kristoncapps.bsky.social
Housing, design and urbanism for @CityLab. Chili purist. Texan.
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Imagine if they made a TRON sequel, today, using the same practical effects they did for the original. It would look mind-breakingly innovative and it would cost $4 billion
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The storylines dominating the NYT home page right now are Israel, Iran, Trump and weekend features. I think all of those are important, but moreover, all of those are definitely generating new breaking news. Protests really aren't.
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Let's not compare 9/11 and these protests, for obvious reasons.
I'm trying to describe the modules that make up the home page: breaking news, Trump admin, weekend features etc.
I suspect there wasn't a box for protest stories — and maybe there should have been — because the news is over.
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I think that's a totally reasonable request
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I'm just trying to share how home pages work and why the many stories they ran yesterday aren't showing up today. I think that the belief that the NYT is working to suppress the protest stories they published is mistaken, and silly
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You don't have to comment in my replies
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Every major newspaper in the country gave the protests A1, above-the-fold, front-page coverage. The only one I found that didn't was the Minneapolis Star-Tribune which devoted its entire front page to the assassination and shootings.
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They ran a live blog during the protests with multiple bylines, assigned writers and photographers in cities across the country to cover the protests and posted multiple stories about them.
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The fact is that there's a decline in value for readers in seeing stories about a live event that ended yesterday. That's not a judgment about the value of the protests, it's a basic reflection of the passage of time. Just like how people don't post pictures of fireworks on the Fifth of July
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There were certainly preview stories but I'm referring to features: long-read profiles or stories for the Sunday sections
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I don't know. I do think the protests were massive and important so I think we will see a lot of opinion pieces, just not necessarily the very next day
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Bluesky wants home page editors to pin a story about the protests at the top of the news feed to reflect the importance of the protests. That's fine,
it just isn't how home pages work mechanically. All these modules reflect the latest breaking updates or weekend features. bsky.app/profile/char...
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This is 100% true about the home page. It does not reflect the collective editorial judgment of the NYT. It's made of modules that are mostly automated. bsky.app/profile/jasp...
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The news tab on the mobile app includes weekend features and breaking news. There weren't any pre-written features about the protests and the breaking news is all about Israel, Iran and Trump. The NYT isn't trying to deceive you
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The news tab on the mobile app includes weekend features and breaking news. There weren't any pre-written features about the protests and the breaking news is all about Israel, Iran and Trump. The NYT isn't trying to deceive you bsky.app/profile/joem...
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You mean stories about the organizing that led to protests that already ended? No, that is just not as compelling as stories about war, government, assassinations and other stories leading today.
What you want is for coverage to lead to an outcome but *that* is not up to media.
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Protest stories are being bumped for articles about Israel's war with Iran and the shootings in Minnesota. What you're saying is that new "day two" stories about the protests should be leading the page instead of war or political violence. But those stories matter too
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Media are going to continue reporting on protests when they happen. The Times devoted multiple reporters, editors, photographers and other staff to covering the protests. You are mischaracterizing their reporting for clout on social media
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Articles on protests are the A1 above the fold stories for both the NYT and Boston Globe today.
Yesterday's news will never lead the home page for long — the world is a dynamic place! — but all these outlets poured resources into coverage.
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You are also wrong that the NYT only published one story on the protests.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Not even counting op-eds
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The one exception is the Minnesota Star-Tribune which gave its entire front page over to coverage of the shootings. Otherwise the protests dominated
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The implication that the media is culpable in the Minnesota assassination yesterday is gross and wrong. Every front page for every paper in the country is dominated by protest coverage today bsky.app/profile/nath...
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My understanding of the recipes is that they had long referred to coarse salt as simply salt, so after the 1920s they needed a term to differentiate from table salt which is so much finer. Since a tablespoon of table salt would deliver a lot more salt than a tablespoon of kosher salt.
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Every household in the US started using iodized table salt in the 1920s to combat a sharp increase in hyperthyroidism. Europe didn't share this problem and in fact research at the time even noted how American soldiers who served in WWI didn't get goiters
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brownwood is where I was born : (
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!!!!! Congrats! I can't wait for this one
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In this case I think NBC is just reporting that Padilla gave an interview in which he disputed the White House version of events. The peg for the story is the new interview with MSNBC
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You can't wait lol. You do the best you can in real time and you do better when there's a chance to take a breath. Like with these edits: bsky.app/profile/nytd...
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Oh give me a break. That one line was written minutes after the altercation as people were trying to figure out what happened. It wasn't immediately clear how violent it was outside the room. It's not like they're still using that phrase
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If only the problem were that investors were too eager to invest in new housing construction. Just too many new buildings in America
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And I'm saying "fuck CBS" is an awfully big reaction and one you likely wouldn't be feeling if you read even the first sentence of the story