LeviF

I’ve been thinking about this a bit and asked around a little. I’m not sure that it’s an age gap that’s killing the newspaper. And I’m not sure “the internet” is either. I think it’s a bit of a combination. Like, I don’t watch or read the news very much mostly as a result of my education. The APA/Chicago style guides that were drilled into my head taught me the importance of good primary sources. And technology has made primary sources widely available to many more people than they were in the past. At the end of the day, if a journalist isn’t inserting his opinion into what he writes or says then that journalist is simply a middleman for information that has a source that more and more people are now able to access. And those middlemen have been rendered completely unnecessary by the combination of technology and telling generations of kids that information middlemen are bad sources for research purposes. If you want to know about a politician’s indictment, you can access the court documents. Heard about a controversial law that’s being considered in a legislature? Go read it on their website. Etc. No need for some overqualified pencil neck to tell you what they say. So news organizations have reacted to this shift by becoming bloated opinion columns. And if your entire purpose of existing is to publish opinions, odds are that one person’s/group’s opinions are going to dominate your publications. This polarizes your customer base to the point where you’re not likely to be profitable if you’re on a small scale, which means that you’re worthless in terms of market value. When institutions have no market value, they usually collapse. And now we’re hearing from newspapers what we’ve heard from every dying institution ever: “how will you survive without us?” To be sure, there is still a market for information middlemen, which is why national news orgs like WaPo, NYT, major cable news, etc are still going. But that market shrinks every time someone gets a dry cough and a fever. Competition for these consumers will get more and more sensational as time goes on. Which will turn off those who don’t want or need information middlemen all the more.

Imagine choosing your own flesh and blood over your fractured government and being called a traitor for it.

They conveniently cancelled that perk when DC Tom hit 49,999 posts.

For the record, the OT does not claim that Jews built the pyramids. And yeah LJ27 has some hot takes and some really *****in spicy stuff on that account.

Larry Johnson's twitter is absolute ? don't @ me

Good afternoon. I read your post. Congratulations on the end of your suspension at 49.9k posts.

Hogs actually wouldn't be bad for a DC-based team and does have the added benefit of tributing that line. Could bring back the Senators name. They folded long before the modern era.

@Jauronimo has a dream that his little pizzas will one day be eaten in a nation where they will not be judged by the "authenticity" of their continental Italian heritage, but by the content of their tastes.

***** thank you. Let's not act like there aren't parking spaces next to the corral, considering most Americans are lazy ***** and the corrals tend to be further out than your typical 35 BMI patron wants to walk in that oppressive heat.

He moved over to Fox sports radio/FS1.

As to the OP, the post on whatever chan that was is absolutely spot on. There's no real incentive to return a cart, and there's absolutely no punishment for not returning it (unless you get caught by Cart Narcs!). The only motivation is that it helps out people that you'll probably never meet. If you don't do it, you and your unfortunate progeny should be publicly shamed.

But I was told that ethno-nationalism was evil. Is it back on the table now?

A-Rod will take this team to new levels!

It's mockworthy specifically because it's the Mets. That other teams do it doesn't make the Mets less of a punching bag.

lmao why don't you tell us what lenz's political ideology is?

The UK has been doomed for years, not sure how that's news.

Do you think I could substitute a smoked pork butt from my favorite restaurant?

I moo corrected

He's dutch. Add 5 hrs

Even money says that if he goes to Seattle he sleeps with Wilson's wife

Don't remind me of the hope ?

Yeah it was his second game. Tyrod overthrew/rookie Zay Jones dropped (depending on who you liked more) a surefire game winning TD.

They hire women AND have co-ed golf? Awfully forward-thinking company you work for.