I watch as little cable news as physically possible but every time I do I’m astounded by how little information is actually presented and how much it’s just people with bread truck-shaped heads Intoning Seriously and pausing. to. add. emphasis. It elevates your blood pressure and makes you feel some autonomic level of… Read more

Somewhere there is an adjunct professor who’d accept a consulting fee and could do a better job than politicians. Given how many exceedingly qualified people I’ve met stuck with adjunct status, I’m sure they could find someone. Read more

I’m a bit lukewarm on dedicated “fact checkers,” but one of their obviously redeeming qualities is they cut through the both-sideism and bullshit faux neutrality that often keeps typical reporters from calling out bullshit from the politicians they cover, and to have a place where readers can easily get needed context… Read more

I like this idea. Every time you are triggered to drink, take a drink. By the end, you won’t even remember watching the fucking thing. Read more

I work at Meredith, and all I can say is Oh for fuck’s sake. Read more

crazy how a simple discussion on math kicks up so much economic anxiety
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This. He has been pretty clear about it in interviews. Read more

From what I understand, he pulled it off mainly because he wasn’t afraid to, and completely willing to, burn bridges and sacrifice his access to information from within the White House. Read more

Billionaire buys newspaper, tries to turn it into swanky club for other rich people, wonders why no one makes a profit in the news industry
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Thanks for taking the time and effort to research and write the note regarding your concerns about our business going forward. When the time is right for the company to communicate our go-forward strategy, including our current lease situation, I will do my best to do so in the right setting. Read more

God this sounds like a Twilight Zone episode. Read more

These days, Splinter.com is the only domain I’m ungreyed on. I feel as if I, too, have a (small) stake in helping to “grow the brand,” much as I have come to despise that phrase.
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No bonuses for the top execs?! They will be like the poor Cratchits this Christmas!

The Jews control everything else. Just a great big group o’ Jews. Jews as far as the eye can see control everything else. Probably, secretly, this same huge massive group of secret Jews controls conservative stations as well. Read more

This is a punch in the gut for me. I work in sales and listen all day long to WNYC. I was an active member of the online community, listening, asking questions, commenting. I just recently cancelled my monthly sustainer membership for other reasons, but now I see WNYC teetering and its really tough. Leonard was a bit… Read more

“And it pains me that a generation won’t ever know the story of a publisher who bet his entire company on the most important journalism decision of an era.” Read more

Because as horrible as a trainwreck is, it still needs to be reported. Knewing the depth and breath of their insanity is important to understand and measure against rational society.
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David you fool! You are only making them more powerful. Read more

There is abundant case law for the proposition that linking to defamatory content isn’t a defamatory republication of the content. See, e.g., Life Designs Ranch, Inc. v. Sommer, 2015 WL 7015867 (Wash. Ct. App. Nov. 12, 2015); Slozer v. Slattery, 2015 WL 7282971 (Pa. Superior Ct. Nov. 18, 2015). Read more

It’s not a strategy based on how people consume their media but a strategy based on what advertisers are willing to pay top dollar for. The problem with that, of course, is that if no one is watching the ads, those ads quickly become worthless. Read more