Emily Bell

White House letter demanding drug companies lower prices to MFN levels for the US (along with other demands)

17 drug companies just got this letter. We're now on to White House vs pharma in addition to White House vs auto OEMs, White House vs dropshippers, White House vs the construction and hospitality industry, etc.

Traffic Apocalypse Google’s AI Overviews are killing click-throughs to news sites.

Another banger from @klaudia.bsky.social - and by ‘banger’ I mean detailed look at the latest slew of research and reporting into the ways Google Overviews is strangling reporting www.cjr.org/analysis/tra...

It seems to be contagious.

Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...

Jim VandeHei: Rise of Super Journalists Super Journalists will dominate media in the AI era, Axios CEO says.

The rise of the ‘Super Journalist’ or as we like to call them, just er ‘good journalists’
Jim Van Der Hei trying to make fetch happen

www.axios.com/2025/07/22/j... Jim VandeHei: Rise of Super Journalists

Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men. Will that last? Unpicking the puzzle of increasing junior white-collar unemployment

"Joblessness among highly educated [young adults] everywhere from the US to the UK and beyond has climbed above the overall unemployment rate for the first time on record" on.ft.com/412S3zk

The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.

Oh I almost forgot, Donald Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a special 50th birthday message wishing him that ‘every day be a wonderful secret’ (WSJ exclusive) …

Muzzle speed today:
Senate votes to stop funding for public media
Colbert Show cancelled for ‘purely financial reasons’
Executive order to target ‘woke AI’ (Grok’s Hitler fan account presumably exempted)
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The ‘may every day be another wonderful secret’ chapter is now open

Flipping the kill switch on swathes of journalism is apparently not enough for some people….

‘Purely financial ‘ is doing so much heavy lifting here

One of the great paradoxes of the modern world, and the way a tiny number of individuals hold sway over vast reserves of wealth and now political power, is that truth be told …PayPal is rubbish, even by the mediocre standards of payment apps

‘Dismissed by many people not just his supporters….’ ….fixed it. it’s quite something to write a justification of your own terrible journalism which layers on yet more ordure . Though maybe not that unusual now I come to think of it.

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A 17yo fills in a university app for a college he *failed to get into*….

If Joe Kahn thinks this piece is news worthy, it would be good to hear him describe why. And why the NYT ‘mended’ the description of the source but failed to identify him even when others had published his name.

Patrick Healy, the NYT standards editor, failing to address the question whether the piece it ran on Zohran Mamdani’s college app was a meritricious hit piece, unethically sourced from a politically motivated hacker

NYT ‘standards’ editor. Okay, some journalistic standards for ya : flimsily reported with ‘newsworthy’ stated as a fact, without evidence. And fails in its basic journalistic mission to answer the question of ‘doesn’t this breach your own standards?’

So pleased to see this. Varsha Bansal developed this story and interview in our class on Information Warfare Reporting - thanks to @wired.com for publishing and Jo Ellis for standing up to disinformation

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Me to one of my sons : ‘if you want to write a first person essay in the NYT about what it’s like to be a Bronx Science student who ends up at a liberal arts college because your ‘child of a professor’ status held no sway with Columbia admissions ….NOW IS THE TIME’

Don’t contradict the paranoid fever dream with inconvenient facts…

so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?

It strongly implies he is trying to trick his way into a university where,by the very fact he is a prof’s child, his application would *automatically* be treated differently (not necessarily more favorably, but with added attention and full knowledge of who he is).

The Mamdani ‘college admissions’ coverage in the NYT is beyond shoddy. Despite three bylines (how many reporters does it take to lift hacked material from a eugenicist’s blog?) the story omits context about the admissions process that would further undermine their own crass take.

The Cremieux account is filled with posts that promote the idea of a racial "IQ gap." On Substack, the writer has also suggested there are "genetic pathways of crime." Cremieux did not respond to a request for comment from TPM.

Here are some details from TPM about the source who worked with the NYT to attack Zohran Mamdani that could maybe have made it into their piece. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Houses of Parliament at dusk

St Paul’s by night

London

A yellow windbreak on a beach

Sunday

404 are the best

David Goodhart’s bad opinions on race still find column inches …..so some decades long traditions still hold.

The main thing broken about London is its godawful ‘local’ newspaper