I like how the journalist for USA Today set out to stop Americans from being able to pay for lawyers, and the defense of the media is "shame on @ggreenwald, we don't actually pay her to do this!"
Is it better that the commissars works for free?
You might notice a common theme in her work. There are a lot of opportunities out there for young reporters who have no idea what they're talking about as long as they say the right things, one day they might pay her for this stuff.
Flashback: In 2010, Liz Cheney attacked lawyers for defending Guantanamo detainees. Right, left and center denounced her for it. Shouldn't underestimate the degree to which the press and the left have become illiberal. nytimes.com/2010/03/10/us/…
In a debate touching on the important, fundamental issues of due process and censorship, journalists respond to others pointing out their hypocrisy by focusing on what's really important. "Do you think I'm old?"
They bring up age and status of reporter, then cry misogyny.
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When I went into academia, I thought there was a tradeoff between having a lucrative career, on the one hand, and an interest in truth and influence, on the other. I came to realize there is no tradeoff, academia is worse across the board. I encourage everyone to avoid it.
You have more intellectual freedom writing for think tanks and newspapers than for academic journals. Academics are told what authorities to cite and which methodology to use, and that's on top of the pressure to reach certain conclusions, which are found everywhere, and more PC.
During my PhD, I did work on public opinion and used stats to understand international relations. I came to the conclusion public opinion doesn’t matter in IR, and the statistical methods are mistakenly applied. Only way to keep publishing would have been to pretend otherwise.
So much female comedy here, you don’t want to miss this hilarity. They’re talking about their mood disorders and all the prejudice they’re overcoming and how they all inspire each other. Can’t miss. joinclubhouse.com/room/xerAZ5Ob
They’re all unmuting themselves right at the punchline and then breaking in with the most painfully fake laughs I’ve ever heard.
They cheer each other by going “woo woo woo” at the same time and it sounds like it’s sarcastic but it’s supposed to not be?
Yesterday I mentioned that Asian ethnic activism tends to be very female dominated. Got a lot of attention, and since this is a fascinating question, I decided to do a bit of research and see if I could confirm my suspicions. 1/n
First, here's the banner of the Asian American Journalists Association. I count 10 women and 4 men. 2/n
Here's the board for something called "Chinese for Affirmative Action," what I get when I google "Stop AAPI Hate." There are 20 names, when I couldn't tell sex I googled the person and looked for a picture. I came up with 14 women and 6 men. 3/n
One Fox News segment has done more to discredit the military in the eyes of the demographic that supports it than twenty years of incompetence and failure in the Middle East.
lol
“For 99 percent of Americans, the question will never come up in a job interview: Can you hang from a bar and tuck your legs to your chest?”
The Cuomo New York article starts with a roast where they played a game that made a staffer think "you're mean." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
One female staffer wore a shirt she thought was cute, Cuomo told her she "looked like a lumberjack." She offered him her phone number and "he behaved as if she’d come on to him." Who's the real victim here?
Another one of Cuomo's crimes is not hiring enough ugly women.