Trump versus the Media versus Marx ( as in Groucho)
One of the funniest comedy routines in modern memory is the ongoing sketch between the bat-shit crazy Mr. Flying Trump Monkey and the neo-Nazi, PC Snowflakes and Pajama Boyz representing America's elite, spank-wanking media.
If you have a chosen side in this ruckus then all of this must be painfully embarrassing.
For those of us with loftier standards, it is as delightfully slapstick as anything by the Marx Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4-pe...
If you have a chosen side in this ruckus then all of this must be painfully embarrassing.
For those of us with loftier standards, it is as delightfully slapstick as anything by the Marx Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4-pe...
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Jul 02, 2017 02:25PM
CNN is finished, well done Mr Trump
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Amigo Owlseyes, I am actually surprised by what a poor excuse for journalism CNN has become in such a short time. Why is "who, what, where, when and sometimes, how," so complicated? This may be the natural result of trying to present the news 24/7. On the other hand, for a President to take such a poor excuse for journalism so seriously is just as immature and clownish.
Don't forget, he was the "starter" of the denunciation of "fake news"; it paid off; he was somehow right.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...
I am not one to argue with accusations of fake news. The media's PC Snowflakes and Pajama Boyz are as dedicated to following their party narrative as any one of the Nazi hacks who wrote for Völkischer Beobachter.Today's NYT is currently advertising itself as a band of "Journalists looking beyond face value."
Once again, if you are interested in "who, what, where, when and sometimes, how," you might want to look elsewhere.
I've subscribed to the NYT for +30 years now. I don't recognize it any more. It's deranged. It just reduced its office space in NYC from 20 floors to 8. They just fired a bunch of copy editors. And through a connection, I know that a very important executive is about to leave, which is a kind of canary int he coal mine moment for the Times. And it just fired their Public Editor because she had the temerity to disagree with their propaganda approach to the news. Their business model is still way too dependent on the physical paper advertising model.
Here's the illustrious Paul Krugman, Swedish Bank Prize winner, in his forecast for 1997:"The Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine.....ten years from now the phrase 'information economy' will sound silly."
The time of full reckoning is nigh.
Michael, The NYT is circling its wagons tighter and tighter everyday.
Its choking PC fanaticism has distanced it from the rest of the country, but I think Krugman's "innocuous" internet will be both the coup d'grace and the lifesaver.
Internet advertising platforms will eventually kill the hardcopy edition outside of NYC while the survivors will be able to climb aboard a vastly reduced online version.
Exactly, David. It's more like a slanted blog site these days. Its old business model simply doesn't work in the Internet age.....https://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.co...
In this blog, the prof talks about a pattern of fast, slow, fast in change driven by tech. I've covered the tech biz for years and I believe we have entered another fast period. I see some of this is the massive closure of "brick and mortar" retail operations (and the concomitant end of shopping malls) due to e-tailing, as well as strides in artificial intelligence. We won't be seeing the robots walking the streets any time soon, but there are now ambulatory robots that can work as product pickers in warehouses that used to require humans. And we will see AI baked into more sophisticated customer service systems that will replace humans.
How can brick and mortar survive much longer against the Amazon model?I agree that AI is the next quantum leap.
I've been following Amazon since it got venture funding in 1994 (it was part of my job at the magazine I worked at during that time). Venture capital investing in retailing had been a consistent flop up until then. Love him or hate him, Jeff Bezos is a genius. I think the Prime model was the catalyst of drawing many new adopters away from physical retail. It became just so easy to order whatever you needed at a cheaper price, without getting in your car, and have it on your doorstop in a couple of days later at no extra charge. But the changes wrought by e-tailing and AI are going to result in more job loss for the low skilled. Our labor participation rate is already very low as it is. It feels like a dystopian novel in the making.
We have a second Amazon fulfillment center going up here in Vegas. Whenever I go into Barnes and Noble and compare their prices to Amazon, I wonder how they remain in business. They had Feynman's QED listed at $18.95. I received it today from PRIME for $13.26.Sadly, American bookstores are about to go the way of record/CD stores. I doubt if the "browsing factor" is strong enough to keep them afloat.
Excellent illustration of the issue. About a month ago, I bought a NF book (I forget the title) from Amazon for about $16.50 and later wanted another copy to give to someone else and got it at my local independent for $31.
Some interesting poll numbers clarify why this is a farce.http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/07...
more lucid comments on this pressing matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Gwe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHjJ...
I find it rather Orwellian that the media seems to be rooting for Putin in this face off. Ex-secretray of defense, Robert Gates. clearly identified Putin as "a cold-blooded killer."
It is the old, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
that's led too many down the wrong path. Look at the alliance of the Left with Khomeini in Iran. What a horror that turned out to be.
the law of unintended consequences. we'd do well to take that to heart more often.
