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A self-satirizing op-ed about South Park, the most unserious program on TV for decades?
This is what your paper thinks is interesting and newsworthy? Wouldn't you rather just watch the episode?
I'm trying to picture someone like, say Douglas Murray, writing an op-ed about something featured in the Babylon Bee.
Maureen Dowd is just plain awful.
A critic once wrote:
“The thing that always strikes me when I read a Maureen Dowd column isn't necessarily that her opinions are bad -- which they are -- but that she's extremely bad at writing op-eds. They read like stream-of-consciousness summaries of stale news with a tiny dose of opinion injected in. They're not persuasive essays that stick to a coherent thesis.”
Wrong. But even if you don’t care for the author, think about a President extorting a network.
Like a mob boss, Trump held up Paramount’s $8 billion sale until CBS paid out $16 million for the 60 Minutes interview and filed Colbert for being critical of Trump.
Presumably, you approve of a US President using his authority to commit extortion.
Facts not in evidence, counselor. Just wild conjecture.
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Wrong again.
From the piece:
Last week, Colbert scorched Paramount, CBS’s parent company, for caving to Trump with a $16 million settlement over his “60 Minutes” lawsuit, hoping to get the Federal Communications Commission to favor its merger with Skydance.
“I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles,” the comedian said. “It’s big, fat bribe.”
A few days later, news broke that CBS, which has cratered from the Tiffany network to the Trump-fealty network, had canceled the top-rated broadcast show for financial reasons. But who can believe that’s the whole story? If it were just about money, there were a lot of better ways to handle Colbert, a big talent and valuable brand. CBS could have cut costs, or it could have transitioned him over the next five years into some combination of streaming or podcasting within the Paramount family.
Announcing that he was being dumped right after he criticized CBS reeked of censorship. Certainly, King Trump celebrated, crowing on Truth Social: “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired.” He even added: “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.” The F.C.C. chairman, Brendan Carr, said that “The View” — airing on ABC, which also caved to Trump, paying a whopping $15 million for George Stephanopoulos’s misspeaking — might be in the administration’s cross hairs.
“Once President Trump has exposed these media gatekeepers and smashed this facade, there’s a lot of consequences,” Carr said, ominously.
CBS is, as Colbert said, “morally bankrupt.” It’s sickening to see media outlets, universities, law firms and tech companies bending the knee. (Hang tough, Rupert!)
Kudos for trying to instill reason into a man of many Usernames who runs from his own shadow.
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You act as if her conjecture is gospel. It’s not.
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It is not conjecture.
She’s an op ed writer. Not an investigative reporter.
It’s an opinion. Not an indictment.
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Disagree with her all you like, but to claim she can’t write is just idiotic
No matter what some Internet douche says.
No, professor. It is not idiotic. Your name calling is.
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