Fiction writing usually demands that you eschew “punch in the face” irony as too unsubtle to deploy. Life itself heeds no such constraints.
Two Business Insider stories featured back-to-back on Althouse provide an example lesson.
The “all in to destroy Trump” media suffered more job losses, some 7,700 this year. Media companies shedding jobs include Gannett, the CBC, BuzzFeed, Verizon, Vice Media, McClatchy, Disney and something called Highsnobiety. I’ve never heard of Highsnobiety, but they mention it in the very first paragraph. Evidently it’s some sort of men’s fashion thing, which lost…six jobs. Really, six jobs? That’s a post-Christmas staff reduction at General Dollar. Did they lay off the writer’s best friend? Plus this is the image they used to illustrate the story:
Based on that single image, everyone there deserves to lose their job.
Next up she links a “story” that “broke” yesterday, that President Donald Trump sometimes had bigger salt and pepper shakers than others at the dining table.
Stop the presses!
Thank God our brave firefighter press is focusing on the really important things.
Better start rehearsing that Pulitzer acceptance speech now.
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) December 6, 2019
The Democratic Media Complex is shedding jobs because they collectively decided that supporting the far left wing of the Democratic Party was far more important than objectively reporting the truth.
Get woke, go broke.