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This is how it's usually done these days.
Flashes of Joe Bernstein.
Or a retarded newfag who goes into the CWC thread and asks for a quick summary.
2023-01-13 - Ali Breland of Mother Jones: Reporting reaching out with some questions about KF for a story
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Flashes of Joe Bernstein.
Or a retarded newfag who goes into the CWC thread and asks for a quick summary.
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these people are insufferable bottom feeding scumbags. I swear, every modern journalist embodies the gossipy yenta archetype
Need4Sneed
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Ali,
Do you you still live in Cypress, Texas?
Do your parents, Susan and William still live there? Or your brother, Majid?
Is your birthday April 1, 1992?
Do you you still live in Cypress, Texas?
Do your parents, Susan and William still live there? Or your brother, Majid?
Is your birthday April 1, 1992?
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whar a bunch of boring questions...
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Loads of mundane questions already anwsered before in loads of places, a bunch of completly irrelevant shit, some questions litertally asked twice... It is all so tiresome... Why would this retard even bother contacting Null for such stupid non-reporting? Like everyone said this is quite obviously a attempt to both cover his ass and claim he "reached out for comment" and to try and fling some mud Null's way.
It's pretty sad.
It's pretty sad.
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I have about two dozen other questions I'd like to see Ali ask Null:
- What's with the banana peppers?
- Is it true that you're not actually human and that you're a cartoon dog with excessive slobber?
- What's the minimum weight requirement for your future waifu?
F_Break
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The questions make it seem like it's going to be a more of a direct attack on Null than the previous campaigns from the Mean Girls Blog Squad, partly in retaliation for a couple of their ranks (Taylor Lorenz and Ben Collins) having their own lolcow threads. Basically a hitpiece so transparently hypocritical and vindictive the usual suspects had to farm it out to one of their buddies at Mother Jones because WaPo and NBC wouldn't publish it. And lol at the Something Awful question when numerous "progressive" writers have "ironic" FYAD post histories indistinguishable from anything on /pol/.
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"Have you considered crowdfunding the purchase of your own island and becoming your own nation?"
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Seems like it to me.
What's the over-under on Ali Breland getting his own lolcow thread?
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My Gell-Mann Amnesia detector has been tuned to the point that whenever I see a "journalist" covering internet culture I assume they're sensationalizing the story for clicks, or outright lying for clout and ideological points with their scummy peers.
At this point, whenever I see a journalist call themselves a "disinformation specialist" or "covering internet disinformation" then I KNOW they are an ideological actor lying for clout with their scummy peers.
"disinformation specialist" = "opinion writer trying to play an 'I win' card for internet arguments"
Oh, a UT Austin alum. Honor's student from field of "general bullshit" from the looks of things. (A) Wikipedia has an interesting writeup of the program. (A) I love the bumper sticker zingers in the article, "I don't have a major, but I Plan II.", or "Plan II. Plan II do what?"
According to the links above, you can exit the program with a dual major from the College of Liberal Arts or College of Natural Sciences... or, I'm guessing a dual minor if you slack off. Based on what I'm reading, it's a pretty good program if you plan to go on to further higher education for a practical graduate degree (e.g., MBA, law degree, etc.).
Prestigious enough to get your foot in the door at places, but based on what I've heard, (and this poorly sourced clickbait article) enrollee's tend to have a particular attitude about them.
Aside from this upcoming hit-piece, he seems pretty boring. Scummy journalists are a dime a dozen, so lets look over his Twitter for redicu-- ugh.
Oh ffs, invoking "gonzo journalism" and the "combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" while writing a thunk piece about a coffee shop in a bank building being a sign of "
Also, it's good to note, that his inability to research shines through here as well.
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I wonder what twitter's "kill" count is, as a site, where people using similar metrics to those put forward against the entirety of KF. Although I bet journos would be more likely to entertain that question with musk at the helm
Scary thing is that "Mother Jones" as actually been cited by judges in court case decisions.
Scary thing is that "Mother Jones" as actually been cited by judges in court case decisions.
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I am shocked that this antisemite is harassing a proud 0.5% jew
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There is also a Wikipedia account with that username, where amusingly the user vandalized the page for Dan Brown, calling him the worst author in modern history. Although he did revert it shortly afterwards. How can we trust a journalist who would intentionally pollute Wikipedia with misinformation?
There are also a ton of hits for "abreland" in Sherlock, and I did not have a chance to go through the results, some of which are almost certainly false positives.
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Something Hunter S. Thompson said perfectly describes him, though:
Why he could have been thinking about Ali Breland personally!
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Tell him this is actually a CIA/mossad operation to crowdsource intelligence and keep wokes like him in check.
See if he dares to publish it.
See if he dares to publish it.
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Mother Jones has been doing hit pieces since at least 1977. Their Ford Pinto article has been cited, even among other journalists and academics, as an example of lying or generously contorting the truth to generate outrage and readership.
en.wikipedia.org
See also,
www.jstor.org
If they pulled this shit on Lee Iacocca, an industrial magnate, basically saying he willfully let people die for profit, poor Null doesn't stand a chance. He's right to not answer their questions. It's pointless.
Ford Pinto - Wikipedia
See also,
Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis on JSTOR
Matthew T. Lee, M. David Ermann, Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis, Social Problems, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 30-47
www.jstor.org
If they pulled this shit on Lee Iacocca, an industrial magnate, basically saying he willfully let people die for profit, poor Null doesn't stand a chance. He's right to not answer their questions. It's pointless.
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Why is this flesh that hates allowed to work who is his boss I'm literally shaking and crying rn I feel so unsafe this is genocide don't they know that the Holocaust?
TrulyMan
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I mean journalists can if they could be bothered deduce things from forum posts. But when writing an article about someone they need to give that someone a chance to respond to queries directly. This is a basic journalistic staple. Now, this guy clearly has no real intention of writing an unbiased panorama of what Kiwifarms is and how it operates or truly who Null is.
Null on the other hand has in the past conceded to interviews to sympathetic figures on podcasts and what not and is more than able to explain himself and form his own narrative.
But I do wonder if he'd accept to be interviewed in a serious manner by a neutral or at least not openly antagonistic serious journalist that would grill him on some of these things. It could be both good and bad.
I also think that the site and the way it operates has changed as we've all matured and as the world has changed around us. So it does create a bit of a disjointedness there for sure, for someone looking in from the outside.
Oh yeah, for sure. And while in the 80's and 90's it was a progressive vanguard of sorts, from the late 10's , ever since Trump became elected it became an instrument of the DNC to do nothing more than attack its political opponents. I used to read the magazine a bit because I loved its photojournalism (it had a section each month with a fantastic expose of say american life in small dying towns or nature pictures from around the globe, no writing so no bullshit narrative) and it could do in-depth groundhog type of journalism like this: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock/ Deep research, undercover, interviews across the board, etc.
But those days are over, and sending a fucking list of obvious hit-piece questions is what counts as fulfilling your journalistic duty nowdays, apparently.
Null on the other hand has in the past conceded to interviews to sympathetic figures on podcasts and what not and is more than able to explain himself and form his own narrative.
But I do wonder if he'd accept to be interviewed in a serious manner by a neutral or at least not openly antagonistic serious journalist that would grill him on some of these things. It could be both good and bad.
I also think that the site and the way it operates has changed as we've all matured and as the world has changed around us. So it does create a bit of a disjointedness there for sure, for someone looking in from the outside.
Mother Jones has been doing hit pieces since at least 1977. Their Ford Pinto article has been cited, even among other journalists and academics, as an example of lying or generously contorting the truth to generate outrage and readership.
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Ford Pinto - Wikipedia
See also,
Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis on JSTOR
Matthew T. Lee, M. David Ermann, Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis, Social Problems, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp. 30-47
If they pulled this shit on Lee Iacocca, an industrial magnate, basically saying he willfully let people die for profit, poor Null doesn't stand a chance. He's right to not answer their questions. It's pointless.
Oh yeah, for sure. And while in the 80's and 90's it was a progressive vanguard of sorts, from the late 10's , ever since Trump became elected it became an instrument of the DNC to do nothing more than attack its political opponents. I used to read the magazine a bit because I loved its photojournalism (it had a section each month with a fantastic expose of say american life in small dying towns or nature pictures from around the globe, no writing so no bullshit narrative) and it could do in-depth groundhog type of journalism like this: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock/ Deep research, undercover, interviews across the board, etc.
But those days are over, and sending a fucking list of obvious hit-piece questions is what counts as fulfilling your journalistic duty nowdays, apparently.
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What kind of lunatic actually sends someone that many questions right off the bat? It's going to be hard for somebody to top the utter shamelessness of this one.
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Such a massive red flag. This "reporter" is 100% clueless.
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