35 Replies to “Can “Journalism” Sink Any Further?”

  1. This no surprise. Practically all who work in the news business are leftist idiots.
    I read the Calgary Sun and National Post this morning. Both were full of leftist “reporters” subliminally adding their opinions to news articles. What is presented as “news” is really blatant propaganda. I’m certain the Grope and Fail and the Toronto Brown Star are worse.

  2. David Leavitt claims to be an award-winning journalist, having published at CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, and so on. He also claims to be so strapped for cash that he hasn’t been able to go to the dentist for three years. Wouldn’t be my first place to cut, but that’s just me.

    Seems, then, that Leavitt’s award-winning career has hit a low spot. It’s about to sink lower, I think.

    1. My fellow SDAers, we can sleep comfortably knowing that there are people like him out there. He’s fighting corporate crime wherever he finds it. He’s a journalist, a champion of the people, striving for truth, justice, and soyboyism. (Cue stirring background music.)

      After all, if he wasn’t doing that, can you imagine how lousy a coder he’d be?

      1. It annoys me when I hear the expression “learn to code”. Most people can learn how to code small boutique applications, but not many have what it takes to be a sound software engineer, journalists least of all.

      3. You’re triggering the left by using their example of how former coal miners could easily find work that would pay as well (or better) if they could only go to school… but they won’t because they’re so dumb! hahahahaha. When mining recovered and journalists started to get laid off, the same comment, thrown back at them, was an existential threat. That’s hurtful, the people NEED us to tell them what to think.

        Every job has people that are better at it than other people are, or ever will be. The idea that government sponsored! education can immediately make someone into an expert in a field they know little about to start is insulting to those who are very, very good in that field.

  3. As a former store owner/retailer, while I think that all journalists are douchebags, I agree with him on this. Target obviously screwed up on the pricing of this item so they should suffer the consequences. If you buy gas at a service station (at least where I live) it clearly states that if there is a discrepancy between the price at the pump and the one inside the price on the pump applies. Also there are signs in many retail establishments suggesting that if there is a price discrepancy you get the product for free.
    The problem here is that some uncaring minimum wage employee put up the sign without noticing/or caring that it was wrong. She/he was probably talking on their cell phone while doing it. Target should suck it up and train their employees better.
    There are many companies (such as MacDonalds) that train their employees well.Others not so much. They usually eventually fail. Want a good example. Target in Canada failed and closed ALL their stores.

    1. I locked horns with someone over the very same thing at one time. The store in question was the old Willson’s. I picked up some stationery items and thought the price on the shelf where I found them was correct. Apparently, they had been placed there by mistake.

      I ended up paying full price, but it was the attitude of the clerk that riled me. I called its customer service office only to end up with a pre-soyboy type who didn’t seem like he was all there. He offered an insincere apology and babbled something about maybe having the clerk in question having to read some book (Raving Fans, I think), as if that was going to solve the problem.

      I gave Willsons a lot of my business over the years but I saw how, in the latter stages, its staff had a progressively lousy attitude. It came as no surprise to me when the chain went belly up about 20 years ago.

      And, no, Staples isn’t any better.

      1. ” Staples isn’t any better.”

        Yes. Neither are most other places. It is the times we live in. I’m sorry, but it’s true. I fail to see how things can get better or
        even back to where they once were. People say shit like, “OK, Boomer,” but we Boomers lived in the Golden Age.

        1. At least 20 years ago, stores used to be run by experienced older adults who knew how to do their jobs. Now, most of them are managed by young kids, many barely out of high school, and often lacking in a sense of responsibility. Then again, teenagers are cheaper than adults, aren’t they?

          Whenever I can, I avoid places like that. I want to deal with outfits that are run by people who know what they’re doing.

          1. “I want to deal with outfits that are run by people who know what they’re doing.”

            You must tell me how to find such establishments. I too would like to frequent them.

    2. Seriously? A mature adult would listen to the Target employee explain that it was an error…and then go about his shopping. A self-centered, attention seeking moron would make a thing out of it. Incidentally, there is case law that establishes that the troglodyte in question doesn’t have a leg to stand on in civil court.

      This whole “LOOK AT ME” culture is tiring, annoying, and outright juvenile.

    3. Horny Toad read the article and look at the pictures. The price tag clearly shows “DISPLAY”

      1. “The price tag clearly shows “DISPLAY”

        Yes, it does. And the display should have the correct price for the sale item. What is the point of putting $.01 there?
        If a customer wants to buy the display item then the typically have to talk to a sales agent and verbally ask for the display item at which time they will be told by the agent the off-sale price of the display item.

        I’m not arguing for the douchebag here. I’m saying the Target staff screwed the pooch on this and Target would typically take the hit and then change the display so as not to take another hit at that price. Try to remember that Target is getting about a 60% markup on this item so the one-time hit ain’t worth the bad publicity. In Alberta, the judge would be PISSED to have to decide such a niggling issue and slap Target upside the head. Judges and their time are expensive.

        1. A store where I shop for groceries used to get the prices wrong very often. Their policy was first item for free up to $10 bucks. I very often got the first item for free.

          Then the economy went for shit and they got better employees and started getting more serious about proper pricing. Now I rarely get a free item. Usually if I challenge the price I’m wrong because of fine print on the lable that I can not easily read without my glasses, or, a similar item put on the wrong shelf. I like to think my earlier vigilance helped them get serious about displaying their pricing better. But, maybe not?

    4. In Canada it is called ‘the scanners code of practice’. Remember that not all stores support it. If the item is priced differently on the shelf compared to the till, the shelf price dominates. However, it is only the first $10 that is free. You still have to pay the difference after $10 is subtracted.

      1. So the customer has to wait until that display is no longer needed, and then can buy the display version.

        The pricing for the boxed version that no one else has touched are listed beside the boxes. It’s not that difficult.

  4. I disagree. If the discrepancy is minor then sure — the store should pay the difference. Had the toothbrush been marked at $74 rather than $89 then I say that’s the price. But if it’s an obvious error over a serious amount of money then common sense should prevail.

    Suppose you walk into a car dealership, and see a new car with a sticker saying $38 rather than $38,000. Should the dealership feel obliged to sell at that price? No reasonable person — and no court — would say so.

  5. “Suppose you walk into a car dealership, and see a new car with a sticker saying $38 rather than $38,000.”

    Suppose that same dealership advertises that same car for $28000. (its not uncommon for car dealers to publish the SRP and then have a huge discount) You take the afternoon off work, drive for an hour to get there (at least in Vancouver where it takes you an hour to get ANYWHERE) to go and purchase this car and when you get there the salesman says “well we don’t have that car but how about this one that is $7000 more”. How would you feel then.
    Your comment that if the discrepancy is small they should cover it but if its large not so much.
    Reminds me of the guy who walks up to an attractive lady and says “would you go to bed with me for a million dollars”. She says yes and then the guy says “well how about $10” Shes says “what do you think I am?” He says “we have already established that.We’re just haggling over the price”

      1. Yes. It is pointed out further down in the a**wipe’s Twitter feed that the actual statute he claims was broken and why he will file a complaint against the store clearly states that a store does NOT have to honor a marked price that is less than 30% of the lowest price they have charged for the item in the previous 90 days, because the price marking is considered a “gross error”.

        That doesn’t even matter because, as noted above by ChrisinMB, the $0.01 was clearly marked “Display” so the a**wipe was completely wrong in thinking he deserved a completely new packaged item for that price.

    2. You’re example is one of false advertising — bait and switch. Clearly unethical.

      My example was one of an honest mistake. I say the store should honour an honest mistake if it’s not too serious. Their choice, but they don’t want to look dishonest. An outrageous error, on the other, is just that — an error, and they should not feel bound to it.

  6. Under common law and consumer law, you can always fix an error. Why didn’t the police charge the turd with wasting their time? I could never get the RCMP to investigate a real crime much less a petty civil offense.

    1. scar. if it had been the killer elite there would have been a lot more than one of them and in the drunken brawl probably one of them would have accidentally shot the guy. on second thought maybe that would be a good thing.

    2. ” Why didn’t the police charge the turd with wasting their time?”

      In Alberta, the police wouldn’t have even have showed up or given them any time at all. I had a friend whose truck was broken into and had the CD player stolen out of it back in the ’80s. He drove his truck right up to the Cop Shop and the cops wouldn’t even come out and dust it for finger prints so that if they caught a theft the cops would be able to cross reference the fingerprints this his crime and recover his property.
      Same thing with a number of smash-n-grab crimes in the parking lot of Nose Creek Park in Calgary. Cops didn’t do diddly squat.
      It’s like they want citizens to do all the crime solving right up to surveillance and IDing the perp, then lay out the evidence for the cops to make a case, do the old ultra-violent threats/trigger pulling/arrest and rap it up for the Crown/Clown.

  7. Some of the “legendary” journalists for many decades were also Leftist activists posing as journalists. Noticeable among them are Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America,” who sat in a bar in Saigon and verbally turned the Viet Cong’s abject failure of the Tet offensive into their victory. Also of course, Dan Rather, who actually faked a document. And they were the norm rather than the exception, even then.

    1. Answer me this, Ol’Bear.
      What was the overarching American interest in being in Vietnam and spending so much Blood and Treasure there?
      President John Kennedy wanted out. Why did LBJ force America to go there and then lose? And lets not forget that LBJ was a Leftist.
      I’ll tell you right now that Richard Nixon was elected to get America out and he did it by bombing North Vietnam with B52s.
      LBJ could have won the Vietnam War in ’64 in 2 MONTHS by bombing North Vietnam and the Blood and Treasure need not have been spent that way.
      Damn man. My Boomer generation is vilified for not taking up the War Cry of the WWII generation and defeating the enemy like they did but I need to tell you this …They bombed European cities into RUBBLE to win WWII and they made my generation fight toe-to-toe with foreign jungle bunnies, while falling into shit-dipped punji stick pits, for NO Discernable National Interest whatsoever.
      And all these Vietnamese people wanted was National Unification.

  12. There is no lower bar.
    For years we have been wondering :”how low can they go?”
    and it seems to the point of self destruction and beyond.
    Doxxing private citizens for media gain,was an obvious own goal..except to the media critters.
    Fake News,interjecting the emotions of an empty talking head, over basic reporting of events,so childish no adult would try it..our media swarmed all over this “technique”.
    Telling us what we should think and all we “need” to know.
    Over the top we know better than you..sneering,mocking and belittling those who doubt” the narrative”.
    Only smart in a bubble,result paid subscribers vanishing,add money moving on and bankruptcy closing in.
    So there is no too low.

    The best part of the media’s hole digging technique,is no burial required.
    They have dig the pit they will die in,soon enough it will slump in forming just another depression in the park.
    At least the future plants will love them.

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