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Last Notes npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Hong Kong Editors Convicted of Sedition in Blow to Press Freedom https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/world/asia/hong-kong-stand-news-verdict.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis But they already have Pamela Paul. ‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week https://theonion.com/new-york-times-announces-new-columnist-will-contribut-1833914575/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The white-gloved euphemisms take so much work. The words are sexist and misogynistic, each shorter than "gendered personal insults." Trump escalates gendered personal insults against Harris, defying GOP pressure https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/17/trump-harris-presidential/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Stories such as this need to stop treating "courts" as a consistent, reliably, principles-driven institution now that so much of the courts are proven purely political. Does DEI training discriminate against White people? Courts will decide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/09/dei-training-court-cases-discrimination/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Ezra keeps wanting to associate himself with kicking a sitting president out of office. But this isn't WoodStein and Nixon. This is a great president and decent man. No cause of pride. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNsdwxFc/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Broadcasting & Cable magazine is dead. Which is to say that broadcasting and cable are dead. The slow death of mass media. https://www-hollywoodreporter-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/broadcasting-cable-legacy-1235969562/amp/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Kamala Harris said she'd do an interview by the end of the month (she's a little busy now; media can wait). With whom should she do it? NOT The Times; that's obvious. F'em. I'd suggest The 19th, Colbert, Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace, Jamelle Bouie, Maddow, The Philly Inquirer editorial board, Jemele Hill... Your ideas? npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Another good Jamelle Bouie column. Gift link: The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/opinion/trump-vance-harris-walz-weird.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Bk4.AnLb.IZiLGVnSP-sg&smid=em-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Kamala Harris doesn't need the press. The press needs her--for access and validation. Given how the press has treated her administration with Biden, she is right to make them wait. @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz are in direct discourse with the people who matter: citizens. Kamala Harris Isn’t Giving Interviews. Any Questions? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/business/media/kamala-harris-press-interviews.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Leave it to the Murdochian Lewis Post to choose now for a puff piece about Richard Nixon. In his final act as president, Nixon showed his human side https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/08/08/richard-nixon-farewell-address-50-years/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis On Nicolle Wallace's show, Mara Gay says the Harris/Walz rallies are more than campaign events: They are pro-democracy rallies. Yes. She then says it feels like a Black familiy reunion. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis He was in obvious distress with his breathing at the end of the race. Can't belive he ran at all and still finished as he did. Noah Lyles has covid, NBC says, after Lyles wins bronze in 200 https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/08/noah-lyles-covid-olympics-200/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Big media hate media criticism because they want to criticize everyone except themselves. Shameful that CNN has lost Oliver Darcy and put Reliable Sources on "hiatus." No Times or Post media columnists. No Reliable Sources show. Shameful. But here's to Oliver's success. Sign up here: https://www.status.news/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis You know damned well that the Trump campaign arranged this press-conference cosplay so we cannot hear the reporters' questions, only Trump. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis In which Pamela Paul carries on Jeremy Peters' attack on Kamala Harris' identity (via identity politics): Judge Kamala Harris on the Merits — Not Which Box She Checks https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/opinion/kamala-harris-election-women.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The slow, expensive death of old, mass media: Warner Bros. Discovery Takes $9 Billion Write-Down on Cable Networks https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/business/warner-bros-discovery-sports-write-down.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes, Walz won the hearts and minds of voters online. It's not just about memes (weird). It's also about voters' ability to talk among ourselves, around media, now. Tim Walz won the veepstakes because first he won the internet https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/08/tim-walz-vice-president-weird/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The Kamala Harris store is down right now -- either because they're restocking the store (a la Apple when a new iPhone comes out) or because it's jammed with people -- like me -- who can't wait to buy the Harris/Walz hat. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Thank you, Ed Luce. On Walz: "He's very, very down to earth. He's also a joyful warrior.... Harris-Walz sounds like a dance ot me, like a very happy dance.... I don't see much of an extreme liberal record. I mean, free lunches?... The enthusiasm is now with the Democrats." npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis (Former) Republican Joe Scarborough, who has been pumping Shapiro at every turn, is whining at the choice: "This is going to open up a number of issues for the Democrats to defend." Like what? Children not starving? Get on the bus, Joe. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis In other words, Vivek Shah rescues CNET. I seriously wish Ziff Davis would similarly save a certain tech podcast company. CNET Sold to Ziff Davis in Sign of Possible Media Deals to Come https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/business/media/cnet-ziff-davis.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense -Robert Reich https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/06/economy-recession-stock-market npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Everyone I see here on the socials says Harris has six excellent VP candidates to choose from (with some more specific issues with Shapiro) and we'll support in any case. But The Times insists on "exposing fissures." Because Times must Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/kamala-harris-vp-democrats-divided.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Excellent by @nhannahjones. Gift link. "For Trump and his compatriots, race is the wild card that can be held in their hand, to be denied for political expediency or exploited when it suits them." The Willful Amnesia Behind Trump’s Attacks on Harris’s Identity https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/magazine/kamala-harris-black-identity-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.wvYf.CbAjijV2R949&smid=em-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Last week, The Post ran Sam Altman's techno-jingoistic call for American hegemony over AI & regulatory capture for him. This week, it runs a letter from the doomer AI cult Future of Life Institution debating him, and a letter from an AI founder who brags on LinkedIn about his "superpower." Yeesh. Can we take AI out of the hands of these BSD geeks and hand it over to some sane liberal arts majors, please? There’s no way for humanity to win an AI arms race https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/04/sam-altman-ai-arms-race/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I'm onored to be profiled with The Gutenberg Parenthesis by critic Jes Stein Pedersen in Politiken. Quite the opening image, too. I swear everything I say is true... (Gift link with registration) https://politiken.dk/kultur/art9983126/Amerikansk-professor-Vi-har-faktisk-mulighed-for-at-vende-tilbage-til-samtale-samfundet?shareToken=vWl8_lAEILcQ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/905/119/235/697/677/original/6facca1f47e501fa.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Once again, here's Murdoch's Journal taking Musk more seriously than he ever deserves--without digging deeper into this story to find its roots in eugenics.... Elon Musk’s worries about birthrates are helping to fuel the political moment https://www.wsj.com/us-news/elon-musk-baby-fever-public-persona-03a4f4a2?st=94qae9hzihhsm67 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Now we see why Trump was extra-rude to ABC at the NABJ: He wanted another excuse to weasel out of the debate there. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The Times' dismissal of "identify politics" is the northern-white-liberal equivalent of Republicans calling @KamalaHarris the DEI candidate. She is the target of blatant racism, which The Times still refuses to name. Instead, it engages in this incipient racism: telling the Black woman to shush. The Times is worse than broken. The Times damages democracy. 2/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis OMFG. The Times -- via its quite white man, Jeremy Peters -- hits a new bottom. It seeks out "many" (read: "dozens") of people to tell this racist nation's first Black and Asian presidential candidate to stop talking about race. 1/ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/898/113/812/378/804/original/16a97e111e25c341.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This doesn't answer one question I have: Has Plouffe ended his ill-advised, to say the least, podcast partnership with election denying Kellyanne Conway? Harris hires Obama campaign veterans to join 2024 effort, replacing Biden loyalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/02/kamala-harris-hires-new-senior-strategists-campaign-expands-portfolio-others/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis A campaign conundrum: Indeed, racism, misogyny, hate, fraud, insurrection, and fascism are all way worse than "weird." But it's "weird"--mockery, laughter, ridicule--that gets under their skin. Both tactics are necessary but hard to mix. Trump is much worse than ‘weird’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/02/trump-weird-nabj-jewish-christian-voters/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The column is good but the headline should focus on "bigotry" instead of "misplaced rage". Bigots' anger deserves no airing (but gets it now in sport, like politics). Gift link. Olympic boxing fury is all about misplaced rage and not about facts https://wapo.st/3LOYtu0 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Times' latest whiteglove euphemism: "timewarn tactic." IT IS RACISM. Call it by its name. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/895/322/188/952/130/original/3b63764d95a5243b.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Fuck you, Mitch McConnell. You are the one who ended our independent judiciary. The nerve. Term limits for the Supreme Court would end our independent judiciary https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/02/biden-mcconnell-court-reform/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I do not cancel my subscriptions to The Post and The Times because important, excellent reporting such as this still occurs there and needs to be supported: $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Will Lewis left behind a business disaster. Will his fabled 3rd newsroom at The Post be built on BS such as this? 'The company began adopting the “HIPPO” method for engaging its audience, short for “hook + intrigue, pace and payoff.”' Making Money From News Aimed at Gen Z Is Easier Said Than Done https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/business/media/news-movement-will-lewis-washington-post.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis "If you are to understand my rage then you must understand you." - @esglaude on Baldwin's 100th, telling the table at @Morning_Joe what is necessary to begin to understand race. Yes, I slowly and too late learn the responsibility I have to look first in the mirror, at the power and privilege I have assumed in my life. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis No, Washington Post, they -- and more importantly journalists -- should call it what it is: Racism. Not "race obsession." https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/892/000/147/796/703/original/926bd8d68c7e9f03.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Another crime for Trump ... same one that brought Menendez down... $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis "Black community journalists were not at the microphones; none of the moderators represented Black-owned, independent or Black local media outlets. In that sense, the event essentially perpetuated the same exclusion and disrespect to historically Black media and Black issues that we associate with White systems." by Karen Attiah gift link. At NABJ, Trump was both a missile and a mirror https://wapo.st/4dv7ft7 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I find all these people who are not Black telling Black journalists that they should subject themselves to abuse by a White fascist with no concern for the Black journalists. So brave of them to volunteer others. And, no, it was not in the least informative. We have long known he is a racist and misogynist, whether or not mainstream mass media are honest enough to label him so. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/30/opinion/thepoint/trump-platform-nabj?smid=url-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Damn Murdoch's Journal. How lacking in grace to not specifically thank Joe Biden and Olaf Scholz, for it is their diplomacy (not the paper's performative buttons) that brought the hostages home. And when will the Journal condemn Trump for himself trying to old Evan hostage for the sake of his election? Never, I'm sure. Statement from Almar Latour and Emma Tucker on WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/statement-from-almar-latour-and-emma-tucker-on-wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Well done, President Biden. Thank you for your careful, patient diplomacy and leadership. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Kremlinology 1: Putin thinks Trump will lose. Kremlinology 2: This sure took Trump's neon racism out of the headlines and cable chatter. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The 19th's coverage of Trump at the NABJ: Trump questions whether Harris is Black in combative interview https://19thnews.org/2024/07/trump-fact-check-harris-racial-identity-black-journalists-convention/?&utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @19thnews npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The Grio's coverage of Trump at the NABJ: Trump insults Harris and Black journalist, recycles ‘Black jobs’ remark at NABJ convention https://thegrio.com/2024/07/31/trump-insults-harris-and-black-journalist-recycles-black-jobs-remark-at-nabj-convention/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Whom does Murdoch's Journal Editorial Board criticize for Trump's horrid appearance before the NABJ? Kamala Harris.... Donald Trump and the Black Journalists https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-national-association-of-black-journalists-kamala-harris-rachel-scott-b5749960?st=4hb3xn3eyx38zu0 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I just want to repeat this for the sheer joy of it. Schadenfreude is as sweet as a morning muffin. Bill Ackman pressed pause on the initial public offering of a new fund aimed at everyday investors after a lack of demand forced him to dramatically shrink his fundraising target https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/bill-ackman-pulls-investment-fund-ipo-after-shrinking-its-size-85ba1a17?st=yx5vy18rjicew52 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Good God. Stop quoting Musk as if he has anything to say that matters. You can find plenty of actual expert who will blast Maduro, NYT. Elon Musk Blasts Venezuela’s Maduro in an Escalating War of Words https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/technology/elon-musk-maduro-venezuela.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I'm not sure which is worse: Sununu's willful credulity or The Times for giving it space. My Fellow Republicans: Stop the Trash Talk https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/opinion/republicans-election-kamala-harris.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The actual question is whether political media will allow her -- and us -- to keep this momentum.... Can Kamala Harris keep up her momentum? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/kamala-harris-2024-trump/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Washington Post forced to cover criminal inquiry against its own publisher for doing Murdoch's awful bidding.... Scotland Yard considering request to examine alleged phone-hacking coverup https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/31/post-publisher-scotland-yard-brown/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Do not blame school. School taught JD Vance to see a divided nation — and to use that division https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/31/jd-vance-education-ohio-state-yale/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis In which I learn that Lachlan has a biographer. What has he done?..... How the Murdoch family ended up in a legal fight over the future of Fox https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/31/rupert-murdoch-secret-legal-battle-children-fox-news-conservative/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Will Lewis can't hide now.... UK police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/31/police-set-up-special-enquiry-team-to-examine-role-of-washington-post-chief-in-email-deletions npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis O, the schadenfreude... Bill Ackman pressed pause on the initial public offering of a new fund aimed at everyday investors after a lack of demand forced him to dramatically shrink his fundraising target https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/bill-ackman-pulls-investment-fund-ipo-after-shrinking-its-size-85ba1a17?st=z45lkat7bsnxw96 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Murdoch's man, Will Lewis, might be hiding under a rock, hoping the storm over him blows over. No. His hole gets deeper. First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up By Gordon Brown https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/gordon-brown-tom-watson-news-international-william-lewis-rupert-murdoch npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis As I, too, have been saying. Sharing Material Used To Be The Norm For Newspapers, And Should Be For LLMs https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/29/sharing-material-used-to-be-the-norm-for-newspapers-and-should-be-for-llms/ via @Techdirt npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Guardian report: ‘It puts everyone in a really bad position’: Black journalists react to Trump joining NABJ panel https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/black-journalists-trump-nabj-panel npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Beaning Pepe with coconuts.... (My last gift link of the month. By Becca Rothfeld) How coconuts and irony helped Democrats take back the meme wars https://wapo.st/4fpoQnW npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes, and a rapist, too. Trump, with a history of sexist attacks, again faces a female opponent (End of the month with a gift link left so here's a gift link) https://wapo.st/3A0gItY npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh the credulity, the willful gullibility. The work is already done and Trump can't distance himself from it -- unless journalists let him as they do here. Project 2025 to end policy work after Democratic attacks angered Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/30/project-2025-director-paul-dans-leaves-heritage-foundation/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Just like Vance and Musk. All the same eugenics. Lebensborn... Have babies for Russia: Putin presses women to embrace patriotism over feminism https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/30/russia-putin-antifeminism-women-children-society/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Just browing the exhibitors at a big printing expo and it strikes me how llittle of this is about printing text and how much about printing packaging, signage, anything else. https://pru24.mapyourshow.com/8_0/explore/products.cfm?sortfield=dateinserted_t&sortdirection=desc&classification=2,3 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This is sad. Not about society--I seriously doubt it will succeed if ever get shipped--but about the industry, inventors, and investors who could think this is a good idea. https://www.friend.com/product.html npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Murdoch's Journal constantly fluffs Musk. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/858/465/920/146/231/original/8b514ff38d17cf0b.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I'll be there. I'm giving. Pass the word to the sane white dudes you know (not the insane ones). https://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/853/043/341/047/103/original/4edbb613afe2d473.jpeg npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis I will never forgive The New York Times for bringing this to pass. They violated the journalistic norms they claim to uphold in their vindictive campaign against him. They hounded him out of office. They'd best not crow and they'd best not do the same to Kamala Harris. But I have no faith they can restrain themselves. Same to the Post. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/825/873/586/621/363/original/816730600bea5cb6.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis TPM asking the questions big media neglect to ask: One Other Detail https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/one-other-detail via @TPM npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis What upsets me today (it's a quickly moving target) is the apparent lack of empathy for Joe Biden, who has given his life to our nation, who has been a spectacular President, who saved us once from Trump, and who is now being kicked to the curb by fellow (BTW White) Democrats, elite donors, the whole damned press, and many here on the socials. Think what it feels like to be him today. Can we not put ourselves in his shoes? npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Morning Joe begins with Mitch McConnell's excuse for not impeaching Trump: He was still liable for criminal prosecution. Well, not so much anymore. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis God Bless Paul Davies and the Philly Inquirer: "In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump... Biden on his worst day remains lightyears better than Trump on his best.... There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be." https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It would be nice if The Times would give readers the context that many experts think "superintelligence," AGI, and "super alignment" are all bullshit. OpenAI Co-Founder, Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/technology/ilya-sutskever-openai-safe-superintelligence.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh, no. Murthy's coming on Morning Joe. I don't think I can bear the festival of #MoralPanic. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The *last* thing The Post needs now is an expensive rebranding until Lewis & his henchmen are finished ruining the brand. Lipstick on pigs. The Washington Post looks to remake its identity https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2024/the-washington-post-looks-to-remake-its-identity?utm_source=nowshare&utm_medium=media&utm_campaign=semaforstory#c npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis The ad Biden had to make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEMX6_A8MM npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Post journos wasting time investigating their own when they should be investigating fascists at the door. My unsolicited advice to Bezos: Fire Lewis' Gang of Four for cause. Rehire Kevin Merida as editor and tech-savvy Craig Forman as CEO. Clean house. Start over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/06/16/washington-post-editor-robert-winnett/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Peter Baker's insipient both-sidesism and right-wing empathy in full bloom here. "People in both parties began giving in to the impulse 'to treat your adversary as your enemy and to destroy it.'" No, only one party is destroying the institutions of democracy. Damnit. How a ‘Committed Partisan Warrior’ Came to Rethink the Political Wars https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/us/politics/bob-bauer-looking-back.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes. But if only she got more coverage. Papers are spending more bits speculating about who Trump will pick as VP nominee over covering the actual VP. In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission https://wapo.st/3VIsXDK npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Yes, since then, history is being written by the losers: old white men destroying our institutions. And media? "Like today’s MAGA Republicans, they were tolerated, even indulged, by liberal journalists precisely because they were so irresistibly outrageous." Gift link: Donald Trump didn’t spark our current political chaos. The ’90s did. https://wapo.st/4ep6oLO npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis This is *terrible.* Stanford buckles under to Jim Jordan & litigation, dismantling the Stanford Internet Observatory (retreating to safe subjects like child porn). Alex Stamos & Renee DiResta, both gone, call this "a quintessential example of the weaponization of government." h/t Casey Newton https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Mississippi Opens the Playbook for Dismantling a Free Press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/mississippi-press-freedom-republicans.html?smid=tw-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Don't know why the WSJ tiptoed in the headline over their good reporting. This is #MeToo #MuskToo. Elon Musk’s Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-employee-relationships-8bca2806?mod=hp_lead_pos1 npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Editors like to think "news judgment" is their magical force. The Post's news judgment sucks, playing Hunter Biden story over progress in Gaza negotiations & economic growth. Times plays Hunter above Gaza & Alito fascism. That's not news judgment. Not journalism. That's politicized pandering. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis He did much worse than "talk about political divide." Don't soft-pedal it, WaPo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/10/alito-secret-recordings-politcal-divide/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It is sad watching the scales fall from David French's eyes about the horrid hate fostered by his old white, evangelical church, the racist, right-wing Presbyterian break-off. Gift link: The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU0.iOBD.qE5wE2_RkH_A&smid=em-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis At last, The Times covers the stakes of a Trump victory. Now keep going with the perils to women's control of their health, race, the courts, the environment, education, freedom of speech.... Gift link: If Trump Wins https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?smid=url-share npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Aldous Huxley, 1928: "The sensible thing to do is not to revolt against the inevitable, but to use and modify it, to make it serve your purposes. Machines exist; let us exploit them to create beauty--a modern beauty, while we are about it. For we live in the twentieth century; let us frankly admit it and not pretend we live in the fifteenth." npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Misogynist, scrotum-tanning, fascist yet insecure men are staging an insurrection against democracy. Why that's Joe Biden's fault. cc: @DougJBalloon https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/575/021/562/093/957/original/108ba0eb79184b08.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Longer and longer COVID: ‘Unusual’ cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/06/covid-cancer-increase-link/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis It is all part of the same right-wing insurrection attacking every institution of society: Some Republicans booed or walked out as Pa. House recognized Jan. 6 Capitol police officers https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-house-capitol-officers-republicans-20240606.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=] npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis With Nicolle Wallace, Tim Miller calls Trump's and the GOP's attack on American justice "Big Lie 2.0." Yes: their continuing institutional insurrection; scorched earth for democracy. npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Hope this means Gizmodo is rescued. Sold to a French/Swiss tech media company: G/O Media Sells Off Gizmodo https://www.thedailybeast.com/go-media-sells-off-gizmodo?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh, Lord: The anodyne AP journalism of Buzbee to be replaced--in the design of the Murdochian henchman Willand, as bad if not worse, a Telegraph editor. The crisis in US national journalism worsens! https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/06/02/sally-buzbee-steps-down-executive-editor-washington-post-matt-murray-rob-winnett-take-editorial-leadership-roles-new-newsroom-structure/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Not seeing any big headlines about this, only headlines already deciding that the verdict--and American justice--mean nothing. Exclusive: One in 10 Republicans less likely to vote for Trump after guilty verdict, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-10-republicans-less-likely-vote-trump-after-guilty-verdict-reutersipsos-poll-2024-05-31/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Some very good news: Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/31/trial-results-for-new-lung-cancer-drug-are-off-the-charts-say-doctors npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Oh, FFS. Every New Yorker -- except apparently those at the former New York Times -- knows that Trump was never "master of New York" but instead forever its laughingstock. Now so is the Times. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/540/990/156/522/189/original/9f3a8100bd0512b9.png npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis Justice Alito responds to his critics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/31/ann-telnaes-cartoon-samuel-alito-supreme-court/ npub1nsve27x7t2hr4e27xjxsl6jka2e0dkuyh09vv3r8vs4hlfp3fkas2ke09p Jeff Jarvis What a ridiculous Peter Baker bad-for-Biden take. At a Moment of National Trauma, Biden Feels Compelled to Stay on the Sidelines https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/biden-trump-guilty-verdict.html?smid=nytcore-android-share