Re: NYT and the non-subject

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> writes:

I personally decided I'm going to avoid political discussion for a
while, take a break.  There's more to life than just a single news story
these days.

Good idea. Barring some unpredicted development, there's going to be
two months of untethered punditry.

But, not if you're a news site, apparently!  My RSS reader shows that on
the NYTimes newsfeed, 12 of 28 articles currently on deck are about the
president-elect.  If I filtered, nearly half the feed would disappear.
 
Don't let them fool you: the mainstream news is thrilled they have a
chance to sell papers via outrage.  They did great the last time around.

The *threat* of government, financial and political chaos will fill
many, many columns.  The actual TEOTWAWKI in January will provide even
more thrilling fodder.  Nothing like the complete collapse of
civilization and the Westphalian international order for great
headlines.

Me, I'm going to turn my attention to other things for a while.

My firewood is all in.  I'm planting next year's garlic this week.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada