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Wow.  No one has started such a thread yet?

After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

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10 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/12/15/medias-democratic-ties/953930001/

and this is 5 years old.

Yeah... that's an old and somewhat agitated opinion. Thanks for the source.  

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6 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Yeah... that's an old and somewhat agitated opinion. Thanks for the source.  

I think the point that if a former staffer becomes a reporter it is hard for them to turn off the bias might be a valid one.  WaPo is frequently the target of the right for their bias.

It is my opinion that former staffers in media aren't really a huge problem and have much control over the media.  It's really a lame point to make.

 

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11 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Yikes. Isn't this a thread about the current administration? I would expect a slightly more relevant source to feed your current remark. 

How many Obama people are working in the Biden administration?

11 hours ago, Tweety said:

I think the point that if a former staffer becomes a reporter it is hard for them to turn off the bias might be a valid one.  WaPo is frequently the target of the right for their bias.

It is my opinion that former staffers in media aren't really a huge problem and have much control over the media.  It's really a lame point to make.

 

Is it any lamer that denigrating Clarence Thomas because of his wife?

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20 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

How many Obama people are working in the Biden administration?

Is it any lamer that denigrating Clarence Thomas because of his wife?

I don't know the answer to the first question but it's a moot point because if they are working in the Biden Administration they are not Democrat operatives working in the press.

I wouldn't find it unusual for Biden to have staff from the Obama-Biden administration.  Obama hired a bunch of people from the Clinton Administration.  Prior experience is a valuable asset.  So?

The second statement above is a deflection not worthy of my attention.

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15 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I don't know the answer to the first question but it's a moot point because if they are working in the Biden Administration they are not Democrat operatives working in the press.

I wouldn't find it unusual for Biden to have staff from the Obama-Biden administration.  Obama hired a bunch of people from the Clinton Administration.  Prior experience is a valuable asset.  So?

The second statement above is a deflection not worthy of my attention.

The poin is many staffers in Democratic admins have spouses in the press or possible conflicts of interest in other areas such as lobbying etc.  it’s not deflection when the left denigrates Thomas because of his wife’s interests

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26 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

The poin is many staffers in Democratic admins have spouses in the press or possible conflicts of interest in other areas such as lobbying etc.  it’s not deflection when the left denigrates Thomas because of his wife’s interests

You're just playing the "liberal hypocrisy" card and I'm not biting.

I honestly didn't know that "many staffers" in the Biden administration have spouses in the press and that this is somehow presenting a problem or conflict of interest in 2022.   I don't believe it is.  I can understand that having a spouse in the Biden administration would cause some bias in reporting.  But again, I'm not sure it's a big problem. 

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2 hours ago, MaybeeRN said:

How many Obama people are working in the Biden administration?

Is it any lamer that denigrating Clarence Thomas because of his wife?

Tell us how many you believe are working in this administration and why you find that troubling.

Yeah... it's much lamer than pointing out that Thomas's wife is a right wing political cult member.

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2 hours ago, Tweety said:

You're just playing the "liberal hypocrisy" card and I'm not biting.

I honestly didn't know that "many staffers" in the Biden administration have spouses in the press and that this is somehow presenting a problem or conflict of interest in 2022.   I don't believe it is.  I can understand that having a spouse in the Biden administration would cause some bias in reporting.  But again, I'm not sure it's a big problem. 

Not playing anything.  Simply pointing it out.  

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8 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Tell us how many you believe are working in this administration and why you find that troubling.

Yeah... it's much lamer than pointing out that Thomas's wife is a right wing political cult member.

Nothing wrong with working for this administration but how many are married to members of the media or people who will look to benefit from it?  The liberal suburbs around DC are the wealthiest in the nation.

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5 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

Not playing anything.  Simply pointing it out.  

Pointing out your unsourced opinion that,  coincidentally,, sounds exactly like right wing political hyperbole without much in the form of factual basis... it gets the targeted audience riled up though.  

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5 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:

Nothing wrong with working for this administration but how many are married to members of the media or people who will look to benefit from it?  The liberal suburbs around DC are the wealthiest in the nation.

Since you are alarmed about this subject, mentioning it repeatedly, why don't you try providing some factual information about who is engaged in what nefarious behavior in which media outlets. In the absence of any factual context it simply sounds like your right wing media has you agitated about something that you are unable to describe or explain with any specificity. 

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