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Sympthsical

(9,071 posts)
1. My favorite is a story on CNN's front page of journalists congratulating themselves
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:03 AM
Feb 2021

Just read this. It's hilarious in it's bit of self-fellation:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/media/tiger-woods-la-times-reliable-sources/index.html

Yes, journalists, let's write an article on the front page about how awesome we were at chasing a story about a celebrity. And it is filed under "analysis." I laughed my ass off when I saw it.

MSM journalists really do live in a bubble. The vanity of everyone involved to have written that and then put it on the front page.

underpants

(182,755 posts)
2. I'd say they are also a stark comparison of the improvements in vehicle safety
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:04 AM
Feb 2021

Diana wasn’t in some hoopty and Tiger appears to have been in a very standard model of this vehicle.

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