johnmcquaid.bsky.social
Journalist, author (Tasty, on science of flavor; Path of Destruction, on Katrina); currently PhD candidate at UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism studying media coverage/public debates over AI risk.
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Raises the issue of when Rupert passes on and what happens then. Will liberal kids see it as their historical moment to use their power to end the madness, etc. (Not getting my hopes up but within the realm of possibility)
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www.tvinsider.com/1185399/jeop...
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Link?
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Maybe but the broader problem is almost all of the good restaurants are closing or getting rid of their best dishes and should food lovers just hasten that process?
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There was no such reckoning after the Iraq war; the quasi-reckoning after Trump's 2016 win was about how news orgs had failed to understand Trump voters, and got us one zillion rust belt diner stories and counting
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In other words ordinary news language just doesn't capture the layered perversity of 95% of what the Trump administration is doing right now.
Legacy news orgs have been using that language for 100 years and it's a prison.
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This approach is a big part of what drives the normalizing media framing of many Trump actions. It's rooted not so much in explicit ideas or attitudes but more fundamentally in news coverage vocabulary and language (particularly stilted / outdated in the case of the NYT)
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Also have not read the book but sounds like Biden was "on" sometimes and capable (around midday) and "off" an increasing amount of the time, so they maybe thought or gambled that he would rise to the occasion at the debate and lost...
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Trying to understand the mindset that draws one to so confidently lecture people on BlueSky using obviously lazy/half-baked thinking
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"corruption" is the new "collusion"
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This public communication problem is mirrored in the Trump 2 performances before various courts, which are all shambolic/obfuscatory – because like the policy process, there is no Trump 2 jurisprudence process either
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The breakdown of "ordinary U.S. policy" where there is some basic rationale behind why the govt. does things, which can be (and usually is) explained by somebody – is itself a huge story. Trump 2 almost never explains why it's doing things, and when it does it's vicious propaganda and/or nonsense
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In the past journalists reported o sources involved in some systematic policy process (with various bureaucratic and political dimensions/actors). But now there is no policy process, no system, things are happening seemingly at random b/c some group sees an opportunity and takes it
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One reason (Miller aside): no one is in charge. WH actions are the result of shifting, unstable alliances of radical factions, w/Trump's vague approval but not much more—as the Josh Marshall piece makes clear, positing an unholy convergence of cultural expertise-haters, tech bros, and anti-vaxxers
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This WH opacity seems like a new problem for journalism. In past administrations (inc. Trump 1) reporting provided a window on who was driving key policies, why, and infighting over them. A lot of great reporting on Trump 2 – yet a surprising # of WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS?? questions go unanswered
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The OD FB post quotes her correctly but those comments on Trump are OD's and are not in quotation marks
www.facebook.com/share/1DYj79...
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Jackson did not say this. If a Supreme Court Justice did attack the president directly by name that would be big news. No source cited, but this is not a KBJ quote, it's text from an Occupy Democrats social media post commenting on her speech