supervisors under Bovino and below are the only folks left that are the same. it's unclear to me who will take over as the face of Midway Blitz now
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supervisors under Bovino and below are the only folks left that are the same. it's unclear to me who will take over as the face of Midway Blitz now
chicago: with Noem and now apparently Bovino boss Lewandowski out, I'm hearing, any future Border Patrol ops will look ridiculously different
i mean, in that same vein, impartiality simply does not exist in reporting
my goal as a reporter is, in short, to get as many perspectives as possible and gauge how to best represent the most enlightening ones in an article. my judgment is partial, so the reporting is partial
fucking behemoth of an investigation, wow
literally
why did i write that thread like im chatgpt holy shit i must have been fuming LMAO
rapidly learning a blog to give a bunch of thoughts on the media would actually be very nice. but fuck substack. what free things are all the cool kids using these days?
i might be the #1 analysis-intertwined journalism fan in the world lmao. opinion writers and essayists get shit on all the time in-industry and then the folks at POLITICO Playbook get their props for violating the same cardinal sins
put some color in your reporting, people. cmon. live a little
like, the modern analysis you get from specialty outlets — POLITICO, Semafor, etc. — is a modern, post-newjourno (and post-gonzo) thing when placed outside the opinion column. the opinionization of experts on TV news channels is the same.
and hell, i *love* that shit
definitely. i'm not the biggest gonzo fan in the world but its derivatives, the new journalism and especially the immersion movements, fundamentally shaped and continue to shape my own reporting and my favorite journalistic pieces
it's genuinely a brainless task that i could not and could never bear. and if that's not journalism to you then, shit, you got me there! :P
i generally agree. but having written for local publications for ages, the amount of people who genuinely make a living off barely rewriting every single community press release they receive — as 'journalists' — give me a strong enough counterexample to where i'll put some space for doubt LOL
good writeup!
a significant amount of bad journalism is chocked up to a break in the tenet "journalism should be impartial"
is it a hot take to say that journalism can — and frequently must — be partial, and that the failure at hand is instead that said bad journalism is simply partial to fascism?
maddening and genocidal. it has always been, and it stings once more, as it did back in november 2023 when i began my brief coverage of the region.
the people of south lebanon have suffered, from the hospital workers in nabatiyeh to the olive farmers in kafr kila. destroy israel
It sounds like maybe they want you to download zangi messenger. to send photos of your face. cut off
this is a good post
wow. terrific reporting!
If you're following the situation in Iran, this one is of interest to you.
We can prove how the regime in Iran is using facial recognition software to surveil its citizens.
(Gift link)
www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran...
one of my fav multimedia pieces in recent memory
www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...
ijbol innit
Drafts british gen alphas raised on stan twitter are gonna say some shit like "ijbol innit" in half a decade. fucking nuke london mmm 😋 let's murder people who have bad opinions 👅 👅 daddy is hongry for the liver of a stupid guy
+1. have seen this across multiple indies, nonprofits, and student newspapers — comparable, and comparably low, referrals from twitter and bsky per capita
some more context, because was just asked twice — privately — about the fuller situation
bsky.app/profile/tran...
i cannot give a condemnation stark enough. some days it hurts to call myself a reporter or editor or journalist at all because i know i am riding on the backs of those who have abused power, position, affiliation, and statehood to maim and kill. today is one of those days. just grim
indeed
i don't mean to subpost without context: this is absolutely in re: bouie, burns, et al.
bsky.app/profile/ness...
just a shameful day to be a trans journalist. what deplorable, evil shit has gone down. horrific
that's true! just had some trouble with it (guess my 2am cross-referencing wasn't determined enough LOL)
having been provided a copy of this in advance on embargo, small note for when you're looking at the 'contractors' file: this is *undated* and these applications go back *many years*. they also do not appear to be in any consistent chronological order.
nice leak tho!