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Journos Meltdown After Being Told 'Learn To Code' In Wake Of Mass Layoffs At HuffPo, Buzzfeed
InformationLiberation ^
| Jan. 24, 2019
| Chris Menahan
Posted on 01/25/2019 6:32:04 AM PST by Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
After news came out about mass layoffs at HuffPost, Buzzfeed and Gannett -- in the midst of the media's relentless smear-job against the Covington Catholic students -- right-wing Twitter had a field day.
Tons of leftist journalists announced they were laid off on Twitter and the top meme was telling them to "learn to code" -- which is the same advice the media gave middle Americans whose jobs are being taken in traditional industries.
Talia Levin, who was hired by Media Matters last year after being fired by the New Yorker for smearing an ICE agent as a Nazi because she thought a tattoo he had looked like an iron cross, got quite triggered:
Chloe Angyal, best known for penning the inflammatory "Goy Bye!" Huffington Post headline after Steve Bannon was ousted from the White House, was also laid off.
Yes, she has a *literal* PhD in Romantic Comedies.
The editor-in-chief of Jalopnik (which is now owned by the far-left Gizmodo Media Group) was also "trigged":
Smearing a bunch of children and trying to ruin their lives for smiling is "respectable journalism" -- but making fun of journalists for losing their jobs is just a step too far!
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To: Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
Turnabout is fair play. If you were a coal miner whose mine closed, a skilled assembler whose factory moved to China or logger whose job is lost to environmental regulations, LIBERALS TOLD YOU TO GO LEARN TO CODE.
Or you were told to go to college to learn something that you may not be able to find a job in AND take on debt doing so.
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posted on
01/25/2019 10:21:04 AM PST
by
tbw2
To: kosciusko51
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posted on
01/25/2019 10:30:43 AM PST
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Honestly, if they have a drinking or pot smoking problem, they won't be getting very good software jobs. Writing aircraft performance code, missile guidance, digital signal processing, anything "safety of life" is going to reject those candidates immediately.
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posted on
01/25/2019 10:47:06 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: wally_bert
I taught an embedded systems class with 6800 and 8085 trainers for my students. I had the 6800 op codes memorized to the point that I could write the code and assemble on the white board during my lecture without looking at the op code card. A nice gig from 1980 to 1983. A 20 minute read of K&R C was sufficient to make me productive. C++ followed a couple months later...that's been a moving target since 1983. The 2017 flavor of C++ is very changed vs 1983. I work in Java daily, C/C++ often. Kotlin is the latest language on my list. I play with LISP/Clojure as amusement. Ruby daily, python frequently. JavaScript frequently too. If you're not a polyglot in the computer language world, you won't be employed long. On one project it was necessary to be fluent in Ada, C, C++, FORTRAN, PL/SQL, Java and Javascript. Facility in Windows, Solaris, Linux was a given. DoD clearance and a very special skillset.
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posted on
01/25/2019 11:45:39 AM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Red Badger
Well honey, that's what happens when you take a four year major in ‘’journalism'' and ''communications'' with a minor in ''Afro/Haitian Dance''. You should have learned plumbing.
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posted on
01/25/2019 11:57:28 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
Decisions decisions...learn code or rehearse saying, “Would you like fries with that?”
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posted on
01/25/2019 12:06:17 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: jmacusa
They had no ‘Plan ‘B’”......................
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posted on
01/25/2019 12:07:01 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
ROL!!! That brainless bint has a “literal” PhD in romantic comedies???
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posted on
01/25/2019 12:09:36 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
“TO CLARA: People do. That’s why you’re out of a job................... “
That tribe will NEVER understand what U R saying...
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posted on
01/25/2019 12:19:42 PM PST
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: litehaus
That’s because she’s educated far beyond her intelligence..................
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posted on
01/25/2019 12:23:24 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: NorthMountain
Her PhD thesis must be priceless. I wonder if she focused on modern themes from movies such as “You’ve Got Mail” or “When Harry Met Sally,” or if she did a more retro study of fare like “Pillow Talk” and “Bringing Up Baby.”
Maybe she can get a new gig as a movie critic somewhere.
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posted on
01/25/2019 1:07:44 PM PST
by
Cecily
To: KC_Lion
Basic coding was offered even when I was in High School
BASIC was very basic. The stuff I learned how to do in high school doesn't even scratch the surface of what programmers do.
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posted on
01/25/2019 1:23:33 PM PST
by
x
To: marktwain
Yes. For most of the history of the Republic, most media was openly partisan.
Only during the Progressive era did the media pretend to be objective.
We are moving back to the healthier partisan media.
More honest, maybe, but not necessarily healthy.
When the only issue was the tariff, and maybe civil service reform, partisanship wasn't such a big deal.
When people disagree about everything, more partisan journalism may not be a great thing.
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posted on
01/25/2019 1:30:55 PM PST
by
x
To: x
More honest, maybe, but not necessarily healthy. When the only issue was the tariff, and maybe civil service reform, partisanship wasn't such a big deal.
When people disagree about everything, more partisan journalism may not be a great thing.
For good or ill, it is happening.
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posted on
01/25/2019 1:33:53 PM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: kosciusko51
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posted on
01/25/2019 2:50:50 PM PST
by
EDINVA
To: Myrddin
#124 If you’re not a polyglot in the computer language world, you won’t be employed long.
I have no idea what you just said. So maybe I can be a journalist :)
To: Myrddin
Nowadays you have to be a programmer, business analyst, and project manager all-in-one.
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posted on
01/25/2019 6:10:46 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Nope,they didn’t. For cryin’ out loud they probably don’t know what bathroom to use.
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posted on
01/25/2019 10:20:32 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Bitman
Probably would accidentally create SkyNet if they did...
To: Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
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posted on
01/27/2019 8:37:07 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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