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Axel Springer owns Politico.

Makes sense ... German. Trumpian Nazi.

 

The Hill isn't any better.

 

Reducing Mark Cuban - an actual self-made man - to "celebrity billionaire" is pretty lame. His dad did automobile upholstery. But I guess "the billionaire who founded Cost Plus Drugs to make generic prescriptions cheaper for consumers" is too wordy.

 

God forbid a subhed not include a full biography.

Read it or don’t. What do I care? But it isn’t very difficult to sort wheat from chaff on that site.

 

speaking of messaging. This editorial ran in Eastern Oregon. Les Zaitz, who I interviewed with for a job once, is about the only person keeping that part of the state sane. He's probably responsible for a good 50 percent of all great journalism currently being done in Oregon with his various outlets around the state.
Editorial: Trump poses risk for Malheur County – Malheur Enterprise

 

Can also be cut to "the guy who Ron's the Dallas Mavericks. "

 

They don’t play on the West End of Birmingham.





This is inappropriate. But I won’t say it’s wrong.

https://www.al.com/news/2024/10/pastor-riles-up-alabamas-lt-governor-with-anti-trump-sign.html

 

Oh, now righties are upset about faith leaders getting involved in politics and want to rip their tax-exempt status? I mean, isn't the evangelical message for whites that we'll go to hell if Harris wins?

 

Don't tell me what churches are supposed to do, redneck.

 

Memo to al.com: If you're going to put quote marks around something, make it the exact words on the sign, and not a grammatically cleaned up version.

 

Ell-Oh-Ell

Copy editing no longer exists for that site. Ask me how I know.

 

But they DID copy edit it --- and shouldn't have.