(Hi, I work in media.) He’s not referring to them being free *now,* he’s referring to the fact that, in the early days of online publishing, most of them offered their content online for free. The result was that a generation of internet users were raised with the expectation that reading news online is free. So yes,…

As a Knicks fan, it’s hard to root for any particular hire or another, because I’m immediately inclined to think less of anyone who strongly considers taking this job.

I think an important distinction to make in this debate is that perhaps Phil’s biggest failing in his Knicks tenure was his inability to evolve and adapt. As Burneko notes, the Triangle made more sense during Phil’s heyday because the rules for defense were different; it also was a good fit for teams with transcendent…

I think this story line was chiefly the product two factors: 1) Phil Jackson and his associates scapegoating the players for the team’s failure, by implying that the team was bad because they’re stupid dummies or lazy jerks who couldn’t or wouldn’t learn the triangle and 2) the players having no interest in “learning”…

I apologize and retract my comment, substituting this dickbutt in its place:

Right, and that’s an important distinction to make, given that almost from the second it was coined the phrase “fake news” has been twisted to mean everything from “news I that displeases me” to “informed speculation that turns out to be wrong” to “opinion with which I disagree.”

For the league to be about anything but the Warriors for the next few years, it would need to abolish the salary cap and the luxury tax, freeing teams to sign the players they want and can afford, without artificial limitations.

This is so exactly the right answer that I’m embarrassed for not immediately arriving at it.

If the Jets fielded a barely above-average player for 10 seasons, and that barely above-average player was able to become the second-leading tackler in team history, then that tells you more about the Jets than Harris. Period.

Dude, a team’s “Ring of Honor” is not the Hall of Fame. It’s a fairly arbitrary distinction, generally based not on a player’s stature within the league, but importance to the franchise. The one of the most recent players inducted into the Jets Ring of Honor was Wayne Chrebet, who never made an All-Pro or even a Pro…

Not sure why the author’s fairly mundane, broadly within-the-consensus observations have riled you so much, but for what it’s worth: I’ve watched every Jets game since Harris entered the league, and read more than my share of Bowles’ quotes on players, and it’s pretty obvious to me that 1) Harris is a Ring of Honor…

Haha I was actually totally fine with the Mad Men finale, but I get why people hated it.

As a dirty millennial who grew up in the Brosnan/Craig era, the best Bond song I’ve heard in the theater was definitely “Skyfall.” But my personal favorite overall might be “You Only Live Twice,” not because of anything about that (Connery) movie (which I’m not sure I’ve seen), but because it was used awesomely in the…

thanks!

haha yes someone mentioned the meme to me. I always assumed other people were going through what I was, but I’m staggered by how many people can relate to this. It’s tragic. Very sorry to hear about your siblings. I hope they eventually are able to see through Ailes’ bullshit.

Glad to hear it, and thanks.

It’s a real and scary thing. My grandfather was a gun collector, including some antiques and unusual ones he used to love to show off, pre-Fox. In his later years, as the paranoia set in, he’d only take them out with the blinds clothed (in case Obama’s government was watching somehow, I guess) and always seemed to be…

Thanks. I eventually learned how to nod and “that’s interesting” through the rants (pushing back gently when I couldn’t resist) and get on to other topics. It never broke my relationship with them, thankfully. But plenty of people aren’t so lucky, which is really tragic.

The shows are bad enough, and then half the ads (at least when I used to watch with my family) are for gold, survivalist gear, doomsday shelters, etc. It’s an entire media ecosystem built on fostering and harvesting paranoia.

Unbiased? No, MSNBC has a clear left-leaning perspective and I’d never argue to the contrary. Fact-based? Yes, I’d argue that’s pretty clearly the case, but it also misses my point. My issue with Fox News is not that it is right-leaning, it’s the manner in which its stories are presented. The network’s worldview is…