In a new letter, Democratic senators press the associate justice on whether he’s paid off the loan for that famous R.V.—and whether he may have ducked federal tax obligations.
I hate the 24 hour news cycle too, but this is worth keeping in the back of your mind. When politicians start asking these questions publicly but it doesn’t seem like anything’s changed, it’s because we’re missing information.
It’s one real news piece, followed by 20 people’s response to that news piece, followed by manufactured drama about those opinions, over and over again.
Agreed 100%. OTOH - keeping people engaged and thinking about these gross ethics violations are good for our elections. Republicans are winning the hearts and minds of the electorate as they up the ante on terrible acts. This will hopefully not let these assholes get off the hook.
Also… I don’t know this publisher’s ethics standards or motives. Just wishful thinking
keeping people engaged and thinking about these gross ethics violations are good for our elections
in an ideal world. but you even show that you know it doesnt work in the next sentence, these stories do not stop coming out but republicans are not being written off despite them. To republicans its all justified to own the libs, and to people like me, it’s just showing impotence of democrats. I only care about these stories if consequences are happening, not empty threats and criticisms.
so by “taking a turn” they mean remains on the exact same path with no new developments.
But once again, I hate modern journalism
I hate the 24 hour news cycle too, but this is worth keeping in the back of your mind. When politicians start asking these questions publicly but it doesn’t seem like anything’s changed, it’s because we’re missing information.
It’s one real news piece, followed by 20 people’s response to that news piece, followed by manufactured drama about those opinions, over and over again.
I thought “the turn” was that he was actually being investigated for it.
Agreed 100%. OTOH - keeping people engaged and thinking about these gross ethics violations are good for our elections. Republicans are winning the hearts and minds of the electorate as they up the ante on terrible acts. This will hopefully not let these assholes get off the hook.
Also… I don’t know this publisher’s ethics standards or motives. Just wishful thinking
in an ideal world. but you even show that you know it doesnt work in the next sentence, these stories do not stop coming out but republicans are not being written off despite them. To republicans its all justified to own the libs, and to people like me, it’s just showing impotence of democrats. I only care about these stories if consequences are happening, not empty threats and criticisms.
There are a lot of better examples of journalism than NewRepublic.
By all means post one.
Mother Jones, Al Jazeera, prospect.org, The Washington Post most of the time
New York Times and New Republic have taken on some sort of weird corruption recently, and thehill.com has fully embraced the darkness
Al Jazeera is kind of funny.
I responded to someone who has 3 posts in their history, but is sure they know what to post.
The main thing we need to do to fix journalism is crowdsource the titles. But how to make that happen? I dunno.
r/savedyouaclick was pretty good at this, I’d say
I always wonder how you get that many up votes in 30 minutes.
people coming in annoyed with the clickbait and finding the comment that vindicates them.
See there, already an up votes. Whatever suits your fancy, I guess. A bit like like masterbation.