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Published: December 20, 2024 20:34

'Balance' can obscure. If both parties went off the rails into paranoia, voters in both parties would call the other a danger to society. But if one party went off the rails while the other remained within normal range, voters in both parties would still…

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Published: December 20, 2024 19:54

Dan Froomkin, making sense again: "You don’t earn trust with 'balance' – especially not between two imbalanced things – you earn it by consistently providing evidence to support your findings." @froomkin.bsky.social No paywall:…

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Published: December 19, 2024 15:18

Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. The new boss at MSNBC, Mark Lazarus, thinks "the public perception of MSNBC is one in which Republicans cannot get a fair shake, and he'd like to change that." Good idea. Proceed in steps. Step one: Knowing a common set of…

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Published: December 18, 2024 22:18

Der Spiegel arranges for an academic scholar of media to produce — quarterly — an evaluation and critique of the magazine on any subject the scholar finds important. The latest, "Knowing Ignorance," is on Der Spiegel's climate coverage. Bernhard Poerksen…

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Published: December 17, 2024 23:53

I have been reading Josh Marshall for 20 years. Rarely has he been righter. We need this badly. It's easy to understand why. There are people who could make it happen. It hasn't happened so far. A Big Pile of Money and Lawyering to Defend Trump’s Legal…

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Published: December 17, 2024 18:20

This I would classify as refuge-seeking behavior, rather than truth-seeking. (Imposed by ownership from above, of course.) Rather than make a truth claim and defend it using evidence and reason, the editors are told to act out the essential innocence of…

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Published: December 17, 2024 14:03

Owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong "has instituted a new policy that prohibits editorials containing criticism of the president-elect unless they are presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the 'opposing view.’"…

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Published: December 16, 2024 02:22

About the interview Patrick Soon-Shiong gave to the Los Angeles Times. Were it to come to fruition, the most likely result of his project is... "Some claim this, others say that, we really have no idea. We're just the newspaper." But it could be much…

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Published: December 12, 2024 19:12

Some of you may be familiar with my critique of the "savvy style" in politics and journalism. ( Click the link if you want to know what that means. https://pressthink.org/2020/09/you-might-not-like-it-but-its-smart-politics )/ Here's an instance from…

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Published: December 11, 2024 15:01

Krugman is retiring from the New York Times. https://www.status.news/p/paul-krugman-new-york-times If you read him, and the Times more broadly, including its political coverage, then today's news does not surprise. An obituary not of him, but of his…

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Published: December 10, 2024 15:59

Been press criticizing online for 20+ years. This is one of the dumbest things I have come across. (It's mindlessly symmetrical, so the needle goes all the way to "unfair right leaning.") Please don't tell me it's not a new idea. I didn't say it was. And…

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Published: December 10, 2024 14:35

Mark Jacob, former editor at the Chicago Tribune, commenting on the "bias meter" that the MAGA-friendly Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, claims to be developing. https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/stupidest-new-idea-in-journalism

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Published: December 8, 2024 05:19

Agree with Dave about bringing back the classic format, but none of it matters if the Sunday shows can’t figure out what to do when the guest makes a truth claim that their news divisions would consider crap. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: December 7, 2024 15:39

Thanks to @paulrosenberg.bsky.social for digging up this 2016 piece of mine: "What the campaign press should NOT be neutral toward." https://pressthink.org/2016/10/campaign-press-not-neutral-toward/ It can now be read as a reply to LATimes owner Patrick…

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Published: December 6, 2024 15:05

LA Times owner plans to add AI-powered ‘bias meter’ on news stories, sparking newsroom backlash. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/media/la-times-soon-shiong-ai-bias-meter-opinion/index.html "The reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same…

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Published: December 6, 2024 03:43

"When I asked you how you wanted me to cover..." Here's a journalist who is tight with his readers, and unafraid to ask them for guidance. https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/ His name is Casey Newton.…

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Published: December 5, 2024 20:01

In 2006, I wrote "The People formerly Known as the Audience." http://archive.pressthink.org/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html Today, Dick Tofel revived that post for use with another: "The People Formerly Known as the Press."…

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Published: December 5, 2024 17:50

Quit the LA Times today: "Those moves can’t be defended...Given the existential stakes for our democracy that I believe Trump’s second term poses, and the evidence that Soon-Shiong is currying favor with the President-elect, they are repugnant and…

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Published: December 5, 2024 14:59

The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times is getting very aggressive toward his own staff. Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social calls him "MAGA-curious." https://www.status.news/p/los-angeles-times-patrick-soon-shiong I found this part particularly…

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Published: December 4, 2024 16:40

Former editor in chief of Time magazine, Nancy Gibbs, says "not the odds, but the stakes" should evolve into "not the threats, but the facts." Publicizing his threats gives him too much power, but ignoring them is no answer. Let fact finding be the…

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Published: November 28, 2024 18:37

In a fit of kindness, and every once in a while, people who know my writings will ask me which of them is my personal favorite. It's this one. The Abyss of Observation Alone. http://archive.pressthink.org/2005/03/01/svd_kpln.html From 20 years ago.

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Published: November 27, 2024 21:37

Kick us out and we'll come at you from the outside, says Peter Baker. Okay, but you don't need to be kicked out to ask whether "from the outside" wasn't the better way all along. I wrote about this the last time it came up. "Send the interns" is how I put…

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Published: November 26, 2024 15:17

Thanks to Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social who helped me figure out how to use Alt text here. It's a way to make posts that have images in them more accessible to visually impaired people. I use screenshots a lot, so it made sense to for me to learn how…

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Published: November 26, 2024 13:22

"In a closed-doors meeting last week, The Washington Post's leaders were briefed about efforts to win back subscribers who canceled in the wake of Endorsement-Gate." https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-win-back-canceled-subscribers How about an…