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To be fair there have been a bunch of headlines about a great many things, like office closures without mentioning the minor detail that the offices haven’t been used in years, the workforce is remote, and there is no impact on service delivery or staffing. Doesn’t stop journalists from dancing around the implication if it makes the orange man and mars man look bad though.

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I think you're trying to impart a political motive where it can be argued that none existed. I understand that your mind is made up, however consider that the whole initial effort by DOGE was clearly poorly planned and resulted in a lot of chaos.

For a journalistic perspective, when events are moving fast, you report what is known at a given time.

Hindsight is always 20/20 and no doubt there are some cases like you point out. However, are you sure that those are the only cases? The fact that the govt is scrambling to hire back fired people would suggest otherwise.

The desire to impute political bias to everything is not a useful way of viewing the world.

It is a realistic and accurate way to see the politicization of climate science. Bush, and the head of NASA Goddard is the documented and publicized example sans vacuum of disinformation.

No one cares about the physical offices. It's NOAA employees along with employees from many offices of the executive branch going on social media to talk about sudden loss of their email access or termination notices with no prior warning that's raising alarms.

Yeah? Is that why this list went from 400+ to 10?

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr...

Are these the journalists you have an issue with for reporting on it?

https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-do...

how do you know that the offices haven't been used in years and there is no impact unless a journalist told you? Is there any reason to trust rando twitter accounts besides the fact that it makes you feel better about "your side".

he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government, one you would likely dismiss as not a real journalist

I'm all for free media but the legacy outlets currently screaming about cuts are primarily upset because THEY just lost a ton of government funding but that's good because I don't want government run news, even if it comes in a bunch of brand names, and it's funny that all the "reputable" outlets just happen to be the ones with the closest relationships to the CIA and FBI and historically have covered for their worst injustices.

no, I do not shed a tear for what is happening to the old government controlled legacy media.

> he probably just believes a source that didn't turn out to be directly funded by the US government

One probably sponsored by the Russian government: https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential...

These days if something isn’t labeled as Russian propaganda it’s probably not true.

Simple. There is photographic evidence, and eyewitness accounts, by a celebrated journalist ego happens to be a friend of mine.

Musk is suddenly a fan of remote work?

Musk is suddenly a fan of anything that directly benefits him even if it directly contradicts previously made comments. I thought this was pretty much self-evident at this point

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