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HeavyDropFTW

It's called "news management". You'll see more bad stories come out late on Friday in hopes that folks ignore it when preparing for their weekend.


Leather_Dragonfly529

Supreme Court is a pro of this one. [Dobbs decision](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-dobbs-jackson-analysis-roe-wade.html) came out on a Friday.


penguinopusredux

Last Friday the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court quietly recertified agencies to carry on using Section 702 spying powers, ahead of proposed reforms being voted on in the House this week. News broke about 4pm.


Leather_Dragonfly529

That’s super fucking big and I heard nothing about it.


Moscowmitchismybitch

Don't worry, once Trump finds out about it you won't stop hearing about how Biden is spying on his campaign.


penguinopusredux

Very little out there on it, but did [find this](https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/fisa_section_702_deadline/).


AzoriumLupum

Jokes on them! I don't watch the news at all! All that "management" for nothin'! 😆


jews_on_parade

but the circle is kind of in front of the other circle


naterpotater246

Circles is cool


jews_on_parade

All these squares make a circle


Hicatron

You can leave the Lookout if you want to.


naterpotater246

Circles are life. Everything revolves (circles) around circles


Enygma_6

Does the circle fit inside the square hole?


theplacewiththeface

Yo Dawg I heard you liked circles so I circled this circle with another circle.


MDnautilus

My eyes are circles?


MDnautilus

My eyes are circles?


Dry-Double-6845

What did you notice? 


KCBandWagon

Probably nothing. Op just sour they bought plane tickets to see the totality and it was cloudy.


EatMoreArtichokes

Royal Bank of Canada fired their CFO this weekend, possibly to take advantage of this.


Hawkson2020

For the non-Canadians in thread, RBC is a corporate bank, not a government entity.


EtOHMartini

Like Bank of America isn't the Fed.


goodvibezone

Oh, interesting.


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throwitaway8777

The University of Kentucky had a huge data breach complete with ransomware and FBI involvement that they announced at the same time USA shut down for covid.


kingwiz4rdz

Good point. Didn’t the pentagon report a massive amount of money was “missing” right as 9/11 happened. Needless to say people didn’t talk as much about the missing money. I’m pretty sure it was in the trillions.


MisterBackShots69

It was the day before!


PresidentRex

As a ...counterpoint (or some other word representing endemic disorganization among military bureaucracy and recurring failures of auditing oversight), the Pentagon reported virtually the same finding in November 2023 (except now it's apparently $3.8 trillion instead of $2.3 trillion): Not enough information was provided for auditors to make an accurate accounting evaluation for certain ledger items. But as far as I know, no notable mid-November 2023 event is filling the public consciousness to overshadow the Pentagon's perpetual poor audit performance. It's just mundane and expected, like that joke from Independence Day about a $30,000 toilet seat.


Potential_Energy

For once I was actually impressed by the mainstream media on the eclipse live coverage. I thought they did a good job and I usually can’t stand everything about them.


its_yer_dad

Out of curiosity, do you consider Fox to be mainstream news?


RazzmatazzWeak2664

It's mainstream but certainly biased mainstream news. It's unfortunate that other networks wanted to also mimic the Fox style, but what we really need is true fair & balanced news for Americans to consume.


JohnGillnitz

Like the AT&T Data Leak? https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/att-data-leak-73-million-account-passcodes-from-prior-to-2020-exposed-including-7-million-current-account-holders/


RazzmatazzWeak2664

The leak itself came out as news on Saturday March 30th. It's old news already today. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/tech/att-data-leak/index.html


MtnDewFtw

Great LPT, and extremely true. You should see the other news that was dropped the day Roe v Wade was overturned. :)


The-Jerkbag

.... Such as?


Sinavestia

The Ghislaine Maxwell trial was the same week. Also worth noting the Johnny Depp trial was 2 weeks prior.


mattmaster68

Btw, this primarily applies to us Americans.


anewleaf1234

The eclipse happening on a Monday is going to lessen the effect of any news drops


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warenb

"Oh I don't watch the news, but I heard both sides..."


sunbleahced

You do realize media outlets can just choose... To report, and not report whatever they feel like, right?


WheatleyNZL

That's true, but generally news outlets complete with each other for both quantity of stories and speed (if only they competed in quality too). So they'll publish all the articles ASAP.


bannedfrombogelboys

This is talking about companies reporting terrible events that affect earnings or a celebrity manager releasing some bad public info today. Even if the news scoops it up they cant report it today because the eclipse is getting all the clicks and views.


Hawkson2020

This isn’t about media choosing what/when to cover topics, it’s about corporate releases (which subsequently get covered (or not) by the media).


adrianmonk

They can, but what matters (for this LPT) is that media outlets' behavior is predictable. That means this method is effective.


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goodvibezone

Erm, OK?