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Columnist at GuardianUS on media & culture. Egan Professor at Duke. #billsmafia Author NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL & GHOSTING THE NEWS. Practicing unaccountable joy
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I rarely get as outraged as these AR-15 lapel pins on GOP House members, drenched in the blood of hundreds of mass shooting victims
But it symbolizes what the right has become: A death cult willing to destroy America if it can't rule
My new column inquirer.com/opinion/commen
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House GOP embraces mainstream media after years of bashing ‘fake news’
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We cannot undo or redo 2016, but we can recognize and address our own failures. The arrest of FBI counterintelligence specialist Charles McGonigal gives us a chance.
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- Santos fires a staffer, claiming the staffer's past made him untrustworthy.
- As he does so, Santos jokes that the staffer might secretly record him.
- The staffer says he would never do that.
- He, apparently, did.
- We got the recording.
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Post Trump shared on Truth Social. There is no ambiguity here.
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Someone who sees around corners, , warns: H5N1 Bird Flu is Causing Alarm. Here’s Why We Must Act.
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There's no point in telling people they'll be "on the wrong side of history" when they don't care about history.
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“I can’t imagine anything more meaningful than continuing a slain journalist’s work so that the story can live on even when they can’t.” - (story by )
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you can quit on local news if you think the most powerful politicians and most powerful employers in your state are unimpeachably ethical and never make mistakes. twitter.com/jenkinsgreg/st
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Thanks, and all j-school readers most welcome
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just finished Newsroom Confidential by @Sulliview and it was a fabulous read! highly recommend to my fellow J-schoolers
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Columbia Journalism Review’s Big Fail: It Published 24,000 Words on Russiagate and Missed the Point … Good analysis by
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“The Taj Mahal must be seen … to remind us that the world is real, that the sound is truer than the echo, the original more forceful than its image in a mirror.” - nationalgeographic.com/travel/article
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It's a fair criticism to tell people to "read the article," but it's behind a paywall, so they can't unless they subscribe, which is the point. Let's not pretend this is all on the readers who don't get past the headline when the headline is deliberately designed to provoke.
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Yet another clear demonstration of how elite media institutions naturalize power relationships -- even if they are fascistic.
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A staunchly illiberal politician is ruthlessly pursuing his authoritarian agenda. Yet what the New York Times wants us to take away from the situation in Florida is that DeSantis is taking on the “establishment” and successfully building “his brand.” nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/
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There appears to be an organized, ongoing government purge of scholarship and I guess the media is gonna be like “Boy that Desantis sure is making the right moves.”
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I worked with at two papers — and what a credit to the craft. Talented, fine writer, extremely careful reporter. That he’s been laid off (because magazine was shuttered) at a company that’s still hiring is confounding
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The journalism biz really will break your heart
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Wondering how I’d be, stepping out the heavy door of @washingtonpost @wpmagazine for the last time tonight. It’s very sad — but all good, you know?
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I’m not an obsessive connect-the-dots person, but the links between Trump and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska (whom the recently arrested Charles McGonigal was working for) are quite striking.
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The Guild says goodbye and happy retirement this week to 3 @TheBuffaloNews reporters who volunteered for buyouts after cuts were imposed by our owner, Lee Enterprises @LeeEntNews. Together @bobmccarthybn @smartin1999 & @MatthewSpina1 leave with a century of BN experience (thread)
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The Guild says goodbye and happy retirement this week to 3 @TheBuffaloNews reporters who volunteered for buyouts after cuts were imposed by our owner, Lee Enterprises @LeeEntNews. Together @bobmccarthybn @smartin1999 & @MatthewSpina1 leave with a century of BN experience (thread)
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This week’s departures of some of the best of newsroom are heartrending. The staff is being shrunk and, although some are retiring voluntarily, the region will be the poorer. Familiar national story, of course, but in this case, it’s personal
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Great work, . 🙏 Unfortunately, the bad guys, the corrupt and the power-abusers breathe easier tonight.
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Four decades ago I started drawing a paycheck at a daily newspaper in Buffalo. After many more newsrooms and more stories than I can count, I’m calling it a career. I hope I did some good.
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Not long after Jeff German — a reporter at the — was slain outside of his home last fall, my editor called me with a question.
The Post had reached out, asking if we could help in some way. Jeff's editor had an idea. Maybe we could take on the last of his work.
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Amazing. The most consequential advancement during the trump era is now an albatross. As if a Republican primaried Eisenhower in 56 by complaining about the highway system.
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In a sign of how toxic the conversation about the coronavirus vaccines has become within the GOP, Mr. Trump’s allies are building a file of “opposition research” on Mr. DeSantis that consists of videos of him praising the vaccine in its early days. nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/
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This is both predictable and shocking at the same time -- a right-wing government coup against an acclaimed public liberal arts college. A place that promotes the kind of critical thinking that a fascist like Ron DeSantis cannot abide
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New College president Patricia Okker has been terminated.
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So many funny lines here from with a special shoutout to the one about the hot wellness guru recommending turmeric as birth control. Read!
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presenting: my week eating like nancy pelosi businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-d
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Happy Feb. 1, everybody 🖤
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the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet
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Well, after an incredible 1.5 years, BDG has decided it is done with Gawker 2.0. Can't say enough about how proud I am of the site and all the brilliant people who worked to create it, and what a staggering shame this is. I had an absolute blast, and I love you.
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Anyone else, sometimes when they're alone in the car listening to yell impressions of the perfect tonal nosedive soc out from "ELEANOR BEARDSLEY...PARIS" over and over? No? Just me?
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Devastating new details as D.C. police charge a city parks and rec worker with the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake. His last words included, “I am a kid.” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/
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After rushing to eliminate four newsroom jobs this week and abolishing newsroom vacancies meant to be filled, Guild members want to know: Does have a plan for safeguarding local journalism in the future, or will we just keep shrinking?
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Read on the Biden documents, "the vast over-coverage of what isn’t all that much of a story, and which is only getting so much attention because of the media’s defensive desire to appear fair and because of its ratings-driven lust for conflict."
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If Florida, teachers are advised to hide their books to avoid felony charges. At one school, “the kids began crying and writing letters to the principal, saying, ‘Please don’t take my books, please don’t do this.’”
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