So does Dotard, so whats the point?
Joe’s just being presidential…
OT, but I wonder where else this is happening.
Saline residents may experience major changes in the way they recycle.
China upended the world recycling market when it announced new, strict standards on the materials it accepted. China reports a 56 percent drop in scrap imports for the first half of 2018. As a result, the cost of processing and separating recycled goods has skyrocketed - even as the market for these materials has shrunk.
Officials from Waste Management, which hauls away Saline’s trash and recyclables, spoke with Saline City Council Monday night. Brian Conaway, public sector representative for Waste Management, said the cost of recycling has jumped from $6 a ton to $95 a ton. Conaway said Waste Management is asking the City of Saline for some relief. The city’s contract with Waste Management expires in June of 2019.
TPM — Stop promoting the smears!
It even says in the article that Donnelly sold the stock last year and donated the proceeds to charity!
Do you even read this garbage before you post it?
Also — Joe Donnelly’s family, not Joe Donnelly, profits off the business in question.
Are Democrats now responsible for their siblings’ business holdings?
I expect more from TPM than this guilt-by-association nonsense.
“Joe Donnelly’s Family Business Profits Off Of The Import Practice He Criticizes.”
Oh no!
“That makes Donnelly susceptible to charges of hypocrisy.”
It looks really, really, really bad for the poor, hapless Dem in disarray!
Until, of course, you do the necessary AP exegesis:
“Donnelly’s campaign did not directly address the shipments, but noted that the senator sold his stock in the company last year and donated $17,410 in proceeds to charity.”
And:
“[Donnelly’s] imports from China, which have been referenced in attack ads, are minuscule when compared to the goods Braun regularly receives from the country.”
And, of course:
“Braun’s auto-parts empire, which employs 850 workers at 70 locations across the U.S., obtains Chinese goods through intermediary companies that have imported thousands of shipments in recent years. His stock income from the business was $4.5 million last year.”
Finally, what AP article would be complete without the obligatory false equivalence:
" ‘Xenophobia is certainly in the campaign,’ said former Lt. Gov. John Mutz, a well-respected Republican and elder statesman who blames ‘both sides’."
See – “Both sides!”
What self-respecting bird would want to cover the bottom of its cage with this AP tripe?
Another AP hit piece…dutifully reprinted here at tpm…why?
(AP) Feed. Running false equivocation smears is kinda their thing. Now why TPM chooses to use them on the other hand…
Knowledge is power?
The problem is, however, TPM doesn’t provide the other side. I guess commenters here have to do that.
Lazy reporting all around.
They never do, even when the sloppiness is pronounced. I don’t know but it’s possible AP requires in your contract that you not edit/contradict/trash the articles you subscribe for.
There would be a way around that. Post the article and then provide a rebuttal?
In my admittedly dreamed-up scenario, that would just be one more thing AP would strongly object to. Seriously, imagine if you were RC Cola and out of all the colas on the shelf the supermarket puts signs pointing to yours and saying “This stuff is gross.” You’d strongly suggest they not do that and if they didn’t stop you’d have to cut them off.
That sounds unenforceable.
But what will we tell the children?
This piece is a serious exercise in the inverted triangle school of journalistic writing, if the triangle is supposed to point down to a steaming pile of absolutely nothing.
We’ll let the lawyers figure that out. That’s what they get the big bucks for. I should issue one of my periodic blanket warnings that I dream up scenarios good, bad, and ugly, without always saying which I think is which. In an ideal world, a provider like AP would welcome suggested improvement. But in a non-ideal world like the one we live in, editors screw stuff up sometimes. Oh, how they screw stuff up. I have one special wall just for kicking my foot through when it happens to me. So just for that reason alone they may have a proviso that you can’t change the stuff around. You make a mistake and who’s liable, after all? It’s their name up on the top.
Fine. Then TPM can find an less subjective media source.
Honestly, it’s not the AP articles posted here…
Well, democracy dies in darkness, but terribly slanted reporting is just as bad.
I’m sure they have this, but that’s where their yard stops. The idea that you can’t put SquirrelCola right next to them on the shelf and have it proclaim “We’re the true cola” seems unlikely to me. All of this is moot of course because there is a one word solution - McClatchy.
Largely because slanted reporting casts shadows and causes clouds to loom over democracy, which contributes to said insufficient light.
sure makes me want to sign up for TPM prime, right?