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Reporting is Dead, Long Live Rating

May 23, 2023 by Maria Kondorskaya

Reporting and journalism have been dead for a long time now. It’s even banal to say that, but I need to start this post somewhere. And their demise is actually old news. It didn’t happen yesterday or with the advent of the Internet. Nope.  It happened when news in general became a daily expectation marketed … Read more

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Amazon Goes Full Boomer

April 12, 2021March 30, 2021 by Ian Kummer

This week there is a potentially historic vote to determine whether or not an Alabama Amazon facility will unionize. Jeff Bezos is reportedly furious and his executives are flooding Twitter with weird, cringe posts. Okay, Boomer.

Categories Commentaries, Ian Michael, News Tags Amazon, Capitalism, Communism, Jeff Bezos, Labor, propaganda, Social Media, Unions Leave a comment
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