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Jay Rosen

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<p>I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site. &quot;Chill before serving&quot; is my social media motto. Elvis Costello&#39;s version of &quot;What&#39;s so funny &#39;bout peace, love, and understanding&quot; is my theme song. </p><p>jr3@nyu.edu</p>

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    &amp;quot;Not the odds, but the stakes.&amp;quot; That&amp;#39;s my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in 2024 election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy— given what&amp;#39;s possible in this election. Not the odds, but the stakes. Here is an example of stakes commentary. Its analysis is both plausible and terrifying. https://newrepublic.com/article/174535/people-arent-facing-horrors-new-trump-term-bring #journalism #us...

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    &amp;quot;Describing [RFK&amp;#39;s] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign.&amp;quot; Agreed! Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.) https://www.huffpost.com/entr...

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    I have a high tolerance for repetition, so I consumed a lot of post-debate discussion among journalists. I don&amp;#39;t recall any that tried to rank the candidates — or moderators — on the quality of their connection to observable reality. Political realities, yes. Any other kind, no. #journalism #uspol #science

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    CNN headline today: &amp;quot;McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain.&amp;quot; What the GROUNDS for impeachment might be is addressed in paragraph nine. CNN thus buries the lede of a more striking story: a vibes-based approach, where you establish first the feeling, &amp;quot;we wanna impeach,&amp;quot; relegating the small matter of &amp;quot;impeachment for what?&amp;quot; to later stages. That&amp;#39;s news! Instead CNN frames for us another strategy...

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    Read this item from today&amp;#39;s Politico. It describes how false equivalency and both-sides-ing are not just a lazy habit in journalism, but a tool of politics that incorporates the bad journalism into party behavior, thus making a mockery of the images of detachment on which the press sells itself. #journalism #uspol #science

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    I did a little comparison: reach and reaction on Twitter and Mastodon. I picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be more native to Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone. With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 shares and 179 likes With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 shares and 195 likes. Here are the two posts: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1591147769229557761 [305K followers, 81 shares, 179 likes] https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109326807884220104 [8...