Oh please.

Mandated editorial content is identical to mandating an actual script for all intents and purposes, merely slightly less elegant and a bit more clumsy.

You’re trying to lead the discussion into quibbling over semantics because you have nothing else to work with. Like I said I don’t intend to waste anymore of…

Don’t be absurd.

Actual journalists are heroes, and heroes don’t stay unemployed for long.

You lack the basic understanding of your environment displayed by any bacterial infection sufficiently illustrious to make the history books.

Feel free to look at the top of this page at ten affiliated websites and find a single article on any of them displaying significant political variance with the rest. Take as long as you need.

The homogeneity of editorial content from all the major networks comes to mind as well, along with properties owned by…

Oh my gosh.

Heartbreaking naivete. You honestly believe that don’t you?

“...and now it’s over to William for the Two Minute Hate. Billy, what’s that ol’ Sinclair Broadcast Group been up to this week?”

Literally all of them? The fact that one does not get hired by a news agency without assurances that one adheres to their narratives is so fundamental and basic I can’t imagine how it could possible be in contention.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Just the free market in action.

Using the word Orwellian so casually is inexcusably hyperbolic, or so I have been told.

Also that sort of recklessly independent personality trait would make it impossible to get a job doing live corporate media in the first place. 

Condemning the actions of the opposition while ignoring or excusing similar behavior when exhibited by ones own allies has been an American tradition since the Jefferson administration. 

And avoid disparaging the one who signs your paycheck.

Do I know you? I know you clear through was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward. In the North he lets anybody walk over him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it. In the South one man all by himself,…

That viral infection Emily Gordon came down with was awfully misogynistic.

Any creative project I see it involved with in the future isn’t going to be seeing any of my money, that’s for sure.

For real.

Compared to what actual heckling looks like - particularly for him - that guy was downright milquetoast. 

It depends on who else happens to be in the room.

Good job saying the same thing like twenty other people did. And people accuse me of wasting MY time.

Anyway. Once more?

Boycotts have hitherto been justified by outright slander or as protest of some particular policy. Implementing one over nothing more than general hostility is something new with possible…

I’ve been around for ten or eleven. You arrived more or less during the staff turnover. The Saban buyout leading to Kinja also got things to this point, of course.

No audience could ever be large enough - inevitable I suppose. But a larger community turned out to be little more than a flock of bleating indignant…

Plenty of competition there.

Wouldn’t know.

I have more fun getting all up in your safe space.

Masochism, I suppose.

Back in the day I would have called it refining an opinion by soliciting counterpoints and addressing them, but all the commentariat seems to have to offer is inarticulate scorn nowadays.

And the exceptions don’t bother to read through to find that half a dozen people have already shared the very…

Nope.

More of a reality program sort of thing. I wouldn’t accuse them of saying many outright falsehoods at all actually - their handlers seem to understand by now that misleading statistics can be debunked, but hysterical appeals to emotion are more difficult to address and far more effective in reaching their target…