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[woolybug25]

Actually sat down and read the article. It never once blames this guy or Trump for Hodgkinson shooting Republicans. All it does it talk about the environment Hodkinson came from, and how being disgruntled crosses party lines. In fact it notes:

The only part that's shady is that the article (rather intentionally, IMO) doesn't outright say up front that it was specifically Republicans targeted by a left wing extremist.

Regardless, pointless article but I certainly don't understand where the "outrage" is coming from besides people being intentionally obtuse or not actually reading it.

Puhleaze Lax.... don't you know anything not Brietbart or Fox is libtard trash!! Trash I tell ya!!

#fakenews

 

[connor_in]

I liked the Patrick from SpongeBob meme, but I grew up with Bugs Bunny cartoons....

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[connor_in]

Remember when there was outrage on the left claiming that Sarah Palin using little targets to point out places where R's needed to win local elections was blamed for the violent shooting of Gabby Giffords (which was later totally debunked btw)?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Opinion: Kill "Fox & Friends" before it’s too late <a href="https://t.co/DVUcBbgOWQ">https://t.co/DVUcBbgOWQ</a></p>— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/884469678323752961">July 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ted Cruz’s so-called Consumer Freedom amendment to be included in new health care plan <a href="https://t.co/tVdbp7JNOh">https://t.co/tVdbp7JNOh</a> <a href="https://t.co/QuvubJXSyR">pic.twitter.com/QuvubJXSyR</a></p>— CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/885571821839560704">July 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Weird… my search for tweets from CNN mentioning the “so-called Affordable Care Act” turned up no results. <a href="https://t.co/fizqTwu9uy">https://t.co/fizqTwu9uy</a> <a href="https://t.co/hT2GxI3pff">https://t.co/hT2GxI3pff</a></p>— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/885595545527603200">July 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[connor_in]

#HuffPoInTheHeartland

Advance team of journalists left literally shaking after scouting run for #HuffPoInTheHeartland tour – twitchy.com

 

[Irish YJ]

#HuffPoInTheHeartland

Advance team of journalists left literally shaking after scouting run for #HuffPoInTheHeartland tour – twitchy.com

There's some great stuff there. Loved Texas Guy's post about Dairy Queen.

 

[Irish YJ]

ABC News: Christians who defend religious liberty are 'hate group' | Fox News

 

[connor_in]

‘I forgive you’: Reporter who lost writing gig after exposing anti-Semitism at Chicago Dyke March speaks out

 

[Legacy]

These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S.

The most trusted news source in the U.S. is the Economist — a venerable weekly magazine published in the U.K. — according, at least, to a recent survey conducted by the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute.

The second most reliable news source, in the view of voluntary survey respondents, is public television (with the Public Broadcasting Service separately ranking sixth among survey respondents), followed by Reuters and BBC. National Public Radio placed just ahead of PBS at No. 5, while the U.K.’s the Guardian clinched the seventh spot. The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News rounded out the 10 most trusted brands. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp. NWS, -1.48% NWSA, -1.96% , the parent of MarketWatch.

 

[drayer54]

These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S.

They claim to ride the center, but their love for gun control and universal healthcare lost my subscription.

 

[ulukinatme]

These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S.

“This is not a poll of how much trust Americans have in their news outlets. It’s an open-ended, methodologically flawed survey of people who happen to fill out a form on the homepage of their local news outlet,” said Matt Mittenthal, spokesman for BuzzFeed News. “No one familiar with how polling works would consider this to be reliable or scientific.”

CNN, for one, is a little too close to trusted.

Not only that, but more respondants had liberal leanings because of the area that was polled:

The results were based on a survey of 8,728 consumers of the online content produced by 28 U.S.-based media organizations. Respondents tended to reside near the news outlets that made the Missouri institute’s questionnaire available on their websites and are said to have leaned toward the liberal side of the political spectrum.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the clip of <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis">@ClayTravis</a> stunning <a href="https://twitter.com/BrookeBCNN">@BrookeBCNN</a> with his "first amendment and boobs" remark <a href="https://t.co/N4rIItxYcr">https://t.co/N4rIItxYcr</a></p>— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/908777283850260483">September 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Irish YJ]

with all the crap that's been misreported and/or walked back, thought this was pretty funny. Acosta should have let it go. Sanders did a pretty decent job of making him look like toddler.

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[Legacy]

The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., after Spinoff of Certain Businesses, for $52.4 Billion in Stock (Business Wire)

21st Century Fox to spin off Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News, Fox Business, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network to its shareholders

Disney-Fox deal would be a media and entertainment earthquake (CNN Money)

 

[Legacy]

Disney-Fox deal gives ESPN a local strategy to combat its financial woes (ChiTrib)

 

[ulukinatme]

Reminds me of the stuff regarding Facebook squelching pro-Conservative stuff from before and after the election. None of this is surprising:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Project Veritas Bombshell: Twitter Engineers Explain How They 'Shadow Ban' Conservatives <a href="https://t.co/O3u4ZsfTBn">https://t.co/O3u4ZsfTBn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trending?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trending</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/PJMedia_com?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pjmedia_com</a></p>— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiceDeb/status/951514415324717056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[yankeehater]

Reminds me of the stuff regarding Facebook squelching pro-Conservative stuff from before and after the election. None of this is surprising:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Project Veritas Bombshell: Twitter Engineers Explain How They 'Shadow Ban' Conservatives <a href="https://t.co/O3u4ZsfTBn">https://t.co/O3u4ZsfTBn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trending?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trending</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/PJMedia_com?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pjmedia_com</a></p>— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) <a href="https://twitter.com/NiceDeb/status/951514415324717056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Heard on talk radio the lawsuits are coming fast.

https://www.cnet.com/news/alt-right-activist-chuck-johnson-sues-twitter/

 

[Irish YJ]

The disinformation/information wars are waged on both sides of the aisles. Liberals scream Russia and ignore what is going on in our own backyard everyday. Everybody's dirty.

 

[Legacy]

In planned speech, Sen. Jeff Flake compares Trump’s media attacks to comments by Stalin

Flake plans to use his upcoming speech to denounce Trump for calling the news media “the enemy of the American people” last year.

In excerpts provided by his office, he is poised to blast Trump’s “unrelenting daily assault on the constitutionally-protected free press” that he will call “as unprecedented as it is unwarranted.”

“It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies,” Flake will say, according to the excerpts. “It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.”

Flake will add that Trump “has it precisely backward — despotism is the enemy of the people. The free press is the despot’s enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.”

On MSNBC Sunday night, Flake said that in addition to Stalin, Mao Zedong, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, also referred to the media as the “enemy of the people.” And he repeated his point that Khrushchev later forbade the use of the term.

“I don’t think that we should be using a phrase that’s been rejected as too loaded by a Soviet dictator,” Flake said on “Kasie DC.”

Here are the excerpts provided in advance by Flake’s office:

2017 was a year which saw the truth — objective, empirical, evidence-based truth — more battered and abused than any other in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. It was a year which saw the White House enshrine “alternative facts” into the American lexicon, as justification for what used to be known simply as good old-fashioned falsehoods. It was the year in which an unrelenting daily assault on the constitutionally-protected free press was launched by that same White House, an assault that is as unprecedented as it is unwarranted. “The enemy of the people,” was what the president of the United States called the free press in 2017.....

 

[connor_in]

I am just going to leave this here.

 

[ACamp1900]

I am just going to leave this here.

That comment section should be fun..... grade A trolling right there.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WAIT WHAT?!?<br>Chris Matthews says Republicans are picking on Nancy Pelosi because she's an "ethnic sorta person." <a href="https://t.co/MFzMpU9ohN">pic.twitter.com/MFzMpU9ohN</a></p>— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/961491846085136384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Legacy]

Gazette-Mail declaring bankruptcy; Wheeling Newspapers is planned buyer (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

Charleston Newspapers, the company that owns the Gazette-Mail, issued a WARN notice to all employees Monday afternoon.

A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice warns of the potential for layoffs exceeding 50 employees. Charleston Newspapers currently employs 206 people.

Wheeling Newspapers could decide to maintain current employment levels, but because that will remain unknown until the bankruptcy runs its course, Charleston Newspapers decided to issue the WARN notice, under advice of its attorneys.

“Our hope is that Wheeling Newspapers will hire all of our employees,” said Trip Shumate, company president and chief financial officer. “Once free from the liabilities that have been holding our operations back, we hope that they will be able to maintain the high level of journalism our customers and this community have come to expect.”

Last year the G-M won the Pulitzer Prize for their investigating reporting on the opioid crisis in W. Va.
The two-part series articles were:
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses

In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation found.

The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.

'Suspicious' drug order rules never enforced by state

Tucked in the West Virginia Code of State Rules, you'll find a three-sentence regulation designed to keep in check the flow of prescription pills into the state.

The rule directs wholesale distributors to set up systems to identify “suspicious” orders for highly addictive narcotics. It requires the wholesalers to report those questionable orders to the pharmacy board.

And the regulation spells out what orders should be flagged: those “of unusual size, orders deviating substantially from a normal pattern, and orders of unusual frequency.”

But the rule, which has the force and effect of state law, wasn't on the pharmacy board's radar when the pain pills were pouring into Southern West Virginia. And the drug companies, for years, ignored it.

Subsequently, in a lawsuit first filed in 2012,
2 drug distributors to pay $36M to settle WV painkiller

These revelations have grown to lawsuits by multiple states and counties against Big Pharma with the states of Ohio and Alabama most recently filing lawsuits. The cost for W.Va for the opioid crisis is $8.8 billion annually, also reported by the Gazette-Mail.

The first lawsuit over the opioid epidemic was filed by a lawyer in a W.Va county.
Lawyer Behind West Virginia County Lawsuit Against Opioid Distributors (NPR)

A combination of a local legal action and local free press articles reporting the damages to the communities has resulted in huge settlements and changes in prescribing and drug deliveries.

 

[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WAIT WHAT?!?<br>Chris Matthews says Republicans are picking on Nancy Pelosi because she's an "ethnic sorta person." <a href="https://t.co/MFzMpU9ohN">pic.twitter.com/MFzMpU9ohN</a></p>— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/961491846085136384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2018</a></blockquote>
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"The Republicans did this back in the Bronx in the 40s."

Only Matthews is old enough to remember those days...and he's showing his age. When he makes statements like this someone at NBC should probably say "Hey, doesn't retirement sound nice?"

 

[ACamp1900]

Who knew Tip O'Neil and the Kennedy's were brothas???

The 'race card as a default' is hitting all time highs here...

 

[IrishLax]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Internet Archive, a nonprofit internet library, has challenged MSNBC host Joy Reid’s claim that someone added anti-gay material to an archived version of her now-defunct blog<a href="https://t.co/RROUvTxFRl">https://t.co/RROUvTxFRl</a></p>— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/988932417665744897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC host got exposed for homophobic posts on her blog, then lied about them. MSNBC is going to be in a pickle in terms of retaining her due to the lying.

 

[SonofOahu]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Internet Archive, a nonprofit internet library, has challenged MSNBC host Joy Reid’s claim that someone added anti-gay material to an archived version of her now-defunct blog<a href="https://t.co/RROUvTxFRl">https://t.co/RROUvTxFRl</a></p>— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/988932417665744897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC host got exposed for homophobic posts on her blog, then lied about them. MSNBC is going to be in a pickle in terms of retaining her due to the lying.

She's extremely boring. I'd rather they give Katy Tur more hours... all the damn hours, frankly.

 

[connor_in]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This has been blowing up recently I should probably upload it before someone else does <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vice?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/howtowriteavicearticle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#howtowriteavicearticle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/qualityjournalism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#qualityjournalism</a> <a href="https://t.co/sEAmXBaT6w">pic.twitter.com/sEAmXBaT6w</a></p>— Adrian Alaberg (@AdrianAlaberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdrianAlaberg/status/1012886379724828672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[Irishize]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This has been blowing up recently I should probably upload it before someone else does <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vice?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/howtowriteavicearticle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#howtowriteavicearticle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/qualityjournalism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#qualityjournalism</a> <a href="https://t.co/sEAmXBaT6w">pic.twitter.com/sEAmXBaT6w</a></p>— Adrian Alaberg (@AdrianAlaberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdrianAlaberg/status/1012886379724828672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Ha ha. That checks all the boxes for sure.

 

[Valpodoc85]

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