IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE. It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway? - ThreadSky

mcopelov.bsky.social • 3 days ago

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.

It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

Reposted from Karen Attiah

Looks like Harvard could potentially cave to the Trump administration.

And of course, race and diversity would be the first casualty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

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stito.bsky.social•3 days ago

If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
(Jonathan Foster) This is journalism.

allvegetables.bsky.social•3 days ago

💯% Learned as kid: Being citizen of a Democracy isn’t spectator sport. Relied on journalists to aide daily pursuit of truth&justice. Woodward & Bernstein discerned during Watergate yrs to use “the best obtainable version of the truth” as their guiding principle. World needs this integrity to deepen.

timnohe.bsky.social•3 days ago

Losing count of how many times I've had my decision to cancel my subscription verified.

hdibo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you. I hate this framing. I generally like Michael Schmidt - but his reporting here has missed the mark IMO

smokeygeo.bsky.social•3 days ago

?? It's a "dispute." Harvard has sued the government in Court. Courts are there to adjucate "disputes."

taylorgrayson.bsky.social•3 days ago

I suppose that technically Russia is involved in a dispute with Ukraine, but framing it that way would be very deceptive.

kittywashere.bsky.social•3 days ago

adjudicate* disputes or issues

I somehow doubt the NYT reporter writing this cares about legal jargon, though.

jessereed78.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dead.

The answer is that journalism is dead.

Aside from some excellent independent reporters who haven't sold their souls to the system.

judyprincz.bsky.social•3 days ago

They need the funding. Sad.

kenkiyama.bsky.social•3 days ago

A good post analyzing the shoddy journalism of the NYT piece.

And keep in mind that the credulous post sharing the NYT article with no analysis was written by a WaPa columnist.
https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3ls4xauueac2x

capitolhunters.bsky.social•3 days ago

This article is based entirely on people with no primary information - who were not in the meeting - but who were happy to give their take to the NYT on condition of anonymity. This kind of thing used to not be allowed in respectable journalism. 1/

capitolhunters.bsky.social•3 days ago

Note how later in the article, NYT's Schmidt and Blinder start speaking totally ex cathedra, announcing the inner thoughts of Harvard leaders without any sourcing at all. 2/ https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3ls4xaw32jc2x

kittywashere.bsky.social•3 days ago

They’ll come for UW next, based purely on skeets.

electricchimp.bsky.social•3 days ago

journalism serves the powerful. hardly anyone in it does anything else

mavisja.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't think this is journalism's problem. Trump wants a deal and Harvard doesn't want to agree to this deal.

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