Nothing typifies modern “journalism” better than this attempt to answer the rhetorical question, “Why are people glad that Facebook stock belly-flopped?” If we’re going to answer that, how about, “Because it turns out a guy who can write computer code might not have any other useful skills for running a gigantic corporation in an ethical manner?”
Better late than never, but Facebook has suspended fuckwit-magnet Alex Jones.
Better late than never, but CBS is looking into decades of allegations of sexual harassment by head honcho Les Moonves, an investigation prompted by yet another Ronan Farrow story in The New Yorker. Remember when people feared seeing Mike Wallace at their doorstep? In that regard, Farrow is the new Mike Wallace.
Try to bring up the possibility that Russian hackers didn’t just break into voting systems to see if they could, that maybe they actually altered vote totals, and you’ll be dismissed as a dreaded Conspiracy Theorist. But the hacking of the systems isn’t just a theory, it’s been confirmed, which demands the question: Why would they stop there? Sir William of Ockham isn’t always right, but he’d scratch his head at the idea that they wouldn’t even try.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who saw nothing, nothing while his Ohio State wrestlers were (ahem) manhandled by the team doctor, flopped bigly with his attempt to impeach Rod Rosenstein, so he’s trying another gambit to get the homo stuff out of the headlines: He says he’s running for Speaker of the House, which is laughable consider his Freedom Caucus controls only a few dozen votes. But White House senior adviser Sean Hannity endorses him, so he’s got that going for him.