"No, it is not #CNN’s job to make 'a LOT of news.' In fact, if you’re working at a news organization and you find yourself making news rather than reporting news, then you are not doing #journalism. You might be a propagandist. You might be an entertainer. You might be a partisan. But you certainly are not a journalist when you are making news." Always read @parkermolloy https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-head-of-cnn-thinks-its-journalisms
Hmm? This is intriguing: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news - Boring Report is an app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and makes it boring to read. In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the actual facts and relevant information. [As an aside, it is interesting to me how people are using AI to generate side-gigs and new small business offerings, this is just one of many such efforts leveraging AI for new products] https://www.boringreport.org/#news#journalism#AI
I thought news organizations reported the news, not "made the news". Does not bode well for media coverage of the 2024 election.
@brianstelter
Chris Licht to CNN staffers re: the Town Hall: "You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them," Licht tells staffers, many of whom are angry about the town hall. "Kaitlan pressed him again and again and made news. Made a LOT of news." And "that is our job."
CNN's Trump town hall wasn't journalism. It was entertainment, maybe? (If you find that sort of thing entertaining.)
It's a sad omen of what Axios called the 2024 "trust-nothing election," where voters continue to believe only the info that fits their world view, and where AI is about to unleash a mighty new stream of misinformation.
#USA#TV#CNN#Politics#Elections#Trump#Journalism: "Putting a microphone and three cameras on Trump as if he were just another candidate and not an instigator of the violent disruption of American democracy and leader of a conspiracy to overthrow the results of a national election is the height of journalistic irresponsibility.
The conservative columnist Alyssa Farah Griffin defended CNN by saying that the host, Kaitlan Collins, is “tough” and won’t let Trump “get away with lying without being called out”. That’s exactly the problem. CNN is in the business of performing toughness and balance, not primarily producing journalism that serves to enlighten citizens and enhance democracy. CNN seems to exist to create tweetable moments of anchor “toughness”, through which the celebrities who appear on air make events and interviews all about them. The CNN faces are tough enough to stand in the wind and rain of a hurricane, and tough enough to call out a politician – even a bully like Trump – for lying. But that’s easy and shallow. Ultimately, it hurts democracy." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/10/cnn-trump-town-hall-election-media-coverage
"Putting a microphone and three cameras on Trump as if he were just another candidate and not an instigator of the violent disruption of American democracy and leader of a conspiracy to overthrow the results of a national election is the height of journalistic irresponsibility."
In this clip — an update on the debt limit — you can hear not only a museum-quality default to both sides mindlessness, but the sound of a news organization, NPR, utterly confounded by its subject, helpless and paralyzed, unable to think, unwilling to try.
It's so surreal. They're still doing, "When will those squabbling politicians put aside partisanship and compromise for the greater good?" after all this.
The #Republican owners of local newspapers, where you get your classifieds, obit, little league & high school sport scores, have a syndicated column this week titled 'Does the IRS want you? Probably' by Peter Roff, in papers across the US this week.
It is nothing but #RWNJ innuendo that Joe Biden and the Democrats are coming after you with 10's of thousands of armed IRS agents
Meanwhile, elsewhere on social media: we wanted people to know the backstory on that Woburn, MA police officer who was suspended, let go, and then decertified by the state's Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Commission.
Facebook blocked this story for being "against community standards."
We think you should be able to see the facts for yourself.
@Gustodon
🙄 I guarantee you the guy who will be printing them is connected to a senior member of that Senate. Good #journalism 👀 would find out his name.
One of the main contenders in the Kentucky gubernatorial primary promised that, if she's elected, there will be no "transgenders" in Kentucky public schools.
This sort of evil shouldn't be normalized, but the local press fit it into a standard news story with a Republican strategist talking about how "this issue" (referring, one assumes, to the literal elimination of trans people from public life) polls well with Republican primary voters. #trans#journalism#politics
Out today: I wrote a commentary for “Digital Journalism” on how Mastodon fits into the concerns of journalists and media researchers. As with anything placed in an academic journal, it’s a bit out of sync with the news cycle, but I stand by it.
[Edit: Looks like the free download link has expired, but I'm happy to share the PDF with anyone who'd like a copy. Just drop me a DM or an email!]
To anybody who ever deals with #media: more than a third of journalists--and 46% of science/tech journalists--are now freelancers, so don't be confused or surprised when someone who writes for multiple outlets and is self-employed is trying to set up an interview. #journalism
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in news coverage of the 2024 campaign. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
You may find me repeating this principle.
You may also find me linking to writers who can help explain it. Today it's Perry Bacon, Jr. "How the media can cover Trump better this time."
Have already seen or heard several journos who ought to know better say that Trump was found "guilty" of sexual abuse and "not guilty" of rape. No. It was a civil trial, and you're either liable or not liable. This has been a public service announcement. #journalism
Over the past 20 y, drug shortages have increased dramatically in Europe. Governments use the war and the energy crisis to cover up the real causes: globalised production, pricing strategies, fixed quotas or the elimination of full-line wholesalers and parallel exports
1/ Today the #2024Election kicks off in earnest with #JoeBiden’s re-election bid announcement
There is 560 days to the #PresidentialElection. Much will happen, conditions will change but it as #Biden suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America
I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to #ElectionDay2024, but the stakes couldn’t be higher
For years I’ve been beating a drum that we should normalize the cryptographic signing of mainstream content, for example politicians signing with their own identities to certify that a quote or video clip is real and accurate.
Not only would that help assure that a quote wasn’t taken misleadingly out of context, but in this new age it would help protect against outright deepfakes.
Unfortunately, I’ve often heard journalists respond that such a norm would interfere with journalistic independence, and lead to people being skeptical of journalists.
I think such responses get it exactly backwards.
In any case, yep, I’m still beating the drum, but sadly I think the ship has sailed and we’re now entering the more dangerous waters without that protection in place.