Chad Rhym
@chadrhym.bsky.social
University of Iowa sociology PhD Candidate studying journalistic objectivity. Morehouse alum. Manager of the Athenowa Pomodoros. Views are my own.
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Chad Rhym
@chadrhym.bsky.social
· May 19
“I think it’s a very nasty question”: Trumpian anti-Black racism and the limits of traditional journalistic standards
This essay analyses Donald Trump’s interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). We identify his responses to the Black women journalists at the NABJ panel as racist and sexist...
www.tandfonline.com
Fresh off the press with the brilliant @lauragarbes.bsky.social, we wrote about the Trump NABJ panel as part of the 2024 Presidential Election & The Politics of Race special issue, edited by Enid Logan. What an absolute honor! What an absolute rollercoaster! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Last year I began to raise alarms about to potential for the federal government to start arresting journalists for doing our jobs,knowing that the historic Black press had faced this.Today, Don Lemon is in fed custody after a bogus arrest for bearing witness.Resharing from March 2025: bit.ly/45F4LH2
January 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Last year I began to raise alarms about to potential for the federal government to start arresting journalists for doing our jobs,knowing that the historic Black press had faced this.Today, Don Lemon is in fed custody after a bogus arrest for bearing witness.Resharing from March 2025: bit.ly/45F4LH2
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My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
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UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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A portion of this touches on what I wrote about in a newsletter earlier this year. This is through the lens of the historic Black press: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A portion of this touches on what I wrote about in a newsletter earlier this year. This is through the lens of the historic Black press: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...
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These are terrifying times. Corporate media is caving utterly. Support non-profit media, public media, local media, and the last few old MSM companies with good owners.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
These are terrifying times. Corporate media is caving utterly. Support non-profit media, public media, local media, and the last few old MSM companies with good owners.
We tick at least two of those boxes and so if you value our reporting, you can give here secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
We tick at least two of those boxes and so if you value our reporting, you can give here secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
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I’m really sad to see the AJC end its print editions. Newsprint is so special. I engage with paper in a way I engage with the physical book. And there’s nothing like seeing your byline in print…
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
A new chapter for the AJC
I write today with important news about The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as we embark on a new chapter for this storied institution and the city we serve.
www.ajc.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I’m really sad to see the AJC end its print editions. Newsprint is so special. I engage with paper in a way I engage with the physical book. And there’s nothing like seeing your byline in print…
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...
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Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.
July 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.
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In my latest for Work and Occupations, I show how POC in public radio expand the stories available on the airwaves, due to their connections with and commitment to underrepresented communities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In my latest for Work and Occupations, I show how POC in public radio expand the stories available on the airwaves, due to their connections with and commitment to underrepresented communities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
No one's taking this "objectivity as strategic ritual" thing more seriously than Murdoch is right now. Logan Roy didn't even have this in him.
July 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
No one's taking this "objectivity as strategic ritual" thing more seriously than Murdoch is right now. Logan Roy didn't even have this in him.
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There are timely dissertations, and then there is @chadrhym.bsky.social’s in-process work on race and objectivity in the media.
(Also, he’s on the market).
(Also, he’s on the market).
When I lose the energy to finish my dissertation, it's #moments like these that will keep me going for an eternity and beyond. This is what it's all about, y'all. This is what we do it for.
July 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There are timely dissertations, and then there is @chadrhym.bsky.social’s in-process work on race and objectivity in the media.
(Also, he’s on the market).
(Also, he’s on the market).
When I lose the energy to finish my dissertation, it's #moments like these that will keep me going for an eternity and beyond. This is what it's all about, y'all. This is what we do it for.
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When I lose the energy to finish my dissertation, it's #moments like these that will keep me going for an eternity and beyond. This is what it's all about, y'all. This is what we do it for.
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The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right
And blowing its credibility in the process.
www.theverge.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
The objectivity-myth incarnate
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
July 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The objectivity-myth incarnate
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When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public
July 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.
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Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.
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I told everyone to stop fooling with this monkey’s-paw art of prediction thing!!!
and yet @chadrhym.bsky.social called the Tom Cotton op-ed one day early.
and yet @chadrhym.bsky.social called the Tom Cotton op-ed one day early.
what the hell
June 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I told everyone to stop fooling with this monkey’s-paw art of prediction thing!!!
and yet @chadrhym.bsky.social called the Tom Cotton op-ed one day early.
and yet @chadrhym.bsky.social called the Tom Cotton op-ed one day early.
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I’m so glad the bigwigs decided airing calls to have the army kill protesters was vital enough to kill NYT’s public editorial policies.
what the hell
June 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I’m so glad the bigwigs decided airing calls to have the army kill protesters was vital enough to kill NYT’s public editorial policies.
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The White House Communications Director reacts to the news that Terry Moran has been pushed out at ABC News.
“Talk shit, get hit.”
“Talk shit, get hit.”
June 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The White House Communications Director reacts to the news that Terry Moran has been pushed out at ABC News.
“Talk shit, get hit.”
“Talk shit, get hit.”
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The fact that Terry Moran was at the end of a contract cycle — I'm told his deal was set to expire on Friday — made it easier for ABC to take swift action. Full story here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...
ABC News drops Terry Moran over late-night post attacking Trump and Stephen Miller | CNN Business
The network is parting ways with its veteran correspondent two days after he posted a missive on X calling the president and his deputy chief of staff “world-class haters.”
www.cnn.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The fact that Terry Moran was at the end of a contract cycle — I'm told his deal was set to expire on Friday — made it easier for ABC to take swift action. Full story here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...
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Okay, given the source ( @tomscocca.bsky.social ) I assumed this had to be a parody, but the WSJ did indeed just publish an op-ed by Tom Cotton called "Send In the Troops, for Real"
"The solution now is the same as I said then: an overwhelming show of force to end the riots."
www.wsj.com/opinion/send...
www.wsj.com/opinion/send...
Opinion | Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops, for Real
When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force.
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Okay, given the source ( @tomscocca.bsky.social ) I assumed this had to be a parody, but the WSJ did indeed just publish an op-ed by Tom Cotton called "Send In the Troops, for Real"
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I feel like maybe the framing of Trump sending the military to put down protests as a "feud" between Trump and Newsom is a little weird?
June 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I feel like maybe the framing of Trump sending the military to put down protests as a "feud" between Trump and Newsom is a little weird?