Samantha Bee’s monologue on her show Wednesday night involved excoriating the Trump administration’s goal of…
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excellent take down, thank you. This is what happens when activity in the imperial capital becomes utterly divested from real life. And i dont mean in a Trumpian/Sarah Palin “real” America sense, but in the sense that all these ppl are rich and privileged and whether its Obama or Trump in the white house their… Read more
DALLAS, TX— On Saturday, just after the anti-gun protest, I joined the NRA. Thirty bucks. It entitled me to a…
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This took a lot of guts to publish — really great article. Read more
God Dammit. I’ve been in a similar boat in another industry undergoing seismic change (retail) and I can remember waiting for the axe to fall among people who did good work, cared about the company and had their livelihoods suddenly under threat because incredibly rich people were worried they might only break-even. Read more
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Thanks for posting this. My immediate thought was of the Denver Post, which is just the latest and highest profile example of PE scumbags ransacking a profitable business in order to become even more obscenely rich and then walking away from the blighted, ruined husk with nothing but hardship and job losses to show… Read more
“the newsroom may be cut by up to a third by the end of June, perhaps as part of a broader pivot toward video and branded content”
Which everyone else realized didn’t work and started abandoning last year. (For the non-media types: Advertisers like video, because they can add pre-roll ads. It turns out… Read more