Seriously, imagine all the soldiers that died of influenza in the 1919 flu hearing that 100 years later THERE IS A VACCINE FOR IT, and the military is not going to require it.
Insanity.
From this I assume that Republican senators are participating in the grilling. Glad to hear it!
I guess Tim Cook’s real passion is presenting gold plaques to fascists
If you find yourself mystified by all the weak-ass defenses of journalists attending the WHCA dinner, keep in mind that, for them, "access journalism" isn't about the journalism. It's about the access.
I don't understand why they love the "access" so much, but they clearly do.
the defense of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner appearance would be slightly less meaningful if the U.S. press hadn't been such an absolute, abject, violent disaster in the face of authoritarianism
they should all quit their jobs and do community service
mr hegseth what will you do to provide freedom to our brave warfighters from mandatory vaccinations like hepatitis B, MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), tdap (tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis), and polio
Hm. I coulda sworn I put the link in the first post. Here it is, though it really is totally substance-free:
view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...
I actually asked him for specifics on how this circle-jerk has helped him in his job, and he just said I should read the newsletter (which of course I had), where that paragraph above is the sum total of his explanation. That's what he thinks "specifics" are.
How did everything go so wrong?
Also, he believes it's possible for the political media to avoid being a "political actor." The only way to prove you're not a "political actor" is to do everything precisely the same no matter what the circumstances.
How is that not a childlike view of the job? It's *insane*.
"But to not invite Trump would make the WHCA a political actor and likely weaken its efforts to keep open, productive lines of communication with the White House."
CNN's media reporter believes it's possible for reporters to have "open, productive lines of communication" with the Trump White House.
"Yes, the optics of such an event can be terrible," he writes. But the gatherings themselves are "extremely useful" for reporters: "It's not often, when covering a beat expansive as media or politics, that you get to attend an event which brings together loads of people from your coverage area in one spot on one night. I always view such events as opportunities for source-building, vetting of coverage ideas and networking.
You should actually read this before you judge @brianstelter.bsky.social. It's even worse than you might assume. It's essentially nothing. It's 500 words that say "I'm going because I wanna," but presented bullshittedly.
Here's is his justification: inane platitudes, not a single concrete example.
It's beyond depressing that I have to school a CNN media reporter on what "specifics" means (when you were a little kid, CNN was actually a pretty good news outlet): specific examples of it helping you in your work. Not just "it's helped me with sources and [snort] networking." What? Who? How? When?
There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.
"Yes, the optics of such an event can be terrible," he writes. But the gatherings themselves are "extremely useful" for reporters: "It's not often, when covering a beat expansive as media or politics, that you get to attend an event which brings together loads of people from your coverage area in one spot on one night. I always view such events as opportunities for source-building, vetting of coverage ideas and networking.
I read it. Do you mean this? Are you actually referring to this?
Let’s not, Grok.
Useful how? Be specific. And after that, demonstrate how this usefulness supersedes any consideration of whether palling around with a bunch of insane, fascist clowns -- whom you have routinely normalized in your work for years -- is morally justifiable.
Feels kinda silly to say that rich people from the center to left of things politically can’t build a successful media environment when the onion is doing it basically using donations from semi-employed forum goblins
i think it goes under-analyzed the extent to which tech bros and finance bros effectively merged around the start of the 2020s
and, as a result, a lot of the tech industry has muscled out actual tech—or even technical knowledge—in favor of wall street douches, but with silicon valley flavoring
and they have the gall to call the democrats out of touch
That darned polarization, always polarizing us. If we could just defeat polarization, we’d be ok. But polarization is a mighty and wicked foe. It comes out of nowhere and just makes everybody all polarized.
dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden
swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively
there's a moral here, of a sort
By the way, the point isn’t to *call them* moral failures and dimwits, it’s to avoid pretending that they’re not, or that they can be persuaded away from being those things by someone beseeching them on the internet.
Amazingly, though few knew about it, for a few years, Facebook had by far the best newsreader via its “interest lists.” At enshittification set in, they made the feature increasingly cumbersome. Then they killed it.
The way the reporting for this piece has ruined my algorithms I can't even tell you.
My feeds are now all bald dudes in backwards baseball caps in front of large mics, hyping their "living like elite athletes" when they don't believe in leg day. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
All right y'all: On Tuesday, I am talking with Tom Steyer, who is rather suddenly & unexpectedly the frontrunner in the California governor race. I want to get his thoughts on climate & clean energy policy, in CA & nationally.
Got questions?
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
To a certain type of person politics is outside of reality and inhabits a realm of ideas and make-believe
It's a weird feeling, watching all the stuff I spent my life observing -- thus getting myself yelled at for my "intolerance" -- coming to its unholy fruition.
I *changed my behavior* because of all that yelling. I decided (e.g.) that maybe most conservatives weren't as bad as I had thought.
We've sacrificed the notion of making money from something in favor of doing it *purely* or *primarily* for the money. Unless you're actually forced to think that way (in order to survive and be secure) there's no excuse for it. When rich people do it, it's an abomination.
