Veteran of the media wars. On a mission to kick the activists and Google search warriors out of journalism. Co-founder @R2Reports.
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That's not how you do journalism.
For the first time in @metrotimes history, we’re no longer seeking comment from a candidate’s campaign because of repeated lies and bigoted attacks. That candidate is Mike Rogers, whose campaign keeps targeting Abdul El-Sayed’s Muslim faith. metrotimes.com/news/mike-rog…
When a major news organization gets a story wrong, the rest of us take the hit. It’s particularly maddening when 15 minutes of basic reporting turns up evidence that calls the whole story into question. Here’s what I found. 1/7
It took me minutes to find enough holes to make declaring this a deepfake indefensible. The evidence strongly points the other way—which may be the better story: “Campaign responds to a deepfake allegation with an apparently manipulated image.” But I digress. 6/7
They made @EndWokeness and its politics central to the story, but didn’t show readers how they proved the footage fake. The gatekeepers warning about manipulated media owed the politician’s rebuttal image the same scrutiny. 7/7
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NEW: Kim Jong Un on Monday "looked round the venue of the garment and footwear exhibition of the field of light industry," DPRK state media said.
The photo-report came after rumors emerging on social media suggested he had died yesterday.
kcnawatch.org/newstream/1792…
Johnny Kunza retweeted
🚨 🚨 BRAKING 🚨 🚨
Rumors are now circulating that Kim Jong Un, the elected president of South Korea, has past away
I am working to confirm via my sources, but this would be a major disruption for Asia’s largest economic power
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As a journalist, these kinds of programs strike me as borderline predatory. It costs $120,000 to complete Columbia's 9-month MA in journalism. For a career where the starting salary is often as low as $40,000.
We need to normalize learning on the job.
I really hate my industry and what it’s become. The groupthink around such an obvious error in editorial judgment is alarming, even by journalism’s now gutter standards. Whatever happened to “we got it wrong”? Now we lecture our audience when they correct us?
I see a lot of my colleagues defending the Times, but by the time they posted, we already knew the plane was squawking 7500, the hijack code, and had diverted to Saudi Arabia. There was enough confirmed information to report more than an “altercation,” and they chose not to.
Our headlines and live coverage contain all the facts we're able to confirm as we confirm them. Unlike activists and partisans, we don't publish speculation or unverified information. Here's a Gift Link to follow along as we update our reporting:
nytimes.com/live/2026/09/30/…
Just done. Death by a thousand small cuts, but at $70 a month there was simply no value left for me. @NYTimesPR has crept way too far into activism and punditry, and too far away from the kind of journalism I was paying to support.
I wish them the best of luck, but goddamn I'm already bored watching this. This isn't the new media we've been promised.
Real umbrella, wrong president, recycled footage with a fresh misleading caption.
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It’s insane to see the Post’s hard pivot to influencer content while watching the editorial product just suck. Seems like a stupid waste of resources and energy.
Whether you’re a warm-weather sipper or a year-round devotee, iced-coffee drinkers have a growing number of options.
Post food reporter Emily Heil conducted a blind taste test of 10 top-selling brands. Read the full ranking here: wapo.st/4h3tOtT
