Jay Rosen

A newspaper wrecked on purpose.

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

As a professor of it, I once had to describe — in a single sentence — where authority originates in journalism. Goes like this: "I'm there, you're not, let me tell you about it." In times of war it applies most www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7e3... I elaborated here: pressthink.org/2012/03/im-t... 1/2

"Six Days of War, 10 Rationales." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... This is useful. (But it should have included a short list for easy access."

Entertainment is winning. Postman was right.

It was always a political apointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS, except ideologically. But that's not a newsroom virtue, it's normally treated as a vice. Thus the job she was appointed to requires conflict with the newsroom, via accusations of bias.

Oliver Darcy comments on new mogul man David Ellison. "His well-rehearsed talking points are, really, meaningless platitudes. Every news organization wants to be in the 'trust business.' Every news organization wants to be in the 'truth business.'" There are reasons why the trust is gone.

"She doesn't give a shit about the objectivity debate, nor do the Ellisons." That's media reporter Dylan Byers at his newsletter. The takeaway is this: It was always a political apointment. It had to be. Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS, except ideologically.

This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...

CNN, CBS and the ideological creep of both newsrooms is something I am following closely, in the belief that their Orbanization may already be underway. If my language is more cautious than yours, I can live with the criticism that follows. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

This morning @status.news produces a long list of his attacks on press freedom before asking: "Should the WHCA treat Trump as just another president participating in a century-old Washington tradition—or as someone who blatantly attacks First Amendment freedoms at every turn?" Read to remember...

Meanwhile, CNN rages at a journalism problem it created. Goes by the name of Jennings.,@status.news reports. www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...