Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

that would be two jobs.

silby you always equate “journalism” with corporate news as if that’s the only way

Local news is excellent at getting my mom to text me every time there's a crime within 10 miles of her house.

“Crime is fine” is my message to the local news watchers of America

Gonna run for mayor on a “crime is fine” platform

i am nearing the end of the ps4 spiderman game and am kind of annoyed at the way they portray cconvicted riminals that broke out of jail overtaking the city!

Ok but re: "crime is fine": Yeah there are a lot of crimes that are totally harmless. And a bunch more that are actively fun.

Even the crimes that aren't exactly fine? well... most of them are VASTLY less bad than the gigantic systemic injustices that keep the downtrodden where they are.

But I digress. Rosalind Russell looked simply smashing in a pinstripe suit and Cary Grant's offhand phone manner should serve as a model to all of us, not matter our walk of life.

Don't get me started on Robert Redford wearing a bad 70s necktie.

Obama didn't seem to get hammered toward the center, he was always there.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, March 2, 2020 9:12 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

are you sure there isn't a chuck tingle book about this

individually mandate THIS

no shit, a city? what a paucity of ambition.

are you sure there isn't a chuck tingle book about this

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, March 2, 2020

But there ARE Dennis Perrin and Adam Johnson tweets.

the valorization of journalism is really more accurately the valorization of newspapers, which are rapidly ceasing to exist

Well, yeah

just that it was never really valorizing the likes of MSNBC (or most broadcast journalism, cronkite excepted)

I dunno, there are a lot of people who saw Clooney’s Edward R Murrow movie and started worshipping it. Plus The Newsroom for people who couldn’t get enough Sorkin.

White knighting of journalists was around long before that flick.

As well as distrust of the press

Lest we forget "Broadcast News," which made at least some nerd guys think they might kinda have even a platonic flirtation with Holly Hunter (and that that was, in sone cosmic sense, enough to justify the whole enterprise).

Disclosure: I may be a trifle overinvested in this topic

And should probably shut up now and go to bed

Final thought: my wife is a journalist and she was heavily influenced by the Reeve Suoerman movie where he looks at her underwear and then takes her flying.

Basically the cinema has not done a good job of presenting us with accurate information models of the workaday details of journalism as a profession.

As an actual current working journalist (just filed my second story of the day, hey) I agree that a whole lot of the Heroic Journalist Guardian of Liberty stuff is dumb. I do think it's important work, and done well it can contribute to a more informed polis, but it has always had abundant flaws and foibles, failures of perspective and imagination, and an overall tendency to defer to the status quo at any given point.

Nobody has ever asked to look at my underwear, though.

Superman didn't exactly *ask*

I do think it's important work, and done well it can to a more informed polis

Plus hats. Don't forget the hats.

If there weren't local journalists sitting in on all the sessions and hearings at the state capitol I wouldn't have any idea what was going on there, which would be bad. That work is not exactly glamorous but I'm sure glad there are still people getting paid to do it.

You wanna talk not glamorous, how about you're 4 hours into a County Commission meeting and ready to go home and some damn neighborhood group shows up to fight with some damn developer and the prospect of ever getting out of there starts to feel increasingly remote ...

My journalism hopes were dashed in high school when a friend a few years older graduated early from USC and came back to take his first job as a professional... driving around BFE covering high school football games.

And you can’t even get that job anymore!

so will Warren endorse Sanders or Biden if she drops out in a few weeks?

yes

It's pretty leftwing brain worms even to ask the question, imo.

Good luck (chunk of) usa

so will Warren endorse Sanders or Biden if she drops out in a few weeks?

― akm

I mean maybe, but he consistently calls for things fails to get done and consistently opposes things he fails to stop so who knows

and thats over a 30 year period!

Let go and let God IIRC

I'm just the messenger dont shoot me!

Voted, got the sticker.

Now imma stay drunk till late October thxbye

no need to valorize Cronkite, he was a mouthpiece for the Man most of the time

(ie the kind of guy Chris Matthews gets teary over)

she will endorse Biden and it’s going to be hilarious

and here’s why

One weird trick to winning the Democratic nomination - doctors hate IT!

Humongous shift towards Biden these last few days

Here's the shift in the Sanders/Biden margin Data for Progress data from now compared to post-NV: CO +24 S to +14 S, NC: +2 S to +9 B, TX: +9 S to +2 B, VA: +9 S to +15 B (!)... Average shift +14 B... That is NUTS. (1/?)

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) March 3, 2020

Just lmao at this idiot country

Here’s the poll itself

Super Tuesday Polls:
CA: Sanders +7
TX: Biden +2
NC: Biden +9
VA: Biden +15
MA: Warren +2
MN: Sanders +5
CO: Sanders +11
TN: Biden +7
AL: Biden +25
AR: Biden +13
OK: Biden +7
UT: Sanders +6
VT: Sanders +41
Conducted last ~5 days via text to web.https://t.co/6Oa8kA3ala

— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) March 3, 2020

Apparently it’s weighted heavily towards 45+ voters so hopefully a bit misleading, but guys like Nate Silver are taking it seriously so

you quite literally hate to see it

Is this such a surprise? Biden always led in the South.

Remember that Bloomberg’s entire role in this race was not to win, but to run commercials against Bernie without any financial or regulatory constraint. The last month has seen the US imperial oligarchy pool its power and resources in an all-out campaign to crush the left. /1

— Dan Kervick (@DanMKervick) March 3, 2020

15 point swing towards Biden is def a surprise

This is totally going to come down to a vote for senility or senility, isn't it. Fucking isn't it.

fuck this dumb country man

A 77-year-old vs. a 73-year-old, both in a state of rapid mental decline, but only one will lead our country for a minimum of four befuddled years. Who will it be? Who will oh look a rabbit, hi there bunny rabbit, will you be my

xp -- I was talking to a relative in one of the super tuesday states about bloomberg and pointing out that if they disliked biden's handsiness (which they did) then wait until they saw bloomberg's long string of NDAs and harassment settlements; they'd genuinely never heard of them

stop doomposting pls xps