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"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.
The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.
Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."
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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry
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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:33PM (1 child)
You used to buy a newspaper or turn on the news for a general overview of what's going on in the world. And news agencies made a killing delivering this and little more than this - maybe some funnies on Sunday. Today? That's a worthless product. I can not only see what's going on, for free, but can even get live first-person footage or even chat with folks in the areas where it's happening. Some guy with a journalism degree isn't exactly bringing a whole lot to the table anymore. News agencies started collapsing. That's when they started saying society was collapsing, and are still struggling but are at least for now managing to tread water.
News has become entertainment. Not funny entertainment, but drama entertainment. People in the past would tune into 'soaps' to find out what was going to happen next week. And the stories were always awful, people dying and killing one another, people coming down with awful illnesses, cheating, and all sorts of nastiness. Now the media has tried to turn real life into this. And it's not hard. Especially in politics dirt is pretty much the name of the game. See how the media now present the actors in their stories. Mueller wasn't just some old prosecutor with a good record, he was a hard hitting and hard ass old school prosecutor who wouldn't take shit from anybody and would get to the bottom of any case no matter how big or small.
Something I always say, and continues to ring true, is that this week there's a name you've never heard of in your entire life. By the end of next week it'll be a new hero or villain that you'll be a complete expert on everything about. Of course in reality you won't know anything about him at all. All you'll have is a Hollywood style caricature made with about as much depth as your typical Hollywood film. But nonetheless it'll be enough to draw an attachment to him, be it either because he's your new beloved hero or your new despised villain. The news has chosen to compete with social media by turning themselves into story tellers where drama and relevance is secondary to saying whatever is necessary to get you to click today, and then again tomorrow.
And so no. When I actually judge day to day life as I see it - I see literally 0 evidence of any sort of collapse. It's only when you get drawn into our digital new-age soap operas that everything seems to be collapsing. And I'll admit there's some damn good entertainment there, but I do make an effort to keep it all at arm's length if not only because of seeing what happens to people who get too drawn into the game.
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Friday November 01 2019, @05:10PM
News has become entertainment, and this was predicted as far back as 1976 in the Chayefsky/Lumet film "Network". You know the one-- "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"