Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Your for-profit healthcare system at work! I really hope that people eventually get tired of events like this and start demanding nationalized healthcare. Though that hope is tempered by decades of people just saying, "Well, I guess I'll have to file for bankruptcy."

Newspapers have always been for-profit enterprises, and this isn't the first time that's caused issues (see also: William Randolph Hearst or Citizen Kane). The main difference is the owners used to be local and quite happy with 10% profits. With all the consolidation, the owners are now shareholders demanding line go up in a dying field.

It took me far longer than it should have to realize what the endgame would be with all of this. But I was young and naive and thought people wanted news. Turns out, they didn't.

Everyone knows you can only yell "fire" in an empty theatre. You generally get trespassed immediately thereafter.

TIL Trump somehow knows the word "ought." Immediately stumbles with "into" though ...

OK, that's quality.

Even better is when they just interview a neighbour who knows nothing about the situation other than a whole bunch of cop cars were there last night.

I've no defense for what corporate media has become (hence my exit), but no one's twirling mustaches in the newsroom. There simply isn't time.

Our job is to get the facts right so that readers at least know what's going on. Having run a couple of opinion sections, the crackpots have always been with us, but their idiotic letters to the editor were at least able to be quietly round-filed before social media.

Why would they? People paying 50% of their income on rent can't make big donations.

Oof. My ex was one of those "can't sleep without noise" types, and I'm a "can't sleep with noise" guy. We reached a compromise of an oldies station on relatively low volume, but it still drove me up the wall because I heard ads all night.

The things we do for love.

I'm not here for an argument, just providing context from decades of journalism experience. Words have meaning, and book excerpts certainly have their place, but calling them "news" is inaccurate.

That doesn't solve the other issues. It's just not a news story as written. In the future, please do not use the Daily Mail as a source. It's as authoritative as the Weekly World News (Is that still even a thing? Batboy was a cultural touchstone.).

Even without those changes, a recalibration of wages to housing costs would go a long way toward reversing the appeal of fascism. It won't happen, of course.

With enough layoffs at newspapers, you end up with a robust stable of freelancers. I come from the editing side, but most reporters I've worked with wanted to be able to go more longform with looser deadlines.

But this is not original copy; it's a book excerpt. If that's what they run to seem more highbrow, more power to them. This just isn't an example of a "hard-hitting article."

Dexter had an almost-perfect balance for me of dark humour, procedural and external drama for the first few seasons. No one aspect so overwhelming that it was like "well, fuck, may as well make dinner now."

If your SO likes pure procedurals, I'd recommend it as something you might both enjoy. The star is Michael C. Hall ... if you enjoyed him in Six Feet Under, he's of course not the same character but brings as much to the table.

I'm leaving this up for now with a bit of nudging so that the poster can see why this won't fly. I addressed the hed in my response. Outside of egregious situations, I believe education is better than immediately jumping to removal and leaving the user confused and angry.

Don't worry ... it's a one-time offer.

Friendly reminder: Do not make up your own headlines when posting here. You are asserting a sectarian allegation as fact. The full hed is:

"MAGA demands immediate arrest of former FBI director James Comey after he 'called for assassination' of Trump"

... which is pretty much a day ending in "y". "Former Official Mean to Thin-Skinned Supposed Strongman" is his whole shtick.

Regardless, the whole "story" is a mess that never should have seen the light of day. MAGA is not an organization that can demand anything, and things only deteriorate from the first word of the hed.

The Daily Mail is not a serious news outlet, and I'd appreciate you not posting propaganda in a news community.

The quality of questions fell off a cliff well before Match Group came in and really enshittified the whole affair. I soured on continuing to answer questions once the new ones were almost exclusively false dichotomies.

Meet people online via shared interests. I'm not one to tout Reddit, but really engaging in niche communities there gives you wide exposure specifically targeted. Don't expect immediate results, but it is a valid method.

"If I had a million dollars? Two chicks at the same time."

I agree reasonable people just move forward to the next thing, but we aren't all still of clubbing age, and internet dating is shit.

I can finally wipe my ass!