Broken Press

814 examples of press incompetence

Posted by @froomkin.bsky.social

No, NPR, you cannot report it with stenography. You must put it in its grotesque context.

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Peak

Opinion
JONATHAN GUYER
Trump's Diplomats Are Inexperienced and Unqualified. Is That a Good Thing?
Opinion
JONATHAN GUYER
Trump's Diplomats Are Inexperienced and Unqualified. Is That a Good Thing?
Posted by @jay2.bsky.social

I thought this was The Onion. It's not The Onion.

Posted by @johnpfaff.bsky.social

Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief.

So more politics.

Rather than auditing police data, the committee's interim report instead scrutinized Smith's leadership through the eyes of her commanders. Her tenure featured an exodus of high-level civilian staffers from the D.C. police department, accompanied by allegations, previously reported on by The Post, that Smith's communication style had
Rather than auditing police data, the committee's interim report instead scrutinized Smith's leadership through the eyes of her commanders. Her tenure featured an exodus of high-level civilian staffers from the D.C. police department, accompanied by allegations, previously reported on by The Post, that Smith's communication style had
Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

The elevates & normalizes the trivial stupidity of the woke font fight--as ever, without bringing the history of font fights past, under another authoritarian leader, Hitler.

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Good Lord. The prints a defense of the racist, xenophobic Trump attack on Europe by its odious Claremont columnist. "The document forthrightly links this demographic shift to changes in national character."
Trump Is Not Attacking Europe. He’s Attacking Something Else.

Posted by @noupside.bsky.social

Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.

The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Here's what the Editorial Board is worried about. Not fascism but paper towels:

Posted by @noupside.bsky.social

The New York Times won’t use the word but we should because it’s obvious: right wing political influencers aren’t just ‘close to’ the administration — they are its propagandists in the most literal sense of that word. They financially benefit from access & loyalty.

Posted by @asherlangton.bsky.social

Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.

The New York Times
Boston University Student Attacked Online Over Claim He Called ICE on Workers
The New York Times
Boston University Student Attacked Online Over Claim He Called ICE on Workers
Posted by @jeradwalker.bsky.social

what the actual fuck

A headline from the New York Times:
 Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love
A headline from the New York Times:
 Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love
The article lede:

By Jacob Bernstein
Reporting from Los Angeles
Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his
"particular complications and particular darkness."
But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby.
He promised to take a bullet for her.
The article lede:

By Jacob Bernstein
Reporting from Los Angeles
Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his
"particular complications and particular darkness."
But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby.
He promised to take a bullet for her.
Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

editorial page is now the headquarters for right-wing complaint.

Posted by @juliusgoat.bsky.social

"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."

Posted by @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

Historical perspective is fine and all that, but this headline comes across as just more whitewashing bullshit from WaPo's watered down opinion section.

A front-page opinion piece in The Washington Post today says Shocked by Trump's Profiteering? Here's some perspective. There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception. The story features a picture of a vulture behind the E pluribus unum (out of many, one) motto of the United States. The vulture is clutching the olive branches and arrows and looking down at a shield with a blue crest and vertical red and white lines below.
A front-page opinion piece in The Washington Post today says Shocked by Trump's Profiteering? Here's some perspective. There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception. The story features a picture of a vulture behind the E pluribus unum (out of many, one) motto of the United States. The vulture is clutching the olive branches and arrows and looking down at a shield with a blue crest and vertical red and white lines below.
Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

just asking coy questions.

A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?
Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

The ' love of the mythical center and hate of the left: "Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York does not demonstrate the viability of progressive candidates outside of a few big cities and coastal states."
Josh Shapiro Believes the Center Can Hold

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Tuesday demonstrated that both the so-called center and the left can both be victorious, but the still wants to pit them against each other.

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

It takes too long to get to the answer, which is definitively yes. Which is to say that depriving people of insurance is to kill them.
The government is shut down over health care. But does insurance save lives?

Posted by @atrubek.bsky.social

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Posted by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

This is filled with nasty digs--"Nebraska is a rare spot where Mr. Biden is welcome"--as the can't keep kicking the president it took down. Awful people.