He wants to be Canadiano?
11.03.2026 05:19
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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?
I guess we can finally write the last chapter of David Halberstam's great book 'The Powers that Be.'
Time Magazine
CBS News
The Washington Post
The LA Times
It's hard to imagine a bigger change in what those brands mean than what has happened to them between 1979 and 2026.
Amazon spent $75 million for MELANIA, a hagiomentary that will likely incur $60 million in losses even after a robust box office.
Jeff Bezos is willing to lose money on media, just a certain kind of media
Here's the tragedy: Timothy Crouse made exactly the same argument, for similar reasons, in 1972.
There are eight full-time faculty in my department. Four of us have birthdays within five days of each other.
Everyone who participates in public, civic conversation needs to learn to be a press critic at some level. It is a vital skill for media literacy—and Jay Rosen's summary of the distinctions he uses in his own criticism is a great place to start thinking about refining your own thinking.
New at Media Nation. Before Minneapolis there was the Boston Massacre. In 1983, I wrote my master's thesis on how the press of Colonial Boston covered it. dankennedy.net/2026/02/02/b...
Registration for this year's Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference at Columbia University is open! Registration is free for all graduate students. The conference will be held March 27 from 9-5 a.m.
To sign up, visit ajha.wildapricot.org/event-6518450
Same as it ever was.
Disaggregation of news and the fall of communal mass media and the rise of algorithmic feeds—all makes that ambient awareness of news so much harder to achieve. Knowing what's going on, even if you didn't pay close attention.
I don't know what you're talking about! My students all think my Talking Heads references are on point!
I avoid politics in phone conversations with my dad, but at least in our last call, he complained that he didn't know who Bad Bunny was—not that Bad Bunny was too woke for the Super Bowl.
We're once again in a fragmented world where it's very hard to accidentally consume challenging journalism about important but boring or uncomfortable topics.
True— I don't think CBS is reeling in viewers. But I also worry about reams of infotainment that ignores the world, pretends everything is fine. From sports broadcasts to celeb chat shows to all of the other ways that people can avoid reality right now. It's just sad to see CBS news succumb to that.
It's easy to call out the Orwellian don't-believe-your-eyes propaganda, and we absolutely should. But the happy-talk, infantilizing, no-need-to-pay-attention-to-difficult-things propaganda of Huxley can be just as dangerous. #amusingourselvestodeath
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
One of the old saws of journalism—intended to make reporters appropriately skeptical of their sources—is "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." I do hope Dokoupil follows through on that advice.
"It took me a few years, one pandemic and a library science degree to realize I didn’t need to rebuild trust in journalism. I just needed to move the newsroom to where that trust already lives: the public library."
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
Journalists in Minneapolis are working nonstop to inform us about the horrific violence being inflicted in upon their city, their state and our country — all while living through it in their communities. @mprnews.org has been invaluable.
It’s a good day to support their work
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