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Randy Dotinga, Freelance Writer

@rdotinga

Indie scribbler, "incorrigible," & "some know nothing hack." Board member, @ahcj. Former prez, @asja_hq. Book agent: @annasproul. 🏳️‍🌈 [email protected]

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calendar_today20-04-2009 04:37:17

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Did Indiana University’s censorship spook you? The University of Central Oklahoma just took the horror show to the next level. UCO Bronchos banned its 122-year-old student paper, The Vista, from printing, seized its racks, and retaliated against editors for reporting the news.

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My college mentee has never heard of Sean Penn. Or "Raspberry Beret." Or "1999." Excuse me while I shuffle off quietly into the night. (He does think the songs are bops, though, whatever that means.)

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May the history of the Daily News, when it is written, reflect that upon unanimous ratification of the first contract in more than three decades, the next words uttered in the Zoom call were those of street reporter Kerry Burke: “Okay, I got a homicide. I gotta go.”

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.McKenna Oxenden says she was fired from Suncoast Searchlight after raising concerns about an editor's "undisclosed AI usage" during the writing and editing process, including "inserting hallucinated quotes." "If it cost me my job to stand up for that truth then I would do it again."

.<a href="/mack_oxenden/">McKenna Oxenden</a> says she was fired from <a href="/SunSearchlight/">Suncoast Searchlight</a> after raising concerns about an editor's "undisclosed AI usage" during the writing and editing process, including "inserting hallucinated quotes." "If it cost me my job to stand up for that truth then I would do it again."
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social (@will_bunch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For you fans of the superb DEATH BY LIGHTNING on Netflix, let it be known that Gavin Arthur, grandson of Chester, was a sexologist who had an affair with Neal Cassady, the subject of ON THE ROAD and the guy who drove Ken Kesey's bus in THE ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST

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If you are finding all of these things in a single man’s apartment, you need to leave because he is a bad man and his girlfriend will be home any minute now

Randy Dotinga, Freelance Writer (@rdotinga) 's Twitter Profile Photo

But what if it talks loudly on the phone though. "No machine can replace the human connection between a driver and their customer." -- Mikhail Hussein, president of the United Taxi Workers of San Diego timesofsandiego.com/business/2025/…

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Want to hear a funny story about Jack Nicholson? I’m bored so I am going to tell you a funny story about Jack Nicholson. My mom is dating Jack Nicholson in the early 80s and he starts getting all these letters and phone calls from a deranged fan…

Barbara Starr (@bstarrreports) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sit in our air conditioned offices? Finally I have to say it. How dare you sir. Close to every member of the press corps you despise has made multiple reporting trips to combat zones, been under fire, some reporters wounded, some killed. Some today still with PTS. Mr. Hegseth