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Pete Croatto

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Accidental sportswriter (NYT, Andscape, GQ, Poynter, The Athletic, etc.) and intentional author (From Hang Time to Prime Time). Pardon the typos. He/him. Tips or inquiries: [email protected].

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 9h

He might want to do that to endure watching this game.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18h

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree. Allow me to retort. www.aarparrow.com/family-fathe...

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

And her boyfriend, you know, for funsies!

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I will watch this. (Also, please read @greenwell.bsky.social’s excellent “Bad Company.”)

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

SCREAM, too. Wes Craven did not milk the clock:

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 2d

I bet the wave of eye rolls was heard from Fort Lee.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

It figgers.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

🎶Highway to the anal zone🎶

(I’ll show myself out)

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

Deal. When I’m back at my mom’s house in Jersey, I’ll mail it to you.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

The straight-to-DVD sequel for SNATCH looks terrible.

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3d

This is Blue Dragon, Captain Triumph, and Chris from the latest season of "Peacemaker"

Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is in a gray suit and red tie, Kelce has some weird fucking newsboy cap on and a weird bowling shirt or something, while Mahomes has a snazzy gingham vest and a pink tie.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

If anyone works at CBS News and would like to leak to me about whats unfolding over there, my Signal is ParkerMolloy.86

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

Read your work out out loud and you'll hear how awkward that phrase is.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

Here's Deford

Frank Deford quote: I hadn’t been on a newspaper since I was a copy boy at the Baltimore Evening Sun. So, I had to go out and get some real editors who knew what the hell they were doing. I didn’t know how to run a goddamn newspaper.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

By all accounts, the staff loved Deford but he was not an editor. Van McKenzie really did the unglamorous work.

It's all in the great French-Kahn oral history: grantland.com/features/the...

» The Greatest Paper That Ever Died

grantland.com

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

In regards to Weiss and CBS News, Russ raises an intriguing question.

Here's what we have so far:

@normcharlatan.bsky.social: Whitlock at THE UNDEFEATED

Me: Frank Deford at THE NATIONAL

Any other nominees?

Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · 3d

can't help but think the sports equivalent of this would have been if espn had simply bought 'the boston sports guy' in...whenever and named simmons the eic of espn

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

Also, Frank Deford running "The National."

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

That's it!

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

You're right. That'd be like if CBS News hired Benny Johnson on Ben Shapiro to run point.

Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 3d

But you're right. This whole "let's bring in a personality" to run a news organization is bonkers no matter how you slice it.