4469

True, but that looks like my tool bag when I was 19. Hope he can use that masonry hammer to effect. Maybe build a cinderblock grill for the grill brush.

4470

Accession, NYT. The word you want is accession.

4471
4473

Social media will end the human race, long before climate change will.

4474

Jake tapper has a new show on CNN, and it is not good.

I like Tapper a lot, but he seems to be trying to be Steven Colbert, and it does not work.

4475
4476

This is one of the more interesting pieces and introspection on newspapers in a while. I think it’s pretty hard to convince some on the center much less the right to trust papers at this point. My belief is that the big national newspapers are broken as they laid off their senior writers, hired more credentialed, younger reporters who didn’t advance the traditional way like covering city councils/local crime and becoming cynical of everyone, and now papers suffer from intellectual homogeneity which restricts their influence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/new-york-times-tom-cotton-oped-james-bennet/

RE Lara Logan, I have a lot of sympathy for her. She clearly has never mentally recovered from her mass sexual assault and I think people who hired her have done her a disservice by contributing to her mental issues. If I was a close friend/family member, I’d have her take some time of for healing.

4477

If Logan is mentally ill, the media outlets booking her on to rant are just exploiting her illness. But even if she is not mentally ill, there is no good reason to book her at this point — she’s nobody, not an expert on anything, not a high-profile journalist. She’s just a random person who says crazy right-wing things. Apparently that’s the low bar necessary to be booked on Fox News, OANN, etc.

4478

I think Fox News and co find people like her the ideal guest. They can test for new crazy that resonates with their audience while having a degree of separation and deniability if it goes too far even for them.

4479

The NY Times discovers that there are gays outside of the coastal cities. Lakewood - the Cleveland suburb highlighted here - has had a large LGBTQ population since at least the late 70s.

4480

Seriously; it’s been the SF of the Midwest for as long as I’ve been alive (nice place to live, as well)

4481

I mean sure, fuck the New York Post, but this kid thinks he’s going to get another job as a journalist?

As a digital producer at the outlet, Gonzalez used his credentials to access The Post’s publishing tools with “relative ease,” and did so from his home in New Jersey. Gonzalez says he hopes to stay in journalism and he has started applying for jobs at outlets like Gothamist.

4482

At least in the article that Engadget cites he admits this probably won’t happen:

“I’m probably going to be blacklisted everywhere as I seek employment. What I did was horrible."

Also fun from that article – other NY Post staffers saying it wasn’t that big a deal, since their twitter feed usually looks like it’s been hacked:

4483

I am not sure how capitalism can fix it’s News problem.

4484

Oh it can’t. Anyone who thinks it can has rather missed the point. A capitalistic free-market economy is good at marshalling resources and using them to produce goods that meet demand. That’s it. It doesn’t solve any social problems at all, and never has. Quite the contrary, it frequently creates them.
See child labor, company stores, etc. This is why no sane country goes for unregulated capitalism.

News as a profit-source was always a suspect model that kinda-sorta worked for years because we needed big companies with big printing presses (or big radio antennas or big TV towers) to disseminate information. The internet killed that model dead. It’s been dead for years, even if the corpse hasn’t stopped twitching.

Capitalism can’t fix this, but regulated capitalism could if the incentives were aligned right around advertising dollars. It would take some legislation and would be tricky in the modern freezepeach climate but it’s on-paper possible.

4485

Ban targeted advertising? Break big tech’s back with antitrust regulation?

4486
4487

Never doubt that a small group of dedicated wealthy donors can change the world!

4488

No way!

4489

No way anyone could have seen this coming!