As a person who grew up in the Seattle metro, it is really difficult to give Portland credit for anything.

A'ja and Angel both working the #Unapologetic angle?

Well gosh. I was just about to do a Harassment but thanks to this mandatory PowerPoint I’ve seen the error of my ways.

"Did BlueSky add group chat yet?" is my "Did the president call?"

BREAKING: Corporate media may not see themselves as guardians of free speech.

So how long until they tell Comcast and AT&T to turn off the internet?

Absolutely abhorrent for Penn State, a land-grant university, to abandon public media. I am ashamed. WPSU is central PA's only NPR-member radio station and has been on the air for 73 years. It serves 13 counties. This is a disservice to rural Pennsylvanians.

The Free Press potentially being folded into CBS news is giving me memories of the 2006/2007 Blogosophere (never let the term die) where all major the independent voices sold out to Salon and Slate.

1. Angel Reese is 23. 2. Angel Reese is getting on-the-job media training. 3. Angel Reese is right.

Imagine being the president of the United States and casually and seriously threatening citizens of the United States on the weekend through pictures and jokes on social media. Petty and undignified embarrassment.

If you look up “politically harmless cultural icon” it’s just a giant photo of Tom #Hanks. These people are ridiculous. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If I wanted to receive a Nobel peace prize I wouldn’t rebrand anything to include War in it.

But I thought he was the peace president.

I thought these guys were all about letting the market decide? www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/f...

Can't get over the president of the United States continually going on the record wanting to disenfranchise American voters by demonizing mail-in ballots.

hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."

I think it's funny that people still think that Bluesky is a revolutionary company or product, when they still haven't enabled group messaging.

Oh Robert Reich on Fresh Air. Your generation failed, no doubt. No matter how you want to pretend that you had some victories, most progress happened in spite of you and your contemporaries.

Going to tell my intercultural comm students that a bribe is a bribe in any culture.

Once again, it’s not a “deep dive” just because you read four things, talked to six people or worked on it for longer than a day.

Marco Buscagalia is playing his lazy use of AI content in the summer 2025 @chicago.suntimes.com books sponsored content as a “content oversight.”

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Writing profs: Are we entering a time when we are encouraged by occasional typos and orthographic errors in student work? At least it could signal they’re doing the work themselves without newish “tools”?

What little U.S. citizens know about the rest of the world is largely due to the efforts of VOA and (admittedly covert) State department efforts. Same with what the rest of the world knows about the U.S. Can’t believe our leadership has just decided to kick the ladders out.

Columbia’s general counsel is a graduate of Temple’s law school. I’m no lawyer but the deal she approved doesn’t seem very good for her client and seems like she could have had better training.

Bad call from the refs hand #ChicagoSky another loss.

“Could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani” and the next graf is “He was not accepted at Columbia.”

Great potential solution: From Chicago Sun-Times - Gov. Pritzker signs bills tackling college access and affordability chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Bob McChesney, Bill Moyers and Lalo Schifrin.

A major difference between AI tools and humans is that AI tools would never sit around spending time and money trying to figure out how put other AI tools out of work.

Accuracy and precision are measured differently. #PRAD256

Really tired of Boeing always being applicable to my public relations classes.

Courtney Vandersloot underwent an MRI yesterday that revealed a right torn anterior crucial ligament (ACL), an injury she sustained in the June 7th game against Indiana. She will miss the remainder of the 2025 WNBA season & undergo surgery to repair the injury. All of Skytown is behind you Sloot! 🩵💛

Why doesn’t @chicago.suntimes.com copy edit their stories before publishing? There’s at least one typo in ever story tied to a push alert. Green Mill building up for sale in Uptown chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/06...

These frisbee-catching dogs at the Fever-Sun #WNBA game are way more entertaining than the performer from the #ChicagoSky performer at their home opener.

A teaching award for me and a win for the #Sky. A good week.

Remember kids, a deep dive is more than two articles and longer than 10 minutes

Are fans of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social called Stricties or Scrutineers? @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

There is nothing that media outlets love to do more than beat up on other media outlets. Chicago-based outlets all the more. Deservedly.

In all my time publishing newspapers I used plenty of sponsored content. But I always looked at it before publishing and printing, even if it came from reliable and trustworthy sources. The @chicago.suntimes.com summer books debacle is indefensible by any measure. #SponsoredContent #AI

Maan I already did my Sponsored Content lecture in my PR/Ad ethics class.

Love to see media fight each other along geography lines. Intermedia conflict, pettiness and jealousy.

Had to live by the push alerts. Did the #ChicagoSky for real almost lose this game?

Natalie Nakase is the coach of the San Francisco Bay Area's first WNBA team and she has learned to block out those who underestimated her.

You can tell a lot about a person based on how the pronounce and define “demos.”

Supply-side friendonomics

Glanced admirably at my copies of Deciding What’s News and Democracy and the News tonight with respect for Herbert Gans.