LarryReibstein

Former senior editor, Bloomberg News; previously @Forbes, @Newsweek,@wsj.com @PhillyInquirer. Opinions my own.

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@JDVance JD setting up another straw man argument.

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Is it time yet to revisit all the early heralding of the internet's pure democracy, of the idea
of "citizen journalists," of each and every voice being able to be heard being a good thing for our ability to find truth and govern ourselves? Because having spent a previous career in newsrooms, as part of the cold, organized monolith that was our gatekeeping mainstream media, I know that we were often too herd-like and centrist, sometimes misled and sometimes capable of publishing horseshit on incomplete or contradictory data. Sometimes we got it dead wrong. But every day, I remember that the editors read the copy and tried to verify what they could and avoid what they could not. And no one could pay us a fucking dime to say what we didn't think was the story we thought we had. Fact is, I once tried to sneak a piece of celery through some ranch dip at some politician's fundraiser because the guy was late showing up to make a speech and I was starving. Another reporter smacked it out of my hand: "That's Harry McGuirk's celery."
We had an ethic. We believed in our role, however flawed and vulnerable to error our work product might at times be. So fuck the influencers, fuck the pimps who bought them, fuck their rancid whoredom, and fuck a media culture that has bypassed the gatekeepers at least trying to hold to a core ethos. The marginalization and eventual death of old-fashioned journalism and what has ensued is going to be what ends our republic. And everyone who championed some purist vision of a post-mainstream media future is now and forever, officially, a rube.

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@BGrueskin I think Bill was being satirical. Or is that a d’uh?

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@BillAckman @Uber_Comms @Uber @dkhos You’ve been critical of journalists in the past so let’s review what you did here. Acting as a reporter, you posted an anecdote with serious allegations but you didn’t bother to seek out the other side. I’m sure you understand no respectable journalist would be that irresponsible

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Hey ⁦@nytimes⁩, the copy desk must have had a few chuckles over this pull quote.

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@DanielDFisher @chrishelman @WhelanHealth Western Pa. says Pop, eastern Soda. There’s no reconciling that.

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@taralach Wow! Good luck in your next adventure! Always enjoyed working and schmoozing with you. We’ll always have the Deals team.

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@talkingbiznews @LianaBaker @business Congrats Liana!

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@MikeBloomberg @MayorofLondon As a former Bloomberg News staffer, I feel I can ask the question on everyone's mind: What's with Mike's outfit?

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@KimBhasin Design Beyond Reach is what I call it.

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@MaxBoot Except I (and many others) had 3 shots and here we are dealing with fevers and fatigue thanks to Covid, and that's a "mild" case.

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@NewsyNick @patregnier “Time will tell.” (A tried and true kicker in news mag business, where I worked. )

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@kasie That’s a rather partisan statement coming from an ostensibly objective journalist.

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@HelenKennedy *its

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@MollySmithNews @economics Congrats!

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I thought I had my fill of Andrew Yang pieces until I ran across this compelling essay written by....oh... my daughter the sociologist.
Alaska, Andrew Yang and NYC https://t.co/gnZWB7ClJ0

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@vermontgmg @brooklynmarie @felixsalmon @Blake_Hall @mikeallen A firm whose business is to stop fraud puts out a release claiming there’s a lot of fraud going on. The only shocking thing is a well respected journalist fell for a PR strategy as old as the hills.

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@RobGeorge How can a member of Congress NOT know that?

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@Reganonymous More interesting to me is, who knew Jos Banks was still in business?

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If Trump pardons his own lawyer, Biden's Justice Department will have no choice but to investigate https://t.co/4IfvN3sPL6 via @bopinion