They're both horrible interviewers so they try to cover that up with gimmicks and bits. Likewise, they're both too selfish to be good interviewers so everything revolves and is focused on them. At least Fallon tries to compliment guests. Corden actually sings over his guests.
Every time this article says "working class," it means "white." Every time it says "blue collar," it means "white." Every time it says "Youngstown," it means "a rural township 15 miles away from Youngstown, a city that's half black." https://t.co/xkhjIcHFmd— Lily Roberts (@LilyRoberts12) May 20, 2019
That tweet is about as misleading as the dateline being Youngstown instead of Lordstown. 1. Lordstown is 15 miles from, perhaps, the city center of Youngstown, which is incomplete. The edges of each are significantly closer. 2. It's part of Youngstown-Warren, which is a metro area. 3. It's a bit closer to Warren. 4. Y'town is 45% black, Warren 27%. 5. Lordstown's GM plant employed lots of people from both core cities until its closures, despite Lordstown itself being 93-ish% white. 6. When someone says Youngstown around here, they're talking about the whole metro area ("where are you from?" "Youngstown" "oh, which part" "Boardman" "ok"). Lordstown's definitely a part of it, and it employed a disproportionate amount of the area's residents.
The NYT keeps crashing Safari on my iPad. I can't wait to read that article to see if the Paper of Record did better w/ Youngstown and environs than they did when they sent a guy to Old Forge PA* a couple months back (I see the guy who wrote this article talked to Scranton college students re: Biden. ...CRASH. *The first posting of the article located Old Forge in Southeastern, PA, not NEPA.
It seems to be a multifaceted failure, the bias being "we're from the Times and we'll swoop in for a couple of days and confirm what we think we know about the place", rather than an American political ideological bias in particular. The other major place they talk about (skimming) is Vienna, which is 15 ish miles outside central Youngstown, but is due east of Warren and adjacent to the airport and the township that contains half of Warren and a quarter of Niles. I get that it's all confusing to talk about vast stretches of brownfield as part of "Youngstown", but there's an awful lot of nuance in the place that is missing.
I'm going to leave this here. Excuse me for posting more than 4 paragraphs: https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/bill-moyers-climate-change.php Many of us have recognized that our coverage of global warming has fallen short. There’s been some excellent reporting by independent journalists and by enterprising reporters and photographers from legacy newspapers and other news outlets. But the Goliaths of the US news media, those with the biggest amplifiers—the corporate broadcast networks—have been shamelessly AWOL, despite their extraordinary profits. The combined coverage of climate change by the three major networks and Fox fell from just 260 minutes in 2017 to a mere 142 minutes in 20l8—a drop of 45 percent, reported the watchdog group Media Matters. Meanwhile, about 1,300 communities across the United States have totally lost news coverage, many from newspaper mergers and closures, according to the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism. 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Late 1940. The start of the Blitz, with bombs blasting London to bits. A Gallup poll that September found that a mere 16 percent of Americans supported sending US aid to beleaguered Britain. Olson and Cloud tell us that, “One month later, as bombs fell on London, and Murrow and the Boys brought the reality of it into American living rooms, 52 percent thought more aid should be sent.” Americans had taken one step toward defeating fascism, and the Murrow Boys helped us take it. Of course, the journalists were only part of the cast, and I don’t want to overrate their importance. But they were there. On the right side. At the right time. In the right way—reporting on the biggest story of all, the fight for freedom. For life itself. Reporting the truth is always the basis for any moral authority we can claim as journalists. Reporting the truth about climate disruption, and its solutions, could be contagious. Our gathering today could be a turning point for American journalism.
Yeah, why can't she be more likable: BREAKING: Woman gets paid for doing job; should smile more and bake cookies pic.twitter.com/BD7vDOsgNw— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 23, 2019
Law professors practicing law? That should be illegal! That is a damn stupid WaPo tweet even by Twitter standards.
You guys are unfairly dismissing the terrific reporting done by <checks notes> reading Warren’s campaign web page.
This: MESSAGE TO NATIONAL MEDIA. Stop discussing the fake @SpeakerPelosi video from Trump. Because it is fake, discuss the mentally unfit behavior of the person who would use this kind of tactic and the fitness of that person to continue in this role.— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 24, 2019
For now, Facebook is keeping the doctored videos up. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/facebook-holds-out-for-phony-pelosi-vids Dems need to threaten Facebook. They respond to threats.
The DNC needs to create some fake videos of Trump talking about how he wished we still had slavery so he could get cheap labor for his golf courses. Well, at least videos -- not sure they'd be fake, actually.
******** Chuck Todd THIS SUNDAY: @RepJeffries , @RashidaTlaib and @PressSec Sarah Sanders will join @chucktodd on Meet the Press #MTP #IfItsSunday pic.twitter.com/PJszC0Zl2Q— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 24, 2019
Here's some stuff from "across the pond." 1131977960444108802 is not a valid tweet id It’s completely easy not to feel sorry for her, I’m doing it right now https://t.co/olAsKU2t39— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) May 24, 2019 pic.twitter.com/0XEW7RSR7d— Hilary Agro 🍄 (@hilaryagro) May 24, 2019 Naomi Wolf: I'm going to beclown myself in such an epic fashion that nothing else will ever make you laugh.New York Times: Beer in our hands, hold for a minute. https://t.co/X2uDee4lyY— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 25, 2019
There are some great replies to this tweet. Iran's reach puts U.S. forces, allies in striking range https://t.co/qo5EtHcn8a pic.twitter.com/JBdsCJscYw— Reuters (@Reuters) May 21, 2019
For those who see the post count going up, a user is complaining about tweets in a thread again while adding nothing to the thread.
Forgive me for not retweeting about conservative media bias. The entire concept in today's MSM is so bizarre it is hard to find good material, which explains your retweets and internet gymnastics.
"Neutrality" which translates to "We can't tell the difference between fascists and Democrats. White, Christain nationalists and Jews. Corporations that steal, poison, kill and worse and regulators. We have to treat both the same. I can't tell the difference." I believe that's what he is referring to. At least that's what I see.
Im sure there are real videos because there's a Costa Rican town that supplies his resorts with many workers