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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by untog on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:47AM (#18997799)
One person that immediately comes to mind is David Hogg. They certainly never held back criticism of him because he's a minor, and a host made a strange attack on him via social media:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/31/fox-news-laura...

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Re:Why media layoffs keep happening by leereeves on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:44AM (#18999702)
That fails to convince me for at least three reasons:

1) Fox didn't say it; it was one host's personal Twitter comment.

2) David Hogg made himself a national media figure voluntarily

3) Criticising someone's GPA and college acceptance rate is not comparable to the hateful commentary about the Covington students.

The main thing I wonder about after reading that story is the aftermath. If eleven advertisers dropped Ingraham over that comment, how many have dropped the liberal media over their attacks on the Convington high school students?

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