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And is it important that the NYT owner is a Jewish family?

On April 26 2018 16:42 Womwomwom wrote:


That's the front page of the Sports section. No shit the Sports section of the New York Times is going to be reporting on these leaks. The Sports section of broadsheets have always been more serious than, say, ESPN reporting on LeBron's big game winning shot from today.

How an organisation deals with problems, like the recent sexual harassment allegations against the Dallas Mavericks, are important because its really a microcosm of American organisations, businesses and life. If Mark Cuban ran the Dallas Mavericks without doing anything to stop rampant long term sexual harassment in its front office, it goes without saying that this attitude is probably also a problem in his other ventures.

People report on the NFL because the NFL, as an organisation, has been hit recently with image problems. The most recent being allegations of widespread workplace sexism and league-wide censorship by freezing out Kaepernick despite him being analytically better than the average league quarterback. How they deal with these issues is a representation of the values of the organisation and their non-sports businesses.

While the title itself is click-baity, the meeting gives us an inside view of how the NFL aims to deal with its image problems. Which, unlike the NBA, is to essentially do nothing at all or, in the case of conservative owners, find a way to shut down means for people to express themselves.

On April 26 2018 10:58 mozoku wrote:

I don't have time for a full response, but I think you're greatly underestimating the agency that well-established oligolipolic news organizations have in long-term strategic shifts in editorial direction. Sure, they might be optimizing headlines on a day-to-day level where there's lots of data available to drive to decisions, but in a decision like "do we become adversarial to a presidential candidate in an unprecedented manner?", anyone who's spent any time involved in executive decision-making understands those are judgement calls where the data doesn't provide clear direction and (in part consequently) it's extremely common that personal motivating factors play a huge role.

On April 26 2018 23:45 Mohdoo wrote:
I feel like at this point we are given more reason to assume the doctor's analysis of Trump was NOT truthful.

New Lynching Memorial Is A Space 'To Talk About All Of That Anguish'

Editor's note: This report contains language and an image some may find offensive.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, stands high on a hillside overlooking downtown Montgomery, Ala. Beyond the buildings you can see the winding Alabama River and hear the distant whistle of a train — the nexus that made the city a hub for the domestic slave trade.

And that's where the experience begins as visitors encounter a life-size sculpture in bronze of six people in rusting shackles, including a mother with a baby in her arms.

"You see the agony and the anguish and the suffering in these figures," says Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, the non-profit legal advocacy group that created the memorial.

"It's people in distress," Stevenson says. "And I don't think we've actually done a very good job of acknowledging the pain and agony, the suffering, the humiliation, the complete denial of humanity that slavery created for black people on this continent."

Stevenson serves as a tour guide through the somber space – which remembers the nation's history of racial terror, representing a journey from slavery to the period after the Civil War, and before the civil rights movement.

On April 27 2018 01:46 Plansix wrote:


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About damn time. I didn't know this was being created, but I'm glad one state finally decided to have the guts to create one. People should go into the article itself, the photos are really striking and the rest of the article is a good read. The biggest bummer is that it took until 2018 to create a public space to memorialize these terrible events.

On April 27 2018 03:35 ticklishmusic wrote:
So, catching up on news and I saw the Trump interview on Fox & Friends.

In the interest of being neutral, I'm just going to link the transcript from Fox News.

It is pretty rambly. But overall Trump airs a lot of grievances. It kind of keeps declining to the point the interviewers kind of cut him off before he says something really bad it feels lile.

On April 27 2018 03:47 Tachion wrote:

The dubious jumps his brain makes is nothing we haven't already seen from his past speeches, but damn there is just nothing else like it in the political arena. Honestly, I'm sitting here thinking of a way to be critical about this without preaching to the choir, but what the fuck. I'm never gonna get used to the way he speaks. Something is just off.

On April 27 2018 01:46 Plansix wrote:


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About damn time. I didn't know this was being created, but I'm glad one state finally decided to have the guts to create one. People should go into the article itself, the photos are really striking and the rest of the article is a good read. The biggest bummer is that it took until 2018 to create a public space to memorialize these terrible events.

"Why would you talk about the difficult past?"

The Equal Justice Initiative is also opening a Legacy Museum that draws a direct line from slavery to lynching to issues the country faces today, including mass incarceration.

"There's a lot of conflict. There's a lot of tension," he says. "We're dealing with police violence. We deal with these huge disparities in our criminal justice system. You know, if everything was wonderful you could ask the question 'why would you talk about the difficult past?' But everything is not wonderful."

On April 27 2018 01:46 Plansix wrote:


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About damn time. I didn't know this was being created, but I'm glad one state finally decided to have the guts to create one. People should go into the article itself, the photos are really striking and the rest of the article is a good read. The biggest bummer is that it took until 2018 to create a public space to memorialize these terrible events.

On April 27 2018 03:56 Simberto wrote:
I basically get my news about US stuff from this thread.

On April 27 2018 03:58 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Ronny Jackson withdrew, but Trump did get Pompeo as his secretary of state. Vote went 57-42 with six red state Dems and Angus King choosing for him. Next big cabinet member up for nomination should be Haspel I believe.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/trump-cabinet-tracker/510527/

On April 27 2018 03:56 Simberto wrote:
I basically get my news about US stuff from this thread.