Sabrina Cartan

Fan activist, culture writer & digital strategist. Please clap. She/her.

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky, when he called me from The Black Lodge

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

America’s greatest accomplishments at 250:
1. Jazz
2. Barbecue
3. Baseball
4. Turning right on red
5. Patti Smith
6. Constitutional Democracy (discontinued)
7. Spielberg’s 70s through 90s run
8. Seinfeld (the show, not the guy)
9. The National Parks System
10. Coca-Cola

[Arthouse Shawn Levy @firagawalkwthme]

The minions always searching for employment in service of the Big Bad and finding the most fulfillment working in Hollywood is a pretty good subtextual joke

[courtney or sam or sophia or marcus @heycourtnay]

They’re even making it easy with their donation options 🫶🏻♥️

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

nyc is having such a wild summer that they have to ask us where our children are

WHAT YEAR IS IT

[New York Cares @newyorkcares]

New York Cares is honored and delighted to receive a gift from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who have chosen to celebrate their love by investing in those in need.

This generous donation will support programs that are making NYC more equitable for all and add to our impact...

[Integrity Guy @Integrity_Freak]

Every Robert Eggers movie takes us to a faraway time and place and imagines what the Green Goblin would be doing there

[Low Level @LowLevelTweets]

Malware implies the existence of buenoware

[kelsie @iPad_Latino]

We had a really mean python at work and I gave him back to his owner and was like “he was trying to kill me” and his owner said “well, he only has so many ways to interact with the world. All he has is a face” and it Moved Me

[re: emma @evemmore]

minions being loved then hated then mocked then coming full circle back around to people loving them again. Taylor Swift adjacent

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

This is very different from what NPR is now saying — that Totenberg's status in the newsroom led editors to believe what she initially thought she heard, and the outlet rushed to publish it.

What is astonishing about the matter is that NPR's listeners do not rely on it to break news — they expect the outlet to help them make sense of the world around them, with reporting rooted in care, deliberation, accuracy and integrity.

NPR does not need to scoop anyone, but the error on Tuesday shows a culture shift within its own newsroom, where being first matters as much as being right.

Kelly McBride's cavalier attitude about what happened today further illustrates the culture within the NPR newsroom today. McBride once argued to Vice News that police assaulting protesters during the George Floyd rallies were similar to the National Guard breaking up protests during the integration of schools in the 1950s.

That's a weird position to take.

McBride is now the public editor at NPR, and the Chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership. She is not particularly good at her job, but she serves as an example of someone who continues to succeed in the journalism industry because she is liked by her peers — and that's it.

The same can be said for many people who work at NPR, including those who allowed today's pre-written article to be published — a gaffe that could have been prevented if they followed some basic procedures that everyone learns in J-school.

McBride is right that NPR's listeners will probably shrug off today's mistake. For her, today is a good day because it got people talking about NPR, and any press is good press in McBrideLand.

But it has blemished NPR's sterling reputation within the industry, and handed ammunition to its biggest critics, including those who lob baseless allegations of bias and fake news.

As NPR continues to weigh restructuring and layoffs to account for lower revenue, the organization should look extremely carefully at the reporters, editors, ethicists and producers who are helping the outlet, and those who are hurting it.

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

@PerryPerihelion @t_NYC It is!

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer the Minions fought the Monsters, and I had no idea what I was doing in New York.

[⋆✺ mary tales: ✺⋆ @muppetfellow]

Finding out these two spent years going to eachother’s houses just to eat dinner and watch Jeopardy made me emo

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

@femalepencil Is your mother Lorelai Gilmore?

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

Did Rory Gilmore write this

[AnaBanana @femalepencil]

I can’t believe we used to have McDonalds Mondays, sushi Tuesdays, wacky Wednesdays and pizza Fridays all because my mom hated cooking.

[Sabrina Cartan @sabrinacartan]

me with my weebs

[Variety @Variety]

A Minionese singing contest takes place at the #MinionsAndMonsters world premiere in Los Angeles

[Lauren Milberger @LaurenMilberger]

Happy 100th Birthday Mel Brooks
Happy 80th Birthday to Gilda Radner ❤️