No, they didn’t overbook the flight. There were enough seats for the people who bought tickets. United wanted to bump four of the people who bought tickets in favor of their employees. The people who bought tickets and had seats didn’t want to be bumped.

... because 15 plus years (i.e. post 9/11) of negative press and sentiment about airlines and airports has done little to reduce people’s usage of said things.

That’s close

Modern corporate America: The customer is always wrong.

The fact that the seats went to United employees flying standby adds extra insult to injury here. Not only did they mistreat a customer, they did it because they wanted to give the seat to their own people instead of politely reminding them what “flying standby” entails.

If carrying out a murder-suicide of your partner isn’t enough to flag you as a miserable waste of humanity, try doing it in front of a classroom full of children aged 5 to 11.

Screw United. I hope this incident makes this man very rich.

You mean the best van ever?

Don’t need liberal bloggers at all. Trump is doing a great job fucking himself in the ass at every corner.

Yeah, probably wasn’t a good idea to bet on the unhinged, vindictive toddler to keep us out of a war. Whoops!

If even professional journalists mess things up sometimes, it more or less goes to demonstrate how steep a hill the random layman has to climb to get it right.

to be fair wsj did blow this whole thing out of proportion

The problem here is that youtubers aren’t use to this sort of attention.

The WSJ has its own YT channel with 25k videos. Most people would consider this as proof of it making YT part of its business strategy, but reporting about PewDiePie making anti-semitic jokes clearly shows the WSJ is trying to take YT down.

Not only that but he straight up admits that

A YouTuber thought he could go toe-to-toe with actual journalists for a newspaper that’s won 39 Pulitzer Prizes, and, surprise surprise, has egg on his face for not verifying everything that his sources told him.

“Klien made his video private so it’s not viewable to the general public”

I mean, it’s cool if you found a way to make money legitimately that isn’t traditional, and society definitely needs paid entertainers and artists and humorists, etc. But Christ, there’s something about Youtube “stars” and their sense of entitlement that really rubs me the wrong way. My inner old man wants to tell…

 I’m completely and utterly shocked that a YouTube star was foolhardy, opinionated, grossly misinformed, and unwilling to apologize.