Milo Yiannopoulos

[Symmetry]

I think that a key point of journalism is to provide alternative insight and perspective on things. I'm not sure if Bogan actually read the article, but it doesn't easily fit into any of his three categories. I think that a good piece of writing is basically a dialogue between writer and reader.

I thought that the piece was kind of sympathetic to, as well as being critical of Milo's Lost Boys.

[BoganGod]

More than anything, though, I don't think she was calling for anything at all, just analyzing what has happened. Journalism isn't all about fomenting action. Sometimes it really is just about understanding what actions have happened.

Wrong. Though it used to be right. Now journalism is about agenda pushing, dog whistling, virtue signalling, smearing, protecting vested interests, the legacy media is in trouble, the left leaning CNN fake news media and TIME are leading the race to the bottom. The old truism about there being three types of people.
Those that make things happen.
Those that watch things happen.
Those that wonder what happened.

The media used to be the 2nd type, now they are the 3rd type, wishing they were the 1st type.

That's a huge over-generalization, as if "the media" was some kind of unified force. Journalists come from every point of view imaginable, just as people in general. There are obviously trends (a disproportionate number of journalists were fascinated by Ted Kennedy versus the general population) but there are always a multitude of exceptions. This is becoming more true rather than less, as the Internet allows people to self-publish and allows an almost infinite variety of different points of view.

i've heard this before but i really wonder if that is accurate. i mean not because i think it isn't but because i have no clue.

there is always a few good analysts, at least in mexico, that write decent columns, i'm sure it's the same in the US. but does it matter?

these guys (politicians) are using focus groups and attempting to go below the logical (if any) layer of possible voters. take trump for instance, he doesn't fucking care, he's watching fox news, knows that there are millions like him at the moment ad tweets about it. suddenly you have unicellular organisms nodding saying "fucking aye".

people don't logically think their vote. logic is the servant of the will.

i think the stupid ridiculing of trump every minute has its part to play, a guy not knowing much will see guys that appear to be smart doing ridiculing and with his insecurity will think maybe they're right.

I think you're making the same mistake as Bogan and assuming that a writer always needs to have an axe to grind. Maybe it's because you guys are young. I've realized that the job of drawing conclusions rests with the reader. All I expect from the writer is to paint an interesting picture. It's my job to decide what I see in it.

Head buts the keyboard. Dukky, poor idealistic Dukky. A writer doesn't always need an axe to grind. However now a days, a writer always takes an AXE to something. Look at our beloved Stephen King on twitter.

[mrswdk]

I think you're making the same mistake as Bogan and assuming that a writer always needs to have an axe to grind. Maybe it's because you guys are young. I've realized that the job of drawing conclusions rests with the reader. All I expect from the writer is to paint an interesting picture. It's my job to decide what I see in it.

Shame that usually all you see is some hack trying desperately to get a bit more attention for their dying column.

[Symmetry]

I think you're making the same mistake as Bogan and assuming that a writer always needs to have an axe to grind. Maybe it's because you guys are young. I've realized that the job of drawing conclusions rests with the reader. All I expect from the writer is to paint an interesting picture. It's my job to decide what I see in it.

Shame that usually all you see is some hack trying desperately to get a bit more attention for their dying column.

You should read the article, it's better than you give credit.