Michael Socolow
@MichaelSocolow
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Communication & Journalism, University of Maine 2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra Tweets=my own opinions
Bangor, Maine
Joined March 2013
When CBS settled with Trump last summer, John Dickerson offered a very candid and tough commentary asking the CBS News audience to watch the programs and decide for themselves if CBS is betraying their trust. Yesterday he announced he's leaving CBS News. I guess we know now.
"Can you hold power to account when you've paid it millions? Can an audience trust you when it thinks you've traded away that trust? The audience will decide that. Our job is to show up." Great, tough stuff from John Dickerson on CBS Evening News Plus Tonight. Link in reply⬇️
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If these @nytimes numbers are correct, I find it amazing that Disney didn't know how popular Kimmel was [2.8 million more cancellations than an average month]. The number of cancellations was far higher than number of viewers on TV. More proof we're not in TV world anymore.
Late to this one: More evidence that @BrendanCarrFCC’s attempted intimidation of Disney in the Jimmy Kimmel affair, and Disney’s temporary capitulation, backfired significantly for Disney.
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"Overall, we found the AI-generated lesson plans to be decidedly boring, traditional and uninspiring." Fascinating study: Researchers used 3 different AI apps to design +300 8th grade civics lesson plans. Result: They were crappy. https://t.co/s9GtbKo5Zf
theconversation.com
Common chatbots produce generic lesson plans that are unlikely to improve learning, a study finds. It shows how teachers should be critical users – not rapid adopters − of generative AI.
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There's a new AI website called https://t.co/ow76Xah0Q5 promising to properly format citations for academic papers. It might be useful (?) but I won't upload my original research randomly to AI websites I know nothing about. Latest in the Lint Trap⬇️ https://t.co/CN11DnGJMb
formatmypaper.com
Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.
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If I ran CBS News, I'd look to last time CBS Evening News passed either ABC or NBC for 2nd place in the ratings and try to replicate that. It last occured right after Dan Rather left and before Katie Couric got a huge celebrity contract (2005-6). The anchor was Bob Schieffer.
Bari Weiss is considering Fox News's Bret Baier as the anchor of "CBS Evening News," @oliverdarcy reports ($):
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One of the nice things about this place circling the drain is now it takes only about 30 seconds of scrolling before you close the app.
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"The local news industry hasn’t adopted our products at a rate that sustains our business model." I missed this: Lede AI shuttered in December, 2024, because it couldn't do local journalism professionally or ethically. Is anybody succeeding in this space? https://t.co/h71Vqf2h1i
editorandpublisher.com
Lede AI will suspend availability of products and services designed for the local news industry by the end of 2024.
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“By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti- SLAPP Declaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends to exercise fully” @MichaelWolffNYC is doing more to defend media freedom than CBS + ABC. https://t.co/JAtIz1ffgn
deadline.com
Jeffrey Epstein has once again come to haunt Donald Trump & Melania Trump with a new lawsuit from Michael Wolff.
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The 1950 CCNY NCAA Champs, Boston College point-shaving scandal, Tim Donaghy... The gamblers seem to think basketball's probably the easiest game to rig? (Except, perhaps, tennis?)
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I don't recall in any of the other times famous pro athletes and/or coaches got suspended or banned for gambling - Pete Rose, Alex Karras, Paul Hornung, Leo Durocher, etc. - that they were actually arrested? This seems much more serious.
An active coach in the NBA who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024 was arrested today as part of a widespread gambling investigation that also has seen at least one player taken into custody.
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“The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.” -Bennett Cerf
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“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.” -Bennett Cerf
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"There once was a student named Bessor, Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small- He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor." -Bennett Cerf Link to Bennett Cerf in the Lint Trap of History below⬇️
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Graham Platner family's class history trajectory is fascinating to me: 1. Grandfather Warren Platner graduated from Cornell in 1941 and became world-famous figure in modernist interior design, working with Saarinen. 2. Father: small-town lawyer in Maine. 3. Son: Oyster farmer.
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I went looking for a specific Bennett Cerf quote, and found a wonderful oral history. The latest in the Lint Trap. https://t.co/wmxzn2194O
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"There once was a student named Bessor, Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small- He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor." -Bennett Cerf Link to Bennett Cerf in the Lint Trap of History below⬇️
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“The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.” -Bennett Cerf
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“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.” -Bennett Cerf
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If you're on campus today, stick around for @nytimes sports writer @el_belson who'll be talking about his new book "Every Day Is Sunday" in Neville Hall 101 at 5:30 p.m. Looking forward to it!
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