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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens
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Was journalism always like this?" some appalled onlooker asked me moments ago.
I responded with this, a short but not that short history of deviltry:"
Read Twain from his gold rush days as a territorial reporter in Nevada. journalism started out as scurrilous and deceptive and it never really changed -- until Walter Lippman at the New Republic sent it on an ego trip to Jupiter by anointing journalists a secular priesthood essential to modern progressive Democracy because citizens lacked "omnicomptence" and required benevolent manipulation. This made journalists no more honest but it did ennoble their dishonesty and suggest certain directions that it might take. This model also rendered a vocation that was nearly as disreputable as burlesque dancing or nightclub hosting -- seriously -- into a job fit for college grads, even Ivy Leaguers. From scoundrels like Walter Winchell to exemplars of conscience like Walter Cronkite. From the alleys of Broadway to the sailboats of Martha's Vineyard. And corporate consolidation and other developments made it a field of reliable profitability, not just a playground for tycoons. Pharma money, unlimited pharma money, blew things up even bigger yet, particularly on the TV side but also for publishers of magazines who grew fat on those two-page full disclosure ads for all those hit products, from Halcyon to Vioxx.
And the fight to retain at least a major portion of all that self-conferred prestige and easy booty as it threatens to slip away for various reasons, including sporadic outbreaks of the truth --unsponsored, unfiltered, and highly embarassing to those who purported to be its champions but were all too often its paid molestors -- is the key to much of what's happening right now. Not only in journalism, but in its client classes, political and commercial.
"So there you have it.
Take that shit off the shelves.
Arrest the police. Police arrest people all the time for videotaping them arresting others. The police claim the video person is "interfering in an investigation" or "obstructing justice".
Hey, Bernie. By your logic, owning 4 houses paid for by the taxpayers should be a human right. Tell your buddy Jasmine too.
Catholic priests have shown over the decades they like diddling children. Why not let your head leader wear pedo symbols in support of his cohorts?
The loony lib judge will grant Comey everything he asks for. The judge will order DOJ to remove prosecutors but let Comey keep his massively conflicted defense counsel.
Asshole
Poster
And many many misses.
They think it follows the red line, but the green line is more realistic.
Should aim as if its a bow and arrow.
The majority of my career has been in IT staffing and I can attest to this being 100% true. The Indians created the process and perfected it and now other cultures are following suit. He could have done a much better job of articulating the issue but you get the general point.
My wife works in corporate recruiting leadership for a global tech company and this is her biggest current frustration. It's ubiquitous.
My wife works in corporate recruiting leadership for a global tech company and this is her biggest current frustration. It's ubiquitous.
There's a lot of delusion and mental health problems in that short video.
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