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hershy799  
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2020-01-23 3:07:44 PM  
Count me as one of those who thought he already croaked.

/Godspeed, public television man
 
smed7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:08:36 PM  
when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend
 
durbnpoisn  
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2020-01-23 3:10:17 PM  
Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.
 
born_yesterday  
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2020-01-23 3:10:57 PM  

durbnpoisn: Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.


I'm gonna guess Jim Lehrer.
 
farkingismybusiness [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:12:45 PM  
Everything in moderation, even moderation.
 
I am Tom Joad's Complete Lack of Surprise [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:13:18 PM  
I had no idea he was a Kansan.
 
TylerParry  
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2020-01-23 3:15:37 PM  
RIP Jim Lehrer

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born_yesterday  
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2020-01-23 3:17:05 PM  
Huh.  I was actually guessing.  My powers over life and death are heretofore unsurpassed.

Liked his PBS show
 
Stands With A Tiny Fist [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:20:21 PM  
I wasn't worried. Drew's not a moderator. He's an admin.

/  Besides, he's already pickled his organs to the point that he won't ever expire.
//  Liver's in a masonry jar in the pantry.
 
Milk D  
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2020-01-23 3:20:44 PM  
RIP Jim Breuer

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Rene ala Carte [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:22:53 PM  
Good guy, watched him often.
 
AeAe  
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2020-01-23 3:25:52 PM  
Does Drew have a drinking problem? I keep seeing comments about his drinking. He probably has cirrhosis
 
fat boy  
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2020-01-23 3:26:52 PM  
Nope, the best moderator was the one that outed Kwame
 
Stands With A Tiny Fist [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:27:36 PM  

AeAe: Does Drew have a drinking problem? I keep seeing comments about his drinking. He probably has cirrhosis


His cirrhosis has cirrhosis.
 
ChrisDe  
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2020-01-23 3:29:50 PM  

born_yesterday: durbnpoisn: Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.

I'm gonna guess Jim Lehrer.


Based on "greatest moderator", it was either him or Chuck Barris. And I think Chuck Barris is already dead.
 
Serious Black  
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2020-01-23 3:30:32 PM  
If Stephen Colbert asked me whether Drew was a great moderator or the greatest moderator ever, I'd refuse to answer on the basis that being passed out on his private e-mail server in the middle of the day is a sign that he's a massive alcoholic and, consequently, is not even great.
 
Catlenfell  
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2020-01-23 3:36:49 PM  
RIP.  He moderated every debate in 1996 and 2000
 
Snort  
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2020-01-23 3:43:32 PM  

smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend


I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.
 
Melvin Lovecraft  
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2020-01-23 3:51:55 PM  
Born in '34, and served as a marine in WWII? I don't think so. TFA was hastily put together. That said, Lehrer used to scare me. He had black eyes...like a doll's eyes.

/seriously, I liked him as a newsman
//worlds better than most TV "journalists" these days
///he really did have black eyes
 
smed7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 4:05:09 PM  

Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.


I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?
 
bluorangefyre [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 4:07:15 PM  
I read the story of his death on NBC News, and long story short, he may have accidentally gotten JFK killed.  The Secret Service hadn't decided if the bubble would be on the President's car, so he asked, and it reminded them that it needed removed since it wasn't going to rain.

Otherwise, no other blemishes on his record.
 
dittybopper  
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2020-01-23 4:11:18 PM  
I especially liked his song "The Elements".

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
Youtube AcS3NOQnsQM


RIP, funny song man.


/Wait, what?
 
Nana's Vibrator  
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2020-01-23 4:12:34 PM  
RIP Brap

/take that other mods
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 4:20:17 PM  

smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend


I just read the article very, very quickly.
 
pdieten  
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2020-01-23 4:36:03 PM  

Melvin Lovecraft: Born in '34, and served as a marine in WWII? I don't think so. TFA was hastily put together. That said, Lehrer used to scare me. He had black eyes...like a doll's eyes.

/seriously, I liked him as a newsman
//worlds better than most TV "journalists" these days
///he really did have black eyes


"His father worked for the Santa Fe Trailways bus company and, after Marine Corps service in World War II..."

It was his father, not him. Jim was with the Marines in Okinawa long after the war.

smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?


You're talking about the Washington Post, which is one of the United States' two newspapers of record. As such, they have a bit more responsibility to proper journalism than making a bunch of interns slap together some content for a penny a word and toss it up on the web in the hopes of getting a few bucks from ad impressions. WaPo pays actual money to competent people who follow standards. Turns out you can't support that with just ads.

Journalism is like anything else. You get what you pay for. And yes, I'm paying for a subscription for it, the NYT, my local paper, and The Athletic.

That all aside, surely there must be a free source for a damn obituary.

durbnpoisn: Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.


Don't you use a browser where you can hover over the link and see the URL? His name was in it.
 
durbnpoisn  
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2020-01-23 4:38:49 PM  

smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?


You know what I do?  I don't surf the web with a Windows machine.  I only go to sites I know.
When I need to surf, for whatever reason, I use a Chromebook or a Mac.
 
durbnpoisn  
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2020-01-23 4:39:44 PM  

pdieten: durbnpoisn: Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.


Don't you use a browser where you can hover over the link and see the URL? His name was in it.


I honestly did not think of that.  I saw a WaPo logo and didn't go any further.

That is a good tip though.  For those times that important information is in the link.
 
Melvin Lovecraft  
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2020-01-23 4:53:16 PM  

pdieten: Melvin Lovecraft: Born in '34, and served as a marine in WWII? I don't think so. TFA was hastily put together. That said, Lehrer used to scare me. He had black eyes...like a doll's eyes.

/seriously, I liked him as a newsman
//worlds better than most TV "journalists" these days
///he really did have black eyes

"His father worked for the Santa Fe Trailways bus company and, after Marine Corps service in World War II..."

It was his father, not him. Jim was with the Marines in Okinawa long after the war.

smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?

You're talking about the Washington Post, which is one of the United States' two newspapers of record. As such, they have a bit more responsibility to proper journalism than making a bunch of interns slap together some content for a penny a word and toss it up on the web in the hopes of getting a few bucks from ad impressions. WaPo pays actual money to competent people who follow standards. Turns out you can't support that with just ads.

Journalism is like anything else. You get what you pay for. And yes, I'm paying for a subscription for it, the NYT, my local paper, and The Athletic.

That all aside, surely there must be a free source for a damn obituary.

durbnpoisn: Can't click the link.  I guess I'll have to wait until later to even know who we're talking about.

Don't you use a browser where you can hover over the link and see the URL? His name was in it.


I stand corrected. That's what I get for trying to read TFA too quickly.
 
smed7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 4:58:09 PM  

durbnpoisn: smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?

You know what I do?  I don't surf the web with a Windows machine.  I only go to sites I know.
When I need to surf, for whatever reason, I use a Chromebook or a Mac.


yeah all good advice.  I just happen to Fark most often on my company issued Windows laptop purely for the convenience since I'm on it all day anyway

/Linux Administrator - how ironic?
 
King Something  
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2020-01-23 5:09:00 PM  
Mod is deceased, post Dick pics!

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Imaginativescreenname  
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2020-01-23 5:16:04 PM  
taking a pimento shower in his honor

"Eye Of The Sparrow" - A Bad Lip Reading of the First 2012 Presidential Debate
Youtube QlwilbVYvUg
 
CrazyCurt  
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2020-01-23 5:34:42 PM  
One from the actual days of TV journalism. Sucky how it's change so much for the worse. In Jim's time network nightly news was an hour long while local would come before and of course at 11. Most cities had two newspapers. Now most places have local news dominating broadcasts ( and with it the political views of the conglomerate that owns them as well as the side hustle of selling news time as ad space ) and one if any newspapers. PBS Newshour is still around but it is slowly, inexorably becoming less relevant and more beholden to the whims of corporate interests. Perhaps for a guy like him dying during this era is sweet release.

/ At least he outlasted one of the show's donors (Koch).
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]  
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2020-01-23 5:37:58 PM  

fat boy: Nope, the best moderator was the one that outed Kwame


REPORTED!!
 
evilsofa  
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2020-01-23 5:49:58 PM  

smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend


When Farkers start reading the articles.
 
alice_600  
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2020-01-23 6:44:08 PM  

evilsofa: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

When Farkers start reading the articles.


Hey I read the articles!
 
TrashcanMan  
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2020-01-23 6:45:42 PM  

smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?


I notice you pay to be here, yet think other places don't have costs and salaries to pay.  Interesting.
 
CoonAce  
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2020-01-23 11:09:03 PM  

Catlenfell: RIP.  He moderated every debate in 1996 and 2000


He was on the Council on Foreign Relations.  I always did like puppet shows.
 
durbnpoisn  
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2020-01-24 9:35:52 AM  

smed7: durbnpoisn: smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?

You know what I do?  I don't surf the web with a Windows machine.  I only go to sites I know.
When I need to surf, for whatever reason, I use a Chromebook or a Mac.

yeah all good advice.  I just happen to Fark most often on my company issued Windows laptop purely for the convenience since I'm on it all day anyway

/Linux Administrator - how ironic?


My office machine is Windows as well.  And very locked down.  I can't even use incognito mode.  Which is why I complain about paywall sites.
 
smed7 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2020-01-24 10:04:15 AM  

TrashcanMan: smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?

I notice you pay to be here, yet think other places don't have costs and salaries to pay.  Interesting.


Really not that interesting.  Also didn't say that other places are free & there are no costs associated...mainly just biatching about how things have changed.  I am so happy you were able to learn me some perspective though - thanks for that.
 
pdieten  
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2020-01-24 2:46:14 PM  

smed7: TrashcanMan: smed7: Snort: smed7: when do paywalls get banned from submission?

/asking for a friend

I use a script blocker.  Gets out the difficult spots that AdBlock just can't reach.

I'm actually not using a plugin currently although I typically install Ghostery & AdBlock but I recently got a new laptop and just didn't get around to it yet.

In any event, I still remember the days when you could surf the web & not every site had the clap.
Nowadays most sites are full of germ-juice, it's become the norm.  Kids these days.

/why do I feel so old?

I notice you pay to be here, yet think other places don't have costs and salaries to pay.  Interesting.

Really not that interesting.  Also didn't say that other places are free & there are no costs associated...mainly just biatching about how things have changed.  I am so happy you were able to learn me some perspective though - thanks for that.


Businesses have to generate revenue. Things have changed because newspapers used to have advertisers and print subscribers who provided enough revenue to cover the expense of content generation. So the providers could afford to put content on the web for free. The problem with that, of course, is that once there was a free option to get the content, revenue from print subscribers who were paying for the content dried up, and then Craigslist took away the classified ad revenue, and Google keeps a share of all the other ad revenue, so the content creators all find themselves in a massive revenue crunch that selling more ads doesn't fix.
 
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