Post #1345320
2023-02-18 01:27 UTC
Replies (25)
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@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca 2023-02-18 05:20
@chandlerc Right on the nose…
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@CWilbur@sfba.social 2023-02-18 06:15
@chandlerc I’m not religious in any way, but sweet jesus…
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@Seruko@mstdn.social 2023-02-18 06:21
@chandlerc trans panic wasn't a national thing until like one day in the early oughts. Terrifying to see a ginned up moral crusade slowly take-up momentum day after day. I grew up in a red state. Literally no one gave a fuck. One day the monster will turn it's gaze on my children. What started out as the transparently absurd has become fucks in Ohio demanding their daughters be sexually assaulted prior to participating in sports. Jesus fucking wept. The banal horror. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ohio-lawmakers-advance-trans-sports-ban-with-genital-check-2022-06-03/
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@the_Effekt@universeodon.com 2023-02-18 06:25
@chandlerc I read it and loved it. The Onion is ingenious as always. I'll be going to bed fairly soon so I can dream of genitals.
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@BruceMirken@mas.to 2023-02-18 07:45
@chandlerc When the most meaningful news comes from The Onion and The Daily Show, something is deeply wrong with our media system.
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@harald@hub.volse.no 2023-02-18 08:33
@Chandler Carruth That was brilliant!
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@elizabethveldon@mastodon.scot 2023-02-18 10:11
@chandlerc i thought their recent court papers where as good as at could possibly get but then this comes along and knocks it out of the park yet again.
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@YusufToropov@toot.community 2023-02-18 11:36
@chandlerc Key excerpt: "We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions."
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@0xC01DC0FFEE@bytearray.eu 2023-02-18 12:18
@chandlerc damn, someone is (rightfully) pissed about this
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@scootersim@techhub.social 2023-02-18 13:04
@chandlerc I had actually forgotten how funny The Onion can sometimes be.
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@dutchiegirlie@mastodon.social 2023-02-18 13:06
@chandlerc Great piece. From fabulists like Salena Zito to "just asking!" scum like Tucker Carlson, this propaganda needs to be called out for what it is
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@PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social 2023-02-18 15:09
@chandlerc Fabulous and 💯 spot-on. Skeptical that MSM will get it, tho.
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@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io 2023-02-18 16:05
@chandlerc > It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals. fucking. excellent.
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@KarynDoc@mstdn.party 2023-02-18 17:14
@chandlerc The Onion is now joining #lastweektonight as a crossover between humor and actual news. Good.
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@RobBurke@masto.ai 2023-02-18 17:26
@chandlerc Brilliant.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2023-02-18 18:43
@chandlerc Yes, all of this. Remarkable.
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@modimo@hachyderm.io 2023-02-18 19:10
@chandlerc Brilliant article! So piercing but also so succinct, this is what award-winning journalism looks like. Freedom of the press: freedom to completely ignore NYT and find people who give a damn and are supported by people up top
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@ClassicsReader@mastodon.social 2023-02-18 20:32
@chandlerc
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@mverant@writing.exchange 2023-02-18 21:00
@chandlerc That is a viciously excellent piece
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@susanna@bookstodon.com 2023-02-18 22:22
@chandlerc Wow. Just, wow.
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@jonmasters@jonmasters.social 2023-02-18 22:45
@chandlerc 👆this
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@Lizbon@writing.exchange 2023-02-18 22:59
@chandlerc This is amazing. I always love the Onion, but they’ve achieved a whole level.
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@grammasaurus@mastodon.social 2023-02-18 23:01
@chandlerc I dunno, I think The Onion lifted this part from Murdoch’s mission statement: “Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions.”
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@FinalOverdrive@kolektiva.social 2023-02-19 21:31
@chandlerc It drops some of the absurdism while engaging in parody.
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@niftyjames@mastodon.world 2023-02-19 22:25
@chandlerc it really struck me too. 🙌