The Good News is the Cliff Mass weather / climate blog is better than ever, and it was already very good.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/
The bad news is an honest comment on his blog disturbed leftists at National Public Radio, and he was fired. Free speech used to be a cry of leftists in the 1960s. Now they support only the speech that leftists want to hear.
Leftist rioters use violence as a political tool. Leftists intimidate politicians through aggressive home visits. Leftists lie repeatedly in Presidential debates. Truth is not a leftist value, and never was. And Cliff Mass's weekly weather segment -- Weather With Cliff Mass -- was cancelled because of KNKX management’s unhappiness with his online personal political free speech.
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Cliff Mass later wrote:
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE:
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/10/knkx-and-undermining-of-american.html
MY SELECTED QUOTES FOLLOW:
"On August 5th, I posted a blog (A City in Fear Can Be Restored) that talked about the boarded up City of Seattle and the irresponsibility of our city’s leaders; a blog that was also highly critical of violent rioters who were, and still are, destroying property, hurting people and their livelihoods, and intimidating individual political leaders. I talked about the damage being “reminiscent” of 1930s Germany (broken glass and more) and that the violent rioters were acting in several ways like the “brownshirts” of the last century.
The day following my blog post, KNKX leadership received a number of messages from partisan individuals who called for my dismissal, and without discussing the situation with me, KNKX management immediately canceled my weather segment. Joey Cohn and Matt Martinez (station manager and program director) called me after the decision was made….no debate allowed, no conversation…my segment was cancelled. "
... "In a note on their website they called my blog “misleading” and that it “did not reflect what we stand for.” I emailed both Joey Cohn and Matt Martinez, asking what I “got wrong”. I asked them what was misleading. They refused to answer. They refused to interact in any way."
... " Both the rioters in Seattle (and Portland) and the 1930s brownshirts were organized thugs with a violent anti-capitalist political agendas. The revelations and continued violence of the past two months have provided substantial corroboration of my analysis, documenting the organized nature of the violence and that the goals of the rioters are far different than the peaceful protestors concerned about protecting black lives. In fact, the rioters detract and obscure the valuable messages of peaceful protestors."
... "Although it was problematic to KNKX management that I noted the similarity of recent violent rioters with 1930’s brownshirts, they are content for station leadership and on-air contributors to compare President Trump and his administration to Nazis and fascists. In fact, there was a veritable Fuhrer-fest going on in the social media of KNKX leaders.
Consider leading members of the KNKX advisory board. Joan Tornow, a longtime member, climate activist, and one of the key advocates (for several years) of getting me ejected from the station because of my science-based communication on climate change, posted many Trump-Nazi tweets ... "
... "In his leadership role as director of the KNKX community forum Facebook page, John Woltjer decided to prevent any additional comments about my situation or support for my retention on KNKX. Absolutely contradictory to free speech"
... "KNKX management believes it is ok to use Nazi, brownshirt, and fascist analogies if one is attacking Trump and Republicans, but a terrible offense and cause for expulsion if one uses these same analogies for violent rioters who are destroying the fabric of civil society with wanton property damage, malicious personal violence, and intimidating political leaders with different viewpoints."