The false piety is very American and par for the course, but unleashing militarized police to shoot and gas peaceful protestors is a huge, huge escalation. Fuck Cheeto and all his ilk.

Please let’s not pretend what Trump did was normal or comparable to anything done in the past. Gasing protestors outside the White House to walk down to a church and do this...

I’m waiting for this to actually happen:

THANK YOU. Hell, when he was running for the nom and was the only damn person onstage talking about climate change he could barely get two lines, for God’s sake. He’s juggling trying to reopen Washington, snarmy calls from Dump and reorganizing the police forces while not letting the infection rates spike so we have…

I know Middle America rightly complains about feeling ignored, but you are correct, the entire West Coast is routinely blown off as well. You see it not only in news but even fictional entertainment: it’s a little game with me and my husband when we watch Law&Order to see if a suspect is from Seattle, and if so, if…

At a time when we are witnessing our police become brazenly lawless against peaceful protesters, we should absolutely be screaming about all of these very alarming things that they are doing. Plus, I’m pretty sure Ellen Pompeo has previously spoken about racial justice, but go ahead with your snark, I guess.

Either the author isn’t fluent in Sarcasm, or they have some kind of other issue with Pompeo.

..... Ellen, I really hope that’s a rhetorical question because the answer is extremely obvious.

I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...

The only reason I love you is for the Manchurian candidate reference. No other reason!

This explains all those queen of diamonds in maternity wards...

And in every case, the fact that the public of the time didn’t have a real handle on what the musical star being enacted was like, beyond a vague memory of an Ed Sullivan performance or some scandal in the papers, AND that the roles were tailored to the strengths of the particular actor, helped make those enactments…

Hey, it’s all about both sides, right? That’s what the media does with it. 4 cops killed a guy, then 4 cops kneeled, so we’re square.

Ugh yeah I was ripping my hair out not understanding why they gave barely any coverage to Inslee. He handled things well! Learn from him! Don’t just cover Cuomo over and over!

I sub to the Post as well - fuck Bezos, but the paper is very good. It takes its role as national paper seriously.

My local newspaper reported on the kneeling part and entirely left out what happened after, which I described in another comment.

Both the LA Times and the Washington Post are far more responsible and reliable news sources. Personally, I no longer consider the Times the “paper of record,” as I trust the Post far more.

If there was one change I could make to “journalism” it would be to disperse it from New York City. You shouldn’t have to live in NYC to do national journalism. And I would be eternally grateful if journalism outlet wasn’t basically a local outlet for New York, because there are other places.

Buildings Matter, Too? Are you fucking kidding me?