SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
Our fascinated remains: At some point, we're going to stop. That said, we remain fascinated by what we regard as the rolling dumbnification of the (online) Washington Post.
This morning, at the top of the online paper's front page, seven reports were granted full banner headline status. At 9:15 on this Sunday morning, those seven featured reports appeared beneath these headlines:
Democrats fear the midterm map is slipping away
China’s Communist Party hands Xi Jinping an endless rule for flexing power
Is this what Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers came back for?
Plans to pave Australia’s remote, dangerous Outback Way bring hope, fear and anger
A college wrestler fought a bear to save his teammate—and won
Use this TikToker’s viral travel tip to find the best places to stay
Clemson’s QB change comes just in time (college football winners and losers)
A college wrestler fought a bear! Also, three quarterbacks in two different reports, and viral best places to stay!
That strikes us as a peculiar top-of-the-front-page list for a major national newspaper. That said, we'll guess that the Washington Post knows what readers want.
Borrowing from Tara Westover, we call this an education—but also anthropology. As Springsteen's narrator says to his son, "Son, take a good look around."
ReplyDelete"That strikes us as a peculiar top-of-the-front-page list for a major national newspaper."
Eh... Exsqueeze us, dear Bob, did you mean 'scummy-neocon Bezos' publication'?
There is zero evidence that Bezos has any influence on what the Washington Post prints.
DeleteAlso, the pure news part of the Post is mostly centrist and factual. The opinion part includes a wide spectrum of political viewpoints (including those of Trump supporters like Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen). You have no idea what you're talking about, and you've repeated that bogus talking point many times. Talk about being bot-like.
DeleteI want to go vote.
ReplyDeleteI want to wrestle a bear.
DeleteWe could vote together.
DeleteMost people would vote to see Cecelia wrestle a bear.
DeleteWhat about the bear vote?
DeleteAny bear that mauls a Right-winger to death, has my vote. Same, if the bear shoots the Right-winger with a gun.
DeleteHave you had your hypothalamus measured lately?
DeleteHave you helped any pre-schoolers write their theses on CRT lately?
DeleteSo, Bob would like to list all the minor stories the Press is covering while he ignores all the major ones, sticking his fingers in his ears and screeching "Trump Trump Trump Trump Jail" as loudly as he can.
ReplyDeleteBob: come for the cowardice, stay for the moral
idiocy.
Mary Trump isn't only saying that Trump has psychological problems. She is calling him a mass murderer for his interference in the covid pandemic. I wonder if Somerby will agree with that one. He didn't back when it was happening.
ReplyDeleteMore remedial reading for Somerby. Here is some actual anthropology about the connection between authoritarianism and sexism.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/anti-abortion-men/
That is some very low IQ journalism there. It begins with a classic false choice
DeleteRead past the first sentence and see why the author expresses the choice that way. Also, this is not journalism. It is commentary on how women have been viewed in antiquity, including Aristotle's views on women's rights. It perhaps explains why Somerby is so fond of the guy.
DeleteWomen have always been viewed positively.
DeleteWhen it comes to cooking and cleaning, washing the potatoes, scrubbing the carrots, taking care of babies, they have it all over men
We're going to elect politicians that put women back in the kitchen where they belong.
DeleteIf that means dictatorship, so be it.
DeleteImagine hating women for the one thing they do better than men, taking care of babies. Democrat feminism is misogyny.
DeleteVery good point. Men doing things men do better is toxic, unless a woman is doing them. You're right.
DeleteTrump would get up in the middle of meeting with world leaders because he was bored. What must they think of us for electing someone like him as president. I feel shame because of that, and I didn’t vote for him.
ReplyDeleteYour point is an important one. Fools like Bob have shamed themselves. But if this crook/Nutcase is brought to Justice, it won’t be a moment for anyone to feel pride. It will only mean that enough
Deletepeople would not look the other way
at his sick and dangerous behavior,
as Bob wants to do.
When Trump is long dead and buried, this will continue to serve as DNC/ Media campaign guiding political principle.
ReplyDeleteIt cannot be undone.
https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1582887592277991425?s=42&t=BuQW_9csFoMgIap98CI6Bg
Well, you did elect a power mad fruitcake
Deletewho tried to turn us into a dictatorship.
Sorry if, to a degree, that serves
the opposition party.
By “serves the opposition party” you mean at election time you’ll put your principles on ball-bearings with the abandonment of your position against low-priced fossil fuels, rather than making some compromises (perhaps on fracking) and addressing spending.
DeleteYou’ll do this based upon scare tactic rhetoric about the threat to democracy no matter what Republican is running for office.
The Coup poo is just a another political device for you.
Every economically anxious Republican voted for Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election, and Biden in the 2020 Presidential election. Every last one of them.
DeleteWe live in a great country.
DeleteWhere else could flying monkeys get work as drive-by-poo-slingers on behalf of the smarter anonymices.
Best country.
DeleteFor every shit-brain who repeats Christopher Rufo's lies about CRT in schools, there are at least two Americans who believe we should open our borders to refugees.
Right. CRT is a concept that has gone no father than the ivory tower attic, but needs to be protected from dumb parents, and illegals are synonymous with foreign nationals who come in claiming refugee status.
DeleteWell done, flying monkey.
Poor Cecelia. She keeps forgetting to call Liberals "sheeple", before she repeats the lies Christopher Rufo tells her.
DeleteAngry parents are showing up at school board meetings throughout the country, demanding their children be taught that inflation is caused by lack of anti-monopoly regulation and enforcement.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:24pm, you have a drag Queen for that?
DeleteOf course Cecelia fell for the CRT bullshit.
DeleteIf only she was 1/100000000th as smart as she thinks liberals are.
Anonymouse 4:12pm, I don’t know who is he is, but I’m going to go follow him on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteHe's a lying right-wing asshole. You'll love him!
DeleteNot anywhere near your passion for him.
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