Jeff Jarvis

#Journalism prof at CUNY's Newmark School. Author of THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS & OBJECT LESSONS: MAGAZINE upcoming from Bloomsbury. Cohost of This Week in Google on the TWiT network.

My blog: https://buzzmachine.com
My Medium: https://jeffjarvis.medium.com
My Book: Gutenberg Parenthesis: https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/
My school: https://journalism.cuny.edu

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2024-08-08 11:21:59

Yes and the press covered the tantrum as recession. Gift link:
The Stock Market Drama Was a Toddler Tantrum https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/opinion/why-financial-markets-are-like-toddlers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.tFaq.ONp2qMavrDAe&smid=em-share

2024-08-06 10:36:44

The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense -Robert Reich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/06/economy-recession-stock-market

2024-08-03 14:51:27

Now we see why Trump was extra-rude to ABC at the NABJ: He wanted another excuse to weasel out of the debate there.

2024-08-03 12:35:44

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The Times' dismissal of "identify politics" is the northern-white-liberal equivalent of Republicans calling @KamalaHarris the DEI candidate. She is the target of blatant racism, which The Times still refuses to name. Instead, it engages in this incipient racism: telling the Black woman to shush.
The Times is worse than broken. The Times damages democracy. 2/

2024-08-03 12:35:26

OMFG. The Times -- via its quite white man, Jeremy Peters -- hits a new bottom. It seeks out "many" (read: "dozens") of people to tell this racist nation's first Black and Asian presidential candidate to stop talking about race. 1/
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2024-08-03 10:26:22

A campaign conundrum: Indeed, racism, misogyny, hate, fraud, insurrection, and fascism are all way worse than "weird." But it's "weird"--mockery, laughter, ridicule--that gets under their skin. Both tactics are necessary but hard to mix.
Trump is much worse than ‘weird’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/02/trump-weird-nabj-jewish-christian-voters/

2024-08-03 00:45:25

Times' latest whiteglove euphemism: "timewarn tactic."
IT IS RACISM. Call it by its name.
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2024-08-02 19:38:36

Hivemind: Anyone have an explanation of how generative AI works you find particularly clear, credible, and useful? I'm preparing readings for a class and want to get the basics covered at the start.

2024-08-02 10:35:21

Another crime for Trump ... same one that brought Menendez down...
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

2024-08-01 18:25:26

Damn Murdoch's Journal. How lacking in grace to not specifically thank Joe Biden and Olaf Scholz, for it is their diplomacy (not the paper's performative buttons) that brought the hostages home. And when will the Journal condemn Trump for himself trying to old Evan hostage for the sake of his election? Never, I'm sure.
Statement from Almar Latour and Emma Tucker on WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/statement-from-almar-latour-and-emma-tucker-on-wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich/

2024-08-01 13:11:45

Kremlinology 1: Putin thinks Trump will lose.
Kremlinology 2: This sure took Trump's neon racism out of the headlines and cable chatter.

2024-08-01 10:37:43

Almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/31/almost-half-of-dementia-cases-could-be-prevented-or-delayed-study-finds

2024-07-31 20:19:56

Murdoch's man, Will Lewis, might be hiding under a rock, hoping the storm over him blows over. No. His hole gets deeper.
First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up
By Gordon Brown
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/gordon-brown-tom-watson-news-international-william-lewis-rupert-murdoch

2024-07-31 10:19:32

Yes, and a rapist, too.
Trump, with a history of sexist attacks, again faces a female opponent
(End of the month with a gift link left so here's a gift link)
https://wapo.st/3A0gItY

2024-07-31 10:16:10

Gift link. Jennifer Rubin:
Harris’s best response to the ‘too liberal’ attack https://wapo.st/3WJFfwf

2024-07-30 18:38:23

"Was dragged into" is The Times' passive-voiced way to say it supports the legislation. No, KOSA is starting a war over freedom of expression and privacy. That'd be another way to say it.
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2024-07-30 10:50:15

Well, bravo. Instead of the usual Musk puff pieces in Murdoch's Journal, actual reporting about the mortal danger of Musk's supposed autopilot. I never understasnd why it is essentially unregulated and not forbidden. Good it is being investigated.
The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-autopilot/the-hidden-autopilot-data-that-reveals-why-teslas-crash/68D26569-0251-4637-A035-A5131D8883B8?mod=hp_lead_pos7

2024-07-30 00:12:44

If you're having trouble getting on the White Dudes for Harris call, as I did, try this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnKXuYcDU0

2024-07-29 18:45:05

He must go.
New York City mayor Eric Adams blocks ban on solitary confinement
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/29/solitary-confinement-nyc-eric-adams

2024-07-29 11:03:39

Code-switching is subtle & nuanced and expected especially of people of color and women. This report is OK but he does not code-switch; he is an opportunistic sycophant.
From Believers to Bitcoin: 24 Hours in Trump’s Code-Switching Campaign https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-2024-bitcoin.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-29 10:36:24

Thank you, Mr. President. Gift link:
Joe Biden: My plan to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law https://wapo.st/4c9ertE

2024-07-28 19:12:28

Delightful bit of trivia I ran across researching my latest chapter: Ilion, NY, once the home of the Remington typewriter company boasted a minor league baseball team called ... wait for it: The Typewriters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilion_Typewriters

2024-07-28 15:28:04

Here's your morning reminder to sign up for Monday's White Dudes for Harris call. Pete Buttigieg will speak. Democracy and the last shred of self-respect for being a white man in America are on the line. Don't let the fascist boys ruin manhood for the rest of us. Sign up at whitedudesforharris.com. Get your (sane) friends & family to sign up. Donate. Save democracy and the nation.
https://whitedudesforharris.com

2024-07-28 12:44:17

German-speaking socials are buzzing about this piece of shit:
"Why Kamala Harris' cheerfulness is irritating." It calls her "an untamed, driven woman" but says this prejudice has nothing to with her being a woman.
Pity. @npub1jhp…zu53 used to be an actual newspaper.
https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kamala-harris-lachen-trumps-spott-heiterkeit-in-der-politik-ld.1841114

2024-07-28 12:28:17

Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/28/rupert-murdochs-secret-succession-drama-is-a-warning-to-rein-in-the-super-rich

2024-07-28 11:10:08

Good this is being reported. Gift link. But Vance as "an omnivorous intellect?" LOL. Also, they need to investigate the eugenicist #TESCREAL philosophy underpinning all this. Meanwhile, The Information's surveys show a Valley divide: megarich class for Trump, rank-and-file technologists for Harris.
Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance https://wapo.st/3A9goZE

2024-07-27 14:44:50

I'm now told that none other than the brilliant @npub1g94…9zzg will be on Monday's call. So text your (sane) friends and let's join together to crush our demographic peers: insane, fascist, white men. Sign up at https://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris
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2024-07-27 12:12:37

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Funny thing is, there used to be no institution more representative of The Establishment than The New York Times. Now it wants to be liked by the cool anti-Establishment kids storming democracy. That is why it promotes people like Douthat. 4/

2024-07-27 12:12:19

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Most intriguingly, Douthat paints Harris as the establishment candidate. That is an insult from the insurrectionist right. As I write in The Gutenberg Parenthesis, everthing is inverted: The former conservatives destroy institutions, putting progressives in the position of having to conserve them. 3/
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2024-07-27 12:11:36

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Then Douthat just dismisses her and her accomplishments: "As vice president she has no notable successes, no impressive portfolio, and her struggles and miscues have inspired comparisons to HBO’s “Veep” for a reason." 2/

2024-07-27 12:11:21

Another noxious Douthat column. Here he invents a fancy way to say DEI candidate: "She flopped completely in her bid for national office in 2020 and was rescued and elevated only by the exigencies of George Floyd-era progressive politics." 1/
Kamala Harris and the Audacity of Desperation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/opinion/kamala-harris-democrats.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-27 10:59:17

"Bum." The old fool has run out of insults....
Trump calls Harris a ‘bum,’ complains about Biden’s withdrawal https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/trump-turning-point-speech-vance/

2024-07-26 18:41:53

I'm going to keep repeating this until I hear that countless thousands of you all have signed up. Please go to bit.ly/whitedudesforharris and I'll see you Monday. God's work, guys. Better than the devil's.
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2024-07-26 13:33:29

I'll be there. I'm giving. Pass the word to the sane white dudes you know (not the insane ones).
https://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris
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2024-07-26 11:35:17

Conservatives’ racist and sexist attacks on Kamala Harris show exactly who they are
by Judith Levine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/republican-kamala-harris-racist-sexist-attacks

2024-07-26 11:06:02

This is not getting enough attention.
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665

2024-07-26 10:50:55

Brooks is seriously flawed: "I find myself experiencing a dizzying range of emotions. Some moments, I share the jolt of enthusiasm many are feeling. Other moments, I think the Democrats are suffering from a mass hypnotic delusion, nominating a candidate who is seriously flawed."
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2024-07-26 10:33:35

American political journalism is ill-equipped--incapable--of covering fun, excitement, hope, and joy because it is filled with sour people seeking chaos, hatred, division, and unhappiness. It's like having Eeyore as wedding planner.
Kamala Harris is making politics fun again https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/25/kamala-harris-politics-fun-democrats/

2024-07-26 10:13:32

I think the real goal of the meme is the joy of watching reporters having to write about couch-fucking in serious terms.
False rumors about Vance, Musk’s X show misinfo cuts both ways https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/26/jd-vance-couch-twitter-whitelist-fake/

2024-07-26 01:08:40

I joined the White Women for Harris call. They've just passed $1 million. I gave. You can, too. Here's a link: https://secure.kamalaharris.com/a/womenforharris-hvf?attr=112974915

2024-07-25 13:22:36

How LLMs will destroy the web & themselves:
"Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, in which tails of the original content distribution disappear."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

2024-07-25 11:12:51

Here's a gift link for The Times' Succession-sequel story about evil Rupert trying to control his fascist media empire from beyond the grave, screwing over his own children and English-speaking democracy. I do hope this trial gets covered like a blanket. This is an excellent start to that reporting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/rupert-murdoch-succession-fox.html?unlocked_article_code=1.900.BKTm.Phy6Zss2sBv1&smid=em-share

2024-07-24 11:01:39

TV, meet reality:
A TV Show Set Up a Fake Campus Protest. Then Real Protesters Arrived. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/nyregion/queens-college-protest-encampment.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-23 16:03:52

Scientific American is worried, too:
What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/project-2025-plan-for-trump-presidency-has-far-reaching-threats-to-science/

2024-07-23 00:12:36

"I don't know what is going on at The New York Times," says Maddow, noting that they were shouting for Biden to get out and once he did they shouted CHAOS!
"They are on planet somewhere else." Yes. We need to criticize big, old media, starting with The Times.

2024-07-22 13:12:27

Democrats have some making up to do with old voters. Old media, too.

2024-07-22 01:18:34

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https://archive.ph/3WS3m

2024-07-22 00:38:01

Once again, the @PhillyInquirer editorial board is showing the way to lesser institutions, Times and Post, with a clear and productive about today's momentous events: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/biden-leaves-presidential-race-20240721.html

2024-07-21 20:33:05

Fuck off, Washington Post. This is not your party, not your election, not your country, you are not in charge. Stop your open-convention wet-dreams. Zip it up. You helped The Times hound Biden from office. Now @KamalHarris needs every minute to defeat the fascist you still do not fully cover. So fuck off.
With Biden stepping aside, Democrats must now embrace an open process https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/21/biden-drop-out-dnc-convention-harris/

2024-07-21 18:39:50

Ready for the fight.
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2024-07-21 18:23:45

I will never forgive The New York Times for bringing this to pass. They violated the journalistic norms they claim to uphold in their vindictive campaign against him. They hounded him out of office. They'd best not crow and they'd best not do the same to Kamala Harris. But I have no faith they can restrain themselves. Same to the Post.
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2024-07-21 11:21:09

OMFG, Sorkin has written a lot of dumb shit (I hated Newsroom & The Social Network), but this is the dumbest of all. His solution: Democrats nominate Mitt Romney for President. I can't even....
@DougJBalloon, can you?
Aaron Sorkin: How I Would Script This Moment for Biden and the Democrats https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-20 12:26:06

This from Masha Gessen is impardonable. Dare to criticize the press--namely their Times--and you will be labeled a demagogue, which is exactly what they accuse Biden of doing in the face of criticism. Instead, try to listen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/opinion/biden-trump-campaign-reality.html
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2024-07-20 10:28:57

I'm your copy desk. Let me rewrite this headline for you, WaPo:
Republicans vow to ignore and overturn election results unless they win. Again.
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2024-07-19 16:19:15

This is MSNBC's list of the drop-out Dems. I count one Black representative and a couple who are Hispanic. Thus the list is, as it has been, overwhelmingly white. This amounts to 11% of House Democrats, 6% of the Senate. Now I want to hear how many have already enthusiastically thrown their support to Kamala Harris and how many have not.
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2024-07-19 14:41:01

"I have not seen an alternative scenario that does not set us up for a lot of peril." -- a cautious AOC in a long chat with her people warning against rash decisions. She also decries defeatism. "My community does not have the option to lose."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9l41vgOAGj/

2024-07-19 10:52:15

The good news is that nobody's going to be scheduling a damned Teams call today.

2024-07-18 17:16:23

What upsets me today (it's a quickly moving target) is the apparent lack of empathy for Joe Biden, who has given his life to our nation, who has been a spectacular President, who saved us once from Trump, and who is now being kicked to the curb by fellow (BTW White) Democrats, elite donors, the whole damned press, and many here on the socials. Think what it feels like to be him today. Can we not put ourselves in his shoes?

2024-07-18 11:17:29

I am having terrible flashbacks to 1968. I was a naive teenager among those who marched against Johnson over Vietnam. Johnson had given us civil rights law but was hounded from the ticket. The result: the Chicago disaster, Nixon, his Southern strategy, leading to civil war today. The short-sighted rush to push Joe Biden out is filled with such peril. And if Kamala Harris and Black voters are in turn bypassed, we lose the election and everything for generations. We lose democracy. Stop. Think.
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2024-07-17 20:42:33

“The editor said employees of the Journal should not be seen as advocating for press freedom in a place like Hong Kong, even though they can in Western countries."
Murdoch's Journal.
Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter who headed embattled press club https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/17/hong-kong-wall-street-journal-press/

2024-07-17 11:38:43

Murdoch's Journal gives fascism a new euphemism.
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2024-07-16 13:39:23

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My new spectator sport is watching commentators trying to square Vance & Trump as if they and their party have an ideology. They are authoritarians. All they believe in is power. That's it. You can stop there.

2024-07-16 11:13:53

Journalists decree the only solution to the attacks journalists make against Biden is for Biden to give interviews to the journalists attacking him. Journalists question my journalistic credentials for pointing this out.
Biden has a political choice: to subject himself to the journalists' efforts to look tough on him--or to get tough on them. Since journalists will not criticize journalists someone needs to question them. I say that is his right.

2024-07-16 10:17:00

With help from the Tiny News Collective. Gift link:
Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington https://wapo.st/3Y5v8CN

2024-07-16 10:06:18

Willie Geist just continued the meme that Trump turning his head saved his life. We don't know that unless we know more about what injured him. But the doctors and the FBI haven't given us further information.

2024-07-15 21:20:45

Oh, FFS, Lester Holt is attacking Biden for his language: bullseye. Jeezus. What bullshit. Joe answered well. "I'm not the guy who said he'd be a dictator on day one.... How do you talk about the threat democracy when it is real?... Just not say something?"

2024-07-15 19:56:35

You know damned well J.D. Vance would not have certified the election.

2024-07-15 19:16:57

I canceled Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo. No need to pay those who insult us who disagree with them. If I wanted that, I could buy the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

2024-07-15 14:08:13

Donald Trump's definition of a "unified America" is autocracy. Period. No judicial independence (see SCOTUS and Cannon both immunizing their king). No legislative independence (they are his serfs). No independent media (MSNBC runs scared). The academy under attack. This is "unity" by force: totalitarianism. It is happening now. But this week, I guarantee witless news media will take Trump at his word and parrot that word--unity--without understanding its meaning.

2024-07-15 12:05:05

And while I'm in rant mode, why have we not seen a medical report from the hospital that treated Trump? Why have we not seen reporters vocally demanding it?

2024-07-15 10:19:34

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And here's The Post's willful credulity this morning. It is a variant of Trump finally becoming presidential. Stop. You know better. You are lying to yourselves and us. This is not a "unity moment." It is the opposite. It is the result of the extremists' disunity and you know it.
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2024-07-15 10:06:48

When will they ever learn? MSNBC reporter just now quoting people from the rally saying they look forward to Trump rewriting his speech as a speech of unity. Good God. You know he is doing exactly the opposite. He will be writing a declaration of war and hate. Listen. Learn. Report.

2024-07-14 20:11:42

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The Nation today: A Brief History of Trump and Violence
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/history-of-trump-violence-shooting-assassination-attempt/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

2024-07-14 17:22:23

Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News.
h/t Joy Reid
'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889

2024-07-14 11:05:31

I thought I heard Trump say he wanted to put his shoes on. That's what The Sun heard, too.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29206016/donald-trump-shot-assassination-secret-service-mic/

2024-07-13 19:15:57

"It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism."
Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-13 18:35:13

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Great minds, etc.

2024-07-13 14:41:21

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Kang closes: "If Biden believes he is the last chance for democracy in America, perhaps he should start acting like it." That should be said of those in charge of America's legacy mass media: If you think you can save democracy, then start acting like it. /12

2024-07-13 14:40:19

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Some on the socials insist that The Times et al want Trump to win. I've said that is a simplistic conspiracy theory. I've thought they want chaos: something for them to cover. Now Kang makes me think instead they want to recapture their lost agenda and influence: their power. 11/

2024-07-13 14:39:36

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The NYer headline over Kang's column calls Biden's criticism of the press "cynical." It is anything but. It is an overdue and proper response to the cynical exercise of--as Kang makes me understand--the dying power of The Times et al. No one elected Sulzberger, Kahn, Lewis, Zaslav--or Remnick--to run the nation. Millions of us voted for Biden to do so. 10/

2024-07-13 14:37:58

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So I am glad that Biden is finally criticizing The Times and its mass-media peers, if not yet by name. I am glad he rejects the fair-weather platformed pundits, moneyed executives (corporations), & elites (Clooney) who reject him now. In trying to dismiss him, they only made him more progressive. 9/

2024-07-13 14:36:50

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BTW, the incumbents of journalism know this. That is why they invest in lobbyists to pass legislation in New York, California, Washington (State and next DC), Canada, and Australia to benefit themselves at the expense of the media--community, nonprofit, startup, digital--that would replace them. More on that another day. 8/

2024-07-13 14:34:29

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When I criticize The Times--Kang quotes me doing so--it pains me terribly, for I have devoted my life to journalism & long held up The Times as our standard. No more. It is failing journalism & democracy. I fear the incumbents may be beyond reform & require replacement.7/
https://medium.com/whither-news/the-times-is-broken-02a4a6a27f8c

2024-07-13 14:31:23

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As I also write in Gutenberg, we find ourselves in a paradoxical time when the insurrectionists formerly known as "conservatives" try to destroy the institutions they once wished to conserve, putting progressives in the position not of reforming but instead of protecting those institutions. 6/

2024-07-13 14:29:56

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Kang likens Trump/right-wing and Biden/liberal press criticism but they could not be more different. Trump et al want to destroy the institutions of journalism, education, and government itself. Biden and liberals wish to improve the press. We are begging for a better Times. But The Times can't hear that over the sound of wagons circling. 5/

2024-07-13 14:28:09

Journalists have never been good at listening. That is why
@npub1g5z…ghfk and I started a program in Engagement Journalism at CUNY (now moving to Montclair State): to teach journalists to listen. In all the wagon-circling by The Times' Kahn, The Post's Lewis, The NYer's Remnick, CNN's Zaslav, we see a failure from the top to listen to and learn from criticism. 4/

2024-07-13 14:23:43

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In The Gutenberg Parenthesis, I chronicle--nay, celebrate--the death of mass media & the insult of the mass. Kang makes me see that I next need to examine mass media's behavior in their death throes. They are not accustomed to being talked back to, by their subjects or by the public. They respond with resentment. They dig in. 3/
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2024-07-13 13:37:27

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Kang says that media are weakened and that's what makes it easy for Trump and now Biden alike to attack them. I say what it shows is that as media realize they have lost the agenda, their response is to shout louder and more often. That is what we see every day in the NY Times. 2/

2024-07-13 13:32:38

In this defensive New Yorker reaction to Joe Biden (finally) criticizing the press that has been criticizing him, Jay Caspian Kang shares an important insight about the falling power of the press, but I come to a different conclusion... 1/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/joe-bidens-cynical-turn-against-the-press

2024-07-13 11:11:06

It was an amazing speech. The Post is grudging in ackowledgment. In it, Biden laid out his platform and promises for his first 100 days. This report gives that news short shrift 19 paragraphs in. Inform the electorate? No, The Post is here to continue its campaign against Biden.
Biden delivers newly fiery speech declaring Trump unfit to be president https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/12/biden-news-conference-debate-michigan-rally/

2024-07-13 01:59:22

Every time The Times and Post talk to a "worried" Democrat about Biden, they must ask how enthusiastic they are about Kamala Harris as the alternative. If they waffle, if they suggest someone else then (1) they'll lose the race for us, (2) they haven't thought this through, (3) they're racist.

2024-07-12 12:16:54

I might feel somewhat better if I heard all the pols, pundits, and columnists say in the next breath after "Biden must go" that Kamala Harris will be a brilliant, winning candidate. Instead, they are not-so-secretly rooting for one or another (literally) white knight to rob both Biden and Harris of their duly-elected right.

2024-07-12 12:12:08

Answer: No. Polls are the ruin of democracy, disenfranchising citizens and commodifying both their views and the issues in favor of the biases of the pollsters and journalists who use them.
Polls May Shape Biden’s Future. Are They Up to the Job? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/upshot/biden-polls-trump.html?smid=tw-share

2024-07-12 11:17:39

Amen, Al Sharpton on Morning Joe: It was Black voters who made the wall that elected Joe Biden and kicked Donald Trump out of office. "For us to be kept out of these discussions is offensive and elitist."

2024-07-10 14:24:38

I, too, watched Morning Joe, just like inaccurate stenographer NYTimes. This is not what she said. She said the decision is his to make. Yes, the future tense opens a window a crack, but that is not a hint or a call for him to reconsider. When I heard her, I feared The Times would wishfully run with this, as they predictably have.
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2024-07-09 10:30:48

Joe Scarborough paraphrasing the anti-Biden Richard Haass: If this election is about Joe Biden, Donald Trump wins; if the election is about Trump, Biden wins. Look at media coverage, ignoring Trump, as if they have to wait for him to leave the golf course to write about his crimes & insanities. They choose how to cover this election.

2024-07-08 23:24:31

It's time for white Democrats in Congress, white editors and journalists in media, white donors, and white elites to listen to Black Democrats in Congress and Black voters who are sticking with Joe Biden. Black voters saved America's ass in 2020. Black voters would suffer most under Trump's racist regime. It's time to hear Black voters.

2024-07-08 10:27:35

Joe Scarborough says The Times is as much as running a syntax blog tracking ever Biden syllabic fumble but they should start a new game, printing an entire Trump speech on its back page, challenging players to find any sense In it: Trumpl.

2024-07-07 20:20:51

So basically, Macron scared the bejesus out of sane France and they came together to assure the fascists would not win. That is what should be happening in the US if we would get our act together and tell media's baying bloodhounds to fuck off and prioritize democracy. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/07/french-elections-left-projected-to-win-most-seats-ahead-of-macron-s-coalition-and-far-right_6676978_7.html

2024-07-06 20:27:18

As Biden does what he was elected to do by the citizens of the United States, more so-called journalists are looking to push him out. Fixed it for you, NYT.
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