devindoyle.bsky.social
Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France.
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Jesus, the ghost of David Bull's granny is out of control.
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How is it delusion? Those are facts. He did those things.
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"Excessively". Look it up.
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If you don't like America, you can always leave.
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Christ. Idiots, really.
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US politics in the last decade right there.
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If it's an invasion, St. Patrick's Day in Boston is an invasion. Presumably, you should bomb Dublin in retaliation?
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The disappointing thing from this clip is that Hegseth hasn't a goddamn leg to stand on, but in his confidence and buffoonery he's wiping the floor with Aguilar. The congressman needs to start yelling at this asshole, because maintaining decorum means being steamrolled.
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Exactly what I said!
(I was further baffled to learn that it is, in fact, a box.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_bag
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Looking forward to coming home next week to whatever big Spice thing everyone knows about except me it is this time.
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Same happened in 1996 when I went backpacking. Came home and asked someone "what's the Spice Girls?" I got some looks, I tell ya.
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Where would one leave a positive review for a lovely pub? Google Maps?
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I don't think they think those things at all.
Instead, they believe hyperbole is more important than fact.
They want to hear what feels true, and do not care to know what is true, because it doesn't give them that hit, and can't be used as a weapon.
Alternative facts, remember?
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I hear BBQ places are great. ;-)
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French racists too.
But no-one loves a European no-go zone more than a far-right American.
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If the ex-sub-ed is telling you the headline doesn't matter (I have to guess as he blocked me) then one wonders what the point of a sub-ed is.
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I'd worry about Renee there losing her healthcare.
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LOL at Justin for replying with a dumbass take, entirely failing to defend it, then blocking me.
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Again, we're not talking about the article,we're talking about the headline.
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"The police officer" is an adverb now, or something.
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You have professional experience as a sub, so perhaps you can explain how "a rubber bullet hit a journalist" is more accurate than "a cop shot a journalist with a rubber bullet"?
Because your arguments so far don't stand up.
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I'm taking issue with the headline, not the article.
I'm also not judging your integrity - we all have to pay the bills.
But if you've spent a career writing exonerative headlines like this and you still think that including the active subject is "opinion", then yeah, I'm judging that.
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Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. Here's the thing. Just because sub-editors have been doing this for decades does not mean it isn't exonerative weaselry. It just means you've been weaselling for decades.
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Version 1: "A rubber bullet struck a journalist."
Version 2: "A police officer shot a journalist with a rubber bullet."
Both are factual. Only version 2 tells an accurate story of what happened, because in version 1, the police officer responsible isn't even mentioned. /
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Those rubber bullets, man. They're out of control. Someone should call the cops.
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"Reportage isn’t about taking sides, even with right vs wrong. It’s presenting events as they happen, without prepositions, adjectives or adverbs steering opinion."
Mate. Is "a police officer" a preposition, an adjective or an adverb?
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You may have been lulled into thinking it's acceptable by the fact that it's widespread. Even her own organisation exonerates the cop, says she was caught in the crossfire.
With fascism on the rise, I refuse to accept weasel-worded journalism, and I think you should too.
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If your position is that stating that the officer shot the journalist - over a video of the officer shooting the journalist - is opinion and not reportage, I'm here to tell you that that position does not stand up to logic.
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From the headline, RTE seem to think it's the rubber bullet's fault.