"My single greatest desire – the raison d'être for the work I’ve done here on Press Watch for the last four and a half years – has been for the news industry to recognize that it desperately needs a reset. Specifically: that it has failed to properly adjust to radical and asymmetric polarization of our political and media environment."
"The buy now pay later company has also cut external marketing agency expenses by 25% and "removed the need for stock imagery" by instead using AI image generators like Midjourney, OpenAI's DALL-E, and Adobe's Firefly, Siemiatkowski added.""
"Other commenters remarked that the AI-generated images looked bad in their opinion, with one saying they "looked like shit.""
Corporate #media works for the rich and powerful. Stop expecting them to care about the rest of us. They do not care. As long as you remember this, every story they write makes more sense.
Looks like my old workplace is turning into another media shitshow. Editor Sally Buzzbee was shit-canned on a Sunday night and a WSJ dude who's pals with the reich-wing publisher is now in charge.
A friend of mine who was a science editor at the Post recently left after just 18 months. Abandon ship...
The Epoch Times is under investigation for money laundering, but the site's role in spreading anti-trans misinformation has gone unmentioned in mainstream coverage of the case.
An Epoch Times link that showed up in a story for the Atlantic is a particularly clear example of the laundering process on trans stories that goes fringe right -> far right -> mainstream.
“If you are concerned and you want a justice that’s going to stand for the working men and women in this country—it’s not going to be Judge Alito. If you are concerned about women’s privacy rights, about the opportunity for women to gain fair employment in America—it’s not Judge Alito...if you are looking for someone that is going to be a friend of the disabled—it’s not going to be Judge Alito.”
🆕 blog! “Forget Subtext - People Don't Even Get Surtext”
Once in a while, you'll see some blowhard railing about the modern world. I recently saw someone decrying the fact that Star Trek had "gone woke". This Star Trek? OK, you can argue about whether Kirk and Uhura were forced to kiss in that episode. But how does anyone look at Star Trek - with […]
New executive editor (breaking news) is ex-WSJ and will run the paper thru November. His replacement is from The Telegraph.
New publisher (late 2023) is ex-WSJ (Rupert Murdoch/FOX) and UK Telegraph (which has endorsed the Conservative Party in every UK general election since 1945).
This is how Bezos joins Wall Street billionaires who are endorsing Trump.
It’s #NewstodonFriday — such a shame it’s been a slow news week! Just to refresh your memories, this is a day to feature work from newsrooms with an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the (long!) thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you’re a journo or newsroom that we don’t know about or if there’s a newsroom you’d love to put on our radar, please let us know in the comments below.