Jay Rosen / is on Nostr

I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site. "Chill before serving" is my social media motto. Elvis Costello's version of "What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding" is my theme song.

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2023-09-15 21:13:47

Read this item from today's Politico. It describes how false equivalency and both-sides-ing are not just a lazy habit in journalism, but a tool of politics that incorporates the bad journalism into party behavior, thus making a mockery of the images of detachment on which the press sells itself.
#journalism #uspol #science
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2023-08-27 22:26:01

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@npub1f9u…ya8v
From 17 yeats ago: http://archive.pressthink.org/2006/12/18/suskind_empiricism.html

2023-07-22 18:48:32

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An even more incredible turn in the Texas A&M story, after the president of the University resigned July 20.
The current chair of the journalism department, who recruited Dr. McElroy, released a statement accusing the former president of rank duplicity.
More serious: he says someone altered the draft offer letter to reduce the McElroy appointment from five years to one, without telling him.
It's his signature on the letter.
Read his statement:
#journalism #uspol #texas #science
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2023-05-10 20:56:44

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@npub1j0p…s926 @npub19kr…8m4r
Yep. Here's a little tidbit that some of you may enjoy. There's a former Vice President for news at NPR who follows me on Twitter. He gave a "like" to this post.

2023-05-10 20:19:38

In this clip — an update on the debt limit — you can hear not only a museum-quality default to both sides mindlessness, but the sound of a news organization, NPR, utterly confounded by its subject, helpless and paralyzed, unable to think, unwilling to try.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071444/biden-holds-high-stakes-debt-ceiling-talks-that-include-gop-leaders
It's so surreal. They're still doing, "When will those squabbling politicians put aside partisanship and compromise for the greater good?" after all this.
Hat tip, @npub19kr…8m4r
#journalism #uspol

2023-04-30 16:43:05

"Not the odds but the stakes."
That's my shorthand for what we most need from election coverage in 2024. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Dan Rather on the horse race:
"A horse race confers an equivalence upon all candidates. The only detail that matters is who is going to win — not all that might be lost. To view America through that lens today is an exercise in the absurd."
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-danger-of-horse-race-politics
#uspol #journalism