Imagine dialing 911 and the operator says “Nine Eleven, what’s your emergency?”
“Nine eleven what’s your emergency?”
“Hi, I’d like to report a nine eleven.”
“Oh jeez”
Oh no…they did a 9/11 in Minnesota??
I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their “911” hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our “sacred tragedy 9/11” to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said “oh no no no no no no no” and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table’s bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
Haha thank you I couldn’t figure out what 9/11 had to do with all this
I’ve noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it’s supposed to be or what has happened that’s making people add the slash now…
The emergency phone number has always been written as 911. I have no idea why people are writing a phone number as a date suddenly.
No, these are people who are either incredibly dumb or have somehow never seen anyone write “911” down but have heard somone joking about “dialing nine eleven”
Don’t fuck with Amna Nawaz.
She has quickly risen to be one of my S-Tier journalists.
I remember when Judy Woodruff was still the anchor during Jan 6th, she was just beside herself saying “there was no way we could have known!” Cue Amna Nawaz with “We did know. He told us, many times” as she proceeds to list several examples.
So happy to see her take over. Bless you, Amna.
I remember that! I’ve been really impressed with her often on-the-ground reporting both in places like the southern border where she humanizes many of the migrants, and especially her work in Gaza.
She and Nick Schifrin are doing real work.
Lisa Desjardins (sp?) is also incredible.
Absolutely. Her steadfast reporting at Congress over the years has been awesome. Really, the whole team is top notch and I’d be proud to work with any of them.
Gonna need to change her name to Sirhan Sirhan after that kill.
PBS Newshour is legit.
Love PBS Newshour.
Also love the effort they put into making sure everyone can access the program.
Full episodes on YouTube the day of and they also livestream the episodes on YouTube as they air.
Man annoyed that he has never been important spends an inordinate sum of money to prove once and for all that he isn’t important.
Just shows that money really can’t buy you happiness, and it certainly can’t buy you common sense.
Such a sick burn that I damaged my eyes reading it.
lmaoooooooo
I heard this in Sloan Sabbath’s voice
Ha, good show.
I don’t know what’s going on. Someone explain it to me?
The photo has two individuals in it. The interviewer is on the left, Amna Nawaz, is responding to a question by asking one of his own, “does everyone in your family agree with you?” To which her response is to reply that, “I think that they’d vote for me if I ran for president.”
RFK, Jr family has come out against his presidential campaign. I believe they have aligned with the Biden campaign.
The burn here implies that: if you can’t even get your own family votes, how can you expect to get American voters?
You just hit me right in the wholesome. I appreciate your response very much. I have been conditioned to expect condescending responses and yours was informative to answer the persons question.
May the road rise up to meet you.Thanks, I originally read that backwards first and was confused.
Why does he have a name and not her?
Because this story is about him, not her. You don’t have to see gender conflict everywhere.
I don’t actually care about gender? Who inserted that? Wtf?
It’s about her to me.
Sorry that you are offended.
Journalists are never the story. The profession is completely designed around that their job is to present the story and when other people write about how the story was presented in that they need to mention the journalist, they’ll mention them by their news org, such as here where she is referred to as a PBS NewsHour presenter. Its not a slight, its just the best way we’ve found to reduce the number of Brian Williams and Matt Lauers we have in the world
Nope she made a great comeback
I’m not into American politics
Sorry it is offensive to you
Not offensive. Just saying why it was presented this way. it’s pretty typical stuff. The argument can be made that amonymizing reporters only benefits capital holders. My current stance is undecided. Pragmatically, I think as long as we’re stuck with capitalism its better to present things like this but that doesn’t mean I feel great about it or like it
Yeah it makes sense. It was just annoying when I get American trauma all over, I am really disinterested in your gender wars and politics and how journalists should be named. I just wondered and in comes the shit train.
Obvious troll account is obvious.
Ok
Not ok. You inserted gender. I was trying to be polite? never seen such reactions on lemmy before. Sad that American politics is ruining exactly everything
He’s always inserting his gender, essingmyaich.
We are referring to her by her title, as her preferred form of address.
Ait