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If there’s one thing both sides can agree on, is cable news punditry jeopardized our democracy. We don’t have journalists on cable news anymore, we have reality tv hosts and contestants.
Subscribe to your local and/or national newspapers, support local news networks, and turn off cable news, the survival of our democracy depends on it.
what, you mean after TWO FUCKING YEARS OF NON-STOP COVERAGE OF SOMEONE’S STUPID EMAILS
IT FINALLY FUCKING OCCURRED TO THE PRESS THAT MAYBE THIS BULLSHIT WAS A BAD IDEA
NOW IT OCCURS TO THEM? NOW???????
As a journalist, I ABHORE broadcast journalism. Watching others work in it, I’ve learned it is less attuned to fact-checking, it is less attuned to legitimate investigative reporting because its entire system of continuation is based on RATINGS. It’s about breaking the news and getting the attention, not breaking the factually accurate, culturally aware report. Doing that takes time and time is not on their side. I know people who work in broadcast, I’ve competed for news coverage with broadcast. And despite my friends who are in it, I will say this: I think it’s one of the lowest forms of journalism there is.
90% of our news, whether read, watched or listened to, is dominated by six media giants:
Comcast
News Corporation
The Walt Disney Company
Viacom
Time Warner
CBS Corporation
All of these companies are in some ways controlling the information you get, but far more importantly and in many more ways, how you get it. The Clinton email scandal wasn’t bad because it persisted. It was bad because of HOW it persisted, continuously raising doubts about whether or not Clinton had done something illegal. Continuously putting into question her trustworthiness. They didn’t have to cover the emails that way. They chose to.
If you are looking for better news sources, here are five independently run outlets that I trust for most of my political news. They are not perfect, they still deal with bias, but journalism is supposed to serve as a check and balance for the people. That’s why we protect the freedom of the press. These outlets serve as stronger checks and balances than most of their competitors.
Please boost What is happening with #NoDAPL and Standing Rock all over. What is happening is genocide. Do not allow this to go down in history as our collective American complicity of investing in Native/Indigenous genocide
i’ve definitely told you about this before but my dad and my uncle have this whole star wars vs star trek rivalry where they’ll get each other passive aggressive gifts (my dad is a star wars fan, and will always get my uncle star wars merch. my uncle claims star trek is so much better and star wars is lame. he will always get my father star trek merch. this has been going on since my parents got married.)
this is going to be a good year for arguing
my uncle just arrived. my mom shouted “kids, uncle rich is here!” my dad bellowed “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU” down the stairs. my uncle shouted back “YOU CANT SEE IT BUT IM GIVING YOUR DOG THE VULCAN SALUTE” i love christmas here
dinner was alright until over dessert my dad brought up “so, richie, you see the new star wars movie” until it devolved into a wine fueled shouting match. highlights include “WELL AT LEAST WE DIDNT HAVE JAR JAR GODDAMNED BINKS” “AT LEAST WE DIDNT BLOW UP–” “YES YOU DID. FIRST MOVIE. YOU BLEW UP A PLANET” “shit”
this years argument, like every year before it, ended with “nice to see you.” and them slapping each other on the back which i think is a guy way of hugging goodbye.
this is the best thing i’ve ever seen
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Companies like Google and Facebook have 67 days to minimize their data collection and retention before Trump is sworn in. That’s 67 days during which they can take a hard, close look at how much of their data they actually need to do their jobs, and how much they’re storing because hard drives are cheap and someone might have a cool idea down the line somewhere.
Dutch governments used their registers to record the homes of ethnic minorities in its border; these files could have been used by the Nazis to figure out which doors to break down. That’s why, on 27 March 1943, the Dutch resistance set fire to the municipal records hall, why the firefighters who responded made sure that they kept watering the building long after the fire was out, destroying any records that survived.
