#251 2015-11-18 04:38:39
God knows we need another political distraction site.
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#252 2015-11-18 13:45:14
God damn it.
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#253 2015-11-18 16:38:09
choad wrote:
What rattles me is this nation's apparent commitment to destroy what's left of public education.
It's not the powers that be's best interests. Even many of our fellow citizens don't care, Most of the suburbanites don't care and most of them are Republican. "Their kind of people" will get an education, fuck the inner city kids. The Repubs know if they keep the populace stupid they can either control their vote or they'll just stay home and watch TV. Nobody gives a shit what rank we are in education, we can always import Asians and Indians to do the techie work. Just ask Micro$oft, they can't get enough Americans to work for them.
A well educated populace would put and end to all this bullshit, both at the national level and the local, and you know they don't want that gravy train to grind to a halt.
They won't get it until this country is good and fucked and completely falls apart. Career politicians are no longer the answer. They probably never were.
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#254 2015-11-18 18:10:38
If Nick Denton flames out when his staff shames one of his homo tribe, doesn't say much for his avowed advocacy for "poors", or any kind of even handed reporting. Denton's wealthy. So are all his pals. My money says he cashes out inside a year.
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#255 2015-12-10 07:17:43
#256 2015-12-10 14:15:47
So, Fox News.
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#257 2015-12-15 00:47:37
Not so much death as sock puppetry. Who bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal?
What is known: News + Media Capital Group LLC -- a newly formed Delaware-domiciled company backed by "undisclosed financial backers with expertise in the media industry" -- paid $140 million for the Review-Journal and its sister publications. . . .
News + Media manager Michael Schroeder has declined to disclose the company's investors, as has Las Vegas Review-Journal Publisher Jason Taylor.
In discussions with employees, Taylor has said only that News + Media has multiple owner/investors, that some are from Las Vegas, and that in face-to-face meetings he has been assured that the group will not meddle in the newspaper's editorial content.
Oh, about that lack of meddling:
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal removed quotes from a Thursday night article about the newspaper's sale that questioned its new owner's decision to remain anonymous, according to a newsroom source.
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#258 2015-12-15 04:59:09
Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
Not bad but at least two glaring omissions, once judiciously enforced by newspaper guilds (closed shop unions):
No Nepotism. Cohabiting editorial staff are suspect and toxic.
Never fuck your sources. Ever.
Read into this what you will.
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#259 2015-12-15 05:52:15
So the bitch is that the new owners want to stay anonymous and not be involved. In theory that's Nirvana. How can there be conflict of interest they if wish to remain anonymous and hands off?
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#260 2015-12-15 06:47:20
Emmeran wrote:
So the bitch is that the new owners want to stay anonymous and not be involved. In theory that's Nirvana. How can there be conflict of interest they if wish to remain anonymous and hands off?
Sounds like a job for bleach and ammonia if sunshine can't be brought in.
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#261 2015-12-15 22:41:57
Hands off?
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal removed quotes from a Thursday night article about the newspaper's sale that questioned its new owner's decision to remain anonymous
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#262 2015-12-17 04:01:59
Looks like Las Vegas Jew is the leading candidate.
The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson's behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday.
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#263 2016-04-06 04:02:06
Kid reporter defends her homicide coverage.
http://orangestreetnews.com/
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#264 2016-04-06 09:29:10
"Play with dolls." Jesus fuck, it's the motherfucking 21st Century. Fucking people, I fucking hate 'em.
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#265 2016-04-06 11:17:41
George Orr wrote:
"Play with dolls." Jesus fuck, it's the motherfucking 21st Century. Fucking people, I fucking hate 'em.
I hate stupid and greedy people. I'm not nearly as misogynistic as I used to be once I started classifying them.
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#266 2016-04-06 12:48:59
George Orr wrote:
"Play with dolls." Jesus fuck, it's the motherfucking 21st Century. Fucking people, I fucking hate 'em.
Hey there Doll... ...wanna come out and play??? ;)
Commentards suck, but then again I used to read the letters to the editor for the same reason I read comments now.
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#269 2016-05-04 06:52:34
choad wrote:
http://www.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa-farm-cartoonist-fired-after-creating-this-cartoon/39337816
I was in Iowa in the early 80's when the family farm slaughter was at it's height, lost a lot of good friends there.
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#270 2016-05-04 15:09:22
Emmeran wrote:
I was in Iowa in the early 80's when the family farm slaughter was at it's height, lost a lot of good friends there.
One third of the industry flushed in three years. I was Des Moines based at the time and you're right. It wasn't pretty and sounds worse now. I emailed this link to farm press heavy weights for a response, but don't expect much.
I blame the region's stoic Lutherism and its rabid refusal to offend anyone. Odd, when you think about it...
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#271 2016-05-04 16:07:09
choad wrote:
One third of the industry flushed in three years. I was Des Moines based at the time and you're right. It wasn't pretty and sounds worse now. I emailed this link to farm press heavy weights for a response, but don't expect much.
I blame the region's stoic Lutherism and its rabid refusal to offend anyone. Odd, when you think about it...
It was also a laws and regulations game, those farm boys never had a chance. On the plus side they are making a fighting comeback all across this land, all is not lost.
And heck if pot becomes legal, well America definitely knows how to grow enough pot annually to keep the entire world stoned for a decade or more.
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#272 2016-10-18 21:22:04
The Slow, Painful Death of the Media's Cash Cow by Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View
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#273 2016-12-14 13:26:01
NPR, NYT, Wash Post at the "Mainstream" point but Fox at the "Hyper-Partisan" point? I guess that tells you who made it.
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#274 2016-12-14 14:07:15
GooberMcNutly wrote:
NPR, NYT, Wash Post at the "Mainstream" point but Fox at the "Hyper-Partisan" point? I guess that tells you who made it.
I can summon only a few individual high profile voices I still trust. None have ambition, ego or money in the game. All seem scared.
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#275 2016-12-14 14:30:46
GooberMcNutly wrote:
NPR, NYT, Wash Post at the "Mainstream" point but Fox at the "Hyper-Partisan" point? I guess that tells you who made it.
Well, Fox has been moving closer to the center the last few years, and the Washington Post has been shifting left. So rather than the chart telling you "who made it" is might tell you "when it was made" -- which is a while ago.
Just a thought. Of course, I don't know where that came from, nor how old it is.
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#276 2016-12-14 16:17:50
choad wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
NPR, NYT, Wash Post at the "Mainstream" point but Fox at the "Hyper-Partisan" point? I guess that tells you who made it.
I can summon only a few individual high profile voices I still trust. None have ambition, ego or money in the game. All seem scared.
I remember an old Doonesbury where they're talking to Rick Redfern at the Post, a couple of years after Watergate. "What have you guys been doing since you overthrew the government?" The reply, "I dunno, baseball I think."
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#277 2016-12-14 16:54:06
WP and Guardian went so far Left during the election I couldn't stand it. I will agree with the idea that Fox is centering. I didn't see Bloomberg in there but I know they lean Left.
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#278 2016-12-28 04:48:30
Emmeran wrote:
WP and Guardian went so far Left during the election I couldn't stand it. I will agree with the idea that Fox is centering. I didn't see Bloomberg in there but I know they lean Left.
Reporting bias is a non issue. Every noteworthy news story back to creation was delivered as holy gospel or no one would read it, click-clock subscription/ad revenue and pay a return on investment.
What has changed recently is the willingness of news titans to push their partisan agendas front and center.
And the peasants are restive.
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#279 2016-12-28 13:48:22
choad wrote:
What has changed recently is the willingness of news titans to push their partisan agendas front and center.
Back in the day they had this thing called an "opinion page" where a reader could expect to find the sane and gentle hand of the editor "explaining" what all that facty-news-stuff that filled up the front sections actually meant to Joe Blow and what Joe and his ilk should think about it. But benign liberalism combined with revenue-based-reporting, like spilled coffee on the front page, has bled the ink between the front and back pages, softening the sharpness of both and obscuring the real truth.
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#280 2016-12-28 14:37:30
GooberMcNutly wrote:
choad wrote:
What has changed recently is the willingness of news titans to push their partisan agendas front and center.
Back in the day they had this thing called an "opinion page" where a reader could expect to find the sane and gentle hand of the editor "explaining" what all that facty-news-stuff that filled up the front sections actually meant to Joe Blow and what Joe and his ilk should think about it. But benign liberalism combined with revenue-based-reporting, like spilled coffee on the front page, has bled the ink between the front and back pages, softening the sharpness of both and obscuring the real truth.
I'm positive the Dallas Morning News is not infected with liberalism of any kind, much less benign. Conservatives see Moderates as Liberals and Liberals seem them as Conservatives. And Moderates wish both ends of the spectrum would quietly nip outside and kill themselves.
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#281 2016-12-28 15:32:06
Baywolfe wrote:
I'm positive the Dallas Morning News is not infected with liberalism of any kind, much less benign.
Forget ideology, think who owns what in a monopoly board game and playing along at home becomes lots easier, especially now the really big turds have floated to the top.
These stinkers aren't publishers anymore, they're marketing muscle.
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#282 2016-12-31 03:53:21
Farewell - Etaoin shrdlu is a small screen gem listed in What To Watch ages ago but finally posted to youtube.
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#283 2017-02-14 12:23:42
...and another one's down and another one's down...
(credits to John Deacon, Bassist and songwriter)
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#284 2017-04-08 16:28:24
Quality is King at CNN
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#285 2017-04-08 21:18:59
Emmeran wrote:
Quality is King at CNN
https://cruelery.com/uploads/11_cnnfail.jpg
Well, at least they didn't print "Japanese Want to Drill Into Earth's Manatee" or "4 South Carolina Initmates Found Dead".
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#286 2017-05-23 17:28:36
#287 2017-07-25 17:03:29
#288 2017-07-25 17:08:18
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Fox News invites prison officer on to talk about OJ Simpson's genitals
And they said real journalism is dead.
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#289 2017-07-26 11:28:37
#290 2017-07-26 14:20:06
GooberMcNutly wrote:
more in the same vein "Staff Reporter" has to be the worst job in the world...
The car, itself, has Florida license plates, a small Canadian flag attached to the doorframe, and a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker.
That's either a story in itself or a setup to a really sick joke.
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#291 2017-07-26 14:38:04
Baywolfe wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
more in the same vein "Staff Reporter" has to be the worst job in the world...
The car, itself, has Florida license plates, a small Canadian flag attached to the doorframe, and a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker.
That's either a story in itself or a setup to a really sick joke.
LOL...
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#292 2017-08-05 13:24:27
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#296 2017-09-11 22:28:09
choad wrote:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php
I don't think I can read this in one sitting...what I've read is making my stomach clench too much. Just unbelievable.
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#297 2017-09-15 15:27:14
Whittaker: Mr. Maryk, Mr. Kieth. The captain wants a meeting with all officers, right away.
Lt. Maryk: Now? At one o'clock in the morning?
Whittaker: Yes, sir.
Lt. Maryk: Do you know what it's about?
Whittaker: Yes, sir - strawberries.
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#299 2017-10-25 17:08:40
FCC Eliminates Rule That Was Cornerstone of Local News Broadcasting.
More of the same...
FCC to loosen TV, newspaper ownership rules
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#300 2017-10-26 11:07:42
Everybody in Washington, GOP and Dems, are both making the wrong arguments. Just another example of how out of touch they are.
For people who get everything via local broadcasts, they're going to get screwed.
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