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Post subject: Re: On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?
Posted: Thu October 25, 2018 6:25 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Tue February 12, 2013 5:03 pm Posts: 2402
let reid's complaint serve as a helpful reminder for us all in these charged times: there is more to a message than its content, and if any (or all!) of the timing, tone, or tact are off, well, you're never going to get what you want across
Post subject: Re: On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?
Posted: Thu October 25, 2018 6:28 pm
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am Posts: 21846
washing machine wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
washing machine wrote:
I'm getting increasingly annoyed with NPR's Up First. For the story about bombs delivered to democratic figures today, they led with soundbites of Trump being nasty on the campaign trail before reporting on his response.
Something about the shade and snark just didn't sit well with me, deserving as it is. How is reporting like this helping the divide?
President Donald Trump: Journalists are the enemy of the people. Maxine is low IQ. Kavanaugh protestors were paid by Soros. Lock Hillary Clinton up. Obama is a phony and a terrorist. I’m not taking any of these statements back.
Bombs: (sent to all of the above)
NPR: Lets highlight that correlation.
Trump: The media just needs to shut up if it doesn’t want to get bombed.
I cannot begin to guess why that series of events would strike anybody as NPR failing to heal the divide.
Yeah, I just...I dunno.
Wake me up when November ends.
It’s a grey, rain-soaked October day, just a hint past lunch time, as I head out to my first assignment. I’ve been sent to interview a man known on the internet as washing machine. He’s a forum poster best known for his space ape avatar, having a lot of talent, and for a deep aversion to political strife. My mission: get to know him. Find out what drives him politically. Or personally. Or whatever.
But now, as I watch raindrops slide down the windshield of my britpop-and-Swisher sweets loving Uber, I begin to wonder: do we ever really know anybody? I mean here I am, 29, scared for my future, and struggling to find a way to pad my bullshit NPR story while also making it more about me.
And that’s when it hits me: me. I am the answer to everything. I always was.
_________________ (patriotic choking noises)
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Post subject: Re: On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?
Posted: Sat October 27, 2018 8:19 pm
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39824 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
I just don't understand why they have so much negotiating power. You could switch her out with one of a dozen clones and it wouldn't make a difference. Yet they get millions.
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