lolgf: Laid-Off Reporters Launch a New Side-Hustle to "Save Journalism"

Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

Two reporters fired amid widespread industry-wide layoffs this year are launching a nonprofit organization to protect other journalists from a similar fate as big tech companies continue to threaten the industry's viability.

Psst: "Non-profits" mean they there is no profit that flows to stakeholders.

But founders and officers of the company still draw salaries!

So let's not pretend that this is something other than what it is: A side-hustle for "journalists" who can't get work at even the shittiest, trashiest websites.

Laura Bassett, a former culture and political reporter at HuffPost, and John Stanton, a former BuzzFeed News Washington bureau chief, founded the Save Journalism Project. It aims to save the industry from the "monopolistic power of big tech companies," according to a news release.

Well, it seems they realized that big tech companies can be dangerous the moment they got shit-canned.

According to the Save Journalism founders, firms like Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising market, distributing news content without paying to produce it and dismantling traditional newspapers and digital news outlets.
The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far.

Outstanding. Oh, I definitely want to destroy Google and Facebook, don't get it twisted.

But I can't say I'm upset that they're driving "journalists" into more honest occupations, like skimming money off the stupid.

In part, the Save Journalism Project aims to educate journalists on the side of the industry reporters tend to ignore -- the business side.
Bassett told BuzzFeed she never paid attention to the financial side of journalism before her recent layoff.

Oh perfect! Someone who admits she has absolutely no knowledge of the business side of journalism has started a donation-seeking organization to teach other journalists about the business side of journalism.

That sounds... pretty journalistic, actually! People who have absolutely no knowledge about a field presuming to lecture others about it and calling themselves "experts" in that area.

Meanwhile, Vice is reportedly laying off "senior editors" because Vice is trash and that trash is on fire and that fire is burning money.

Vice.com laid off its editor-in-chief Jonathan Smith and managing editor Rachel Schallom in a shakeup Tuesday which suggests cuts and restructuring are continuing as Vice Media looks to become profitable in 2019.

Oh, I'm sure you're on your way to profitability now.

Oh, and, obviously: Learn to code, bitches.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 01:16 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Flyguy at June 06, 2019 01:18 PM (3sOO0)

2 Extra, extra read all the lies.

Posted by: Redenzo at June 06, 2019 01:19 PM (14qvS)

3 Big tech is the enemy? Didn't Amazon buy one of those bird cage liners a few years back?

Posted by: Flyguy at June 06, 2019 01:19 PM (3sOO0)

4 It's always amazing to learn what new things summon the Schadenboner.

But hey, keep 'em comin'.

Grandpa always said, "never waste a boner". Schaden- or otherwise, I'm sure he meant.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (3U22A)

5 "Bassett told BuzzFeed she never paid attention to the financial side of journalism before her recent layoff."

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Oh you mean my employer is a business? And it wants to make evil profit? Bbbbut bbbbut I thought I was changing the world and shit??!?

Learn to Code bitches.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (FiUMj)

6 They don't want to do journalism.

They want power.

They want to 'make a difference'. They want status and prestige and to not work too hard.

Fuck em.

Or possible more, on Purge Night.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (bcbK8)

7 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (1XAal)

8 Tried to write something funny.

Just gave up.

Now, empty comment.

Story of my life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (9cans)

9 "The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far."

It's a start....

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (cF8AT)

10 I keep meaning to start a 'nonprofit,' name it something stupidly liberal, and see how many hipsters in nyc I can get to give me money.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (u9hp4)

11 A shame there is only one Hulk Hogan. Whatcha gonna do brother?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (dOOrJ)

12 This attitude reminds me of a lot of coders who forget that the #1 reason they exist is to make money for someone. It is NOT to write elegant code that other bro-coders can fap to. Write the shit, get it out the door, and sell it. That's what we pay you for assholes.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (FiUMj)

13 Old Classic: How to Write a VICE Article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Ia7fUQXskvA

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (O7MnT)

14 These are not reporters

They are paid political operators

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (1XAal)

15 Save journalism by giving us money!

Posted by: Independent Jorge at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (4Eo4+)

16 A shame there is only one Hulk Hogan. Whatcha gonna do brother?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (dOOrJ)

________

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Posted by: Ric Flair at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (flINI)

17 9 "The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far."

It's a start....
Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (cF8AT)

Best news those journalists were ever part of.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (u9hp4)

18 9 "The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far."

It's a start....
Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (cF8AT)

============

"War on journalism!"
-American journalist

"What?"
-Turkish journalist in prison

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (9cans)

19 Bwahahahaha

Womp, Womp - learn to code beyotches.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (9B/d8)

20 You want to be taken seriously as a journalist? Get your own site, start breaking stories that are relevant to the community, carefully researched, clearly sourced, and well-written. This is what journalism is supposed to do.

Want to be a snotty barista? Keep doing what you're doing.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (RD7QR)

21 I wouldn't trust these assholes at Arby's.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (sm6Pk)

22
firms like Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising market, distributing news content without paying to produce it

So they're just a bigger Huffington Post....

https://tinyurl.com/h5lujn2

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (WO0O0)

23 I keep meaning to start a 'nonprofit,' name it something stupidly liberal, and see how many hipsters in nyc I can get to give me money.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (u9hp4)

How about "free" crying towels? Just pay shipping and handling?

Posted by: BignJames at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (ykq7q)

24 These people couldn't find journalism with both hands and a flashlight.

How the hell do you find something you know nothing about? It could doink you in the ass, say hello and you'd be like- "huh?".

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (VpIIl)

25 like how the nooz let everyone get upset about omgeuthanasia in Holland, and then it turned out to be a suicide that the state had no hand in.

i.wouldnt trust these assholes to code "hello world" in BASIC.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (kod69)

26 I don't know what was wrong with the business model of selling lies disguised as truth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (+y/Ru)

27

If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

Posted by: JournoScum, Running Scam at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (UFLLM)

28 Outstanding. Oh, I definitely want to destroy Google and Facebook, don't get it twisted.

and youtube

look at what they are doing to Crowder, see pjmedia

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (vEIlU)

29 If Hillary had won, these "journalists" would now be firmly ensconced in Our Corrupt Federal Government.

Posted by: Independent Jorge at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (4Eo4+)

30 Vice today, burn Vox tomorrow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (bcbK8)

31 I guess we can trust them to blow hoboes for a dollar.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (kod69)

32 14 These are not reporters

They are paid political operators

Posted by: Yo!
---------
THIS! Propagandists one and all.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (9B/d8)

33 In the digital age, anyone can be a journalist. The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a $500 laptop. There is and endless supply of potential "journalists" in the world. So the value of any one specific "journalist" is close to $0.

How you like them supply/demand apples?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (FiUMj)

34 If they became Uber drivers and took you to Arby's the conversation alone would kill your appetite.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (VpIIl)

35 Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

36 23 I keep meaning to start a 'nonprofit,' name it something stupidly liberal, and see how many hipsters in nyc I can get to give me money.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (u9hp4)

How about "free" crying towels? Just pay shipping and handling?
Posted by: BignJames at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (ykq7q)

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The Proactive Environmental and Activist Center Enterprise (PEACE).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (9cans)

37 Learn to code? Nah, learn to sheetrock.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (CQ3Qb)

38 12 This attitude reminds me of a lot of coders who forget that the #1 reason they exist is to make money for someone. It is NOT to write elegant code that other bro-coders can fap to. Write the shit, get it out the door, and sell it. That's what we pay you for assholes.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (FiUMj)

I've heard a coder that works in another agency in my building say he intentionally writes shit code so that if anything goes wrong, he's the only one who can understand it and fix it.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (sm6Pk)

39 20 You want to be taken seriously as a journalist? Get your own site, start breaking stories that are relevant to the community, carefully researched, clearly sourced, and well-written. This is what journalism is supposed to do.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (RD7QR)

The more I learn of the history of journalism, the more I question if this was ever actually true.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (u9hp4)

40 Fools.

First thing we learned in J-school was that the prime goal of a newspaper is to make money.

Once you have that cushion, then you can start telling people what is going on.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (M5h3L)

41 So what exactly is this "Save Journalism Project" going to do? How are they going to save journalism?

Posted by: bluebell at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (aXucN)

42 35 Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

LOL

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:25 PM (bcbK8)

43 >>>Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

Or they could start a monetized Youtube channel and patreon account to fund their freelance journali.....ohhhhhh....nvm.

Posted by: El Kabong at June 06, 2019 01:25 PM (datdl)

44 #learn to shovel

Coding actually takes skill.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2019 01:25 PM (VpIIl)

45 "...widespread industry-wide layoffs..."

It's writing shit like that which gets them canned. Needs more wideness:

"...widely widespread industry-wide layoffs..."

Much better.

Posted by: Thirdtwin at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (vBL0x)

46 It's like people forget that Vox had to be folded into SportsBlog Nation to even exist in the first place.

Of course, SBNation ended up going full SJW anyway.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (sm6Pk)

47 Everything except Fox , talk radio and some blogs are all the same shit, er content.

So there is a redundancy there that is unprofitable

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (1XAal)

48 1. Give us money!
2. ?
3. Journalism is saved!

Posted by: Independent Jorge at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (4Eo4+)

49 The heading for this story made me laugh really hard. Like, tears and everything. Didn't even read the actual story. Don't care.

Posted by: Biergood at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (uGKH7)

50
Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising market, distributing news content without paying to produce it

=====

I don't know exactly how this-all works, but don't Google and Facebook have to pay the producers to rebroadcast content?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (M9ntN)

51 Remember, tariffs are bad because consumers might pay a few more pennies.

So if the price of "news" goes down with all of these layoffs and cost-cutting, this is a good thing no one should stop it, unless you want to collapse the economy.

Posted by: Raven at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (6RfEx)

52 44 Coding actually takes skill.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2019 01:25 PM (VpIIl)

And time that nobody has to waste teaching it to people like them.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (sm6Pk)

53 #learntoTrumpCamp

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (Bdeb0)

54 @josheidelson

Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart." Says he wants "fair & highly competitive agreement quickly"

*snort*

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

55 I don't know why they're acting shocked.

The internet upset a lot of industries, including traditional print industries.

I'll bet companies that print books, companies that make paper, etc. have been laying people off for 30 years, as well. But the media never gave a shit about that, did they?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (GBteo)

56 According to the Save Journalism founders, firms like Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising market, distributing news content without paying to produce it and dismantling traditional newspapers and digital news outlets.

I seriously don't understand what this means. Google and FB dominate the advertising market, true.

But "distribute news content without paying for it"?

If you go to the news tab of Google and ask about East Timor it will list a dozen recent stories. You may get a gist of what's going on, but if you're interested in more than the literal headline you have to click through to the organization which published the story, to their website, to their attempt at monetization.

Facebook provides "news" chiefly in the form of links posted by my idiot lefty friends, again links going to other media sites.

(And I've never understood "FB promotes liberal news stories", I'm on FB every day and I've never seen a news story that wasn't posted by a friend. Nothing comes from FB).

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (fuK7c)

57 48 1. Give us money!
2. ?
3. Journalism is saved!
Posted by: Independent Jorge at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (4Eo4+)

============

Better or worse than:

1) Give us money
2) We scream at you at dinner about how racist you are
3) Racism doesn't get fixed because whiteness is racism

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (9cans)

58 How you like them supply/demand apples?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker

Which is why we are Communists, no supply/demand, we work for The People!

Posted by: JournoScum, Running Scam at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (UFLLM)

59
The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far."

And yet they're all for open borders and flooding the country with cheap labor.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 01:27 PM (TAmPV)

60
You want to be taken seriously as a journalist? Get your own site,
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:22 PM (RD7QR)

What's wrong with gmail?????

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 06, 2019 01:27 PM (WO0O0)

61 lolgf: Laid-Off Reporters Launch a New Side-Hustle to "Save Journalism"

--

Well duh.

Start your own newspaper.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:27 PM (v7UJl)

62 54 @josheidelson

Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart." Says he wants "fair & highly competitive agreement quickly"

*snort*
Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

============

"Unions are still awesome, by the way. Just not this one. Bad apple."
-Vox ownership and management

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:27 PM (9cans)

63 41 So what exactly is this "Save Journalism Project" going to do? How are they going to save journalism?

Posted by: bluebell at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (aXucN)

"Oh shaddup", they explained...

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (cF8AT)

64 "How about "free" crying towels? Just pay shipping and handling?"

Act now and get a second one free! Just pay a separate fee...

Posted by: Chris M at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (eAZVt)

65 A huffandpuff and a buzzbugger are trying to tell us how to save journalism?

Pull the other one.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (8erNz)

66 Save "journalism" huh?

Because we don't have enough journalists employed to write those cutting edge gender/race/LGBTQ stories. *That's* who got laid off in February - the fluff, the useless navel-gazing millennial hipsters who used their position to condemn and lecture all the un-woke.

Spoiler alert: that's not journalism, that's activism.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (W+vEI)

67 Some people just need a good Lamping. And I ain't talking about Hillary's projectile lamps.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (E5lGr)

68 Dey took err jerbz!

Posted by: G marks the spot at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (4Jgb2)

69 Traditional newspapers don't exactly produce content, either - they just run articles written by AP, Reuters, or opinion pieces.

They don't understand why journalism is dying, when they've never actually practiced it in their entire careers.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (J+mig)

70 How about news and sports reporting w/o an SJW slant?....might be a market for that.

Posted by: BignJames at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (ykq7q)

71 Here's a crazy idea.

Maybe, just maybe, there would be a market for well researched reports on events, that looked at all sides of a story and weren't simply partisan propaganda.
That looked at all sources with a cynical eye and did the leg work to verify information.

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (NmR1a)

72 I do sort of love that, right in the middle of an attempted coup, a whole mess of treason, and one of if not THE biggest scandal in the history of our republic, none of these "journalists" can figure out how to report on the news.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (v7UJl)

73 I hope the Vox people go on a long hunger strike to make their point.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (E5lGr)

74 LEARN TO DRIVE!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (yEAdf)

75 Laura Bassett and John Stanton both still have their blue check marks on Twitter.

Why? Isn't their influence tied to their job? They don't have their job anymore. They're nobody. Why do they still have blue checks?

Posted by: arminius256 at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (382aI)

76 66 Because we don't have enough journalists employed to write those cutting edge gender/race/LGBTQ stories. *That's* who got laid off in February - the fluff, the useless navel-gazing millennial hipsters who used their position to condemn and lecture all the un-woke.

Spoiler alert: that's not journalism, that's activism.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (W+vEI)

And the thing is, those "Lecture" pieces don't do any good. They don't help convince "socially weak" people (like me) want to be on their side. They just push them away.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (sm6Pk)

77 Vice today, burn Vox tomorrow.

I thought Vox was one of those vanity projects underwritten by left-wing billionaires.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (O7MnT)

78 Well, this all makes perfect sense, except why Uber? I hear there's lots of money in the sex trades. They can tell their clients the news while undressing.

Posted by: pincorrect at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (TxuPw)

79 We need to save Journalism by implementing Common Sense Journalism Reform.

1. Waiting periods for Journalists to break stories.
2. Ban on high-capacity tweeting
3. Thorough background checks on Journalists

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (KUaJL)

80 "The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far."

Not nearly enough.

Posted by: West at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (7Fa8Y)

81 Oh perfect! Someone who admits she has absolutely no knowledge of the business side of journalism has started a donation-seeking organization to teach other journalists about the business side of journalism.

In another place and time, these people would be cargo cultists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (I2dne)

82 Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

---

The big story there is that Vox has 300 employees, much less "over" 300.

That's mind blowing.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (v7UJl)

83 Lucy Brown - For Britain Rally in Essex 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8t5DAR9sFg

Posted by: Off the reservation at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (vWMNq)

84 73 I hope the Vox people go on a long hunger strike to make their point.

The Dutch apparently are willing to let their teenagers starve to death, I think it's the least we could do for Vox.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (8erNz)

85 1) Start "Save Journalism Project"2) ???3) Save Journalism
Easy Peasy

Posted by: Steve "Bofa" D'Snutz at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (SOV+T)

86 36 23 I keep meaning to start a 'nonprofit,' name it something stupidly liberal, and see how many hipsters in nyc I can get to give me money.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM (u9hp4)

How about "free" crying towels? Just pay shipping and handling?

Posted by: BignJames at June 06, 2019 01:23 PM (ykq7q)

===========

The Proactive Environmental and Activist Center Enterprise (PEACE).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (9cans)

This is starting to remind me of that Seinfeld gag. The Human Foundation - "Money for People"

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (J+mig)

87 How will we save journalism? We will sell "Save Journalism" t-shirts and bumper stickers, of course.

Posted by: Save Journalism > D-Day at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (4Eo4+)

88 Scream and leap!

(A little late, but better late than never)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (ClOmq)

89
54 @josheidelson

Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart." Says he wants "fair & highly competitive agreement quickly"

*snort*
Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

One-Day Walkout = Easy way for employer to identify the workers who don't produce diddly-squat for the business.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (WO0O0)

90 >>Why? Isn't their influence tied to their job? They don't have their job anymore. They're nobody. Why do they still have blue checks?'

Think recent events have shown us that twitter exists primarily for journalists. They're the ones who use it the most, and they, more than any other group, have the power to make twitter do what they want.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (W+vEI)

91
Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."

======

No kidding. Have you talked to the restaurant business lately?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (M9ntN)

92 There has been some good journalism, here and there, now and then, mostly in niche fields like science journalism and the like. And most of it is written by people who actually come from the sector they're writing about. But most journalists are specialists in journalism and that gets you something like math teachers who have a degree in education rather than math.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (RD7QR)

93 44 #learn to shovel
Coding actually takes skill.

Would you really be surprised to find these people holding on to the spade end and trying to move dirt with the handle?

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (wW03z)

94 Such a buggywhip situation.

You didn't have to be a genius to know that when *anyone* could slap up information on the internet, the days of curated news were numbered. These gimps should've been repurposing themselves two decades ago.

What a mass of soft, unjustifiably bitter eaters.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (Bdeb0)

95 44 Coding actually takes skill.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2019 01:25 PM (VpIIl)
____

Not really that hard. Yeah it's a skill, but it's a skill like being a forklift operator or whatever. Something most people can learn in a short amount of time.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (FiUMj)

96 The Trump movement is the biggest political "news" story in 55 years and the "news" media totally missed it and still refuse to report it even happened. Think about that.

It would be like all of the reporters saying we deserved 9/11,or that it was really done by Bush, or refusing to show any pictures of it anymore.

Ok maybe that's a bad example.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (E5lGr)

97 We need to save Journalism by implementing Common Sense Journalism Reform.

1. Waiting periods for Journalists to break stories.
2. Ban on high-capacity tweeting
3. Thorough background checks on Journalists

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 06, 2019 01:30 PM (KUaJL)

--

They would probably embrace this sort of thing regarding freedom of the press.

Ace isn't properly licensed, is he? What about you, citizen? Have you paid the annual fee and taken the continuing education course to certify that you are qualified to comment here?

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (v7UJl)

98 This is just getting too funny...

@dylanmatt

I did not schedule this tweet of my article. Please do not click links from the tweets management is forcing folks out of unit to do while we walk out.

Under his tweet he includes the link to:

@voxdotcom

How do each of the 2020 Democratic candidates plan to fight poverty?

What stance does each take on healthcare, education, immigration, and other policy areas that impact people's lives?

Find out, in Vox's guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy.

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (cF8AT)

99 Vice.com laid off its editor-in-chief Jonathan Smith

Oh the pain. The pain of it all

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (OLCnA)

100 Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."

---

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

*deep breath*

ahahahahahahahahahahaha

GFY

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (KUaJL)

101 What was the term these very same pieces of shit coined?

Oh, yes, "funemployment."

Reap the whirlwind, bitches.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (vg8iE)

102 >>Vice today, burn Vox tomorrow.

I thought Vox was one of those vanity projects underwritten by left-wing billionaires.

Both are.
Vice is funded by Disney, and Vox by NBC.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (W+vEI)

103 You want to save journalism? You just got yourself shitcanned. I think you've done enough. Thank you for your service. Learn to code or FOAD.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (kfcYC)

104 86
The Proactive Environmental and Activist Center Enterprise (PEACE).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (9cans)

This is starting to remind me of that Seinfeld gag. The Human Foundation - "Money for People"
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (J+mig)

===========

I feel like that episode would play better today than in the 90s, but it would run a bit different.

George hands card to head of HR.

"I've made a donation to the Human Fund in your name."

"Oh, my gosh! This is amazing! I'm going to get the whole company to donate!"

A couple of commercial breaks later.

George is sitting in his office with a check for hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fake charity and has no idea what to do. He calls up Jerry.

"Jerry, I'm really in a bind here..."

"Who is this...?"

"Jerry!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (9cans)

105 It's not just the business side of journalism that these suckers were never taught.

Someday someone is going to decide that the way to save journalism is by actually doing journalism.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (hr5kG)

106 I don't know exactly how this-all works, but don't Google and Facebook have to pay the producers to rebroadcast content?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (M9ntN)

Yes. They can get away with quoting some of an article (fair use), but mostly what these idiots are upset about is that companies would rather advertise through google, who can place them anywhere on the internet (including on news sites), then through the newspapers themselves. So the newspaper webpages see way less revenue then they think they should.

Basically, targeted ads is the real issue here.

And it's effected A LOT of industries, including traditional advertising agencies. But, again, reporters don't seem to be too upset about that.

Advertisers are thrilled, though -- now they can microtarget ads to people who actually might buy their product, instead of having to run an ad in a newspaper or on TV where most of the audience probably has zero interest in the product anyways.

(for example, Mercedes can microtarget upper middle class people who have searched for luxury cars in the past. Previously, they had to pay to place an ad in the print edition of the NYT, which might skew upper middle class, but also includes a lot of people who live in NYC and don't own a car, a lot of people who could never afford a mercedes, and a lot of people who aren't currently in the market for a new car.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (GBteo)

107 Margin blower

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (1XAal)

108 Journalism is read.

Greetings from Dallas.

Posted by: ladyl at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (8Uija)

109 Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."
=======

Nice.

Now do "communism."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (vg8iE)

110 The next big internet shake-out is going to be media companies that are vastly over-valued. The collapse of these websites is going to be traumatizing for these clowns and the ones at fault will be the folks they see in the mirror every morning.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Summer Savings on Nitwits, Dimwits, Lackwits, and Halfwits! at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (hLRSq)

111
Vlad has many aged oak poles ready.

Posted by: Vlad Favors Impaling at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (UFLLM)

112 88 Scream and leap!

(A little late, but better late than never)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (ClOmq)

Some rampaging Kzinti might shake things up in DC. Get some people some exercise.

(BTW, if you have a flight going through LAX you're going to be twiddling your thumbs; looks like they still haven't recovered from their power outage.)

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (RD7QR)

113

Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

https://tinyurl.com/yyvm2c5x

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (aKsyK)

114 Trump delivered one hell of a speech at Normandy.

FOX has the full text.

Posted by: West at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (7Fa8Y)

115 95 Not really that hard. Yeah it's a skill, but it's a skill like being a forklift operator or whatever. Something most people can learn in a short amount of time.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (FiUMj)

Well aside from that there are too many f***ing languages now, so somebody later in life starting from Zero wouldn't even know where/how to get started.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (sm6Pk)

116 Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

I'd say 'and this differs from the other 364 days just how?' except that the scent of bovine excrement floating over the Internet is modestly reduced.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (8erNz)

117 In the digital age, anyone can be a journalist. The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a $500 laptop. There is and endless supply of potential "journalists" in the world. So the value of any one specific "journalist" is close to $0.

How you like them supply/demand apples?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (FiUMj)
+++++++++++
To some degree. But it also means that quality counts. The *good* journalists at just those kind of upstart outfits are still employed, and I hope they remain so.

The supply of bad and mediocre journalists is effectively infinite. The supply of good journalists is not. It's the un-entrenched bad and mediocre ones getting the axe so far. The entrenched bad ones are still okay, but I suspect they're next. I'd bet that Maddow is renewed at a reduced rate and that LeMon is not renewed at all, for example.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (I2dne)

118 The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far.

And by journalists they mean propagandists

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (OLCnA)

119 Get a haircut. And a job.
Scum.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (LL1Be)

120 Because we don't have enough journalists employed to write those cutting edge gender/race/LGBTQ stories. *That's* who got laid off in February - the fluff, the useless navel-gazing millennial hipsters who used their position to condemn and lecture all the un-woke.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:28 PM (W+vEI

I thought all journalists were fluff......oh, you said fluff, not fluffers. Come to think of it, all journalists are fluff, too.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (m79Dg)

121
Here's a crazy idea.

Maybe, just maybe, there would be a market for well researched reports on events, that looked at all sides of a story and weren't simply partisan propaganda.
That looked at all sources with a cynical eye and did the leg work to verify information.
Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (NmR1a)

'dat's just crazy talk

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (WO0O0)

122 112 Some rampaging Kzinti might shake things up in DC. Get some people some exercise.

(BTW, if you have a flight going through LAX you're going to be twiddling your thumbs; looks like they still haven't recovered from their power outage.)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (RD7QR)

Pretty sure Kzinti get the bullet.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (sm6Pk)

123 Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce
==========

Yeah, well, the feeling is mutual.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (vg8iE)

124 109 Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."
=======

Nice.

Now do "communism."
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (vg8iE)

============

Meh. They don't actually believe in socialism or communism. They believe in rule by a technocratic elite, of which they are important members.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (9cans)

125 I will donate 500 bars of gold pressed dog shit from my lawn.

Posted by: Farangi Jarrett at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (37IEG)

126 @josheidelson

Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories.

Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart." Says he wants "fair & highly competitive agreement quickly"

*snort*
Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (cF8AT)

geez. If they all disappeared tomorrow, no one would notice.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (vEIlU)

127 I know! Why doesn't someone start publishing stories featuring Melania Trump and saying nice things about the President? Because there's a real lack of that in today's reporting and there are a lot of people having to get those stories from the Daily Mail

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (JKNZq)

128 117 To some degree. But it also means that quality counts. The *good* journalists at just those kind of upstart outfits are still employed, and I hope they remain so.

The supply of bad and mediocre journalists is effectively infinite. The supply of good journalists is not. It's the un-entrenched bad and mediocre ones getting the axe so far. The entrenched bad ones are still okay, but I suspect they're next. I'd bet that Maddow is renewed at a reduced rate and that LeMon is not renewed at all, for example.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (I2dne)

Charisma counts, too.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (sm6Pk)

129 2,400 unemployed journalists walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "LOL get fucked you commie whores!"

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (5tb4C)

130 Well, I checked out their website. From what I gather, in order to save journalism you should sign up to be on their email list, use their icon on your social media channels, follow them on Twitter, sign their letter, make a video of yourself and send it to them, and write about this issue.

And that, my friends, is how you Save Journalism.

Posted by: bluebell at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (aXucN)

131 How hard is it to write factless articles that all sane people know are pure codswallop?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (JgA4k)

132 Oh, and, obviously: Learn to code, bitches.

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I love this.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (jUVms)

133

Stick it up their pooper.

Posted by: Vlad Favors Impaling at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (UFLLM)

134 124
Meh. They don't actually believe in socialism or communism. They believe in rule by a technocratic elite, of which they are important members.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:35 PM (9cans)

Crystal Spires and Ivory Towers for Me.

Stalinist Purges and Starvation for Thee.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (sm6Pk)

135 Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."

Has he been pushing $15 an hour or living wage?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (OLCnA)

136 >> Think recent events have shown us that twitter exists primarily for journalists. They're the ones who use it the most, and they, more than any other group, have the power to make twitter do what they want.

But...they aren't journalists anymore. They don't have jobs in journalism and might never again have a job in journalism. When they lose their job they should lose their blue check mark, and have to reapply if they ever become somebody again.

Posted by: arminius256 at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (382aI)

137 Gavin McInnes must be watching the Vice blimp go down in flames with pure joy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (AzW6q)

138 Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

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"Graying workforce," also known as the people it's still totes okay to not hire and be biased against.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (v7UJl)

139 What was the term these very same pieces of shit coined?

Oh, yes, "funemployment."

Reap the whirlwind, bitches.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:33 PM (vg8iE)
++++++++++++
That one raises my bile bigly. Another is "cash for clunkers" (though for slightly different reasons).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (I2dne)

140 These dweebs really should realize that one day their sugar-daddy will get tired of their cr@p and toss them into the streets. May that day come sooner than later.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2019 01:37 PM (5WfEd)

141 131 How hard is it to write factless articles that all sane people know are pure codswallop?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (JgA4k)

Super easy, barely an inconvenience

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:37 PM (bcbK8)

142 "This is starting to remind me of that Seinfeld gag. The Human Foundation - 'Money for People'"

A donation has been made in your name to "The Human Fund" Huh, whatever...

Posted by: Mr. Kruger at June 06, 2019 01:37 PM (eAZVt)

143
Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

Gosh.
Guess we'll just have to un-Friend the stupid little bastards.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:37 PM (LL1Be)

144 "Meanwhile, Vice is reportedly laying off "senior editors" because Vice is trash and that trash is on fire and that fire is burning money."

They can do something like "The Bulwark" and re-brand their material. I think "The Dumpster" is a great new name.

Posted by: Roy at June 06, 2019 01:37 PM (Zct75)

145 One-Day Walkout = Easy way for employer to identify the workers who don't produce diddly-squat for the business.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 06, 2019 01:31 PM (WO0O0)

...

Also a whole lot of unapproved PTO.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (hr5kG)

146 The bartender says, "LOL get fucked you commie whores!"
Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:36 PM (5tb4C)

--------

BWHAHAHAH

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (jUVms)

147

Would it be ok to milkshake the shit out of these a-holes?

I gotta imagine when they see that bizarre homo Carlos causing all this commotion for his programmers, they feel pretty fucking bad.

LOL. They should have learned to code goofball homos like Carlos Maza.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (z8c2c)

148 114
Trump delivered one hell of a speech at Normandy.

FOX has the full text.

Posted by: West at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (7Fa8Y)
Agreed. Well spoken. Anybody notice how many times he referenced himself in that speech? Count them. Zero.TFG - on D Day 70th Anniversary? 12 times.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (N39Ws)

149 Here's a crazy idea.

Maybe, just maybe, there would be a market for well researched reports on events, that looked at all sides of a story and weren't simply partisan propaganda.
That looked at all sources with a cynical eye and did the leg work to verify information.
Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at at June 06, 2019 01:29 PM (NmR1a)

No. This idea is impossible in principle. There's no such thing as looking at "all sides" of a story. You have to editorialize somewhere in what you decide to cover and what you don't because you don't have infinite time and resources.

What we need to do is to dispense with the fiction that it's realistic, or even possible, for any news agency to pretend to us or to themselves that they're actually nonbiased. I want the biases of all news agencies public and in full view. There should be no confusion the ideological leanings of an organization, because there will always be there even if you like to say they won't be.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (KUaJL)

150 Everything except Fox , talk radio and some blogs are all the same shit, er content.

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:26 PM (1XAal)

Actually, One America News Network (OANN) is better at straight news than Fox. Trump has been giving them a Twitter shout out of late. It's refreshing to hear news and not an opinionated version (lies) of the news. Well worth the switch from Fox News. Opinion is something else and Tucker is the best.

Posted by: RickZ at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (Y8PSl)

151 I bet the presence of The Graying Workforce often reminds millennials of how those awesome tattoos are going to look when they're grandparents.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (v7UJl)

152 78
Well, this all makes perfect sense, except why Uber? I hear there's lots
of money in the sex trades. They can tell their clients the news while
undressing.

Posted by: pincorrect at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

[Raises hand] I for one will happily undergo a full-body massage from Marie Harf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (ClOmq)

153 "Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories."

They need that many people to write listicles, investigate the Gaza-West Bank Bridge, and write an article on the many ways cats are trying to kill me?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Summer Savings on Nitwits, Dimwits, Lackwits, and Halfwits! at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (hLRSq)

154 Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

perhaps they could take along a friend with an accordion to keep them entertained, as well.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (sGtp+)

155 I'm getting sick of cutting my grass might be willing to give some jorno $15 if they can finish without abandoning the job. House could use a coat of pain too.

Posted by: Ripley at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (MxEKc)

156 and joe, although I am not one to talk, please don't blow the margins.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (kod69)

157 Oh, and, obviously: Learn to code, bitches.

Hell No !

Why wreck a perfectly good industry with these whining F-ups?

They should ALL do a long term deep cover investigation of our nation's various Skid Rows.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (lD3vL)

158 Journalism. Is their any other profession in the world that has drifted so far afield from its charter? They are writing themselves out of existence and can't see it.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (E5lGr)

159 Dirty little secret about non-profits - they are not non-revenue.

Posted by: blaster at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (ZfRYq)

160 I'm getting sick of cutting my grass might be willing to give some jorno $15 if they can finish without abandoning the job. House could use a coat of pain too.
Posted by: Ripley at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (MxEKc)
+++++++++
But those are trades! Who work with their *hands!* We're professionals, not animals!

Posted by: Journalists at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (I2dne)

161 Journalism, the Sears of the internet.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (v7UJl)

162 124 109 Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's "disappointed" by @vox_union walkout and, "WHILE PAYING PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN MARKET WAGES SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE, IT'S NOT REALISTIC OR SMART."

...

Somebody has not been reading his own outlet's articles on $15 minimum wages.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (hr5kG)

163 Ok, time to go get my hair colo.....uh, cut.

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (cF8AT)

164 1. Looking to become profitable.
2. ?
3. Profit!

Posted by: Media business planners at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (wMHPW)

165
In the Age of Trump, Journalism Is Dying.

The conservative case for subsidizing liberal journalists, in order to save the pants industry.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (AzW6q)

166 Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

Vlad suggests staffing the car with two hot chicks and some condoms... financial insolvency solved!

Posted by: Vlad Favors Impaling at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (UFLLM)

167 lolgf: Laid-Off Reporters Launch a New Side-Hustle to "Save Journalism"
======================
Easy, peasy. Stop being S.C.U.M (So Called Unbias Media), get off your knees, close your mouth and do honest reporting. It's not that difficult.

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (0ta/n)

168 151 I bet the presence of The Graying Workforce often reminds millennials of how those awesome tattoos are going to look when they're grandparents.
Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (v7UJl)

If they REALLY wanted to get funhouse mirror'd into oblivion, the greyhairs should dye their hair pink or purple, just to drive it home that the freak-flag LARPers human-comic-book looks are gonna fade, fade, fade away.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (sm6Pk)

169 Vice will be restructured as a parking lot.

"They paved (leftist propaganda) paradise, and put up a parking lot
don't it always seem to go,
that you don't know what (a leftist bubble) you got till it's gone"

Posted by: illiniwek at June 06, 2019 01:40 PM (Cus5s)

170
"distribute news content without paying for it"?

======

That's exactly what I was asking. I even looked at their dumb website, hoping to see How It Works, but I still don't get how Google and Facebook are taking money from producers.

They don't say anywhere, but I wonder if they're also shook up by YouTubers who have bigger audiences than MSNBC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (M9ntN)

171
Mitch Roschild, 61

He says the aging workforce is less of an economic problem and more
of a financial reality to which workers of all ages need to adapt.

"Hey, look, I wished I'd been skiing in the Alps since I was 40," he
says. "But you think I'm going to stop working a year from now and rely
on Social Security for the next 20 years? No.

lolgf, Millenial socialists.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (LL1Be)

172 Journalism is a noble profession ... you know like being a knight protecting the ruling caste. You get hired on primarily to tamp down uppity peasants ... or plumbers and fork lift operators as the case may be.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (hdzef)

173 Tried to write something funny.
Just gave up.
Now, empty comment.
Story of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM

If this had been autobiographical poetry, the last line would have read "Movie of my life."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (YWfDm)

174 To paraphrase a column I read long ago:

How many of these "journalists" ever covered a produce festival?

And, yes, small papers do use wire services, but they also have local reporters.

I have the feeling that most of these job cuts came in online organizations that flyover country never heard of.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (M5h3L)

175 Now taking applications! No prior experience necessary but J-school diplomas a plus!

Posted by: Soylent Green at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (r8JnD)

176 June 6, 1944: Young American men landing on Omaha Beach

June 6, 1944: Young American men worrying about mis-timed tweets

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (FiUMj)

177 Anyone see the irony (hypocrisy?) of Vox employees doing a union walk-out over wages at the very same time their own reporter, Carlos Maza, is spearheading a campaign to demonetize independent content providers like Steven Crowder?

The want to "save journalism" at the same time they are in overdrive to censor non-accredited journalism/commentary. They are desperate to eliminate the competition. Jerks.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (W+vEI)

178 Yes. They can get away with quoting some of an article (fair use), but mostly what these idiots are upset about is that companies would rather advertise through google, who can place them anywhere on the internet (including on news sites), then through the newspapers themselves. So the newspaper webpages see way less revenue then they think they should.

Does anyone here actually use Google or Facebook?

They don't quote articles under fair use.

Go to Google now. Type "East Timor" and then hit the news tab. You will get a headline, a lede, and a link to the originator of the story.

This is a boon to the publishers. It's a traffic driver. How else would I know that the Globe and Mail is the first place to look?

And Facebook does not publish news stories. It just doesn't.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (fuK7c)

179 151 I bet the presence of The Graying Workforce often reminds millennials of how those awesome tattoos are going to look when they're grandparents.
Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:38 PM (v7UJl)

Yep. My Big New Idea is Mad Magazine-style tattoos that are separate when you're in your 20s and then as you sag they come together and look like something interesting. Plus it would give me an excuse to look at tits on 20-year-old chicks. Win-win.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (RD7QR)

180 173 Tried to write something funny.
Just gave up.
Now, empty comment.
Story of my life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:20 PM

If this had been autobiographical poetry, the last line would have read "Movie of my life."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (YWfDm)

==========

Missed it by that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (9cans)

181 177 Anyone see the irony (hypocrisy?) of Vox employees doing a union walk-out over wages at the very same time their own reporter, Carlos Maza, is spearheading a campaign to demonetize independent content providers like Steven Crowder?

The want to "save journalism" at the same time they are in overdrive to censor non-accredited journalism/commentary. They are desperate to eliminate the competition. Jerks.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (W+vEI)

I see an opportunity.

To change the locks at Vox.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (bcbK8)

182 I hear they're hiring at the Whale Bone Corset Rib factory.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (5tb4C)

183 There are dicks at the bus station that will not suck themselves

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (06Jfn)

184 >>If this had been autobiographical poetry, the last line would have read "Movie of my life."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (YWfDm)

"Movie of my life. Link in nic."

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (Bdeb0)

185 84 73 I hope the Vox people go on a long hunger strike to make their point.

The Dutch apparently are willing to let their teenagers starve to death, I think it's the least we could do for Vox.
Posted by: JEM

The girl was raped by two men a few years ago. I'd like more detail on the men in that story. Maybe the details of the perpetrators was withheld to protect their religion and/or national origin.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (kfcYC)

186 Teachers are journalists with better unions and PR.

Imagine Vox CEO's quote in the context of a teacher's union battle.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (hr5kG)

187 170 That's exactly what I was asking. I even looked at their dumb website, hoping to see How It Works, but I still don't get how Google and Facebook are taking money from producers.

They don't say anywhere, but I wonder if they're also shook up by YouTubers who have bigger audiences than MSNBC.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (M9ntN)

Absolutely they are.

NBC/Universal/Comcast has a significant equity stake in Vox.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:42 PM (sm6Pk)

188 Breaking: Over 300 Vox Media employees are mounting a one-day walkout today to pressure the company to finish bargaining a contract with them, a union spokesperson tells me. They are not writing or editing stories."

****
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Summer Savings on Nitwits, Dimwits, Lackwits, and Halfwits! at June 06, 2019 01:3

Who in the world would notice?

Posted by: LASue at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (wMHPW)

189 If Newsweek was bought for a dollar?
Where will the bidding start for Vox?

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (LL1Be)

190 Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

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If they're going to Chris Hayes' hotdog stand, they can get his take on current events as well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (AzW6q)

191 fat willow:
But, in fact, they began the investigation - the spying, the framing, the inviting Russians to a dinnerwhich Michael Flynn was attending to-claim "Michael-Flynn was seen dining with Russians" - before the "confirmation." They began the investigation to get confirmation.

This began in 2013, it goes deep and far and they want to bury it.

Maxine Waters Confirms “Big Brother” Database 2013, watch: youtube
http://tinyurl.com/y47a96zj
“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday. “That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said.

more

http://tinyurl.com/y4akrzce
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y4akrzce

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (wCz5a)

192 I've heard a coder that works in another agency in my building say he intentionally writes shit code so that if anything goes wrong, he's the only one who can understand it and fix it.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (sm6Pk)

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Everyone claims they do that, I doubt many actually do. There's a lot of peer review and shit like that at bigger corporations. It would be really hard to get away with it.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (FiUMj)

193 "Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr:"

Just wait until the govt starts raping them to pay our SS benefits. And the time is long past when I would have gladly accepted some opt-out/buy out option, but libs/progs would never have allowed that.

Pay up, bitches.

Posted by: Ripley at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (MxEKc)

194 122
112 Some rampaging Kzinti might shake things up in DC. Get some people some exercise.
. . .

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:34 PM (RD7QR)

Pretty sure Kzinti get the bullet.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .
Check out the guy with the hellflare tattoo on his shoulder. Those dudes were trained to kill kzinti with their bare hands, feet, elbows, and whatnot.

Besides, a kzin is eight feet tall and correspondingly broad. Most bullets won't do much. You need an armor-piercing round or two.

Posted by: Beowulf Shaeffer at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (ClOmq)

195 I can't read this on my phone.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (dOOrJ)

196 News orgs couldn't stand it that there were alternate sources of info online. So they went and started their own e-versions to quiet and compete with the dissenters.

In doing so, they killed off their own paper versions and with it all of those jobs for journalists. Now most small to medium sized city papers are owned by one or two corporations and who down-size, run syndicated columns and automate processes. Further reduction in journalist jobs.

With cord-cutting, soon television will be next.

Journalism is a dead field.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (eBEvF)

197

Well, I'd suck their brains out with a straw, sell the spouses and orphans, and go into cures for SouthAmerican shithole diseases...

Posted by: Journo Business Consultant at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (UFLLM)

198 159 Dirty little secret about non-profits - they are not non-revenue.

Posted by: blaster at June 06, 2019 01:39 PM (ZfRYq)

And the board is always happy to give senior staff a raise.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (RD7QR)

199 Even the name Vox sounds so milienially idiotic.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (FiUMj)

200 "June 6, 1944: Young American men worrying about mis-timed tweets"

The very same day? Wow!

Posted by: Chris M at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (eAZVt)

201 192 Everyone claims they do that, I doubt many actually do. There's a lot of peer review and shit like that at bigger corporations. It would be really hard to get away with it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (FiUMj)

He's Public-Sector, though.

So yeah, I believe him.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:45 PM (sm6Pk)

202 159 Dirty little secret about non-profits - they are not non-revenue.

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Thank GOD!!

Posted by: CEO of American Red Cross who makes 7 figures at June 06, 2019 01:45 PM (FiUMj)

203 If Newsweek was bought for a dollar?
Where will the bidding start for Vox?
Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (LL1Be)
+++++++++++++
It will start at a dollar. There will be no bid.

Actually, I'd buy it for a dollar. I heard that Salon might go for as little as a hundred grand. I am actually tempted to try to put something together. It would be hilarious to buy one of those failed left-wing vessels, clean house, and turn it into a conservative agitation publication just to *really* piss them off...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:45 PM (I2dne)

204 No. This idea is impossible in principle. There's no such thing as looking at "all sides" of a story. You have to editorialize somewhere in what you decide to cover and what you don't because you don't have infinite time and resources.

It would require an accurate and comprehensive acceptance and understanding of alternate world-views.

The Left is intellectually, morally and culturally incapable of comprehending a world view that is founded on the Imago Dei. They flat out don't have the language to even discuss it.

For example. Ask them what a "Right" is, and what you will most likely get (other than insults, deflection, or blank stare) is something akin to a Privilege or Perquisite.

Ask them what role Duty or Honor plays in a person's life - it will outright depress you and convince you that your dog has a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the topic.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 01:45 PM (lD3vL)

205 Douglas DC-3/C-47s take off from Duxford to mark D-Day.

https://youtu.be/0KYw6xOvRzo

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2019 01:46 PM (5WfEd)

206 201 192 Everyone claims they do that, I doubt many actually do. There's a lot of peer review and shit like that at bigger corporations. It would be really hard to get away with it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (FiUMj)

He's Public-Sector, though.

So yeah, I believe him.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:45 PM (sm6Pk)

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LOL. Although to be fair, given it's govt workers, how would anyone distinguish intentional shitty code from non-intentional shitty code?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:46 PM (FiUMj)

207 Everyone claims they do that, I doubt many actually do. There's a lot of peer review and shit like that at bigger corporations. It would be really hard to get away with it.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (FiUMj)

...

You'd have to somewhere keep secret documentation of your own lousy code, or the writer would be as hamstrung as anybody else to come back and fix it.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 06, 2019 01:46 PM (hr5kG)

208 News orgs couldn't stand it that there were alternate sources of info online. So they went and started their own e-versions to quiet and compete with the dissenters.

In doing so, they killed off their own paper versions and with it all of those jobs for journalists. Now most small to medium sized city papers are owned by one or two corporations and who down-size, run syndicated columns and automate processes. Further reduction in journalist jobs.

With cord-cutting, soon television will be next.

Journalism is a dead field.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2019 01:44 PM (eBEvF)
+++++++++
I was on vacation recently and one of the hotels gave out copies of USA Today. We snagged one and looked over it. Drivel. And not even much of it. The entire news section was six pages. Six pages for a news section for the whole country. Half of the articles were AP reprints. What's the point of USA Today existing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:46 PM (I2dne)

209 these people worked for media companies

they were never journalists

there's a lot more froth in Big Media left to go, too

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (Rarvo)

210 190 Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver and tell people the news when you drive them to Arby's.

---------

If they're going to Chris Hayes' hotdog stand, they can get his take on current events as well.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 01:43 PM (AzW6q)

Best Ace thread ever

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (bcbK8)

211 WILL LIE FOR FOOD

Posted by: VOX at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (oVJmc)

212 Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr:"

Just wait until the govt starts raping them to pay our SS benefits. And the time is long past when I would have gladly accepted some opt-out/buy out option, but libs/progs would never have allowed that.

Pay up, bitches.
Posted by: Ripley

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This right there!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (o+pgY)

213 I'd be willing to start a soup kitchen for unemployed reporters.
Day-old ham sandwiches will be renamed with that upper crusty Italian names David Brooks likes.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (JgA4k)

214 211 WILL LIE FOR FOOD
Posted by: VOX at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (oVJmc)

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"Come sit on my casting couch."
-Hollywood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (9cans)

215 I guess I'm easily amused but the Yo! guy makes me laugh.

Posted by: Max Power at June 06, 2019 01:47 PM (q177U)

216 I hear Vandalay Industries is hiring latex salesmen if any of the laid off journalists are interested.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (FiUMj)

217 In doing so, they killed off their own paper versions and with it all of those jobs for journalists. Now most small to medium sized city papers are owned by one or two corporations and who down-size, run syndicated columns and automate processes. Further reduction in journalist jobs.

--

I love looking for a news story and finding a paywall.

Say, you know I can just search for the quote that I see right over here, right?

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (v7UJl)

218 Find out, in Vox's guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy.

Posted by: Tami at June 06, 2019 01:32 PM (cF8AT)

If they would get off the people
and stand on their own two feet
they would have a better chance.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (wCz5a)

219 Someday someone is going to decide that the way to save journalism is by actually doing journalism.
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I swear that the new frontier of journalism will be printed (copied, mimeographed, etc) and distributed by hand, as an underground movement, rather than the electric avenue gossip.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (MIKMs)

220 "Please don't blow the margins" does not have the same cache when written in .0005 font.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (E5lGr)

221 I have a sure fire way to save journalism. Tell the fucking truth, report the facts, and leave your politics to haranguing your family who are also tired of hearing about your shitty politics, whiny assholes.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (t6MX/)

222 219 Someday someone is going to decide that the way to save journalism is by actually doing journalism.
=====

I swear that the new frontier of journalism will be printed (copied, mimeographed, etc) and distributed by hand, as an underground movement, rather than the electric avenue gossip.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (MIKMs)

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Go long on printing presses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (9cans)

223 14
These are not reporters

They are paid political operators

Posted by: Yo! at June 06, 2019 01:21 PM (1XAal)

They will do anything to avoid getting a grubby work for money job like coding or accounting or nursing or running an xray machine. They want to be paid glorious sums for their every brain fart. Good luck.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (ymnmz)

224
Trump delivered one hell of a speech at Normandy.

Trump is a much better public speaker now than he was in 2016.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (TAmPV)

225 "Maybe the details of the perpetrators was withheld to protect their religion and/or national origin."

You can basically assume they were moslems, unless otherwise specified.

Posted by: Chris M at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (eAZVt)

226 I believe the Vox writers are on strike right now. Some of the writers on sports blogs I follow have also suspended operations, in solidarity with them.

Posted by: Mike at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (WWn8/)

227 I just hope their stupid new "Save Journalism" PAC/NGO doesn't start getting govt money tho

that would irk me

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (Rarvo)

228 123 Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce
==========

Yeah, well, the feeling is mutual.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Here's a thought. Stop whining and give your employer better value for the money than that old guy.

Posted by: pep at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (wW03z)

229 Dirty little secret about non-profits - they are not non-revenue.
========

No, no they are not.

They're assholes who don't pay taxes, but advocate that everyone else pay them.

Also, "profit" = "revenue over expenses"

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (vg8iE)

230 I've heard a coder that works in another agency in my building say he intentionally writes shit code so that if anything goes wrong, he's the only one who can understand it and fix it.

Two Words: Code Review

If your architects or senior leads aren't doing that, then get architects and leads who will.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (lD3vL)

231 Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

You have to give Arby's credit, though. Once the lips and assholes have been run through the emulsifier, and pressed into sheets, it makes a fair imitation of meat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (7njPr)

232 "Just wait until the govt starts raping them to pay our SS benefits. And the time is long past when I would have gladly accepted some opt-out/buy out option, but libs/progs would never have allowed that. "

__

Yep. I'm onboard the SS train now. I've paid into the fucking system for 20 years, too late to turn back. I will eagerly wait for today's 19 year old soy-boys to pay for my country club fees when I retire.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (FiUMj)

233
June 6, 1944: Young American men landing on Omaha Beach

June 6, 1944: Young American men worrying about mis-timed tweets

Posted by: Lurking Lurker

=====

The tragedy of copy and paste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (M9ntN)

234 33 In the digital age, anyone can be a journalist. The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a $500 laptop.

excuse me; could we have a word?

Posted by: $100 chromebooks at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (sGtp+)

235 221 I have a sure fire way to save journalism. Tell the fucking truth, report the facts, and leave your politics to haranguing your family who are also tired of hearing about your shitty politics, whiny assholes.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (t6MX/)

===========

Treat a Republican scandal the same way you would treat the exact same scandal coming from a Democrat.

The same number of follow up articles and everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (9cans)

236 I have a sure fire way to save journalism. Tell the fucking truth, report the facts, and leave your politics to haranguing your family who are also tired of hearing about your shitty politics, whiny assholes.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (t6MX/)

--

This event happened at this time. These individuals were involved.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (v7UJl)

237 Had to stop using USA yesterday as birds stopped crapping in cage

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (06Jfn)

238 I was on vacation recently and one of the hotels gave out copies of USA Today. We snagged one and looked over it. Drivel. And not even much of it. The entire news section was six pages. Six pages for a news section for the whole country. Half of the articles were AP reprints. What's the point of USA Today existing?

USA Today? I thought they only gave those out at the pet-friendly hotels.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (8erNz)

239 The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a 500 error.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (v7UJl)

240 The local paper stopped Monday deliveries. It said there is not enough ad revenue on Mondays to issue a paper. The classifieds in the paper today are one whole page.
Most people are putting ads for things like garage sales on Facebook and other web sites. The free market is a ruthless mother, but it is fair.

Posted by: Another Educated Idiot at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (z2xIo)

241 The tragedy of copy and paste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (M9ntN)

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (E5lGr)

242 It would be hilarious to buy one of those failed left-wing vessels,
clean house, and turn it into a conservative agitation publication just
to *really* piss them off.

Brilliant.

Keep the same layout, theme etc. Hell, you could pay a couple of the laid-off desperate little shits to write only pro-America articles - paid in full only after editor's (you) approval.

Sort of a re-education camp for deluded millennial propagandists.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (LL1Be)

243 I'll interject some good, but maybe expensive, news. It seems I need a new clutch in my He-Man Sportscar Ford Focus. Good news is I have a six speed transmission and 2.0 engine. Bad news is I likely have a screwed up clutch. I await my estimate like a He-Man.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (2LelM)

244 216 I hear Vandalay Industries is hiring latex salesmen if any of the laid off journalists are interested.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (FiUMj)

Pretty sure they're more interested in wearing the latex, not selling it.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (sm6Pk)

245 234 33 In the digital age, anyone can be a journalist. The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a $500 laptop

I would also say you need a basic command of English grammar, but, not really.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (Bn1yZ)

246 I swear that the new frontier of journalism will be printed (copied, mimeographed, etc) and distributed by hand, as an underground movement, rather than the electric avenue gossip.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (MIKMs)

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Kinda like how Amazon is opening up physical bookstores. The circle of life.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (FiUMj)

247
Plus it would give me an excuse to look at tits on 20-year-old chicks. Win-win.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (RD7QR)

Honestly, I don't need an excuse to look at a 20 yr old chick's tits......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (WO0O0)

248 The local paper stopped Monday deliveries. It said there is not enough ad revenue on Mondays to issue a paper. The classifieds in the paper today are one whole page.

--

I never did figure out how they put the system in place where they sold ads AND sold the paper.

Same with cable TV.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (v7UJl)

249 222 219 Someday someone is going to decide that the way to save journalism is by actually doing journalism.
=====

Stop being utterly predictable and agenda driven; follow the story where it leads. Who knows something interesting might happen--for those who don't commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back head two or three times.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (JgA4k)

250 USA Today? I thought they only gave those out at the pet-friendly hotels.
Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (8erNz)
+++++
LOL. This hotel was indeed "pet friendly." Good catch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (I2dne)

251 241 The tragedy of copy and paste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (E5lGr)

That was me, a few threads ago.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (bcbK8)

252 Save journalism?

SAVE FERRIS!!!

Posted by: Miklos, more likely at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (QzkSJ)

253 I used to subscribe to two dailies. My son delivered newspapers from the time he was 12 until he turned 17. Now, I can't even stand to see one in my sight. They are fully printed propaganda - won't even budge to the middle even a little. They would rather go out of business altogether than change course.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (EjlXc)

254 I really do love the wit and sarcasm here. Y'all are terrific.

Posted by: gapoz at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (WlV+s)

255 I once heard that profitability has something to do will offering a product that people want and will pay for.

Sounds crazy, I know.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (YslsA)

256 251 241 The tragedy of copy and paste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (E5lGr)

That was me, a few threads ago.

Sheesh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (bcbK

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Did you copy the whole thread again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (9cans)

257 This is pretty hilarious: Biker dude in suburban town near San Francisco builds a series of cement platforms in his front yard which, when viewed from the air, are in a swastika shape. Neighbors are freaking out. But the biker dude gives zeros fucks:

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/06/04/ neighbors-on-edge-as-el-sobrante -man-displays-giant-swastika-on-front-yard/

"A community in Contra Costa County is on edge after a man displayed a giant cement swastika on his front yard.

The homeowner, Steve Johnson of El Sobrante, said the constructed sign isn't a swastika, but a Tibetan symbol. Neighbors aren't buying it -- they said Johnson has other displays of swastikas around his home and on his motorcycle.

"You can call it what you want, as far as I'm concerned," Johnson said when asked what the symbol was. "It's a Tibetan sign that was invented way before swastikas was invented."

"It represents me not having to pull weeds out of that part of my yard."

Vince Poehnelt has lived on the same block since 1967. As a man of German descent, he said Johnson's display offended him greatly.

"I'm very ashamed of it," Poehnelt said.

Neighbor Maria Gutierrez was concerned about what the symbol could mean for children and families in the area. "Now, it's not safe," she said.

Others are worried about their property values dropping as a result of the display.

"I tell them, 'Hey, I've been helping you out.' Tell them I love them," Johnson said when asked about what he'd say to the neighbors who were offended. He went on to ask, likely sarcastically, "What is a swastika?"

"I don't think he's a hardcore Neo-Nazi. He may be racist," Poehnelt said.

"I own this house and I'll put what the hell I want on my front yard and it's none of you guys' business, so get the hell off my property!" Johnson told members of the media.

When asked if he was Tibetan, Johnson said, "I could be."

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Never thought I'd laugh about a biker dude putting a swastika in his yard, but this guy is funny as hell.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (5tb4C)

258 Go long on printing presses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:48 PM (9cans)

mimeograph machines

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (dm05u)

259 Does anyone here actually use Google or Facebook?

They don't quote articles under fair use.

Go to Google now. Type "East Timor" and then hit the news tab. You will get a headline, a lede, and a link to the originator of the story.

This is a boon to the publishers. It's a traffic driver. How else would I know that the Globe and Mail is the first place to look?

And Facebook does not publish news stories. It just doesn't.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (fuK7c)

If you use google news (or apple news on your phone), they post like one or two sentence excerpts from stories.

And if you post a news story to facebook, I believe it does the same. granted, it's users posting the story, not Facebook.

Also, Google Amp (Facebook and Apple have similar services) pull entire webpages in to their world for quicker loading / better displaying on mobile devices.
Publishers have to opt in, but it takes traffic away from their real sites.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (GBteo)

260 243 I'll interject some good, but maybe expensive, news. It seems I need a new clutch in my He-Man Sportscar Ford Focus. Good news is I have a six speed transmission and 2.0 engine. Bad news is I likely have a screwed up clutch. I await my estimate like a He-Man.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (2LelM)

_____

I'll save you the suspense. $1200.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (FiUMj)

261 Here's a thought. Stop whining and give your employer better value for the money than that old guy.

Impossible. Zero Work Ethic.

Instead, I've seen my industry flooded with furniture appropriate for Animal House. I'm not sure how bean bag chairs, table tennis, XBox, Frisbee goals, Nerf guns and skateboards are compatible with production.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (lD3vL)

262 More good news. I had my very first Chick Fil A Peach Milkshake. It was very good.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (2LelM)

263 Gee wiz there seems to be enough Gooney Birds in this video to drop a couple companies of paratroopers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (5WfEd)

264
208 I was on vacation recently and one of the hotels gave out copies of USA Today. We snagged one and looked over it. Drivel. And not even much of it. The entire news section was six pages. Six pages for a news section for the whole country. Half of the articles were AP reprints. What's the point of USA Today existing?

indeed. everyone knows you can't trust a paper that doesn't have comics.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 06, 2019 01:52 PM (sGtp+)

265 226
I believe the Vox writers are on strike right now. Some of the writers
on sports blogs I follow have also suspended operations, in solidarity
with them.

Posted by: Mike at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (WWn8/)

Oh noes! How will we survive without sports bloggers?

Posted by: No one ever at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (t6MX/)

266 243 I'll interject some good, but maybe expensive, news. It seems I need a new clutch in my He-Man Sportscar Ford Focus. Good news is I have a six speed transmission and 2.0 engine. Bad news is I likely have a screwed up clutch. I await my estimate like a He-Man.

A true he-man knows how to get 100K miles out of a clutch. Okay, 80K. That's one of those Man Skills.

Some FWD clutches are easy, some are pure hell.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (8erNz)

267 What exactly is their business model? There's no money to be made, so everybody got rid of their worst and/or most expensive journalists... and that's who you're going to hire?

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (C78No)

268 "A community in Contra Costa County is on edge"

LOL. Nobody is on edge. At worst the neighbors are thinking, fuck this may bring down home values. But nobody is on edge. And you wonder why "journalists" are getting fired everywhere.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (FiUMj)

269 >> In the digital age, anyone can be a journalist. The barrier to entry is basically an internet connection and a $500 laptop.

Until some a$$hole "journalist" decides you're offensive and whines to youtube, twitter, whatever, and has you shut down.

But they're the victims, these so-called journalist whiners.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (W+vEI)

270 138 Poll: Some younger workers not happy with graying workforce

--

"Graying workforce," also known as the people it's still totes okay to not hire and be biased against.
Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!!

Plus unlike them the the older workers are conscientious, punctual, loyal, courteous, reliable, sensible, clean, free of AXE odor, sober, considerate, appropriately dressed, well-groomed, and intelligent; making the younger workers look bad by comparison.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 01:54 PM (kfcYC)

271 256 251 241 The tragedy of copy and paste.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:49 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (E5lGr)

That was me, a few threads ago.

Sheesh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (bcbK

==========

Did you copy the whole thread again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (9cans)

Maybe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:54 PM (bcbK8)

272 I'm thinkin' if the Save Journalism Project merges with the Bulwark juggernaut, we could combine fleecing rich idiots with stale canapes and cheap vermouth for ANOTHER 3 decades of boring DC parties and pretentious cruises.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (bvp+i)

273 271
Did you copy the whole thread again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (9cans)

Maybe
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:54 PM (bcbK

==========

I won't say a word.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (9cans)

274
"Reporters are not generally super interested in speaking about their own problems and about things that affect them directly" says one of these founders.

Is he out of his mind? Ever take a look at Slate or Salon? And some of these things make it into the WaPo.

"How my newborn has made me see sidewalk cracks differently"
"My coffee allergy has changed me"
"Did my neighbors' divorce make me overeat?"
"My new Chanel bag is my freedom"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (M9ntN)

275 I'm thinkin' if the Save Journalism Project merges with the Bulwark juggernaut, we could combine fleecing rich idiots with stale canapes and cheap vermouth for ANOTHER 3 decades of boring DC parties and pretentious cruises.
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (bvp+i)
++++++++++
Maybe they can tag up with Jonah's "new venture" and go for top marks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (I2dne)

276 Never use the clutch to hold the car steady on an incline (up). Use the brake.

Posted by: JAS at June 06, 2019 01:55 PM (I5SAg)

277 Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (5tb4C)

I truly don't understand this repetitive "it makes me fell unsafe" bullshit.
What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?

People are such idiots these days.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (JgA4k)

278 242 It would be hilarious to buy one of those failed left-wing vessels,
clean house, and turn it into a conservative agitation publication just
to *really* piss them off.

Brilliant.

Keep the same layout, theme etc. Hell, you could pay a couple of the laid-off desperate little shits to write only pro-America articles - paid in full only after editor's (you) approval.

Sort of a re-education camp for deluded millennial propagandists.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 01:50 PM (LL1Be)

Maybe we can get some canals dug at the same time.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (bcbK8)

279 A true he-man knows how to get 100K miles out of a clutch. Okay, 80K. That's one of those Man Skills.

Some FWD clutches are easy, some are pure hell.
--------------------
According to Rick, my trans friend, my tranny has a double clutch. The mileage is 70k. The clutch warranty was 60k, so I'd say Ford designed and manufactured this tranny perfectly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (2LelM)

280 LOL. Nobody is on edge. At worst the neighbors are thinking, fuck this may bring down home values. But nobody is on edge. And you wonder why "journalists" are getting fired everywhere.
======

The funniest part is the bleeding heart libs are concerned about property values falling while at the same time, they are concerned about affordable housing for the unwashed, impoverished Third World masses with whom they are flooding the country.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (vg8iE)

281 I never did figure out how they put the system in place where they sold ads AND sold the paper.

Same with cable TV.
Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (v7UJl)

Right. TV, radio and print media had a sweet advertising near-monopoly for a lonnnggg time. Then the internet came along and said "we can micro target your ads way more efficiently" and companies said "cool."

And now "journalists" are bitching that the internet is hurting their industry. Just like it hurt many other industries.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (GBteo)

282 When asked if he was Tibetan, Johnson said, "I could be."

-----

Never thought I'd laugh about a biker dude putting a swastika in his yard, but this guy is funny as hell.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (5tb4C)

Why the hell couldn't he be? Haterz.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (t6MX/)

283 I have zero sympathy for these 'journalists'. I'm a real estate agent. We, too, are besieged by tech companies who think they can do our jobs for a lot less money. Worse, they're trying to make money off the data that real estate agents give them. So, zero sympathy. Learn to code.

Posted by: biancaneve at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (hkMx0)

284 Do the Hustle!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 01:57 PM (bcbK8)

285 277 Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 01:51 PM (5tb4C)

I truly don't understand this repetitive "it makes me fell unsafe" bullshit.
What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?

People are such idiots these days.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (JgA4k)

============

I got into a discussion with someone years ago about guns.

Her position was that the presence of guns made her feel unsafe, therefore guns should be banned.

She didn't say much about my question regarding the feeling of safety for the person holding the gun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Pre-Order Crystal Embers Today! at June 06, 2019 01:57 PM (9cans)

286 282 Why the hell couldn't he be? Haterz.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (t6MX/)

Because if he was, he'd know the Manji faces the opposite direction.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:57 PM (sm6Pk)

287 I truly don't understand this repetitive "it makes me fell unsafe" bullshit.
What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?

People are such idiots these days.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (JgA4k)
++++++++++
"I don't like it" leaves you with no recourse. "It makes me unsafe" gives you more flexibility. "It is violent" is the final frontier on this progression, since violence is an appropriate reaction to violence, and justifying violence is the raison d'etre of the Left. There's a reason they keep conflating speech and violence. It serves their ends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (I2dne)

288 The funniest part is the bleeding heart libs are
concerned about property values falling while at the same time, they are
concerned about affordable housing for the unwashed, impoverished Third
World masses with whom they are flooding the country.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (vg8iE)

In a sanctuary city, filled with needles and mountains of human feces and garbage. That's lolgf if ever I have seen it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (t6MX/)

289 So, one of my friends tutors students over the Internet. She gets paid by the State (of South Carolina). She loves it. The students love it. I posted the following: "Keep up the good work. Maybe one day you will put the brick and mortal school teachers out of work.

Posted by: JAS at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (I5SAg)

290 So 2900 huh? About what Preezy Shit Midas was killing off in coal country weekly.

How to code for Dummys and Journalists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (pw+jk)

291 More good news. I had my very first Chick Fil A Peach Milkshake. It was very good.
Posted by: Puddin Head

Now to go back and get a cookies & cream shake!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (o+pgY)

292 At worst the neighbors are thinking, fuck this may bring down home values.

If you're in El Sobrante for property values, you really missed the boat. They just want to complain and the media is all too happy to listen to them.

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (CE5C/)

293
I truly don't understand this repetitive "it makes me fell unsafe" bullshit.

What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?

People are such idiots these days.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

Sounds cool!

Posted by: Average Skinhead at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (ClOmq)

294 The Hustle?

https://youtu.be/frCnHr1CmDg

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM (5WfEd)

295 283 I have zero sympathy for these 'journalists'. I'm a real estate agent. We, too, are besieged by tech companies who think they can do our jobs for a lot less money. Worse, they're trying to make money off the data that real estate agents give them. So, zero sympathy. Learn to code.
Posted by: biancaneve at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (hkMx0)

Yep. Zillow and realtor.com alone have taken away the big selling point realtors used to have -- their proprietary list of houses for sale.

Now a lot of people are like "hmmm... why do I need to pay 6% commission to someone to sell my house when 90% of the people who come see my house found it online and not through the intrepid work of a realtor?"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (GBteo)

296 What's the point of USA Today existing?

Cheap guest room hallway doormats, replaced every day.

Posted by: Hilton Hotels at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (WQBPn)

297 There is an analogy there with journalists.

Somewhere.

Posted by: JAS at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (I5SAg)

298
Until some a$$hole "journalist" decides you're offensive and whines to youtube, twitter, whatever, and has you shut down.

But they're the victims, these so-called journalist whiners.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (W+vEI)

Yup! Free Speech, they explained, was the single most important facet of human existence, because what flows from it are all other freedoms...

Until amateurs started practicing this freedom of speech thing, in which case, shut it down! It's too dangerous!!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (a2xio)

299 286
282 Why the hell couldn't he be? Haterz.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (t6MX/)

Because if he was, he'd know the Manji faces the opposite direction.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 01:57 PM (sm6Pk)

Maybe he identifies as an ignorant Tibetan.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (t6MX/)

300 OT---
Flynn got a new lawyer, well known, been on TV. We don't know who yet. (He fired the lawyers he had been using).
Who would you guess is the new lawyer, or who do you think would be good in that case?
Some suggestions,
Sydney Powell?

Posted by: Vera at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (yHpsH)

301
Here's a thought. Stop whining and give your employer better value for the money than that old guy.

It's tough to compete against those old guys who'll work forty hours a week and don't demand six weeks of paid vacation in their first year.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (TAmPV)

302 But nobody is on edge. And you wonder why "journalists" are getting fired everywhere.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 06, 2019 01:53 PM (FiUMj)

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Yeah, "on edge" sounds a bit extreme to me.

But imagine if it were true?

I can only imagine what a Wine Mom Riot would look like, and laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (AzW6q)

303 Oh perfect! Someone who admits she has absolutely no knowledge of the business side of journalism has started a donation-seeking organization to teach other journalists about the business side of journalism.

I wonder how many of the laid off were Business Editors?

PS...it's berry season here in the NorthWest. A lot of farms looking for pickers. A knowledge of Spanish is a plus! Former Journalists welcome!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (axyOa)

304
Maybe we can get some canals dug at the same time.

Those sewer line valves are not going to unstick themselves.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (LL1Be)

305 Oh noes! How will we survive without sports bloggers?

There was an Artificial Intelligence app made about a decade ago that given the details of a sports event would write feature length articles that were as good as or better than similar articles by today's "journalists".

I can only imagine it has gotten better.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (lD3vL)

306 I think these "journalists" will change their tune re: "big tech companies" if one of those aforementioned firms put them on their payroll.

So really, I think they're really more about "save muh job."

/they're not smart enough to learn to code

Posted by: Barack Husein Obama, Emperor for Life at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (sktRI)

307 An optical illusion that I can only see by actively buying and navigating drones to fly over and photograph you and your home makes ME feel unsafe.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (v7UJl)

308 "Pulling the ladder up" basically describes every leftist effort ever.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (E5lGr)

309 Assuming you aren't romping through the gears, just about any clutch ought to last 80K

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (YslsA)

310 If by biker dude you mean he's a member of the Hell's Angels and his house is a clubhouse I think the swastikas would only be the icing on the cake, in terms of the neighbourhood feeling on edge.

Mind you living next door to a true biker might be the safest place in town.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (JgA4k)

311 Also, I LOVE lolgf.

Posted by: Barack Husein Obama, Emperor for Life at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (sktRI)

312 "What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?
"

Worse. V-2s with incendiary bombs.

Posted by: JAS at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (I5SAg)

313 You watch, Google Maps will blur out that guy's yard.

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (QrTqV)

314 Ju87Ds equipped with under wing cannons blowing up all their eco-cars...

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (5WfEd)

315
"I don't think he's a hardcore Neo-Nazi. He may be racist," Poehnelt said.

======

I bet he has an Asian girlfriend.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (M9ntN)

316 Never thought I'd laugh about a biker dude putting a swastika in his yard, but this guy is funny as hell.
=====

I put knick-knacky stuff in front of an old series of Kipling books -- because the 'leggy thing' is prominently displayed on the spines -- and they are from the 1915 era. Don't want to freak out the neighbors.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (MIKMs)

317 Flynn got a new lawyer, well known, been on TV. We don't know who yet. (He fired the lawyers he had been using).
Who would you guess is the new lawyer, or who do you think would be good in that case?

Michael Avenati? he's not busy right now

Posted by: It's me donna at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (O2RFr)

318 305 Oh noes! How will we survive without sports bloggers?

There was an Artificial Intelligence app made about a decade ago that given the details of a sports event would write feature length articles that were as good as or better than similar articles by today's "journalists".

I can only imagine it has gotten better.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (lD3vL)

Not to mention that in some sports (Hockey, in particular), advanced stats have become so detailed that you could just plug them into a computer and know exactly who's going to win the title pretty early on in the season.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 02:01 PM (sm6Pk)

319 Some suggestions,Sydney Powell?Posted by: Vera at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (yHpsH)

Zombie Johnny Cochrane

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (E5lGr)

320
Let all the poisons seep out of the mud.

Posted by: Old King Log at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (t5m5e)

321 "I don't like it" leaves you with no recourse. "It makes me unsafe" gives you more flexibility. "It is violent" is the final frontier on this progression, since violence is an appropriate reaction to violence, and justifying violence is the raison d'etre of the Left. There's a reason they keep conflating speech and violence. It serves their ends.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Srsly? It's leaving his front yard every night to roam the streets and beat people up?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (o+pgY)

322 The link with the article has already been removed.

Posted by: JAS at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (I5SAg)

323 159 Dirty little secret about non-profits - they are not non-revenue.

Posted by: blaster

But they also have expenses, like the $250,000 management fees paid to Elijah Cummings wife's for-profit firm that she runs by the non-profit org. that she runs with 'donations' coming from parties with business related to E. Cummings' committee.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (kfcYC)

324 Cheap guest room hallway doormats, replaced every day.

Posted by: Hilton Hotels at June 06, 2019 01:59 PM (WQBPn)

I tend to stay out of hotels, because good grief I don't want to sleep on someone else's stank.

However, I attended a conference recently in a local hotel here, a swanky one. All the pomp and puffery, it makes me laugh. Among other things, on a display table near the lobby, between the front doors and the dining room, there was a great array of newspapers, especially the local rag.

This was in the morning.

When the conference was over, in the afternoon, as I was passing the table on which all the newspapers had been laid out in the morning.... pretty much all the papers were still there.

I larfed.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (a2xio)

325 The link with the article has already been removed.

The Safe Spaces were getting too crowded.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (LL1Be)

326 With the stream of searchable news narrowing due to algorithm manipulation and the move towards deplatforming thoughts that don't dovetail with the narrative, there is, IMO, a small opening for a resurgence of the true hometown paper actually staffed by members of the community.

I can't say it would be a booming industry making millions, but it could provide a few families a living. The catch is it would require actual work, investigative journalism and leaving the opinion to the opinion page instead of inserted into every article.

In short, it would require you to be a trustworthy source of local info to have any value to people. I don't know if any journalism graduates would have ever had that taught to them.

But hey, if you can teach a millennial to drink Manhattans and Old Fashions, you could probably teach them to read unbiased words on an actual piece of paper again. Maybe.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (eBEvF)

327 Srsly? It's leaving his front yard every night to roam the streets and beat people up?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 06, 2019 02:02 PM (o+pgY)
++++++++++
No, but they'd like to frame it that way. If your speech is violence, their violence is justified.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (I2dne)

328 Does Tibetan biker dude also have prayer flags all over his yard and a pet yak?
It would be cool if he did.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (JgA4k)

329 In my experience, Vice is trash, but Buzzfeed News did have a few talented reporters. Unfortunately the initiative was destroyed by awful political "reporting" including "breaking" the dodgey dossier hoax.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (6/uwW)

330 288 The funniest part is the bleeding heart libs are
concerned about property values falling while at the same time, they are
concerned about affordable housing for the unwashed, impoverished Third
World masses with whom they are flooding the country.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at June 06, 2019 01:56 PM (vg8iE)

In a sanctuary city, filled with needles and mountains of human feces and garbage. That's lolgf if ever I have seen it.
Posted by: flounder

This is in El Sobrante, not San Francisco. El Sobrante is a blue-collar working class town (or at least it has been traditionally; now it's one of the areas where overpaid tech workers scout for affordable houses within commuting distance of SF). It's the kind of place where a lot of bikers and truckers and random riffraff used to live. No needles or human feces, though. It's probably the most all-American town in the area, and would fit in nicely in Michigan or Indiana.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 02:04 PM (5tb4C)

331 Now a lot of people are like "hmmm... why do I need to pay 6% commission to someone to sell my house when 90% of the people who come see my house found it online and not through the intrepid work of a realtor?"

Realtors aren't doing the jobs that they should do. Far too many mail it in, so of course the computers will replace them.

Tell me about the neighbor's dog that barks outside all night, the couple across the street who throw noisy parties every other weekend, the quality of the schools, the quality of the HOA (are they mostly Nazis or humans?)

So if your job is to lie about the property and do comps, yeah not worth 6%.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (lD3vL)

332
There was an Artificial Intelligence app made about a decade ago
that given the details of a sports event would write feature length
articles that were as good as or better than similar articles by today's
"journalists".
=====

Forgive me, but I seem to remember one of the Reagan legends being that he called an entire game over the radio even after he lost the regular feed commentary. Does anyone else remember that one?

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (MIKMs)

333 In short, it would require you to be a trustworthy source of local info to have any value to people. I don't know if any journalism graduates would have ever had that taught to them.

But hey, if you can teach a millennial to drink Manhattans and Old Fashions, you could probably teach them to read unbiased words on an actual piece of paper again. Maybe.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2019 02:03 PM (eBEvF)

I don't really care about what is happening in my local area though.

"Oh, another car accident where both drivers were shaken and taken to the hospital as a precaution. Fascinating."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (GBteo)

334 Oh perfect! Someone who admits she has absolutely no knowledge of the
business side of journalism has started a donation-seeking organization
to teach other journalists about the business side of journalism.
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Put that in her investment prospectus. It should be a sure way to get million for the start up.

I know nothing about business and I don't care I know nothing. Give me money!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (pw+jk)

335 When somebody at the coffee asks if I mind if he takes the paper I usually just laugh and tell him to take it.

So far I've resisted the temptation to ask him why the fuck I would care if he took it?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (JgA4k)

336 I saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

Anyone putting a swastika anywhere, especially their lawn, is an asshole.

The ancient Hindu symbol is a trivium. After WWII it has only one meaning.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (fuK7c)

337 305
Oh noes! How will we survive without sports bloggers?

There was an Artificial Intelligence app made about a decade ago
that given the details of a sports event would write feature length
articles that were as good as or better than similar articles by today's
"journalists".

I can only imagine it has gotten better.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:00 PM (lD3vL)

I had a job as a process control engineer in a production environment, which basically consisted of mindless reviewing of process control charts and managing people issues. Boring as fuck, but it paid well. You do what you do to get by and quit yer bitchin.

The SPC review could have been mostly automated, and automation was replacing the humans evermore. You put on your big boy panties, retrain (learn to code), and move on without whining to anyone and everyone on the internet.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 02:06 PM (t6MX/)

338 Tell me about the neighbor's dog that barks outside all night, the couple across the street who throw noisy parties every other weekend, the quality of the schools, the quality of the HOA (are they mostly Nazis or humans?)

The existence of an HOA is reason enough not to buy.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 02:06 PM (8erNz)

339 Realtors aren't doing the jobs that they should do. Far too many mail it in, so of course the computers will replace them.

Tell me about the neighbor's dog that barks outside all night, the couple across the street who throw noisy parties every other weekend, the quality of the schools, the quality of the HOA (are they mostly Nazis or humans?)

So if your job is to lie about the property and do comps, yeah not worth 6%.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (lD3vL)
+++++++++++
Yup. My folks are relocating and a *good* RE agent is on the list - someone with extensive local knowledge who can help with exactly those kinds of questions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:06 PM (I2dne)

340 Anyone putting a swastika anywhere, especially their lawn, is an asshole.

People are entitled to be assholes as long as they don't sit on your face with it.

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 02:07 PM (8erNz)

341 I tend to stay out of hotels, because good grief I don't want to sleep on someone else's stank.

So do roll up to your visiting venue in an RV?

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:07 PM (lD3vL)

342 Ha ha. Just read on mediaite that there is a walkout and work stoppage at Vox, over wages. Union beef.

Learn to code
Learn to weld

Posted by: Redenzo at June 06, 2019 02:07 PM (14qvS)

343 I just wish he'd chosen a symbol of some dude bending over another androgynous figure wearing a press card. like that symbol over on the Hostages sidebar.

Difficult to do details like that in a yard though. maybe put up a sign.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at June 06, 2019 02:07 PM (kod69)

344 322 The link with the article has already been removed.
Posted by: JAS

Sigh. Remove the spaces from the URL. It's still there.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 02:08 PM (5tb4C)

345 I would think NAZI neighborhoods would be safe and clean.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 02:08 PM (2LelM)

346 OT Ace
I have a question about your 28 day fast.
How did extended fasting affect your other activities of daily life?
Most socializing involves food or beverages, meeting a friend for lunch, dinner with family, drinks after work, etc.
How did your family and friends adapt to your extended fasting and did you find you were somewhat isolated due to others feeling hesitant to eat in front of you?

Posted by: slowdown at June 06, 2019 02:08 PM (NAbCm)

347 Dharma Forever, Forever Dharma!

Posted by: Hells Buddhas at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (AzW6q)

348 342
Ha ha. Just read on mediaite that there is a walkout and work stoppage at Vox, over wages. Union beef.

Learn to code

Learn to weld

Posted by: Redenzo at June 06, 2019 02:07 PM (14qvS)

UHOH. Bet the paychecks started to bounce.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (ymnmz)

349 It's probably the most all-American town in the area, and would fit in nicely in Michigan or Indiana.

Posted by: zombie at June 06, 2019 02:04 PM (5tb4C)

Hey. It's my truth, and I am sticking to it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (t6MX/)

350 Learn To Sweep.
Learn to Froth Milk
Learn to flip burgers
Learn to dig ditches

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (pw+jk)

351 >>Anyone putting a swastika anywhere, especially their lawn, is an asshole. Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (fuK7c)

Putting it on your neighbor's lawn is an asshole.

In some cases, it's funny.

But still: asshole.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (Bdeb0)

352 342 Ha ha. Just read on mediaite that there is a walkout and work stoppage at Vox, over wages. Union beef.

Yeah, of all the businesses in the world that make money hand over fist due to the productivity of their workforce, Vox scores...

...uh...

...I'm still looking...

...can someone help me with this?...

Posted by: JEM at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (8erNz)

353 254 I really do love the wit and sarcasm here. Y'all are terrific.
Posted by: gapoz

Not loving your sarcasm.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (kfcYC)

354 You put on your big boy panties, retrain (learn to code), and move on without whining to anyone and everyone on the internet.
Posted by: flounder

Agreed. I was a reporter for a local paper 20 years ago (I'm 56) and I saw a lot of this coming and decided I had to get out. Retrained myself as a Tech Writer. Actually make a lot more money than I did as a reporter, although I did enjoy the job of being a reporter much more.

Posted by: Biergood at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (uGKH7)

355 I have to admire their persistence in wishing to maintain their status as Purveyors of Garbled Garbage Information.

The problem i9s that journalism as a profession is the biggest and shallowest ocean in the job world. Roughly 2mm deep anyone anyone can splash around in it.

You don't even have to provide real info as Fake News i9s the coin o0f the realm.

Welp.

Still they persisted.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (J2mEl)

356 Learn To Sweep.
Learn to Froth Milk
Learn to flip burgers
Learn to dig ditches
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:09 PM (pw+jk)
+++++++++
Learn to GF.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (I2dne)

357 Learn to Gnaw.

Learn to Feral.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (Bdeb0)

358 This is a boon to the publishers. It's a traffic driver. How else would I know that the Globe and Mail is the first place to look?

And Facebook does not publish news stories. It just doesn't.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 01:41 PM (fuK7c)

The Globe and Mail is Canada's counterpart to the NYT. It's the last place any sane person would look for truth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (7njPr)

359
saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

We still have some old street lights here in LA from the 1920's that have swastikas adorning the base.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (TAmPV)

360 Air America is still hiring, right?

/S/ Brave reporter striving to sate America's unquenchable thirst for more liberal hot takes

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (k81AA)

361
Tell me about the neighbor's dog that barks
outside all night, the couple across the street who throw noisy parties
every other weekend, the quality of the schools, the quality of the HOA
(are they mostly Nazis or humans?)

So if your job is to lie about the property and do comps, yeah not worth 6%.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (lD3vL)

+++++++++++

Yup. My folks are relocating and a *good* RE agent is on the list -
someone with extensive local knowledge who can help with exactly those
kinds of questions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .
I hope to relocate in a few years myself. I want similar answers: No HOA, no noisy neighbors, and no schools close by (a nearby school guarantees afternoon and morning traffic jams and -- with older kids -- a swarm of the little monsters making noise near my house). Yeah, lawn, off, all that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (ClOmq)

362 Learn To Famish.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (Bdeb0)

363 353 254 I really do love the wit and sarcasm here. Y'all are terrific.
Posted by: gapoz

Not loving your sarcasm.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997

That's a joke btw.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (kfcYC)

364 What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (yQpMk)

365 Matt Damon!

Posted by: Matt Damon F.A.G. at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (LikZm)

366 What's wrong with learning to code ?

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (QkjLD)

367 The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation Meltdown" after operators violated traffic laws and then evaded fines for nearly a decade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news release.

As the operators were handing out popsicles from 2009 to 2017 they also were racking up 22,000 summonses and nearly $4.5 million in fines for traffic violations, the city said. The operators had been cited for running red lights, parking near fire hydrants and blocking cross walks, among other things, the news release said.

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (QkjLD)

368 Learn to clean toilets
Learn to trim bushes
Learn to mow lawns
Learn to use a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (pw+jk)

369
What's wrong with learning to code ?
Posted by: SMOD

=====

Three-letter word: MATH

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (M9ntN)

370 336
I saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

Anyone putting a swastika anywhere, especially their lawn, is an asshole.

The ancient Hindu symbol is a trivium. After WWII it has only one meaning.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (fuK7c)

Maybe it identifies as a Coexist bumper sticker?

Posted by: Some Biker Dude at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (ymnmz)

371 Pleasepleaseplease let the biker guy put a "Hate Has No Home Here" sign out front.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (v7UJl)

372 The swastika = thoughtcrime bullshit is no different than Indians being offended by "Redskins" or "Braves".

And as long as I have to continue to put up with my taxes funding Planned Parenthood and CAIR , I DGAF if the yard swastika catches on in every blue state neighborhood in America.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (LL1Be)

373 I truly don't understand this repetitive "it makes me fell unsafe" bullshit.

What do neighbours think biker guy's cement swastikas are going to call a formation of Stukas into the neighbourhood?

People are such idiots these days.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

Sounds cool!

Posted by: Average Skinhead at June 06, 2019 01:58 PM

*****

Especially the ones with the sirens on the landing gear that screams like a frightened liberal when it goes into a dive.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (axyOa)

374 This is the "journalism" Lauren Bassett wants to save.

https://www.huffpost.com/author/laura-bassett

"People are starting to prioritize politics over sex on online dating"

"Conservative men are obsessed with AOC. Science tells us why."

"You can star in Hamilton and stll fear for your life as a black man"

Amazing HuffPost can carry on without her contributions, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (W+vEI)

375 That's a joke btw.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (kfcYC)

Explains joke. Fail.

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (fuK7c)

376 Someone stop me from hacking their website with ads for Online Java coding classes.

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (3fii8)

377 "Bassett told BuzzFeed she never paid attention to the financial side of journalism before her recent layoff. "

Because the America-hating Marxist tool was too busy attempting to destroy conservatives.

Hope u like your new digs under the bridge with the rest of the hobos.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (Vy7tf)

378 The funniest part is the bleeding heart libs are concerned about property values falling while at the same time, they are concerned about affordable housing for the unwashed, impoverished Third World masses with whom they are flooding the country.

Those are compatible thoughts.

Flooding an area with people who need housing will by necessity raise the prices on the existing stock.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (lD3vL)

379 347
Dharma Forever, Forever Dharma!

Posted by: Hells Buddhas at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .
That's what I said too, until she really went full SJW.

Posted by: Greg at June 06, 2019 02:12 PM (ClOmq)

380 366
What's wrong with learning to code ?

Posted by: SMOD at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (QkjLD)

It's offensive to whiny, entitled babies.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 02:13 PM (t6MX/)

381 shoe company that sells only left foot shoes lays off more staff

Posted by: x at June 06, 2019 02:13 PM (nFwvY)

382 369 Three-letter word: MATH
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (M9ntN)

Most of the math is really just gatekeeper bullshit you don't actually need to know, and is just there to keep too many college kids from being able to take coding classes.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019 02:13 PM (sm6Pk)

383 The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation Meltdown" after operators violated traffic laws and then evaded fines for nearly a decade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news release.

--

If I understand the precedence established by illegal aliens, they can only receive one ticket for the most recent occurrence.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (v7UJl)

384 "Oh, another car accident where both drivers were shaken and taken to the hospital as a precaution. Fascinating."
=====

School Board created a task force and authorized $1 million for an analysis of new building in the district. School Board authorized $5k for 'curriculum analysis' and enabling professionals to implement same. County Board authorized $6 million for a traffic and road study . . .

That is why local journos are so important. You try finding the 'published' agendas of each taxing body -- go on, I dare you.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (MIKMs)

385 Especially the ones with the sirens on the landing gear that screams like a frightened liberal when it goes into a dive.
Posted by: Diogenes

Finally a drone project I can get behind.

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (3fii8)

386
#374
This is the "journalism" Lauren Bassett wants to save.

Posted by: Lizzy

=====

See my #274. Great Minds tend to echo at 100 posts.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (M9ntN)

387 368 Learn to clean toilets
Learn to trim bushes
Learn to mow lawns
Learn to use a wheelbarrow.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious

Well I've never done any of these things, and in order to not to have to do any of these things, I will write articles about the top ten ways to do all of these things.

Posted by: Journalist, between jobs DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (kfcYC)

388 Well I've never done any of these things, and in order to not to have to do any of these things, I will write articles about the top ten ways to do all of these things.
Posted by: Journalist, between jobs DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (kfcYC)
+++++++++++
Don't forget also writing articles about how those things help the patriarchy or somesuch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (I2dne)

389
What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM

***

A good start?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (axyOa)

390 saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

We still have some old street lights here in LA from the 1920's that have swastikas adorning the base.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (TAmPV)

=====
At a lake/reservoir that feeds a power house the pipes leading to the water wheels have swastikas in the castings. Was put up in the early to mid 30s. German steel was the only steel strong enough for the pressures.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (pw+jk)

391 I am sorry that I was ever a journalist and I will never claim that title again if I can avoid it. I may just have to say I was a writer or editor but as far as I am concerned, whore is a more honorable title than journalist-- and this is a lifelong "good Catholic girl" talking!

Posted by: Secret Square at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (9WuX0)

392 In part, the Save Journalism Project aims to educate journalists on the side of the industry reporters tend to ignore -- the business side.
-----------

And we're just the guys to do it!

Posted by: A Group of Myopic Idiots With No Business Expertise Whatsoever at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (j84Xz)

393 Learn to chode.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (Bdeb0)

394

Tibetan Johnson is right!

Posted by: Olsen Johnson at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (aKsyK)

395 35 Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

Chunder at Chipotle's!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (Vy7tf)

396
Forgive me, but I seem to remember one of the Reagan legends being that he called an entire game over the radio even after he lost the regular feed commentary. Does anyone else remember that one?
=====
Back in the day, they would use the wire services report, like a ticker tape, box score to do a sort of live reconstruction on the local radio of a game played on the coast for example. (Hit two drumsticks together for the crack of the bat.) It was a regular thing. he wasn't the only one doing it.

Posted by: simplemind at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (vj5HA)

397 This will end well...

Posted by: Exurban Doug at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (JoORq)

398 ell I've never done any of these things, and in order to not to have to do any of these things, I will write articles about the top ten ways to do all of these things.
Posted by: Journalist, between jobs DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (kfcYC)
+++++++++++
Don't forget also writing articles about how those things help the patriarchy or somesuch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (I2dne)

---------

No, you write articles about how real men need to forget those skills in favor of learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (AzW6q)

399 383
The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation
Meltdown" after operators violated traffic laws and then evaded fines
for nearly a decade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news release.

--

If I understand the precedence established by illegal aliens, they can only receive one ticket for the most recent occurrence.

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:14 PM (v7UJl)
This week NY steals all the ice cream trucks!

Next week is punch a baby in the dick week! Come one come all! Welcome to the new NY!

Watch out for the free roaming street turds and gropey Elmos.

Posted by: Bill Deblobio at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (ymnmz)

400 >>See my #274. Great Minds tend to echo at 100 posts.

OMG, were those real stories, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (W+vEI)

401 Nice to see some of the vindictive know-it-alls in media get what they've long deserved: the chance to find out they're not employable.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (qC1Sy)

402 382
369 Three-letter word: MATH

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM (M9ntN)

Most of the math is really just gatekeeper bullshit you don't
actually need to know, and is just there to keep too many college kids
from being able to take coding classes.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

Back when computing was done on mainframes and minicomputers (and the instructors were brontosauri), the ads for computing schools and the course descriptions at the colleges merely said you had to have passed Algebra II. Nothing about calculus or higher mathematics. Anybody bright enough to learn coding then would already have taken Algebra II -- it was the college track in high school, not the business track.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (ClOmq)

403 No, you write articles about how real men need to forget those skills in favor of learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (AzW6q)
+++++++++
"Bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick" is hauntingly close to poetry...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a Cop!) at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (I2dne)

404 What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

A good start.

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (Ydn2k)

405 saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

We still have some old street lights here in LA from the 1920's that have swastikas adorning the base.

At a lake/reservoir that feeds a power house the pipes leading to the water wheels have swastikas in the castings

We can fix that shit right up for you.

Posted by: Antifa Confederate Statue Unit at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (LL1Be)

406 >>What do you call 2,400 journalists

Hmm. There's a "murder of crows," a "flock of seagulls," a "pride of lions."

A "fuckpig of journalists?"

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2019 02:17 PM (Bdeb0)

407 389
What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2019 02:11 PM

***

A good start?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 02:15 PM (axyOa)

I call it mercy

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 02:18 PM (bcbK8)

408 What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

Posted by: Grump928
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A surfeit of street-walkers.

Posted by: A Group of Myopic Idiots With No Business Expertise Whatsoever at June 06, 2019 02:18 PM (j84Xz)

409 What's wrong with learning to code ?

The question betrays the questioner's own knowledge of the Art.

What architecture is appropriate? What language? What frameworks? What infrastructure? What is CI/CD? What is Big O Notation and why should one care? How do you know if there is a memory leak? What is a memory leak? How do you fix a memory leak? What if it looks like a memory leak, but is really just an efficient cache? What is SOLID? What is Pub/Sub? When is it best to use a NoSQL database?

Coding is really just a small part.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:18 PM (lD3vL)

410 A dumbf*ck of journalists

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:18 PM (9RuBE)

411 >>What do you call 2,400 journalists

A canal of journalists.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (t6MX/)

412 yeah, swatikas are pleasant enough patterns that folks used for 1000 of years as doodles and such in sculptures blah blah blah. Really, unless there's an actual swastika+german connection, it could just be art

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (JziUy)

413
OMG, were those real stories, too?
Posted by: Lizzy

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Hah, no, but it looks like I wasn't exaggerating much.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (M9ntN)

414 A nickelfuckton of journalists.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (xPJvm)

415 Non-profit: "Jobs" that don't take time away from political crusades.

Posted by: Axeman at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (YOhRS)

416 375 That's a joke btw.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at June 06, 2019 02:10 PM (kfcYC)

Explains joke. Fail.
Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide

That's why I explained it in a subsequent comment. The intial post was the side-splitting rib-tickler. Gapoz seems like a nice guy which is rare, thinks we're witty, which is even more rare, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings and drive him into the arms of a Nevertrump site.

More fail, I know.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (kfcYC)

417 "Are you a Tibetan man?"

"Vegas, baby!"

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 02:19 PM (LL1Be)

418 Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

Chunder at Chipotle's!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM

*****

Dildos at Dominos had them sitting on the edge of their seats!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (axyOa)

419 409
When is it best to use a NoSQL database?

Never.--A SQL Server DBA

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (N39Ws)

420 A group of lemurs is called a "conspiracy."

That works for journos.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (AzW6q)

421 ...save the industry from the "monopolistic power of big tech companies,"...

Doxxes citizen journalists and demands big tech companies blacklist Crowder, Ngo, Count Blackula, Nick Monroe, and the Federalist

Same people.

Posted by: nightfly at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (jiOft)

422 really, the best thing for journalism right now are some hard working, bright, well-educated H1-B's to come in and replace the old, poorly trained, ready to die, bland food eating white american journalist.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (JziUy)

423 learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (AzW6
===
Not quite Frost but still damn good poetry.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (pw+jk)

424 A fluffer of journalists?

Posted by: Biergood at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (uGKH7)

425 What do you call 2,400 journalists
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Ah you can't fool me! Journalists don't exist!

Posted by: Axeman at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (YOhRS)

426 What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

Posted by: Grump928

Soon to be shitters on sidewalks

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (OLCnA)

427 yeah, swatikas are pleasant enough patterns that folks used for 1000 of
years as doodles and such in sculptures blah blah blah. Really, unless
there's an actual swastika+german connection, it could just be art

shh.
There is much virtue to be signaled.

Posted by: mikeyG at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (LL1Be)

428 Chunder at Chipotle's!
Posted by: Cicero
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Rambo at Sambo's!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (j84Xz)

429
The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation Meltdown" after operators violated traffic laws and then evaded fines for nearly a decade, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news release.

He should make common sense ice cream truck control the centerpiece of his presidential campaign

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (TAmPV)

430 shh.
There is much virtue to be signaled.

----

sort of like the weirdo journalists who've never been to a baseball game.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at June 06, 2019 02:21 PM (JziUy)

431 418
Assholes at Arby's did terribly at the box office, though to be fair it was up against Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 06, 2019 01:24 PM (NWiLs)

Chunder at Chipotle's!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM

*****

Dildos at Dominos had them sitting on the edge of their seats!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2019 02:20 PM (axyOa)
Fast Times at Taco Bell left them weak in the knees.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (N39Ws)

432 423
learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2019 02:16 PM (AzW6
===
Not quite Frost but still damn good poetry.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .

Something there is that doesn't love a journalist. . . .

Posted by: Zombie R. Frost at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (ClOmq)

433 Now that I think about it, without these dedicated jornolists doing their good works, how will I know what pizza places to boycott and harass on social media because of their religious beliefs? How will I know when to go into a panic over gas tanks blowing up? Who will keep me outraged over hatey-hate crimes by Trump supporters?

Posted by: Ripley at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (MxEKc)

434
The city began seizing 46 ice cream trucks Wednesday in "Operation
Meltdown"

76 rusty trombones led the big parade.

Posted by: Music Man Johnson at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (aKsyK)

435 I never heard of vice.com.. but looking at its headlines, I'm gonna have to make it my first stop in the morning!
Actual articles:

New Report Suggests High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End Starting in 2050 Extremely Blonde and

Disturbingly Young: The Anatomy of a Leonardo DiCaprio Relationship

7 Playboy Bunnies Recreate Their Iconic Covers 30 Years Later

We Talked to the Scientist Who Just Discovered the Perfect Penis

The FBI Has Published Its Cache of Bigfoot Files

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (so+oy)

436 Journalism today is not about using wisdom, intellect and knowledge, rather it is about choosing trigger words to manipulate, verbalizing personal emotions, vomiting up uninformed opinions and providing unsolicited (and usually bad) advice.

The only career choice I can think of that leverages these skills is either in politics or in panhandling.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:23 PM (lD3vL)

437
When is it best to use a NoSQL database?

Never.--A SQL Server DBA

Posted by: Our Country

There are situations in which databases design to hold BLOBs are better. Hybrids of the two also work.

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2019 02:23 PM (+IMvd)

438 learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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===
Not quite Frost but still damn good poetry.
Posted by: Jukin
------
*recalls comment about Byron*

"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (j84Xz)

439 OK regarding Dharma and Greg. I watched exactly three episodes and came to realize it was quite awful.

Super hot hippie chick making fun of her hard working Manhattan lawyer husband. Hahaha that sounds funny, right up until he agrees with his nagging hot wife and quits lawyering and insists they live her values out on a Bernie Sanders old commune.

At least that how I would have written it, sort of a modern Green Acres.

What exactly did Dharma do on that show other than trade on her looks to sponge the Manahattan life off a stiff white guy while posing as a with it hippie? She was likeable how?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (ymnmz)

440 We Talked to the Scientist Who Just Discovered the Perfect Penis

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 06, 2019 02:22 PM (so+oy)
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Yes, tell me more....

Posted by: Shep! at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (YOhRS)

441
Ive ALWAYS hated journalism majors.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (8XRCm)

442 Ace can hire a bevy of the laid off 'journalists' and have them dig for dirt on the Mueller crew and pay them in Lone Star beer rewards. By the 12 pk.

Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (3JZuH)

443 Two reporters fired amid widespread industry-wide layoffs this year are launching a nonprofit organization

Hey, guys, journalism generally is a non-profit organization.

That's why you're out on your asses.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (VNsf1)

444 >>I never heard of vice.com.. but looking at its headlines, I'm gonna have to make it my first stop in the morning!

There's a funny video of a Vice reporter considering story ideas by throwing dildos at the wall covered in buzzwords/topics.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (W+vEI)

445 yeah, swatikas are pleasant enough patterns that folks used for 1000 of
years as doodles and such in sculptures

Or laying out the runways at Denver International Airport

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (lD3vL)

446 336 I saw a swastika over a gate in Indonesia that could have been 1,000 years old. Even knowing the context it's disconcerting.

Anyone putting a swastika anywhere, especially their lawn, is an asshole.

The ancient Hindu symbol is a trivium. After WWII it has only one meaning.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 06, 2019 02:05 PM (fuK7c)

I've seen swastika's painted on the cliff walls over ancient Anasazi dwellings in the desert southwest - those were definitely 1,000 years old.

The question as to the man in the news report isn't whether or not he's an asshole, it's Does he have the right to BE an asshole on his own property? What if he wanted to fly a Confederate Flag, since that's been deemed verboten by the SJW's too?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (Kpl3J)

447 435
I never heard of vice.com.. but looking at its headlines, I'm gonna have to make it my first stop in the morning!

Actual articles:

New Report Suggests High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End Starting in 2050 Extremely Blonde and

Disturbingly Young: The Anatomy of a Leonardo DiCaprio Relationship

7 Playboy Bunnies Recreate Their Iconic Covers 30 Years Later

We Talked to the Scientist Who Just Discovered the Perfect Penis

The FBI Has Published Its Cache of Bigfoot Files

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 06, 2019
*
*
. . .
What It Feels Like to Learn Your Rapist Is Dead

Dating As a Drag Queen Is Harder Than You Think

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (ClOmq)

448 Seriously, though, who is going to go shopping with Democrat presidential hopefuls if they lose their jobs?

Posted by: Robbie Ray Moron - Mitch are you fo' real?!! at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (9RuBE)

449 423
learning to be a bearded cuck with necrotic soy-dick.

Those of us sporting a beard are greatly annoyed with these necrotic soy-dick wanna-bes.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (N39Ws)

450 Never.--A SQL Server DBA

-----

Squirrels doing business as..... ??? Finish your thought.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (8XRCm)

451 There is an open market for Journos willing to go to Moscow and investigate Putin cronies and ex-KGB mobster's various scams and corruption.

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (3fii8)

452 Don't learn to code. It sucks.

Posted by: Voter at June 06, 2019 02:26 PM (QfqyL)

453 crazy nood

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 06, 2019 02:26 PM (dm05u)

454
439 OK regarding Dharma and Greg. I watched exactly three episodes and came to realize it was quite awful.

Super hot hippie chick making fun of her hard working Manhattan lawyer husband. Hahaha that sounds funny, right up until he agrees with his nagging hot wife and quits lawyering and insists they live her values out on a Bernie Sanders old commune.

At least that how I would have written it, sort of a modern Green Acres.

What exactly did Dharma do on that show other than trade on her looks to sponge the Manahattan life off a stiff white guy while posing as a with it hippie? She was likeable how?
--------------------
Wasn't it supposed to be San Fran? My take, (just one look for me) was it was a not new of new twist on Barefoot in the Park.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 06, 2019 02:26 PM (2LelM)

455 so The Bulkwart is the new model for journalism? Does Cap'n Bill get any royalties?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of the MSM at June 06, 2019 02:26 PM (ZqRa6)

456 When is it best to use a NoSQL database?

Never.--A SQL Server DBA

It was a trick question to weed out the frauds.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (lD3vL)

457
We Talked to the Scientist Who Just Discovered the Perfect Penis

The FBI Has Published Its Cache of Bigfoot Files

The same story.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (aKsyK)

458 From vice.com:
Great News: Now You Can Pay $50 to Hang Out in a Cafe With Live Rats

(I know, it sounds more like Babylon Bee or South Park, huh?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (ClOmq)

459 That's "Realtor" with a capital "R". They're kinda like doctors.

Posted by: Chris M at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (eAZVt)

460 Just mailed Mutt Rombley's office a bag of candy dicks from Dysfunctional Veterans...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (ZZybC)

461 Hey, guys, journalism generally is a non-profit organization.

That's why you're out on your asses.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 06, 2019 02:24 PM (VNsf1)
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A PAC by any other name... would stink just as much.

Posted by: Shep! at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (YOhRS)

462 Nood Trump crazy

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (ClOmq)

463 452 Don't learn to code. It sucks.
Posted by: Voter at June 06, 2019 02:26 PM (QfqyL)

------------------

Yes, they could learn to script instead.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (qC1Sy)

464 Things were a lot better when people called themselves "reporters" and not "journalists."
Just like "teachers" versus "educators."

The more high brow their own descriptions the worse the people are... oh and the worse job the perform.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (pw+jk)

465 Something there is that doesn't love a journalist. . . .
Posted by: Zombie R. Frost
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Something wicked this way comes...

Posted by: The Bard at June 06, 2019 02:27 PM (j84Xz)

466 Has Ace EVER said that this blog requires calculus?

Nope

That makes this a serious military blog until it needs artillery.

Posted by: torabora at June 06, 2019 02:28 PM (3JZuH)

467 Or laying out the runways at Denver International Airport
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy

That's a subtle tell that HYDRAs HQ are deeply buried there with a tunnel to Rocky Mountain Flats.

Posted by: Jean at June 06, 2019 02:28 PM (3fii8)

468 Something wicked this way comes...

Posted by: The Bard
---------

I think there is also something in that line about pricks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:28 PM (j84Xz)

469 Nood cunning stunt

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous: buy ammo at June 06, 2019 02:28 PM (bcbK8)

470
Or laying out the runways at Denver International Airport

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 06, 2019 02:25 PM (lD3vL)

Or the training facilities at Naval Station Coronado.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 06, 2019 02:29 PM (TAmPV)

471 Ive ALWAYS hated journalism majors.
=====

Tossup between education and journalism for me.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2019 02:29 PM (MIKMs)

472 409 What architecture is appropriate?

VAX

What language?

FORTRAN with a smattering of MACRO32

How do you know if there is a memory leak?

the bitbucket gets full

Posted by: Anachronda at June 06, 2019 02:29 PM (sGtp+)

473 Nature abhors a journalist.

Posted by: Aristotle at June 06, 2019 02:29 PM (j84Xz)

474 >>What do you call 2,400 journalists

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A bonfire of vanities fixin' ta burn.

Posted by: Cletus deplorable at June 06, 2019 02:29 PM (iEJXc)

475
What do you call 2,400 journalists losing their jobs?

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"I want to be a journalism major. I want to make my living by changing the world, fighting for the little guy, making a difference with my life."

*points*
*laughs hysterically*

..fucknuggets.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 06, 2019 02:30 PM (8XRCm)

476 Ive ALWAYS hated journalism majors.
=====

Tossup between education and journalism for me.
Posted by: mustbequantum
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Don't overlook 'Mass Communication' majors.

It's not about Catholicism.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:31 PM (j84Xz)

477
'A Parliment of Whores'

*tips hat to P.J. O'Rourke*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:32 PM (j84Xz)

478 'parliament', dammit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:32 PM (j84Xz)

479

"Here's another way to "save journalism:" sign up to be an Uber driver ..."

So ...
Out: "Learn to Code"
In: "Learn to Drive"

Posted by: Jean-Pierre Folderol, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at June 06, 2019 02:33 PM (FlRtG)

480 Suddenly quiet in here. Could it be that...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2019 02:33 PM (j84Xz)

481 Oh perfect! Someone who admits she has absolutely no knowledge of the business side of journalism has started a donation-seeking organization to teach other journalists about the business side of journalism.

I think I just figured out why "journalists" love socialism.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 06, 2019 02:34 PM (VNsf1)

482 >>> firms like Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising market, distributing news content without paying to produce it and dismantling traditional newspapers and digital news outlets.The newly founded nonprofit estimates 2,400 journalists lost their jobs in 2019 so far.

BigTech vs SJW journalists is like Freddy vs Jason, Alien vs Predator. Doesn't matter who wins, humanity still loses.

Posted by: LizLem at June 06, 2019 02:34 PM (hvf9s)

483

Is "Rachel Schallom" her pr0n name?

Hey, now, getting dorked in your squeekhole on camera is an honest living!

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at June 06, 2019 02:52 PM (1hM1d)

484 Now, to figure our a way to get those cock-holsters and FIGS from Vox removed from employment...

Posted by: Pinochet Air Tours Flt Attendant at June 06, 2019 03:19 PM (67aEn)

485 "This attitude reminds me of a lot of coders who forget that the #1 reason they exist is to make money for someone."
What an inelegant comment. There is a balance of power. Checks and balances? Natural rights? Coders might live for themselves and to make their own lives better. Crazy. Maybe the job of the employer is to make talented employees happy to work. Code elegance is to some important extent getting the job done. Can't explain entropy or broken window theory to a dumbass. You guys ruined IT and the country. Yah, I'm bitter. Red pill jumped the shark. What's next big thang? and don't tell everybody. Maybe vilify the gravy train instead?

Posted by: 'Reality' Doug at June 06, 2019 03:24 PM (zUdj5)

486 The local paper stopped Monday deliveries.[i/]

Bit by bit, newspaper people are getting weekends off.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 06, 2019 03:28 PM (M5h3L)

487 What an inelegant comment. There is a balance of power. Checks and balances? Natural rights? Coders might live for themselves and to make their own lives better. Crazy. Maybe the job of the employer is to make talented employees happy to work. Code elegance is to some important extent getting the job done. Can't explain entropy or broken window theory to a dumbass. You guys ruined IT and the country. Yah, I'm bitter. Red pill jumped the shark. What's next big thang? and don't tell everybody. Maybe vilify the gravy train instead?

lol, wut?

Posted by: human at June 06, 2019 03:35 PM (0CeRG)

488 As long as they're not sleeping with their sources or bribing FBI officials, what's the harm?

Posted by: Edward R. Furrow, Manufactured News Network Boat Anchor at June 06, 2019 04:14 PM (Ndje9)

489 Well, hell!

Screwed that up.

Maybe this will fix it?

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 06, 2019 04:17 PM (M5h3L)

490 "And yet they're all for open borders and flooding the country with cheap labor."

American journalism is immune to cheap limmigrant labor, because it is an English-only industry. That's why the journos are against English immersion classes for immigrants.

Posted by: Thirdtwin at June 06, 2019 04:32 PM (vBL0x)

491 Someone pulled that on me, they'd get a 1-star rating.

Posted by: Rick C at June 06, 2019 04:41 PM (Iwkd4)

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