Oh, and hey, the Nexstar Tegna public comment period is now open, if you want to comment on the deleterious effect of the prospect of even greater consolidation of media ownership. www.thewrap.com/nexstar-tegn...

Pretty sure freedom fries lasted longer than Jimmy Kimmel off air.

Once more for the evening crowd...signal boosting appreciated across other platforms, I would love as many perspectives as possible!

Mark Cuban has to be acting out this scene right!? There’s no way he has dug in that deep right!? #nba “Listen Pablo, if he really was trying to circumvent the cap he would have done all these things.”

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

"The moves this week by Texas A&M represented 'the death of academic freedom in Texas, the remaking of universities as tools of authoritarianism that suppress free thought'" 🤐 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

This country is a disaster

In October 2012 I asked a simple question on Twitter. 13 years later, it has finally been answered

"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.

This is one of those headlines where, if the media didn’t constantly frame our national crisis not as a crisis, but as a fascinating clash of two, equally valid “realities,” nobody would bat an eye. In a functional media environment, the story itself would emphasize that one reality is very bad.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

ESPN demotes wrong culprit from lousy NBA Finals commentary team: defector.com/espn-demotes...

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

Good thread on the language actually used by Democrats in official communications.

Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.

Dems and their consultants and strategists (like third way) want sister souljah moments, but they won so hard on suppressing suppressing movement voices that there isn't a sister souljah to punch at anymore. nor a jesse jackson equivalent, who was the real target. it's just 'y'know, those guys!'

“A bold departure from political norms”

The only thing I’ll say about the seemingly inevitable AI collapse is that Universities better 100% follow through with any commitments they made to AI research faculty they hired in the last 3 years.

I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.

The New York Times knows these BS mortgage fraud accusations by the Trump regime are the very definition of "lawfare." But NYT is headquartered on its own Neutrality Island, where the local ordinances require newspapers to pretend the fascists are operating with good intentions.

Yeah no, don't do this. Do not take my email and use it to subscribe to your personal substack without my consent. Cmon man.

Hate to break it to ya’ll but the normie liberals on my Instagram feed are reposting Gavin Newsom AI art which means he has the 2028 nomination in the bag. I don’t make the rules.

“using real concerns to put reactionary political views in the mouths of people i am not actually going to speak to or give the dignity of their own voices” is a classic move for this clique

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

Well I’m two days removed from our big annual conference and we sure did move on from that defending democracy thing huh? Feels bizarre to see the field shift so hard towards AI and barely acknowledge its negative effect on democracy itself.

Nothing mortifies me more as an early career professor than to go to “difficult topics” teaching workshop and the strategy for handling bullshit is to “engage with it.” What the hell are we doing?

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Good for Digital Foundry: aftermath.site/digital-foundr...

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

bro lmao

I feel like we don't make it explicit enough that profiteering is the problem with journalism. This is capitalism at work. Most people don't see it because of what Mark Fisher called capitalist realism: it's the air we breathe, we don't question it. It's urgent to keep reminding people it exists

How a college dropout white supremacist named Jordan Lasker completely hoodwinked the NYT and its editors. Story of the century.

Getting asked to provide intercoder reliability for a critical discourse analysis is my joker origin story.

I cited this in my talk last weekend as further evidence that academics are abandoning twitter and joining Bluesky

Bluesky is an echo chamber www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/t...

Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate. But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"

sounds like America could use more Mexicans

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

Bad news, America.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Journalism scholarship has the tendency to compare news coverage between liberal and conservative outlets and I have long said that it makes zero sense to lump the NYT into the “liberal” category.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Your regular reminder that there is no such thing as "AI", and computers aren't able to transcend programming. The only way a program can "detect" anything is by following the instructions programmed into it by biased humans. So they aren't bias *detectors*, but rather bias *duplicators*.