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pressthink.org is a personal blog at pressthink.org about politics and culture. Since 2010, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers (2010)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers (2010)6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-06-21
- The plan is to have no plan3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-05
- A he said, she said at the Times2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-22
- The 100 Percent Solution: For Innovation in News2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-22
- This is what a news organization looks like when it is built on reader trust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-29
- The Toobin Principle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-08
- Why Political Coverage Is Broken (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-21
- Out of the press box and onto the field2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-18
- Send the interns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-23
What Hacker News says?
I think your first impulse was the right one ... ;-) In general, HN threads fail on pure politics topics. (Sorry, friends, for the scold, but it's true.) We don't have enough people who have expertise on politics and media. Add this to a fact-free piece like OP, and you get blech. The current administration and its cheerleaders have figured out how to turn trolling into a weapon, leaving the NYT befuddled as its mod…
Comment linking /2020/06/battleship-newspaper/
on “Resignation Letter”Submitted Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald as a story · 167 points
HN discussionI don't think that's the case at all. If there's any problem with the media, it has been overly deferential to power. That's always been the case. But whatever one thinks of Trump, it's pretty obvious that his campaign and post-election behavior is fundamentally different than presidents in living memory. He has rewritten the rules. The media just hasn't been able to adapt successfully to that, and still often write…
Comment linking /2020/04/a-current-list-of-my-top-problems-in-pressthink-april-2020/
on “Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more”Submitted Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism as a story · 111 points
HN discussionYou step away from neutral as soon as you introduce "version of quality". There will always be an introduction of bias and judgement calls that need to be made to get useful results, especially because bad actors on the web are part of the geography that aren't going away. Just like the press trying to force a neutral "view from nowhere" leads to confused and problematic journalism that can be exploited by bad actor…
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “Google rewrites many page titles”Submitted The 100 Percent Solution: For Innovation in News as a story · 20 points
HN discussionHere's a longer take on the concept of rejecting access journalism and getting the real story using other sources, including leaks: http://pressthink.org/2017/01/send-the-interns/
Comment linking /2017/01/send-the-interns/
on “Reuters' position on covering Trump”Submitted Journalists as ‘hit squad:’ Connecting the dots on Adelson and Review-Journal as a story · 19 points
HN discussionHere's a thorough critique from 2014, well before the current election or even the 2016 election, about an article in the NYT. It doesn't mention T---p. It's illustrative of the problem: https://pressthink.org/2014/08/when-quoting-both-sides-and-l... This style of journalism continued to prevail through all kinds of pronunciations from certain people that were all-out lies, prevarications, misinformation and various…
Comment linking /2014/08/when-quoting-both-sides-and-leaving-it-there-is-the-riskier-call/
on “I'm quitting the Washington Post”Submitted NPR downgrades and disables its ombudsman as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe Guardian is, by their own admission, a center-left paper. That's in Britain, which means they are somewhere between "radical" and "terrorist mooslim communisocialifascist" here in the US. The person who broke the stuff for them is very strongly political. [2] US corporate media, on the other hand, subscribes to the "view from nowhere" style [3], which they mistake for objectivity. It makes them easily manipulate…
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations”Submitted The Toobin Principle as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe "View from Nowhere." http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-question...
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “Revelations of N.S.A. Spying Cost U.S. Tech Companies”Submitted The plan is to have no plan as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is true, but I believe current American journalism has additional problems beyond the generic ones. For those interested, I strongly recommend Jay Rosen's blog: http://pressthink.org/ For example, his latest piece discusses areas where political coverage should not be neutral: http://pressthink.org/2016/10/campaign-press-not-neutral-tow... Saying, e.g., that they should be for deliberation and voter participati…
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’”Submitted The American press under Trump as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInterestingly while Bloomberg suspended this reporter; prepares to lay off 50 people [1]; and possibly shutter its investigations division [2], [3], there is "good" news too: 'NewCo', the Pierre Omidyar-Glenn Greenwald news venture just brought on board NYU's Jay Rosen. >> Out of the press box and onto the field - http://pressthink.org/2013/11/newco/ As Bill Bishop (one of the best 'China experts' on Twitter) recent…
Comment linking /2013/11/newco/
on “Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published”Submitted Send the interns as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou confuse inserting an opinion with having a viewpoint. The Economist's official editorials (which they call leaders) are separate. There they are quite free with their opinions. Elsewhere, though, they mainly mainly stick to having a viewpoint. Since their founding 1843 they've been firmly in favor of what we'd now call economic liberalism: their perspective is pro-human, pro-freedom, and numerically oriented. Wh…
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “Study shows the top 0.01% of Scandinavian households underpaid taxes by 30%”Submitted Bad Headline, Small Changes at The New York Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Intentional moderate" = High Broderism, or at least the popular understanding of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Broder http://pressthink.org/2010/06/clowns-to-the-left-of-me-joker... The above has this quote, which sums it up nicely: > Journalists associate the middle with truth, when there may be no reason to… Writing the news so that it lands somewhere near the “halfway point between the best and the…
Comment linking /2010/06/clowns-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right-on-the-actual-ideology-of-the-american-press/
on “The Two Kinds of Moderate”Submitted A he said, she said at the Times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd love to see it more. Ibram Kendi makes the point that in the US, there's not really a thing like "neutral" or "non-racist". One either supports the status quo, loudly or quietly. Or one is an anti-racist. Being "apolitical", which is what most companies pretend to be, is just a fancy way of saying, "Things are fine as they are." As press critic Jay Rosen suggests, we are all political, especially in times like t…
Comment linking /2020/05/you-cannot-keep-from-getting-swept-up-in-trumps-agenda-without-a-firm-grasp-on-your-own/
on “I Can't Breathe”Submitted Two paths forward for the American press as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJay Rosen's idea of "explainer" [1], implemented for instance by Vox's cardstacks, might help here. [1] http://pressthink.org/2014/01/keep-me-informed-parsing-the-l...
Comment linking /2014/01/keep-me-informed-parsing-the-logic-of-ezra-kleins-move-to-vox-media/
on “Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone”Submitted The big national news providers need threat modeling teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJay Rosen on Greenwald's style of reporting: >The professional stance that proscribes all political commitments and discourages journalists from having a clear view or taking a firm position on matters in dispute (you can call it objectivity, if you like, or viewlessness, which I like better) is one way of doing good work. A very different professional stance, where the conclusions that you come to by staring at the…
Comment linking /2013/06/politics-some-politics-none-two-ways-to-excel-in-political-journalism-neither-dominates/
on “On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than a reporter?”Submitted The plan is to have no plan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat Jay Rosen of the NYU journalism school has called "The view from nowhere." ( http://pressthink.org/2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-question... )
Comment linking /2010/11/the-view-from-nowhere-questions-and-answers/
on “WHO says processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes”Submitted Why don’t they just walk out? as a story · 2 points
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