I've seen a lot of comments that Sally Buzbee is keeping her silence, and it would be great if she said something. But I'd like to hear from Marty Baron, too. In his book and in interviews, he's always been full of praise for the way Jeff Bezos has managed the @washingtonpost. So what does he think of the latest moves? #journalism
@rbreich I hate to blame the messenger, but when many of the messengers are just conduits to amplify the lies of the shiftiest crooks, and can't acknowledge an objective difference between right & wrong, they need to shoulder a good part of the blame.
In a shocking news, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on course to lose its national majority after suffering major losses in key states, marking a dramatic shift in a political landscape it has dominated for the past decade.
"A shocking act of violence attracted international attention and split the town over questions of truth and justice. Grand Marais is still trying to piece itself back together."
The Epoch Times is under investigation for money laundering, but the site's role in spreading anti-trans misinformation has gone unmentioned in mainstream coverage of the case.
An Epoch Times link that showed up in a story for the Atlantic is a particularly clear example of the laundering process on trans stories that goes fringe right -> far right -> mainstream.
Biden walks difficult tightrope as son's gun trial begins!
His son is expected to face 25 years of jail.
As jury selection in Hunter Biden’s gun possession trial began on Monday, his father released a statement that illustrated the fine line he is trying to walk in the midst of his re-election campaign.
This month, Anime Herald is hosting a subscription drive. We'll donating to The Trevor Project in a dollar-for-dollar match for everything we raise this month through Patreon and Ko-fi (up to $800), so you can support independent anime journalism and help LGBTQIA+ youth at the same time. 💖
Local news is crucial to democracy, and it's disappearing — according to a new book by Steven Brill, excerpted in @Semafor, approximately twenty-two hundred papers and their websites went out of business between 2005 and 2021. That's created a vacuum into which "pink-slime" sites have poured. Brill writes about these sites that present themselves as legitimate publishers but are created to boost specific candidates and secretly financed by partisan funders, Democrats and Republicans alike.
Looks like my old workplace is turning into another media shitshow. Editor Sally Buzzbee was shit-canned on a Sunday night and a WSJ dude who's pals with the reich-wing publisher is now in charge.
A friend of mine who was a science editor at the Post recently left after just 18 months. Abandon ship...
while i'm almost impressed by otter.ai's hall of fame level #enshittification, i'm still outraged that they more than doubled the monthly price for the same services & i now need to find a solid offline non-subscription #transcription app. recommendations (besides macwhisper), anyone?
"Some stories carry echoes of 'Mississippi appendectomies' of the mid-20th century, in which Black women would go in for a different procedure and wake up to learn that their uterus had been removed."