So just this month, two Fox News hosts have advocated for, respectively, executing homeless people and bombing the UN. Can someone at Fox please explain to me why this doesn’t qualify as incitement to violence and shouldn’t be prosecuted?

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

“Trump is using economic warfare, and people need to realize that they have economic power, too. They need to subscribe to the media outlets that are still doing good work and cancel their subscriptions to those that have caved.”

"A few weeks ago, I was complaining bitterly about how the New York Times routinely resorts to weasel words, euphemisms and third-party critiques to avoid speaking the truth about Donald Trump. But in the last 10 days..." Froomkin senses a shift, led by Peter Baker presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

It's all just so cynical. The only language Disney speaks is money.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Man admits he hates half of people he swore oath to protect

Some very exciting news to announce: @status.news is expanding! We are hiring Natalie Korach as a media correspondent and Brian Lowry as our Hollywood correspondent, while also working with Stacey Farish on sponsorship opportunities. Details here: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Get ready for TrumpTok. Unfortunately, if Musk's takeover of Twitter has proven anything, it's that people are pretty sticky with their platform use, even if they know algorithms are being changed to downrank critics and promote far right voices.

The Guardian is launching its first ever major US brand campaign amid a new round of investment in its US operation. Ads will be running in NYC's subway, on billboards in Manhattan, and on Vox Media podcasts. Seems like a missed opportunity to promote the brand beyond the New York market.

I'm about 10 further hours into Silksong than when I wrote this. I still think my complaints in this thread are valid, but it's wild how much more enjoyable this game is when you get a few nail/tool upgrades. Makes me wish there were more upgrades earlier on, because the difficulty curve is mental.

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

New from me: One-third of publishers in the UK's Independent Publishers Alliance could be out of business by the end of next year, a board member has warned. The reason? Google's AI search features have shrunk traffic by disincentivizing clicking on links, leading to a collapse of ad-funded models.

Soon the only journos working at the Pentagon will be state media.

This is an interesting analysis but it misses the idea that selling TikTok to the Ellisons would accomplish much the same goals as China might've had. If TikTok was as a way for China to destabilize US public opinion to America's detriment, Trump-aligned ownership accomplishes that all the same.

Bleak. Excellent reporting as usual by @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social

New from me: One-third of publishers in the UK's Independent Publishers Alliance could be out of business by the end of next year, a board member has warned. The reason? Google's AI search features have shrunk traffic by disincentivizing clicking on links, leading to a collapse of ad-funded models.

Thought former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler made a really solid point: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Astute summary of the anxiety-inducing state of play from @jeffjarvis.bsky.social.

Disturbing beyond belief - not only is Kimmel muzzled, but Sinclair is replacing him with their own pro-Kirk propaganda. The twist of the knife: Sinclair has asked Kimmel to "issue a direct apology to the Kirk family" and make a "meaningful donation" to Kirk's family and Turning Point USA.

Jon Stewart in 2022: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether... When a society feels under threat, comedians are who gets sent away first.” apnews.com/article/bill...

“Kirk leveraged a version of the same toxic online dynamics and algorithmic-attention sinkholes that can ensnare people like Robinson.”

Remember when the far right cried censorship because their hate speech kept getting them banned from social media? Yeah, well, they’re gonna own all the major platforms now. Twitter: Musk TikTok: Ellisons Meta platforms: Zuck Do you trust those men with the algorithm behind your feed?

Not only would this social media app be owned and run by close allies of the government but the government would have *direct* input into how it's run.

So the Ellisons may well control: CBS News, CNN and TikTok. Hard to understate how dangerous this is.

This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.

New: ChatGPT is now going to guess user ages, tailor the content users receive based on that, and may demand ID for age verification. This comes after a wave of teen suicides. “We know this is a privacy compromise for adults but believe it is a worthy tradeoff.” www.404media.co/chatgpt-will...

“This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics."

The pitfall Klein often has is he’ll try to find common ground with people who have no interest in meeting him halfway. So he ends up conceding arguments without getting anything in return. Same was true of his Kirk op-ed.

And as was entirely predictable, ABC and CBS set a floor for other news orgs to settle meritless lawsuits. The going price is $16 million. Not a big deal for those corporations. A very big deal for smaller news orgs.

I went hands-on with Snap's next-generation Spectacles dev kit. First impressions: - The tech is mega cool but still has kinks to work through. - The opportunity for brands is experimental for now. - Snap is pitching this as the next iPhone moment but must consider privacy and user safety concerns.

Aaaand there it is. The irony of calling the NYT a "mouthpiece" for the Democratic Party. NYT must not settle.

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

I refuse to believe Americans are just going to roll over and let this happen.

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do" - JD Vance, September 2024

From observer.co.uk/news/interna...

MAGA think tanks made this an explicit goal before the election. Check out "Project Esther," and its labeling of nearly the entire left as a "Hamas Support Network."

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Practically speaking this is a declaration of civil war against anyone not deemed sufficiently loyal to the Trump administration. It is a crackdown on dissent and a clear violation of the constitution, assuming that piece of parchment still holds any power.

From the paper that brings you "personal liberties and free markets"

"Framework for a deal" is the new "concepts of a plan".

I’ve rationalized playing Silksong as necessary catharsis for the daily rage I feel about the global political situation.

Penske Media, publisher of Rolling Stone, Variety, etc., is the first major news company to sue Google over its AI overviews. It alleges they steal Penske's content and have severely diminished Web traffic to Penske sites. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/roll...

Finally sat down to watch Arrival for the first time and damn, Jóhann Jóhannsson left us too soon. What a soundtrack.

The initial coverage I read/watched of the Kirk shooter has betrayed an apparent blind spot in mainstream understanding of niche terminally online subcultures. I know there are great reporters on that beat, but it’s clear we need more of them, and more editors bringing them into the fold regularly.

Elon Musk addressed the far-right "Unite the Kingdom" crowd in London today, calling for a "dissolution of parliament" and a "new vote held". He also said "the left are the party of murder" and that the BBC is "complicit in the destruction of Britain".

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

New from me: What a Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger would mean for consumers and advertisers: - Fewer streaming competitors - Less supply of TV content (arguably a correction of our current oversupply) - Further concentration of trusted news assets among Trump-friendly tech moguls

Right, so we apparently have another terminally online white male 20-something shooter. Of course, the past two days the entire far right media and political ecosystem has blamed the “radical left” for this when it’s another example of how a lack of common sense gun regulation resulted in tragedy.