Jay Rosen
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I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is both my subject and my site. @jayrosen.bsky.social jayrosen_nyc at Threads
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http://pressthink.org/ 19-05-2008 16:09:01
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This profile in New York Magazine visits MSNBC's break with Mehdi Hasan — which remains a murky event — as well as his upbringing in the UK, and his initial success at launching his own thing. 'Unlike anything we’ve seen to date,” says a Substack co-founder.
The proper descriptor for Margorie Taylor Green is not 'ultra conservative,' says Oliver Darcy in today's Reliable Sources.
'Greene and some of her allies in Congress are something else: right-wing extremists. Why is that so hard for major newsrooms to say?'
By Will Bunch:
While the major news outlets continue to obsess on 'both-sidesing' a five-alarm fire for the American Experiment, aided by reporters seeking to find “the fun” in politics... there are some folks who do get it. One of them is Chris Quinn.' inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
'CNN’s average viewership has dipped below half a million, roughly half the average audience for MSNBC and a third of Fox News.' Via Dylan Byers
'The last several weeks of news have been relentless, and I suspect things will not slow down anytime soon.' — Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
Like threatening skies.
In this thread Greg Sargent says Times Opinion somehow allowed J.D. Vance to 'get away with erasing Russian agency' in his recent Op Ed on defunding Ukraine.
Here's something you wanted. Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) interviewed the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chris Quinn. presswatchers.org/2024/04/an-int…
Used to be the local and regional press took its cues from the nationals. Read this and you will see: Quinn is flipping that script, showing the way.
'The NPR Russia-Trump coverage plume under fire from Berliner consists of thousands of articles, podcasts, segments and so on. Berliner links to one.'
By ErikWemple
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…
Want to know what happened with NPR this week? Read Margaret Sullivan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
My read: too often the possible worlds are said to be two. Biased journalism soaking in ideology or some form of professional neutrality. Left out: 'here's where we're coming from' journalism.