This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.
Just saw the Yankees 2026 schedule. The last weekend of June has them on one ABC game and one NBC game.
Back to the 1980s?
Thanks so much, @kevinallman.bsky.social!
On Saturday, ABC interrupted hockey and NBC interrupted golf to report on Ayatollah Khamenei.
It wasn’t the first time that viewers received major global news during a sports telecast. My latest piece for SABR revisits the Mets, the Phillies, ESPN, and the bin Laden raid. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...
A timely reminder that CNN is and has been a go-to source for solid, fact based, timely, often live on location reporting on conflicts like this. The international news network may soon have a new owner in David Ellison that will surely not be committed to this level of coverage or truth telling.
You can preorder a paperback now on Barnes & Noble’s website, or preorder an ebook wherever you buy ebooks. And stay tuned for the special full-color hardcover edition that’s also coming soon!
The world can still learn so much from my friend. I miss him.
We got news yesterday that could very much affect CNN's future. With that, it has never been more important to honor a CNN origin story.
I present the cover for “CHANNELING,” Fred Hickman's posthumously released autobiography, due out March 31.
Enjoying some nighttime DX-ing with my new portable radio. From Durham, NC, WTAM Cleveland is coming in nicely!
(Honorable and receivable mentions: WINS and the AM station formerly known as WCBS New York.)
CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.
I found Rickey at a thrift store!
He was somewhere between a Pope John XXIII vinyl album and Dynasty: The Jigsaw Puzzle.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Gonna tell my kids this is a scene from Shrek.
SAY IT!
Hank would’ve turned 92 today. In his honor, the Society for American Baseball Research has a new book out today!
It includes a chapter by yours truly.
sabr.org/latest/sabr-...
That’s why I’m excited to report that “CHANNELING” by Fred Hickman will be available this spring.
Stay tuned.
Fred’s death in November 2022 led me to sideline the manuscript we had worked on together. It hurt that he would never hold a copy of his book. But after thought and reflection, his loving family and I have agreed: His dream of publication deserves to become real.
BOOK NEWS: My friend Fred Hickman would have turned SEVENTY this year! In his final months, he and I collaborated on his autobiography. As a CNN and TNT original, one of the first to host Olympics telecasts on U.S. cable, and one of the first Black sports hosts on national TV, what stories he had.
In a dream last night, I was atop a McDonald’s Playplace tube slide. Yogi Berra was crouched next to me, in a catcher’s squat.
Right before I start sliding down, Yogi told me, “Hey, it’s never too late for the future!”
Every few years a reader says "STICK TO SPORT!" When that happens I get to ask: "What does that even mean? Does that mean when someone shoots the Cubs' first baseman we can't mention the gun?" This edition was prompted by @matrueblood.bsky.social's column from the Twin Cities. Free at BP.
The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement: “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”
The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
Six jobs ads for The Washington Post in Opinions posted in Brad Traverse on 1/25/26
I'm confused. I thought Washington Post was doing mass layoffs?
Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.
White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains.
And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.
No honest journalist or supporter of journalism could possibly support the arrest of Don Lemon for filming a protest.
And to any journalist who’s afraid of speaking against this, for fear of your job being at risk: It already is at risk.
Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name
You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
Any relation to this Kansas biker?
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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