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  • My take, and I've only been covering politics since the '90s, is they realized they crossed the line for public support, so now there are two options: admit overreach (obviously not an outcome here) or double down.

  • Respectfully, no fucking shit. I wanted to happily just go about designing pages, and then it became clear the point of the enterprise was not to inform our readers.

    I honestly don't know how others engaged in "journalism" were willing to look the other way. "Because they needed to provide for their families" or some shit? You cease to be a journalist when you compromise your ethics. You're now in marketing or PR.

  • If you think the forks are bad, wait until you see the spoons! (Tip your waitress; try the veal.)

  • Who's to say that's not the plan?

  • They didn't even make the McRib permanent!

  • This keeps up, and the press is going to be so weakened that we can't even have seed oils anymore.

  • I mean, that could work as well. A comma in a hed replaces "and" -- semicolons are very rare, though.

  • I'm giving that comma in the hed some serious side-eye. I get Al-Jazeera isn't an English-native publication, but they usually do better than this. In this context, the comma is saying the two are unrelated. An "as" or "with" fixes the issue.

  • Are they really "shocking," though?

  • How much more can you pack into like eight hours? This was already dense! Sure, I called it 24, but no. It was midafternoon to midnight.

  • Yep, and this is the first time I'll not just be there, but as a participant. Sunday was illuminating.

  • LOL ... my grandparents with a condo on Alder in Edmonds just put up with trees growing. In the '80s. These NIMBY shits are a different bunch. My attention is also focused elsewhere currently.

  • Sure, but this is only going to expand the Overton window in one direction. People with facts tend not to be as inflammatory.

  • Great, after the horses have not only bolted but been shipped to El Salvador.

  • "We'll give you a grand to bring a child into this hellscape."

    Covid relief checks were bigger.

  • At one point, a shave and a haircut was two bits.

  • Reporters can only push back so hard against individual assignments. It's inarguably news, so you don't have the trump card. This is, then, important information that needs to come out.

    Time was, when something was absolutely egregious, the copy desk would stop it from running. Guess what doesn't exist anymore?

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