Watching KNBC-TV to keep track of the weather in Los Angeles this morning, and I'm noticing—at least on their streaming platform—that they're running an ICE ad with Kristi Noem. It's disrespectful to run such an ad in Los Angeles, isn't it? Are they running that over the air locally? #localTV

“The memo does not say the segment should never run.” The author is smart enough to understand this is an obfuscation. If you’re a fan of Bari Weiss and what’s she’s doing, fine—just say so. But don’t insult people’s intelligence by repackaging what she’s doing as good faith, independent journalism.

That which is done in the darkness shall come to light, whether Bari Weiss or anyone else wants it to or not. And the purpose of the journalist is to fulfill the prophecy of Luke 8:17 as it relates to government. h/t @jeffjarvis.bsky.social #60Minutes #CBS #journalism archive.org/details/60mi...

You can't even claim a "view from nowhere"—can't maintain the kayfabe of objectivity of conscience—when the political interference with independent reporting is so obvious. To use a wrestling analogy, we're in the attitude era of journalism. #60Minutes www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

I wonder how broadcast meteteorlogists feel about this. On the one hand, might it relieve the burden of having to do so many fill-in shifts? On the other hand, this comes off as a lowkey way to do what Allen Media tried to do more clumsily. #weather #WxSky cordcuttersnews.com/local-abc-cb...

NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR. Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.

Those of us who still call it Washington National Airport and the Old Post Office Pavilion will damn sure continue to call it the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. #DC

@propublica.org, as someone who respects the journalism your newsroom produces, I hope this isn’t true. And if it is, I hope you course-correct, because this would be erosive of trust. We need news that’s produced and edited by humans and not more AI slop. #journalism #OrganicNews (Is this a thing?)

Watching @icyclone.bsky.social's Hurricane Melissa documentary for what's probably the first of several viewings, as I hide under this heated blanket in this Mid-Atlantic cold snap. #WxSky #Jamaica

I wonder what those who so aggressively policed speech that was critical of Charlie Kirk following his death will have to say about the president mocking Rob and Michele Reiner following their murders. This is vulgar and should be beneath the office of the presidency. Maybe it's not anymore.

Why is @CBSNews using the BBC to cover the Brown shooting?

The person running this account would do well the study the example of Hazel Bryan Massery, who thought it was cool to yell at Elizabeth Eckford (one of the Little Rock Nine) in 1957, only to have it weigh on her conscience for the next 60+ years. There are costs to dehumanizing people.

Olivia Nuzzi levels of self-reflection.

Adam Serwer voices my feelings on this: that the generally anemic political and institutional reactions to Trump’s overt racism toward Somalis and other immigrants or color is instructive as to how degraded and amoral American society is today. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Gunter ... was told the university believes having a target audience of women violates the [DEI] guidelines." Sit with that for a moment—not only the intentional hypocrisy (do campus media that cater to men violate federal law?) but also the brazenness with which this was done. #FirstAmendment

“A working professor can’t get nowhere today,” is all I have to say. That and I wish The Bitter Southerner made a shirt that said something along the lines of BEYONCÉ IS REAL COUNTRY just to mess with people (or challenge them).

Defend IAD.

President Trump’s comments about Somalis are as racist as anything he said after the violence in Charlottesville, and cannot be dismissed as simply a poor choice of words. And J.D. Vance’s concurrence should be noted for history, as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Want a real First Amendment issue on a college campus? The University Alabama - relying on a memo from AG Pam Bondi - just shut down two student publications because they cover women and black students. thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...

If you haven't gotten your Covid and flu vaccines, I can tell you, based on what I'm seeing in College Park today—and based on what my colleagues at other universities are seeing—there is most definitely some nasty stuff going around, so protect yourselves.

Should misleading or obscured information about a property's risk of damage or destruction from extreme weather be a feature of the housing market? And who's going to pay for what happens when homeowners are misled about their risk and experience loss? #climate www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

LSU shouldn't want a coach who constantly leaves toxicity in his wake. It's as if they're not learning from the Brian Kelly debacle. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

I think we need Steve Kornacki to break down how many votes Ole Miss needs to gain in key precincts to beat LSU for Lane Kiffin once the count restarts in the morning.

“Network” premieres today in ‘76 “.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.” @ditzkoff.bsky.social

Exhibit A as to why "but I have people of color as family and friends" is not a valid defense against racism. Karoline Leavitt's own family is the latest victim of ICE's raids, and she enables her employer to terrorize people in this fashion. It's a choice. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

It’s wild when people on social media show up to try to “correct” you, then block you when you refute their argument. Poor taste, isn’t it? Don’t try to dunk on people if you can’t clear the rim.

Yeah, I’m good with what I originally posted. It’s an editorial judgment to decide whether to highlight or obscure the fact that a 57-year-old television producer is accused of harassing a teenager. It shouldn’t be obscured.

Whether done intentionally or through negligence—neither of which is professional—when journalists misrepresent or obscure the truth of what’s happening to marginalized communities, it reveals what those “objective” journalists really think of them: as people unworthy of their respect and dignity.

He must know this is a transparently silly explanation. Is his calculation that so long as he doesn’t explicitly admit what seems obvious, he can limit the political damage?

Was obsessed with Weather Star III era Weather Channel, and record stores only paid $6.75/hour.

Not paying a dime for Lizza’s jeremiad but this does seem like an important detail to follow, as does the post that comes after it:

So, you’re telling me the poem was called American Canyon and the book is called American Canto? Is that what you’re telling me?

Stuff like this is why I regularly watch the WWL Morning News in New Orleans as my local television news source, despite living out of market. Brandon Walker, the anchor who did this interview, said he knew his grandmother would be watching. If you know, you know. #YR #Nola

not particularly fond of this 2025 normalization-of-Nazi-symbols speedrun but, alas, here we are

The sentence is piercing: "The dueling missives from Nuzzi and Lizza show two showboats trying to out-detail each other, with maudlin prose dissecting a relationship that’s portrayed as tortured, but was really just between two careless narcissists." I lowkey might assign this piece in class.

I am obviously a big proponent of local news. It's critical to a functioning democracy. However, we need more independent media publications. Legacy sites with big corporate owners have websites that are frequently, maddeningly unusable. By the time you access the content, you're already pissed.

"Making both sides mad" might be a good definition for clickbaitism, but I'm not sure that it's journalism.

Have a feeling that folks doing security for the Wicked premiere in Singapore on Thursday will be available for hire on Friday. Cynthia Erivo was offering more protection than they were. #ArianaGrande www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT is going at the end of all of my emails from this point forward.

In fairness to Bari, a lot of cub reporters feel that way when they get to their first real news job

Senate Democrats play themselves like the Allman Brothers playing "Jessica."

Federal workers and anyone affected should ask Senate Democrats what was the point of all the missed paychecks, and all the chaos with the airports and benefit checks if they're simply going to fold in the end. If the House doesn't pass those ACA extensions, once again the Dems played themselves.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Do newspapers have copy editors in 2025, or are random combinations of letters the new spelling? #journalism

You don't need to go to journalism school to be a journalist, but you should perhaps learn some best practices of journalism before playing a journalist on social media. Maybe if this fellow had Tom Rosenstiel as a professor, he would learn that journalism is a discipline of verification. #Cowboys

It's always interesting to see how so many people who present themselves as believing in racial equality and inclusion so quickly fall in line with racist beliefs when experiencing the mildest social pressure to do so. #Vivek

Cuomo been pinned twice. Time to stop pushing him. He's never getting over again. #wrestling

Actually a travesty. Teen Vogue was a shockingly reputable publication with forward thinking politics that reflected the generations it represented. I've worked with several media companies in my career. Watched multiple go through "reorg" after "reorg" where competent people got axed over politics.

Teen Vogue's political staff have been eliminated. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...