The Swamp

SF Chronic wrote:No longer will a daily newspaper bear the name of Oakland or San Jose due to a mass consolidation by Bay Area News Group, which on Tuesday also announced plans to cut roughly 20 percent of the company’s newsroom staff.

Half a dozen Bay Area newspapers will be folded into two daily publications meant to serve the East Bay and South Bay.
The last daily edition of the 150-year-old Oakland Tribune will be published April 4.

On April 5, the East Bay will get its first look at the East Bay Times — a consolidation of the Contra Costa Times, the Oakland Tribune, the Daily Review in Hayward and the Argus, which serves Fremont. The company will also replace the contracostatimes.com and insidebayarea.com websites with a new East Bay focused site, eastbaytimes.com.

Every Friday, subscribers in Oakland, Hayward and Fremont will receive hyper-local news inserts bearing the mastheads of the Oakland Tribune, the Daily Review and the Argus, respectively.

In the South Bay and on the Peninsula, the San Mateo County Times will join the San Jose Mercury News to become the Mercury News, also debuting on April 5.

Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart’s lifelong best friend, widow, hand-picked management team and friends in pursuit of an elusive contributorship at the Fox News Channel.

Friends of Hamas could not be found for comment.

DaveInSeattle wrote:Does Brietbart.com count as Journalism? Because they are imploding as we speak...

A Breakdown of Breitbart's Big, Misogynistic Implosion

The Reader's Digest Version:

-Brietbart Reporter tries to ask Trump a question, gets pushed down/assaulted by Trump Campaign Manageer.
-Trump campaign says it never happened, despite tons of evidence (audio/video/eyewitnesses/photos of bruises on her arm).
-Brietbart, which has been in the bag for Trump, doesn't support reporter.
-Reporter resigns
-Editor-at-large, Ben Shapiro (aka "The Virgin Ben") resigns as well.
-Brietbart editor-at-large/legal Counsel Joel Pollack post scathing article about Shapiro leaving:

Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart’s lifelong best friend, widow, hand-picked management team and friends in pursuit of an elusive contributorship at the Fox News Channel.

Friends of Hamas could not be found for comment.

Post has now been deleted.

The Sybian wrote:

DaveInSeattle wrote:Does Brietbart.com count as Journalism? Because they are imploding as we speak...

A Breakdown of Breitbart's Big, Misogynistic Implosion

The Reader's Digest Version:

-Brietbart Reporter tries to ask Trump a question, gets pushed down/assaulted by Trump Campaign Manageer.
-Trump campaign says it never happened, despite tons of evidence (audio/video/eyewitnesses/photos of bruises on her arm).
-Brietbart, which has been in the bag for Trump, doesn't support reporter.
-Reporter resigns
-Editor-at-large, Ben Shapiro (aka "The Virgin Ben") resigns as well.
-Brietbart editor-at-large/legal Counsel Joel Pollack post scathing article about Shapiro leaving:

Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart’s lifelong best friend, widow, hand-picked management team and friends in pursuit of an elusive contributorship at the Fox News Channel.

Friends of Hamas could not be found for comment.

Post has now been deleted.

Even worse, Trump's campaign manager said he didn't realize she was with Breitbart and he would not have treated her like that if he knew which outlet she worked for. Said she looked like a MSM reporter. She normally covers Cruz, or maybe Rubio, so he didn't know who she was. Any other candidate in history, campaign manager gets fired instantly and probably takes the candidate down with him. Trump? Meh.

DaveInSeattle wrote:
My favorite part? Shapiro calling Brietbart the "Trump Pravda".

Wingnut fights are the best...

Remember that in 2002-03, Hiatt penned Post editorials that reported, as “flat fact,” that Iraq possessed hidden stockpiles of WMD – and he suffered not a whit for being horribly wrong. More than a dozen years later, Hiatt is still the Post’s editorial-page editor – one of the most influential jobs in American journalism.

On Thursday, Hiatt reported as flat fact that Syria’s “dictator, Bashar al-Assad, killed 1,400 or more people in a chemical gas attack,” a reference to the 2013 sarin atrocity. Hiatt then lashed out at President Obama for not punishing Assad and – even worse – for showing satisfaction over that restraint.

I’m Hilde Kate Lysiak, the publisher of the Orange Street News.

I am nine years old.

My story went viral this week when I responded to residents in my town who were upset that I was reporting on a serious crime, rather than doing – well, whatever it is they think nine-year-old girls should be doing.

Here’s what happened. On 2 April, there was a homicide in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. It took place just a few blocks from my house, where I run my newspaper.

I acted on a tip from a good source that I was able to get through some of my other reporting. After confirming with the police department, I then went straight to the scene and spoke to neighbors and got more information. I worked very hard.
…

Because of my work I was able to keep the people of Selinsgrove informed about this very important event hours before my competition even got to the scene.

In fact, some other news sites run by adults were reporting the wrong information or no information at all while the Orange Street News was at the scene doing the hard work to report the facts to the people.

In the hours that followed, many residents of Selinsgrove began making negative comments about me on my website and other social media sites. I understand that, as a reporter, the things I cover will sometimes make people mad. But these negative comments were not so much about the homicide I was covering, but the fact that I – a nine-year-old girl – was covering it at all.

Residents of Selinsgrove publicly called my work trash and told me I should leave it to the professionals. Other people told me I should stick to tea parties and playing with dolls.

Maybe that’s what the “professionals” were doing while I was working the scene, because they sure weren’t there. I have since found out that the police had asked the media not to run the story. I may be nine, but I have learned that my job as a reporter is to get the truth to the people. I work for them, not the police. I think that some people are angry that I didn’t follow along like everyone else.

My parents and I have also been warned that covering this story meant my reporting was no longer “cute”. I don’t think people should be able to decide for me who I should be and what I should be doing. I never began my newspaper so that people would think I was cute. I started the Orange Street News to give people the information they need to know.

howard wrote:…'I'm Not Dead Yet!'

This is amazing. This is so cool. The other day I stumbled onto Dan Carlin doing a TedTalk (I almost never watch tedtalks; as they have proliferated I avoid them more and more.) He told a story about how when he was nine or ten he wanted to start a newspaper, but it was impossible. In contrast to today.

Here's living proof of his point. Nine-year-old US reporter defiant after critics say 'go back to playing with dolls'
There is a video embedded in that link.

As she describes what happened:

I’m Hilde Kate Lysiak, the publisher of the Orange Street News.

I am nine years old.

My story went viral this week when I responded to residents in my town who were upset that I was reporting on a serious crime, rather than doing – well, whatever it is they think nine-year-old girls should be doing.

Here’s what happened. On 2 April, there was a homicide in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. It took place just a few blocks from my house, where I run my newspaper.

I acted on a tip from a good source that I was able to get through some of my other reporting. After confirming with the police department, I then went straight to the scene and spoke to neighbors and got more information. I worked very hard.
…

Because of my work I was able to keep the people of Selinsgrove informed about this very important event hours before my competition even got to the scene.

In fact, some other news sites run by adults were reporting the wrong information or no information at all while the Orange Street News was at the scene doing the hard work to report the facts to the people.

In the hours that followed, many residents of Selinsgrove began making negative comments about me on my website and other social media sites. I understand that, as a reporter, the things I cover will sometimes make people mad. But these negative comments were not so much about the homicide I was covering, but the fact that I – a nine-year-old girl – was covering it at all.

Residents of Selinsgrove publicly called my work trash and told me I should leave it to the professionals. Other people told me I should stick to tea parties and playing with dolls.

Maybe that’s what the “professionals” were doing while I was working the scene, because they sure weren’t there. I have since found out that the police had asked the media not to run the story. I may be nine, but I have learned that my job as a reporter is to get the truth to the people. I work for them, not the police. I think that some people are angry that I didn’t follow along like everyone else.

My parents and I have also been warned that covering this story meant my reporting was no longer “cute”. I don’t think people should be able to decide for me who I should be and what I should be doing. I never began my newspaper so that people would think I was cute. I started the Orange Street News to give people the information they need to know.

Of course her parents are helping her, probably a lot. Which imo is fucking awesome parenting.

wsj wrote:The U.K.’s Daily Mail has emerged as a suitor for Yahoo’s assets, joining a wide group of interested companies that includes telecom giant Verizon as an April 18 deadline for preliminary offers nears.

wlu_lax6 wrote:Bronto..time to start working boot, rubbish, gaffers and such into your nascar posts

wsj wrote:The U.K.’s Daily Mail has emerged as a suitor for Yahoo’s assets, joining a wide group of interested companies that includes telecom giant Verizon as an April 18 deadline for preliminary offers nears.

The Sybian wrote:

DaveInSeattle wrote:
My favorite part? Shapiro calling Brietbart the "Trump Pravda".

Wingnut fights are the best...

Never thought I'd see the day Shapiro admitted Breitbart isn't journalism.

Alright Texas, we got here via Bibles and guns.

howard wrote:The various parodies state it better than I can. Jumped the shark two decades ago, became a feel-good entertainment for the elite (who can afford the high entrance fee) and folks who think anything with the label is intellectual and important. Plenty of the talks are fine, good, but the more it proliferates, the less appears to be there. Plus, as much as I am adapting various podcasts, I prefer reading.

Brontoburglar wrote:

The Sybian wrote:

DaveInSeattle wrote:
My favorite part? Shapiro calling Brietbart the "Trump Pravda".

Wingnut fights are the best...

Never thought I'd see the day Shapiro admitted Breitbart isn't journalism.

!!!!!!!!!!

career milestone, you guys

Johnnie wrote:

howard wrote:The various parodies state it better than I can. Jumped the shark two decades ago, became a feel-good entertainment for the elite (who can afford the high entrance fee) and folks who think anything with the label is intellectual and important. Plenty of the talks are fine, good, but the more it proliferates, the less appears to be there. Plus, as much as I am adapting various podcasts, I prefer reading.

howard wrote:Actual CNN.com headline, updated fifteen hours after the 'alleged' event. Unbelievable.

Bernie Sanders says he met Pope Francis during visit to Vatican City

Article even quotes a witness to the event. But this leading news agency cannot report this as a simple fact. 'Well, he 'says' he met the Pope, but who can be sure?' It just gets worse and worse.

"Five minutes sounds like 'Try and get me in to see him so I don't get myself embarrassed before I come back to New York,'" Trump said, referring to the Vermont senator's lagging poll numbers ahead of Tuesday's primary. "So a five-minute visit, you cannot do much in a five-minute -- after you say 'hello,' there's not time left."

Lowe's final piece for his station was an article about the case of Patrick Zane Thompson.

The 58-year-old former Arizona State football player and restaurant owner is accused of “sacrificing” his family’s poodle in a BBQ smoker after becoming upset about his daughter’s t-shirt.

Brontoburglar wrote:a $2,500 fine or six months in jail seems a bit extreme on one end of the scale

Pruitt wrote:Very Daily Mail…