Scripting News: Friday, February 23, 2024
The other day I asked if an op-ed columnist at the NYT or WP would ever criticize their employer for showing poor judgment on what to report on, esp re the election. I was thinking of the story about the special prosecutor who did something highly unethical in writing a public, official, condemnation of someone he investigated yet decided not to prosecute. We have judges and juries for that. Only in a police state can a prosecutor pass judgment on an accused person. The news orgs took the bait, I didn't read one report on who Robert K. Hur is, and the ethics of what he did. Is it appropriate to quote a person who was behaving so openly unethically, esp if you don't disclaim that up front. It's not that democracy is on the ballot this year, we're already over the line. Our journalism is acting as if it were already controlled by the authoritarians. Our lack of trust in journalism is our biggest problem. How can we force journalism to start to be a little accountable. Right now they're the only part of our ruling class that can't have their choices reviewed. #I asked ChatGPT to draw a campaign rally with a banner that said that, but it wouldn't do it for Joe Biden, so I changed the name to Bull Mancuso, and had him run for governor of Calif instead of president of the US. #
It still couldn't spell the banner correctly but it is pretty inspiring.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Sotomayor, Barrett encourage civility in front of nation's governors. thehill.com
Why Republicans Are Making a Big Mistake on Biden's Age. politico.com
Reddit is getting ready to go public. techcrunch.com
Arc browser's new AI-powered 'pinch-to-summarize' feature is clever. techcrunch.com
I've heard a lot of good things about the Arc browser. They have a blog, but no feed linked into the blog's home page. It's important. arc.net
How to freeze-dry a website. technologizer.com
Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden documents case? apnews.com
Special counsel describes Biden as 'elderly man with a poor memory' in eyebrow-raising report. thehill.com
Biden impeachment effort on the brink of collapse, because it was 100% bullshit, it never should have been given any credence by journalism. politico.com
A view into how our supposedly trustworthy journalists deal with exposing their own corruption. They don't. presswatchers.org
The truth about trump is that while he might claim a huge net worth, it's all mortgaged, many times, fraudulently, so the banks could repossess all of it, but haven't for fear of having it all crash, and them getting pennies on the dollar. twitter.com
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