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Category Archives: Axios
There Is No Liberal Media
When it becomes so obvious that even Axios’ morning email thingie notices it, well… Elon Musk and allies are building a new anti-left media ecosystem almost overnight. Twitter is not in any way, shape or form The Media. Twitter is … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, Our Failed Political Press, Social Media, Twitter
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And you mugs thought I would be a bad influence on Seattle?
Axios’ Seattle edition tells us that since I moved to here, Seattle is swearing less. “Seattle nice” strikes again. Driving the news: A new survey of 30 cities finds that Seattle is one of the places where residents swear the … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, cry babies, Pop Culture
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News That Will Drive You To Drink
Happy Hour News I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but Axios —the outlet with the strange emboldening and enigmatic bullet usage— has agreed to sell to Cox Enterprises of Atlanta in a deal valued at $525 million. From their … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, Our Failed Political Press
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Our Failed Political Press ™
Axios’ morning email thingie: Engagement with news plunged during the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2021 — and in some cases has fallen below pre-pandemic levels, Axios’ Neal Rothschild and Sara Fischer write. Tell … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, media, Our Failed Political Press
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News That Will Drive You To Drink
Happy Hour News Axios Presents A Both Sides Master Class Guys, Axios tells us something we already knew, but they have their Smart Brevity ® way of telling us about it with lotsa graphs and stuff (which I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, media, Our Failed Political Press
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Pandemic is Over According To Axios, Who Knew?
Axios tells us —between coughing fits— that Americans believe that the Trump-Virus is over. Get a load of this: Less than one in 10 Americans now describe COVID-19 as a crisis — with about three in four calling it a manageable … Continue reading
Posted in Axios, media, Our Failed Political Press, Pandemics
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Moscow Mitch Boxed In By Reporter
Jonathan Swann is a great interviewer because he doesn’t let up: The best part of this exchange is that @LeaderMcConnell seems to be genuinely befuddled that one might expect him to have a moral red line. He literally can't come … Continue reading
Posted in Amply Be-Chinned #MoscowMitch McConnell, Axios, media
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Covid is Not Done With Us, and also: Both Sides!
Der Tiger Beat auf dem Potomac (thanks Charlie, with an assist from MPS Patron Saint Watertiger) leads their morning email thing with the shocking news that the Trump-Virus is still with us —who knew?— as it has super-spread from the … Continue reading
Oops: Axios Fogets To Both Sides Jan. 6 Commemoration
It’s all clicks and ratings to our Failed Political Press ™ and they couldn’t be happier as Axios breathlessly promotes that Steve Bannon and Hair Füror will bring their combined black hole, er, star power to Merde-a-Lardo to “counter-program” the … Continue reading