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Except slurring the word “judicious” and looks like he’s barely awake

Also: I don't see how any intelligent and lucid person could watch this press conference and conclude that the president of the United States has anywhere near sufficient cognitive ability to properly execute the duties of his office.

What’s the over/under on how long this product is on offer?

A person in a unicorn costume walks in a cross walk behind someone pushing a unicycle

Walking into this week is all unicorns and unicycles.

Club statement - News - Crystal Palace F.C.

Strong statement from Crystal Palace on the denial of the well earned spot in the Europa League. UEFA’s corruption is naked and Up the Palace! www.cpfc.co.uk/news/stateme...

When the most boring people on the planet want to shape its future in their image—choose, quoting Mater from Cars, “To not to”

The legendary Autumn Bowl private skate park was in a warehouse down the way. I would often stop by the PF for after session beers before heading back to the LES. Cool spot will be missed.

Founder of Signal 👀 🔥

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

Automated both sides-ism is a hand full more nails in the coffin of “legacy” journalism.

If you haven't read it, my 2017 post, "Send the interns," has been passed around lately because it gives blunt advice to the White House press corps. pressthink.org/2017/01/send...

Opinion | I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Trump’s Actions Look Familiar. (Gift Article) Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.

"Authoritarians try to crush independent referees and civil society institutions, including news organizations, universities, statistical agencies and central banks." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Grouping newsrooms with central banks, universities, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gets it right.

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.

You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.

Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

404 continues to absolutely kill it.

How to survive the abuser-in-chief The Ink “sees” a therapist to explore the links between narcissism and authoritarianism — and get some advice for the next four years

This is an excellent and very important read this morning.

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It’s time to dust off the Sneaker Net, BBS and other OG coms.

I’m on team Onigiri

segregationists have been working for this since 1954 if it happens

Welcome to the creator economy fellow journalist. Side note: what if Press Forward pushed the $500m into support for a J-creator ecosystem for pencils AND PJs instead of trying to recreate a hologram of analog local news.

In the U.S. you have the 12th man but for Palace we have 12th place

From Jay Rosen's 2011 lecture, "Why political coverage is broken." The quest for innocence in political reporting means the desire to be manifestly agenda-less and thus “prove” in the way you describe things that journalism is not an ideological trade. Which can get in the way of describing things. He said, she said doesn’t tell us who’s distorting the picture more. It is neutral on where the reality is, but reality is not something journalists can afford to be neutral about! Political journalism should help us get our bearings in a world of confusing claims and counter-claims. But instead we have savviness, the dialect of insiders bringing us into their games. Nothing is more characteristic of the savvy style than statements like “in politics, perception is reality.” Doesn’t that statement make you mad? Whenever I hear it, I want to interrupt and say, “No, no, no. You have it wrong. In politics, perception isn’t reality. Reality is reality!” But then I stop myself. Because I realize I sound like a lunatic.

From my 2011 lecture, "Why Political Coverage is Broken." pressthink.org/2011/08/why-...

JMart of Politco doing a hit on MSNBC reminded me that he is the smug poster boy for Jay Rosen’s “Savvy” political journalism. Never the stakes always the political game. Bet he’d give a kidney to have been on the bus…Mears wouldn’t have given him the lede.

Free speech warriors actually mean warriors to stop free speech

Former WaPo Copy Aides for Swisher!

But it does shine a light on the question of where do these legacy media aka newspapers fit in the modern world—are they a form of creator house for news or do they shrink back down to fighting for local eyes and dollars with the next Washington Star?

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sits in yellow patterns wearing an orange wig with a bland expression

Holiday Vibes

Car wrapped with holiday lights in front of a large “Christmas” tree in front of the Texas Capitol Building

Happy Holidays and to all and some Chinese food and a movie to those who need a break from all the consumerism

Brill

Leica's M11-P is a disinformation-resistant camera built for wealthy photojournalists The Leica M11-P is a $9,500 camera that fights misinformation with Content Credentials.

“Wealthy” is working real hard here but nice to see end to authentication in the wild.

www.engadget.com/leicas-m11-p...

First post going deep:

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Good read tl;dnr local news saves democracy & all hands on deck. But since it’s writers writing no mention of photojournalism. Not one word. Oversight-yes surprising-no