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Editor of Press Watch (), formerly . I comfort afflicted journalists and afflict the comfortable.

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    Apr 19

    I write in today about Facebook’s big journalism payoff: how “Facebook News” turns influential news organizations like the New York Times into collaborators and leaves the rest to die

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    38 minutes ago

    Great news that is being nominated by President Biden to an SDNY judgeship. I have worked with him for many years and he’s a brilliant lawyer and wonderful person. What a fine judge he will be!

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  3. 7 minutes ago

    My friend Sean Dobson calls out the euphemistic and sanitizing abuse of the word "strict" by political reporters to describe extremist voter suppression and abortion restrictions.

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    2 hours ago

    This New York Times explainer on the big votes in Congress today makes 10 separate references to "$3.5 trillion" but only in the tenth reference does it add "over 10 years."

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  5. 10 minutes ago

    Here's a surprise. NYT's does exactly the same thing:

    WaPo overreacts to theatrics (shutdown, debt ceiling) and underreacts to actual life-changing legislation. See also:
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  6. 21 minutes ago

    Behind closed doors, ALEC and the Federalist Society, among others, play footsie with crypto-fascists.

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  7. 25 minutes ago

    WaPo overreacts to theatrics (shutdown, debt ceiling) and underreacts to actual life-changing legislation. See also:

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  8. 32 minutes ago

    WaPo: "you are justified in asking: What is up with Washington? Why can’t lawmakers get their act together and do their most basic jobs, like funding the government?" You wouldn't need to ask if WaPo got its act together and did its most basic job.

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    44 minutes ago

    it's exhausting how awful DC journalism continues to be. here, NYT marvels that Dems might not pass a bill that's very very popular with voters. **not one sentence** re:how GOP unanimously opposes bill that's very very popular with voters;

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    48 minutes ago

    Concerned at how the Times allows a strawman argument to be so central to this piece. No one who has read anything about redlining would define Redlining 101 as McWhorter does here. This is pure apologetics.

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  11. 52 minutes ago

    The 's Washington coverage is often surprisingly strong and not both-sidesy. It is badly undermined by its poll reporting, however. According to its poll reporters, the nation is always split about everything, even when it's not, really. See also:

    the is broken Americans favor mandate by **nearly 20 pts** so AP spins it as “deep divide”;
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    4 hours ago

    the is broken Americans favor mandate by **nearly 20 pts** so AP spins it as “deep divide”;

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    3 hours ago

    so why is first person quoted in article an anti-vax, anti-mandate voter?

    "[T]he poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed that overall, 51% say they approve of the Biden requirement, 34% disapprove and 14% hold neither opinion."
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    2 hours ago

    It's such a wild idea. says "Democrats and democracy experts are grappling with what [his 2024] campaign — and a potential second Trump presidency — would mean for the country." Journalists aren't grappling. They just watch others grapple.

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    Sep 29

    Man, is absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 testifying about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket before Congress today. It is so refreshing to hear law professors talk about the court’s abuses with such unflinching candor.

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  16. 1 hour ago

    President Biden Names Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees via

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    1 hour ago

    A reminder this isn't a broad moderate/progressive conflict. It's mostly the vast bulk of legislators in both camps against two Senators who seem a bit tipsy & arrogant w/their own leverage. Most Ds in all camps, I think, believe the rest could quickly reach agreement.

    Moderate Dem to : "It would be helpful if senators who are holding out would give top line, timeline, and topics that they would consent to because that could move the ball forward and create the trust necessary for us to pass both bills"
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    1 hour ago

    Gloria Steinem tells the committee that she remembers "how bad it was when abortion was illegal." If other states follow Texas's lead, "we will be very close to turning back the clock to the days of the 1950s, when one in three women had an illegal and a dangerous abortion.”

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    Oops, meant to also link to this, by :

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    2 hours ago

    In electronics, if you overdrive an amplifier with unexpectedly powerful signals, it becomes "saturated" and nothing gets through. The media have been saturated with Trump outrages. Or as Bannon said, the zone has been flooded with shit.

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  21. 1 hour ago

    "We simply can't negotiate with ourselves and away from what the American people want if there are no meaningful competing concerns."

    On MSNBC, Rep Katie Porter unleashed an epic beatdown on Kyrsten Sinema that captured a core truth: Her bad faith and caginess do profound disservice to her own voters. We need to bring this debate back to essentials. It's about people and public service:
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