The Black Forest

5697. Submitted on 2017/1/13, 7.30 h by Arduenn:

A message to my doomed colleagues in the American media

Sterk stuk van een Russische journalist die door de bullshit van Poetin heen prikt en zijn ervaringen deelt met zijn Amerikaanse collega's, omdat het ernaar uitziet dat het in Amerika dezelfde kant opgaat.

"A mainstay of Putin’s press conferences is, of course, softball questions. Which also happen to be Putin’s favorites. Mr President, is there love in your heart? Who you will be celebrating New Year’s Eve with? What’s your favorite food? “Questions” of this sort, sure to melt Putin’s heart, typically come from women working for small regional publications. A subtype of this is also statements-as-questions, but from people who really love the man on the stage and will bob their head and look at the stage adoringly and say something to the tune of “Mr President, do you agree that a lot of media are treating you unfairly?”"

"Another type of softball questions is hyperlocal issues that a president isn’t even supposed to be dealing with. Mr President, our road is full of potholes and local authorities aren’t doing anything about it. Mr President, our tap is leaking. Mr President, how about a chess club in our village. This is a real opportunity for him to shine. He will scold the local authorities and order to have a new road built. All of this, of course, has been choreographed well in advance."

"Also, some of these people really love him and will meet his every answer with enthusiastic applause. There will be people from publications that exist for no other reason than heaping fawning praise on him and attacking his enemies. But there will also be one token critic who will be allowed to ask a “sharp” question, only to be drowned in a copious amount of bullshit, and the man on the stage will always be the winner (“See? I respect the media and free speech”)."

"This man owns you. He understands perfectly well that he is the news. You can’t ignore him. You’re always playing by his rules — which he can change at any time without any notice. You can’t — in Putin’s case — campaign to vote him out of office. Your readership is dwindling because ad budgets are shrinking — while his ratings are soaring, and if you want to keep your publication afloat, you’ll have to report on everything that man says as soon as he says it, without any analysis or fact-checking, because 1) his fans will not care if he lies to their faces; 2) while you’re busy picking his lies apart, he’ll spit out another mountain of bullshit and you’ll be buried under it."

Het hele verhaal hier: https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-t o-american-media-from-russia-6e2e76eeae77#.ih r9bzdk8

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5696. Submitted on 2017/1/11, 19.01 h by Arduenn:

Over lekken gesproken…

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5695. Submitted on 2017/1/9, 9.48 h by Arduenn:

Le chat qui dort

Teleportatiekat heeft vandaag geen zin om te teleporteren.

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5694. Submitted on 2017/1/7, 14.58 h by Arduenn:

In de L^P-meetkunde zit π altijd tussen de 3,1415… en 4

Oogopenerd van de dag

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5693. Submitted on 2017/1/5, 13.41 h by Arduenn:

Veertienduizend ballen

Mijn zoontje van 4 kan dat ook.

There are 3 comments to this post (the latest by Arduenn on 2017/1/6, 15.05 h).

5692. Submitted on 2017/1/5, 13.28 h by Arduenn:

Il n'y a plus de saisons

Halp, het is 5 januari en er zit een dagpauwoog in mijn gordijn. Was het al vlinderseizoen, dan? Of komt het alweer door die vermaledijde klimaatverandering? Is er een entomoloog in de zaal?

"In België en Nederland is de soort van de vroege lente tot in de herfst vrijwel overal te vinden" [Citation]

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5691. Submitted on 2017/1/4, 10.46 h by Arduenn:

De echte waarheid

Tweeduizendzeventien wordt het jaar waarin iedereen elkaar ervan beschuldigt nepnieuws te verspreiden.

[Update] In ander nieuws: het is nèt nep!

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5690. Submitted on 2017/1/1, 22.40 h by Dave:

Wat stopte u

in uw lichaamsopeningen in 2016?

2015 - 2014 - 2013

There are 3 comments to this post (the latest by Arduenn on 2017/1/2, 12.19 h).

5689. Submitted on 2017/1/1, 0.14 h by Arduenn:

Gerlukkig nieuwjaar!

Vroeger, in Dordrecht, bij ons op de hoek op het Gemmahof, woonden er van die Indonesiërs. Die verstookten altijd voor duzend gulden aan vuurwerk. En knallen dat dat deed! En de volgende ochtend lag er bij hun altijd een grote berg rode pulp op de stoep.

In ander nieuws: 2017 wordt het Katy Perryjaar.

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5688. Submitted on 2016/12/30, 23.35 h by Arduenn:

Met schietgeweren op prins Rupertdruppels schieten is leuk

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