The Media, or Try Consuming News Like A Grown Adult
The lazy caterwauling about “The Media” rings hollow because we as a people have never had more options as media consumers.
Category: Media
Fox News Shouldn’t Have Called Arizona When They Did
Fox News was the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden, and Fox has just fired the people that got it right.
On Writing of Wrongs
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
Pity Parler 3: Amazon Brings the Receipts in Lawsuit Filing
It is becoming clear Parler did not do their own due diligence in the design, intention, and operation of their product.
Amazon Turns Out the Lights, The Parler’s Over
First Apple kicked the app off the iOS app store, and now Amazon is ending their web services agreement citing breech of terms of service.
I’ll Keep Writing, Thank You Very Much.
Sometime over the last 25-30 years, I’ve heard someone say that I wasn’t a good writer and it was said in the most emotionally damaging way.
On Marketing Bob Dylan
A lot of this can all be explained with one simple phrase, 1960s Bob Dylan is not the same Bob Dylan of today.
2020 In Film: The Virus Complicates Cinema
Now as 2020 starts to churn towards the end, it’s time for another report card for the film industry.
Stop Ruining Christmas
Because part of becoming a modern adult is learning to hate everything that might have made you happy as a kid.
Linky Friday: All The News That’s Fit To Link
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ end of week tradition of bringing you news, notes, and notions from across the web to read, share, and discuss
We Don’t Need ‘City-Slicker Elegy’
Stop normalizing pathological snobbery, such as “everyone who voted Trump is an inbred, lardlicking oaf ripped from Hillbilly Elegy”
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Post-election Intramurals Edition
It’s Intramurals for Harsh Your Mellow Monday; Team Blue’s AOC v. Joe Manchin, Team Red’s Crenshaw v. Green, Fox News v. MAGA in media, plus much more.
But My Group Wants to Parler All The Time, Parler All The Time
Is the latest Twexit to Parler really the changing of the social media guard, or is something else going on here?
You Do Not, In Any Way Shape or Form, Have to Hand It to Jeffrey Toobin
How a little fame, an ability to tell people what they want to hear, and a glib tongue will buy you the privilege of career survival
Bae Humbug! Sacha Baron Cohen and the Pranking of Truth
Sacha Baron Cohen is the rich person’s Logan Paul, and just as repellant, just as much of an abscess putrefying in the belly of free speech.
DOJ, 11 States File Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Google
It’s been brewing for years, but the day has come. The US Government along with 11 states are going after Google.
Hanlon’s Razor and Why It Is Being Violated
People like Josh Hawley know what the end result of what they propose to do will be. Malice is the only word for it.
Et Tu, C-SPAN? Steve Scully Suspended For Claiming Tweet Was Hack
There was a hubbub about erstwhile moderator Steve Scully apparently messaging Anthony Scaramucci. Well, about that…
Information, But Dumber, Louder, and Wetter
Apparently it is some sort of time-honored ritual to make your meteorologist sacrifice themselves to the optics gods…but enough is enough.
