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Licht was fired from his role running CNN because his strategy was an incoherent mess, and was yielding bad ratings. His town hall with Trump was a journalist mess and emblematic of the larger strategy, even though it got high ratings. The reasons why Licht was fired are detailed at length in the Atlantic article that gave a rich history of his mismanagement, and which directly led to his firing days later. Key features of the saga -- competition between media outlets, efforts to move CNN to the right to please a rich owner -- contradict the silly things Sebby was saying about the media.

eta: It is true that Licht fired people at CNN, including people left-of-center, and it is true that this was mentioned in the Atlantic article. And the article got him fired. Saying that the former was the primary cause of the latter is silly.

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I have no idea who the "mainstream media" are or what that phrase means. MSNBC isn't mainstream, it's solidly left leaning, just as Fox is right leaning. I don't think there is a cable channel that doesn't have some alignment.

Maybe the NYT or Washington Post might qualify, but the left has as many beefs with them or more than the right. Certainly the NY Times editorial page, with people like Brooks, Douhat and Dowd, and the front page, with politics dominated by the likes of Maggie "her emails" and Peter "normalize Trump" Baker are dominated by right wingers, even if they (occasionally) try to be more subtle about it than fox. And don't get me started on the WSJ.

On line, the Cambridge Analytica and Russian operations made sure social media has had enormous organized right wing slants and if you go look at news feeds on facebook and other social media sites you'll see a propensity for "national enquirer" style coverage.

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Also, thanks for the laugh.

It's really pretty clear by now that most of the people who call themselves libertarians are just white assholes with testosterone imbalances who just want to be able to yell "nigger", "fag" and "cunt" at people (see, eg, Musk and Volokh).

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Maggie and Peter aren't right wingers. They are just terminally "both sides" because they think that is what objective means (it does not).

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You forget about their desire to fuck children.

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You can't spend eight years building up Trump without crossing to the dark side.

Maggie may posture as a hip Manhattanite, but she's pure outer borough wingnut. I should know, I've got plenty of them in the fam.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/busin...ts/index.html:

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That's simply not true, or even defensible.

In regard to freedom of speech, libertarians do not argue for the right to use slurs without consequence. They are argue for the right to use slurs, and then they argue for the right of people who'll deliver consequences for such slurs to do so. Libertarians are some of the staunchest defenders of the principle that platforms can do as they like to people who choose to post on them. Cancellation is just the market doing what the market wants to do.

It's right wingers who want the right to use slurs and face no consequences.

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You got a Venn Diagram of NAMBLA and Libertarians you're hiding?

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I side with Israel 100% here because what Hamas did is not war. It's ISIS level shit and cannot be argued to be anything close to accepted conduct of war under Geneva Conventions.

But... Maybe it's a bit extreme and counterproductive to "punish" people for wrong think. Maybe the better idea is to make the clueless little darlings debate their position against some actually well lettered experts on Israel and Palestine.

Sunlight remains the best disinfectant.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Need to cleanse the colon at the end.

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I side with Israel 100% because they're an ally.

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In a lot of ways, neither of those things really exists.

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Can we at least be at least a little uncomfortable about bombing civilians who are essentially trapped in an open air prison?

There are victims of Hamas on both sides of the border.

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So where do we find these mythical libertarians? Because the ones that keep getting in my face don't fit your description.