From a blog reader: 'Taken together, Dowd, Watters, and Kilmeade are Exhibit A in my case against cable news. It's not informative; it's inflammatory.'

Right after Charlie Kirk’s tragic death, two TV commentators made controversial remarks. One lost his job; one didn’t. Those outcomes were exactly backward. My latest blog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/9/13/amid-grief-over-kirk-two-networks-play-politics #JournalismSky #CharlieKirk

Quit expecting campus sports reporters to cheer along with you. The latest (and always free) blog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/9/9/student-sports-writers-should-call-em-as-they-see-em #JournalismSky #StudentJournalism

A guest blog post by son Sam, a college prof who explains his unconventional teaching. You might think it's innovative. Or the further collapse of higher ed. (1.5 min) www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/8/19/guest-post-three-unusual-things-i-did-to-boost-learning-in-my-class #AcademicSky

In Gaza, there’s a military war, a war against hunger and a war of persuasion. My latest post, on the third of those (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/8/9/photography-failures-escalate-gaza-propaganda #journalism #gazawar

Sorry, but Pat McAfee is horrendous. My latest (and always free) blog post, on the lesson he (maybe) learned (1.5 min read): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/7/... #sportsjournalism #sportsmedia

News organizations need to give credit where credit is due. It’s jerky and unethical not to. The latest Arenblog post (2.5 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/7/... #journalism

In combat, the fog of war is a problem. But in public relations, hawkish politicians love it. And try to create it. The latest post on my 100% noncommercial journalism blog (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/6/... #journalism

With as much practice as they’ve gotten lately, you’d think the news media would be better at covering political protests. The latest blog post (3 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/6/10/the-many-problems-with-media-coverage-of-protests #journalism #newsmedia

Correct spelling isn’t always easy, but we ought to be better than this, professionals included. A 2-minute blog post. www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/5/25/students-pro-writers-going-through-a-bad-spell #journalism #writing

Like everyone else in the business, Alabama’s busiest news website is looking for more revenue. So it decided to stop being a paywall holdout. My latest blog post (3 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/5/1/would-you-run-through-a-wall-for-alcom #journalism

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His confirmation was proof positive the entire GOP has become the party of stupidity and evil. They don’t care about the country. They care about getting rich. Who dies does not matter to any of them.

Trump and some universities have made it riskier to be a college journalist. But the student press, including the Crimson White, is doing its job anyway. Latest blog post (3 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/4/... @grammarpurist.bsky.social #studentjournalism #UniversityofAlabama

More newsroom courage in the past day: Wall Street Journal bashed Trump on Harvard, Abrego Garcia case. LA Times columnist bashed Trump and the Dodgers about White House visit. #journalism

It only takes a few owners and a few bad decisions to make the national news media look compromised. But individual newsrooms are nonetheless pressing on. Latest blog post (3 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/4/... #journalism

The Trump administration had disgracefully tried to deflect criticism for Signalgate onto The Atlantic. When you offer every possible rebuttal, that means you have none. The latest Arenblog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/3/... #journalism

As Donald Trump runs roughshod over one of the world's largest news organizations, other national media need to find some more courage, and do it in public. Latest blog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/2/... #Journalism

Trump story angles are endless, even overwhelming. Here’s what the news media should focus on. The latest blog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/2/... #journalism

The new Trump administration seems eager to turn its anti-media hostility into action. That ain’t good. But you can help fight this. A new blog post (3 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/1/14/how-trump-might-cripple-the-news-media-good-luck-everyone

For the historic sentencing of a president, the public got reporter accounts, still photos and delayed audio. That's something. But not enough. A blog post from April on the merits of TV cameras in courtrooms (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2024/4/... #journalism

A journalism school with no current or ex-pros on faculty is terrible. One that has nothing but that is terrible, too. A semester-opening blog post (2 min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/1/... #AcademicSky #Journalism

Working conditions changed dramatically for the state’s sports media when the University of Alabama went from Nick Saban to Kalen DeBoer. An Arenblog (noncommercial) post (2.5-min): www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2024/12... #journalism @nickkelly.bsky.social

ABC joins the list of corporate media cowards. Zero chance this case met all the elements of defamation. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...

Weirdly, my 1st blog post since joining here is about X. But a hot topic. Here, it may get more than usual disagreement. All good. (3-min, 100% noncommercial) www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2024/11/20/good-reasons-for-journalists-to-leave-x-and-to-stay @aldotcom.bsky.social @jeffpearlman.bsky.social

Glad to see that Tom Arenberg is here. Alabama people, follow him. Journalism people, follow him. The rest of you? I mean, you can if you want, but it isn’t the same degree of moral imperative. @tomarenberg.bsky.social