Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
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“The town is making a comeback,” Bob Davis writes of Hickory, North Carolina, which had been devastated after Chinese factory imports surged in the U.S. “The jobs are returning, and incomes are rising. But the reasons have nothing to do with Mr. Trump and his signature policies.”
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Depositions should be interesting
A banger of a story
Given these realities, continually smh over US news headlines reporting what Trump says as what happened. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed.
'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...
Reading some local media sites, feeling irritated by explosion in teaser headlines (no doubt aiming to force clicks and drive traffic) - maybe another consequence of AI search impact on news site traffic. Oppose of what headlines should do for readers, like so much else with digital media.
Hello setting aside politics and partisanship for a minute, is JD Vance really lecturing THE POPE on theology?
Don’t know, certainly possible
This is lazy journalism: neither description is accurate. The problem of media boilerplate creating narratives that have to then be unspun calls for editors to think and headline writers to use fresh, accurate phrasing.
Screen shot showing search results with multiple headlines from politico, MSN, ABC News, New York Post and others with phrasing "marathon" describing US/Israel-Iran day of negotiations
Screen shot shoing headlines from BBC, PBS, The Atlantic and others describing an "off-ramp" for Trump from the US/Israel-Iran war
How media pick up phrasing from one another: 1) "Marathon" negotiations over the US-Israel/Iran war (describing a single day, with no context of negotiations for ending past wars). "Off-ramp" for US/Trump to same war, a metaphor that suggests a nation can easily exit a global conflict it undertook.
NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫
Science is good. We should fund it.
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Why diplomacy shouldn't be done by social media post
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So much news coverage recycles the same information but leaves obvious questions unanswered. The latest: North Carolina's new basketball coach hiring, $8m annual salary average for first years. Multiple outlets covered heavily, with no mention of where money comes from (and obvious related costs).
No self-respecting journalist would attend the White House Correspondents Dinner. It's long been an awkward event at odds with journalism's mission, an extreme example of Washington cocktail party journalism, and in this era — with 1st Amendment freedoms under fire -- it embarrasses the profession
Mark, under the Constitution, the states run elections, right?
Why don't any of these stories note that under the Constitution, states run elections.
Miller, S.
Four-byline alert: 🚨
“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
www.ft.com/content/744e...
The problem with this piece from The Hill, like so many others, is it misses core reality: Most fraud is by companies and bureaucrats turned crook, for decades and recent, not by individual recipients. "Welfare queen" myth vs. giant companies that commit fraud to tune of tens of millions
I understand why reporters monitor twitter/x — I would too if I were covering news now — just as with any major platform or outlet where people post or talk publicly. But there's no gain (journalistic or audience) in associating their professional identity, by posting or engaging there —
Okay fine, in this one instance you do have to hand it to Fox News
Hi! Your friendly neighborhood 82nd Airborne vet here to tell you 1,000 paratroopers is a command group+advance party and it makes no sense to send this element unless the plan is to send a fuck ton more ground troops relatively soon!
Always fascinating to watch journalism invent new boilerplate — where'd this "offramp" term originate, and isn't it trivialzing the complexity of the situation the Iran war has created?
