“This is a coup” reminds me of those NHL videos justifying suspensions that begin very factually with phrases like “this is boarding.” I have to laugh to keep from screaming these days.
Sigh, gonna miss them, even in Pop culture like the Mary Tyler Moore spin-off Lou Grant-Journalist doing Journalism, the Founders thought enough to protect it-but it took more stuff, Equal time clause & the Fairness doctrine-but Reagan. Than came all opinion @ll the Time.
I don’t think it was my imagination—in the days before the Feb 5 protest, I didn’t see anything in the Times about it. I saw coverage afterwards. But I wondered why it wasn’t reported in advance, this fledgling possible movement. Also Charles Blow didn’t mention any issues he had with NYT in his final column. Was it really just an amicable parting? And Krugman? I’m grateful for your substack, I really dig Dan Rather’s, and my list of subscriptions is growing. Weird doing patchwork news like this but I do think the Old Gray Lady ain’t what she used to be.
Kara Swisher is calling it a hostile takeover. But I do agree that language matters and Coup is the better word. What I am indeed concerned about in the collapse of the information environment is that no one is keeping an accurate and detailed account of the individual crimes and civil rights violations being committed on an industrial scale. And not just by Elone and his tangerine monkey but by all of them, all the way down to the local level who are doing what they see as the regime’s bidding. When this is over, if it is ever over, we’re going to need an American Nuremberg, and for that we’re going to need records. The nazis were great at record keeping, which turned out not so well for them. These guys and gals have learned to cover their tracks. We can’t let them. The number plates on cars from Quebec read, Je me souviens, I remember. We need to start remembering this now.
“This is a coup” reminds me of those NHL videos justifying suspensions that begin very factually with phrases like “this is boarding.” I have to laugh to keep from screaming these days.
Sigh, gonna miss them, even in Pop culture like the Mary Tyler Moore spin-off Lou Grant-Journalist doing Journalism, the Founders thought enough to protect it-but it took more stuff, Equal time clause & the Fairness doctrine-but Reagan. Than came all opinion @ll the Time.
B.I.N.G.O.
I don’t think it was my imagination—in the days before the Feb 5 protest, I didn’t see anything in the Times about it. I saw coverage afterwards. But I wondered why it wasn’t reported in advance, this fledgling possible movement. Also Charles Blow didn’t mention any issues he had with NYT in his final column. Was it really just an amicable parting? And Krugman? I’m grateful for your substack, I really dig Dan Rather’s, and my list of subscriptions is growing. Weird doing patchwork news like this but I do think the Old Gray Lady ain’t what she used to be.
Kara Swisher is calling it a hostile takeover. But I do agree that language matters and Coup is the better word. What I am indeed concerned about in the collapse of the information environment is that no one is keeping an accurate and detailed account of the individual crimes and civil rights violations being committed on an industrial scale. And not just by Elone and his tangerine monkey but by all of them, all the way down to the local level who are doing what they see as the regime’s bidding. When this is over, if it is ever over, we’re going to need an American Nuremberg, and for that we’re going to need records. The nazis were great at record keeping, which turned out not so well for them. These guys and gals have learned to cover their tracks. We can’t let them. The number plates on cars from Quebec read, Je me souviens, I remember. We need to start remembering this now.