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02-15-2018, 12:14 AM
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Safety glasses off, motherfuckers
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
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02-16-2018, 03:17 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Some bigly horseshit from the NY Times.
This is embarrassing.
Recent stuff from NY Times columnists: a call to ban porn, skepticism about global warming science (which erected a moronic straw man that warming science is not 100 percent ironclad, ignoring that science does not deal in absolute surety, only probabilities) and of course the gasbag David Brooks, who says liberals should pare back the fight over abortion rights because ... David Brooks.
In the above link, I fully understand what the editor is arguing. He's just wrong. Opinions contrary to the editorial stance of the Times should be reserved for guest columnists, of which there are one or two every single day. But paid staff columnists should be beholden to a higher standard than that of standard-issue morons and liars -- if the Times op-ed page has any standards at all. Which it now appears not to.
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02-16-2018, 03:34 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
It should also be noted that several years ago, the Times discarded its venerable “Week in Review” op-ed section that appeared every Sunday, in which writers took a hard-boiled, in-depth analysis of the past week’s main stories. This section had been around since the 1920s, if memory serves.
In its place we got “Sunday Review,” an unreadable and nauseating mishmash of pop-psychology pieces and feel-good folderol, leavened only here and there by hard-hitting content that is increasingly rare. I suspect they did this because of some idiotic focus-group study that indicated people wanted lighter fare, as if journalism were beholden to public sentiment instead of the public good.
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02-20-2018, 11:13 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Great. I didn't really want to go back to work, but if they are hiring dipshits, I'm in.
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03-12-2018, 02:49 PM
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Safety glasses off, motherfuckers
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Excellent Twitter thread about why the Fuck the Fucking New York Times' editorial page has, well, nothing to tell us about the state of "conservatism" in the United States right now.
(Unrolled version: Unrolled thread from @drvox)
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03-14-2018, 02:27 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
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03-17-2018, 06:55 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
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03-18-2018, 06:35 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
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Last edited by Kamilah Hauptmann; 03-18-2018 at 04:59 PM.
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03-18-2018, 12:12 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Don't click on Kam's link, it takes you to the Daily Fail's YouTube channel. Which looks unterminated. Interminable even.
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03-18-2018, 04:59 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
I shoulda screencapped, cuz it was terminated for violating standards or someshit.
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03-18-2018, 06:49 PM
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I believe you. Really I do.
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03-18-2018, 07:06 PM
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03-18-2018, 07:34 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Oh hey, an Eichenwald thrad.
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03-24-2018, 12:11 AM
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03-31-2018, 06:38 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Weird shit ahoy:
edit: more
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04-02-2018, 08:14 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
I doubt local franchises are what most people think of as main stream, but of course they are, and they are just as bad, if not worse ...
Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Must-run_segments | Wikipedia
And here's more from that John Oliver segment the wiki piece references:
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04-02-2018, 08:40 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
More about Sinclair:
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04-02-2018, 09:11 PM
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I read some of your foolish scree, then just skimmed the rest.
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
*gasp* who would have known unions were an effective means to preventing individuals being turned into robotic slaves for their corporate masters.
I'm ready for the sweeping changes as we realize Reagan era economics have all been a scam and corporations shouldn't be trusted... any day now...
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04-02-2018, 10:30 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
OMFG! I've just noticed I have Kamillah on pretend ignore! Sorry KH—the only thing I added to your earlier post was a wiki link!
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04-03-2018, 01:10 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
It's all good, these issues can't be overstated.
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04-13-2018, 10:55 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
Good enough thrad for this:
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04-24-2018, 10:36 PM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
So on a news stand here in the colonies I saw a international edition of the Express. The headline was a big fiery explosion and (I forget the exact wording) UK ATTACKS THE HEART OF EVIL. This was regarding Syria.
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04-25-2018, 03:16 AM
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Re: Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks
On a lighter note:
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04-30-2018, 09:00 PM
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