"... and was started by the former owner of The Hill. I'll keep an eye on it. Here, it seems focused on protecting President Biden.... [And to judge from a second article] here too, The Messenger is assisting institutional insiders who need distance from more radical voices."
I wrote that last June, and I don't think I ever wrote about The Messenger again, not until now, as I see this morning, in The Washington Post, "The Messenger closes down after blowing millions on ill-fated news site/Employees learned of the collapse from a news report, then found themselves abruptly kicked off the company messaging system."
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I was thinking of the St Anthony Messenger at first. We always had the latest copy around the house when I was a kid.
“Employees learned of the collapse from a news report”.
Probably too focused on that Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift story to do real investigative journalism on the place where they worked. And no water cooler talk since everyone likely worked from home.
It was an interesting site at first. They devolved into clickbait, though.
The callous disregard for its employees suggests The Messenger was far more in synch with Joe Biden than is required of a mere propagandist, more like a street-corner Brownshirt, the difference being a matter of scale. The Messenger abused the trust of a few dozen wager-earners with bills to pay. Biden, on the other hand, thoughtlessly boots an entire nation in the gut.
Oh, no. Anyway…
The Messenger didn’t kill himself?
No curiosity killed the messenger.
The perfect paradox of discouraging gawkers.
Love it when liberals crash and burn...
Sic transit gloria. (Al-Jazeera means The Messenger also, IIRC and NTTAWWT.)
Sic transit gloria. (Al-Jazeera means The Messenger also, IIRC and NTTAWWT.)
And The Messenger’s final message is to its employees: “Eff you!”
Blogger Rocco said...
I was thinking of the St Anthony Messenger at first. We always had the latest copy around the house when I was a kid.
Same here and aways did the Pete and Repeat puzzle.
it's Funny!
No Matter HOW MUCH Money Soros spends on leftie propaganda..
The dogs just Don't Like the Dog Food..
Meanwhile, over at "X"..
AR-15s FOR KIDS IN FLORIDA
Florida's House Republicans voted to lower the rifle-buying age to 18 from 21, endorsing assault riffles access for young adults, against unanimous Democrat opposition.
mmmm! yummy tasty kibbles!!!
The Dispatch dispatched The Messenger when it slammed it against The Bulwark.
Don't Look now--What a Gawker. Get a Life!
Oh no, anyway.
The purge continues...
"The Messenger" sounds culty, like the Jehovah Witness pamphlet "The Watchtower"
Rocco mentioned the St Anthony Messenger, which from the name I assume is a Catholic publication.
I'm familiar with Methodist versions such as this: https://newarkfirstumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Messenger-Feb-2024-1.pdf
If you search Methodist messenger there's literally hundreds of examples. Were they trying for religious overtones? Didn't search to see if the name was associated with other religions. But I don't think the name picked was purely accidental.
Angel means messenger. A version of Rilke's 10th Duino Elegy suggests empathy isn't a big part
Far too much you belong to grief. If you could forget her--
even the least of these figures so infinitely pained--
you would call down, shout down, hoping they might still be curious,
one of the angels (those beings unmighty in grief)
who, as his face darkened, would try again and again
to describe the way you kept sobbing, long ago, for her.
Angel, what was it like? And he would imitate you and never
understand that it was pain, as after a calling bird
one tries to repeat the innocent voice it is filled with.
Well, the sold themselves as non-partisans who suck Democrat dick in every story. Kinda of like Rich, Chuck, and Lonejustice.
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gilbar said...
“Meanwhile, over at "X"..
AR-15s FOR KIDS IN FLORIDA.”
18 is an adult.
I was shooting tin cans/plastic bottles with a BB gun at age 9. At age 13, I got to improve my aim using a revolver and a .22 hunting rifle while working on a farm form for a month in the summer. We called this “normal boyhood”.
it's Funny!
No Matter HOW MUCH Money Soros spends on leftie propaganda..
The dogs just Don't Like the Dog Food..
I would have figured they continue to throw billions at the propaganda during an election year so they could use headlines like "HUNDREDS of 'news' sources verify"...that sort of thing. Maybe the money from the government has dried up and the billionaires know something about cost/benefit? Who's to say?
“Florida's House Republicans voted to lower the rifle-buying age to 18 from 21, endorsing assault riffles access for young adults, against unanimous Democrat opposition.”
Well, why not? The federal age limit is 21. Change it there. 18 year olds can go to war, and be issued fully automatic firearms. If we can trust them with full auto firearms, while in the military, then why not semiautomatics in civilian life?
Turns out liberals don't even read liberal bullshit publications either.
X closes down after just a few months and blowing millions on Y.
Haven't people caught on that a LOT of these things are just out and out fraud? Someone got rich off those millions.
Kind of like almost any green project. So what if the wind turbines break down or don't work; so what if the solar panels are useless 75 percent of the time; so what if electric buses are a boondoggle? Project success isn't the point. Getting someone to put money in your pocket is the real objective.
Meanwhile, over at "X"..
AR-15s FOR KIDS IN FLORIDA
Florida's House Republicans voted to lower the rifle-buying age to 18 from 21, endorsing assault riffles access for young adults, against unanimous Democrat opposition.
My 13 year old grand nephew visited about 5 years ago and greatly enjoyed shooting my AR 15 at the Pima County range. Kids that age don't have to pay.
If only AA had mentioned the publication more often. History would be different.
Whether it's a bunch of people being laid off or the entire business shutting down, people keep acting surprised that they no longer have access to the business' messaging system. (The news about the L.A. Times layoffs included people complaining about being frozen out of Slack.)
If I were suddenly no longer employed by a company, the last thing I would want to do is to get on its messaging system. I'm sure I would have nothing nice to say about them and I wouldn't want the things I say in anger in that company's possession.
They missed a trick by not adopting as their logo: "Don't Kill The Messenger."
The New York Post has the inside details about the dysfunctional corporate culture and disorderly shutdown of The Messenger. The compensation for two of the top execs is mentioned in the article: Editor-in-Chief Dan Wakefield supposedly was paid $900,000 and Richard Beckman, identified in the article as the CEO's right hand man, reportedly made $1.5 million.
That's pretty good money for failing.
Yancey Ward: "Well, the sold themselves as non-partisans who suck Democrat dick in every story. Kinda of like Rich, Chuck, and Lonejustice."
The LLR-democratical Brigade have certainly not been shy over the years with their hilarious over-the-top pro-dem suck-uppery.
Howard: "The Messenger" sounds culty, like the Jehovah Witness pamphlet "The Watchtower"
"The Messenger" sounds culty, like the entirety of the pro-islamic supremacist Ivy League administrators and faculty.
FIFY
Or just New Soviet Democraticals in general.
Meanwhile, over at "X"..
AR-15s FOR KIDS IN FLORIDA
It's amazing how 18-year-olds go back and forth between being kids and adults. BTW- the kid in the picture included in that "X" post is not an 18-year-old. Twelve, maybe. 1000 downvotes to the author for using such a misleading graphic.
Project success isn't the point. Getting someone to put money in your pocket is the real objective.
During the dot.com era, I worked for a while for a "company" whose entire business plan was "do just enough to convince someone to buy us." My husband was in grad school and I needed the job... which, painfully soon, started paying me in stock that would of course be worth $0 unless their dream came true. Which it didn't. They folded.
My severance was a computer and my desk. Good times...
Mason G said...
"It's amazing how 18-year-olds go back and forth between being kids and adults. BTW- the kid in the picture included in that "X" post is not an 18-year-old. Twelve, maybe. 1000 downvotes to the author for using such a misleading graphic."
The kid in the picture seems to be of a reasonable age to learn how to shoot:
- https://aegisacademy.com/blogs/test-blog-post/when-should-you-start-teaching-kids-to-shoot
- https://keystoneshootingcenter.com/blog/teaching-your-children-about-gun-safety
And the gun in the picture is not an AR-15.
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