What is journalism?

[wicked]

I'm sure substack, along with SB nation and other blogs, have no money in the budget for copy editors

Speaking of SB Nation...

SB Nation pulls Daniel Holtzclaw longform piece

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Speaking of SB Nation...

SB Nation pulls Daniel Holtzclaw longform piece

Man, I just spent a couple hours re-reading that whole thread. #TimeforkingManagementSkills That might be my favorite thread of all-time. As Double Down said, it was a reminder of the best days of this place...everyone debating a journalism topic at a super deep inside baseball kind of way without any sort of rancor. Well, except for SB Nation and those responsible for that dreadful dreck. Which, it should be noted, proves yet again cancel culture rarely exists. The writer is still writing (as he should, it wasn't his fault he was ashigned a story he wasn't ready or qualified to write) and the editor is not only still editing but presenting himself as a super duper ally/advocate of women and women in sports because "Young Woman and the Sea" somehow got made into a movie. What a forking racket.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I'm sure substack, along with SB nation and other blogs, have no money in the budget for copy editors

Substack is a platform for writers. It doesn't make and I don't think it has ever made any claim to editorial control over what writers who choose to use the platform publish. It's more like Twitter while SB Nation is closer to a newspaper.

 

[Azrael]

Bad faith and bad practice.



also

also also



Is It Possible to Be Both Moderate and Anti-Woke?

 

[Alma]

I'd argue again that story is more about The New Yorker policing the "heterodoxy" (good God) beat than anything else; Fair is a tiny org by almost all standards, and orgs like it almost by their nature burn through wads of donor money. These are well-educated intellectuals in a capitalist country, after all. They love spending money.

Weiss and Rufo rise in this world, of course, because they've been empowered through perceived heterodoxy (good God) and they've been empowered to that because actual sharp, objective journalists get smothered at East Coast media robot factories.

 

[goalmouth]

That Holtzclaw thread was a good read, and a bonus with the links within. Reminder of what this place used to be. Like an air conditioner in a Bedouin tent; it feels good.

 

[Azrael]

I'd argue again that story is more about The New Yorker policing the "heterodoxy" (good God) beat than anything else; Fair is a tiny org by almost all standards, and orgs like it almost by their nature burn through wads of donor money. These are well-educated intellectuals in a capitalist country, after all. They love spending money.

Weiss and Rufo rise in this world, of course, because they've been empowered through perceived heterodoxy (good God) and they've been empowered to that because actual sharp, objective journalists get smothered at East Coast media robot factories.

I'm happy to stop thinking of Weiss and Rufo as journalists.

It was a bad fit for both.

 

[Alma]

I'm happy to stop thinking of Weiss and Rufo as journalists.

It was a bad fit for both.

They're way over-amplified. So is, in sports, Clay Travis.

 

[Azrael]

Taibbi, Weiss, Shellenberger, Greenwald . . .

All profiting handsomely from the sort of post-substack, unfactchecked, single-source junk journalism they pretend to decry.

Cool.

coolcoolcool

 

[The Big Ragu]

coolcoolcool

They cut their police department funding in 2020 and have had police staffing shortages. That data, which is produced by politicians, might be really misleading if it's more a matter of crime being underreported and/or not policed, than it is crime actually having decreased.

That has nothing to do with her tweet. I know little about Austin. But I also know to never trust crime statistics on their face. I'm not saying to believe the union rep either automatically, and they are in a contentious contract negotiation -- I'd rather some empirical evidence of what reality is -- but still. ...





'We are at our breaking point' | Austin Police ashociation highlights staffing issues at APD

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

They cut their police department funding in 2020 and have had police staffing shortages. That data, which is produced by politicians, might be really misleading if it's more a matter of crime being underreported and/or not policed, than it is crime actually having decreased.

That has nothing to do with her tweet. I know little about Austin. But I also know to never trust crime statistics on their face. I'm not saying to believe the union rep either automatically, and they are in a contentious contract negotiation -- I'd rather some empirical evidence of what reality is -- but still. ...





'We are at our breaking point' | Austin Police ashociation highlights staffing issues at APD

That lasted a year. Police budget higher than ever, just like each of the last couple years:

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/p...budget is,increase for all civilian employees.

 

[Azrael]

Bari Weiss: Just another libertarian asking questions!™