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The MSM would provide the same neutral and breathless coverage of a nuclear war, an alien invasion, or–just like the movie "Don't Look Up" satirized–the imminent hit of a comet.
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The protests need a leader. But the Dem Party has failed utterly in this. Schumer, Jeffries, the DNC – all guilty of political malpractice. Days, weeks, now months have gone by, but being an opposition party seems to be beyond them, even though the lessons & models are out there to follow.
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The protests need a national leader. Dems have failed utterly here. Now it's just like chickens with their heads cut off.
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The Times has long given up on Truth. Given up on fulfilling the basic responsibility of Journalism. Now it's just a "we have to be fair to every point of view/assertion" neutrality in the face of whatever happens, whatever is said, even obvious lies.
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Yes, absolutely. But be aware that just this suggestion was made months ago by a number of people here on Bluesky. The Dem leadership, however, takes no suggestions and takes no lead. It's been political malpractice of the first order.
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And the MSM ran after that ball for days and days, then got tired and moved on to other things.
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More amazing patience from Mr. Nichols. "Decorum & optics" is key to the success of protests, not some irrelevant whatever.
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There is a two-fold problem with the second article's emphasis: that Dems find a few positives in a sprawling bill that they also say is brimming with drek is a news nothingburger; to put this article in this prominent position doubles the problem.
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And the MSM continues to ignore it all. Such an incredible failure of responsibility to the requirements of journalism and to the country.
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Yes. Look at the history of the French Resistance during WW2, which included individuals from across the political spectrum. The middle was represented, sure. But also righty monarchists. People who hated De Gaulle. Socialists & Communists. Catholics & atheists. The worked together & they won.
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Of course they were, e.g., riots in Newark maybe 25 miles from the 'burbs where I lived. But this wasn't Dr. King's way, and it was Dr. King who triumphed. Thank you for your comment.
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Does Ukraine attack civilian targets? No. But Russia can't/won't. It commits war crimes, every day. Now it's several years' worth. How can this be acceptable to the civilized nations of the world?
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What's needed with these protests is MLK in Selma, not BLM in Seattle. Burning cars & throwing fireworks at police is violent & counter-productive. If the resistance had some leadership–uh, hello Dem Party?–then protests could be helpful. But there's no leadership, & I fear for the worst.
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It's posts like the one you responded to that make for a lousy site experience. FWIW, I'd prefer not to see them. I'm here for your rational take on things. But maybe I need to see more of the seething irrationality of the masses?
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Interesting. And a bad sign for Bluesky specifically and Dems generally. Thanks for the heads-up.
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I admire your persistence on this issue; getting through is tough. Geez: optics; strategy; eyes on the prize. MLK in Selma, not BLM in Seattle. The fact that the Dems have still not fashioned themselves into an opposition party 5 mos. in means that the resistance remains headless & dumb.
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What's with the khakis? Cosplay Sturmabteilung.
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I haven't experienced the "echo chamber" on Bluesky. And the many accounts I read every day -- all grouped in the center -- haven't complained about this phenomenon, either.
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Lazy journalism is easy. The MSM is rife with it.
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Thank you for the article. As I read it, I was thinking, "Do like MLK would do." Burning cars & throwing firecrackers don't make for a peaceful demonstration, & the Black Lives Matter protests of a few years ago are certainly not the model for how to proceed now.
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Self-laundering, sane-washing, & both-sidesing--the story of major American media in 2025. I can't tell is they think there's no such thing as Truth, or they know there's a Truth but they feel a need to hide from it, but either way, it's a betrayal of Journalism's basic, yes, truth.
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He's also right that the budget with its huge trillion-dollar deficits is a disaster for the economy and the country.
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Chat undermines education. I see it on tests and papers every semester now. A complete disaster for student learning. And for me as a teacher, I have to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to find and prove the cheating. Bring back blue books!
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Not only do these attacks on civilians constitute war crimes – remember, pretty much daily – they also evidence the weakness of Russia's military, which is largely unable to do to Ukraine what Ukraine is doing to it behind the lines.
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The Pogue/Barnett reasoning is ridiculous. I've long wondered, is "logic" like this, and bothsidesism generally, taught/covered in journalism programs, or is it learned later? My sense is that there's a kind of stupidification that happens to journalists sometime on the job.
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I didn't need the twenty-fifth validation of my decision to drop my WaPo subscription last July, but ok, I'll take it.
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There's still good stuff in WaPo every single day. I miss it. But so much bad has happened to the paper over the past several years; this news is just the latest in a long string of mistakes. As a matter of principle, I'm not going back until Bezos & his crew are gone.
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If Ukraine accepts such a deal, ok, but it stinks as it is. Russia should not be allowed to have one square inch of Ukrainian territory. Plus if Russia doesn't 1. provide reparations & 2. let some of its citizens stand for war crimes, then banish it from the concert of nations & continue sanctions.
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If only Dems had a leader/some leadership structure to take advantage of yet another misstep by the GOP. But even with basically daily calls for such since Trump's inauguration last January, there's been nuthin'. Amazing political malpractice.
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Or a staff that doesn't know what it's doing?
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Trump today: "Elon’s really not leaving. He’s going to be back and forth.” But here is another story in which the MSM does a stenographic report of what Musk and the adm. wants it to say.
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"Dem messaging" is pretty much an oxymoron.
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The Blond Goebbels lies with virtually every sentence. But she's wearing her cross, so it's ok, because she's doing it for God.
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The majors covered the tariff pronouncements as if they were the law of the land. More evidence – but do we need more? – of the lousy MSM coverage of Trump.
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Correct. It was just these page 1 above the fold/tv news "top of the hour" announcements parroting Trump's announcements, continuing the portrayal of the fictional "Donald Trump" of "The Apprentice."
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Her point amounts to the judicial branch not having any role in governance -- it's the full-on unitary theory of presidential power, with no checks whatsoever. Somebody ought to ask her about what the Constitution says on the matter. One way or another, she'd say something stupid.
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He has a full-time job. Whoop-di-do.
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One of the many non-stories for the MSM. On the other hand, there's never a bad time for another piece detailing that "Biden is old ..."
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There's "delivereds" and there's public relations. Both are important. But the two are essentially separate. Dems failed on PR. Indeed there's a long history of such failure, up to the present.
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There's been a sea change in the nature & quality of the media since then -- something the media itself wants desperately to ignore.
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I'm wondering about the "laziness" factor in the decline of journalism. Researching a story might now mean nothing more than some googling & maybe an unnamed source somewhere or other. It's all easy to do and get done by tomorrow's deadline. Plus Biden is a safe subject, Trump is not.
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Trump's decline remains a non-story for the MSM. Expect Tapper and Thompson to cover it in Original Sin 2, which they'll publish in 2029.
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But it's even money that John Roberts will say they're fine.
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Roberts isn't calling balls & strikes – an egregious lie from the Senate hearing; he's rewriting the rulebook and changing the nature of the "game."
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"Dem messaging" LOL. Dem leadership & DNC MIA for four long months now. Dems could be making political hay every day but instead the barn remains empty.
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Easier said than done. Students love courses via their computers. Administrators follow the student likes/dollars. Professors make do.
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If only. We're talking Zoom or asynchronous classes, which are now all the rage.
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It's not just that the SC has "fundamentally altered the structural balance of power among the branches of the federal government" by giving the president/Trump so much power; it has also augmented–at least in the short term–its own power as case by case by case it rewrites the Constitution.
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Teachers of the liberal arts have as their job getting students to think more clearly & to express their thoughts/to write better (the two go hand in hand). AI completely short-circuits that. As a university professor, I can say that Chat has been a pedagogical disaster for both me and my students.
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I would expect the Roberts Supreme Court to approve this exception.