Syreeta McFadden

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Gatsby like even

I'll play along. Is it "You can catch these hands"?

Join The Onion Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable.

In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

They love it when you don't sugarcoat anything. They love hearing process and practical application of news gathering that they learn in class.

Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction. Inside the Ojibwe’s fight to preserve a plant and the extraordinary traditions around it in northern Wisconsin.

The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.

More than 10 years ago at the Queens Museum there was a pretty incredible installation by one of the puppeteers from Bread and Puppet Theater that I've been thinking about a lot over these few weeks. The installation & our creative response (a group of us performed poems influenced by it) haunts me.

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.

And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...

So much commentary that pins losses on vocabulary, rhetoric and grammar that made the powerbrokers uncomfortable when the actual policy progressive policy positions resonated. So much mealy mouthed persuasions to abandon those positions.

All this “has been their explicit goal since 2016.”

Ffs, read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and take Trump seriously!

Yup. Many a debate with coworkers and friends 24 years ago and this was what MANY of us concluded would come.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

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I’m still pissed that Westworld series isn’t streaming on HBO because of that merger/CEO who refused to pay royalties

So glad you said this. It’s so telling.

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

🎁 link: wapo.st/3Wm414j

I’m going to go touch grass.

“Don’t complain about my right to free speech to dehumanize your existence.” - Vance, actually.

Regarding that last post, I’d submit that a blunt way to think about know your place aggression/‘grateful’ for the benevolence of white people is the menacing violence behind it. & the ‘good ‘ol days’ they long for where they believed they enjoyed black deference was simply deescalation for survival

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

this is also white nationalist framing straight from the Jim Crow era, as if Joy Reid citizenship is a gift from Vance, whose belonging is of course unquestioned

it’s what @profkori.bsky.social would call “know your place aggression”

We should be teaching journalism hand-in-hand with history, too.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

When you raise Jim Crow as an authoritarian system all the caveats come flying about

MEMPHIS Republicans “condemn” @FOX13Memphis for… doing their job?

Reporting on where the National Guard is as Trump occupies the city is exactly what local media should be doing.