRifaatRadwan
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus
Why would you hire a clueless, unprincipled TV host to be your Secretary of Defense?
Because he won't push back when you hand him a set of policies that look suspiciously like they were drafted by the Kremlin.
https://hachyderm.io/@jrefior/114003695053056882
"In 2004, Hegseth married Meredith Schwarz, a graduate of Forest Lake Area High School, at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota; they were voted 'most likely to marry' by their graduating class. Meredith filed for divorce in December 2008 after Hegseth admitted to five affairs; he had been dating Samantha Deering, whom he had met at Vets for Freedom. Deering married Hegseth in 2010, with whom he has three children, though they filed for divorce in 2017. In 2019, Hegseth married Jennifer Rauchet, a producer on Fox & Friends, at Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck in New Jersey, in an event attended by the Trump family...
"'You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.'
—Penny Hegseth (mother of Pete Hegseth)"
[Also: multiple accusations of sexual assault]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
"People never respect laughable credibility" - Futurist Jim Carroll
People always see through the emptiness of laughable credibility!
Let's talk about empty leadership.
And the idea of leadership transparency.
Let me hit you with this thought: in our hyper-connected world, hollow leadership credibility isn't just visible – it's fluorescent. And here's the kicker: once people see through it, there's no unseeing it.
Leaders today live in a new sort of glass house. You don't need to see through them to see their vacuous mentality. it's right there for the taking. It's an era of radical transparency, where every leadership action (or inaction) is visible from every angle, at every moment. Think you can fake credibility? Think again. Your team, your customers, your market, your citizens – they're all equipped with the world's most sophisticated authenticity detector: human intuition amplified by digital connectivity.
Let's call it a transparency accelerator. We all know that information moves at light speed. Authentication happens in real time. Empty promises echo across digital spaces with embarrassing permanence. In this environment, 'pretend leadership' creates a special kind of cringe that no amount of PR can erase. When everyone is laughing, no one is respecting.
Respect evaporates in an instant in today's world.
Here's the brutal truth about laughable credibility: Once respect is gone, it doesn't just hide – it vanishes. It never comes back.
And in its place grows something worse than distrust: ridicule.
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Futurist Jim Carroll had a really good laugh around 5 pm yesterday.
**#Credibility** **#Leadership** **#Authenticity** **#Trust** **#Transparency** **#Integrity** **#Respect** **#Accountability** **#Truth** **#Actions**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-inspiration-vacuous-leadership-people-never-respect-laughable-credibility/
FranklinCovey's *Leading at the Speed of Trust* highlights trust as measurable, emphasising integrity, moral authority, capability, and results through 13 actionable behaviours. While trust reduces costs and enhances agility, its complexities require addressing relational and contextual factors for sustained effectiveness.
#BehaviouralIntegrity #Collaboration #Credibility #HighTrustEnvironments #Leadership #Management #OrganisationalBehaviour #OrganisationalCulture
https://robert.winter.ink/the-speed-of-higher-trust-leaders-part1/
Emails Reveal How #Minnesota #Governor #TimWalz Struggled to Deal With #Unrest, #Reach #Consensus With #Critics After #Outage over #Police #Murders of #GeorgeFloyd and #DaunteWright
They show how Walz struggled to balance the #need for #order in the streets against his #credibility with #activist #allies, while simultaneously trying to bridge the #ideologicaldivide between #progressives in his #party and #conservatives.
“The #credibility of the court is on the line, & they risk looking very #partisan, depending on not just what they do but how they do it,” Waldman said.
“What made the Court’s 1974 ruling in the #Nixon …case so profound was not its reasoning, but the fact that it was an 8-0 repudiation of Nixon by a Chief Justice he had appointed. I certainly hope that the Court finds a way to present a united front in whatever it decides in #Trump’s case. But…I’m not optimistic,” Vladeck wrote.
The Climate Action Tracker Guide has just come out #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #environment #credibility #finance #energy #fossilfuels
https://climateactiontracker.org/publications/the-cat-ndc-guide/
There were few #witnesses whose testimony was central to the #crimes charged. One was #MichaelCohen, whose #credibility was attacked by #Trump's lawyer Todd #Blanche.
Another witness —who had no connection to the falsification of business records— was #StormyDaniels, whose #HushMoney from Cohen is what was covered up. Susan Necheles, the defense lawyer w/the most trial experience on Trump's team, worked aggressively to sow doubts about Daniels’s story w/the jury.
#Necheles is trying to make #StormyDaniels look like a liar. But many of her questions have to do w/money & Daniels is making it clear that she is not wealthy. So instead of this line of questioning working to impeach her #credibility, as intended, it’s coming off as a lawyer for a very rich person going after someone w/ less money for having less money.
Yes #Trump has exaggerated his wealth for the years, but he still has more money than the vast majority of the country.
#Colangelo, the prosecutor, responds, saying the judge’s findings that Trump violated his #GagOrder are directly relevant to Trump's #credibility if he takes the stand & points out there is case #law supporting his argument.
Justice Merchan has responded well to #CaseLaw - #precedent - in the past & has expressed frustration w/the defense when they don't cite any.
But Merchan agrees w/defense, saying it would be too prejudicial for a jury to hear that he held Trump in #contempt.
#Trump will likely be pleased w/Necheles's #VoirDire. She questioned the #credibility of those who are expected to testify against Trump, & made a reference to #MichaelCohen, suggesting that some #witnesses might want to seek “revenge” (the title of a Cohen books) on Trump. Cohen’s book is specifically named on the questionnaire.
Trump gives the hairy eyeball to jurors when Necheles suggests that a witness may be lying if they change the details of their story.
@dave 
Mr Elon Musk has demonstrated conclusively many times over that he doesn't deserve credibility on ANY topic that affects human beings, animals, plants, or minerals.
Change my mind.
#ElonMusk, #Credibility, #TechBro, #TuckersBalls
Hold Opponents Accountable
Make the enemy live up to its own rules to undermine credibility.
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