This would be the UK equivalent of Fucking NY Times.
BBC special correspondent for making the Tories not look weird accidentally reveals her working process:
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Honestly, there are more times when I wish we had a middle finger emoji than a puke one.
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Oh how far the once venerable and very old Atlantic has fallen. It’s been pandering to white middle-class insecurities for a couple of decades now.
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Do they think we have forgotten the 2016 October surprise? Eat shit, you orange baboon!
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If you didn’t see Ta-Nehisi Coates interviewed on CBS’s morning show recently, it was pretty rough. Coates was professional the whole time, but Dokoupil all but called him a terrorist. It was disgusting.
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"We have an obligation as journalists to challenge controversial guests, and that’s what Tony did,” one concerned correspondent, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told CNN.
Well, certain controversial guests. Of course, fascist white men are never in that category.
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Plus, to call Ta-Nehisi Coates a “controversial guest” is ridiculous. He’s a well known and well respected journalist, author, and scholar. I suppose, if you stretch, you could call his latest book controversial, but it’s really just factual. Palestinians are not, in the eyes of Israeli law, citizens in equal standing to Jewish citizens there. That’s an objective, verifiable fact. But mainstream media has decided that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic, by definition, so here we are.
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Yeah… I think I posted that… somewhere on the BBS? In the Israel war thread perhaps? His interviews on MSNBC and the Daily show wee much better and in depth.
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I’m kind of amazed CBS came back and addressed it and admitted it was inappropriate. I think they should have gone further, but at least they addressed it, I guess.
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More than that, any support of Palestinians is de facto antisemitism. Heard on NPR coming in to work about the “explosion” of antisemitism on college campuses. Now, to be clear, there absolutely is an increase in true antisemitism, fascism and such on campuses, but the focus was on pro-Palestinian protests, and portrayal of that as antisemitic. Which is craziness in my mind.
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Anything that isn’t complete support of the Israeli state is seen as antisemitism.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman - Anarchism and other Essays
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible that ’‘tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die’, like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman - What is Anarchism?
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Perfect example of why I get fucking nauseous most of the time when I hear whitebread, middle of the road, boojie, falsely cheerful NPR. Can’t you find any other news sources to listen to? Maybe some podcasts?
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I don’t know, with all NPRs problems, they are more likely to platform Palestinian voices than other commercial outlets, as well as voices of opposition from Israel and the American Jewish community. During their coverage yesterday, they did talk to Israelis hellbent on continuing the slaughter, but they also talked to a young woman living in Gaza, who talked about how this did not start in Oct. 7th, but has been going on for 75 years…
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Good for them I guess.
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For me, such nutritious nuggets are spread out way too far apart amidst boatloads of pablum, patriotism, and Status Quo party line.
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Some rogue element at MSNBC should upload that shit to youtube or something…
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The Columbia University protest kept pointing out that there were seder celebrations in the camp due to the large number of Jewish protestors, but somehow the media was convinced that those Jews were anti-Semites as well.
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How does he still have this much power? He can’t have compromising stuff on everyone.
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That may be a rhetorical question, butI think most of it is just because he’s the only Republican who’s been, and somehow still is, popular enough to stand a chance of beating a Democrat for the presidency. And so, most Republicans fall all over themselves, and sell their values, consciences, and souls, on the chance that he’ll win again, and that his power if he does will keep them in office and win them favors if they suck up to him hard enough.
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