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Why have so many in the US business, academia and political worlds done so little to create a sense of urgency and act on the pandemic? Where are public information spots? Where's the natl campaign to donate to relief funds or food banks? My take on
@cnn
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Management at
@NBCNews
needs to explain ASAP how agreeing at last minute to add a town hall with President Trump opposite an
@abcnews
Joe Biden Town Hall is in the public interest. Even doing it at 10 ET just after Biden would have been a better decision.
BREAKING: President Trump will take part in an NBC News town hall event in Miami on Thursday.
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@soledadobrien
@EricBoehlert
As we move through this horrific period marked by the challenges faced by those who gather the news, independent press criticism as practiced by
@EricBoehlert
is more vital than ever. A friend to many and admired by many readers, Eric did his homework and knew the news. Tragic.
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There may be 10 times as many Covid-19 cases as known. This message was delivered in an CDC hour long phone briefing. News that 20 million people may have the virus merits a nationally televised White House briefing not a call. An information tragedy.
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Never in American history has whistleblowing been more important. I'd venture a guess that never before has a military commanding offer had to take his case to third parties to get treatment for an extremely sick crew.
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@soledadobrien
@nytimes
It is a sad admission that they have limited senior level editorial wisdom and instead fall easily into conventional wisdom. Lean at the top, good at swarming, investigating and working to "own" the big story. Poor when it comes to seeing big shifts around them. See election 2016
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More than just an NYC columnist the late Jimmy Breslin taught journalists how their work should be done By reporting
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Why on Sun talk shows
@brianstelter
@johndickerson
is there never discussion of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the hacks
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@KBAndersen
If you read the actual docs it's less confusing than listening to the analysis. It's fairly clear that Cohen was considered more candid and complete about what he observed of Trump/Russia matters than he was about his own personal corrupt business practices.
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To elaborate just a bit a top White House aide is asking a credibly accused murderer of a Washington Post writer to hang in and "weather the storm."
@KarenAttiah
This is INSANE. --> After Khashoggi's murder, "Mr. Kushner has offered the crown prince advice about how to weather the storm, urging him to resolve his conflicts around the region and avoid further embarrassments."
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For 50 years this public servant has prepared for moments like this and today Fauci is being characteized by Trump cronies as "out of control." Again expertise potentially marginalized with the stakes merely huge numbers of deaths.
Trump hearing more criticism of Fauci from people in his circle. “Fauci is out of control,” said one who spoke w him on Sun. "good doctor," but shouldn't "control the daily lives of all Americans."
@Noahbierman
@ChrisMegerian
@EliStokols
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@brianstelter
@ReliableSources
Tomorrow will be historic. The national media coverage and the decisions media leaders make over the next 24 hours are likely to have enormous impact.
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@DouthatNYT
Your lack of surprise surprises those of us who frequently read your columns. Unlike some of your colleagues, say
@CharlesMBlow
and
@NickKristof
it's hard to find a consistent world view in your work warning your readers about the dangers of a Trump presidency
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@joanwalsh
@nytimes
Encourage people to name names at the
@nytimes
and there ought to be a lot here for
@gabrielsnyder
to dig into in his role at
@CJR
where's he's acting as the Times public editor.
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Thanks to
@ratemyskyperoom
for checking out
@tnp
Live last night which featured highly knowledgeable Fox News Decision Desk chief
@arnonmishkin
with great advice for how to read the polls and how to look at Election Night. View it here
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@PhilipRucker
@JaxAlemany
@BrentGriffiths
How about a bit more reporting on what Fauci is actually accomplishing beyond the interviews? Is he effective in making sure that the vaccine development process is being run properly? Is he effectively communicating with legislators and governors? Don't think we have any idea.
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Thank you
@joanwalsh
for digging into the work you knew so well from
@EricBoehlert
. A valuable appreciation reminding us of what criticism can be and how so often the real story is missed. Eric and his work are missed. A most recent piece a great example.
Whether his admirers know it or not – and many do, but not all – Eric has been on the same story for the last 23 years: the callow, irresponsible way that our Beltway media has covered Democrats in these decades.
And he fucking crushed it.
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To be clear Michael Caputo, cited by
@realDonaldTrump
, was a Trump employee who built a substantial business representing Russian interests
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@brianbeutler
@JWGOP
Hoping somebody gets to ask Pence a question at some point and given that opportunity perhaps Jewsplain him a bit about this
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And controlled like
@WSJ
@usmagweekly
and soon most likley
@TIME
by people with clear political agendas and relationships with Trump Add to that the most influential news network, nearly all widely listened to talk radio shows and what we see iis unprecedented political power
One of the secondary or tertiary threads in the Weinstein story is the fact that the National Enquirer isn’t just a cartoonish and exploitative publication but actually a deeply malevolent force in American culture.
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@JoeConchaTV
@maggieNYT
@nytmike
Just FYI. The story says a plan was developed by Kelly to make these changes and that the plan hadn't yet been approved by Trump.
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Remarkable moment of sports history filled ironically with beautiful humanity. See
@Sifill_LDF
below who tells the story of being there with Secretariat that day in 1973.
This is the most beautiful goddamned thing I've ever seen, and I don't even care about horse racing. I still remember seeing it in 1973 on a tiny black and white TV in an old farmhouse, and thinking there must be some funny trick with the cameras. Surely no horse could do that...
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@brianstelter
Today's White House briefing was limited and of minimal substance. We did hear about the value of prayer and certainly we can all get behind that. The problem is no closer to solution. The government is providng grossly inadequate information.
An information tragedy.
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1/2 A great column by
@Sulliview
about generally ignored rising civilian Middle East deaths at the hands of US led military. This is about inadequate coverage with Sullivan noting that aggressive reporting on this topic is "relatively rare these days"
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@matthewjdowd
@NicolleDWallace
Deserved praise for
@NicolleDWallace
. No big surprise. What is surprising is that somebody as smart, busy and engaged as
@matthewjdowd
watched ALL of the McCabe interviews. Does make Dowd's respect for McCabe particularly credible. But that's a lot of talk TV.
@TheRickWilson
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@PhilipRucker
Fauci needs to be asked not only to speak to the public but needs the freedom to appear on TV and do interviews as he sees fit. That's the communication problem. His press contact is dictated by Trump not by the public's right to know or by journalistic inquiry.
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@djrothkopf
@NBCNews
Needs explaining how caving to Trump's demands is in the public interest. Trump would have declined doing to the Town Hall at 10 ET or Friday?
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While we discuss redaction and have numbing political debates it was 43° close to the North Pole today and there's massive Bering Sea melting which has in 2 weeks cost it half its ice. All the while the US government fights science.
The northernmost permanent weather station in the world, just 440 miles from the North Pole, has warmed to 43°F today -- in the middle of months-long darkness during what is normally the coldest time of the year.
This is simply shocking. I don't have the words.
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@JoyceWhiteVance
@jheil
There are ongoing matters and utterly unanswered large topics.
What are the agenda topics for Trump-Putin chats?
What are the topics of the lengthy ongoing Flynn-DOJ cooperation?
What is the underlying reason for so much lying about Russia matters in so many high places?
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Important topic because it needs to be reframed as information or technology overload. It's not credible, serious news that's "flooding' our feeds which is why we need new news sources and support for existing journalistic organizations
Are you feeling weathered down by the amount of news flooding your feed? Right now on
@CNN
:
@davidfrum
,
@Indira_L
, and
@StevenBrill
discuss "news fatigue"
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1/2 Still waiting for someone covering Trump or media to actually do reporting assessing Hope Hicks' capabilities.
@MichaelWolffNYC
says nobody will talk about Hicks because "they need her favor." For all the aggressive WH reporting, is Hicks off limits?
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1/Here's part 1 of a
@ReliableSources
segment I joined today on press readines for the Trump administration
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@jonathanvswan
To use the description "fiction" to diminish any part of the book requires you in my view to identify either specific passages or meaningful themes that you're referencing as false
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@brianstelter
It's one thing to find Michelle Wolf funny. It's another to think that raw humor that's great fun in a comedy club is appropriate for a nationally televised event that salutes journalism, students and the First Amendment. No other event with that mission would spotlight raunch
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Thanks for your bold candor here old friend. Only thing missing here
@soledadobrien
is what great reporting you've done in so many settings going back to your tech work during the Internet's beginnings in our early years together in companion components of a very different
@MSNBC
.
@SoledadOBrien
writes, "We are letting viewers, listeners and readers know that the absence of reporting on communities of color is why it took shocking videos of police killings to awaken them to police brutality."
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Agree. Just as it was OK for journalists to aggressively point out the horror of segregation during the Civil Rights era, the failure of US policy in Vietnam and poisoning of the air and water that helped empower the environmental movement.
When Republicans are telling you they'll go full fascist if they gain power you should take them literally and seriously instead of doing a "both sides" analysis. It's OK for journalists to be biased against fascism. The water is warm here. Jump in.
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@DylanByers
When "getting divorced" or getting mad at
@Rosie
or anytime
@PageSix
wanted to talk. Anytime. It's a core part of his skill set
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The horrific challenge to the 1st amendment posed here by
@newtgingrich
can't be allowed to fall through the cracks
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1) A great team has been working quietly with me for months on The News Project, a company I have launched to make it easier and more cost effective to launch and operate news properties. Seems we're no longer in stealth mode
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@froomkin
What could
@SallyBuzbee
say about this? Agree that there's parity between sneaky wedding coverage trickery and the vastness of the 30,000+ lies documented by the
@washingtonpost
.
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Not 1 researched follow up"
@jeffjarvis
: Amen,
@nickkristof
, amen. A sad night in a sad season for the profession. "
This
#NBCNewsForum
feels like an embarrassment to journalism. It's about soundbites, not serious discussion of foreign policy.
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Open and scroll through this brilliant horrifying presentation.
A closeup examination of the artist’s latest cover, in which the murder of George Floyd embodies the history of violence inflicted upon black people in America.
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@emilybell
They'd also be producing "decks" with "Zuck talking points" and plans for "outreach" to "friendly targets" and other "opinion leaders" complete with "deliverables," "status updates" and the creation of "time sensitive" PR "metrics"
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@brianstelter
@froomkin
Only problem here is that too many of today's political reporters couldn't cut it if that's the mission. At their best they excel at an insider's game that generally has nothing to do with serious policy, agency or national affairs reporting.
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An extraordinary accomplishment by a quarterback who we'd know a lot more about if he played in a top market. First in NFL history to win at this level right out of school. Congrats to the
@Seahawks
and
@DangeRussWilson
With his 9th win this season,
@DangeRussWilson
became the first QB in
@NFLhistory
to have a winning record in each of his first 6 seasons.
#GoHawks
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Pleased to announce that our startup, The News Project
@tnp
has launched our "news business in a box" platform with 1st customer
@CALmatters
We're offering small to medium sized publishers the tools and services they need for audience and revenue growth 1/
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@tomwatson
One question: What if you had actually thought he'd be in a position to be elected? Does that mean, you'd have done things differently? Surely you didn't think there was a Zero chance of Trump beating Clinton. Or did you? A national political party nominated Trump after all.
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Tonight. An important conversation at 6 ET with
@CNN
's
@brianstelter
, anchor of
@ReliableSources
on
#COVID
ー19 coverage, the virus "Information Tragedy", the news industry and more. Join me and co-host Alex Leo for
@tnp
's weekly look at news business issues. On social platforms.
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@TheRickWilson
Some may yell "Squeee! but other media members will recognize what Trump didn't address and frankly too few news organizations are covering:
1) Poverty
2) Housing
3) Environment
4) The deteriorating US role in the world
5) The state of public education
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@JessicaValenti
Darn right. That guy would never have written that story about a man. It's only somewhat about PhD envy from a guy without one who's a "Lecturer."
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Reminded as
@washingtonpost
focuses on the troubles facing Trump cos. that it's nothing new for Trump Org. Had the national press laid out Trump's history of bankruptcies and stiffing vendors in 2015 none of this would be surprising Huge press failure
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Here's my
@CNNOpinion
look at
@seattletimes
and the critical nature of the work of a daily metropoltian newspaper in a market quickly crippled by
#CoronaVirusSeattle
. Easy to clearly understand the value of local journalism in the challenging virus context
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@dlboardman
Add to that the redundancy of so many in the political press covering the same stories in the same form as much of what take place in the federal government marches on without coverage. Covering agriculture or human services isn't a path to TV, hot books etc.
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Moving
@Jezebel
interview with Delia Ephron on the 40th anniversary of her sister Nora Ephron's Heartburn touching on Nora, heartbreak and what's wrong with rom-coms today.
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There's an opportunity to reinvent US evening cable news by turning a prime time of chatter into a 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
@CNN
one hour newscast. Needed on both coasts and vitally important heading into a heated election year and a harrowing year globally. 1/2
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Pleased to join
@brianstelter
and thoughtful group on
@CNN
's
@ReliableSources
Sunday Details and their latest here
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Timely reminders from
@Sulliview
about Bill Shine and his background focusing on sexual harassment allegations. Also worth noting that Shine now runs messaging not for a network but for the country. Expect cagier crisper messaging and perhaps a
@foxnews
type replacing
@PressSec
A story only 10 days old, but already long lost in the chaos and news fatigue: Tainted by Fox News scandals, Bill Shine now works for us all. No big deal, right? ...My column
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A view into Ohio and the risks around too many compliant educators and indifferent politicians.. Somehow the education establishment is going to have to get its act together and rise up state by state.
THREAD
Quick story on why Ohio is about to explode in COVID cases:
A friend in a mid-sized rural county mentioned a few weeks ago how worried she was about her kids in school there. There’s no mask mandate—not even a debate on whether to have one.
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@markberman
@maggieNYT
Not to wordsmith too much here but Congress wouldn't be talking about
@POTUS
' tax returns if he wasn't also a target
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@EricBoehlert
Political press can't handle business corruption.Too many in the natl/NY business media had attitude they had been writing about Trump's failures for years. With the exception of
@DavidCayJ
,
@TimOBrien
and a few others the failure to deal with this is the press failure of our era
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This has been retweeted a ton today To be clear
@POTUS44
released taxes, didn't call press "enemy" and was better with facts than
@POTUS
.
@merrillbro
: “The media was not as hard on
@BarackObama
as they’ve been on
@POTUS
.”
#OReillyFactor
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Here's
@TechCrunch
coverage of today's launch of
@tnp
's platform and 1st project. Our startup has redesigned, rebranded and added to The News Project platform vital CA policy and politics site
@CalMatters
. Proud to have helped develop the "new" CalMatters
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@okrent
@jackshafer
While they're at it
@nytimes
should also consider ending the pretense that they're actually covering NYC and the region and give that up too. Or perhaps invest in something like
@THECITYNY
that would help.
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Pleased to announce the launch of
#TheNewsProjectLive
, a new
@tnp
show we'll debut Thursday at 6 pm ET about the future of news and the work being done to find new business models. First guest is
@19thnews
founder
@eramshaw
. Available on digital platforms worldwide. Stay tuned.
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The
#Coronavirus
data will change dramatically over the coming days says analyst
@thehowie
. His thread notes this jump in cases in the US and elsewhere is expected by those aware of increaaing diagnoatic capabilities worldwide. Context for forthcoming dramatic headlines.
Thread:
#COVID19
#Coronavirus
updates & data.
I will repeat this, but really important: cases coming out of the US WILL EXPLODE in the coming days. This is NOT a cause for panic. These EXISTING cases are finally being diagnosed, since testing is now more broadly available. 1/
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For those not following the factchecking of the Trump/Russia dossier, this would support its claim that Cohen flew into the Prague area and paid off hackers or others involved in 2016 attacks. When this surfaced, Cohen made a spectacle of showing his passport with no Czech stamp
Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
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We are live with
@brianstelter
on
#TheNewsProjectLive
.
Join me and my co-host
@AlexMLeo
to as we discuss the
#InformationTragedy
:
#COVID19
silence, misinformation and confusion.
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You devote careers to public service and public health. Your expertise is lauded. And yet Drs. Fauci and Birx are part of a team managing what may be history's greatest public sector failure in a health crisis. How do you face up to your participation?
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As we see one public official after another who are behaving stupidly after urging careful behavior during the pandemic, it does encourage a "throw them all out" mindset. This guy, sympathetic TV figure and Mayor, went to Cabo with private jet privileges.
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In case you don't know
@skift
or founder
@rafat
it's all about brilliant media entrepreneurship.This week many great minds in travel convened in NY around Skift's sensibility which recognizes that travel isn't just about commerce but also about new ways of bringing folks together
In the annals of companies, there are seminal moments of transformation, and this week certainly felt like it. Finally feels we have entered adulthood. This is the
@skift
team of 65 that is changing the global travel industry, in our annual on-stage selfie at Skift Global Forum.
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Extraordinarily important
@washingtonpost
reporting describing chaos throughout the unprepared US govt as the horribly executed March decision to bar travel from Europe brought chaos to airports. One of the factors that led to the current catastrophe.
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On this week's
@tnp
's
#TheNewsProjectLive
Thurs. at 6 ET join me,
@AlexMLeo
and guest
@ReliableSources
'
@brianstelter
for a timely look at the
#informationtragedy
, the government's
#COVID
public education debacle. How newsrooms address it, the state of the news industry and more
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@jayrosen_nyu
Really too bad all this energy and capital is being directed to national politics. What's needed is more serious coverage of our communities and undercovered topics like equality, energy and jobs. The country isn't suffering because it misunderstands the filibuster.
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@brianstelter
@margbrennan
Yes. She covered a lot of ground. Speaking of interviews, question for the
@nytimes
is why after they conducted a massive groundbreaking investigation of "suspect" Trump family tax practices did the publisher and their reporters not confront him with details of their work?
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@jeffjarvis
"Conley is a doctor of osteopathic medicine — commonly known as a DO — as opposed to an MD, or doctor of medicine. Both are licensed physicians....DOs prioritize osteopathic, holistic approaches to medicine, as opposed to more “traditional” MDs"
-
@USATODAY
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@BillKristol
I live in NY, am from DC and am at the
#StanleyCupFinals
in LV. They love their hockey here and it means a lot to the entire community. Couldn't happen to a more deserving West Coast place.
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Fine
@EricBoehlert
piece reminding journalists and readers that any support for Russia from US politicians shouldn't be treated as just another political debate.
my latest—the press shrugs; keeps normalizing radical, dangerous behavior;
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@hughhewitt
@POTUS
@BarackObama
@realDonaldTrump
Can always count on
@hughhewitt
to cut to the chase. He apparently doesn't consider it a "standoff" when a US atty investigatinassociates of the president and most likely the president as well is removed via press release late Friday evening and doesn't acknowledge the removal.
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On the personal front, happily reporting that I'm joining
@GOMediaInc
, working in a great digital news and information organization on brands that make a difference in the daily lives of diverse audiences.
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Inspiring to see the growth of
@CenterCoopMedia
. Would be great if other universities ran with the model. Enjoyed bringing CCM into what was then the new
@MontclairSCM
and adding great people like
@jsamditis
@jemarsha11
@SarahStonbely
and
@StefanieMurray
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@TheTJHelm
@hunterw
I don't get this point. People "freaking out" are properly "freaking out" because of 1) exposure to children and 2) the risks around the spread of the virus among unmasked unvaccinated people and how a high level of illness adds new pressures on key group activities like schools.
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@JRubinBlogger
@waltshaub
Name names
@JRubinBlogger
and put focus on the institutions and people that are failing. The focus on optics and keeping score. Time to focus on a journalism community with enormous responsibility for the current debacle and on ending self congratulation around Russia coverage.
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Great that the network evening news shows drew 32 million viewers last week. But the country needs a nightly live intl newscast at 7, 10 and 1 ET. A prime time newscast at 3:30 PT makes no sense in today's world. And we all need late night news. 1/2
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@BillKristol
Beyond the Stormy matter on what basis does Pence know anything about the reality of Trump and Russia and for that matter is it even clear that Cobb-Dowd have conducted an exhaustive investigation of
#RussiaTrump
let alone Trump's decades of business deals
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2/2 This isn't about the silly "overload" meme that says we have too much news to process. While many take solace in the inspiring coverage of Trump/Russia what
@Sulliview
is noting is the inadequacy of the coverage of so much else and why we need more quality news not less
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Had no idea about this bit of
@Mets
history. How moving and curious that the game was postponed because of the visiting team's protest.
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@NBCNews
is dawdling. They need to suspend
@BWilliams
and announce a process that includes press access and an internal investigation.
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@sbg1
It is so DC myopic press corps that the exit of a head of comms who has no public engagement, few if any acknowledged skills, has never been properly covered and assessed as other Comm heads have been, and who WH reporters won't talk about is a big deal
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Picture in today's
@nytimes
of David Boies back in late 1900s then leading US antitrust effort against
@Microsoft
answering reporters' questions including Microsoft/NBC
@MSNBC
reporter
@BrockMeeks
Nice reminder that our Microsoft backed reporters aggressively covered MS stories
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@TheRealHoarse
Should be on end of year top 10 lists. Outstanding, important story that's beautifully acted and shot.
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@brianstelter
@ezraklein
@ReliableSources
Among the questions not asked often enough is what's not covered by
@CNN
@voxdotcom
and other big media when the focus is on Trump tweets, rallies and personnel soap operas. Answer is just about everything else like Secs. Perry, Carson, Azar and even DeVos
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@djrothkopf
Death for hundreds of thousands.
Suffering, hunger, economic hardship for millions.
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