In a guest essay for CommonWealth Magazine, former state official Margaret Monsell argues that The Boston Globe should look in the mirror when it laments dysfunction at the Statehouse: its lack coverage, she says, is one of the causes. #mapoli https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/maybe-the-globe-should-take-a-look-at-itself/
Oh, come on, David French. The Supreme Court is illegitimate because two of its right-wing members occupy stolen seats. Analyzing court rulings is beside the point. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/sunday/supreme-court-conservative.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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here on #mastodon liberals love to bash the times
but aside from propublica and one or two others, who has the resources now to do this sort of reporting ?
nostr:npub1qjssl23udvrumdyrj0qw0ds5vp7rpdapy94kz2pptvrshxnhmy6qurxp6v I agree with part of the liberal critique of the Times, but I get sick of it, too. OK, we know that their day-to-day political coverage is both-sidesy, and that they sometimes run some very strange opinion pieces. I can live with that.
Is this $267,000 RV the one that Clarence Thomas says he likes to park at Walmart? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html
New at Media Nation: The Boston Globe fires back at its ex-president Vinay Mehra, claiming that his spending was out of control. #boston #journalism #media https://dankennedy.net/the-globe-fires-back-against-ex-president-mehra-claiming-his-spending-was-out-of-control/
The final days of the Santa Barbara News-Press, whose wealthy owner, Wendy McCaw, ran it into the ground with her right-wing politics and unethical journalism. #LocalNews #journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/03/wendy-mccaw-santa-barbara-news-press/
New at Media Nation: Judy Woodruff takes on the local news crisis. #LocalNews #journalism https://dankennedy.net/judy-woodruff-takes-on-the-local-news-crisis/
It's not about the First Amendment! This can't be repeated often enough:
nostr:npub19kr9jlq66y804t0a64adl39n5ztp3wunvaqv4q52k4cq3q685z2qu48m4r Right, it has to be an extremely skewed sample.
nostr:npub1mdky0njswyvy6esxh964apx9e6mmwt8am4wuqk3ds5p4xyaav2dqvlaptk Back at the height of COVID, positivity numbers here at Northeastern were extremely low because everyone was being tested two or three times a week.
nostr:npub1mdky0njswyvy6esxh964apx9e6mmwt8am4wuqk3ds5p4xyaav2dqvlaptk Something I don't understand: Positivity numbers are up? Who's even getting tested?
nostr:npub19kr9jlq66y804t0a64adl39n5ztp3wunvaqv4q52k4cq3q685z2qu48m4r only 12 people need to presume he’s innocent. The rest of us need not do so.
nostr:npub1z4mhxnq9e4reejk7yv6ewwdgh7tv3eg0fzrs3gg3cvvqd7lqkj3qnlsaga Hey, you're here! Welcome. I still think this place has the most potential.
Yes, Trump is innocent unless proven guilty. But we know what he did. It was right out in the open. The question is whether a jury will vote to convict.
New at Media Nation: The Boston Globe announces it will seek to fill a void by hiring a media reporter. #journalism https://dankennedy.net/media/the-boston-globe-announces-it-will-seek-to-fill-a-void-by-hiring-a-media-reporter/
Garbage ads like this bring in very little money and harm a news organization’s brand and reputation. Does the NYT, profitable because its audience is willing to pay, really need to stoop so low? #journalism
Zuck has to be over the moon that Musk is suing him because of #Threads. A marketing dream come true.
They say you only get one chance to make a good first impression. If that's true, then Mark Zuckerberg missed that chance with the debut of #Threads. There's no browser access. You can't switch to a reverse-chrono non-algorithmic feed of accounts you follow. Even Musk still lets you do that. No lists. The whole thing feels very commercial in a forced-joviality, trying-too-hard way. These things can be fixed unless Zuck thinks they're features rather than bugs. For now, though … not great.
Allegations? Come on, NYT. Just watch the video.
“Mr. DeSantis’s team was forced to battle allegations, including from fellow Republicans, that it had shared a homophobic video on social media.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/us/politics/desantis-campaign-president.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare