The Atlantic: "Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

Dear Jesus, please, I don't ask for much.

Is American Journalism Headed Toward an 'Extinction-Level Event'?
The news industry has been in decline for decades, but the latest round of layoffs is especially ominous.
By Paul Farhi

For a few hours last Tuesday, the entire news business seemed to be collapsing all at once. Journalists at Time magazine and National Geographic announced that they had been laid off. Unionized employees at magazines owned by Condé Nast staged a one-day strike to protest imminent cuts. By far the grimmest news was from the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper west of the Washington, D.C., area. After weeks of rumors, the paper announced that it was cutting 115 people, more than 20 percent of its newsroom.

My dick's so hard it just got hired by Fani Willis.

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What makes this so unnerving is the fact that the meltdown has come amid--and in seeming defiance of--a generally booming economy.

LOL.

Dear Diary, why doesn't anyone trust the media? Me don't understand.

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It's the same old story, only worse. Since the 2020 presidential election, Facebook has steadily reduced the amount of news that users see in their feed, wiping out a major source of traffic and, as a result, ad revenue. Meanwhile, the 2024 cycle has yet to deliver the expected "Trump bump"--the surge of public interest and subscription revenue generated by fascination with, or alarm over, the previous president--and it may never come.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say you're not seeing a "Trump bump" BECAUSE YOU'RE ACTIVELY CENSORING ALL TRUMP STORIES.

You can't fear the devil if everyone says the devil doesn't exist!

To the contrary, some studies suggest that "news fatigue" has reduced audience demand for journalism in the post-pandemic era.

More like "fake news fatigue." We just don't believe you any more. We don't believe a word of what you say. Listening to you is like listening to cats. Cats have an agenda, a very narrow and stupid agenda, and never stop caterwauling that agenda.

Like you.

By far the greatest damage to the news ecosystem over the past 20 years has been at the local level. Nearly all of the 2,900 newspapers that have closed or merged since 2005 have been small weeklies, according to researchers at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. This has left broad swaths of the country lacking professional reporting of any kind.

Psst: They lacked "professional reporting" before, too.

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"As local journalism declines, government officials conduct themselves with less integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness and corporate malfeasance goes unchecked," observed PEN America in a 2019 white paper. "With the loss of local news, citizens are: less likely to vote, less politically informed, and less likely to run for office." Not all citizens, though. A weakened local press corps is a gift to someone like George Santos, whose serial fabrications went mostly (if not entirely) unreported during his campaign for Congress.

Who's reporting on the excess deaths crisis? Nobody, right?

Is that because of "weakened local newspapers" or because the entire media is a corrupt leftwing propaganda machine that has the maturity of a three year old and can never admit "I was wrong"?

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Some have called for direct and muscular government intervention.

LOL, I'll bet. We all knew this pitch was coming, right?

Policy proposals include tax credits for publications that hire reporters and for advertisers that place ads in those publications, as well as increased government spending on public-service ads.

Fuck you. I will literally join a guerilla warfare unit before I allow you to take my money to propagandize against me.

A potentially more powerful mechanism: a law compelling Google and Facebook to compensate publishers for the news content the tech companies display on their platforms.

Failing industry brainstorms rent-seeking schemes, film at 11.

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Among those who wish Congress would act is [LA Times owner] Soon-Shiong, who responded to criticism from Democratic lawmakers by urging them to pass a law to support news organizations. "I'd like to put the question to them," he wrote, according to the Times' own coverage. "What can they do to help preserve a free and robust press, one that is instrumental in upholding our democracy?"

LOL, rich man buys into a dying industry, loses money, demands government make up his losses. Film at 11.

It's a fair question. The news industry has been in steady decline for two decades. Expecting some kind of free-market-based turnaround is lunacy. If journalism is essential for preserving democratic self-government, perhaps only democratic self-government can preserve journalism.

Or you could try not lying about everything, and demanding the government censor anyone who points out that you're lying.

But you'll never try that. So you'll have to go extinct.

And just to prove that: All through the covid hysteria, the media scolded Americans that they must accept being locked up and absolutely must accept their kids being locked out of schools. And they swore that Zoom lessons would be just as good as in-person losing.

This was a lie pushed by the teachers unions and other Democrat pressure groups.

Now that the evidence is in and the school shutdowns resulted in kids falling a year or more behind -- there is still no apology from the leftist propaganda outlets that destroyed America's children.

The devastating impact of pandemic-era policies on kids' educations is too great to ignore, although school districts are doing everything they can to hide it by lowering standards and dropping tests altogether.

The New York Times' Editorial Board member Brent Staples has a short piece on their blog The Point, that touches on this point: time is running out to do anything about the disaster, if there ever was any time available to reverse the damage in the first place.
Staples' short acknowledgment of the problem is mildly refreshing, but as Dr. Prasad points out, it obscures the fact that The New York Times bears a considerable amount of responsibility for creating this problem in the first place.

The New York times perpetuated school closure with inaccurate articles about risk to kids and inaccurate claims that closure protected adults. Now the paper is full of stories about how bad a decision it was. Why not an apology? pic.twitter.com/dnVHYbbXUx
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) February 1, 2024

But no apology.

Not even a Whoops! Whoopsie!

On January 18th, the NY Time bravely admitted that... mistakes were made.

By who?

Let's not get into that.

Some pandemic mistakes were inevitable... But others betrayed an ideological intransigence. The obvious example was long-term school closures, mostly in blue states, which we now know caused significant delays in learning, especially among the most vulnerable populations with the fewest resources. In many places during the pandemic, to suggest that kids might suffer learning loss or social and emotional consequences was tantamount to wishing death upon teachers. Forbidding socializing among young children denied them the development of social skills, yet to advocate otherwise could get you kicked out of a parent group chat [or worse, you might lose your job]"

Whose "ideological intransigence"? And which propagators and enforcers of ideological conformity were responsible for this?

Any idea, New York Times?

No?

I'm sorry, admitting the most obvious things in the world IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR isn't going to be enough. The NYT had a hysteric as their Covid reporter and her errors were legendary. That's how they should be remembered: wrong and dumb and only willing to face it 4 years later. https://t.co/LhJkZi4jNg
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 20, 2024

Remember, these same institutions want you censored, deplatformed, demonetized, and de-banked (yes that is a word, Geniuses of SNL) if you get anything wrong.

But for them...?

Getting everything wrong is not only permitted -- it's the noblest calling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:00 PM

Comments

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1 Bye, Bye

Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2024 05:00 PM (n2vyf)

2 first!

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:00 PM (V13WU)

3 eh

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:01 PM (V13WU)

4 Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:01 PM (V13WU)

And I read it

Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2024 05:01 PM (n2vyf)

5 I nooded.

Posted by: torabora at February 02, 2024 05:02 PM (FSdPf)

6 "a generally booming economy"

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Hilarious.

Back in reality:

"January hiring was the lowest for the month on record as layoffs surged"

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2024 05:02 PM (i7Q7S)

7 Let it be so.
May Tater's thighs move from creamy to encrusted with oozing scabs as he struggles to live in a garbage dump.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:03 PM (8Fdcq)

8 that math grades chart...parents of children affected better start hiring private tutors, man

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:03 PM (V13WU)

9 Biden bombed 85 buildings today. Maybe a road or parking lot, too.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 02, 2024 05:03 PM (KiBMU)

10 And I read it
Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2024 05:01 PM (n2vyf)

you deserve that no 1 spot, donna!

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:03 PM (V13WU)

11 Biden bombed 85 buildings today. Maybe a road or parking lot, too.

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Those thatched huts will not stand!

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:04 PM (V13WU)

12 Listening to you is like listening to cats. Cats have an agenda, a very narrow and stupid agenda, and never stop caterwauling that agenda.
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Hey, whoa! That's going over the line!

My five cats have far more reasonable and intelligent things to say to me than your average journalist!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)

13 You’re a goddamn cocktease, The Atlantic

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (fKIdX)

14 Mudpants probably targeted whatever political opposition there is to the Ayatollahs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (R4t5M)

15 Hahahahaha....good.

I point and laugh.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (R/m4+)

16 Dear Santa, this is all I want for Christmas.

Is American Journalism Headed Toward an 'Extinction-Level Event'?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (Odg76)

17 RIP Apollo Creed

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (geLO8)

18 This has left broad swaths of the country lacking professional reporting of any kind.
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Yeah, no concern for the broad swaths of the country lacking professional policing and prosecution?

No, the important thing is being told what to think.

Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (krQz2)

19 learn to code

Posted by: brak at February 02, 2024 05:05 PM (AR07F)

20 Biden bombed 85 buildings today. Maybe a road or parking lot, too.
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He killed Beau.

Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (krQz2)

21 "For a few hours last Tuesday, the entire news business seemed to be collapsing all at once."

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We could only be so lucky.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (i7Q7S)

22 >The news industry has been in decline for decades, but the latest round of layoffs is especially ominous.
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OH NO

so anyway, we might se some snow here tomorrow

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (geLO8)

23 Too many gays in news media. Slants their coverage to make everything gay and left wing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (uKeRS)

24 "journalism" can't die fast enough for me but this is a good start

Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (n2vyf)

25 I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: OCBill at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (i6cMZ)

26 Willowed, just because I wanted to provide the earthquake tracking link to anyone that was interested.

209 I'm sitting on what the geologists call Franciscan bedrock granite. Everything gets transmitted to me very efficiently but I think my house will stay put (much to the chagrin of some, I know...). There's been a nice swarm of quakes around Petrolia too.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 02, 2024 04:54 PM

Yep. That would do it!

You can probably feel earthquakes down to magnitude 2+.

For anyone interested, here is a link to a good earthquake tracker.

http://tinyurl.com/4xtw98ks

I have the link set to the U.S., which is too large.

Go to the search box in the upper right and enter your city and state. It should give you a view that covers a hundred miles or more in each direction.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (HlyYF)

27 It's an interesting observation they accidentally make.

Social media killed journalism because people could share information easily. It's why covid news was banned.

Everyone is a journalist, so news repeaters at the state and national levels are mostly redundant, especially when they are avoiding the news.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - they tried to make me go to jihad and I said Beau, Beau, Beau at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (He8ev)

28 I don't trust the media so hard.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (sJHOI)

29 Fuck you. I will literally join a guerilla warfare unit before I allow you to take my money to propagandize against me.

An ewok would almost fit right in with Zod's gorilla bath salt cavalry.

Posted by: Almost at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (L81HX)

30 Is CNN on the ground in Syria to cover the airstrikes killing innocent children of color ??????????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (BKOUD)

31 We all know they will get their bailout and the Republicans will be fighting over which one of them supports it more.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 02, 2024 05:08 PM (uKeRS)

32 So now we get a hundred different PBS clones.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 02, 2024 05:08 PM (3aLWR)

33 In keeping with the general tenor of today’s reaction the these news stories:

STOP…my 🍆 can only get so hard

Posted by: browndog flashing the red rocket at February 02, 2024 05:08 PM (TTAGa)

34 > Remember, these same institutions want you censored, deplatformed, demonetized, and de-banked (yes that is a word, Geniuses of SNL) if you get anything wrong.

There's a chart floating around that said something like 60% of Democrats wanted "Covid deniers" JAILED! The news media frenzy did that.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:08 PM (Odg76)

35 Ewok is already wearing a gillie suit. Natural born snipers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (uKeRS)

36 If I were locked in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and a journalist and I had a gun with two bullets, I’d shoot the journalist twice.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (fKIdX)

37 The hated Sacramento Bee is a skinny rag whose want ads section 50 years ago had more ink than the entire $2 affair does today. It's sad but when you become the house organ for the regime people won't buy it unless they need some newspaper to clean their window glass with Windex. Nothing cleans glass better.

Posted by: torabora at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (FSdPf)

38 But, but you need us to tell you what to think!
(wipes tear away)

Posted by: Mika Brzezinski, Swallower Of Joe's Essence at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (R/m4+)

39 I'm just noticing that Karol Marcowicz is kinda hot.

Posted by: Except the "kinda" part at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (L81HX)

40 Some pandemic mistakes were inevitable...
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Yes, how could we have avoided the wholesale liquidation of nursing homes...except....maybe...not force Covid patients into them?!

We were supposed to mask up to "save granny", but the big 5 blue state governors were poisoning them by the 1000s.

Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:10 PM (krQz2)

41 whoever linked reason.com in the last thread needs to be censored, that immigration article is tediously stupid. The authors are either Kennedy School at Harvard or UT.

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 05:10 PM (8uzBS)

42 Students don't have to pay for college debt!!

Why should a journalist be out of a job?

Please, daddy government! Give me a bailout.

The moment this shit happens, you'll see a thousand newspapers launched all clamoring for the free handout. And they will all be liberal rags.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 02, 2024 05:10 PM (3aLWR)

43 We're bombing their facilities.

Those facilities are gonna be pissed!

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 02, 2024 05:11 PM (KiBMU)

44 pleasepleasepleaseplease

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 02, 2024 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

45
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Posted by: Betteridge's law of headlines at February 02, 2024 05:12 PM (NfvGL)

46 >>torabora at February 02, 2024 05:09 PM (FSdPf)

late 70s and early 80s the Houston Chronicle want ads for employment were being mailed all over the US

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 05:12 PM (8uzBS)

47 If journalism is dead, then at least karma is alive and kicking.

Posted by: Wally at February 02, 2024 05:12 PM (hqVaF)

48 Looks like Middle East air strikes have begun. Link to Fox News.

http://tinyurl.com/2s863xyh

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (iODuv)

49 More than 200 staffers with Chicago Tribune and 6 other newsrooms begin 24-hour strike
Updated 1:34 PM EST, February 1, 2024
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages.

The strike, which includes 76 members of the Chicago Tribune reporting staff, photographers and some editors, began at 5 a.m., said Caroline Kubzansky, a member of the Chicago Tribune Guild who is a general assignment reporter for the newspaper.

It is the latest recent strike in the U.S. news industry. The striking workers are employees of Alden Global Capital, a New York hedge fund that has been buying up newspapers across the country and facing criticism for slashing budgets and cutting jobs.

The NewsGuild-CWA, which represents the employees, said the workers participating in the 24-hour strike are demanding fair wages and that management not eliminate their 401(k) match benefits. It said the staffers “have been fighting for a contract through their unions for as long as five years.”

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (2yu8s)

50 We're bombing their facilities.

Those facilities are gonna be pissed!

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Smart move to target their Strategic Sand Reserves. Without the silicon, their semiconductor industry will be crippled..

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (fKIdX)

51 The hated Sacramento Bee is a skinny rag whose want ads section 50 years ago had more ink than the entire $2 affair does today. It's sad but when you become the house organ for the regime people won't buy it unless they need some newspaper to clean their window glass with Windex. Nothing cleans glass bette

Was it the Sacramento Bee that had the columnist call Obama the Light Bringer?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (8Fdcq)

52 My wife teaches at a school where the largest cohort is poor black children.

Her Covid observation is that family income level had a strong negative correlation with poor academic outcomes.

As did two-parent homes versus one-parent homes.

Good thing the Democrat party "supports" the poor and POC so much. Otherwise, those people would be really bad off due to terrible Democrat policies!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (HlyYF)

53 They continue to agitate for the destruction of virtually everything I hold dear, cheer the murder of infants, and promote perversions of every type.

Firing (out of a cannon) is too good for them.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (Ub0ee)

54 Fuck this stupid country. It's over.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (v0R5T)

55 istening to you is like listening to cats. Cats have an agenda, a very narrow and stupid agenda, and never stop caterwauling that agenda.
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Hey, whoa! That's going over the line!

My five cats have far more reasonable and intelligent things to say to me than your average journalist!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)

And my cats had a much larger vocabulary than journalists do.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (BdMk6)

56 Some have called for direct and muscular government intervention.

LOL, I'll bet. We all knew this pitch was coming, right?
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The Bureau of Truth!

Now, I know what you're all thinking--but this is a bureau!

Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (krQz2)

57
Thousands of jobs are opening up in various Federal "Disinformation" agencies, so no problem.

They will provide a lot of content.

Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (j4U/Z)

58 Given the sheer volume of fairy tales, untruths and naked hoaxes put forth by these institutions, mere bankruptcy is too good for them.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (MeG8a)

59 This war is lost.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkite at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (SYTee)

60 Policy proposals include tax credits for publications that hire reporters and for advertisers that place ads in those publications, as well as increased government spending on public-service ads.

Fascism lite! Not quite as oppressive as real fascism.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (dZVON)

61 >The moment this shit happens, you'll see a thousand newspapers launched all clamoring for the free handout.
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The Troubled Networks Relief Program

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:14 PM (geLO8)

62 I want journalism deader than a Chicago fentanyl overdose with a bullet chaser.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 02, 2024 05:15 PM (3aLWR)

63 At least half of current congress-scum have done worse things then George Santos.

From marrying their brothers to openly declaring loyalty to Somalia you will never see a worse hive of scum and villainy then Washington DC

Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2024 05:15 PM (ibTVg)

64 Oh please.

They will demand and get their operations funded by .gov and then we'll be just like Canada.

Mouth pieces for the house organ.

Oh wait, it's like that now but they're losing money!

So that part will change.

Posted by: Derak at February 02, 2024 05:15 PM (QO3ex)

65 Jennifer Griffin is flicking the bean hard now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 02, 2024 05:15 PM (R4t5M)

66 I'm a fap to this later

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 02, 2024 05:15 PM (sJHOI)

67 Policy proposals include tax credits for publications that hire reporters and for advertisers that place ads in those publications, as well as increased government spending on public-service ads.
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There it is, I've been saying that for years, that technically under the Constitution there is no prohibitions on state or local government funding the news.
And that blue cities will start giving bonds and (later fogiven) loans to newspapers.

The feds get around that by the mentioned public service ads. And image funding al la the millions the FBI gives Hollywood for the never-ending FBI movies and shows, always the good guys.

These same people demanding government fund the media are the same ones who argue Republicans are corrupt because of who funds them ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at February 02, 2024 05:16 PM (C2U4G)

68 Could late night television be included in this extinction event?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:16 PM (8Fdcq)

69 the tenor of the comments are evoking memories....

"My dick is so hard you can see from outer space!"

"Oh yeah? my dick is so hard it can see ME from outer space!"

we're not quite there yet

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 05:16 PM (8uzBS)

70 Her Covid observation is that family income level had a strong negative correlation with poor academic outcomes.

As did two-parent homes versus one-parent homes.

Good thing the Democrat party "supports" the poor and POC so much. Otherwise, those people would be really bad off due to terrible Democrat policies!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:13 PM (HlyYF)
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This has been amply proven in the literature time and time again. And race plays a very minimal role. But the Education Establishment doesn't want you to know that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 05:17 PM (7fElN)

71 On the ground here, and the carnage is unbelievable...

Posted by: Brian Williams, reporting live at February 02, 2024 05:17 PM (PiwSw)

72 Courage.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 02, 2024 05:17 PM (SYTee)

73 This bombing is not a wag the...you know, the thing. That thing that keeps biting those agents. Well, that thing.

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at February 02, 2024 05:17 PM (hqVaF)

74 The socialists have an answer for this.

If no company can profit from this, then it is arguably a function of government to them.

Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:18 PM (krQz2)

75 Staples pushed the "Easy" button.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2024 05:18 PM (63Dwl)

76 What's this person's definition of "American Journalism?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2024 05:18 PM (Q4IgG)

77 They're eating people in the Superdome!

Posted by: Sheptard at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (SYTee)

78
At least we got a strong speech from our Commander in Chief from the Oval Office explaining the reason and necessity for the strikes, which he consulted about with congressional leadership before launching.

Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)

79 For some reason I picture Biden making sound effects during bombing.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (8Fdcq)

80 >>Was it the Sacramento Bee that had the columnist call Obama the Light Bringer?

I think it was the LA Times that had the guy who called him the magic negro. And then it got blamed on right wing whatevers

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (8uzBS)

81 Related - "The Messenger news site went dark after blowing through $50 million in startup funds."

How do they get these people to just throw away money like this?

The Messenger's appeal was supposed to be "a big, generic news audience"

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (i7Q7S)

82 Michael Malice said that journalists heading to the guillotine will laugh because the blade isn't very sharp.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (cf/0E)

83 Hey Soon-Shiong? 'Our Democracy' is a tell

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (xcxpd)

84 Thousands of jobs are opening up in various Federal "Disinformation" agencies, so no problem.

They will provide a lot of content.

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Spoiler alert:. No they won't

*ChatGP

Posted by: Just Lily at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (Ub0ee)

85 I've mentioned before I worked for the newspaper in high school. Made it up to the city room hustling stuff from the news service teletypes to various desks. The old guys holding down those desks could at least write, not paste and copy. Many the times, somebody was looking for one of these guys, and I had to go on a search mission to the many downtown bars. The only thing that was missing from those guys was the fedora with the press card. Gone times.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (0EOe9)

86 especially when they are avoiding the news.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

The didn't *avoid the news* they printed their propaganda in large bold type and the karens felt justified in their righteous berating of any one sane enough to refuse the mask of stupidity.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (+qDeX)

87 Officer, they're looting the Food King!

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (geLO8)

88 What aren't George Soros and Klaus Schwab bankrolling extra-full employment for life at every Leftist, legacy (BIRM media company?

Could it be that those Nazis are already bankrolling the media companies they want to survive and prosper? Along with funding AI journalist bot development? Leftist 'journalists' and editors are a dime a dozen nowadays, and are less capable writers and will be less on-narrative than ChatGPT and who knows how many other AI bots.

Those Nazis want a good return on investment and the last two generations of typical J-school graduates can't produce a decent ROI.

Cry us a river, J-schoolers.

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2024 05:21 PM (5fDan)

89 Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2024 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)

But he's sure to come out and say he bombed stuff as retaliation for the death of Beau who died last week in Jordan

Posted by: It's me donna at February 02, 2024 05:21 PM (n2vyf)

90
The media are making burnt offerings at the feet of their gods Walter Cronkite & Sam Donaldson statue. They would have sacrificed a virgin but couldn't find one in Washington DC

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 02, 2024 05:21 PM (+oR7L)

91 There are many places in my AO where newspaper vending machines used to be. They are all gone and have been replaced with those free Penny Savers, Spanish Nonsense papers and Jehovah Witness propaganda sheets in little plastic racks the urban outdoorsmen occasionally use as a toilet.

I laugh and fondle myself whenever I walk by them.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 05:22 PM (R/m4+)

92 Ace? Bone to pick with you, actually two.
First, you give me two films at 11. How the heck am I to watch two films at 11? Tell them to make one of them at 11:30 or something.
Secondly, leave cats alone or they'll scratch you to death (or give you Cat-scratch Fever).

Posted by: Ciampino - Taking a dump on the NYTimes at February 02, 2024 05:22 PM (qfLjt)

93 Have they proven the airliner didn't disappear into a black hole? Have they???

Posted by: Don Lemon at February 02, 2024 05:22 PM (PiwSw)

94
These journalists today couldn't pick the corn out of my shit.

Posted by: Ernie Pyle at February 02, 2024 05:23 PM (+oR7L)

95 "Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

Pudding cups and schadenboner ready!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 02, 2024 05:23 PM (ycI94)

96 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 02, 2024 05:20 PM (0EOe9)

My old man worked for LBJ.. was a professional sportsman
One of his assignments was taking those guys on hunting trips
Wild Turkey 101 was a new thing then... very popular with that set

Posted by: B.L.Otto Schtumbler at February 02, 2024 05:23 PM (dzZCL)

97 A potentially more powerful mechanism: a law compelling Google and Facebook to compensate publishers for the news content the tech companies display on their platforms.
---
I would 100, 1,000, 1,000,000% support this law.
And the Republicans should be funding every dark money leftie group that pushes it.

Not because it'll save the news.

But because it will kill Google and Facebook

I mean, how fucking glorious:
If you share an article, Big Tech pays.
If they don't pay, the article has to be blocked and gets no views.
And Big Tech won't pay.
And no one will then use Big Tech for news.
And no one will pay-- as they have refused for years-- for online subscriptions.
So the media dies even faster.

This proposal is so damned genius!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at February 02, 2024 05:23 PM (C2U4G)

98 Speaking of stupid Democrat sh*t, I do not understand their position on shoplifters being able to drive stores into bankruptcy.

I do NOT want food deserts or pharmacy deserts in low income communities. But no store can survive daily theft losses that are an order of magnitude greater than their profits used to be.

Are Democrats too stupid to understand that simple fact? Is their "decarceration" bias too overwhelming for them to have any reason concerning the topic.

Or is it worse? Do they actually want government stores in the hood, staffed by loyal little Democrat apparatchiks that will always vote Democrat since that is who is signing their paychecks?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (HlyYF)

99 So... Trump is the SMOD of Journalism?

Posted by: B.L.Otto Schtumbler at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (dzZCL)

100 >>>First, you give me two films at 11. How the heck am I to watch two films at 11? Tell them to make one of them at 11:30 or something.

they always schedule things at the same time.

>>>Secondly, leave cats alone or they'll scratch you to death (or give you Cat-scratch Fever).

I love cats, but they have an agenda.

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

101 I'm surprised that Ace did not cover the zoom call where Gavin Newsom said (essentially) "why should I pay if those guys can just walk out?" after witnessing shoplifting.

And when cashier said that shoplifting was really bad since the Governor made it legal, he seemed surprised and indignant.

Here's the hook. I really think that a lot of these asshats (like GN) don't realize how bad things are because they read the MSM and none of it is reported. They think the little that leaks into their bubble is a small anomaly and MAGA is blowing it all out of proportion.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (1kmZS)

102 Is that math scores graph correct? If so, it shows a huge decline during 2019-20 that continues falling during Covid. What’s the cause of a huge drop in the year before covid?

I’ve long thought that all this sudden coverage of cratering test scores and lack of learning during Covid is mainly about battlespace prep for continued dogshit scores and learning. In 2030, we’ll still be hearing about how Covid did a number on students — 10 years after the fact.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 02, 2024 05:25 PM (FckMw)

103 "Are Democrats too stupid to understand that simple fact? "

================
Uh, the entire leadership of the Democratic party believes men can menstruate, get pregnant, and breast feed.

So, yes.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2024 05:25 PM (i7Q7S)

104 Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:26 PM (8Fdcq)

105 9 Biden bombed 85 buildings today. Maybe a road or parking lot, too.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 02, 2024 05:03 PM (KiBMU)

I predict the detailed Bomb Damage Assessments will remain 'classified' until after the election.

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2024 05:26 PM (5fDan)

106 In fairness to Don LeMon, if anyone knows about stuff disappearing into a black hole, it's him.

Posted by: Wally at February 02, 2024 05:26 PM (hqVaF)

107 Getting everything wrong is not only permitted -- it's ~~the noblest calling~~ business plan.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:00 PM

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 02, 2024 05:27 PM (aD39U)

108 Here's the hook. I really think that a lot of these asshats (like GN) don't realize how bad things are because they read the MSM and none of it is reported. They think the little that leaks into their bubble is a small anomaly and MAGA is blowing it all out of proportion.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (1kmZS)

There is a story of in 1943 Mussolini had only been given good news about the war and was ignorant of a few things. One sunny day, some B-24's flew overhead near Rome and Benito remarked as to what new Italian planes were those? Those around him kinda looked at the ground and remained silent.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 05:27 PM (R/m4+)

109
"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."

Posted by: Mark Twain at February 02, 2024 05:27 PM (NfvGL)

110 Setting up a leftist "information clearing house" to censor and filter newz would be a real boondoggle if you could convince rich leftists to fund it.

- Take their millions
- Have AI and ChatGPT run it
- Shut it down after a year or two
- Profit

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2024 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)

111 What’s the cause of a huge drop in the year before covid?

Posted by: Elric Blade

That is a line -- not even an interpolation, just a graphical trend line showing nothing.
There was no test between the dots, so no data. When tests resumed after covid, there was a big drop.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM (1kmZS)

112 LoTT helped get a "drag queen" removed as a school principal at an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Oklahoma.

http://tiny.cc/nbrmwz

He's pictured here in full woman-face, making an "I'm so excited" expression as he unzips a man's fly.

http://tiny.cc/qbrmwz

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM (Odg76)

113 >Trump is the SMOD of Journalism?

The man who holds the Ark of the Covenant will raise an invincible army.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM (cf/0E)

114 >>>First, you give me two films at 11. How the heck am I to watch two films at 11? Tell them to make one of them at 11:30 or something.

they always schedule things at the same time.

*goes.looking for the old VHS recorder*

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM (W/lyH)

115 108 Here's the hook. I really think that a lot of these asshats (like GN) don't realize how bad things are because they read the MSM and none of it is reported. They think the little that leaks into their bubble is a small anomaly and MAGA is blowing it all out of proportion.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM (1kmZS)

There is a story of in 1943 Mussolini had only been given good news about the war and was ignorant of a few things. One sunny day, some B-24's flew overhead near Rome and Benito remarked as to what new Italian planes were those? Those around him kinda looked at the ground and remained silent.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 02, 2024 05:27 PM (R/m4+)

Tzar Vlad had to learn that same lesson

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

116 The reason I always show up late in the comments is I read Ace's commentary as though it were from the masters of Russian literature.

Every other paragraph or so, I set down and pause to savor and, yes, digest, the perspicacity and erudition I've imbibed.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (os8zY)

117 It would be hilarious if every one of these liberal stenographers were laying on the floor of a burning hot shower, sobbing and scrubbing themselves raw with bleach and a steel wool pad.

When you think of how much pain and suffering their dishonesty and prevarication has caused the American public, that would be a good start.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (mMqP+)

118 Hahaha, fun to see the Medildo School's name pop up in this. You know, the one that de-accredited itself to avoid potentially tough questions about how deep David Protess's slutty rabbit hole went--then followed up with smug commentary about how the cool kids don't need no accreditation. I remember hearing about all that on SCC as it was going down, good times.

Obviously a prefect outfit to cite when it comes to why establishment media is in trouble.

Posted by: CppThis at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (PZvjL)

119 > Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?

Hooters?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (Odg76)

120 96 Yep. Anytime I had to go on a mission to find so or so, first stop would be the Brass Rail (every town with a set of balls has one). "Hey, Mr. so and so, they need you back at the office". "OK, kid, I'll be right along. Want a Coke and some chips?".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (0EOe9)

121 This has left broad swaths of the country lacking professional reporting of any kind.

And a bill was proposed in Oregon last year, and will probably pass eventually, providing State funding to media organizations.

Officially, this will be done to provide news media coverage for rural Oregon, but of course the real purpose is to bail out the left-wing media outlets in Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (YAtuc)

122 104 Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:26 PM (8Fdcq)

I can spare $50 but first they must blow me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

123 I love cats, but they have an agenda.

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM

We live near a park where people frequently dump kittens.

I have three daughters that have all worked in the animal rescue "biz".

Despite taking lots of animals to the shelter, and running our own adoption service on social media, there have still been lots of competing "agendas" in the Idiot household.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (HlyYF)

124 Today, Crusader Supreme Methusalah Biden bombed 2 bridges, killing 400 doctors and over 12,000 children with limps and scurvy.

Posted by: Hamas Spokesman at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (hqVaF)

125 Hello, Joe Mannix!

Posted by: Big breasted airheads at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (NfvGL)

126 This has left broad swaths of the country lacking professional reporting of any kind.

Are there no NPRs?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (aD39U)

127 Ace wrote: "Fuck you. I will literally join a guerilla warfare unit before I allow you to take my money to propagandize against me."

Pssst, nobody tell Ace about PBS.

Posted by: Chemist at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (HJMJw)

128 Nattering Nabobs of Negativism!

Posted by: Spiro (not really) at February 02, 2024 05:30 PM (SYTee)

129
I have an 'extended' family member who writes/did right for the LA Times. Graduate of left wing U of Wisconsin-Madison. Specialty is prime coverage of things related to the pron industry - including coverage of naked male pron stars. Of questionable placement on the continuum of sexuality.

Part of me gives a shit. The other part does not. He made his bed, despite the fact he never made his own bed while failing to grow up.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM (nIvob)

130 Hey, let's see what's going on at the LA Times. Oh look, they're covering candidates for the senate race:

Here's a Democrat:
How Katie Porter harnesses her blunt style and single-mom experience in her Senate campaign
A blunt demeanor, professorial intellect and sometimes polarizing ways have defined her three terms as an outspoken member of Congress from a competitive Orange County district.

Here's the Republican:
Steve Garvey touts ‘family values’ in his Senate bid. Some of his kids tell another story

Posted by: Cave Johnson at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM (8q3QY)

131 Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:26 PM (8Fdcq)

Learn to ho.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM (W/lyH)

132 Or is it worse? Do they actually want government stores in the hood, staffed by loyal little Democrat apparatchiks that will always vote Democrat since that is who is signing their paychecks?

Mayor Johnson in Chicago has already proposed this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM (YAtuc)

133 Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

If you have to ask....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM (Wnv9h)

134 $20. Same as at NBC.

Posted by: Big breasted airheads at February 02, 2024 05:32 PM (NfvGL)

135 In addition to funding groups to pass laws forcing Big Tech to pay for third-party content on their sites, there's another set we should be funding:

Black Lives Matter reparations in the form of 40 to 120 acres of federal land.

Call it BLM for BLM Lands:
1) it'll grow the western states
2) it'll weaken the federal government (e.g. , no more drilling bans)
3) the land will be sold to or held by the industrious e.g. MAGA folks.
4) the contortions of the left to oppose it will be high comedy

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at February 02, 2024 05:32 PM (C2U4G)

136 OT

Everyone needs to spend 70 min. and watch the latest Tucker, an interview with Bret Weinstein about the border. Man has he been black pilled.

His hypothesis is that China is actively invading the country after having bought off our ruling class to allow it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:32 PM (1kmZS)

137 "There is a story of in 1943 Mussolini had only been given good news about the war and was ignorant of a few things. One sunny day, some B-24's flew overhead near Rome and Benito remarked as to what new Italian planes were those? Those around him kinda looked at the ground and remained silent."

When I was a senior in high school I took an advanced social studies course. One of my classmates' father was on the scene of Mussolini's hanging and took numerous photos. Needless to say, show and tell that day was an eye opener for little sheltered ole me.

Posted by: Tuna at February 02, 2024 05:33 PM (oaGWv)

138 119 > Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?

Hooters?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM

I don't think so.

The young ladies that work at Hooters can at least remember an order for four different types of beer and find their way back to your table.

You think the CNN ladies are that smart?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:33 PM (HlyYF)

139 are there no workhouses for these ink-stained wretches

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:34 PM (geLO8)

140 > Where would big breasted airheads work if CNN gets shot down?

We can help.

Posted by: OnlyFans at February 02, 2024 05:35 PM (NfvGL)

141 We already have PBS and NPR. How many avenues do we need to fund for marketing the democrat worldview?

Posted by: Flea Bit Peanut Monkey at February 02, 2024 05:36 PM (ogTiX)

142 I want someone to argue that a free press means that it would be unconstitutional for the government to pay for any of it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 02, 2024 05:36 PM (ou9hh)

143 >who responded to criticism from Democratic lawmakers by urging them to pass a law to support news organizations. "I'd like to put the question to them," he wrote, according to the Times' own coverage. "What can they do to help preserve a free and robust press, one that is instrumental in upholding our democracy?"

BY KEEPING THEIR DIRTY DICK-SKINNING MITTS OFF OF IT

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:37 PM (geLO8)

144 Part of me gives a shit. The other part does not. He made his bed, despite the fact he never made his own bed while failing to grow up.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:31 PM

At a party in flyover country, I can have interesting conversations about the difficult subjects people studied in college.

Party in LA, "What did you study in college?"

Reply, "How to write about male porn stars."

"Wow, you must be really smart!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:37 PM (HlyYF)

145 *goes.looking for the old VHS recorder*
Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2024 05:28 PM

*goes looking for the old Beto recorder*
-- Chuy

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2024 05:37 PM (a3Q+t)

146 The young ladies that work at Hooters can at least remember an order for four different types of beer and find their way back to your table.

You think the CNN ladies are that smart?

PSA to waiters and waitresses:
I'm not impressed if you can memorize my order. The likelihood you're going to forget something and get the order wrong is higher. The likelihood that the kitchen staff gets my order wrong is higher.

If you don't write it down, and you get the order wrong, I'm pissed. If you don't write it down, and you get the order right, I'm not impressed. That's bare minimum stuff.

So just write it down.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:38 PM (Odg76)

147
Baby Milk Factories.
Children's Hospitals.
Aspirin warehouses.

The horror....

Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2024 05:40 PM (j4U/Z)

148 >>>Everyone needs to spend 70 min. and watch the latest Tucker, an interview with Bret Weinstein about the border. Man has he been black pilled.

yup. i put it in the sidebar

Posted by: ace at February 02, 2024 05:40 PM (KRtlO)

149 An apology for the scamdemic? Yeah, that bridge has been napalmed, JDAM, Arc-Lighted, BLU-82, and for good measure nuked, followed by salting.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 02, 2024 05:41 PM (iNz1o)

150
Everyone needs to spend 70 min. and watch the latest Tucker, an interview with Bret Weinstein about the border. Man has he been black pilled.

His hypothesis is that China is actively invading the country after having bought off our ruling class to allow it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 05:32 PM

True. I've listened to it twice. The only way someone can come to a sane conclusion about what is going on in Darien Gap is that someone at the very highest levels of our government has been purchased.

I can't imagine who that could be. Who would sell their own country out for something so relatively worthless as a beach front home in Delaware?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (nIvob)

151 Ace, you should have mentioned those two 'scientific' directives, the masking and the 6-foot social distancing.

(aside: I wonder if that 6 feet came from the proverbial 6-foot pole? As in 'I wouldn't touch that Karen with a six foot pole.)

Posted by: Ciampino - Taking a dump on the NYTimes! at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (qfLjt)

152 StarLink will have to change their LEO satellite orbits to avoid my Schadenboner.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (eYF7X)

153 Patrons can get free online access to the WSJ and the NYT through our public library. (WaPo too, but no one is interested).

Posted by: Flea Bit Peanut Monkey at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (ogTiX)

154 Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

You mean like a big Iranian - Syrian wedding party, where an uninvited guest shows up from far away... named The Bone!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (8Ta2Y)

155 If you don't write it down, and you get the order wrong, I'm pissed. If you don't write it down, and you get the order right, I'm not impressed. That's bare minimum stuff.

So just write it down.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2024 05:38 PM

I will down tip if they do that screw up on me.

Although it does depend on their response (or the managers response) when we "address" the incorrect order.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (HlyYF)

156 that's a nice cuppa ☕

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (geLO8)

157 "PSA to waiters and waitresses:
I'm not impressed if you can memorize my order."

I don't think they're trying to memorize the order. I pretty sure that's required of them by their employer. How do I know? I once asked a waiter if his memory was that good. He said he has it has to be or else.

Posted by: Tuna at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (oaGWv)

158 The local news here is even worse than the major networks. These people are true believers and Death Cult Gold Card holders. They won't brook nor tolerate an ounce of dissent. If there is a story about Trump and say the primary, they turn it into an all out personal assault. Nothing escapes their grotesque liberal editorial juggernaut. It's almost comical to watch because it's not just out of touch, it's almost delusional. If Trump wins again I fully expect these people will all get drunk and jump off a local bridge holding hands. And I'll be there to cheer them on.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (mMqP+)

159 Democracy dies in darkness.
Please Washington Post die a painful death.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (NpAcC)

160 Lrn 2 Kode bitches.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:43 PM (YofvK)

161 Everyone is a journalist, so news repeaters at the state and national levels are mostly redundant, especially when they are avoiding the news.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - they tried to make me go to jihad and I said Beau, Beau, Beau at February 02, 2024 05:07 PM (He8ev)

I kindly agreed to do a news/TV poll over the phone. By the end, exasperated, she asked me "How do you get any news at all?!?!"

Tell her, Ace.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 02, 2024 05:43 PM (w6EFb)

162 >>The Atlantic: "Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

Journalism went extinct somewhere during the Civil War, it's always largely been a catspaw of the controlling authorities.

Gumshoe reporters working a beat and digging to tell, THE REAL STORY and help THE LITTLE GUY, has always been a fiction.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2024 05:43 PM (XV/Pl)

163 I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:44 PM (YofvK)

164 So called Journalism went belly up with advent of the Internet when we the common folk were no longer depended on these biased corrupt, and frankly ignorant, people to get the news and facts.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 05:45 PM (PQ4m2)

165 >Gumshoe reporters working a beat and digging to tell, THE REAL STORY and help THE LITTLE GUY, has always been a fiction.

Posted by: Thomas Bender
---

except for Carl Kolchak

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:45 PM (geLO8)

166 >> The Atlantic: "Is American Journalism Headed Towards an 'Extinction-Level Event'?"

>> My dick's so hard it just got hired by Fani Willis.

--------------------------------------

My nipples are at attention, General Malkovich!

Posted by: bearski at February 02, 2024 05:45 PM (Bhsk7)

167 I love cats, but they have an agenda.
Posted by: ace at February 02, 2024 05:24 PM

You know who else has an agenda?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 02, 2024 05:46 PM (a3Q+t)

168 Oh is that RICH. One of their central complaints is that Facebook etc. stopped sharing their news articles as much, and that cut into their traffic.

Then, they turn around and want some sort of profit-sharing mechanism for articles shared by social media platforms, as if that's not going to neuter sharing ANY articles across those media.

It's too rich, much too sweet, I have the diabetus now.

Posted by: mea culpa at February 02, 2024 05:46 PM (BuzFn)

169 And by the way, these airstrikes in Syria and Iraq are blowing up sand and tents. Talk about telegraphing your punch.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 05:46 PM (PQ4m2)

170 163 I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:44 PM

We only watch when a friend, or one of their kids, is going to be on for a human interest or sports story.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:46 PM (HlyYF)

171 >>163 I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.
Posted by: Montec

I only turn it on if there is some local emergency (Fires, Floods, etc.) I don't watch any nationally broadcast news as well. This includes FNC.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (eYF7X)

172 Cats have an agenda, a very narrow and stupid agenda...

At least the cat's agenda makes sense.

Posted by: Barry S. at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (Rbu5d)

173 Heading for extinction?
Not fast enough

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (fwDg9)

174 How did they not make any money if facebok shares an article? People click it right, which generates money for the news outlet.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (YofvK)

175 150
Everyone needs to spend 70 min. and watch the latest Tucker, an interview with Bret Weinstein about the border. Man has he been black pilled. .......

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:42 PM (nIvob)
----
It's customary to include a link when possible, or at least a target if the link is unavailable.
Thank you in advance.
It must be a whole bunch of people who have been bought, not just FJB.

Posted by: Ciampino - Joe ShittyPants is the culprit? at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (qfLjt)

176 When does KJP go on MSNSDAP to tell Rachel or Joy, "These strikes used a historic number of precision bombs in one attack by US warplanes, 125, 125!!!, to hit 85, 85!!!, separate precision bomb targets, also a record, records set by the historic Biden-Harris Administration! I myself, a history-making hire by the President, am proud, PROUD, to serve in an Administration that is dedicated, DEDICATED, to protecting America, no matter how many precision bombs it takes!

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2024 05:48 PM (5fDan)

177 ) I don't watch any nationally broadcast news as well. This includes FNC.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM (eYF7X)

I’ll watch a clip on YouTube every now and then. But I cut the cord many years ago and never watch live anymore.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:48 PM (YofvK)

178 They should learn to code...

Posted by: Augusto Perez at February 02, 2024 05:48 PM (H7UHL)

179 Among those who wish Congress would act is [LA Times owner] Soon-Shiongk...

Those darn Amish

Posted by: Barry S. at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (Rbu5d)

180 Is American Journalism Headed Toward an 'Extinction-Level Event'?

Only one thing to do - go further left...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (AF4S/)

181 Here's a phrase that needs to die and be buried in a shallow grave outside of Las Vegas:

"National news."

There is no such thing anymore.

Posted by: But that's just me at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (NfvGL)

182 Mrs.D.fell.asleep.with the channel changer in her hand so I was stuck. The local news came on. After five minutes I got up and left the room. It was ludicrous.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (W/lyH)

183 Today the Evil US bombed baby milk factories, a Gay Muslim children's hospital, and a Gay Pride Children's Hospital

Posted by: CNN in Iraq and Syria at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (BKOUD)

184 At least the cat's agenda makes sense.

Posted by: Barry S. at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM

Cats are pretty much like Democrats. Their agenda is to torture other beings so as to maximize their own personal satisfaction.

Republicans are more like dogs. Loyal to those that are loyal to them. Please note, there are no "working breeds" of cats!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (HlyYF)

185 TOO BIG TO FAIL! - US Congress

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 05:49 PM (eYF7X)

186 America only needs one paper and it's The NY Times, and then only for the Games and Cooking sections.

Posted by: Flea Bit Peanut Monkey at February 02, 2024 05:50 PM (ogTiX)

187 @163

>>I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.

The last time I watched local news was when I lived in NYC, once I moved to NJ, "local news" became whatever me and my neighbors would discuss.

Now that I live in Pa, local news is not even a concept that has any real meaning.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2024 05:50 PM (XV/Pl)

188 186 America only needs one paper and it's The NY Times

—

They all spew the exact same grange. So yeah there’s really no need for more than 1.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:50 PM (YofvK)

189 127 Ace wrote: "Fuck you. I will literally join a guerilla warfare unit before I allow you to take my money to propagandize against me."

Pssst, nobody tell Ace about PBS.
Posted by: Chemist

And NPR. Kinda wanna say the Ad Council too...

Posted by: bearski at February 02, 2024 05:50 PM (Bhsk7)

190 My only source of news these days is Ace ind Insty. Occasionally I'll look at the Daily Mail and the NY Post but not that often. Well I lied. If you want the best juicy gossip the Daily Mail is the place to entertain yourself.

Posted by: Tuna at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (oaGWv)

191 What purpose does the media serve since they speak in unison and even they say is predictable.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (8Fdcq)

192 Things fall apart
It's scientific

Posted by: JackStraw at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (LkLld)

193 "Let my people GO"

It would be great if people could get out and away from the control of the MFM, in all its forms.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (Cus5s)

194 Some have called for direct and muscular government intervention.

Muscular? Not robust Or vibrant?

You grossly over estimate your importance to society.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (AF4S/)

195 So called Journalism went belly up with advent of the Internet when we the common folk were no longer depended on these biased corrupt, and frankly ignorant, people to get the news and facts.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 05:45 PM (PQ4m2)

This. The opposing team came onto the field and the MFM found out they were no match.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 02, 2024 05:51 PM (BdMk6)

196 But no apology.
Not even a Whoops! Whoopsie!

Remember the bint that wanted a"do-over" let bygones be bygones?

Posted by: Barry S. at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (Rbu5d)

197 you know, this is all the fault of viewers like you

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (geLO8)

198 I've mentioned this before. Our next door neighbor worked his way up to being the editor of the Houston Chronicle. My dad called him a liberal before I knew what that was but man did we get some sweet Astros tickets.

Decades later he re-entered my life because my wife was friends with his wife and we'd meet weekly for dinner at our local Mexican food joint.

He lamented the state of journalism at least 10 years ago and related the kids now just think up a topic, google a few pictures and copy what they read off the internet. When he was doing it every editor of every department read every story that was going to print and corrected, suggested and everything else before it went out.

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (8uzBS)

199 Low income school children. Let me translate - black kids.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (AF4S/)

200 116 The reason I always show up late in the comments is I read Ace's commentary as though it were from the masters of Russian literature.

Every other paragraph or so, I set down and pause to savor and, yes, digest, the perspicacity and erudition I've imbibed.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 02, 2024 05:29 PM (os8zY)

I, personally, look to see no one sees what I'm reading.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (RLLZj)

201 There are other sites on the internet than AOS?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 02, 2024 05:52 PM (u73oe)

202 It would give me great pleasure to see every “journalist” on the streets selling $5 blowjobs for crack.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM (YofvK)

203 ace is the antidote to the toxic shit the "news: spews.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM (AmQpt)

204 Journalism != reporting

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM (AF4S/)

205 Learn to code time?
Yep. Learn to code.

Posted by: malaking baboy at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM (U1e7K)

206 Embiggen the cromulent! Now

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM (as3uC)

207 >>201 There are other sites on the internet than AOS?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

There's Brazzers an Pronhub

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 05:54 PM (eYF7X)

208 Embiggen the cromulent! Now
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM

Immanentize the Ewok!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (Wnv9h)

209
Posted by: Ciampino - Joe ShittyPants is the culprit? at February 02, 2024 05:47 PM

Tucker Carlson, Darien Gap link below. Find it on a map. People from China go into Ecuador, then Colombia, then Panama. Cartel takes them to our southern border. Those who survive Darien Gap, that is.

https://t.ly/S3Bx0

/ no excuse for not watching and passing it along to 10 friends

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (nIvob)

210 It's a feedback loop, the few customers left demand even more biased reporting. Alienating an even larger audience.

Didn't some editor of the NY Times lose their job simply by letting a Republican Senator write an editorial? Because the almost exclusively liberal readers and staff freak out?

Posted by: Blago at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (BDBQq)

211 All of you admitting to going to other sites are getting notations in your permanent records.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (u73oe)

212 Release Woodword and Bernstein!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (as3uC)

213 The '68 Ford Cromulent was a sweet ride...

Posted by: IIRC at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (NfvGL)

214 Eschew the zeitgeist!

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (geLO8)

215 Narfel the Garthok!

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 05:56 PM (geLO8)

216 I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.

How do you keep up on the cats in trees stories?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:56 PM (AF4S/)

217 would give me great pleasure to see every “journalist” on the streets selling $5 blowjobs for crack.
Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 05:53 PM

It's easy, m'kay?

Posted by: Mr. Garrison at February 02, 2024 05:56 PM (Wnv9h)

218 Dear Mr. Nixon,
Burn the tapes.

Your friend,

Hillary

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 02, 2024 05:56 PM (as3uC)

219 "What can they do to help preserve a free and robust press, one that is instrumental in upholding our democracy?"

Steal some plutonium, then steal Doc Brown's DeLorean and go back to around 1960 and warn the newspaper owners to never to hire anyone with a Journalism degree.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 02, 2024 05:57 PM (xttsV)

220

The Tucker Carlson Podcast download on Podbean.

http://tinyurl.com/5f5zu787

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2024 05:57 PM (63Dwl)

221 I'm just going to go out on a limb and say you're not seeing a "Trump bump" BECAUSE YOU'RE ACTIVELY CENSORING ALL TRUMP STORIES.

Pshaw! We lovingly report on each and every new inditement of Trump, and explain that Trump will soon be convicted of 41 felonies, after he is ruined financially by the non-criminal court cases.

Posted by: The Media! at February 02, 2024 05:57 PM (YAtuc)

222 Well, that's one pizza that will never talk back again!

My seems are about to split!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 02, 2024 05:57 PM (3aLWR)

223 Is there anything new in the Tucker podcast ?

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (V13WU)

224 186 America only needs one paper and it's The NY Times, and then only for the Games and Cooking sections.

Posted by: Flea Bit Peanut Monkey at February 02, 2024 05:50 PM (ogTiX)
----
You left out the most important use: Polly's cage bottom. Some also use pages under dog and cat poop trays.

Posted by: Ciampino - NY Times not good for Fish 'n Chips at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (qfLjt)

225 In the movie Watchmen, The Comedian was a terrible person for killing Woodward and Bernstein.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (cf/0E)

226 "All of you admitting to going to other sites are getting notations in your permanent records.
Posted by: Duke Lowell"

Guilty as charged but it's only Insty and AoSHQ is the first place I look at every morning and the last place I look at at night.

Posted by: Tuna at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (oaGWv)

227 Podbean?
Flick it. Flick it good.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (NfvGL)

228 I actually get some good news tips right here on ACE of Spades. Now some are not accurate, Some are comically off base, but after I do my own research and confirmation, some are damn good and accurate and informing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (PQ4m2)

229 If journalism is essential for preserving democratic self-government, perhaps only democratic self-government can preserve journalism.

Beg the question much?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (AF4S/)

230 Its OK. I'm a limo driver!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM (as3uC)

231 Covid is helping paper over a much longer-term, much more invidious decline in education than what's being admitted to here, and their present admissions are entirely self-serving. Of course the establishment will be happy to blame it on covid, and they'll even cop to mismanagement in distance learning, but the fact is they're culpable for much worse, which they're trying to pass off as a result of the pandemic: the ideological rot of an industry utterly divorced from meritocratic standards. Covid has been a blessing for progressivism in many ways, but chief among them is being able to fatuously pin their execrable conduct for the past several decades on the happenstance of the last couple years. (Which they also engineered, and are responsible for.)

Posted by: mea culpa at February 02, 2024 05:59 PM (BuzFn)

232 Local newz........

The nearest city paper, even on a Sunday, before Christmas, is about 9 pages. 7 of which are ads.

Local TV...... if it's not happening in Louisville, it's not happening. Unless it's about blacks being disrespected in "redneck" land. Or murders. Very little else is presented.

Oh... unless there's a severe storm outbreak with tornados. The the weather dude or bimbo gets to point to a make believe map.

And "emote." Stronkly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2024 05:59 PM (Q4IgG)

233 Big Breasted Airheads and Tater's Sab Encrusted Thighs used to touch together.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 05:59 PM (8Fdcq)

234 So 2024 is gonna be the Year of the Anti Fascist Film. What a coincidence.

Posted by: ... at February 02, 2024 06:00 PM (lX8VI)

235 Wayne Kramer of MC5 is mort.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 02, 2024 06:00 PM (xPl2J)

236 Cue Oliver Cromwell's speech to the Rump Parliament here.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:01 PM (AF4S/)

237 What's Don Lemon doing these days?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 02, 2024 06:01 PM (8Fdcq)

238 Didn't some editor of the NY Times lose their job simply by letting a Republican Senator write an editorial? Because the almost exclusively liberal readers and staff freak out?

Having senior Hamas and Taliban officials write editorials was A-OK, however!

Posted by: The Media! at February 02, 2024 06:01 PM (YAtuc)

239
Is there anything new in the Tucker podcast ?

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 05:58 PM

Nah. Just the relatively benign deception at our southern border as divisions of Chinese males of military age blend in with refuges.

Pretty boring unimportant stuff.

/s

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:01 PM (nIvob)

240 The so called professionals are pissed because amateurs are running rings around them with much more insightful news and commentary. And they're (amateurs) are winning the viewership contest.

This is really the jist of it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 02, 2024 06:01 PM (BdMk6)

241 I look at Fox Snooze dot com, NYPost, and Daily Mail
RCP sometimes

the local Fox affiliate for local

and of course, whatever you mooks are grinding about here

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:02 PM (geLO8)

242 Local TV news is especially funny. It has stories about cats being rescued from trees, and recap of the day's weather. It's not like we could just look out the window and see what that was.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:02 PM (AF4S/)

243 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Baghdad Bob at February 02, 2024 06:02 PM (NfvGL)

244 Radio this morning played Joke telling that family that lost their soldier daughter " I know how hard this is because I lost my son in Iraq" wbap morning show is as close to conservative as can be found.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 06:04 PM (AmQpt)

245 Local news here in Colorado is:

who fell off a mountain and got killed

who's skeleton was recently discovered near a hiking trail

who got buried in an avalanche

who got killed stumbling drunk across I-25 at midnight

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:05 PM (geLO8)

246 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Baghdad Bob at February 02, 2024 06:02 PM (NfvGL)

Nah, we have Def Sec Austin to replace you. But I will admit you were funnier

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 06:05 PM (PQ4m2)

247 I graduated from the top J-School in the nation in 1983 and the socialists had already taken over by then. The OG journalists recognized the signs earlier, but even the non-tenured ones kept their mouths shut, because $$$. All the library science majors and angry lesbians (but I repeat myself) entering the "professional" work force drove the profession into a ditch and it's never recovered.

Me, I went back in the Navy, first as a PA then as a biomedical engineer. Stayed for a total of 38 years then did 10 years with the VA IG as a fraud examiner. Have never set foot back on that J-School campus.

Posted by: OpenChannelD at February 02, 2024 06:05 PM (rBFWB)

248 I missed the part where they labeled the y-axis on that graph.

So I declare a bullshit graph, as presented.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 02, 2024 06:05 PM (DsA2n)

249 And by the way, these airstrikes in Syria and Iraq are blowing up sand and tents. Talk about telegraphing your punch.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2024 05:46 PM (PQ4m2)

Scared the shit out of some camels, but didn't blow up any jungle gyms.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:05 PM (AF4S/)

250 242 Local TV news is especially funny. It has stories about cats being rescued from trees, and recap of the day's weather. It's not like we could just look out the window and see what that was.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:02 PM (AF4S/)

Weather on local news; 7 minutes to tell you it will be 56 and sunny tomorrow.

Posted by: Montec at February 02, 2024 06:07 PM (YofvK)

251 then did 10 years with the VA IG as a fraud examiner

==

find any fraud ???

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2024 06:07 PM (V13WU)

252 I will continue to watch the Mexican weather reports.

http://tinyurl.com/y9xnszj7

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 06:07 PM (eYF7X)

253 >>And by the way, these airstrikes in Syria and Iraq are blowing up sand and tents. Talk about telegraphing your punch.
---

waste of hardware so The Handlers can claim 'the president' is Doing Something

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:08 PM (geLO8)

254 So called Journalism went belly up with advent of the Internet when we the common folk were no longer depended on these biased corrupt, and frankly ignorant, people to get the news and facts.

Yes. But there's more going on. The news has become more biased and partisan than it was a few decades ago, and it was quite biased then. And there's also the fact that a lot of these news organizations are owned by big corporate entities with larger interests than the news, which has become an extension of and reflects those larger interests. For example, you'll never get honest reporting about China from a news organization that is connected with an entertainment division that wants to do business in China. News has been hollowed out in a lot of ways.

Posted by: It'd take a book to detail all the ways in which news has gone astray at February 02, 2024 06:09 PM (L81HX)

255 >I will continue to watch the Mexican weather reports.

sweet fancy Moses is that real?

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:09 PM (geLO8)

256 We need a robust and muscular government subsidy for people who comment on blogs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:09 PM (AF4S/)

257 Joke is bombing sand dunes and the Houti's are firing ballistic missiles.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 06:10 PM (AmQpt)

258 209
https://t.ly/S3Bx0

/ no excuse for not watching and passing it along to 10 friends

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 05:55 PM (nIvob)
----
Thank you very much.

Posted by: Ciampino - NY Times not good for Fish 'n Chips-too sour at February 02, 2024 06:10 PM (qfLjt)

259 255 >I will continue to watch the Mexican weather reports.

sweet fancy Moses is that real?

Posted by: Don Black

And spectacular.

Posted by: davidt at February 02, 2024 06:10 PM (SYTee)

260 >>255 >I will continue to watch the Mexican weather reports.

sweet fancy Moses is that real?
Posted by: Don Black

Yes and there is a whole new crop of them.
Yanet García was getting long in the tooth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 06:10 PM (eYF7X)

261 we will pound that sand into submission

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:11 PM (geLO8)

262 It's customary to include a link when possible, or at least a target if the link is unavailable.
Thank you in advance.
It must be a whole bunch of people who have been bought, not just FJB.
Posted by: Ciampino

https://twitter.com/i/status/1753190238502170900

Tucker #71. Very easy to find, but there is your link anyway.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 06:12 PM (1kmZS)

263 GO POUND SAND!

*new Democrat campaign slogan

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 02, 2024 06:12 PM (DsA2n)

264
And by the way, these airstrikes in Syria and Iraq are blowing up sand and tents.

On this planet, with sand the most common element you can find, it's hard to miss.

But recycle your glass bottles haters, because... every time you don't a journalist loses a job, and another chef drowns in the rising waters off Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:13 PM (nIvob)

265 we will pound that sand into submission
Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:11 PM (geLO

I know where Biden can pound that sand, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:13 PM (AF4S/)

266 >>wbap morning show is as close to conservative as can be found.

what happened to Rick Roberts?

Posted by: DanMan at February 02, 2024 06:13 PM (8uzBS)

267 We need a robust and muscular government subsidy for people who comment on blogs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:09 PM (AF4S/)

We need to print some flyers to get the word out.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 02, 2024 06:14 PM (BdMk6)

268 We need to print some flyers to get the word out.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 02, 2024 06:14 PM (BdMk6)

That subsidy would save our precious democracy!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 06:15 PM (AF4S/)

269 He killed Beau.
Posted by: Axeman at February 02, 2024 05:06 PM (krQz2)

those bastards!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2024 06:17 PM (D7oie)

270 261 we will pound that sand into submission

Posted by: Don Black at February 02, 2024 06:11 PM

"Make the rubble bounce."

"We did make the rubble bounce!"

"No you just targeted some rubble. I wanted you to target some evil people and some important assets."

"Sorry, we just listened to the top generals."

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 02, 2024 06:18 PM (HlyYF)

271
A couple of great things the past year:

Tucker Carlson gone from Fox News and can report whatever the hell he wants

Elon Musk liberates Twitter/X from the left

Huge stuff really.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:19 PM (nIvob)

272 From memory, things on the Tucker podcast.

1. BW states that "it is not a vaccine" repeatedly, and admits that it does not help prevent disease or spread, that it was a risky idea from the start, and that there has to be another reason besides "greed and fear" to explain why everyone pushed it -- he is implying that the vaccine is the bioweapon and was used to
(a) separate our population from Chinese, since China did not use the spike RNA vaccine.
(b) purge our military and front line workers of people who knew better and might resist unlawful orders to attack civilians.
(c) battle prep since after 3 doses the IG4 (?) response of vaccinated people is greatly suppressed. This makes them VERY vulnerable to the next bioweapon. Chinese did not get that shot so they will survive.

2. BW describes what Michael Yon has been reporting for a while about the Darien Gap - it is a global industry in sending migrants to the USA. He hypothesis motives here as well.

3. BW does not yet understand that even non-invading migrants are a burden paid for by productive americans. He does not get that charity is not something you force others to do.
... (pixy limit)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 02, 2024 06:21 PM (1kmZS)

273
(b) purge our military and front line workers of people who knew better and might resist unlawful orders to attack civilians.

What I found fascinating and a slap in the head D'uh!!! moment is that the most important and critical people are the ones who SHOULD NOT have been the first to take a relatively untested 'vaccine'.

They should have been LAST on the list. A fvck up of such monumental proportions not having been thought out beforehand?

IDK. Worth thinking about. Hard.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:28 PM (nIvob)

274
Stop underline even though I didn't start it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 02, 2024 06:29 PM (nIvob)

275 Another Mexican weather reporter that doesn't hide what's really going on.

http://tinyurl.com/4tyyktbd

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2024 06:41 PM (eYF7X)

276 Listening to you is like listening to cats. Cats have an agenda, a very narrow and stupid agenda, and never stop caterwauling that agenda.
---
Hey, whoa! That's going over the line!

My five cats have far more reasonable and intelligent things to say to me than your average journalist!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 02, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)

I'm totally feeling called out here, Ace.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 02, 2024 06:44 PM (eoQWY)

277 I can’t remember the last time I watched local news. Maybe 15 years ago? If they all disappeared tomorrow my life would not be affected whatsoever.

How do you keep up on the cats in trees stories?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 02, 2024 05:56 PM (AF4S/)

There's quite a few Youtube channels collecting cute cat stories and pictures. The good ones have pictures of the actual cat. The Dodo is one.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 02, 2024 06:48 PM (eoQWY)

278 I graduated from the top J-School in the nation in 1983 and the socialists had already taken over by then.

----------------------

That's my dividing line - when we went from reporter and commentators to journalists.

Reporters do objective facts, commentators give opinion. Journalists are teen girls writing in their diaries.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 02, 2024 06:50 PM (eoQWY)

279 Joke is bombing sand dunes and the Houti's are firing ballistic missiles.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 02, 2024 06:10 PM (AmQpt)

Read a report that one such drone or missile got past two of the three air defense layers on a military ship. The close in defense system got it about a second away from a hit.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 02, 2024 06:53 PM (eoQWY)

280 We just don't believe you any more. We don't believe a word of what you say.
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I wish this was true, but you frequently report on what is said as if you believe what they're saying, ESPECIALLY if it comes from a NATSOC "whistleblower".

Oh, dude. Those are the very biggest lies, and you eagerly accept them. I still like you. I'm just disappointed.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 02, 2024 08:04 PM (qWIl9)

281 Can't think of one newspaper or magazine that I read when when I was 12 that hasn't gone far left. They all deserve to die.

Posted by: Obama's body man at February 04, 2024 01:09 PM (EcD5Y)

282 Hi there! Do you use Twitter? I'd like to follow you if
that would be okay. I'm definitely enjoying your blog and
look forward to new posts.

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