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Post by dirtybird on Mar 7, 2024 17:26:40 GMT
We started fucking the Fourth Amendment more than 20 years ago. Oh, a long time before that
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Post by doctorquant on Mar 7, 2024 17:29:35 GMT
It's long past time to run the Bill of Rights through a DEI rubric.
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Post by YankeeFan on Mar 7, 2024 18:05:57 GMT
What if they just dealt with the people they know are causing the problems?
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Post by dirtybird on Mar 7, 2024 18:35:15 GMT
I will be interested to see the list of those charges.
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 2, 2024 17:20:13 GMT
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Post by lcjjdnh on Apr 13, 2024 1:34:56 GMT
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 13, 2024 15:18:39 GMT
Guess who has disappointed David French again.
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Post by pallister on Apr 13, 2024 15:30:54 GMT
Guess who has disappointed David French again. Everyone?
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Post by doctorquant on Apr 13, 2024 15:46:00 GMT
Never really thought of it this way, but Kevin Williamson had a pretty good line in his latest on abortion ... "The pro-life movement doesn’t win when nobody can get an abortion—it wins when nobody wants one."
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 27, 2024 14:45:57 GMT
LOL.
I’m sure this will result in the departure of Sulzberger.
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 27, 2024 14:49:41 GMT
Pretty funny that Keith announced this on Twitter, a platform he previously quit.
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Post by YankeeFan on May 9, 2024 19:19:09 GMT
The Times article about Republicans echoing antisemitic tropes includes this bit: (Evangelical Christians, who have been central to Republicans’ support for Israel, believe that God made an unbreakable promise to Jews designating the region as their homeland. Some also connect Israel’s existence to biblical prophecies about the last days before a theocratic kingdom is established on Earth and, some believe, those who do not convert to Christianity perish.)This bit has been bandied about in the media for a while not. The Times wrote this in October: American evangelicals are among Israel’s most ardent advocates, compelled in part by their interpretation of scripture that says God’s ancient promise to the Jewish people designating the region as their homeland is unbreakable. Some evangelicals also see Israel’s existence connected to biblical prophecy about the last days of the world before a divine theocratic kingdom can be established on earth.www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/us/american-evangelicals-israel-hamas.htmlNBC had this in October as well: But evangelicals’ support isn’t simply driven by a theology that compels them to love the Holy Land, detached from its convulsive domestic and global political implications. For many “Christians Zionists,” and particularly for popular evangelists with significant clout within the Republican Party, their support for Israel is rooted in its role in the supposed end times: Jesus’ return to Earth, a bloody final battle at Armageddon, and Jesus ruling the world from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In this scenario, war is not something to be avoided, but something inevitable, desired by God, and celebratory.www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481I'm sorry, but how many people believe this? Has anyone, except maybe John Hagee, said something like this? Where are the quotes from the adherents of this belief? Seems to me this is as big a "trope" as anything.
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Post by YankeeFan on May 15, 2024 14:05:31 GMT
Just stop hiring activists, and fire them if they can't do the job as described.
New York Times reporters are circulating a draft of an open letter to Joe Kahn, criticizing the paper’s top editor over comments they said were dismissive of young reporters.
In a series of recent interviews with outlets including Semafor and The Wall Street Journal, Kahn weighed in on President Joe Biden’s criticism of the Times’ reporting on his administration and campaign.
But the executive editor also raised what he saw as some of the challenges of hiring younger journalists, who he said are not “fully prepared for what we are asking our people to do, which is to commit themselves to the idea of independent journalism.”
“Young adults who are coming up through the education system are less accustomed to this sort of open debate, this sort of robust exchange of views around issues they feel strongly about may have been the case in the past,” Kahn told the Journal.
Expanding on the comments, he told Semafor that the newsroom was “not a safe space.”
In a draft note shared with Semafor, staff said Kahn’s comments were “broad generalizations that reflect a poor understanding of the people who make up your newsroom.” Further, staff said that they felt that there were actually fewer opportunities for an exchange of ideas, and argued that a diverse pool of perspectives was “needed to protect not just the independence but also the empathy of our journalism.”
“Instead of engaging in robust exchange, we are increasingly discouraged from speaking up at all,” staff wrote. “We are told that it is only appropriate to express concerns or even earnest questions in one-on-one conversations with people who outrank us.”
The letter continued: “Far from open mindedness, this policy communicates the opposite: an unwillingness to tolerate dissent. Your staff is not full of activists trying to impose their views on the report. Rather than tribalism or ideology, those who voice concerns do so in the interest of accuracy and fairness — to make The New York Times into the best version of itself.”
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Post by Whitman on May 15, 2024 14:13:20 GMT
Just stop hiring activists, and fire them if they can't do the job as described. One thing they could consider is to stop exclusively hiring from the same six Ivy League schools where a particular type of activism flourishes.
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Post by YankeeFan on May 15, 2024 14:20:09 GMT
Just stop hiring activists, and fire them if they can't do the job as described. One thing they could consider is to stop exclusively hiring from the same six Ivy League schools where a particular type of activism flourishes. 100%. The funny thing is, some of their best reporters over the years have been folks they poached from the New York Post and/or the new York Daily News. Maggie Haberman for example worked at both, though she joined the Times from Politico.
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