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  • Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
    To each his own. For me, it blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The internet already does that, and it's easier to access. Why would traditional journalism, whose sole claim to relevancy in this current climate is legitimacy, do something to damage that?
    Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.
    When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

    --Jonathan Swift

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    • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
      Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.
      At the very least, you all should reserve judgment until after Sunday, April 9, 2017. For all you know, this is the exact page they will run and it will be Johnny-on-the-spot. That would do wonders for the paper's credibility, I would think.
      Last edited by All-American; 04-11-2016, 10:13 AM.
      τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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      • The Hillary and Bernie TV ad saturation has started in NY.

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        • Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
          To each his own. For me, it blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The internet already does that, and it's easier to access. Why would traditional journalism, whose sole claim to relevancy in this current climate is legitimacy, do something to damage that?

          I like what the Globe did compared to what other newspapers do and write up some boring endorsement of a candidate. The Globe's anti-endorsement of Drumpf has a lot of entertainment value... and thanks to the internet I don't even have to spend $0.50 and kill a tree to read it!

          https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...front-page.pdf

          Thanks Al Gore!
          Last edited by Uncle Ted; 04-10-2016, 09:34 PM.
          "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
          "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
          "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
            Grow up or get over yourself. It says right on the front it's April 2017. There's nothing even slightly ethically ambiguous about this.
            Who said anything about ethics? That wasn't unethical; it was just stupid. The Globe and every other paper is struggling to maintain legitimacy as news organizations. For years they have been claiming that journalism is a profession, and that most Internet reporters and bloggers cannot be trusted to give unbiased reporting. If that's true, they should be held to a higher standard. Their faux Trump headlines did not meet that standard.
            "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
            "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
            - SeattleUte

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            • Originally posted by SeattleUte View Post
              Grow up or get over yourself.
              The funniest thing in this thread is you telling someone to get over himself. Physician, heal thyself.
              PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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              • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                There is precedent for opinion on the front page, even cartoons. I think the globe is trying to sell papers. That's why they did that.
                Obviously thy are trying to sell papers. But that is the point. Rather than maintain even a veneer of being serious journalists, of being the type of organization who brings a weighty and critical analysis of issues to the paper, they have devolved to become a lukewarm mimic of the Onion. The Boston Globe should not be a bad example of the National Lampoon.
                PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                • Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.
                  "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                  "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                  "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                  • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                    Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.
                    lol
                    Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                    For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

                    Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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                    • If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:


                      Two of Trump's Kids Missed NY Registration Deadline, Can't Vote for Dad

                      Donald Trump has a big lead in polling in his home state of New York, but he won't be getting the votes of two of his biggest advocates there: His kids.


                      Trump conceded Monday that two of his children - Eric and Ivanka Trump - failed to register as Republicans in the state in time to be eligible to vote for him in New York's April 19 primary.


                      "They were unaware of the rules and they didn't register in time," Trump said on Fox News. "So they feel very, very guilty. They feel very guilty but it's fine."


                      The deadline for new voters to register to vote in New York's closed primary was March 25, and the deadline to change party affiliation was back in October.


                      "Eric and Ivanka, I guess, won't be voting," Trump said.


                      Trump's campaign has been plagued in recent weeks by poor organization in local and state-level Republican conventions, where delegates to the Republican National Convention are selected.


                      In several states over the weekend, the delegates chosen at the party gatherings were Ted Cruz's loyalists, who could support the Texas senator on the convention floor if the nomination race goes to a second ballot.
                      http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991
                      "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                      "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                      "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                      GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                      • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                        If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



                        http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991
                        Wow, this is bad. I made sure as part of my kids turning 18, we immediately went and registered them as republicans. As organized and successful man as Trump is, I would have thought he would have done the same thing.
                        Last edited by byu71; 04-11-2016, 07:45 AM.

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                        • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                          Meh. Newspapers are dying. I don't blame them for resorting to a few gimmicks.
                          I think it's great--nothing like demonstrating the reduction ad absurdum of these dishonest populist promises to expose them as absurd and disingenuous. But now they need to do one for BS.
                          When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                          --Jonathan Swift

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                          • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                            If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



                            http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991
                            Don Jr's inheritance plan coming together nicely.
                            Get confident, stupid
                            -landpoke

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                            • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                              If Drumpf supporters are like his kids then Kasich or Cruz may actually win his home state... what a bunch of dummies:



                              http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016...-can-t-n553991
                              You don't have to re-register in NY unless you have not voted in two consecutive federal elections. Eric and Ivanka Trump share your views, non-voters of the board.

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                              • Originally posted by Omaha 680 View Post
                                You don't have to re-register in NY unless you have not voted in two consecutive federal elections. Eric and Ivanka Trump share your views, non-voters of the board.
                                They were already registered to vote. They just didn't meet the October 2015 deadline to change their registration from non-affiliated with a party to republican. This may end up costing Trump quite a few votes in that a lot of his voters haven't been republicans before and probably missed that October deadline also.

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