EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

surprised how frivolous theyve gone w a lot of their stuff

almost like theyre making fun of themselves

might as well put this here

http://www.nytimes.com/upshot/

― goole, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:42 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems way better than 538

can they have a vlog where a youth explains things to me? it'd be more honest and you'd understand the narrative bias instead of this run-around they're trying

https://twitter.com/alex_abads/media

makes u think

surprised how frivolous theyve gone w a lot of their stuff

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost like theyre making fun of themselves

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Silver barks into conference call phone: "we want smart buzzfeed readers"

disappointed that felix salmon is leaving reuters for some new bullshit thats 'post-text'

post-text is the worst buzzword ive hear in a long time

sounds like some derrida shit

tbf his estimation that folks will follow him is correct imo, i know i'll go read wherever he winds up

Vox tucking sucks balls

"Post-text" just seems to mean "literally not text like videos and stuff" which isn't the revelation I ws thinking it might be

Hey remember the "hypertext" craze?

hire pareene so I don't have to look at salon anymore

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:52 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw hes goin w greenwald

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:53 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ smartest most psychic ilx poster

close enough!

bullseye

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/03/stat-happy-news-ignores-journalism-s-need-for-narrative.html

i think there is room for legitimate criticism of "data journalism" being written primarily by people who can't write, but this ain't it

http://i.imgur.com/4df05Jx.png

interesting choice of words

idgi

nobody blogs anymore people storystream their livejournals

lj drama

wtf

http://i.imgur.com/c3obU8M.png

lol

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447

http://i.imgur.com/dcP9XfR.jpg

welcome to the world baby blogger

lol

tbh i love matt yglesias

http://gawker.com/please-stop-showing-your-thumbs-on-social-media-1674295275

Overall, the thumb is round and stumpy, as if at one point in Yglesias's life it was mechanically compacted. It is openly unpleasant.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_10/are_democrats_complacent_going058182.php

excerpt:

After reading Matt Yglesias’ cri de coeur against “complacent” Democrats who don’t seem to be aware the Donkey Party is a presidential loss away from a total conservative makeover of the country, my basic reaction is that Matt needs to get out more. The whole premise of his Vox piece is that Democrats either don’t know or don’t care that they are at a historic disadvantage at the state government level and have little chance of—or a “plan” for—regaining control of the U.S. House, either. The Democrats I talk to seem pretty aware of the situation, if perhaps too sanguine about their long-term prospects (thanks to faith in demographics or doubt that the craziness rampant in the GOP will enable that party to pull of a trifecta).

But aside from Matt’s questionable assessment of Democratic self-knowledge, his hypothesis also suffers a bit from the assumption that the party’s downballot problems can be dispelled by more effort or some undefined “plan.”

the yglesias post that is replying to is a banger IMO

The GOP might be in chaos, but Democrats are in a torpor.

http://i.imgur.com/dvoWIpH.gif

ezra koenig

matt le blanc

I don't know if things are as bleak as Yglasias thinks, but it's at least a strong corrective to the endless stream of articles predicting the impending collapse of the GOP. So long as they hold congress, the supreme Court and lots of state offices, it seems just a tiny bit myopic to call them dead.

feel like ezra is a more likable and otm but matt is a deeper thinker so i dunno

― ice cr?m, Monday, January 3, 2011 12:43 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically. i don't have much use for hayes either. vox turns out some interesting stuff here and there, though.

@ezraklein
Hot fire from @mattyglesias: https://t.co/PjUZ81wDvM https://t.co/YZGNKz0tCk

hot fire yall

http://i.imgur.com/vucM0pm.png

there

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrsQ-QMUEAAuuXm.jpg

one of my favourite things on twitter is when u can tell ppl are mad at somthing matty wrote but u have yet to figure out what, just picking up the faint signal of abuse

he wrote that government transparency is bad while being wrong about how fioa works

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrsOJnzXgAA-Y5R.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Crru0kPWIAAgfWu.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrxLyi_WcAAfbyw.jpg

don't sleep on this gem:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/701785854159822848

xp- yeah i saw that tweet. was wondering what does it mean to make a record of a phone call though? like can i just write 'chatted with hilary clinton on the phone' on a post-it? the asymmetry he's talking at least practically exists if ppl are always saying 'lets talk on the phone'.

a good reminder that bloggers aren't journalists and don't know anything about journalism

yeah he made a bunch of finger painty points abt things he obvs doesnt know much abt or bothered to think through

like phone calls are bad because he doesnt like to make them, but obvs for a journalist phone calls are good cause the chance of the person youre talking to slipping up and saying something actually revealing is much higher than w an email

but then why do ppl ask yglesias to phone? if they're equally foiaable as emails and you can make someone slip up, seems more risky... idgi

btw u seen these videos of ezra explaining things and doing lots of hand gestures and scrunchy thinking face? he is p handsome imo but the videos are so bad lol

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/28/12281222/trump-clinton-conventions

prob just ppl are habituated to the phone