Jay Rosen

I gave up.

Probably the only sense in which reporters own the means of production.

True!

Yes.

They are weasel words; the category is apt.

I think refuge-seeking is more descriptive. It suggests there's a reason why see these weasel words so much.

I know, I know. As a read I know. And thanks.

I actually screwed this one up TWICE with two different typos, but at that point I stopped worrying.

Yes.

*Sigh.* Obviously I meant to type...

"Depends on who you ask operates in similar fashion."

Now I wrecked my whole day.

Yep. I have a term for it.

Used in this way, "some say" and "critics say" are signals warning us that what comes next is not truth-seeking but refuge-seeking behavior.

"Depends on you ask" operates in similar fashion.

If you're interested in these subjects see my post at PressThink. It's from 2014: pressthink.org/2014/08/wron...

It examined this statement from the New York Times:

"Can you do investigative journalism from a position of neutrality?"

Still a tricky subject because if you're not neutral that suggests bias. But if you go where the facts go it doesn't.

From: "Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh," in Columbia Journalism Preview: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away Instead, Reddit wants to show users more personalized feeds.

Might be telling us something... But what?

Reddit boss Steve Huffman said the platform is moving away from r/popular: "For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone.”

[The Verge] www.theverge.com/news/837780/...?

There will always be people who want to be journalists.

I noticed that, yes.

*sigh* messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

‘Our job is to be truthful not neutral’: Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and fighting for the truth Christiane Amanpour has spent four decades as a celebrated journalist and war reporter. With disinformation rampaging through the media, she talks to Tim Adams about the threat of technocracy, Donald ...

Read about Christiane Amanpour: “Our job is to be truthful, not neutral.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

The problem you mention — using the same word to refer to things quite different — is what drew me to make this thread, which I plan to rebuild on Blue when I get the time.

In my view it's been a startling success.

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A grim portrait of the journalism profession the way teens see it. Via AP. apnews.com/article/news...

Were did Dick Wolf develop this conclusion?

Why I’m begging TV showrunners to stop writing journalists as villains - Poynter I will stop shouting at the TV screen when journalists are portrayed with all their virtues and vices — not as caricatures

"I am a huge fan of the classic TV series 'Law & Order.' And yet I cannot think of a single episode — among hundreds — in which a journalist is depicted as honorable." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

This might interest you. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I guess I was wrong. 😎

There's some kind of limit or condition, but they don't share that with us.

How so?

Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.

I think @anandwrites.bsky.social means to say there are three realms here: the public, the private, and information shared by a few, and traded among this "in" group, which he called nonpublic.

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."

If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... By@anandwrites.bsky.social [gift link]

A philosoper friend of mine might say this is a problem for Bertrand Russell's theory of logical types.