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12/07/09
This is a quote from a Bild spokesman, a newspaper that has famously low editorial standards. I don't get his appeal to the public interest here. These people have made a business of publishing irresponsible rumors that appeal to populist sentiment.
There are German newspapers that are actually doing poorly. These are mainly the broadsheets with high standards. Bild is not having any major financial issues like the broadsheets are having. It's true that its circulation is decreasing, sure, but for a newspaper that has consistently chosen the profit motive as a guiding principle over quality journalism in the public's interest, it's obviously disingenuous of them to justify their price increase as a way to provide better journalism.
The motivation is so clear here: squeeze as much money out of their readers before the great unwashed migrate away from Bild to equally poor-quality blogs.
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12/07/09
Also, those douches aren't doing their job. Most of the Bild properties haven't changed their format in years and their online presence is especially a mess.
They can't expect to just keep doing what they've been doing since the eighties yet hope to preserve or increase their circulation numbers. The major problem I see is that the Bild concept is graphics heavy but commentary light -- a format that's easily supplanted by anybody with an Internet connection and a Wordpress account.
10/31/09
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WeepyVP JoeAnd he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
10/30/09
WeepyVP JoeEither this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.
Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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10/30/09
WeepyVP JoeThat being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
#joebiden
10/27/09
While she was enjoying her "post-feminist" privileges and denigrating the radical actions, litigation and legislative campaigns that made her success possible, others of us continued the fight against all the gender inequities Ms. Lipman seems to have just discovered — unequal pay, the glass ceiling, job ghettos, media sexism (not to mention rape and violence against women) — none of which is very funny. Yet she trots out the old canard that women need a sense of humor before they can demand their rights.
[www.nytimes.com] #joannelipman
10/26/09
The others (aka, "size 8 and over," "not white"): fat, lazy, eat at McDonald's. #joannelipman
10/27/09
But I agree with your points. Although I'm an XX female I did not feel included and was tempted to quote Tonto.
There was a distinct whiff of upper-middle-class-white-woman entitlement to it.
10/25/09
[jonswift.blogspot.com]
"But Dowd was not just crying for herself. She was crying for all of the pundits and journalists and bloggers who worry that another Clinton Administration will turn us into Clinton-hating hacks. She was crying for all of us who remember how the peace and prosperity of the Clinton era led directly into the war and economic downturn of the Bush years, something we don't want to happen again. She feels our pain."
For a good laugh:
[jonswift.blogspot.com]
This is not the first time Ms. Shaidle, has taken on the menace of the poor. "The so-called poor have cars and cable tv and free medical," she wrote last year. "They live in America in the 21st century, where school is free and libraries are free and a bus ticket to a better town costs less than a bag of crack. If they're 'poor' it's because they were too lazy and stupid to a) finish high school and/or b) keep their pants on. Jesus had something to say about folks who didn't properly manage their money or other people's." Although I am not familiar with Jesus' admonitions against poor accounting practices, she has a point. Instead of waging class war against the wealthy who worked hard for their money, we should be attacking the poor. After a lot of unsuspecting investors were lured by the poor into putting their hard-earned money into credit defaults swaps and tricked into giving deadbeats subprime mortgages, which ruined our entire economy, haven't poor people done enough harm to this country? #joannelipman
10/25/09
Relative free riders like Lippman kept their mouths shut, understanding that it wasn't in their interest to rock the boat. Then when the boat capsizes, they're a martyr to the cause.
The 9/11 point isn't completely nuts. I'm saying I agree, but I remember reading an interview with Susan Faludi in which she attributed the success of "Backlash" in part to its having been published before or after the Gulf War (I can't remember when the book came out.) The Gulf War was "Boy's Time," I think she called it; peacetime was "Girls' Time."
Lippman seems to be saying that in national security emergencies such as 9/11 the rights of women [and others, I might add] are subsumed by the immediate crisis -- We'll get back to you girls/minorities later.
10/27/09
Nytpicker's right, she's ignorant of basic facts.
10/25/09
10/25/09
It's a pity, cause she does have some good points towards the end (like the "women don't ask" section, which I firmly believe in)....but it's lost in her sorry rhetoric and bizarre logical fallacies. #joannelipman
10/25/09
I've never really heard anyone go to bat for Ferraro as a substantial, game-changing figure, due to her extremely modest political talents I suppose...but I'm willing to believe that the time is ripe for a little contrarianism on this topic.
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10/25/09
Can we spell out the joke, here? The one way Lipman's completely wrong about men and women meeting in the middle is the example she set: that they both possess the capability to be equally as disgustingly vapid when it comes to the captain punching holes in their sinking ship. Both men and women, hand in hand, can disregard integrity for grossly incompetent, morale-shuttering selfishness!
I suppose I might be exceedingly dense, but I'm not sure what you're spelling here. I offer this one example because I badly want to understand you. #joannelipman
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I read this post at 5 in the morning after pulling an all-nighter. I thought maybe my fog of comprehension was caused by fatigue. #joannelipman
10/25/09
The ironic peak of Joanne Lipman kvetching about equality between the sexes is: she's an awesome example of how far the women's equality movement has actually come. In 2009, both Graydon Carter and Joanne Lipman, man and woman, can completely fuck their respective media properties over through out-and-out selfishness and naivity.
10/25/09
No more "pathbreakers have to be 10x better" and such.
By that standard, she has taken several steps in that direction.