Claire Connelly
@claireconnelly.bsky.social
Journalist / researcher / do-er of things. Twitter rescue in search of a new home. Wash your hands.
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1/ As someone who got a (imho cynically timed) letter of apology from Stephen Glass but was disinclined to think he should be admitted to bar…the reason I felt so strongly was that he actively deceived fact-checkers. An FCer for story I edited at Harper’s. And many FCers at TNR including…Ryan Lizza.
I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
1/ As someone who got a (imho cynically timed) letter of apology from Stephen Glass but was disinclined to think he should be admitted to bar…the reason I felt so strongly was that he actively deceived fact-checkers. An FCer for story I edited at Harper’s. And many FCers at TNR including…Ryan Lizza.
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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This does seem really quite bad
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This does seem really quite bad
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See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Forget AI robot housekeepers, I just want a little device whose sole purpose is to keep my sheets tucked in tightly while I sleep.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Forget AI robot housekeepers, I just want a little device whose sole purpose is to keep my sheets tucked in tightly while I sleep.
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So strategic
Strategic cuts to the CSIRO include 'environment' and 'health and biosecurity' 🤓
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
So strategic
This rules
“We’re not here for revenge. We’re not here to destroy the Post-Gazette. We are here to rebuild it,” said Goldstein to management. “You get to decide on your role in that. We’ve already decided on ours.”
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a court upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision for the union.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This rules
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
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Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Look what just arrived in the mail 👇.
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Look what just arrived in the mail 👇.
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
Not technically Record of the Day, coz I haven’t played it yet. (Streaming on repeat doesn’t count). But tomorrow morning, it is on!
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“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
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It’s all just a little bit of history repeating
Who's shocked that career-racist Pauline Hanson has, in a desperate please for attention, has donned a burqa again?
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#auspol
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#auspol
Hanson suspended from Senate for wearing a burqa in the chamber
Labor and Coalition senators united to condemn the One Nation leader’s stunt and vote to have her removed.
www.theage.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating
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The AFR is having another go at the Vic budget (it's a fav target of a few media outlets/journos, who seem unable to cope even though Dan is no longer in power). David Richardson points out a few errors in their coverage #PointLive
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November 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The AFR is having another go at the Vic budget (it's a fav target of a few media outlets/journos, who seem unable to cope even though Dan is no longer in power). David Richardson points out a few errors in their coverage #PointLive
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live.thepoint.com.au/2025/11/the-...
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it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
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How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.
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"Albanese Government set to use social media ban as cover to water down gambling reforms yet again" @jack-thrower.bsky.social #ThePoint
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Albanese Government set to use social media ban as cover to water down gambling reforms yet again
If Albanese is serious about ‘progressive patriotism’ he could start by prioritising the livelihoods of Australians over the profits of gambling companies.
thepoint.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"Albanese Government set to use social media ban as cover to water down gambling reforms yet again" @jack-thrower.bsky.social #ThePoint
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What tf are Labor doing
New: 100+ legal experts, welfare groups & academics demand the Minister bin an amendment, allowing police to cancel welfare payments for people who have not been found guilty of any crime
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
@tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social is trying to ram this amendment through today
Read more: archive.is/UHu9J
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What tf are Labor doing
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Comedy is legal again
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Comedy is legal again
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Idiots!
I could have done it for $196 million
I could have done it for $196 million
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Idiots!
I could have done it for $196 million
I could have done it for $196 million
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‘And maybe she’s right. Maybe in a media landscape where institutional authority has collapsed, where nobody trusts anything anyway, where personal brand is the only thing that survives platform collapse and industry implosion, Nuzzi is simply ahead of the curve.’
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
‘And maybe she’s right. Maybe in a media landscape where institutional authority has collapsed, where nobody trusts anything anyway, where personal brand is the only thing that survives platform collapse and industry implosion, Nuzzi is simply ahead of the curve.’
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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if you want to read the Lizza abomination it’s here
Okay. I’m a sicko so I had to read the new Ryan Lizza.
Not as bad as the part you read for free but, if you’ve yet to do that, I take zero responsibility for your urge to pour bleach directly into your eyeballs.
No paywall, courtesy of marisakabas.bsky.social.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Not as bad as the part you read for free but, if you’ve yet to do that, I take zero responsibility for your urge to pour bleach directly into your eyeballs.
No paywall, courtesy of marisakabas.bsky.social.
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ALL RIGHT YOU FREAKS, HERE IT IS
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November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
if you want to read the Lizza abomination it’s here
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Sorry to be obnoxious about this but all the criticisms of Grok's blatant pro-Musk tuning ring just absurdly hollow if no one is actually willing to give up directly contributing to Elon Musk's website and in doing so, creating the conditions that make millions of people use the fucking chatbot
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Sorry to be obnoxious about this but all the criticisms of Grok's blatant pro-Musk tuning ring just absurdly hollow if no one is actually willing to give up directly contributing to Elon Musk's website and in doing so, creating the conditions that make millions of people use the fucking chatbot