because of a intermittent supply chain i received my friday new york times this morning...perhaps there was a glitch somewhere in the "news" pipeline...or i live out at the end of the motor route and the delivery person wasn't feeling up to the drive...or didn't really care if i got my paper on the same day it was dated...whichever...the point is if i had gotten the paper on time we would have already been through this...as it stand the times has once again utilized precious canadian newsprint to send me high definition, full-page photos of ears ( different than wednesday's )...with startling detail that isn't all that aesthetically pleasing and a center-spread announcing that i am about to be heavily propagandized ( a trait the times has been displaying more openly in these trumpist times...with a heavy bias in favor of women..i have lived with women all my life..and i like them...have pursued them...seen multiple facets of them in sixty odd years...the times is distorting their humanness for political expedience ) over some unnamed but important ( in the editors' eyes ) issue that i should care about deeply and will be some tone-deaf trumpsist slug if i don't jump on the bandwagon and add my voice tot he groupthink chorus...i have already been through the evils of sanitizing history and pc debate framing and the fact that this tease is an attempt to put as much of the time's slick advertising into the hands of as many readers as possible...it will be of interest to calculate the advertising revenues from this weeks magazine ( provided i get the damned paper )...it will all go into the archives as another example of the times goebbels-like stabs at grooming opinion to suit their needs...if politicians are whores ( and they are ) the bulk of journalists ( one assumes there is some integrity left in the trade..one also assumes they are not especially well read writers ) are their swinish stenographers.
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