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Posts tagged with blacklist
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Blacklist
The blacklist is such an old and tired idea. It’s kinda stupid, really. Any publication that is so threatened, it blacklists the very kinds of writers it needs, is a media publication that is in big girl trouble. You are not a stable. And we not your horses. I am…
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Scratching Glass
I do not remember writing this. But some kind soul sent it to me to remind me what an idiot I am. But some of it does hit home. It was published in the New York Times 2009. Shame on me. Back in the States, under my desk, packed in…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES BLACKLIST
I didn’t think anything could surprise me. But this one threw me out the window. The New York Times has a blacklist. A blacklist is a collection of names of people they overtly discriminate against as some kind of form of revenge and vengeance. I do not know why. I…