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I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is both my subject and my site. @jayrosen.bsky.social jayrosen_nyc at Threads

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1Sep 29, '24CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other. ABC showed it could be done. Now: "CBS News is clearly indicating it wants to take a step back from the heat46.5×6.2M5.7k1.7k233
2Sep 17, '23I said I would try to have an open mind as I watched Meet the Press today to see how NBC handled its interview with Trump and the debut of a new host. After viewing the show, readi14.8×2M7.1k1.3k318
3Oct 29, '17Have you ever seen Wolf Blitzer do this? Brian Williams?14.4×053k19k53
4Aug 13, '18Brilliant cartoon, @wuerker11.5×044k21k175
5Nov 12, '23Forbes headline.9.9×1.3M5k1.7k120
6Oct 17, '24Was head marketing guy, NBC: "While we were successful in marketing 'The Apprentice,' we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I de9.8×1.3M21k8k956
7Nov 5, '23Here's something that a lot of you have been asking for. Rep. Steve Scalise refuses to give a straight answer five times when asked whether the 2020 election was stolen. Stephanopo9.5×1.3M7.7k1.8k269
8Mar 29, '20"...I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to9.2×034k12k451
9Mar 24, '24Never thought I would see "Meet the Press" publicly disssent from a decision made by NBC News, but it happened today. Chuck Todd to Kristen Welker: "Our bosses owe you an apology."6.0×807k6.2k1.5k346
10Nov 13, '23The Washington Post's headline — late in arriving, but on the mark when it did — makes the original header at the New York Times sound almost surreal: "Trump takes Veterans day spe6.0×805k5.6k1.7k127
11Dec 16, '17For me, this is the quote of the year. From 1951.5.9×021k11k3
12Aug 9, '24On August 8, 2024 @lawrence said this on his program.5.5×741k4.7k1.7k175
13Mar 30, '24A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can: "Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." Quinn5.3×717k9.5k3.6k553
14Aug 31, '24"Trump’s disastrous visit to Arlington was too much for the press to handle." By @bkesling for @CJR. The paragraph below is a blast of fresh air. (Via @sulliview)4.8×646k8k2.8k286
15Jan 29, '23The New York Times should "finally apologize for the sins of 2016, expose exactly what went wrong, and then reveal the rest, so this kind of disaster never happens again. They owe 4.3×580k8.6k2.7k210
17Nov 10, '20Watch this remarkable confrontation between a former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and Paul Kelly, editor-at-large for one of Murdoch's key properties, The Australia4.3×016k5k978
18Apr 10, '24Could be significant: CBS is launching a new show as part of its pivot to streaming. It's called "CBS News Confirmed." Devoted to combatting misinformation. "Mission is to identify4.2×559k5.2k1.2k174
19Aug 19, '17This clip is justifiably gaining fame as an example of live fact checking and the refusal to grant talking points.4.0×015k6.5k4
20Mar 29, '20I think about her colleagues at Walter Reed, her family, her teachers at Penn State and Houghton College. What must they be thinking as they watch this hostage tape, and hear her d3.9×016k3.3k267
21Feb 11, '17This is a brilliant passage.3.7×011k7.7k4
22Jan 8, '24Mehdi Hasan reveals that he's not only losing his show, he's leaving MSNBC. What a low point for NBC News on the weekend of another low point, @kwelkernbc's surrender to Elise Stef3.6×478k6.5k1.4k83
23Aug 29, '20Read this headline: A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn’t Violate Any Rules. It remained up. Two peop3.4×011k6.3k321
24Nov 5, '20Watch this outstanding summary of what's going in the U.S. election by BBC journalist Ros Atkins. Sometimes you need to see "us" through another's eyes to understand where we are. 3.2×014k4.2k749
25Jun 6, '21I agree with Timothy Snyder. This is where it's going, and there is presently nothing on the horizon that would stop it.3.2×010k5.1k595
26Apr 9, '20Restating: If I ran a newsoom I would not run his briefings live. I would not send reporters so he can waste our time and use them as hate objects. I would tell them to watch it on3.2×016k3.4k34
27Nov 20, '20The @GOP's verified account sent this out. That he won in a landslide. Here, I think, the party made official its break with American democracy. Not saying it wasn't apparent befor3.1×014k3.5k286
28Nov 10, '20Jake Tapper does a great job here. It's the right mix of news reporting, astonishment and outrage. And it begins with Biden as the man of the hour, not the deposed would-be autocra3.0×013k3.5k536
29Nov 10, '19The haunting words of Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, May 20, 2016.2.9×011k4.5k411
32Aug 1, '24Compare and contrast. The Guardian: "Trump repeats lies and attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity at panel of Black journalists" Washington Post: "Harris faces a pivotal moment a2.9×383k6.1k1.9k228
33Mar 16, '21So far this is my favorite exchange from the Biden crew's briefing room. ZEKE MILLER: Why is the president going to Delaware this weekend? PSAKI: He's from there.2.8×018k1.6k42
34May 12, '20Many, many people told me the briefings could be made to "work" if the reporters would only work together. Yesterday three reporters, @weijia, @kaitlancollins and @Yamiche, worked 2.6×014k2.2k44
35Jan 24, '20Amazing clip. Pompeo: zip. Brava, @NPRKelly and Morning Edition. I don't get to say that very often these days, but it is justified here.2.5×010k3.3k216
36Sep 21, '19Australian journalist visiting the U.S. sees it. "Watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask 2.5×09.1k4.1k201
37Oct 6, '19Something has happened to Chuck Todd. I view @MeetThePress almost every week. Today his tone — I mean his voice itself — was different, as if the gravity of events had sunk in and 2.4×011k1.9k373
38Apr 30, '18"The only person owed an apology here is Ms Wolf, for being scolded by the very people who invited her to speak, and who purport to defend a 'vigorous and free press'"2.4×012k3k20
39Mar 31, '20Anyone who says he now soberly accepts the realiity of the pandemic. No. He switched claims. From we're doing a fantastic job, the virus is like 15 people to we're doing a fantasti2.4×012k2.6k83
40Jan 21, '21Greg Sargent tells me: "I believe Republicans are banking on a pathology of the press, in which the media will place the entire onus of unity on Biden, and allow the Republican cla2.4×010k3.3k248
41Feb 23, '19We don't know why CNN did a town hall with Howard Schultz, who is not a declared candidate and has no visible support. They won't explain it. We don't know why CNN hired Sarah Isgu2.3×011k2.7k38
42Sep 2, '22This is where we are now.2.3×09.5k3.2k287
43Jun 26, '22The absurd met the pathetic on Meet the Press this week when Peggy Noonan tried to say with a straight face the Republican Party should "use this opportunity" to change and improve2.3×012k1.8k224
44Aug 8, '20It's a pattern. When women reporters challenge him and make it clear that they will keep insisting, his perimeter defenses light up, his systems shut down, and he can't processs wh2.2×09.9k2.9k115
45Jul 25, '22It is hard to find a more consensus figure in American journalism than Marvin Kalb, formerly of CBS and NBC News. He is now telling the American press that its lust to show how it 2.2×08.8k3.2k320
46Oct 5, '20At least four White House correspondents have contracted the virus. They are risking their health to bring us the news. They work in an unsafe environment created by a shambolic Pr2.1×011k2.5k34
47Oct 5, '18Hey, I'm 62. I never thought I would be in this situation, wondering if American democracy can make it through. But here we are. The day after the 2016 election was bad. This in a 2.1×011k2k19
48Jan 7, '20He doesn't know anything. He doesn't care to learn. He has no policy views. Nothing he says can be trusted. He's not good at anything a president has to do. His model of leadership2.1×09.9k2.6k144
49Dec 16, '20"Don’t allow him to become a self-styled president in exile, the golf-cart version of Napoleon on Elba. Do not set up a Mar-a-Lago bureau.Don’t have entire reporting beats dedicate2.0×010k1.9k67
50May 9, '21"What Happens When Republicans Simply Refuse to Certify Democratic Wins?" by @DavidOAtkins If you think these are distant hypotheticals, you're not paying close enough attention. I1.9×07k3k331
51Jan 7, '19Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his1.9×07.1k2.5k469
52Dec 25, '19This is a remarkable interview with Chuck Todd. He admits several times he has been naive about the Republicans' commitment to disinformation.1.9×06.1k2k415
53Apr 5, '20You know what I can't get over? The single most potent force for misinforming the American public is the president of the United States. Neither the political system nor the media 1.9×08.9k2.4k64
54May 26, '19I'm with everyone else. The word "existential" has no business there. It's just wrong. The glamour photography is absurdly out of place. And the article itself presents obeying the1.9×010k1.8k23
55Oct 31, '22It's not that hard, as the Star-Tribune shows. Just be blunt. Via @mcpli1.8×08.2k2.5k49
56Dec 26, '19The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. My new post. I hope you will read it.1.8×05.4k2.3k335
57Apr 26, '20A group of professors, myself included, have written an open letter to the heads of ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC and CNN petitioning for an end to live coverage of the presi1.8×06.4k2.1k57
58Aug 9, '22Free lede for any newsroom that needs it. WASHINGTON, August 9. Former president Donald Trump has so far refused to release the warrant served on him Monday, keeping voters in the 1.8×08.3k2.4k78
59Apr 12, '20Incredible thread. And it shows why I keep saying: The battle to prevent Americans from understanding what went down January to April will be one of the biggest propaganda and free1.8×06.9k3k264
60Mar 20, '20It is believed by many people who follow me that tougher, more confrontational questions — and more determined follow-ups — are the answer to press briefings on the virus that allo1.7×05.2k2k448
61Dec 24, '21I don't know what led @NPR to do this, but I am sure glad they did. A stark look at the Big Lie and the dangers ahead. No dilution via "both sides." No "critics say." No turning fa1.7×06k2.5k772
62Aug 30, '20The deep grammar is still symmetrical: Biden is doing this, Trump is doing that. As if there's a chessboard between them. This is a distortion. There is one normal candidacy compet1.7×07.2k2.4k107
63Mar 29, '20The battle to keep Americans from understanding what went on January to March is going to be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in modern US history. P1.6×05.7k2.8k212
64Jan 11, '21The editor of Forbes has an idea: "Let it be known to the business world," he wrote. If you hire any of Trump’s fog machines, fabulists or spokes-critters... "Forbes will assume th1.6×07.1k2.1k83
65Feb 28, '20"Wednesday’s briefing was arguably the most abnormal moment yet in a profoundly abnormal presidency. But top news organizations, rather than accurately representing Trump’s alarmin1.6×05.9k2.5k114
66Oct 19, '19The decision not to conduct any serious review of these events in 2016 — and learn from them — will have lasting effects on Times journalism. It already has.1.5×07.8k1.9k50
67Feb 10, '21We need a better question than, "how can Republican Senators vote to acquit after seeing this?" After seeing this, what kind of Republican Party does a vote to acquit build?1.5×08.1k1.4k34
68Jan 24, '21Rand Paul just gave a master class in how the Big Lie — election denialism — exploits the "both sides" rule set in journalism. "Was the election stolen?" @GStephanopoulos asked. Th1.5×06.8k1.6k156
69Jun 4, '20The emerging divide in journalism is not between "let all relevant arguments be heard" and "don't publish opinions we find repulsive." It's between those who ask, "is this somethin1.5×06.9k1.8k134
70Jun 17, '20Let no one doubt that Donald Trump has made a difference in American life. via @maddow1.5×05.7k2.3k92
71Mar 26, '20The battle to prevent Americans from understanding what he did to minimize the danger in January to March is going to be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fi1.4×05.1k2.6k117
72Apr 5, '20"It’s the opposite of news because the information Trump dispenses is filled with misinformation. Airing it live, knowing Trump’s record for dishonesty, is professionally irrespons1.4×05.7k2.1k43
73Feb 11, '18By now when you bring on air that fog machine named Kellyanne — because that's who they offered — you are committing a hostile act against your viewers' understanding in order to p1.4×06.6k1.8k0
74Oct 20, '20Reminder: Flooding the zone with shit, also known as the "firehose of falsehood," is a propaganda method for which there is no known solution. When the people running the governmen1.4×06.1k1.8k143
75Oct 6, '19When people who work in the White House appear on the Sunday shows, it's almost all noise— or worse. But when no one will show up... that's signal. It happened this week.1.4×07.8k1.2k16
76Dec 25, '18I don't know how our journalists came to see "storytelling" as the heart of what they do, and "storyteller" as a self-description. I can think of 4-5 elements of journalism more ce1.3×06k1.4k237
77Apr 14, '20Phrases like "rewriting history" and "muddying the waters" do not convey what is underway. It's an attempt to prevent Americans from understanding what happened to them through the1.3×06.1k1.8k57
78Oct 5, '18"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell."1.3×05k2.1k122
79Nov 8, '20"We took far too long to call his falsehoods what they often were: lies. And far too long to call his world view what it clearly was: racist. Instead, we danced around — for years 1.3×05.4k1.4k232
80Oct 16, '19The "make Elizabeth warren say she would raise taxes on the middle class" question should be a credibility killer. For the journalists who keep asking it.1.3×05.6k74822
81Oct 14, '20With this decision, NBC has rewarded Trump for torpedoing the second debate, created dueling spectacles for voters, and simply looked past the fact that its reporters never got an 1.3×05.5k1.5k26
82Apr 29, '18Let me clue you into something, Washington press corps. Because you may cover politics, but you have no political sense of self. The people who support what you do are outraged by 1.2×06k1.6k12
83Feb 10, '20White House @PressSec sec said no network except Fox Business was willing to have a White House rep on their Sunday show this week. CBS and CNN said that wasn't true. And Fox Busin1.2×04.6k1.5k32
84Feb 24, '22Social science teaches us that a factor in people's willingness to express the views they actually hold is their sense of how many others hold that view. Which is one reason street1.2×06.2k1.3k112
85Jan 14, '21I don't know how to unite the country, but I do know how to start. With a question: "who won the election?" Anyone who does not say Joe Biden is un-unitable— either perpetrator or 1.2×05.7k1.1k48
86Jan 2, '22My suggestions. * No build up, no count down, no empty podium awaiting his arrival * Don't carry it live; disinformation risk too high * After it's over, sift for any genuine news 1.1×05.6k1.2k50
87Dec 11, '20Let's see more of this from newspapers. "We apologize to our readers for endorsing Michael Waltz in the 2020 general election for Congress. We had no idea, had no way of knowing at1.1×05.3k1.3k35
88Oct 26, '20My personal view is that the Mark Meadows surrender statement,"We are not going to control the pandemic" was a much bigger story than the Washington press played it, even though th1.1×06.1k1k19
89Jan 13, '21Everyone paying attention already gets this. I'm just writing it down for my own sanity after the events of January 6. As more comes out it feels like we know less because each new1.1×06.4k95568
90May 11, '21I'm watching a lot less cable news. How 'bout you?1.1×06.7k1524
91Jan 11, '21January 6 was one of the worst attacks on civil order in American history. Have any of these given a briefing and answered questions yet? Capitol Police DC Police FBI Secret Servic1.1×05k1.4k63
93Mar 5, '17"I was wrong. Now we see: Tuesday night was not the moment he became presidential. I got swept up in the moment." <— Anyone heard that yet?1.0×04.8k1.3k0
94Jan 23, '20Over the years we've seen many signs that Fox is a propaganda house. The clearest one yet came last night. They cut away from the impeachment hearings while the House managers were1.0×05k1.2k31
95Apr 8, '22I agree with those calling this a seminal interview moment. All credit to @jonathanvswan for pushing past the moment when things became uncomfortable for McConnell. It happens so r1.0×04.8k1.1k163
96Aug 14, '20Many, many people have told me they wanted this question asked.1.0×05.8k71044
97Oct 3, '21On simple grounds of keeping people informed of what is happening in government, this was one of the worst weeks the political press has had in a long time. Mindless incrementalism0.9×04.9k92753
98Mar 22, '21Before he will work with any Republicans, Rep. Brad Schneider (D, IL) requires "an affirmative statement that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States and the 2020.9×04.9k89919
99Oct 16, '20NBC's major achievement tonight: passing along to the American people the claim that 85 percent of the people who wear masks have contracted COVID-19. Good job.0.9×04.6k83519
100Nov 22, '22A low point for the Washington Post.0.8×04.8k44922

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