The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

kimmel will be back on tv but hold the celebrations; the trump assault on free speech rights continues. those who stood up for kimmel need to stand up & rally for universities, public media, access to govt information, independent journalism, etc - and against trump's propaganda.

I have many thoughts about this story. But if you think (as the author and the sources they talk to) that Broadway ticket prices are too LOW ... brother I don't know what to tell you.

Re: Work as a group! "When bureau chiefs from many of the outlets banded together to urge Hegseth’s staff to reconsider the changes, the officials doubled down and removed additional media outlets, including The Washington Post, from their Pentagon desks." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon demands that journalists stop practicing journalism www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It goes without saying that this is not what journalists do. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Paging @janecoaston.bsky.social

Need more flea flickers in pro football.

"Taking away a broadcast license has so many legal obstacles and takes so long that the FCC doesn't even try." This is important to understand. The real action is in self-censorship and merger approvals. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

You know when two cartoons are on a desert island and starving and one of them looks at the other and sees them dressed up like a Christmas ham That was how Bernard saw that Tua INT

There's been a lot of journalistic misconduct since he came down that escalator in 2015. But the stories like this may be worst.

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

If the primary discourse right now is that Obama/liberals/trans people/Gawker comments "drove" people to vote for Trump and support what his administration is doing, isn't that a tacit admission that everyone knows what they're doing is wrong?

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

This, right here, is the truth about access and journalism and "access journalism."

1/4 RE Kimmel, what makes this possible is broadcast TV/radio specifically are subject to FCC regulation in ways other media aren't. With limited broadcast spectrum, idea is built on notion the public owns the airwaves. It gives the FCC authority to regulate in the vaguely defined "public interest."

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If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Finished this book today, and my god, is it incredible. Such a fun read - learned so much about so many quarterbacks, and the reporting and writing are, of course, impeccable.

"(O)nline news was something we intentionally did after putting the paper to bed. It was an extra. A bonus. The thing we did after our real work was done. The idea underpinning all of this was we didn’t want to give away the store for free." sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/the-real-o...

I spend half a day writing and rewriting and researching my post … and he just … skeets it out 🤣

Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.

New at Sports Media Guy. Should newspapers have charged for online content from the start? Was that the Original Sin of online journalism? The situation’s a lot more nuanced than that. sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/the-real-o...

As @mikevacc.bsky.social taught me years ago, this scene from All the Presidents Men (featuring peak Robert Redford) is the single greatest and most accurate journalism scene in movie history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeem...

I really don't think it's overstating things to say that Alan taught a generation of Internet users to watch TV differently. He's one of the best examples of how important media criticism is - not as a recommendation engine, but as a means to bring the viewer into conversation with the art itself.

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

The paper that brought down a President is scared of comments from internet trolls.

Column: as it turns out, moral victories might not be such a bad thing after all. Certainly compared to the calamity the #Jets turned in Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. nypost.com/2025/09/14/s...

Really liked this piece from my friend @jeremylittau.com. Measured and thoughtful and smart (Unlike Jeremy's famously terrible candy opinions). jeremylittau.substack.com/p/media-note...

Great and important thread from my friend here. Also a call to editors and journalist that "internet culture beat reporters" need to be able to do more than write about cute memes and TikTok dance trends.

To the point below, this is absolute required reading. From 11 years ago, still on point.

So the work @pablo.show is doing on this story is just incredible. For all the talk about the style of his show, it's the substance that matters. This is a masterclass in reporting, using documents and spreadsheets and records to find the story. Just sensational. www.youtube.com/watch?si=zSP...

I always ask my podcast guests "What's the best thing you've read lately?" This week at Sports Media Guy, I answer that myself: sportsmediaguy.substack.com/p/the-best-t...

Come to our masters program and learn data journalism from Jessica freakin’ Huseman! online.sbu.edu/programs/mas...

This is why you really don't need to post through it in situations like this. Much of the initial reporting is based on scant details and your mind starts filling in gaps as a matter of habit. My personal rule is news folks who deal in speculation in times like this are never to be trusted again.

Legal and accessible prop bets on college sports were and are a bad idea, part the infinity. www.espn.com/mens-college...

I miss Tiny Letter.

I need people to also understand that faculty have been harassed like this - specifically with staged protests and secret recordings- for decades The ESCALATION (and this matters!) is the president so pathetically caving and firing the dean and department head

Column: Josh Allen may make you hide your eyes when he’s playing your football team, but the rest of the time it is impossible to keep your eyes off of him. nypost.com/2025/09/08/s...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The OK Gatsby.

Ed fuckin' Oliver

Lamar Jackson ends this play at the BUF 46

Buffalo News photographer Josh Bessex's shot of the DeAndre Hopkins touchdown:

the bills refusing to do the gentlemanly thing and get blown out is really gonna fuck my sleep schedule