Or I’m being very snarky about that man’s followers.
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“American carnage.” Future generations of historians will laugh at the clueless pretension of Donald Trump and the two Rasputin Steves to have had the lack of class and knowledge to have delivered such a stupid, shitty Inaugural Address, followed by a weekend of fulminating about how at least 1.5 Million people attended his Inaugural and how God Herself reached down and stopped the rain long enough for Donald The Great to deliver his L’Etat C’est Moi address, then let it rain on everyone as soon as he was finished.
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Most Trumpanzees move their lips when they watch television.
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Dean Baquet and Les Moonves: “Journalism is great stuff, don’t get us wrong, but we sure love those greenbacks.”
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Or I’m being very snarky about that man’s followers.
And a bit snarky about subvocalizers too.
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25 years of Hillary bashing finally pays off!
I read the NYT every day from 1986 to 2005. The Bush licking became too much. They’ll never get another nickel from me. Liberal media my ass.
The incognito window is a wonderful thing.
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Huh ?
Good God this gets tiresome.
I was just going to ask if Baquet channeled Moonves there. Didn’t watch the segment so not sure about his tone, but that was the impression I got from reading the article.
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I concur – and will add that I think a subscription to Newsweek is in order also now if only for Eichenwald.
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Why doesn't Trump take credit for NYTimes subscriber gains?
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 26, 2017
Unlike 1st month debt numbers, it's something he's actually responsible for.
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It’s mutual. No single institution did more to drive the “Clinton corruption” narrative than the NYT. And it was, and is, systemic. Indeed, the way the Times’ coverage of Hillary’s email server paralleled its coverage of the Whitewater story is too perfect to be true coincidental. A story driven entirely by the urging of sources with obvious pesonal enmity and a proven records of lying. Huge amount of resources devoted to the writing of an endless series of stories that go nowhere, without anyone ever taking notice of the fact that the stories go nowhere and drawing the obvious conclusion that the story goes nowhere because there’s no there there. Month after month after month it ground on, while other political stories of immense importance languished or were reporter on page A-32, below the tide tables.
And all because clouds and smoke and shadows and all the while without the slightest indication of any institutional awareness that there was an institutional problem that was damaging both the paper and the nation. To this day there has been no reckoning with either. Indeed, the Times redoubled its efforts for the election. Just as they were the flagbearer for the “phony fake lying fake Al Gore is a big lying phony who’s no different from Bush” while ignoring the obvious dodginess of Bush’s past–his many displays of executive incompetence and history of squandering fortunes, his draft-dodging and desertion, the insider trading–they went on an on about the server and fanned the flames of the “Hillary is Sick and Weak” narrative while ignoring the signs that Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence.
Fuck the Times. The paper went off the cliff the day it hired Maureen Dowd and it’s never recovered. And fuck Dean Baquet specifically because he is the keeper of the internal narrative that Times has done, and can do, no wrong.
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without the humor?
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Well GWB did kill OBL because he helped make him an important enough target that BHO had to take him out.
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It’s unfortunate that we have no equivalent of the BBC here in the US. Yes, the Beeb makes mistakes and yes, they get influenced by political medfling. But they are an institutionalized public news organization that outlasts all the meddlers. The CPB–PBS and NPR just isn’t the same and has had federal funding cut by hostile Republican Congresses year after year. Now they subsist on money from the likes of Mobil Exxon, the Koch Bros and Viking River Cruises. Bah!
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Vanilla Spice will entertain again 1:30 PM EST according to CSPAN.org,
Will this be a Breitbart et al exclusive or will the MSM be allowed to participate and ask questions ?
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Trump’s business savvy is driving NYTs subscriptions. Trump also brought his business magic to the hotel / casinos he bankrupted, even with the built-in house advantage on every gaming table and machine. It appears that old Trump business magic just ain’t good for tourism. Here’s another example:
The Travel Press is Reporting the ‘Trump Slump’, a Devastating Drop in Tourism to the United States
2/21/2017
Experts across the travel industry are warning that masses of tourists are being scared away from visiting the United States, and the loss of tourism jobs could be devastating…
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Like they did before the election?!?
Trump is trying to turn all the media into Breitbartt …it is time to applaud the thiniest steps in the right direction.
That is the key right there: “$$$” is what counts. End of Story.
Trump sells newspapers, subscriptions, TV ads, and attracts eyeballs. That is why CNN lavished time on him during the campaign, as did CBS.
The almighty dollar and the old saying “If it bleeds it leads, if it’s outrageous it sells pages.”
It ain’t 1965 anymore where Most Media was family-owned and the Big 3 TV networks had monopolies on viewership and provided NEWS in return for the use of the Public Airwaves.
Now “News” is just another “profit center” to be squeezed for $$$ and the style that SELLS is “Info-Tainment”.
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@ lastroth–Yes, it was. In the old days (ancient Rome and before) there were no punctuation marks; hand written scrolls were expensive, so the words all ran together to save valuable space. Reading was done out loud in order to sort out what was being said.
St. Jerome, at least according to St. Augustine, was the first person to read silently. The fact that he made special mention of it in his writings suggests that if St. Jerome was not the first, that silent reading was at least very rare.
Thus endeth today’s nerdy lesson on ancient reading.
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