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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

My heroine this week is ABC’s White House Correspondent Mary Bruce who asked the Saudi-Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman what Saudi-Arabia was doing at The White House, after Saudi-Arabia’s involvement in both 9/11 and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

May her courage inspire us all.

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Maike
@maikek@fedifreu.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl Great! She or somebody else with courage should have asked No 47 too, I think it was he who invited them ...

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Hans
@Hans@kirche.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl
Mutige Frau.

Meinen Respekt!

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Lord HeeHaw II
@hoare_spitall@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@randahl An admirable journalist, one of the few remaining.

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Charming Malcontent
@CharmingMalcontent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl

we all need to shout QUIET PIGGY whenever that disgusting orange bastard farts out any words

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Fou
@foufoutos@kafeneio.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl How come she didn't ask what Saudi Arabia did/is doing about the genocide in Gaza?

Then, yes, he would be a big shot.

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SiberCecurity
@sr3@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl had to see it to believe it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyb13wDfmZo&t=80

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Bill Hooker
@sennoma@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl Oh for a press corps that would have her back: every single reporter present should just repeat the question until they get an answer.

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Crystal 💾💽📼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@crystal717@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl AI image tho

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@crystal717 photoshopping an image does not make it AI.

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Crystal 💾💽📼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@crystal717@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl "photoshopping" can mean anything. Today, Photoshop is full of AI tools. This has been clearly, fully rehallucinated (image -> image) in some tool, whether Photoshop or not.

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SufferForMe 🆘
@sufferforme@mstdn.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@crystal717 @randahl

this is a bold statement asserted as if fact, with little to support it, if you get a higher resolution version of the image.

I've been working professionally with photoshop for about 30 years, before it even supported layers, and I can tell you this area of the hair over the background is very hard to do this well, either with manual editing, or AI.

More likely, it is a professionally taken photograph with professional lighting, and edited for colour and levels.

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Lu-Tze
@Lu_Tze@ioc.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
Mind boggling that Trump's answer amounted to "What was MBS supposed to do, NOT kill and dismember a journalist who reported critically about his regime?"

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John Ulrik
@ujay68@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl What was the answer? “Quiet, Piggy”?

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2xfo
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
Mary Bruce sounds awesome
ABC has really tried to suck though

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Regendans
@regendans@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl #ALT4you (for the blind, visually impaired and others) Photo of ABC’s White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, smiling, in a blue blazer, arms folded. In the background there's a green lawn with a tree which appears to have little leaves left, alongline a road. In the distance a building which may or may not be the White House. At the left on the photo there's parts of trees with lots of leaves.

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@regendans thank you. Added.

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Regendans
@regendans@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl Nice, thank you. 🙂

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Jens Michael B.-Hansen
@Onthebass@krigskunst.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
My impression has been so far, that everyone bend down to the orange monster. Zelenskyj was punished live for not doing that, but most of the political power are weak.

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Howard Cohen
@hoco@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl I agree 100%

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Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋[FCKPVV]
@apenkop@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl And Trump doesn't know anything but to fling mud at her, calling her all kinds of bad things. The question adjacent to those addressed at MBS should have been what the hell the orange menace was doing in the White House, for he belongs in a federal prison.

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𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙
@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl

This is an important political/social document (video), but I can't watch it, and suggest anyone who's game enough should still have a few stiff drinks first.

He's a thug in a suit. He's barely human.

https://x.com/i/status/1991130209249103973

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Larry
@quoidian@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
Were the questions answered?

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Pacman
@pacman@swiss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl This journalist lady was insulted by Trump at the Khashoggi press conference. These insults are accolades, i.e. signs that she got the man rattled.

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Lazy B0y
@lazyb0y@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
probably good for her that she will never need to step into any Saudi embassy building anywhere ;)

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Petr Skála
@Petr90@mastodonczech.cz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl 👍 👍 👍 🙏

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JBM
@jbm@nrw.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl tomorrow she will fall out of the window!

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EndicottRoad59
@EndicottAuthor@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl More journalists should have courage like this.

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Gerrit Venema 🇪🇺🌍🍉
@gvenema@fairmove.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl

And again it is a woman doing the bit that the men are too afraid to do.

Just like with the January 6 Commission, the best and almost only willing witness was a woman, Cassidy Hutchinson.

It seems to me that men are always too obsessed with their status and the possible loss of it.

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MarjorieR
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl brave, but this would be a very reasonable question if this was someone else's White House.
Given the present incumbent they are surely just congratulating each other and sharing ideas about how to be more horrible.

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Gondor
@grootinside@troet.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl
Really sad times becoming (rightly) a heroine just for doing her job professionally.
To paraphrase a quote:
Journalism is to ask the right questions.
Everything else is Public Relations.

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Strght
@strght@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl

I guess: DEALS

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Martin Seeger
@masek@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl Though she should now skip invitations into the Saudi embassy for a detailed briefing 😄.

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Chris. R. 🎧🎼☕🍍
@haploc@fedi.cr-net.be replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl that the other journalists not pack their bags and leave the building at every occasion he insults them, is a pity.

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@haploc indeed. Every time Trump screams “fake news”, all journalists should walk out while shouting “Fake President!”

He would crumble.

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Andrew J Spaulding
@AJ_andrew69@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl @haploc. That's a great idea!

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CrazyDogLadysezPEACE
@heartofcoyote@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl @haploc Unfortunately he’s packed the room with ppl who are extremely aware that their jobs are to issue press releases on his behalf. But it’s a beautiful dream.

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C. R. Collins
@crcollins@writing.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@randahl @haploc

I'd really like to see journalists stick together & stick up for themselves. Honestly, I would LOVE to see them just not showing up for his "press conferences" & instead doing some old-fashioned investigative reporting to get their stories. They have to know he just lies so they are giving us "non-stories." Independent media are where the real stories are these days.

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