August 23, 2022
"The author is in her 'Making up articles out of nothing at all and getting them published in the Washington Post' era."
The perfect comment on a WaPo article by Jessica M. Goldstein, "Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ Rebound from a breakup with a ‘Reputation era.’ Rebrand your failure as a ‘flop era.’ No calamity is too great or small to be romanticized as an ‘era’ on social media."
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"The author is in her 'Making up articles out of nothing at all and getting them published in the Washington Post' era."
Isn't that what most women 'journalists' do these days anyway? Come on. These papers are literally 'dear diaries' for most of these hateful 30 somethings and have been for 20 years.
When did the WaPoo become an advice column for the Cosmopolitan, Vogue crowd?
This may be a psychologically healthy way of dealing with the Internet, aka The Beast That Never Forgets. Before social media people said and did all sorts of stupid things. These words were forgotten, or they learned lessons and matured. In the Beast era dirty deeds and foolishness lasts forever.
Two alternate strategies: (1) be anonymous and keep active boxes separate, or (2) when you've gone public before you understood the implications, reinvent yourself. Put everything in a time-specific boxed off 'eras' to remain sane.
Either strategy is better than dwelling on all slights and wrongs in this world, and struggling to correct the world with no hope. Greta? Greta? Greta?
"The author is in her 'Making up articles out of nothing at all and getting them published in the Washington Post' era."
Isn't this the MO of modern art? If a soup can, a urinal, and paint splatters are art, why not make up an article out of nothing? Waiting for the wordless article, a la Cage. Which would be an improvement for the MSM. In the true spirit of this blog, I invite you to think deeply about that.
i'm in the "fed up with establishment media Bullshit era"
madAsHell said...
When did the WaPoo become an advice column for the Cosmopolitan, Vogue crowd?
about 2003, thanx for asking
Aren't we all in the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" era?
It's easy to make fun of someone for writing a minor trend piece. But I guarantee you that the WaPo (one-quarter of whose current readership is under age 35) is overjoyed to be publishing an article about What The Kids on Social Media Are Doing Today.
But the video didn't show her drawing a line in the sand. No line, not serious.
So we go back to the Alamo tale where Mexican General Santa Anna sent a messenger to the Alamo for the defenders to surrender or die. Colonel William Travis drew a line on the ground to ask his defenders to commit to giving no quarter in defense of the Alamo, and the Texan fighters stepped behind the line. Travis ordered the firing of cannons to decline surrender and Santa Anna ordered playing the "Degüello" bugle call, which represents the slitting of the throat.
"This too shall pass" is not a bad message.
Handmade tales.
“Making up articles out of nothing at all”
From the paper that employed Janet Cooke. nothing new here.
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