The Descent
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@Catseye3 said in The Descent:
As a cisgendered man
Well, look who's being pretty presumptuous about my self-identification.
Harrumph.
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@Jolly said in The Descent:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-washington-posts-descent-into?s=r
Their podcast on CRT was pretty good.
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she geared up to sue the paper for discrimination (that suit was dismissed with prejudice by a D.C. judge in March).
Wait, why is she even still employed at this paper?
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If she honestly felt she was being discriminated against then why on earth would she stay?
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Why would the Post continue to keep her on? The woman tried to sue you…
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"“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"
Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.
(can I say that?)
@George-K said in The Descent:
"“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"
Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.
(can I say that?)
“I have long considered Dave a good friend,” Sonmez wrote. “It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong, and makes it all the more uncomfortable to call them out—even though it’s necessary to do so.”
Witness what righteousness does to a mind that is already slightly unhinged. Never doubt for a moment that she feels she is courageously fighting the good fight, as she flails wildly at the world, to punish it for her mental illness.
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The money shot to me was this quote.
"When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?
I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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The money shot to me was this quote.
"When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?
I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "
@Mik said in The Descent:
The money shot to me was this quote.
"When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?
I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "
It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.
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@Mik said in The Descent:
The money shot to me was this quote.
"When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?
I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "
It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.
@Axtremus said in The Descent:
@Mik said in The Descent:
The money shot to me was this quote.
"When I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, the question every op-ed editor would ask before we published a piece was: Is this worth printing several hundred thousand times (literally)? Is it worth it?
I’m not sure that question is asked so much anymore. "
It’s not for we rarely literally print anything several hundred thousand times anymore. It’s just electrons and pixels, often with silly things going viral racking up millions of views.
One prints stuff on a screen. Every time the pixels change colors to represent words, those words are printed.
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Seen on twitter:
What's the breakdown in the average WaPo staffer's workday between:
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monitoring colleagues' tweets/retweets
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complaining, on Slack and in Twitter, about offensive ones
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digging into who liked which tweet
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running gender-breakdown analyses of tweet-likers
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doing journalism
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Journalism is dead. Journalism remains dead. And we at the Washington Post have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death by our keyboards: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What tweets of false virtue, what misguided ideology shall we now have to peddle? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?
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"“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"
Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.
(can I say that?)
@George-K said in The Descent:
"“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"
Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.
(can I say that?)
Are you a biologist?
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@George-K said in The Descent:
"“It’s painful and confusing when friends say and do things that are wrong,"
Oh FFS, woman. Grow a pair.
(can I say that?)
Are you a biologist?
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I am sure she will accept this gracefully, learn from the experience, course correct, and move on.
