This was really funny to me. Not since the rickroll have I enjoyed a mysterious link this much. (Link is about Steven Spielberg making an Obama biopic staring Daniel Day Lewis and Tracy Morgan).
Hal9000
6063
It drives me nuts because this guy has always been a great friend, if a bit of a type-A jerk (I can’t complain given my profession), and all of a sudden I have this cognitive dissonance. :P
Maybe it’s just because they have similar personalities and I don’t personally take too much note until the person could actually become the next president.
And to think I used to watch Walter Cronkite.
RichVR
6065
Pffft! Cronkite was a lightweight. A loser and a clown. /s
Surely America can do better than have the its top candidates potential face criminal charges.
I wanted to respond “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” but unfortunately that was Dan Rather.
That was a time when TV journalism was worthy of the name. What have we come to. :-(
News as entertainment. The networks, back when they were relevant, kept up their news divisions because it brought them respect and positive reactions which they could then turn to profit via their entertainment programming. The news rooms were able to keep independent and actually do journalism because the network needed them. Once 24/7, available everywhere reporting became available, it became harder and harder to justify the expense of a full-featured serious news division in a world where people were happy to accept quantity and timeliness over quality and consideration, so they pretty much axed the news divisions. They still exist, but as pale shadows of their earlier glory, because the networks never had a real fundamental interest in news per se, only in what the news divisions could bring to the bottom line indirectly.
Tim_N
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I’m going to have to strongly disagree with you. I am watching CNN right now for their Super Tuesday coverage, and it feels like 75% of it is advertising, 15% is ballot cam (exactly as it sounds like), and 10% of people saying not very interesting or provocative thing. News these days is most often not entertaining or informative.
RichVR
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The death of the Fairness Doctrine? I do miss the old newsmen.
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Moore
6076
Hah, that makes me feel like I should share my debate drawings
I don’t know if this has been posted yet but this is a fairly terrifying article about the study of authoritarianism and how it explains not only the polarization of our country, the Republican shift to the right, and the rise of Trump as the ideal authoritarian candidate, but more worryingly how this authoritarianism spans traditional demographics and suggests that Trump is just the start of a new political movement in our country:
So if Rubio falls and Kasich and Carson finally go away, does Cruz suddenly start sounding less crazy in his speeches so as to become the anti-Trump establishment candidate? That would be pretty scary.
