Good stuff—listen. How can we tell if Trump plans to dump Vance as VP? Trump will say, “I’m behind him 1000%.” [McGovern drops Eagleton, 1972]

Every time I drive by Towson U, I think of you tapping away on your dorm room computer -- and helping make TV media criticism better ... Happy anniversary.

An especially sad ending to summer for us with our sweet rescue dog, Betsy, losing her battle with cancer this week. We've had lots of dogs and cats sharing our lives, but none as loving as Betsy. You taught me so much, girl. And you are so, so missed.

MAGA data polluting the presidential polls. Why not? MAGA lives on disinformation. newrepublic.com/article/187425…

As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine. 🧵

If you want to feel good about the college age generation, journalism and democracy, read today's inspirational endorsement of Kamala Harris in the Goucher College student newspaper, The Quindecim. All praise to editor Sam Rose. quinnews.com/category/opini…

If Joe Scarborough’s one-time comparison of Trump to Hitler is apt, then Joe, Mika and MSNBC are the media version today in their crawl to Mar-a-Lago of Chamberlain at Munich in the 1930s.

Fine work in the Goucher Quindecim by Olivia Barnes and Jimy Kuhn on SGA budget woes and cuts in student salaries. Check out the podcast and and both reports to see student journalists serving their community. quinnews.com/senators-wages…

Excellent!

Media analysts judging Sinclair's "journalism" should never forget that Trump insider Boris Epshteyn (covered today in the NYTimes) was the broadcaster's chief political analyst from 2017 to '19. Here's the kind of work he did. mediamatters.org/donald-trump/c…

An in-depth look from Nieman Reports on the sad state of the Baltimore Sun under Sinclair broadcasting executive MAGA-friendly David Smith. niemanreports.org/sunset-in-balt…

And since it's being discussed on-air again today, here's link to the article I wrote about my experience yesterday on Morning Joe. I want to stress: I am very sympathetic to the predicament faced by TV hosts. These are worrying times. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

David Frum: "If you're too drunk for Fox News, you're very, very drunk indeed." #MorningJoe

Wow. JoeNBC and Mika just delivered long speeches about what happened yesterday with David Frum, taking great issue with his piece that called them fearful. They went on to address their meeting with Trump & the subsequent criticism & they called for fearless anti-Trump

.Peggy Noonan is absolutely right about this: "The important thing to tell a student entering college or high school: Read." This is just about the only advice I give anyone anymore, over and over.

Watching Musk and Zuckerberg use their vast power to destroy what’s left of a fact-based information ecosystem, I can’t help but think back to the pushback I received for warning of this two years ago on CNN. mediaite.com/tv/cnns-david-…

Thank You, Jimy! quinnews.com/thank-you-jimy