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… huge, corporate U.S. agri-businesses provide us with most of the food we eat.
And before someone spews the usual malarkey about 90% of American farms are owned by families, meet Stewart & Lynda Resnick:
♪ Green acres is the place for me ♬
♩Farm livin’ is the life for me ♫
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide♭
𝄞 Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside 
Or it’s a lead-in to his latest fundraising campaign…
Force Republicans to defend bail outs while simultaneously continuing the policies hurting farmers & ranchers in the first place.
“Why are you hitting yourself?”
Yes. I emphasized the role of corporate farming in a follow-up comment.
I’d like to suggest Jamie Raskin (Maryland) as another possibility.
The White House Stenographers Association (for the most part)
And too often it seems like female reporters are the ones that occasionally ask tough questions while the male reporters stay silent while trump then attacks the women for daring to do so.
My favorite, completely out of nowhere fun fact about Lynda Resnick is that she let Daniel Ellsberg use her photocopier to copy the Pentagon Papers.
“In the end, it’s not the greatest consolation on earth to find out that the people who wrecked 10 years of your work and your career are a bunch of galaxy-level dipshits.”
“Galaxy-level dipshits” FTW!
Not quite. Hakeem Jeffries is too busy politicking rather than promoting the public good. Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
Jeffries has also received anywhere from $500K to $1 million dollars from AIPAC while refusing to condition military aid to Israel for their conduct in the Gaza War.
He’s not exactly looking out for our best interests.
Edited: I had noted that Jeffries had voted to confirm Charles Kushner as the Ambassador to France. He had not done so.
You mentioned several opinion writers but no reporters. Reporters go where they are sent. Edward R. Murrow was a reporter. He reported on the blitz from the top of a british building. As much as I loved Cokie Roberts without reporters breaking news she would have been just as blacked out as any of them. Until social media destroyed the news business you could count on intrepitd reporters sent by editors willing to pay their travel expenses going to dangerous places to see for themselves.
It is just cheaper and easier to comment on what some influencer says on X or Truth Social. That is Donald Trump’s secret weapon.
I didn’t say he was on every score, have repeatedly said I am far from being a Jeffries fan, and expressed my hope that progressives will continue to put pressure on him and Schumer, as long as they are minority leaders. I only object to unrealistic expectations of what a minority leader can do and to caricatures of Jeffries as some sort of villain, esp. those based on exaggeration and outright misrepresentations.
Cokie Roberts was a reporter. I mentioned opinion writers only to illustrate the point that basing any kind of report or analysis on the basis of flimsy evidence is not good reporting or analysis.
That still happens. But reporters cannot today go to our bases in the Middle East, their movement in places like Bahrain or Saudi Arabia are monitored and limited by those governments, and the Pentagon is not embedding any reporters with our troops.
I regularly read and hear reports from journalists whose beat is the Pentagon (e.g., the NYT’s Helene Cooper) or who report from the field in dangerous places (e.g., Richard Engel of NBC News, formerly also of MS NBC). I also read and hear military analysis from retired generals and other retired, high-level military officers, and from others with military expertise, like Tom Nichols, who taught at the Naval War College and who frequently appears on MS NOW, in addition to publishing articles in The Atlantic. I don’t think I’ve ever read or heard a correspondent or expert report, much less “comment,” on what “some influencer says on X or Truth Social,” unless by “influencer” you mean people like the President of the U.S. or the Secretary of Defense. I really have no idea what you’re talking about when you say,
I, too, admire Edward R. Murrow.
At the same time, urbanites disdain for the country folk betrays an undeserved arrogance. Whether in Aesops’ fables or similar stories around the world, the country mouse is wiser than the city mouse.
CIty people looking down on country folk has a kernel of truth, which is what makes the charge potent. But in truth, that is actually less prevalent in city folk, than racism and xenophobia is in country folk.
As to wisdom, a large majority of them voted for him, and as TPM reported today they’re just now learning that he’s screwed them. That’s something this city dweller could have told them in 2015 when he first ran.
I was thinking that Cokie was a reporter in her younger years but by the time she became famous she was an analysist. You conntinue to conflate analysis with reporting. That is a big problem Americans these days. We don’t know the difference between facts and opinion except opinion is easier and pays better.
Come off it. I have not once in this exchange conflated reporting and analysis/opinion, as those three terms are used in journalism. I’ve already explained to you why I mentioned Brooks and Friedman, as examples or illustrations of the hazards of basing either reporting or analysis on skimpy “facts.” “Facts” are important for useful analysis or opinions as they are for good reporting.
I’m done wasting my time with this exchange. You’ve made up your mind and refuse to give a fair hearing to someone who disagrees with you. Sit tight in your cynical assessment of the world, if it makes you feel better.
I agree. I don’t think we have anymore to say without getting angry unnecessarily.
I wonder if they are related to Denise Resnick, founder of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center in Phoenix…
