In what alternative universe does your brain exist in where assassination attempts on half a dozen political figures is not considered a major news story?
Once again the press gets gamed, giving saturation coverage and agonized commentary to a minor event. It's not major news that a country of 325m has a few malicious jerks who (correctly) anticipate 15 minutes of notoriety with a vindictive stunt.https://nyti.ms/2JdYhmQ
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Assassination attempts on former presidents or a Brown sophmore yelling at Sam Harris - what's more newsworthy?
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Clearly the latter because it shows University students are against the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment means ethics in video game journalism
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If you have not read it, Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Ethics of the Laws of Gaming Journalism" is an essential text (read it in French if possible).
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Good but incomplete since he completely omits the Legend of Zelda series in his examination.
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He discusses L of Z in the original French! That's why I mentioned it. I learned French last week just so I could read it.
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I get that your whole shtick is to be a Panglossian apologist for quotidian structural violence, but joining Trump this morning by effectively blaming "the press" for assassination attempts on journalists kind of gives the game away don't you think
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I don’t know what many of these words mean but that did not detract from my enjoyment of this tweet.
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First of all, check that the time series is not accelerating. Second, it is a fair criticism that people who thought asking someone to leave a restaurant was a great breakdown in civility are now utterly bored by actual bombs.
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The irony right?
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Oh the agony of the appearance of a questioning constituent while dining in a public facility. It's unbearable compared to a bomb sent to your home.
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I mean the bomb didn't even go off, it's basically just junk mail. <sarcasm>
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And the trauma the receivers felt is fake. Also *sarcasm*
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Peven Stinker
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How about Semen Inker and he uses a quill dipped in cum
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Give it a break, Steve. This really makes you look like an ass.
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Imagine trying to play down and diminish the threat of murder attempts.
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Unfortunately we don't have to imagine it. This ding-dong has just done it.
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imagine downplaying attempted political assassination after panicking and publishing several articles about the "illiberal left" because a few lousy speakers were disinvited from speaking on a college campus or two
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