Ledes & Limericks. Friday February 9 2018

Brazil’s biggest newspaper, the Folha de S Paulo, has announced that it will
no longer publish content on its Facebook page, accusing the social media
giant of encouraging fake news with an overhaul of its news feed algorithm.

“In effectively banning professional journalism from its pages in favour of
personal content and opening space for ‘fake news’ to proliferate, Facebook
became inhospitable terrain for those who want to offer quality content
like ours,” said executive editor Sergio Davila.

From the Guardian

The ‘news’ is a flexible thing.

And it has been known to take wing,

Soaring completely

Above facts quite neatly

To gather more impact and sting.

Online classrooms offer greater flexibility and freedom,

but a review of more than 400 full-time virtual schools

shows they deliver relatively poor performance and

low graduation rates.

From the Wall Street Journal

Little Johnny cannot read.

Little Suzy eats duckweed.

They were schooled at home, you see --

And there they learned their ABF.

We All Have a Stake

 in the Stock Market, Right? 

Guess Again

I’ve never owned a single stock/I hope Wall Street goes under/I’d never trust a bizness that/relies so much on plunder.