I think there’s a good piece to be written about how NPR feels particularly constrained in its coverage of this batshit political moment. Do you know any media reporters? Read more

Damn you’re out here killing me with kindness Read more

Why do they need young people to watch TV news when old people vote? Read more

So you’re saying you read to the end? Nice Read more

What makes you say that?? Read more

One issue is that defining “bias” and “impartiality” is in itself a political act. The other is a media institution preemptively suggesting to freelancers that it won’t have their back when bad-faith critics inevitably attack them. Read more

Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm......... Read more

Clearly not. But to be fair to EW Scripps, a lot has changed in the past 20 months. Read more

Also, in the interest of full disclosure: I picked up my copy of it out on the sidewalk. Read more

Everyone who sees my copy of Infinite Jest asks me if I’ve actually read it, and I honestly respond: Are you kidding? It’s more of a marker of my own guilt as a reader than it is a pretentious conversation starter. Read more

And paying $140 million for the LVRJ was widely considered to be overvaluing it! Read more

I hear you. All pieces of a bigger—and so far pretty effective—strategy. Read more

Certainly in the we-tell-you-what-to-print sense. But my point was that the deal is in itself influence. Hard for a company to spinoff its namesake brand, and this sale makes that more likely to happen. If it does, what I’d watch for is whether a new owner would invest money in the Time newsroom—a good thing—with a… Read more

Have been thinking about that a lot the past few days. Bezos, who’s described as libertarian, is the obvious example. But the Post has generally been improving in journalistic quality since he bought it. No evidence (yet) that Bezos is using it for political purposes. There are a few other lib/Dem billionaires who’ve… Read more

What about **SOROS** Read more

I know of (just) one! https://splinternews.com/hey-unions-bought-a-newspaper-1796875903 Read more

The consumption rate point is such a good one and I don’t think many people are paying all that much attention to it. Text is so fast by comparison. Read more

*honest slacker Read more

Not that I use Facebook a ton anymore, but the pivot has filled FB with so much autoplay that it’s practically unusable Read more

Reminds me of how Trump has often threatened to sue media outlets/journalists, and then rarely, if ever, followed through. Read more