# This is Boehner's shutdown

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 3, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261 "2013-10-03T12:06:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261/201 "2013-10-08T20:39:16Z")

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Sorry, first I need to know what your point is. Are you expanding upon kaylasdad’s statement that journalism dies when a camera turns on, that it also dies in any for-profit entity? 😕

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**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261/202 "2013-10-08T23:40:47Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> \*Certainly \*good journalism helps attract readers who want to read good journalism. But even journalists are company employees and sometimes need to remember that.

The _Philadelphia Inquirer_, where they fired editor Bill Marimow yesterday, is relevant. [Here’s what the new editor is saying](http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20131008_Inquirer_editor_Marimow_fired.html):

> [@](#):
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> Wischnowski, who also took over when Marimow was let go the first time, said, “The journalistic and ethical values both Bill and I subscribe to will not change one bit.”

The suits will undoubtedly get some of what they want, but there also is such a thing as professional journalism.

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-boehners-shutdown/670261/203 "2013-10-09T19:49:00Z")

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Github WhiteHouse/fortyfour

BUG: Government occasionally shuts down

> <https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour/issues/3>
>
> I noticed a bug over the past week or so and it seems reproducible:
> 1. Go to U.S…. Government.
> 2. U.S. Government is shut down.
> 
> Expected results: Government should be working.
> 
> I'm unable to debug or propose a fix since there's not an open, transparent stack trace. Conflicting error messages are being thrown as well.
> 
> Hope you can resolve this soon. It would seem that the U.S. Government would value 100% uptime in order to be a reliable and trustworthy source for the rest of the world.
> 
> Thanks! Love this project and would like to continue using it.

> [@](#):
>
> I noticed a bug over the past week or so and it seems reproducible:
> 
> ```
> Go to U.S. Government.
> U.S. Government is shut down.
> 
> ```
> 
> Expected results: Government should be working.
> 
> I’m unable to debug or propose a fix since there’s not an open, transparent stack trace. Conflicting error messages are being thrown as well.
> 
> Hope you can resolve this soon. It would seem that the U.S. Government would value 100% uptime in order to be a reliable and trustworthy source for the rest of the world.
> 
> Thanks! Love this project and would like to continue using it.

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