I'm going to add one more thought, Dick. Small, "community" newspapers, in the face of There is no DeJoy in Mudville promising postal rate hikes to the horizon, with magazine slick paper costs also rising, etc., really need to rethink the small-newspaper magazine inserted in the paper idea, if they haven't. https://beloblogging.blogspot.com/2023/12/small-newspapers-not-getting-it-on.html
On the presidential clustering? Dear Leader, while outside of that gap, could, weirdly, be the only boomer prez by some definitions, and he's at the edge of it in my cutoff, which is 1960-61. (I'm a "70s kid"; I and others agree that we're neither Boomers nor Xers. If you were born too late to know JFK, but old enough to have at least been starting jr high when St. Ronald of Reagan was elected, you're in our mini-cohort.) That said, by my definition, if you start the Baby Boom cohort in 1942, and cheat a year past 1960, EVERY president in the past 32 years have been a Boomer.
Second, I doubt JoePa (most polite thing I can call him here) will step down. Despite a few Democratic apparatchiks reportedly wanting that, in reality? There would have to be a bigger smoke-filled back room than the one Obama and Harry Reid organized four years ago. I think it would blow up in some faces. And, if Hillary Clinton were trotted out as the alternative, it would blow up in even more.
Good to see your upbeat take on Threads the same day that Poynter's year-end roundup calls it "underwhelming" and says:
"There was hope that Threads could replace X as the go-to social media site for journalists, news and current events. . . . But that hasn’t happened. Threads is still around and maybe it just needs more time. But, for now, it hasn’t come close to replacing X."
Dick
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I'm going to add one more thought, Dick. Small, "community" newspapers, in the face of There is no DeJoy in Mudville promising postal rate hikes to the horizon, with magazine slick paper costs also rising, etc., really need to rethink the small-newspaper magazine inserted in the paper idea, if they haven't. https://beloblogging.blogspot.com/2023/12/small-newspapers-not-getting-it-on.html
On the presidential clustering? Dear Leader, while outside of that gap, could, weirdly, be the only boomer prez by some definitions, and he's at the edge of it in my cutoff, which is 1960-61. (I'm a "70s kid"; I and others agree that we're neither Boomers nor Xers. If you were born too late to know JFK, but old enough to have at least been starting jr high when St. Ronald of Reagan was elected, you're in our mini-cohort.) That said, by my definition, if you start the Baby Boom cohort in 1942, and cheat a year past 1960, EVERY president in the past 32 years have been a Boomer.
Second, I doubt JoePa (most polite thing I can call him here) will step down. Despite a few Democratic apparatchiks reportedly wanting that, in reality? There would have to be a bigger smoke-filled back room than the one Obama and Harry Reid organized four years ago. I think it would blow up in some faces. And, if Hillary Clinton were trotted out as the alternative, it would blow up in even more.
Good to see your upbeat take on Threads the same day that Poynter's year-end roundup calls it "underwhelming" and says:
"There was hope that Threads could replace X as the go-to social media site for journalists, news and current events. . . . But that hasn’t happened. Threads is still around and maybe it just needs more time. But, for now, it hasn’t come close to replacing X."