It’s for sure a problem with music journalism and the problem was exacerbated at MTV. Even if MTV News could deal with not getting another Chance the Rapper interview, MTV depends on access to him for their non-journalistic entities. MTV should never have made the foray into serious reporting without dealing with…

This is a problem in virtually every kind of trade reporting (which music journalism most certainly is) where you can’t do your job without access, and access is controlled by publicists and PR professionals who only want to work with publications that make their clients look good. Had Hopper published those stories,…

I bet you’re fun at parties.

“IT’S A CLEVER GIRL!”

Extremely well put. For any commenters that are interested in reading a book length version of your excellent analysis, here’s a great read that was recommended to me by an otherwise fairly conservative person:

I’d be tempted to do one of these videos but make the color green and end the video by turning to the camera and saying, “We’re having a Velociraptor. We spared no expense.”

And then the screen goes black with a loud raptor scream from Jurassic Park.

It’s more complicated than that, but it boils down to a simple adage: if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Police are trained to be hammers. Many of them develop the skills they need to be effective for their communities, but that all tends to fall under ‘on the job’ training, as opposed to…

There’s statements coming up here about the poor training of American police, and this is something that needs to be addressed: most police officers receive very good training, but the problem is that it’s tactically heavy training.

“Mumble mumble something about budgets...”

He’s either insane or really poorly trained. Both of those outcomes make for terrible law enforcement officers.

That’s what makes me think this was accidental. Why the gun was out and ready to fire is another question, but it’s really hard to imagine how this could have been intentional. Maybe my imagination is underdeveloped.

Predictions:

To me that’s the most insane part. Like... the logistics of that shot are ridiculous; the cop came within inches of shooting his partner. I mean, it wasn’t even a shot through the window, it was a shot through the door.

Justine was a dear friend who was horrified about police violence and committed to making the world better in every way. She had just picked out her wedding dress last week and was so excited to show me. She was texting me trying to get me to go to “dance church” with her on sunday morning, but instead I went to a…

Every other damned thing in the world is being digitized, why not electronic gun holsters? The strap doesn’t unlock unless the body cam is running.

You’d think they’d have ways of determining this beforehand, like some sort of training process...

If you are a skittish, nervous, risk-adverse person, do not become a police officer.

You might just have what it takes to work in a movie studio continuity department. It’s that attention to detail away from the main action that separates the amateurs from the real professionals.

“Hey, Rick, can you take care of this file for me?... What are you watching?”

I don’t want to get pedantic but (here goes) the world would be a better place if everyone in America understood why this little study by Hemmings doesn’t tell us American car collectors are basic, or anything at all, really.