Daily Archives: March 16, 2023

BuzzFeed Journos Told to Write More CLICKBAIT to Save Their Jobs?!…


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Date: March 16, 2023

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“BuzzFeed’s newsroom is being told to crank out more clickbait… er… timely content to being in more ad revenue. This with a staff that’s down 40% since last year. Don’t worry, ChatGPT will finish off the newsroom soon enough. The hits just keep on coming for BuzzFeed, which has ALL of its money sunk into SVB and whose stock has lost 90% of its value since going public.”

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Sensitivity Readers RUINED Dungeons & Dragons and Children’s Books…


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Date: March 16, 2023

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“The media is defending sensitivity readers, who are being blamed for censoring Roald Dahl’s children’s books and tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. Because… they ARE. So is this a real job, or what? And shouldn’t companies be more concerned about retaining their customers and readers than offending a handful of perpetually angry people on Twitter?”

For the life of me…I will never understand how it is…that overly sensitive readers would flock to something like D&D…

…The whole premise of that world, is unapologetic savagery…It’s entirely contrary to sensitivity.

Okay…fine…Moments of kindness and love are also present…The D&D world is more complex than pure savagery…but you know what I mean…right?

I don’t know why highly sensitive people would even want, to submerge themselves into that sort of thing…It strikes me as highly contrary to their own nature.

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Silicon Valley Bank Collapses. Wokeness Blamed…


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Date: March 16, 2023

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“Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, and some on the right are blaming DEI, ESG, and ‘wokeness’ for that collapse. Leftwing media outlets deny this is the case, of course, but it is getting harder to deny that hiring people based on anything other than meritocracy may have disastrous financial consequences.”

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Author Asked To Define “Woke” – Immediately Melts Down!…

Date: March 16, 2023

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“She said “This is one of those moments that’s gonna go viral” and she was right – Rising guest and “wokeness” critic Bethany Mandel was asked to define what she meant by “woke” and her brain essentially froze up. The Internet responded in kind, with both critics and supporters commenting on the video, sharing their takes on the wokeness phenomenon, as well as the word’s definition and societal impact.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the origin and changing definitions of the term “woke” and whether Mandel deserves the rancor that’s been showered on her since this appearance.”

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Roger Waters Concert CANCELLED Over Israel Criticism…

Date: March 16, 2023

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“Krystal and Saagar are joined by Katie Halper to discuss Roger Watters concert being cancelled in Germany over criticism of Israel.

Katie’s Piece: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/13/frankfurt-undermines-human-rights-by-canceling-a-concert-by-roger-waters/

Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/let-pink-floyd-s-roger-waters-perform-in-frankfurt-germany

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Capitol Police Chief Rips Fox News A New One For Lying About Capitol Riot…

Date: March 16, 2023

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“J. Thomas Manger, the chief of the Capitol Police Force, ripped Fox News and host Tucker Carlson a new one this week after Carlson aired deceptively-edited footage from January 6th and claimed that the “rioters” were more like “sightseers” walking around the Capitol building. The Chief accused the network of selectively editing the footage and creating a completely false narrative about what happened that day, as well as lying about what happened to officer Brian Sicknick who died shortly after the riot. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

Tucker Carlson, as we all know, has started airing highly edited and selective footage from the 41,000 hours of camera footage that he received from Kevin McCarthy. And so far he’s managed to off Democrats. He’s off Republicans in both the House and the Senate. He’s off the White House, he’s off the public at, at, at large. And he also off the Chief of Police for the Capitol Police Force, a man by the name of Jay Thomas Manger. And Officer Manger, police Chief Manger was so angry about Tucker Carlson’s attempt to whitewash what happened on January 6th that he had to send out a force wide memo condemning it and reminding the officers what really happened that day. But before I get to, uh, officer Manger’s memo, Tucker Carlson said, quote, they were peaceful, they were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists, they were sight Sears. He also said that the video claimed to show police officers acting as tour guides for shirtless Rioter, Jacob Chanley, also known as the QAN on Shaman according to HuffPost.

So Carlson tried to say, oh, look, the police officers, they’re guiding these people around. Maybe they’re a part of it. So of course, the police officers who suffered casualties that day and days after were somehow a part of this. So I can understand why the cops would get super about this. So let me read you just a little bit of what, uh, uh, police chief Major had to say last night. An opinion program aired commentary that was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6th attack. The program conveniently cherrypicked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video. The commentary fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.

There’s more, again, from HuffPost Carlson’s quote, most disturbing accusation major said was that Officer Brian Snick had been healthy and vigorous after rioters attacked him with pepper spray, implying that Cynic’s death had nothing to do with the day’s events. The DC Medical examiner said Cick died of natural causes, namely a stroke. Uh, not long after the Capitol Riot manger, uh, manger said that the department maintains, quote as anyone with common sense would that had Officer Cick not fought violently for hours on that day. He was violently assaulted. Officer Cick would not have died the next day. So not only is Tucker Carlson

Trying to mislead the entire country about what happened, and so far it seems like it ain’t working, it’s backfiring, if anything. But he’s also dragging officer sick Nick’s name through the mud. That’s where you start to cross a legal line because if you’re implying that Officer Sickney somehow faked it, or that maybe he died from something else, keep in mind Officer Sickney was not a public official. So the line for defamation, the bar is set much lower than it would be for an actual public official. And I would say if Officer sick Nick’s families who did, uh, put out a statement calling Fox News, uh, sleazy and dishonest, I would think if they wanna file a defamation lawsuit against Tucker, they may have a dang good case to do that because this is disgusting. This is disturbing, this is sleazy. But that is what Tucker Carlson is.

And of course he is using these tapes as, you know, kind of the golden opportunity to deflect from all the horrible things that have been revealed through his own text messages. But again, 41,000 hours from every possible security camera there. Yeah, you’re gonna see people standing around. You’re gonna see them walking peacefully. Just like if we had a camera on Tucker Carlson 24 7, we could probably selective edit enough footage to say Tucker Carlson sits in his office picking his nose all day. But that, of course, would leave out all the context of all of the other things you do during the day. But it would be the same principle. But either way, the dragging of officer sick.

Citation:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-police-tucker-carlson_n_64079e14e4b0c0a42a722366

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Matt Taibbi Schools Dem Congressman On Purpose Of “Twitter Files” Hearing…

Date: March 16, 2023

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“Democratic House member Gerry Connolly hoped to prove that the Twitter Files revelations were merely an exercise in promoting right-wing talking points – that is, until he got schooled by journalist Matt Taibbi, who explained that the Twitter Files revealed efforts to silence voices on both the right AND the left.

Jimmy and Pushback host Aaron Maté discuss Democrats’ clear lack of interest in investigating the Twitter Files in favor of attempting to score cheap political points.”

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