I think the behavior of these news outlets has less to do with small liberalism and more to do with wanting to make profit, And seeing it all as a competition to make profit.
I had already cancelled my subscriptions to everything but The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Substack. I can only imagine the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and many others turning over in their graves at the current state of "corporate news" having become "Newspeak" (credit and kudos to George Orwell) outlets for a sick, incompetent administration.
My guess - NYT FINALLY gets it right, in 2 years, 2 years too late. We refuse to “how dare you!” Around the same time most Americans realize what has happened and again, waaaay too late.
Geez. I have been reading Axios since about the beginning of their pub and lately I have been all - is it me??? Or are they ever so slightly softening their wording in everything Trump? Like leading with “Trump speech splits Dems” instead of a million other things that Trump will be doing in his Tuesday speech. And then they get the WH pool job. So disappointing.
This was a great discussion, and I think your guest is correct about Democrats needing to reach out to their base instead of always trying to be more republican sounding. https://youtu.be/QFpWDmW8dqk?si=Uid92EWwo2_aWHGK
Getting very, very curmudgeonly, how many 'M'rk'ns deserve the college degrees or high school diplomas they've received? I figure the typical 'M'rk'n of today doesn't know as much about how government does and should work as their counterparts did a century ago.
Is that more the right's fault than the left's?
Maybe the truest and most insightful thing Trump has ever said and ever will say is that he loves the under-educated. Without them, none of this would have been possible. I'd only add that far too many of the under-educated have college degrees.
". . . [r]unning an op-ed by Ross Douthat explaining that (1) eliminating the NYT had precedent dating to the pontificate of Boniface III. . . ."
I wanted to laugh but I just couldn't. Clever, though; you nailed that pompous sellout.
Thank you for the Lawrence Wright piece. Stunning. There is so much in that piece: the women's stories; the victims' stories; his religious trauma, and his religious philosophy. I've never been disappointed by anything I've read that he's written.
"It needs to decide if it merely operates by the rules of liberalism, because they were the pre-existing rule set—or if it is on the side of liberalism.". This is exactly it! Mainstream media has absolutely not grappled with this issue.
It's a pity that none of the organisations and individuals kissing the ring to protect themselves will admit the true state of T. Ronald Dump. He is the archetypal school bully. He will demand your lunch money - or else he will beat you up.
You hand over the money.
He beats you up anyway, 'cos it's fun.
Tomorrow, he does the same thing, and so on.
Will Volodymyr sign over his minerals to appease T. Ronald? I suspect that he knows that Dump will run off with the goodies, and let Putin have all he wants anyway, and say what a great 'deal' he has done.
Volodymyr should offer the minerals direct to Putin, in return for getting the eff out of Ukraine. Dump's brain would explode, and you would only have Jimmy D. Hannam to contend with.
Although...
And, as I said elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth the Second was pictured with a bruise on the hand like Dump displayed in his Macron fest, and she was dead two days later. Watch this space...
I find the Bezos directive somewhat vague and familiar, though obviously interfering with the business of a free press. But still, free markets and personal liberties sounds like regular order. He's embracing competition, not tariffs and monopolies. And on the personal liberties side, he does not support government interventions. But I'm not familiar with WAPO opinion pages.
I think the behavior of these news outlets has less to do with small liberalism and more to do with wanting to make profit, And seeing it all as a competition to make profit.
And this is the way it is, Thursday, March 6, 2025, the 46th day of captivity of American Democracy by trump republicans.
Joseph Goebbels, nazi minister of propaganda: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”
I had already cancelled my subscriptions to everything but The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Substack. I can only imagine the likes of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and many others turning over in their graves at the current state of "corporate news" having become "Newspeak" (credit and kudos to George Orwell) outlets for a sick, incompetent administration.
My guess - NYT FINALLY gets it right, in 2 years, 2 years too late. We refuse to “how dare you!” Around the same time most Americans realize what has happened and again, waaaay too late.
Geez. I have been reading Axios since about the beginning of their pub and lately I have been all - is it me??? Or are they ever so slightly softening their wording in everything Trump? Like leading with “Trump speech splits Dems” instead of a million other things that Trump will be doing in his Tuesday speech. And then they get the WH pool job. So disappointing.
Thank you for the article recommendation. Very worthwhile read.
This was a great discussion, and I think your guest is correct about Democrats needing to reach out to their base instead of always trying to be more republican sounding. https://youtu.be/QFpWDmW8dqk?si=Uid92EWwo2_aWHGK
Excellent, truthful observations, JVL. Makes me want to puke. Will be subscribing to The Bulwark.
Getting very, very curmudgeonly, how many 'M'rk'ns deserve the college degrees or high school diplomas they've received? I figure the typical 'M'rk'n of today doesn't know as much about how government does and should work as their counterparts did a century ago.
Is that more the right's fault than the left's?
Maybe the truest and most insightful thing Trump has ever said and ever will say is that he loves the under-educated. Without them, none of this would have been possible. I'd only add that far too many of the under-educated have college degrees.
". . . [r]unning an op-ed by Ross Douthat explaining that (1) eliminating the NYT had precedent dating to the pontificate of Boniface III. . . ."
I wanted to laugh but I just couldn't. Clever, though; you nailed that pompous sellout.
Thank you for the Lawrence Wright piece. Stunning. There is so much in that piece: the women's stories; the victims' stories; his religious trauma, and his religious philosophy. I've never been disappointed by anything I've read that he's written.
Conscience doth make cowards of us all
Stacey fully agree. He is about the only writer I can read these days.
"It needs to decide if it merely operates by the rules of liberalism, because they were the pre-existing rule set—or if it is on the side of liberalism.". This is exactly it! Mainstream media has absolutely not grappled with this issue.
It's a pity that none of the organisations and individuals kissing the ring to protect themselves will admit the true state of T. Ronald Dump. He is the archetypal school bully. He will demand your lunch money - or else he will beat you up.
You hand over the money.
He beats you up anyway, 'cos it's fun.
Tomorrow, he does the same thing, and so on.
Will Volodymyr sign over his minerals to appease T. Ronald? I suspect that he knows that Dump will run off with the goodies, and let Putin have all he wants anyway, and say what a great 'deal' he has done.
Volodymyr should offer the minerals direct to Putin, in return for getting the eff out of Ukraine. Dump's brain would explode, and you would only have Jimmy D. Hannam to contend with.
Although...
And, as I said elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth the Second was pictured with a bruise on the hand like Dump displayed in his Macron fest, and she was dead two days later. Watch this space...
No Triad today? We must have disappointed The JVL with our engagement. Must do better!
I find the Bezos directive somewhat vague and familiar, though obviously interfering with the business of a free press. But still, free markets and personal liberties sounds like regular order. He's embracing competition, not tariffs and monopolies. And on the personal liberties side, he does not support government interventions. But I'm not familiar with WAPO opinion pages.