while portions of VA (southwest, NoVa for the rich folks) will swing conservative

Well, like I said: unless he has some revelatory acting genius we haven’t seen yet. I suppose it’s possible, but jumping in to play a straight drama as a real-life figure is pretty ambitious. I can’t think of many A-list actors I’d like to see try to play Walter, so I’ll be impressed if Rogan manages to pull it off —…

Yeah ... as much as I like Seth Rogan, he definitely isn’t the first to come to mind when considering a serious portrayal of Walter Cronkite. Unless he has some hidden revelatory acting genius we haven’t seen yet, this casting decision alone would make me actively avoid this film.

Sigh. Okay.

1 - an employer dictating the off the job speech of it’s employees

but there is law that says they cannot dictate your life nor retaliate if you tell them to fuck off with that bullshit.

You can dictate the quality of the work. You CANNOT tell them, nor penalize them for how to live their life.

One issue is that defining “bias” and “impartiality” are in themselves political acts.

I’d imagine that if the policies conflict to such an extent that one of the organizations wouldn’t hire the freelancer again as a result, that’s a decision the freelancer is going to have to make as to which one they would like to work for ...

I’m sorry, maybe I’m missing something: what, exactly, is the problem of a news division trying to enforce standards of impartiality on its contributors? If you’re wanting to create news content, then, yeah, an obvious bias, even if expressed outside of actually creating that content, is potentially going to call into…

Azaria backed out, claiming that he was worried Kondabolu would twist his words.

Thanks, Van ...

Well, there really are no specific date delineations of generations, just general ranges. The U.S. Census Bureau does go to specify distinctly only the one generation (the Boomers, of course: 1946-1964), while other guesstimations for that generation pick a start between the mid-to-late 40's, when the boys started…

Except that Arpaio isn’t a Boomer ...

Thanks for the info! It’s a shame it’s probably not the same person, but they did a great job finding someone who looks a bit like her ...

Wait — is that the actress who played David Bowman’s mom from 2010??

“I would not go out there, my little friend ... Apocalypse Cow is fifty feet tall; she shoots fire from her teats!”

The WaPo has editorialists on both sides and in that regard is actually fairly balanced. Otherwise it tends to have a definite liberal bent. The “GOP supporting paper” you’re thinking of is the Times ...

Well, I agree with much of what you’re saying. On some stuff, we’ll have to agree to disagree, I guess ;-)