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raincoaster
10/27/09

In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
At LAST! A home for all those new Journalism grads. #strugglingwriters
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howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)
10/26/09

In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
My "media" job is shifting to a commission-based salary structure in 2010. I am prepared to starve. #strugglingwriters
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New Gonzo Drifter
10/26/09

In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
MediaBistro has been a bastion of business-style, admin-goon jobs for a long time now. I feel like the site helps contribute to the McWorld-ization of the media industry as a whole, unlike JournalismJobs, which seems to maintain some modicum of integrity. True print jobs are rarely, if ever, advertised on MB.

Christ, has anyone seen Mediaite's generic attempt at a 'Jobs' page ... all it does is search already-listed jobs from other sites.

The decline of job hunting continues unabated. #strugglingwriters
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GlasgowRose
10/26/09

@NewGonzo: Also on MediaBistro: PR = "The Most Valuable Journalism Training That One Can Get"

[www.mediabistro.com] #strugglingwriters
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New Gonzo Drifter
10/26/09

@GlasgowRose: Right. MB has pretty much married up PR and journalism ... like being a PR bi**h pitching advertorial content is "valuable."

The only halfway decent thing MB has is their blog network deal-io and, sometimes, their News Feed Updates. #strugglingwriters
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TheBusinessGuy
10/27/09

@NewGonzo: So business people don't have role in the magazine world? We're getting laid off, too, you know. #strugglingwriters
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TheBusinessGuy
10/27/09

@TheBusinessGuy: I meant "a role," of course. Evidently I don't have a role as a proofreader. #strugglingwriters
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PontiusPirate
10/16/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
"Piles and piles of black friends" - WTF? Somebody better check this guys basement. #keithbardwell
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Z und Vielpunkt's chick
10/16/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
Louisiana Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 3(A)(4):

A judge shall perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice. A judge shall not, in the performance of judicial duties, by words or conduct manifest bias or prejudice, and shall not permit staff, court officials or others subject to the judge's direction and control to do so.

Whoopsy!! #keithbardwell
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BxgrlJeri
10/15/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage. I think those children suffer..."

Barack Obama and Derek Jeter say hello. #keithbardwell
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El_Gato
10/15/09

@BxgrlJeri: So, too, do Grady Sizemore, Bob Marley, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Alicia Keys, August Wilson, Halle Berry, Lenny Kravitz and Booker T. Washington. #keithbardwell
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Bos'un's Mate
10/16/09

@BxgrlJeri: We're talking about some of the most beautiful and successful people in the world.
[www.blackflix.com] #keithbardwell
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ithacabaron
10/15/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
As one half of an interracial couple, I'm sad to report that this sort of racism (anything from odd looks to downright yelling at us in the street) is more frequent than you might imagine.

For what it's worth, though, it does seem to happen with considerably greater frequency when we're in the South. #keithbardwell
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unfuckwithable
10/16/09

@ithacabaron: As a (sort of) New Orleanian in exile, I saw what parish this came from and honestly, I'm not surprised.

Oh, and this was in Senator David "A Regular Customer of Hookers" Vitter's old congressional district. So...yeah.

On a personal note, I can't even imagine the hateful, horrible shit that must come your way. I'm sorry that humanity can suck so badly.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
10/15/09

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Someone needs to give this dude a beatdown. Can Team Interracial put The Rock and Vin Diesel to good use, for once? #keithbardwell
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Meiyou Wenti
10/15/09

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And where are all the tea baggers, protesting that our freedoms are being eroded by activist justices of the peace.... #keithbardwell
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God
10/16/09

@Meiyou Wenti: While they're not running themselves breathless and exhausted from all the teabagging activity, they're in church, praying for the souls of the miscegenationists. #keithbardwell
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tunamelt
10/15/09

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Two steps forward, three steps back, America. #keithbardwell
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CumaeanSibyl
10/15/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
Well, I'm just glad to know that only married people can have babies with each other. Time to go fill up my social calendar. #keithbardwell
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sarrible
10/15/09

@CumaeanSibyl: TV has been lying to me all this time! #keithbardwell
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Cicada
10/15/09

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Piles and piles of black friends? Plus, he says he's not racist?
Really, how can you question such ironclad bona fides, you silly kids? #keithbardwell
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Baroness
10/15/09

@Cicada: Their corpses are all limed and rotting beneath his floorboards. But he has whiskey-soaked conversations with them every night, by candlelight. It's Southern Gothic, his home life. #keithbardwell
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Cicada
10/15/09

@Baroness: But he lets them use his bathroom BEFORE he whacks them with a cosh and stashes them under the floorboards. That's what makes him not a racist. Right? #keithbardwell
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BxgrlJeri
10/15/09

@Baroness: That's the image that piles and piles evokes. #keithbardwell
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Baroness
10/16/09

@Cicada: The Dead Don't Pee, Cicada. Which I believe was a discarded Faulkner title for The Sound and the Fury. #keithbardwell
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Claire Buoyant
10/15/09

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I guess he doesn't know* that a mixed-race child can grow up to be President of the US?

* More likely, he doesn't recognize. #keithbardwell
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Claire Buoyant
10/15/09

@Claire Buoyant: And, that's an unfortunate last name for the author of that treatise. #keithbardwell
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UGAdawg
10/15/09

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Heaven forbid people will no longer be able to automatically pigeon hole someone by their race before they even get to know the character of that person. We shouldn't make it that easy and actually make people think beyond color. What is this world coming to?!? #keithbardwell
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trucha
10/15/09

@UGAdawg: A world where the U.S. media streams a little note at about how 85,000 people were killed in a country, facilitated by a certain U.S. administration, while putting heavy coverage on a kid who was thought to be in a balloon but wasn't. #keithbardwell
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iplaudius
10/15/09

In reply to Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License to Protect Children, Obviously.
It’s his right not to marry them. It’s my right to judge him and white Southerners generally by his actions. #keithbardwell
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mossdale
10/15/09

@iplaudius: not sure its his right not to marry them. Loving v Virginia rejected state statutes against mixed race marriages, and I would assume that as a representative of the state this asshole can't make up a restriction #keithbardwell
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skt.smth
10/15/09

@iplaudius: No, it's not his right not to marry them. He's a justice of the peace, and is bound to carry out decisions in the same way that a judge would be required to, according to the law. #keithbardwell
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iplaudius
10/16/09

@skt.smth: @mossdale: I certainly hope that you are right. I was unclear as to whether he was being asked to perform the marriage in a context where his role would be voluntary.

For example, in most places, a minister or a retired justice of the peace may legally perform marriages. So, you could ask a minister or a retired JP to perform your marriage, and he or she would be able though not obligated to do it. I was unclear of the context of their request and whether his compliance with their wishes would be obligatory.
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Bos'un's Mate
10/16/09

@iplaudius: The 14th Amendment's equal protection clause says otherwise. #keithbardwell
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