Sten Spinella

Writer. Once @berkshireeagle @thedayct @observergroup @VoxMag @politifactmo @CoMissourian @the_dailycampus @UConn_LRR. Good afternoon good evening & goodnight

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

I don’t give a good god damn about Iowa. I am a Connecticut Huskies fan. Hope this helps

[Ky Reed @KyeilReed]

😂😂😂 there’s a girl in Iowa City that does this every night

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

I agree but I’m going to keep saying it: since you losers (the teams of the national basketball association) let the Knicks win, they can talk any kind of shit they’d like. And yes, it’s going to sound delusional, but their players and fans are living out a delusion right now

[Josh Padmore @JPadmore92]

Love Hart as a player but this is corny. The Spurs were winning 72% of the time, it took catastrophic meltdowns for them to blow that series. PLUS Towns was crying after they won Game 4, does that make him food?

[MUCKRAKE @ramblingyank]

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[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

WHO DECIDES THE MUSIC FOR HACKS AND WHY ARE THEY MINING MY PLAYLISTS???

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

In that case I wish the Boston Celtics were more insecure

[k @_k_3424]

🥱 the insecurity from the actual Knicks players is wild to me. I see where fans get it

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

@Thee_Rager @AssassinateHate “Got in trouble” 🤡 🤡 🤡 this is basketball, take your soft ass to tennis or something like that

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

Chapter 1 is also enclosed

[MUCKRAKE @ramblingyank]

This week’s MUCKRAKE is chapter 2 of Sten Spinella’s novel, THE PARTISANS https://t.co/clFZ6fr0hF

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

This is why you losers shouldn’t have let the Knicks win. We’re about to hear their patented hyperbole until at least 2036

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

“I think them winning the championship, has cemented them as Americas team. This team, is Americas team…. I never thought I would say a New York City team could be Americas team, I think this Knick team, feels like America”

— @RealJayWilliams on the Knicks

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

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[MUCKRAKE @ramblingyank]

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[Low-Poly Paul Atreides @muaddibstyle]

Scorsese is pro-AI for the same reason so many middle aged and older people in creative industries are, and the same reason all those college administrators we saw getting booed were: they are being lied to about something they don’t really understand by enthusiastic rich people.

[Zachary D. Carter @zachdcarter]

Nick Bilton may have signed the paperwork to fire Scott Pelley, but he’s the weakest person in the entire milieu. No staff respect, invoking administrative authority to from the jump, revealing him to be a pure instrument of his bosses. An empty man.

[Miles Howard @MilesPerHoward]

I’ll never forget how many people in the media industry, including people at top level journalism outlets, gave Bari Weiss the benefit of the doubt when she was mostly fixated on the excesses of leftist college students.

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

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[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

I guess this is what passes for media reporting these days. Shameful

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Every day, people ask me about CBS and parent company Paramount. It happened again just now at an airport in Chicago. There's no avoiding the topic, since Paramount is trying to buy CNN's parent Warner Bros. Discovery.

So let me share what I say when I'm asked. I say CBS News is complicated right now. Paramount's corporate interests make it a lot more complicated. But the journalistic output is strong, and that's what matters most. I say, judge the programming, not the people.

It's fair to be skeptical of the changes Bari Weiss and co. are implementing. It's fair for the press to scrutinize Paramount's cozy relationship with the Trump administration.

But some of the narratives about CBS News in the David and Larry Ellison era are quite frankly out of control.

CBS News has not gone MAGA, despite a flood of progressive claims to that effect.

(I suspect that the people who act like Trump owns CBS now don't watch much CBS. Of course, it doesn't help that some conservative activists talk like CBS is "theirs" now. I doubt they're watching, either.)

The CBS newsroom is still doing what newsrooms do, despite the sometimes deafening noise about Weiss and her overhaul of the network news operation.

But there's a lot of misinformation on social media about what CBS is actually airing and reporting. My humble advice: Watch and read for yourself.

I watched last night's "Evening News," and Tony Dokoupil led with Trump's "retreat" amid backlash to the "anti-weaponization fund." Dokoupil showed video of January 6 rioters storming the Capitol in his tease. He didn't shy away from the latest bad news for the president.

In other words, the reality of CBS News does not match many of the perceptions.

Pointing that out is not a defense of Weiss or a dodge of the mini-scandals and self-inflicted wounds that have piled up in the nine months since Ellison hired her. It's just a statement of fact.

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

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[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

I agree but reading this AI style of writing until the bubble pops is going to drive me clinically mad

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

60 Minutes made $206 million in advertising in 2024. It was not a struggling relic. It was the most profitable serious journalism operation in American broadcasting.

Then David Ellison bought Bari Weiss's website for $150 million and handed her CBS News. She spiked a story on El Salvador's CECOT prison. She let Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer instead of sitting across from Leslie Stahl. She fired the executive producer, two on-air correspondents, and the behind-the-camera producers who actually ran the place.

The replacement EP has never worked a day in broadcast news. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire endorsed the hire.

This is not mismanagement. Ratings are down across CBS News. The journalism is getting worse. The audience is leaving. But Ellison's other corporate deals - the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition - got a presidential thumbs-up while Netflix got frozen out. Trump said out loud he would remember which companies played ball.

That's the transaction. CBS News bleeds so that Paramount profits. Sharyn Alfonsi doesn't have a job so that David Ellison gets his merger.

The people who watched 60 Minutes for fifty years to find out what was actually happening in the world... they just lost something that cannot be rebuilt under corporate ownership. Not in this environment. Not while the president is keeping score.

[Allegra Hobbs @AllegraEHobbs]

I am a Carrie Bradshaw defender but I cannot defend the indefensible. She was absolutely out of her mind to invite Big to Aidan's country house. By far the most thoroughly sick and twisted stunt she ever pulled.

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

@justwannasayth2 @DylanByers @nickbilton @ScottPelley You sound like a loser

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

I don’t see Steph Castle, who was born to guard Brunson, on the court

[Knicks Union 🗽 @knicks_union]

Jalen Brunson vs the Spurs on Mar 29 2024:

61 PTS
4 REB
6 AST
1STL
15/47 FG
5/13 3FG
6/6 FT

[Sten Spinella @stenspin]

Absolute nightmare blunt rotation with these two

[Second Thought @SecondThoughtFP]

.@ScooterBraun: Live Nation is not the villain everyone says it is.

“We’ve become a society now where if you are big, you must be an oppressor. We used to be a society that celebrated great entrepreneurs. That was the American way.

“Live Nation has… done an incredible job of building an amazing business. The government’s job is—when a business gets too big—to create opportunity for others. That doesn’t mean that Live Nation is bad.”

Watch the full interview with @SnoozyWeiss: https://t.co/Ri00qIbGyN

[MUCKRAKE @ramblingyank]

A five-part series and each part is, at the very least, 3,000 words. You good big dawg?