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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

Does that mean the other mediocre white guys won't be able to find him?

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

The mental picture of the fourth floor bathroom you painted made me chuckle. I can even see Lemon's expression while he tries to will his pee to flow faster.

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Cripes's avatar

Can't wait to see the think-pieces: "Cillizza Fired; Dems in Disarray!"

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DDB9000's avatar

"Gannett continues to drop reporters all through its chain."What reporters?

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Viole Falusche's avatar

"In a just universe, Cillizza would be fired for his breathtaking mediocrity, (...)"Wouldn't Cillizza have to improve quite a bit, to achieve mediocrity?

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DDB9000's avatar

I am in a similar situation althoughn I would not call myself a dinosaur. I also have only a land line and cable, and I do have two computers - one on Windows 7, the other on XP.

But the reason I do not call myself a dinosaur is because people like me are NOT going to disappear, even it all of Big Tech is trying to get rid of us in every way.And I am SURE that many of the real dinosaur are in the Senate and the House, and they have have fancy equipment but know less how to actually use them than I do.

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runfastandwin's avatar

The British term is redundancy. Which is accurate, a lot of jobs get consolidated in mergers.

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DDB9000's avatar

I think you are not giving Rachel any credit. First of all this is not the first podacast she has done. I am pretty sure that she did at least 2 while her show was on 5 days a week.Also, why would she not introduce her replacement Tuesday- Friday?

She had been telegraphing for a while that she didn't want to do a 5 nights a week show so I don't see what the big deal is here.

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NewLarry's avatar

Yes, but they have "staff".

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Ann Linderman's avatar

Martin Savidge was also canned. Haven't watched much CNN for a long while, but he always struck me as quite good.

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Ann Linderman's avatar

I've been canned four times at Christmas, twice the week before (one of those at 2 p.m. on Christmas Eve) and twice the week immediately after. I wasn't all that fond of the holidays to begin with.

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Sleepmonger's avatar

I can't help but think he and some of the others were fired for not being conservative enough, now that CNN is aiming to be the NewFoxNews. No room for this bothsiderism shit at the reoriented CNN.

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gingerwentworth's avatar

He was so good because there was that small quiver in his voice that made it seem as if he minded that kind youg women were getting murdered. At least that's what I thought about him. That woman Paula Zahn also seemed upset when she described the grotesque events in her crime show. Otherwise it's hard to know whether these people remember what it's all about.

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gingerwentworth's avatar

My children made me (encouraged me) to stop watching MSNBC bc it was sensationalized to make me the most angry. So I stopped. I just read 3 big papers now. I suppose I'm better. (more normal).

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

So was “sarcasm”.

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