OT: Washington Post layoffs
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lol. Is that like the freight trains moving tanks into Wisconsin for the big putsch?
You obviously are not paying attention. I hope you will be more alert when we have a beer. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...ve-network-of-concentration-camps/ar-AA1Vx7H5. Numerous other references to the same. I know, it is unbelievable.
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Brandon Johnson wanted to build a tent camp in Chicago until JB shut him down.
At least he refrained from the term concentration camps!
What do people think of with the word “concentration” camps? I’d say Auschwitz and the Nazi regime. I would have to think this is offensive to anyone that is Jewish and had family die or imprisoned there. It’s a feeble attempt to link the Orange Guy with Hitler.
I spent a day touring Auschwitz when I lived in Hungary. Will never forget that. My GF then was Jewish. She was pretty shaken that day. I just remember how quiet it was. It was just hard to find words that day.
globalize the intifada!
That post you shared on FB is deplorable. You should be ashamed. Stop exploiting the Holocaust for your political purposes.
This thread has reached the point where being called deplorable is standard for everyone. I fail to see any irony.
Got to give him props, but the name calling has already started .
How about those WAPO layoffs?
Getting back to the original post concerning layoffs at the Washington Post newspaper it appears that all major city newspapers are in trouble now. Subscriptions are way down from in the past.
And it's not surprising given that most people are getting their news these days right in their hand by simply looking down at their cellphone. Why bother trying to read a big, bulky newspaper when it's much easier to look at your cell phone. Even while driving for some people.
I would also suspect that the newspaper subscriptions that still do exist are held by an older segment of the population. Those are likely to decrease even further with time and eventually major printed newspapers will be thing of the past.
And it's not surprising given that most people are getting their news these days right in their hand by simply looking down at their cellphone. Why bother trying to read a big, bulky newspaper when it's much easier to look at your cell phone. Even while driving for some people.
I would also suspect that the newspaper subscriptions that still do exist are held by an older segment of the population. Those are likely to decrease even further with time and eventually major printed newspapers will be thing of the past.
The bad news is that we never identified how those Cats players in Medill yearning for a job at WaPo will be impacted.
The good news is that my proposed Jasmine Crockett/Marjorie Taylor Greene...Who Would be the Higher Value Cats FB Recruit thread now seems safe.
Jasmine Crockett vs MTG would be a good cage match.
Gerard Baker penned a pointed column in today's WSJ. A few quotes:
"Is there a class of people with more vaulting self-belief or more stunted self-awareness than America’s journalists?
“Democracy dies in darkness,” they tell us, the implication being that it is only the torch held aloft by the nation’s brave media folk that keeps the light of freedom glowing in the gathering dusk of an authoritarian age. It’s true that in the absence of independent, trusted sources of information, power accrues without accountability. But there’s no hint in this declaration of their own indispensability or the role journalists themselves have played in undermining the public trust."
"What’s happened to the Post is, in part, what’s happened to most traditional news organizations in the past 20 years with a glowing exception or two (thank you, dear subscriber): business models upended by the loss of advertising revenue, the proliferation of alternative sources of news, increasing specialization in audience choice. The idea that the market still has room for dozens of large newspapers offering similar soup-to-nuts products in an age of personalized taste and atomized content is as anachronistic as the thud of a thick daily printed paper on a doorstep at 5 a.m."
"The president’s attacks on the media are indefensible and troubling. But it never seems to occur to his targets that the primary reason he gets away with them is that faith in the honesty of these institutions has already been devastated by their own tendentious work.
The list of recent media distortions—from the Russia-collusion hoax to Covid and Black Lives Matter—is long. But the most important form of bias, more insidious because it is necessarily hard to measure, isn’t what the news reports. It is what it chooses not to report. Investigative reporting is vital for accountability, but for most journalists the people and institutions that need to be held accountable are only those that fit into their selective demonology: corporations and their leaders, the rich, right-wing politicians. Labor unions, bureaucracies, academic institutions? Not so much."
Trump is starting the way Hitler did, only he doesn't have huge adoring crowds, in fact quite the opposite. Perhaps that is because most people are aware of the historical parallels.
Read my response to you, there. What deplorable is who is being depicted in that cartoon, and why. You are not seeing what's actually there, but rather what you want to see there. If there were actual symbols in the drawing, I would agree with you.
Hillary cost herself an election by that statement. What far left liberals don’t understand is a good portion of the population is tired of being portrayed as Racist, Homophobic, Xenophobic, sexist, and islamophobic because their beliefs don’t always align with theirs.
That was my point. Satisfying that you said far left. Most liberals are tired of this also.
Me and tens if not hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans. 65% of Americans now believe that ICE tactics are unacceptable. Hey, What'd you think about about trump's raid on the Fulton County Court House to get voter rolls so he can rig the 2026 elections? Illegal as it turns out. Oh, and did he ever get 11,000 votes he needed to win in Georgia? There you have both deplorable and delusional. But it is actually me? Wow, that is some distinction.
You have NO credibility about Georgia and the 2020 election. Your post is BS and just lies. I could waste your time with facts but since you called me a racist here when I opined that a certain Black politician in GA was less than honest about $ funneled into her campaign and companies - - all since proven - - I will not waste more time with you. Your posts reek of senility and tin foil, and offend common sense.
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