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Slog AM: Washington Farmers Fear Chinese Tariffs, Bellevue Cop Allegedly Ignored Hate Crime

Nathalie Graham
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Not that getting fired is ideal on your record, but if Sinclair employees are fired do they incur those penalties? The quality of their work will stand on its own merits and being fired from Sinclair might not be considered a stain on your work history.
seatackled on April 3, 2018 at 8:25 AM Report this
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@1

Yeah, I figure why use a teleprompter? They could stand there reading off a sheet of paper and sounding all weird and shit.
seatackled on April 3, 2018 at 8:27 AM Report this
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Nathalie - To be fair, before this whole computer / internet fad happened, on a standard 8" x 11" piece of paper it was correct and formal to add double-spacing after a period.

That was too much work for the internet babies, so we use only one space now. And we have this cool 21st century option: if you run into a multi-syllable word, just cut it to one syllable as to be less difficult. You'll sound HIP!
Popelick Monster on April 3, 2018 at 8:56 AM Report this
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@5, Yes, the bad old days of mono-spaced typewriters. I actually learned to type on those way back in my misspent youth. We were taught to double-space after the end of a sentence, to distinguish between that and a period after "Mr." or St." or other abbreviations. But I've learned to single-space, at least 25 years ago. My mother has never broken the double-space habit, but she's 80. I'm surprised Channing Tatum ever learned to type that way in the first place.
Reverse Polarity on April 3, 2018 at 9:14 AM Report this
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I think Paul Constant, Slog's greatest writer, had a post about using two spaces but needing to adapt to one because of internet requirements.
seatackled on April 3, 2018 at 9:18 AM Report this
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Correction: Prezinazi AntiChrist called Pruitt to congratulate him on causing so many ethnics troubles.
Original Andrew on April 3, 2018 at 9:22 AM Report this
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Of course you don't double space online after a period. We'd run out of room on the web if everyone did that, Jayzus.
Original Andrew on April 3, 2018 at 9:24 AM Report this
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@5, @6, Yes the double space after a period was in the manual typewriter days and mono space typefaces. Each letter took up the same horizontal area. However, single spacing came about with laser/inkjet printers and desktop publishing. With a GUI style word processor you can have variable width fonts which adapt to whatever letters are typed together. Therefore, double spacing becomes unnecessary and looks weird. Same thing applies to web pages.
kylecheez on April 3, 2018 at 9:27 AM Report this
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Sinclair is an important arm of our growing Autocracy. Independent Journalism giving you problems? Just buy it and make them conform.

Those you can't buy? Attack them financially, legally. Discredit their work through a steady drumbeat of propaganda. Whatever works.

The Putin model has worked in Turkey and Bulgaria. Now his methods are being applied to the US, and half you fuckers are cheering them on.

Max Solomon on April 3, 2018 at 9:32 AM Report this
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Re: Sinclair. Just throwing out there, couldn't a bunch of reporters band together and file a class action suit? Even though St. Ronnie screwed us all by doing away with the Fairness Doctrine, it seems like providing accurate content would at least be assumed anyhow.
kylecheez on April 3, 2018 at 9:33 AM Report this
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Today's SINclair Nooz hostage video is even more disturbing.

I hope Mary Nam is safe--getoutta there, girl!!!
Original Andrew on April 3, 2018 at 9:39 AM Report this
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@12: The problem with America is 2018 is that we all assumed. Assumed that facts, evidence, honesty were important, and that there was consensus around that assumption that transcended politics.

That was wrong. Lies are the currency of the realm.
Max Solomon on April 3, 2018 at 9:50 AM Report this
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@14 Assumed probably wasn't the best choice of words. Thinking further though, it seems like a suit that was based on "permanently damaging a reporter's credibility and reputation by being forced to spew lies, inaccuracies, and misleading information and/or propaganda," would have a strong case.
kylecheez on April 3, 2018 at 10:02 AM Report this
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@12) Yes, they could. But they would face repercussions including firing, contract violations, enough stuff to keep the poor cowardly local news schmuck back in his pen.

That none of them have the morals or guts to stand up about it and accept any consequences should indicate the integrity level of those bringing you local news. Their pocketbooks mean much more than their personal integrity or morals they may espouse.
Popelick Monster on April 3, 2018 at 10:17 AM Report this
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@15: Sinclair's pockets are deep enough that they'll string such a suit (or suits) out till the plaintiff can't afford to pursue, or, if it the publicity starts to hurt them, just settle.

See: Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly. KOMO employees are fucked. Comply or quit. Sinclair DGAF.
Max Solomon on April 3, 2018 at 10:21 AM Report this
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And that goes for way too many folks, the ersatz Christians, the mormans, the wing-nuts and libertarians. "Morals" are dearly precious traditions to them until it affects their cash flow. If being moral gets pricey, morals will be re-calibrated as needed.

This is why religious morality is a poor social construct: it's true master is not a deity but they money that drives its bureaucracy.
Popelick Monster on April 3, 2018 at 10:23 AM Report this
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@17, Understood but i was thinking more along the lines of a national ACLU type suit. Can any real lawyers chime in?
kylecheez on April 3, 2018 at 10:27 AM Report this
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Motherfuckers, I don't play be the rules and use three, count 'em, THREE, spaces at the conclusion of sentences. Who wants some!?!

(though it would appear my joke is about to encounter a rough landing, as the slog commenting apparatus seems to eliminate unnecessary spacing following periods. Damn.)
mike blob on April 3, 2018 at 10:45 AM Report this
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The worst part about it was the weird spacing he used after every period. It’s one space, not two, Channing.


Students during his formative years were still taught to include two spaces after each period. (At least I was, on an Apple II in the late '90s, and I'm a couple years younger than he is.) It's yet another one of those bits of wrong knowledge I've dispensed as an adult, wondering why I was even forced to learn it in the first place. (You made that class hell, Mrs Rousche, so I hope your remaining years were as bitter and awful as you were!)
Knat on April 3, 2018 at 10:48 AM Report this
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If only there were not an additional unnecessary carriage return after using "blockquote" tags too...
Knat on April 3, 2018 at 11:03 AM Report this
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@21 see @10. Your Apple II was monspaced, as was my PC/AT and klunkomatic ball printer.
kylecheez on April 3, 2018 at 11:27 AM Report this
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FYI web browsers ignore how many spaces you put, any amount of whitespace is rendered the same. Unless you explicitly code in an   or similar.
Mtn. Beaver on April 3, 2018 at 11:37 AM Report this
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@22: It's ironic to read such a tirade from you, someone that demonstrably eschews evolution for intelligent design.
Knat on April 3, 2018 at 12:17 PM Report this
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Gah. Shoulda refreshed one more time before posting.

@24: Ah, I hadn't considered that. Thanks. It's been a long time, I guess I remembered more capability from those than they really had. I still stand by what I said about my typing teacher, though.
Knat on April 3, 2018 at 12:20 PM Report this
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I don't suppose there's any chance China's fruit tariffs means a greater supply of Rainier cherries for us? They're usually somewhere around $6 a pound, so I'd love to see that go down.
tmplknght on April 3, 2018 at 12:59 PM Report this
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Didn't most of those rural areas (where the cherry farms are) vote heavily for Trump? Hard to feel very sorry for them getting the consequences of what they asked for.
Blackcap on April 3, 2018 at 11:25 PM Report this
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@21, actually it's a style that's varied over the years. The single-space-for-proportional-fonts rule only became firmly established after about 1960.
http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/how-man…
Blackcap on April 3, 2018 at 11:29 PM Report this

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