Ryan Thomas
@ryanjthomas.bsky.social
🏴 Welsh | Assoc. Prof. & Director of Graduate Studies, Murrow College of Communication @ Washington State University | Journalism studies, ethics, sociology of news etc | Would like to be on a beach, but probably on a committee
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absolute genius maneuver from bari weiss spiking this story now an exponentially higher amount of people will care about this and watch it anyways
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
absolute genius maneuver from bari weiss spiking this story now an exponentially higher amount of people will care about this and watch it anyways
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Then you should resign, you’re boring them to death
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Then you should resign, you’re boring them to death
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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Bari Weiss is Jimmy Fallon in glasses
the thing about commentators who self-brand as fearless truth-tellers is that their ideals of "free debate" always take the dullest, most predictable tacks possible www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Bari Weiss is Jimmy Fallon in glasses
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SNL's Lazy Sunday is now closer in time to the Challenger explosion than to the present day
20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
SNL's Lazy Sunday is now closer in time to the Challenger explosion than to the present day
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@pullman.wsu.edu got hit this morning by a severe wind storm. Facilities Services crews have been working hard to clean up campus! 📸: Dean Hare, #WSU Photo Services 🐾 #GoCougs
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
@pullman.wsu.edu got hit this morning by a severe wind storm. Facilities Services crews have been working hard to clean up campus! 📸: Dean Hare, #WSU Photo Services 🐾 #GoCougs
This man has never encountered a tech corp whose priorities he didn’t think journalism should immediately internalize
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social: “Journalists must address their civic, professional, even moral obligation to provide news, reporting, and information via AI.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/apis...
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This man has never encountered a tech corp whose priorities he didn’t think journalism should immediately internalize
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This is absolutely fucking deranged
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is absolutely fucking deranged
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
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Full paper: (OA), published in special issue "Reimagining Visual Journalism Theory and Practice in the Digital Age" @tjthomson.bsky.social & @ryanjthomas.bsky.social @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts
The rapid advancement of generative AI technology has transformed the creation and dissemination of visual content in journalism, raising critical questions about its impact on news production, cre...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Full paper: (OA), published in special issue "Reimagining Visual Journalism Theory and Practice in the Digital Age" @tjthomson.bsky.social & @ryanjthomas.bsky.social @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???
June 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???
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The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.
May 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.
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if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn
Final passage by one vote, though likely the present and 2 NV were all available to them if they had been needed. It's with the Senate now
May 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn
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the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak
May 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak
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the results Chotiner gets (like Mehdi Hasan) from simply a) doing his homework and b) asking follow-up questions rather than accepting deflections are remarkable - but also a testament to how much U.S. interviewers normally defer to power
If Chotiner asks for an interview remember the two rules:
- Ask if you are being detained. If not, leave.
- Say you want to speak to your lawyer and nothing else.
- Ask if you are being detained. If not, leave.
- Say you want to speak to your lawyer and nothing else.
April 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the results Chotiner gets (like Mehdi Hasan) from simply a) doing his homework and b) asking follow-up questions rather than accepting deflections are remarkable - but also a testament to how much U.S. interviewers normally defer to power
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Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Thomas, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, on his recent publication in Poynter! @ryanjthomas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
April 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Thomas, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, on his recent publication in Poynter! @ryanjthomas.bsky.social
Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...
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Congrats to our own Jennifer Henrichsen, a member of @carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This esteemed group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization & seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion & fortify our democracy. www.carnegie.org/news/article...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Awards Fellowships to 26 Scholars Researching Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York
The philanthropic foundation’s three-year, $18 million initiative supports interdisciplinary research into the causes of polarization and ways to mitigate it
www.carnegie.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congrats to our own Jennifer Henrichsen, a member of @carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This esteemed group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization & seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion & fortify our democracy. www.carnegie.org/news/article...
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Today is the big day - #CougsGive is finally here! 🎉 Can't wait to see the new heights the #WSU community will reach today. Visit cougsgive.wsu.edu to make your donations, and remember, no matter how big or small, your contribution makes a difference! ❤️
#CougsGive - April 16, 2025
Washington State University celebrates its 10th annual #CougsGive day of giving on April 16, 2025.
cougsgive.wsu.edu
April 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today is the big day - #CougsGive is finally here! 🎉 Can't wait to see the new heights the #WSU community will reach today. Visit cougsgive.wsu.edu to make your donations, and remember, no matter how big or small, your contribution makes a difference! ❤️
An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!
📢 Exciting news! Jennifer Henrichsen is WSU's first Andrew Carnegie Fellow! 🎉
She'll receive $200,000 to study how journalists can reduce political polarization and boost civic engagement.
Read more: murrow.wsu.edu/news/2025/04...
#MurrowCollege #CarnegieFellows
She'll receive $200,000 to study how journalists can reduce political polarization and boost civic engagement.
Read more: murrow.wsu.edu/news/2025/04...
#MurrowCollege #CarnegieFellows
Murrow professor named WSU’s first Carnegie Fellow
Jennifer Henrichsen is among 26 fellows receiving $200,000 to support research that enhances understanding of political polarization in the United States.
murrow.wsu.edu
April 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!