From my hometown newspaper, The Scranton Times, now owned by an Alden entity thanks to the perfidy of the Lynett Family (except for George): looming consolidation of local TV news stations
https://t.co/ep1h6Wro5z
A great story about the good old days of newspaper journalism
Erik Brady: The night the Courier-Express stopped the presses for the passing of a pope https://t.co/tOQl37DyPg via @TheBuffaloNews
That's my old Press Club card. Every 5 years or so you would have to peel off all of the underlying stickers, otherwise the accumulated stickers got too high. ๐
My new National Press Club membership card arrived! (Barcode/member number redacted.) Our old cards used to just get stickers we'd paste on every year over the prior year's sticker to show we were paid up. LOL. When I'm in DC, there's no place I'd rather be, than the NPC ๐ค๐
First Amendment sanity is breaking out all over, a return to the uncensored marketplace of ideas:
Metaโs move effectively puts an end to its longstanding fact-checking program. https://t.co/EmsyrTp758
The Free Speech Crisis on Campuses: Woe is Syracuse!
A cartoon, a mustache, and a witch hunt: The perils of bias reporting at Syracuse University https://t.co/2sCQq6PTgd via @TheFIREorg
The Free Speech Crisis on Campuses
"BESPOKE JARGON AND PEDANTIC TONE"
"The hierarchical structure of academe, and the role it plays in class stratification, clings . . . like a revolting odor."
Opinion | We Asked for It https://t.co/150wPZQrDG
A good newspaper man, a dear friend, and an esteemed colleague, Warren Colville(@wcolville), the former President and Publisher of @TheBuffaloNews, died yesterday. I saw him a few months ago and we had a long visit. I will cherish the time we had working together, our friendship.
To piece together the deception and expose it the news organization had to jump through hoops: "...ProPublica obtained internal records of some cases and learned details of others using public records, lawsuits, social media accounts and other sources."
Another 'trick" used by a police agency to frustrate transparency:
How NYPD Commissioner Caban Buries Officersโ Disciplinary Cases https://t.co/jbZFqhlU5Y
From a writer whose pieces I usually find to be flaccid and predictable. This piece is insightful, probably owing to the writer whose forthcoming book is referenced. The Sins of the Educated Class https://t.co/UDtDbIwbRn