No, Goddamnit, WashPost, it's not on her. It's on him and you. She faces nothing but racism and misogyny. You, as editors, face the test of how you will deal with that. You fail.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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@BuzzMachine; emeritus @CUNY's @NewmarkJSchool; books: THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS & MAGAZINE: gutenbergparenthesis.com @[email protected]
- "At the end of the day, Clarence Thomas is just the Tim Pool of the Supreme Court." Bless you, @chrislhayes
- Note well that the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who will prosecute the alleged attempted assassin of Donald Trump, is Markenzy Lapointe, a Marine Gulf War veteran and immigrant who was born in ... Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- CNN is flummoxed, foundering, and ruderless. They might has well have had Vanna White at the debate, pointing to the next question. The Times is broken. The Post is being invaded from within. Murdoch's empire has been successful at its insurrectionist mission. Sinclair is
- I lost my father last night. I don't expect you to read this and ask for no reaction; I write it for myself. Just please take COVID seriously.
- So basically, Macron scared the bejesus out of sane France and they came together to assure the fascists would not win. That is what should be happening in the US if we would get our act together and tell media's baying bloodhounds to fuck off and prioritize democracy.
- What "press"? The broken and vindictive Times? The newly Murdochian Post? Hedge-fund newspaper husks? Rudderless CNN or NPR? Murdoch's fascist media? No. She can choose many ways to communicate her stands with others outside the old press and with the public directly. The old
- Journalists: Use the right words. Coup. Insurgent. Insurrection. Fascist.
- Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.
- "Polarization" is a lazy, incomplete, skewed, damaging, and cowardly framing. We do not have an increase in polarization. We have an increase in authoritarianism, fascism, blatant racism, and journalistic prevarication using such words as polarization.
- No, The Times has a Josh Shapiro problem. It can't just accept a decision made (by a woman) at the top of the ticket.
- What upsets me today (it's a quickly moving target) is the apparent lack of empathy for Joe Biden, who has given his life to our nation, who has been a spectacular President, who saved us once from Trump, and who is now being kicked to the curb by fellow (BTW White) Democrats,
