Thank you for your rebuttal to David A. about Trump. This is the reason journalism is so important; I felt the same way as you but did not have the statistics to back up my feelings. We need journalists who will go out and find the facts to bolster the opinions.
I think that MF that laughed at Beto would still deserve his retort. I’m sure Beto would have rather listened to and appreciated being corrected, rather than getting laughed at. We are all ignorant in some ways, or unknowing, but for someone to laugh at that is, at a minimum, not helpful. I would have changed the retort to “glass bowl” (asshole) as Carolyn Hax uses in her advice column.
Having now read the actual story behind the meme in the “lectern” tweet, that one would seem especially silly. But have to admit I don’t understand it in any event.
Codswallop??? My eyes are bleeding!!! Branch Rickey was one individual who believed that profanity demeaned language and the individual using it. However, as the story goes, when he signed Jackie Robinson, he proceeded to call him every name in the book to make sure he could take it. (With the probable exception of codswalloper.)
I love it when right-wingnuts get all uppity about decorum (Beto’s use of MF, for example): Oh, we’re cheapening public discourse! The coarseness will multiply!
Really? Where have they been for the past six years? How did they miss the gazillion examples of cheapened discourse provided so generously by Dear Orange Leader?
A good editor would not allow cliches or unoriginal hip expressions. A word “doing work” is one of those. You must be a blast at parties. See what I did there?
I finally decided to check how much I was paying for my various digital subscriptions. Tribune 27.72/month; NYTimes, 17; S-T 3.99, WaPo 8.25 (but I pay annually); Detroit Free Press (now that I'm a Michigan resident again) a whopping $49/month. The Tribune is really out of line compared to the Sun-Times or the national papers, but the Free Press is way beyond that. Time to make a call. Thanks for alerting me to look into it.
As a former ChicagoNow blogger, I wrote 147 posts over 8 years, including several award-winning pieces. My unpaid work led to, among other things, a paid opinion column with The Chicago Tribune. And so, when I heard the recent rumblings about ChicagoNow's possible demise, my anxiety (who am I kidding -- my PANIC) get the best of me. I scrambled to find a developer willing to drop everything and try to save my pieces. I paid this individual a hefty sum and lost more than a few chunks of hair hoping my work (as it appeared, including images) could be saved. Mercifully, it was.
There are those who've asked, "Why didn't you save your stuff in case something like this happened?" and "Why didn't you write your original posts in a Word doc then put them on the site?" To be sure, that's what I should have done. But the fact is, I, like many bloggers, started on the platform as a nervous newbie, wondering if anyone was even reading my work. Through the years, I gained confidence, skills, community, and a loyal audience. I was figuring it out as I went, and I appreciated knowing that there were so many of us all writing pieces that were connected to such a prestigious, national newspaper.
I can't tell you how disgusted I am by how unprofessionally -- and, frankly, cruelly -- we were treated as writers when this all went down. I still can't believe it happened the way it did. WHO DOES THAT? Who shows such blatant disregard like that?
I know I speak for many of my ChicagoNow colleagues in that I poured my heart into so many of my posts. I can't begin to imagine if I'd lost them all.
What no one's bothered to mention is that we also had draft folders, and I personally had more unpublished drafts than published pieces. All my drafts are gone. I was never offered a chance to review those drafts or save pieces I might want to share later.
Thank you again for bringing attention to this debacle. It's unconscionable, and my heart breaks for all that was lost. It's immeasurable.
I completely get calling out exaggerated right-wing talking points, it needs to be done, but the left continues to bury themselves on crime.
In the midst of a major widespread violent crime wave, pointing back 30-40 years ago doesn't cut it. It's apples to oranges. Our trauma centers were less advanced, there was a failed war on drugs, and police stats were fudged even more than now. There were less mass shootings, and kids from the city weren't traveling all over to commit crimes.
The "red state murder problem" doesn't work either. Crime is localized, down to the neighborhood. Mississippi is only a high crime state because democratic Jackson is the U.S. top murder capital. 80-90% of the top 100 homicide per capita cities are run by democrats. Jacksonville FL, specifically pointed out by Third Way as a red city problem, isn't even in the top 100.
The Inflation Reduction Act will reduce the deficit by a total of $300 billion over the next 9 years. The student loan forgiveness that Biden announced will cost $313 Billion in 2022. Oh well, easy come, easy go.
Thank you for your rebuttal to David A. about Trump. This is the reason journalism is so important; I felt the same way as you but did not have the statistics to back up my feelings. We need journalists who will go out and find the facts to bolster the opinions.
I think that MF that laughed at Beto would still deserve his retort. I’m sure Beto would have rather listened to and appreciated being corrected, rather than getting laughed at. We are all ignorant in some ways, or unknowing, but for someone to laugh at that is, at a minimum, not helpful. I would have changed the retort to “glass bowl” (asshole) as Carolyn Hax uses in her advice column.
Wow, David A., thanks for the glimpse into the alternate reality of Qanon and friends.
Having now read the actual story behind the meme in the “lectern” tweet, that one would seem especially silly. But have to admit I don’t understand it in any event.
Codswallop??? My eyes are bleeding!!! Branch Rickey was one individual who believed that profanity demeaned language and the individual using it. However, as the story goes, when he signed Jackie Robinson, he proceeded to call him every name in the book to make sure he could take it. (With the probable exception of codswalloper.)
I love it when right-wingnuts get all uppity about decorum (Beto’s use of MF, for example): Oh, we’re cheapening public discourse! The coarseness will multiply!
Really? Where have they been for the past six years? How did they miss the gazillion examples of cheapened discourse provided so generously by Dear Orange Leader?
They’re killin’ me! LOL
A good editor would not allow cliches or unoriginal hip expressions. A word “doing work” is one of those. You must be a blast at parties. See what I did there?
I finally decided to check how much I was paying for my various digital subscriptions. Tribune 27.72/month; NYTimes, 17; S-T 3.99, WaPo 8.25 (but I pay annually); Detroit Free Press (now that I'm a Michigan resident again) a whopping $49/month. The Tribune is really out of line compared to the Sun-Times or the national papers, but the Free Press is way beyond that. Time to make a call. Thanks for alerting me to look into it.
Lectern photo:
Please explain.
As a former ChicagoNow blogger, I wrote 147 posts over 8 years, including several award-winning pieces. My unpaid work led to, among other things, a paid opinion column with The Chicago Tribune. And so, when I heard the recent rumblings about ChicagoNow's possible demise, my anxiety (who am I kidding -- my PANIC) get the best of me. I scrambled to find a developer willing to drop everything and try to save my pieces. I paid this individual a hefty sum and lost more than a few chunks of hair hoping my work (as it appeared, including images) could be saved. Mercifully, it was.
There are those who've asked, "Why didn't you save your stuff in case something like this happened?" and "Why didn't you write your original posts in a Word doc then put them on the site?" To be sure, that's what I should have done. But the fact is, I, like many bloggers, started on the platform as a nervous newbie, wondering if anyone was even reading my work. Through the years, I gained confidence, skills, community, and a loyal audience. I was figuring it out as I went, and I appreciated knowing that there were so many of us all writing pieces that were connected to such a prestigious, national newspaper.
I can't tell you how disgusted I am by how unprofessionally -- and, frankly, cruelly -- we were treated as writers when this all went down. I still can't believe it happened the way it did. WHO DOES THAT? Who shows such blatant disregard like that?
I know I speak for many of my ChicagoNow colleagues in that I poured my heart into so many of my posts. I can't begin to imagine if I'd lost them all.
What no one's bothered to mention is that we also had draft folders, and I personally had more unpublished drafts than published pieces. All my drafts are gone. I was never offered a chance to review those drafts or save pieces I might want to share later.
Thank you again for bringing attention to this debacle. It's unconscionable, and my heart breaks for all that was lost. It's immeasurable.
I completely get calling out exaggerated right-wing talking points, it needs to be done, but the left continues to bury themselves on crime.
In the midst of a major widespread violent crime wave, pointing back 30-40 years ago doesn't cut it. It's apples to oranges. Our trauma centers were less advanced, there was a failed war on drugs, and police stats were fudged even more than now. There were less mass shootings, and kids from the city weren't traveling all over to commit crimes.
The "red state murder problem" doesn't work either. Crime is localized, down to the neighborhood. Mississippi is only a high crime state because democratic Jackson is the U.S. top murder capital. 80-90% of the top 100 homicide per capita cities are run by democrats. Jacksonville FL, specifically pointed out by Third Way as a red city problem, isn't even in the top 100.
https://theweek.com/us/1012196/white-house-officials-and-left-wing-media-critics-convinced-themselves-that-the-media
https://www.city-journal.org/third-ways-misdirection-on-violent-crime
Own the mistakes and move forward, before we end up with more Trumpism.
The Inflation Reduction Act will reduce the deficit by a total of $300 billion over the next 9 years. The student loan forgiveness that Biden announced will cost $313 Billion in 2022. Oh well, easy come, easy go.