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Post by jdredd on Jul 13, 2019 13:00:18 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/business/media/starbucks-newspapers.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage"It’s the quintessential Starbucks experience: Walk in, order a piping hot cup of coffee and sit back with a newspaper. Or, at least, that’s how it used to be in an earlier era. Now, starting in September, you won’t be able to buy any newspapers at the coffee giant’s shops. The company said this week that it would stop carrying print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and local newspapers at its 8,600 locations across the country. Starbucks did not give a reason for the change, but said it would also remove shelving fixtures that display whole-bean coffee and grab-and-go snacks." “I think it would be smart of Starbucks to offer things to read,” Mr. Grubb said. Starbucks, in his opinion, needs to up its “game” or it’ll be “extinguished soon.” “ They’re like McDonald’s now, it’s kind of a thing of the past,” he said." Like newspapers. One less reason for a geezer like me to drop into Starbucks and buy a $5 cup of java. And I'll save $3 on the WSJ.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 11, 2019 2:41:36 GMT -5
Well, our local zombie rag has jumped on the "Dems, you gotta move to the mushy center" bandwagon. Of course, the opinion editor is a known card-carrying member of the Libertarian cult, so what do you expect?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 11, 2019 14:58:15 GMT -5
Bought the UT again this morning. It just keeps getting thinner and thinner. If this keeps up it will completely disappear soon.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 7, 2020 14:51:30 GMT -5
For some reason I was locked out of my New York Times online subscription today, and frankly I'm tired of password follies. You'd think I was trying to hack Ft. Knox. So who needs 'em?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 12, 2020 13:09:24 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/nyt-tom-cotton-oped-liberalism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"One particularly useful phrase belongs to the cultural critic Wesley Yang, who calls the transformational force “the successor ideology” — meaning that it represents a possible successor to liberalism, like Marxism in the last century, but also that it’s inchoate and half-formed and sometimes internally contradictory, defined more by its departures from older liberal ideas than by a unified worldview." "But in the end it was the liberal New York Times that hired me and supported me, the liberal New York Times that encouraged James Bennet to build a genuinely diverse and fractious Op-Ed page, and it was the successor ideology’s advance inside this paper that incited the controversy that unjustly cost my friend and former boss his job. So now, in whatever struggle looms for the future of this institution, it’s this conservative’s hope that the liberal New York Times will win."
Here is one of the two Fox News type columnists brought on to the NYT crying about the guy who hired him resigning in disgrace for publishing Tom Cotton's fascist commentary advocating a military takeover of law enforcement.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 14, 2020 18:04:33 GMT -5
Bought the UT today. It's a shadow of it's former self, and is thinner than ever. I also suspect they have let go their editorial staff. Can't someone put it out of it's misery?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 17, 2020 17:58:37 GMT -5
So Bari Weiss has become the darling of the right for her resignation letter castigating the NYT for persecuting her. I'm sure she has a lucrative career ahead of her at the National Review and WSJ. Personally, I'm renewing my subscription to the NYT.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 26, 2020 14:07:36 GMT -5
I still buy the local fishwrap only because I follow what is being built.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 27, 2020 21:21:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/pompeo-south-china-sea.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=HomepageWith China throwing its weight around in the South China Sea, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rightly declared this month that the country’s aggressive claims to offshore resources in the area were “completely unlawful.” The message aligned the United States with international law in one of the world’s most critical waterways and showed support for the smaller coastal states threatened by Chinese bullying. The strategic importance of the South China Sea cannot be overstated. A third of the world’s shipping passes through it, its fisheries are critical sources of food for millions of people in Southeast Asia and its seabed covers vast reserves of oil and gas. China’s exorbitant claims and might-makes-right behavior are self-evidently destabilizing to the international rule of law. The problem is that Mr. Pompeo’s statement is meaningful only if it is accompanied by a firm commitment by the Trump administration to a robust and coordinated policy. However incensed China’s neighbors are by its bullying, they are in no position to push back unless they can be certain of American support and leadership.' Wow! The "liberal" NYT is really beating the war drums! Must be the rotten Boomers running the paper. I wonder if it's garbage like this that is causing newspapers to be "circling the drain". I can only hope the Millennials are turning their backs.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 7, 2020 1:14:39 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/joe-biden-2020-nytimes-endorsement.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"When they go to the polls this year, voters aren’t just choosing a leader. They’re deciding what America will be. They’re deciding whether they favor the rule of law, how the government will help them weather the greatest economic calamity in generations, whether they want government to enable everyone to have access to health care, whether they consider global warming a serious threat, whether they believe that racism should be treated as a public policy problem. Mr. Biden isn’t a perfect candidate and he wouldn’t be a perfect president. But politics is not about perfection. It is about the art of the possible and about encouraging America to embrace its better angels." The Times makes it's inevitable endorsement of Biden. So did our anemic local rag. Not that anyone but Boomers might care what papers say, but maybe they will convince a few Boomers to jump off the Trump Crazy Train. Not the ones with big stock portfolios, or the religious fanatics. But this election has taken an uncommon good vs. evil turn.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 24, 2020 14:05:28 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"For years, The Epoch Times was a small, low-budget newspaper with an anti-China slant that was handed out free on New York street corners. But in 2016 and 2017, the paper made two changes that transformed it into one of the country’s most powerful digital publishers. The changes also paved the way for the publication, which is affiliated with the secretive and relatively obscure Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, to become a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation. First, it embraced President Trump, treating him as an ally in Falun Gong’s scorched-earth fight against China’s ruling Communist Party, which banned the group two decades ago and has persecuted its members ever since. Its relatively staid coverage of U.S. politics became more partisan, with more articles explicitly supporting Mr. Trump and criticizing his opponents. Around the same time, The Epoch Times bet big on another powerful American institution: Facebook. The publication and its affiliates employed a novel strategy that involved creating dozens of Facebook pages, filling them with feel-good videos and viral clickbait, and using them to sell subscriptions and drive traffic back to its partisan news coverage." Yeah, I remember picking this up for free a few years back. Just what we need.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 2, 2021 23:52:29 GMT -5
Our local fish wrap just gets more pathetic every year. It costs you two bucks but it is getting thinnner and thinner. It’s a little thicker on Sunday but that is because it’s mostly real estate ads. It should be put out of its misery. Hear that, Patrick?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 26, 2021 16:15:51 GMT -5
While our local rag gets thinner and thinner, and the WSJ and LA Times get harder and harder to find, we are blessed (?) with the weekly Epoch Times, the Falun Gong paper, popping up everywhere. Used to be free, now it’s 3 bucks a shot. But as a fan of right wing press for it’s amusement factor and being useful to students of propaganda like myself, I buy it.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 22, 2022 21:11:29 GMT -5
Found an LA Times today, and it is almost as pathetic as the UT. But two bucks more expensive. Obviously, the owner has given up.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 22, 2022 1:59:53 GMT -5
Went to my favorite taco shop (El Azreca. They have great cabeza tacos) ad usually buy the paper at the next door 7/11. Alas, their newspaper stand was gone. More and more 7/11s no longer sell a newspaper. How much longer can newspapers exist?
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