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🤔 And I just read about this on Bluesky, where 18 percent of the sports discourse concerns the Mets.

A huge problem in America is tgat so many of our journalists and policymakers now come from Ivy or near-Ivy elite backgrounds and live in elite enclaves. That fosters a lot of “empathy” for the malefactors of wealth.

What percent live in Manhattan?

I love how they have real world experience- ya know, from a condo in Tribeca

it turns out newsprint paper was not the best vector for relaying information in a timely manner

but for a brief beautiful moment, all the cops could play candy crush on the job all day

think of all the things you can't do without a smartphone though. it was impossible to buy goods and services, or drive anywhere. couldn't be done

better yet here's a gift link www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

i been saying

I am sure a lot think they are not the elite of the survivors, when most (not all) are just the ones that knuckled under and complied the most.

I'm one of the casualties. Left my then mid-circulation daily, which was owned by E.W. Scripps after I watched Rich Boehne announce the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News live from our newsroom. If anything was a harbinger of things to come, was the death of small town newspapers. 😔

A byproduct of the Times being basically the last newspaper around

The majority of newspaper writers in America should not be given the dignity of being called journalists.

I assume it's not because there are more journalists in NYC now, just fewer across the country.

The day is not far off when every American broadsheet decides to write "Eyy! I'm Typesettin' Here!" on the cover

[chuckling nervously from richmond] yeah... yeah...

This is one where it might also be useful to see absolutely numbers. It is sadly likely that a lot of this is due to a drop in newspaper staffing elsewhere.