demonstrators. One large yellow sign "Freedom of the press is not just important TO democracy, it IS democracy- Walter Cronkite."
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The #NYC contingent of @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
joined tens of thousands of their fellow New Yorkers at the #NoKings demonstration.
Demonstrating in support of our First Amendment rights- especially freedom of assembly and a #FreePress.
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You know a lot of nerds! (Which I mean as a compliment)
Do you get intrafamilial trash talk for finishing behind a certain StewartE5?
I’m sure there’s a profile page ribbon for that.
Thanks Chip. I was surprised to jump into first on the last match day. Was only hoping to hold on second and qualify, but this season seemed pitched to my strengths. Very happy you weren’t relegated!
Media Literacy is tech literacy and critical thinking enables us to Contain, Correct or Curtail our use of GenAI for journalism.
kiesow.net/tech-literac...
I think these are some of the earliest images of CBS News in existence?
I screenshoted them from Ted Husing's book "Ten Years Before The Mic" (1935). They show Husing covering the 1928 political conventions.
At the time, CBS was less than one year old.
Good night, and God help us all.
Literally yesterday, I was teaching my journalism history class about the beginnings of radio. This is a whimpering, ignominious end to a venerable legacy.
I used to use his segments on Net Neutuality in my mass comm law class!
Thank you Afroman for being the introduction to the libel unit of my media law class this semester
Honestly, I have always known more about Paley, so this was very interesting! And most of what I know of Paley I learned from reading David Halberstam’s The Powers That Be.
I’d watch that biopic though.
Just talked about Sarnoff (and Paley) in my journalism history class today!
📢 Final Call! 📢
Apply to become a paid collaborator on the recently launched third edition of the Collaborative Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI).
Deadline is this Friday, 20 March —> exposingtheinvisible.org/en/news/call...
By which I mean, it’s the best we’ve got left.
Would I rather we had a dozen independent, financially solid news organizations competing to be the best at producing the journalism that supports an open, democratic society? Yes! But we have the Times, and in the absence of alternatives, we really need it to be good.
The New York Times, by virtue of its survival, is *by far* the most important institution in American journalism. Its successes and failures often stand in for the success and failure of US journalism (synecdoche New York Times?). We need it, but we also need to pick at its flaws—when they're real.
Wondering now if I can get Jason Isbell to adjunct teach for our journalism program.
Margaret Sullivan notes how the Times is more likely to respond to criticism than it was during the "great journalism speaks for itself" era. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/its-great-... Now its:
"We did it right. We will acknowledge your criticism but will not admit we could have done it better."
A few weeks ago, I bought a copy of Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism edited by Noverr and Stacy. It's a 2014 book, but I thought it was not previously owned—it clearly hasn't been read. But today, while waiting for a student who was late to advising, I opened it and found this.
He wants to be Canadiano?
Tu vuo' fa' ll'americano
mericano, mericano...
sient'a mme chi t' 'o ffa fa'?
tu vuoi vivere alla moda,
ma se bevi "whisky and soda"
po' te siente 'e disturba'...
Tu abball' o' rocchenroll
tu giochi a baisiboll...
Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.
I once found a copy of a Lowell Thomas (look him up) book there that was inscribed to Barbara Walters. Tonight it was a memoir by Herbert Mayes (look him up) that a previous owner of the book had tucked a letter into—a job offer at Good Housekeeping, to the book’s owner and signed by Mayes.
Picked up three used journalism books at The Strand just now and the cashier told me so few people ever go to that section, and when they do they’re all looking for Hunter S. Thompson—but that there’s so much more cool stuff back there. And he’s right. Journalism is pretty cool.
They create videos "light on evidence and traditional journalistic techniques but filled with sinister-sounding claims."
Slopulism "rage posting" offers followers "emotional gratification through mindless, performative gestures" that can provoke policy action.
Don't fall for it.
#medialiteracy
Another reason why we need strong news literacy education: these videos aren’t journalism. They aren’t really investigative. But they can sure seem that way to people who don’t know how journalism works. (Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I feel like I've built the right culture in my class when students email me like this:
"I just wanted to let you know that I am going to be late to class today. I won’t give you any hogwash, I just woke up late."
Hogwash!!
Sobbing at my desk this morning. This business has been so absolutely cruel over much of the last decade. Gut punch after gut punch. To hear that such talented journalists - and friends - are losing their jobs is just heartbreaking. We fought together so hard for our contract ... but evil still wins
My latest for @theconversation.com: As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, five regional papers chart a course for survival. What could Bezos learn from The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Salt Lake Tribune?