I was focused on one specific, provable fact, and how it got warped. In terms of Trump's viral photo — it's evocative. It speaks for itself. But it appears to be a split-second shot. You can see from the video — Trump immediately stood up and turned to look. (RFK Jr, meanwhile, did go to get help)

Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.

This conversation is as bad and ridiculous as the headline itself: wealthy, privileged people removed from the reality of actual workplaces — an insult not just to women but to working people everywhere. Ruin -- in what way? For whom? How? Sloppy.

News outlets that cover the election mainly through the prism of which party / politician gained politically are missing the message from voters — and a market opportunity to be relevant to people's real-life struggles, worries and hopes.

Curious that the NYT's coverage of food aid cuts has determinedly used the term "food stamps," which was phased out decades ago. SNAP or EBT are terms now a generation in use.

So many revelations about NC's chief supreme court justice Paul Newby in this @propublica.org piece: how he is using his office as a Christian and Republican activist, and with what impact. Details and the stakes. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Poll questions should ask first: How much information have you received about x issue (a lot, some, little or none), then ask their opinion.

Trump is telling lies about elections to justify steps that will intimidate Democratic voters or chill speech. These are real threats to democracy and should be understood as such. www.pbump.net/o/the-threat...

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Why isn't headline/framing thus: Trump pardons executive whose company made multimillion-dollar-deal with Trump family beforehand www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/t... Good reporting from @nytimes.com though the word "extraordinary," as usual, does a lot of heavy lifting. Is it pay for pardon?

Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20. The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

Proud of how well this reporting with veteran higher ed reporter @pamkelley.bsky.social holds up.

Headline is wrong. This is not a "press corps," this is a propaganda corps. wapo.st/49iiXbn

The collapse of Congress is probably the most critical change in our democracy, yet not covered as such. Holding power accountable needs an object -- i.e. to whom are you holding them accountable. If it's to their constituents, lots of reporting missing.

Every community needs a blogblog.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

I have been looking at this all day and it just strikes me as -- weird. Seems like NYT made a lot of decisions ahead on how to play the protests today, an odd (and non-journalistic) approach to coverage. Other outlets have reporting that's more clear-headed and complete.

This story was the top piece on the NYT home page this morning. Now, I can only find it by searching — not displayed on any section. It's a scoop on another set of White House policy moves asserting that Whites are superior — i.e. white supremacy. Why is it buried? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

I am a few days late to John Oliver's piece on the Free Press and its portent for CBS News. But if you have a free half hour, you really ought to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

A new kind of training and awareness needed for news people; media have always been too credulous, with investigative reporting later showing that official sources had lied or misled at the moment. Now, official US govt sources are operating in a hard partisan framework, journalism needs new methods

I made a little tool to answer the trickiest question in American politics. pbump.net/who/

Cc @sallyjenx.bsky.social

Only in US media would major outlets report that Trump might get a Nobel Peace Prize without mentioning his deployment of US troops against US citizens, his administration's ending of US foreign aid with resulting increases in illness, death and hardship, and other actions affecting people globally

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This on "prime day" media hype plus the billiions in free advertising Apple has gotten over the decades by turning product launches into events. I read about one Amazon "big deal" on a news site and found the same product at the same price on the manufacturer's website, with free shipping.

In announcing new opinion section direction, Post brass said they were prioritizing personal liberties and free markets. Liberties are under assault, as are free markets. Where's the coverage?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I've admired @capitalb.bsky.social's detailed, context-rich reporting on this land use fight, a local story that reflects familiar power dynamics. Land use is where local reporting can make a difference — but often leaves out perspectives and voices of those affected.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I arguably jumpstarted my career because of Twitter but deleted my account a few months ago (I do have a burner account to monitor but never tweet). I have not regretted deleting my Twitter for a second

1.) Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release. 2.) If you don't obey you lose your press credentials, and they are your ticket to— actually those credentials are kinda worthless now so...

My dad, my uncles, my grandfather were all #Antifa #NaeNazis

Still reading stories with new examples of Robert Redford's good character and life, one that benefited others as well as the actor. Inspiring that a famous person lived in a way where people could quote him directly after his death and not be fired.

Bob Iger is married to the dean of USC's Annenberg School of Communications.

hey so this is insane

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way" — Tony Soprano. Oops, no, the chair of the FCC, a public body charged with protecting the interests of Americans, issuing a partisan threat against a broadcast network.

people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

I've stuck with the Washington Post in support of its journalists, and believe its newsroom continues to produce important work. However, today I canceled my subscription over the firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social for doing her job. Shame on the Post's leadership.

The NYT hasn't covered the Kilmeade story, as far as I can tell.

More flawed journalism from the Post: There is nothing in this story that supports the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

On X everyone misread this part of the arrest report and thinks it means Tyler Robinson said Charlie Kirk spread hate. The relative said that, not the shooter himself.

Not until the very end of the story does the reporter even address the First Amendment: no legal scholars, history. No reporting beyond what the right is saying and doing and how people are reacting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Sometimes, you don’t have to click “post.”

Nearly every progressive politician, journalist and organization in America continues to use the website this man controls as a primary means of communication.

Why do our biggest news organizations accept the "decree" approach to governing used by the current POTUS? So many examples of first reports that say Trump is doing something that later reporting shows he can't do by executive order, i.e. decree. As @sifill.bsky.social notes re the "War Dept"