I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site. @jayrosen_nyu@mastodon.social
On goes the unbuilding of Twitter, and the ruining of a public asset— even though it was a private company. "The company also covered the letter 'w' in the name 'Twitter' on a large public sign outside its San Francisco headquarters."
"Nobody’s saying ‘don’t cover the speech.’ They’re saying, ‘you don’t need to transmit it live.’ Those are two different things." From my recent interview with @VICENews about the coverage of indictment night.
@WRaleighIV @TheTNHoller And Politico says No One Should Be That Shocked by What’s Happening in Tennessee. So what. These are Twitter rituals. For some people nothing is ever new and no one should ever be surprised.
Fuego was a bot made by @NiemanLab . I used it daily. Twitter’s API restrictions have killed it. How is it in the owner's interest to break this little piece of the web? Don't say revenue. $42,000/month is a joke price, not a serious attempt to monetize.
@HangleyJr @NiemanLab Okay, I will bite. How — without resorting to a conspiracy theory — is any decent news platform worth more dead than alive to him and his investors?
@HangleyJr @NiemanLab I know I am going to regret this, but... He paid $44 billion for Twitter so that he could kill it and thereby hurt the journalists he hates. Is this your testimony?
RT @CaseyNewton : This weekend's events at Twitter made it clearer than ever: Elon Musk has no idea what he is doing
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It is hard to find a more consensus figure in American journalism than Marvin Kalb, formerly of CBS and NBC News. He is now telling the American press that its lust to show how it can be critical of Biden is distorting the news and hurting the country.
I agree with Timothy Snyder. This is where it's going, and there is presently nothing on the horizon that would stop it.
It's not that hard, as the Star-Tribune shows. Just be blunt. Via @mcpli
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