Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

I don’t know this publication well, but the first reply cracked me up

https://twitter.com/dinkmctorkelson/status/1675706315216154626?s=20

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Prime Friedersdork

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1676002605343055873

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1676004467723100160

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the fucking new yorker radio hour podcast has an interview with RFK junior, great fucking job guys

Reminder that the author of this piece tried to get a professor fired for calling him a bedbug:

But hey, people can change. I used to be a piece of shit; I’m not anymore. Is this piece maybe about the right’s attacks on “woke” ideology? Let’s check…

lol this guy is the biggest fucking hack

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I genuinely have more respect for Tucker Carlson.

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Just a little heads up:

:leolol:

Anyone having issues with the standard stop load bypass of the NYT paywall?

he’s kind of a wild card and probably the best we possibly could’ve hoped for under trump’s appointments (how in the everloving fuck did he get 3)

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Even if that’s true, it’s a poor media outlet choice to just transcribe his rehabilitation campaign uncritically.

Man, having to eat lunch 65 times a year with these ghouls on top of all the other time you’d have to spend with them seems like too high of a price to pay for a seat on the court. No talking about work though. “So what’s everybody doing for vacation?” “…”

lol turned on cnn while I make a sandwich and LOL WUT

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My god this is just so lazy

Kathleen Parker. The full piece gets much worse and goes into full-on, very ugly transphobia!

Is “AR-15 tantrum” a euphemism for a mass shooting?

It’s a reference to Kid Rock shooting up a case of Bud Light, I assume.

While we’re at it, I always remember that Noah Smith sucks and I can never remember why, so here’s a helpful data point

Here’s Yahr’s piece: WaPo | non-paywall

spotify

:harold:

More of a grammar nit thing I guess, but maybe the poor media outlet choice was laying off all the copy editors.

The announcement is supposed to be announced next week, said todays announcement about the announcing of the announcement.

There is that better?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/24/climate-change-backlash-europe/

Everything about this infuriates me. This is the boomeriest opinion piece I’ve read in a long while.

There’s not a single line in the whole thing that isn’t in obvious bad faith.