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Peyton Manning, not Tom Brady, is actually the GOAT, according to PFR’s Hall of Fame monitor metric – CBS Sports

One of the main narratives following Super Bowl LV was Tom Brady's undisputed claim as the NFL's GOAT. Even all-world receiver Jerry Rice conceded that title to Brady, who won his seventh Super Bowl and fifth Super Bowl MVP at age 43. While Brady's status as the GOAT can still be debated, his longevity and sustained excellence is truly peerless.

That being said, Brady is not the GOAT when it comes to a Pro Football Reference metric. The website created a "Hall of Fame Monitor"in 2019 that was designed to estimate a player's chances at being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Using approximate value, Pro Bowls, All-Pros, championships and other statistical milestones, the site created a point system to determine the pecking order at each position.

At quarterback, Peyton Manning holds the top spot with 258 points. Brady is No. 2 with 250.94 points, followed by Brett Favre (178.84 points), Aaron Rodgers (163.72 points), Johnny Unitas (169.34 points), Joe Montana (153.45 points), Drew Brees (140.5 points), John Elway (137.78 points), Fran Tarkenton (117.28 points), and Dan Marino (116.85 points). While Brady has five more rings than Manning, Manning's two titles, five MVP awards (compared to Brady's three) and seven All-Pro selections (compared to three for Brady) gives him a slight edge for the time being. But while Manning's career is about to be immortalized in Canton, Ohio, Brady can add to his point tally in the coming seasons.

Philip Rivers, who announced his retirement following the Colts' playoff loss to Buffalo, is actually 12th on Pro Football's QB Hall of Fame metric with 97.64 points. He's just behind Steve Young (112.98 points) and ahead of Barr Starr (97.53 points), Matt Ryan (97.43 points), and Ben Roethlisberger. (95.38 points).

Eli Manning, in case you were wondering, is 21st on the list with 83.41 points. While his point tally is well short of the Hall of Fame average, Manning's ranking is higher than Hall of Famers Joe Namath (82.5 points), Bob Griese (73.45 points), Troy Aikman (64.85 points), and Jim Kelly (59.1 points), among others. He also has more points than current Seahawks quarterbackRussell Wilson (74.2 points).

While Brady can still catch Manning, Rice's place atop the wide receiver food chain is pretty secure. Rice's 311.81 points are more than twice as many as the second-ranked receiver, Randy Moss (149.59 points). While Moss' 23 touchdown catches in 2007 remains a single-season record, Rice's three rings, 10 All-Pro selections (compared to four for Moss) and 13 Pro Bowls (Moss was a six-time Pro Bowler) put him in a class by himself.

Here's a look at the top-five players at each position, according to Pro Football Reference's Hall of Fame Monitor. We'll also include current players who are close to the average point total for Hall of Famers at their position.

Peyton Manning -- 258 points

Tom Brady -- 250.94 points

Brett Favre -- 178.84 points

Aaron Rodgers -- 163.72 points

Johnny Unitas -- 160.34 points

Average point tally for HOF quarterbacks: 104

Notable current players: Matt Ryan (97.43 points), Ben Roethlisberger (95.38 points), Russell Wilson (74.20 points)

Walter Payton -- 214.91 points

Jim Brown -- 182.41 points

Barry Sanders -- 178.05 points

Emmitt Smith -- 176.30 points

LaDainian Tomlinson -- 136.15 points

Average point total for HOF running backs: 107

Notable current players: Adrian Peterson (123.85 points), Frank Gore (100.05 points), LeSean McCoy (83.14 points)

Interesting nugget: Brown led the NFL in rushing for eight of his nine seasons. His 1,863-yard season in 1963 was the most ever at that time.

Jerry Rice -- 311.81 points

Randy Moss -- 149.59 points

Marvin Harrison -- 147.60 points

Larry Fitzgerald -- 140.92 points

Terrell Owens -- 139.83 points

Average point total for HOF wide receivers: 105

Notable current players: Fitzgerald, Julio Jones (100.82 points), Antonio Brown (98.7 points)

Interesting nugget: In just 12 games, Rice caught 22 touchdown passes in 1987, which stood at the single-season record until Moss caught 23 touchdowns in 2007.

Tony Gonzalez -- 196.33 points

Antonio Gates -- 113.63 points

Shannon Sharpe -- 113.23 points

Dave Casper -- 111.62 points

Jason Witten -- 105.62 points

Average point total for HOF tight ends: 98

Notable current players: Rob Gronkowski (89.51 points), Travis Kelce (73.16 points)

Interesting nugget: Of the top-five tight ends on this list, only Sharpe and Casper played on Super Bowl-winning teams. Sharpe won back-to-back titles with the Broncos; Casper caught a touchdown pass in the Raiders' win over Minnesota in Super Bowl XI.

Bruce Matthews -- 158.7 points

John Hannah -- 153.1 points

Randall McDaniel -- 148.75 points

Alan Faneca -- 134.23 points

Larry Little -- 133.73 points

Average point total for HOF guards: 110

Notable current players: Zack Martin (67.78 points), David DeCastro (44.33 points), Mike Iupati (37.43 points)

Interesting nugget: Five of Matthews' 14 Pro Bowl selections came at center, as Matthews temporarily switched positions midway through his career.

Anthony Munoz -- 160.65 points

Forrest Gregg -- 139.5 points

Jim Parker -- 121.25 points

Ron Yary -- 120.18 points

Willie Roaf -- 117.3 points

Average point total for HOF offensive tackle: 101

Notable current players: Jason Peters (89.7 points), Tyron Smith (73 points), Andrew Whitworth (59.65 points)

Interesting nugget: Gregg, a key member of the Packers' 1960s dynasty, actually coached Munoz in Cincinnati from 1980-83. The duo helped the Bengals reach their first Super Bowl in 1981.

Dermontti Dawson -- 128.23 points

Jim Otto -- 124.78 points

Mike Webster -- 117.6 points

Dwight Stephenson -- 111.95 points

Kevin Mawae -- 99.05 points

Average point total for HOF centers: 109

Notable current players: **Maurkice Pouncey (73.78 points), Alex Mack (64.58 points), Jason Kelce (51.28 points)

** -- Pouncey retired following the 2020 season

Interesting nugget: Dawson succeeded Webster in Pittsburgh following Webster's departure for Kansas City in 1989. For a 25-year span, the Steelers had a top-five all-time center manning their offensive line.

Bob Lilly -- 159.2 points

Alan Page -- 157.1 points

Randy White -- 142.18 points

Joe Greene -- 136.53 points

John Randle -- 135.6 points

Average point total for HOF defensive tackles: 114 points

Notable current players: Aaron Donald (127.63 points), Ndamukong Suh (79.98 points), Geno Atkins (75.85 points), Fletcher Cox (71.98 points)

Interesting nugget: Page became the first defensive player to win league MVP in 1971. While he never won league MVP, Greene succeeded Page as Defensive Player of the Year in 1972. He won the honor for a second time in 1974, while also winning the first of four Super Bowls over a six-year span.

Reggie White -- 237.75 points

Bruce Smith -- 211.35 points

Jack Youngblood -- 124.15 points

J.J. Watt -- 123.88 points

Michael Strahan -- 123.6 points

Average point total for HOF defensive ends: 103

Notable current players: Watt, Calais Campbell (77.58 points), Cameron Jordan (69.1 points), Chandler Jones (62.63 points)

Interesting nugget: The NFL's first big free agent signee, White helped deliver Green Bay's first title in 29 years with his three-sack effort in the Packers' win over the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI.

Ray Lewis -- 197.03 points

Mike Singletary -- 171 points

Jack Lambert -- 151.65 points

Dick Butkus -- 128.85 points

Luke Kuechly -- 118.4 points

Average point total for HOF inside linebackers: 114

Notable current players: Bobby Wagner (96.68 points), K.J. Wright (35.4 points), Sean Lee (26.5 points)

Interesting nugget: Butkus and Kuechly were not penalized for having relatively short careers. Butkus retired after nine seasons and 119 career games. Kuechly played eight seasons and in 118 regular season games before retiring after the 2019 season.

Lawrence Taylor -- 215.68 points

Derrick Brooks -- 162.8 points

Jack Ham -- 143.7 points

Ted Hendricks -- 137.35 points

Junior Seau -- 119.58 points

Average point total for outside linebackers: 106

Notable current players: Khalil Mack (83.35 points), Lavonte David (42.45 points), Justin Houston (39.25 points)

Interesting nugget: Taylor joined Page as the NFL's only defensive league MVPs in 1986. He led the NFL with 20.5 sacks that season while also leading the Giants to their first Super Bowl title.

Rod Woodson -- 118.05 points

Deion Sanders -- 174.43 points

Ronnie Lott -- 173.75 points

Ed Reed -- 150.4 points

Willie Wood -- 130.73 points

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Monroe County police officers vetted at annual award banquet – Monroe Evening News

A police corporal wounded in the line of duty, two young detectives eager to make a difference in their community, and the Village of Dundee's do-it-all sergeant have beennamedthe 2020 Monroe County Police Officers of the Year.

Detective Michael Swiercz of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Detective/Trooper Jordan Long of the Michigan State Police-Monroe Post, Cpl. Renae Peterson of the City of Monroe Police Department, and Sgt. Randy Sehl of the Village of Dundee Police Department received their awards Thursday at the Exchange Club of Monroe's annual banquet. While attendance was limited due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a group of law enforcement members and elected officials gathered to recognize not only the four honorees, but the thousands of other police officerswho risk their lives to protect Monroe County.

"...It is a most challenging time to serve as a police officer, particularly with the proliferation of firearms and perplexing lack of respect for authority...," saidMonroeCounty Circuit Judge Mark S. Braunlich, chairman of the recognition program andemcee of Thursday's banquet."Despite the danger from ambushers and criminals willing to engage police in combat with firearms, the Thin Blue Line holds. Regrettably, the Thin Blue Line is increasingly shrouded with a black veil. These sobering news reports and tragic deaths are a stark reminder of the dangers our law enforcement professionals face each and every day while protecting and serving our communities.

"We must not take for granted their service and sacrifice. We must foster and reinforce the respect due to police officers."

Braunlich went on to say that one of the things that makes Monroe County unique is the level of cooperation that exists between the various components of its criminal justice system.

"An exceptional working relationship exists between police and prosecutors, between police and judges, between prosecutors and judges, and finally between the judges themselves," he said.

Cpl. Renae Peterson, City of Monroe Police Department

Monroe Police ChiefCharlesMcCormick's voice wavered several times as he recounted how Cpl. Renae Peterson was severely wounded in acarjacking and gunfire exchange that occurred last May.

A 17-year veteran of the police force, Peterson was responding to a report that two male suspects had pistol-whipped a victim before stealing the victim's vehicle by force. Peterson made contact with the suspects, but she was ambushed and fired upon by one of the two young men.

"Although she was critically wounded, she fought back like the warrior that she is," McCormick said. "She returned fire towards him, and forced him to retreat and flee the area on foot."

Both McCormick and Peterson acknowledged the quartet of officers whoresponded to the scene to assist Peterson and pursue her shooter and his accomplice. They both thanked Officer Seth Gonyea andLt. Dan Clanton, who worked together to apply pressure to Peterson's wounds, as well as officers Ryan Parise and Jacob Winter, who along with deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Officepursued the suspects on foot and apprehended them before they could cause further harm.

Gonyea and Clanton were previously awarded the Monroe Police Department's Life Saving Award, while Parise and Winter earned the department's Medal of Valor.

This is Peterson's second Officer of the Year award, as she also received onein 2016. For her actions in the May shooting, she has also received the Monroe Police Department's Medal of Valor and Purple Heart awards.

"She's battled cancer, she's battled bullets, and I'm proud to give her this award," McCormick said.

In her acceptance speech, Peterson cited the Bible verse Isaiah 6:8: "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?'And I said, 'Here am I. Send me!'"

"I have a passion to protect the innocent, to protect those who call upon us for help," she said. "I now my coworkers in the department feel the same way, because this is what we do... Thank you again for allowing me to share some of my appreciation, and I want everyone to know I have so much more to give in law enforcement.

"When citizens need help, we answer 'send me.'"

Detective Michael Swiercz,Monroe County Sheriff's Office

When Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough arrived at the scene of theFebruary 1 shooting in Frenchtown Township, he was almost immediately approached by Detective Michael Swiercz.

"He took it upon himself to enlighten me, he said 'Sheriff, I'm in charge here, this is my case,'" Goodnough said, smiling as he toldthe story to the guests at Thursday's banquet. "That's the kind of leadership we want in the sheriff's office... As a new detective, Michael jumped in with two feet, working on complex, major felony investigations that are typically reserved for veteran detectives. We truly value the dedication and commitment Michael brings to the sheriff's office each and every day."

Swiercz said he is "truly honored and humbled to be chosen among equally deserving officers I work with every single day."

"Above all, I have to thank my family for their understanding, and their support, and especially their patience with me as I've grown in my police career," the South Rockwood native added. "Mine and all the family members in here deserve awards for all the sleepless nights and stresses our careers put to them."

Detective/Trooper Jordan Long of the Michigan State Police-Monroe Post

Michigan State Police First Lt. GregMorenko, commander of the Monroe post, explained that his department typically honors a uniform trooper with the Officer of the Year award.

"We decided to go with a detective/trooper this year...," Morenko explained in introducing Detective/Trooper Jordan Long. "This award, not to sound sappy, but it's kind of special to me. I remember Jordan when he was a brand new trooper, and I've gotten to see him turn into who he is today. It's been fun to watch, and I'm proud to see what he's turned into."

Long's commanding officer, DetectiveLt. MarcMoore, said that Long has time and time again proven he's willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

"There might be nights where he works until 8, 9, 10 o'clock at night, then comes in in the middle of the night to follow up on an investigation, which could mean putting trackers on cars, or pulling trash, or doing surveillance," Moore said. "That wears somebody down, it's tough on the person and their families. A lot of flexibility goes into the job, and a lot of it is for the greater good. (Long) does this consistently, he works many hours, comes in early for search warrants, stays in late for whatever cases that he's working on. I can't stress that enough, how important that is."

Moore went on to praise Long for his willingness to use every resource at his disposal during an investigation.

"He's been with us a few years now, and the guy has been a rockstar," Moore said. "We're a small team of guys, and we're all kind of grasping for time based on priorities, but everybody kind of follows Jordan because he really does lead the way.

"He's an outstanding detective."

Long did not give an acceptance speech, but he did thank his wife as well as Morenko and Moore.

Sgt. Randy Sehl of the Village of Dundee Police Department

Dundee Village Manager Dave Uhl said that Sgt. Randy Sehl has always been the go-to guy of the village's police department, dating back to when Uhl was the police chief.

Uhl was the one who hired Sehl back in 1996. Sehlruns the department's Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) and Shop-With-a-Cop programs, as well as its social media accounts. He's also been a DARE officer for 17 years, with well over 3,000 children going through his classes.

"I've always considered him an all-around officer...," Uhl said. "If there's a difficult situation, or if there's a disgruntled citizen or a sticky situation that needs to be handled, I'll always send Randy out to calm the situation down and talk to everyone. I can tell you, about every time, there's no further complaints after Randy has handled a situation. He's that kind of go-to guy."

Sehl said that law enforcement is a team effort. He also encouraged his fellow officers to stay positive in the face of the negativity law enforcement as a whole has faced due to recent events across the country.

"Just stay positive," he said. "This is my 32nd year as a police officer, I'm proud to say that I'm a police officer and I will continue to do that."

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Pitchers and Catchers report: Milwaukee Brewers non-roster invitees looking to win a spot – Brew Crew Ball

Part of the fun of spring training is watching the list of non-roster invitees and seeing if any can grab a big league spot out of camp.

While the Brewers seem to have most of their starting spots outside of third base figured out heading into camp, theres still a chance someone forces their way into the conversation the way guys like Ji-man Choi, Jesus Aguilar and others have in the past.

Heres the list of guys who are getting a chance this spring without being on the 40-man roster:

RHP Brad BoxbergerRHP Jordan ZimmermannLHP Blaine HardyLHP Hoby MilnerLHP Clayton AndrewsLHP Aaron AshbyRHP Zack BrownRHP Jake CousinsRHP Thomas JankinsRHP Miguel SanchezLHP Ethan SmallLHP Quintin Torres-Costa

3B Travis Shaw1B/3B Zach GreenSS Brice TurangC Payton Henry3B Travis Shaw

LF/RF Dylan CozensOF/IF Pablo ReyesOF/IF Jace PetersonOF Tristen LutzOF Garrett Mitchell

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Guy who got roasted for using dog shampoo really wants to be known as "the guy who got roasted for using dog s – The A.V. Club

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Canada is no longer lending the United States its best celebrities. At one point, its most famous cultural ex-pats were actors like Ryan Gosling, Sandra Oh, Michael J. Fox, and Keanu Reeves or musicians like Drake, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and the members of bands like Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, and Wolf Parade. More recently, though, Canadas most notable exports have been dominated by people like Gavin McInnes and Jordan Peterson, Lauren Southern and Stephan Molyneux, and, the latest celebrity to garner international attention, the guy who tweeted about not realizing he was using dog shampoo for several months.

The person in question is Jonathan Kay, a well known figure in Canadian media whose current job is senior editor of the right-wing reactionary rag Quillette. Unable to resist needlessly posting the transcendent self own that hes been washing his hair for the last few months with dog shampoohe assumes this is common because of the 4-pt typeface labelling it for pets next to the photo of a happy dogKay found himself the butt of many internet jokes.

Rather than ignore the mockery, Kay took the tweeting through it approacha risky move that almost always, as it did here, makes the initial embarrassment worse. In this case, it led fellow Canadian Seth Rogen to tweet a reply to Kay that reads: youre stupid.

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When Kay tried to turn the insult into another joke, Rogen replied that he wasnt trolling Kay, adding, for good measure, This was objectively stupid.

Undaunted, Kays continued in a desperate attempt to salvage his internet reputation by tweeting more and more about it, changing his profile picture to a photo of the dog shampoos dog, and basically just doing everything possible to ensure that he will forever be known as the guy who washed his hair with dog shampoo.

Kays mom, also a very well known Canadian media figure, even tried to help her son, making everything worse in the process. And then last night, to ensure that even those without Twitter would know exactly how goofy this all is, Kay appeared on Fox News to cement his reputation.

To nobodys surprise, the segment, including its chyron Adult Journalists Mom Defends Him From Seth Rogen, has given fresh attention to the fact that Jonathan Kay will forever be known across the world as the dog shampoo guy.

Wed like to think this is the end of the whole thing, but, having seen how things have gone so far, a few weeks from now will probably see Kay appearing in a dog shampoo ad, helping Arm & Hammer in a bid to advertise its products as human-friendly.

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In Big Tech world: The Journalist as Censor, Hit Man, and Snitch – Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

At Substack, one of an increasing number of independent news and opinion sites, lawyer and civil rights activist Glenn Greenwald looks at a disturbing trend in journalism today. The rise of the journalist as tattletale and censor, rather than investigative reporter:

A new and rapidly growing journalistic beat has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.

Whereas an investigative reporter succeeds by getting the story right, tattletales can succeed even if they get the story wrong. Censors can succeed even if their concerns are wholly misdirected quite apart from whether censorship is a valid enterprise anyway.

Greenwald (pictured) cites a number of recent instances:

A star New York Times tech reporter, Taylor Lorenz, falsely accused tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen of having used the slur world retarded in an online discussion of Reddit activities. In fact, a woman in the discussion room had used the wordit is a self-description on the part of some Redditors. Without offering any apology for failure to listen carefully, Lorenz lectured the world about insensitivity, then locked her Twitter account. She likely faces no consequences.

Forty-five-year veteran New York Times science reporter Donald McNeill, on a field trip with high school students in Peru, used the n-word while discussing with a student whether it was fair that one of her classmates was punished for using it in a video. Greenwald: McNeil used it not with malice or as a racist insult but to inquire about the facts of the video so he could answer the students question. New York Times management was inclined to issue only a reprimand but dozens of Times journalists insisted on much more serious punishment, so he was fired.

Greenwald cautions that these widely publicized examples are by no means isolated ones:

These examples of journalism being abused to demand censorship of spaces they cannot control are too numerous to comprehensively chronicle. And they are not confined to those three outlets. That far more robust censorship is urgently needed is now a virtual consensus in mainstream corporate journalism: its an animating cause for them.

Indeed. One might also cite the recent, almost incomprehensibly vicious attack on Jordan Peterson, author the bestseller 12 Rules for Life, by Decca Aitkenhead of the Sunday Times of London. She interviewed Peterson and his daughter Mikhaila, who has seen her father through serious health problems over the past two years (her mother is recovering from a battle with cancer). Under the circumstances, the family would hardly seem appropriate subjects for a full-on assault. But thats what happened.

Mikhaila Peterson released the unedited transcript for the world to see how grievous the misrepresentation has been. But not everyone is so lucky and Aitkenhead likely faces few consequences other than the approval of like-minded colleagues.

Then there was the 2019 misrepresentation by George Eaton at New Statesman of British philosopher and writer Roger Scruton (19442020) as a racist as the result of an interview. The misrepresentation led to his being unceremoniously dumped from a government committee.

Author and commentator Douglas Murray, suspecting that Sir Roger would not really have said those things, began a search and eventually came into possession of the tape and transcript. He notes, What the tape showed beyond doubt is that George Eaton misled his readers to try to destroy the reputation of Britains foremost conservative thinker. Readers and listeners can listen to and read the interview themselves and find their favorite examples of Eatons dishonesty. He offers a few favorites of his own. (National Review, April 29, 2019)

Murray comments, To say that this is the sort of thing that has degraded public discourse is to wildly understate things.

Well, yes, but whats behind it? Greenwald offers, regarding the new breed of journalists,

They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers: the military-industrial complex, the CIA and FBI, the clandestine security state, Wall Street, Silicon Valley monopolies, the corrupted and lying corporate media outlets they serve. So settling on this penny-ante, trivial bullshit tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing: all in the most anti-intellectual, adolescent and primitive ways is all they have. Its all they are. Its why they have fully earned the contempt and distrust in which the public holds them.

How did we get here?

Ive been in the news business fifty years. Heres my view: The single biggest factor in all this is that traditional media are no longer a necessary institution.

In the 1970s, one needed a newspaper to find out the weather, the scores, and who had a bicycle for sale. Hit pieces sometimes appeared, of course. But generally speaking, the investigative journalist was, well, investigating, not plotting to take someone down just for the sake of it. There were plenty of bad landlords, corrupt officeholders, shoddy builders, etc., to focus on. It was difficult and sometimes dangerous work.

But we have specialty web sites and consumer groups for all that today. Its all online.

Today, the newspaper (along with generic TV and radio) are echo chambers for opinion for cultural reasons, that usually means progressive opinion. When an institution is no longer needed, its mission usually changes. The people attracted to it change too.

One suspects that Greenwald is right: The sort of people who would launch baseless attacks and refuse to apologize, destroy colleagues careers over misunderstood conversations, and ridicule or misrepresent old or sick men probably could not do an exhausting eight-month, on-the-ground investigation into corruption at the Municipal Housing Board. So, increasingly, they do what they can: Misrepresentation and speech policing.

One outcome of the increasing prevalence in media of the type of people Greenwald describes is a very great decline in the perceived value of freedom of speech and of the media. Twenty years ago, media people understood freedom of speech to mean, I want the right to report, with evidence, that the mayor fixes drunk driving tickets for upper class twits. Today, many in media understand it to mean I want the right to spout hate against visible and sexual minorities. Because that truly is all they do understand it to be. And they want a crackdown. Until then, they will act as police themselves.

Increasingly, the organizations many new journalists work for are owned by companies eyeing the Chinese market. That entails the need to get along with a totalitarian state. Perhaps it is best for them to get used to the mentality first. It is best for the rest of us to view their output with a skeptical eye and seek out smaller, alternative, independent sources of news.

You may also wish to read: Escaping the news filter bubble: Three simple tips. Spoiler: Reduce the amount of information big providers have about YOU. (Russ White)

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