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  1. Before the internet, you had thousands of local print monopolies. These were known as "newspapers". Naturally, each of these local fiefdoms came to think of themselves as indispensable fountains of cultural influence in their little areas. 

    When the internet happened, it became obvious that Bob The Beat Reporter in Schenectady was writing an article on some event, but that there were 1000 other writers composing exactly the same stories across the country. With the internet, this makes no economic sense. Naturally, these egotistical bastards cried about the decline of journalism and the absolutely vital role they play in their community, which of course was a self serving argument entirely without merit. 

    I remember watching a press conference after A-Rod admitted to using PED. There were thousands of reporters. Each of those reporters would go back the their hotel room and write nearly identical stories. Virtually none of them would realize how little value they provide to society or that their business model was doomed to fail.

    There is huge unmet need for true journalism. Investigations to uncover corruption, speaking truth to power. What we've seen is not merely that more journalists are petty tyrants consumed with their own self importance. We've also seen that most of them are simply incompetent at delivering the who, what, when, where, and why of a story. 

    In England, the TV journalists are not called "anchors", they're called "news readers". Walter Cronkite et al were never the conscience of the country, were never moral or cultural leaders, they're readers of a teleprompter. The sheer pomposity of trying to attribute great wisdom to someone who reads a cue card is mind boggling.  

    The ability to syndicate stories could have been a great opportunity to do great journalism. As we've seen, that has not been the case. If anything it's gotten worse, focused more on pretty pictures and partisanship that uncovering important yet unappreciated truths.

    TL:DR Fuck journalists they are getting what they deserve.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, scottsins said:

     


    Let me know when she simply apologizes then lets the apology stand for more than 1 hour.

     

    It's not about her, it's about you. Same goes for Samantha Bee.

  3. The President relented and gave Italy their government. He saw the reaction to the appointment of a "technocratic" government and reversed course. 

    For those not paying attention, the last "technocratic government" was led by a Goldman Sachs Bilderberger. It was only going to get worse. Anyway, good news for the good guys who like "voting" and "democracy".

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  4. I currently have the peels of 14 lemons macerating in 1.75 liters of Pinnacle vodka in a tupperware container. After a couple weeks I will add fake sugar (carb nazi here), fill an old whiskey bottle, and walla, Limoncello all summer long. 

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  5. It seems to me that the christian thing to do would have been to accept her apology and move on.

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  6. 54 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    It's a stupid take regardless of conference affiliation. It's a stupid take period.

    Smash Mouth football and having a wide open offense aren't mutually exclusive. Ohio State might have run the ball up and down the field, but they ran and run a high powered offense (when not being conducted by Tim Beck) because they could. I'm not sure it's smash mouth when Ezekiel Elliot is running untouched and free all over the goddamn field, and some of that is due directly to the fact that Ohio State spread out the defense plenty. 

    4 yards and a cloud of dust is an antiquated notion that only sits beneath a halo in the minds of old people who want to gas about bygone days and shake their fists at clouds. Ohio State vs Oregon wasn't 4 yards in a cloud of dust, it was 14 yards in an untouched sprint. And part of that is because of having a great offensive scheme. Unless the point of the original poster was to say "I'd much rather have bigger, stronger, and faster offensive players than the other team so I can run it down their throat" then, well, yeah. That seems rather obvious however.

    Personally, I'll take a good scheme period, almost regardless of the scheme, over some notion that it just feels better to play SMASHMOUTH football. In other words, why not both? 

    Would you say that you prefer to have a decided schematic advantage?

  7. So this might not confirm most of your ideologic biases, but you know that the level of disaster preparedness that existed eight months after Trump took office was likely to be exactly the same level of preparedness that Obama determined was appropriate after eight years of Obama guidance and planning.  

    I would also add that the PR Emergency Management Agency, the entity designated to handle exactly this kind of  crisis, all of its personnel simply walked off the job. Lots of things that went on locally affected the situation. Local preparedness is even more important on an island hundreds of miles from the mainland when you know that resources will be delayed.

     

  8. Recently, the leaders of the "alt right' parties in both Germany and France were both arrested on "hate crime" charges. I am not required to endorse them or any of their positions to recognize that those governments are using the tools of power to repress political speech that they don't like.

    Germany and Sweden have both tried to prevent news coverage of rapes.

    You want to condemn that Catholic Church for covering up rape, but when a government does it that's cool? I am comfortable saying that I believe all rape is terrible, as is covering it up. I guess some people feel differently. They certainly do in England.

    To support this UK government is to get in bed with Art Briles. You are aligning yourself with those who cover up for and protect rapists. It's despicable.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Who is Tommy Robinson and why should I care about right wing butt hurt?

    It really doesn't matter who he is or what he believes. Are you pro- or anti- rape? Are you for government protecting muslim rape gangs, or against it? Do you enjoy posting whatever thoughts you have on the internet, and do you believe others should have that right?

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  10. 18 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    It's amazing that people can't see the irony of hysterical articles about stories "scrubbed off the internet omg omg", when said articles are clearly posted.... on the internet. 

    The UK has enacted some kind of legal order that has allowed them to force any media entity with a business in the UK to scrub certain kinds of information from their websites, newspapers, etc. This includes the BBC, The Independent, Sky News, Breitbart, Globe and Mail, local newspapers and their websites, radio shows, TV shows, message boards, etc Everyone in the UK. Of course they can't scrub sites located outside the UK. It makes it no less horrible. 

    These are tactics reminiscent of the Soviet Union.

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  11. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/politics/fbi-informant-russia-congress-briefings.html

     

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    The details continued to be fluid Thursday. At the last minute, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was also included in the first meeting. He was there in place of Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, who received a last-minute invitation.

     

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