Saturday, May 22, 2021

Reading archive 2021-05-22

Trump is sliding toward online irrelevance. His new blog isn’t helping.: The former president’s aides said his new online presence would ‘redefine the game.’ But his heavily promoted blog is seeing few visitors.

Opinion: Greed is destroying forests and the environment in Northern Virginia

America’s rich people could have saved local journalism — and perhaps democracy. They refused. - "'Chicago’s wealthy class failed the city by refusing to rescue the Chicago Tribune from a hedge fund,' wrote Mark Jacob, a former Tribune editor. 'A newspaper is both a watchdog and a binding agent. The weaker the media, the more inequitable a city is allowed to be. Rich Chicagoans sent a signal that they do not care.'

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"'We’re slowly replacing a functional press with PR spam, hedge fund dudebros, trolling substack opinion columnists, foreign and domestic disinformation, brand-slathered teen influencers, and hugely consolidated dumpster fires like Sinclair Broadcasting,' tweeted the tech journalist Karl Bode, as news of the vote circulated online."

Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back. - "'Ted Cruz is obviously sharing this video that I’ve seen bouncing around some of the most violent and anti-American Telegram accounts that I monitor,' he said. 'It just struck me as odd.'

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