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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The Washington Post, NY Times and L.A. Times are some of the few organizations that foresaw the move to digital and are very profitable, while local newspapers laughed at anyone who told them in the 90’s and 2000’s that they needed to adapt, and those local papers are now disappearing (while still maintaining that the ‘internet is a trend and not real publishing’).

    So, the smart business moves of the Post makes them one of the existing news media companies employing actual journalists that is making money. They can pay their staff accordingly to maintain that position.


  • Every time there’s a bunch of commenters talking about how little they like Biden (or his administration) for ‘not doing enough’, I know:

    • that person almost certainly does not actually vote
    • that person does not pay attention to politics, they just repeat what they’ve seen on social media, which is their own echo chamber.

    How do I know they don’t vote? Because they are too lazy to even be up to date via Google on the political opinions they post - they certainly aren’t going to bother to actually leave their house and vote.

    That said, the Biden administration might do well to be more bombastic with their statements about their successes. I don’t love the idea that the merit of a success would need to be ‘sold’, but you have the GOP screaming idiot things all over the media sphere every single day, and that has to be competed with.