# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2181 "2024-12-21T15:31:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Where’s Upton Sinclair when you need him? Probably floating in the fruit tank. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2182 "2024-12-22T02:28:41Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > And he bragged about how it job-proofed him! Courtesy of our local equivalent to the Onion; “Fired Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz Just Wondering If He Still Has to Pretend He’s Gay” > **[Fired Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz Just Wondering If He Still Has to...](https://theneedling.com/2024/11/06/fired-seattle-police-chief-adrian-diaz-just-wondering-if-he-still-has-to-do-this-whole-gay-latino-man-thing/)** > > Since it didn’t keep him from getting fired this week for hiring a woman he was having an affair with amid several other accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior towards women at work, former… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2183 "2024-12-23T00:27:29Z")
Guy burns woman to death on a train. > **[Woman burned alive while sleeping on Brooklyn F train; suspect at large](https://www.amny.com/news/woman-burned-alive-brooklyn-f-train-12222024/)** > > A woman was sleeping aboard a stationary F train at the Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn when a man lit her on fire, police said. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2184 "2024-12-23T00:50:04Z")
[They’ve caught the scumbag](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/nyc-subway-fire-woman-death/index.html), thanks to a responding officer’s body cam, on-train surveillance cameras, and some civilians spotting him after seeing his image posted and telling the cops. > The person who set the victim on fire appeared to retreat from the train car, sit on a bench at the station and watch as the victim stood and burned, according to Miller. > > Body camera and surveillance images were key to apprehending the suspect, officials said in a news conference Sunday afternoon. Police released body camera images to the public and three high school-age New Yorkers recognized the suspect and called the police, Tisch said. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2185 "2024-12-23T02:00:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > having an affair with his female chief of staff who is now a Fox News reporter That is slightly inaccurate. KCPQ is a Fox affiliate, but their newsroom is not an arm of Fox News. Their reporting does trend somewhat in a NewsCorp-like direction, but to call her a Fox News Reporter is misleading (not to speak to the fact that “Fox News Reporter” is an oxymoron).   > [@needscoffee](#): > > Oh, fer crying out loud! Aren’t there _any_ decent police chiefs in this country? Modern police training focuses on how to be Bad Oeddie. Police chiefs are, AIUI, trained just like the beatwalkers, so the likelihood of getting a decent one is quite low. You see those stories they run about the good things police officers do? They run the same one over and over and really play it up, because those are pretty rare. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2186 "2024-12-23T02:52:39Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > That is slightly inaccurate. KCPQ is a Fox affiliate, but their newsroom is not an arm of Fox News. Their reporting does trend somewhat in a NewsCorp-like direction, but to call her a Fox News Reporter is misleading Well, I sure as hell ain’t gonna watch it to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2187 "2024-12-23T03:26:40Z")
Man with cystic fibrosis gets denied treatment by United Health, gets booked for an interview about it on the Today Show, United tells him they’ll approve his treatment if he cancels the interview. > **[The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3ldwsfixqlc23)** > > WATCH: “They asked me if I wanted my medication or if I wanted my TODAY show interview to run.” > > United Health denied his life-saving medication until it was about to become a national story. A cruel, broken for-profit system. 🇺🇸 #MedicareForAll... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2188 "2024-12-23T03:28:22Z")
There’s got to be some law that violates. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2189 "2024-12-23T04:05:50Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > KCPQ is a Fox affiliate, but their newsroom is not an arm of Fox News. Yeah, Fox News is a cable network. Local broadcast channels affiliated with Fox have nothing to do with Fox News. KCPQ’s news program covers local news in the greater Seattle area just like KOMO or KING or KIRO, just a regular news station. I’ve watched them all for over 40 years, they’re all just regular news shows. KCPQ news is the kind of thing the nutjobs on Fox News would say is fake left wing propaganda. (In other words, they do actual journalism there.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2190 "2024-12-23T04:16:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > KCPQ’s news program covers local news in the greater Seattle area just like KOMO or KING or KIRO, just a regular news station. KOMO, on the other hand, is owned by Sinclair and is very much the Fox News of Seattle with their endless barrage of “the city is dying because homeless people exist” nonsense targeted to suburbanites who haven’t set foot in Seattle since they went to a Seahawks game in 2014 and think CHAZ is still a thing. (Granted, 3rd ave has been kind of a disaster area ever since covid, but it’s slowly getting less post-apocalyptic.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2191 "2024-12-23T04:41:34Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > KOMO, on the other hand, is owned by Sinclair and is very much the Fox News of Seattle with their endless barrage of “the city is dying because homeless people exist” nonsense targeted to suburbanites who haven’t set foot in Seattle since they went to a Seahawks game in 2014 and think CHAZ is still a thing. “Seattle is Dying” was the actual name of a feature they ran for a while (and it was because there was a larger homeless population than in the past). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2192 "2024-12-23T04:54:26Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “Seattle is Dying” was the actual name of a feature they ran for a while (and it was because there was a larger homeless population than in the past) I remember. I watched about two minutes of the first special hoping they were going to talk about how gentrification and sky-hogh rent increases have made living in the city unaffordable for most of the people who work there, before realizing that no, they weren’t going to talk about avaricious tech CEOs or the seeming inability to build anything besides more highrise office buildings, but no - it’s all the fault of those dirty poors for not crawling into a hole and dying so the rest of us don’t have to look at them. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2193 "2024-12-23T04:58:26Z")
KING (NBC) is the one that seems like real journalism. KCPQ does trend a bit more toward crime and sensationalism, but still not as bad as FoxNews cable. KIRO is good, but I prefer KING. All OtA – I will _not_ pay to be fed commercials and decaying non-content. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2194 "2024-12-23T06:03:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Man with cystic fibrosis gets denied treatment by United Health, gets booked for an interview about it on the Today Show, United tells him they’ll approve his treatment if he cancels the interview. This actually happened in 2012, if you follow your link. It’s been brought up again in light of United Health being in the news. Not that I believe anything’s changed since then. > **[UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug](https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/20/health_care_industry)** > > Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson’s assassination has brought renewed attention to the... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2195 "2024-12-23T07:14:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > KING (NBC) is the one that seems like real journalism. KCPQ does trend a bit more toward crime and sensationalism, but still not as bad as FoxNews cable. KIRO is good, but I prefer KING. KING is my go-to for local news, but I strongly prefer to read my news as opposed to watching it, so I usually stick to reading their website. I miss Northwest Cable News. It was a regional equivalent to CNN that ran out of the KING broadcast facility and also carried news from Oregon, eastern WA, Idaho, and western Montana. It went dark 10 years ago or so, but when I first moved up here from San Diego in 2004 it was my primary source for finding out what the state of affairs was like in this corner of the country. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2196 "2024-12-23T07:22:37Z")
Yeah, Northwest Cable News was a good source for regional reporting. I still miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2197 "2024-12-23T10:27:21Z")
You think they would have prevented him from telling people about that offer. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2198 "2024-12-23T12:59:25Z")
How? Make them sign an NDA without telling them what the NDA will prevent them from talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2199 "2024-12-23T13:01:13Z")
Yeah, I know. But they had to think he’d talk about the offer and that it would look bad for them. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/2200 "2024-12-23T14:25:54Z")
No, they thought that having control of whether or not he got a drug he needed to live would allow them to control what he did or didn’t say. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=111)