Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

https://twitter.com/latimessports/status/1293005468936425472?s=20

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How in the eff is this the headline for a Daniel Dale article?

Spanish flu fact check: Did the Spanish flu end WWII?

https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1293543135151357952?s=20

By all accounts Redstone was an even bigger asshole than the Succession character that is based on him. “Banned from several restaurants for abusing wait staff,” what a way to he remembered.

https://twitter.com/NancyCooperNYC/status/1293770872130547712?s=19

tis the season…for more midwestern diner safari pieces!

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1292455607610597377?s=20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/14/israel-uae-agreement-is-trumps-nobel-moment/

No, just no.

Hugh Hewitt

Read the editor’s note below:

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These people are absolutely hopeless. I think I’m going to have to stop paying attention for my own sanity.

“Murderer promises to stop murdering people for the next 79 days”

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1294983269545631745?s=20

https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1294986701425836033?s=20

lol, I guessed it too.

PS: the author 100% knows how to pronounce Kamala’s name correctly. This shit is deliberate.

Every once in a while I see news outlets asking on Twitter if they can use a photo posted on Twitter.

That got me thinking. In the unlikely that I ever post an image or video worthy of being copied by the news and get asked, I’d like to issue a blanket permission along the lines of “Permission is granted with the exception of: Fox News, Sinclair-owned stations, and…” Who am I missing among US-based media?

OAN

Pretty much anyone in the lower right on this chart

I always get a laugh when people say yes to a few outlets and then Fox asks and they’re like “No, eat shit, Fox.”

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Then they just photoshop their own fake version.