danmitchell.bsky.social
Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born.
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Tell your colleagues on the political desk.
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the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
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High five, bro!
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Muddy
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Are they MAGA, or…?
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An all-time classic.
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The Economist is a reactionary-centrist propaganda mill, run and staffed by midwits.
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If he hasn’t worked anywhere else, that’s bad.
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I imagine more woe is possible, but it already very, very woe.
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Having trouble finding a real job?
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I mean, look at the post you're *directly responding to*.
Yeesh.
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Is that what you got out of this? Really? Even despite the river of complaint I maintain here about the press covering Trump as if he were normal, and the fact that I explicitly said the opposite in this very thread?
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It's very possible Moran wanted to do that, but was stymied by his droid bosses, and that's why he did it. To get out. I kinda hope so because in that case: dude rocks.
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It would be because I wouldn't want my readers to think of me as an ideologue or, yes, an "activist." The job is to present facts. One of those facts is, of course, that Stephen Miller and Donald Trump are monsters. But just saying it like that doesn't really inform anyone. Report it out!
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Also: I'm not on the national-politics beat. But if I were, even as an independent, I wouldn't say half the shit I say about these ghouls. My stance would still be clear, but I would think much more carefully about my public statements. It's not because I'd be worried about "bias" charges.
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Also, I don't watch ABC News regularly, so I don't know very much about Moran's reporting, specifically about the Trump admin. I vaguely know he's generally well-regarded by normals. But in today's news environment of newsrooms full of hacks, it doesn't take much to earn praise.
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Should these things be interpreted differently when the government is run by malevolent, fascist lunatics? Yeah, probably, though it's hard to say how differently. But again, it's a simple fact that for the entire history of news media, what he did was a clear violation of explicit standards.
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Given ABC News' shameless, appalling over-bending to Trump, he certainly had good reason to want to flee the scene. But also, that made it even more likely, and more obvious, that he'd get fired for this.
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I haven't read much about this yet. All I know is what he did and that he was canned. My guess from the start was that he did it on purpose, to get fired. Otherwise, it was frankly pretty dumb. It's not like he could just show up for work after that like Costanza. I assume he must have known that.
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My whole trip is that I'm appalled by journalists who refuse to tell the plain truth in plain language. And what he said was certainly accurate. But a purely personal attack, even on monsters, isn't the job. He could have said basically the same thing, but with a factual basis. I.e., reporting.
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Oh! I forgot! Same conversation with that editor (which was about a writing gig for Upshot that never happened, thank Jah): complaint after complaint about black people at the Times getting promotions. "Affirmative action."
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For some reason, people who know me, but not well, seem to think I'm open to hearing their awful shit. I guess it's probably my manner. I'm from working-class Chicago (now Trump Country) and I can seem crude. When I connected with HS people on FB years back, they all assumed I was conservative.
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Not one-upping, but this is the closest I’m likely to get to a “scoop” anytime soon.
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"Democrats allege that the injuries are linked to a lack of police restraint. An LAPD spokesperson had no comment. A senior White House official, who asked not to be named, disagreed with the allegation. 'Trying to pin these injuries on police is just the usual wokeism,' the official said."
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When I saw that Beutler was hosting a podcast with Matt Yglesias, I immediately pulled the plug. There are lots of others, though. The problem is that, at least until indie journalism like that matures, we have nothing to replace the (relatively) functional, bigfoot journalism of old.
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It's all about the beefin'. The whole story. This is what The New York Times thinks citizens most need to know about this situation. That they went there. So many of these stories could be headlined "Aw, Naw He Dih-int!"
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Yeah, I almost said earlier that I might just as easily bet that he had voted for Bush at least once.
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And I say that as someone who has always been pretty cynical about politics. But in my case, anyway, I think that cynicism led to understanding that politicians will *always* disappoint you, and so you have to go with whatever you can get. A disappointing Dem is vastly superior to a lunatic fascist.
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Oh, Christ. That just happened, too, and I saw it and totally forgot about it amid all the mayhem. Yikes.
"I hate both parties" (more or less equally) is about the most puerile, emotionally stunted, pig-ignorant thing a person could possibly say, especially now.