On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?

[simple schoolboy]

We are living through a historic, technology-fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects. The subjects are winning.

I assume by subjects they mean the stories they cover, but I can't help thinking this is the Freudian slips of all Freudian slips.

Between this and the Times Scott Alexander piece, the prestige papers have had a rough couple of days.

[tragabigzanda]

I’m so confused Burt. You don’t want the establishment press to ask tough questions of the people in power, but you are also against the public shaming that can happen on platforms like Twitter? You’re kind of circling the plane without picking a landing zone here.

[BurtReynolds]

I'm making a comment on the imagined ethical superiority of these smug elitists who think they are fighters for the downtrodden when they are part of the problem. The stupidity of the herd is a different matter.

but you're right about not having a landing zone. We're gonna crash into a mountain and hope for the best!

unless....

Spoiler: show

[Bi_3]

We are living through a historic, technology-fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects. The subjects are winning.

I assume by subjects they mean the stories they cover, but I can't help thinking this is the Freudian slips of all Freudian slips.

No way that was a slip

[BurtReynolds]

We are living through a historic, technology-fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects. The subjects are winning.

I assume by subjects they mean the stories they cover, but I can't help thinking this is the Freudian slips of all Freudian slips.

No way that was a slip

A double entendre, perhaps?

[Bi_3]

Let the censorship begin:

https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.hou ... .22.21.pdf

[tragabigzanda]

Let the censorship begin:

https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.hou ... .22.21.pdf

heh heh, "Stankey"

[BurtReynolds]

"Hacked materials" warning

[BurtReynolds]

[elliseamos]

I saw that quote in an article that said Musk should buy the Chicago Tribune to clap back at Bezos on a more regular basis.

[Bi_3]

Insanity abounds:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberal-twitter-mob-heaps-racist-sexist-abuse-on-wapo-reporter-seung-min-kim-for-doing-her-job

[Bi_3]

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... eb6a3e0d95

Except I never saw this coming.

IOW: I thought if I put my neck under their boot I would be spared

[The Town]

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95

Except I never saw this coming.

IOW: I thought if I put my neck under their boot I would be spared

What do you mean Bi_3?
That McNeil thought he could just take one on the chin and move on but instead it KO'd him?

[The Town]

That was a really good read.

“But Donald, you’ve lost the newsroom. People are hurt. People are saying they won’t work with you because you didn’t apologize.”

I definitely came away thinking it wasn't McNeil that lost the newsroom but instead Dean Baquet and NY Times' management.
150 really smart professionals that are also really stupid.

I really benefited from the equally frank and intelligent professors I had in college.

[BurtReynolds]

[simple schoolboy]

[Bi_3]

He’s not wrong.

[BurtReynolds]

bUt FoX NeWs ThO

[Bi_3]

That was a really good read.

“But Donald, you’ve lost the newsroom. People are hurt. People are saying they won’t work with you because you didn’t apologize.”

I definitely came away thinking it wasn't McNeil that lost the newsroom but instead Dean Baquet and NY Times' management.
150 really smart professionals that are also really stupid.

I really benefited from the equally frank and intelligent professors I had in college.

Part 2: bordering on Soviet-style manipulation:

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... 41bdbb28a7

I cannot imagine what that guy must of been feeling as all this was happening

[Bi_3]

Part Four is exactly what you thought it would be, powerful children upset at being challenged:

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-four-what-happened-in-peru-2a641a9b5e83

Hate to say it, but it’s probably best to just stay the hell away from anyone high school aged rather than risk this happening to you