David Swartzlander
@awesomeuncle2354.bsky.social
Retired JProf; retired journalist; husband; father; grandfather; baseball fan; avid reader
It’s a crying shame that CBS, once the proud home of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, would hire non-journalist Bari Weiss to shill for the president by producing the propaganda pablum CBS masquerades as news.
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s a crying shame that CBS, once the proud home of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, would hire non-journalist Bari Weiss to shill for the president by producing the propaganda pablum CBS masquerades as news.
I love how Bari Weiss, a non-journalist, lectures journalists about their expertise, journalism. If Warner Bros. Is going to sell, I hope it sells to Netflix over Paramount, which has done backflips to kiss Trump’s ass. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I love how Bari Weiss, a non-journalist, lectures journalists about their expertise, journalism. If Warner Bros. Is going to sell, I hope it sells to Netflix over Paramount, which has done backflips to kiss Trump’s ass. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
The University of Nebraska has morphed from a football school to a volleyball AND basketball school. Volleyballers have been No. 1 all year. Basketball Huskers are 9-0 for the first time in more than a century and ranked No. 23 by AP! GBR!
AP men's college basketball Top 25 poll breakdown - ESPN
AP men's college basketball Top 25 poll breakdown - ESPN
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The University of Nebraska has morphed from a football school to a volleyball AND basketball school. Volleyballers have been No. 1 all year. Basketball Huskers are 9-0 for the first time in more than a century and ranked No. 23 by AP! GBR!
AP men's college basketball Top 25 poll breakdown - ESPN
AP men's college basketball Top 25 poll breakdown - ESPN
What’s illegal to the goose apparently isn’t to the gander. Trump’s own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud, records reveal - ProPublica
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What’s illegal to the goose apparently isn’t to the gander. Trump’s own mortgages match his description of mortgage fraud, records reveal - ProPublica
Good news for journalism. The NYTimes has a history of winning these cases. (See Pentagon Papers; Times v Sullivan) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights
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December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Good news for journalism. The NYTimes has a history of winning these cases. (See Pentagon Papers; Times v Sullivan) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
How to pass a psych class at the University of Oklahoma AND prompt an investigation of the prof: quote the Bible as THE primary source. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
College Instructor Put on Leave Over Zero Grade for Gender Essay
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December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
How to pass a psych class at the University of Oklahoma AND prompt an investigation of the prof: quote the Bible as THE primary source. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
WTF?! This is a blatant First Amendment violation, which should supersede any guidance from the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
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December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
WTF?! This is a blatant First Amendment violation, which should supersede any guidance from the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Watching the Northern Lights from our acreage in Nebraska. Amazing!
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Watching the Northern Lights from our acreage in Nebraska. Amazing!
Watching and listening to sports would be greatly enhanced if the following sports media types would be removed from all broadcasts:
Colin Cowherd
Pat McAfee
Dave Portnoy
Stephen A. Smith
You can try to prove me wrong but you will fail miserably.
Colin Cowherd
Pat McAfee
Dave Portnoy
Stephen A. Smith
You can try to prove me wrong but you will fail miserably.
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Watching and listening to sports would be greatly enhanced if the following sports media types would be removed from all broadcasts:
Colin Cowherd
Pat McAfee
Dave Portnoy
Stephen A. Smith
You can try to prove me wrong but you will fail miserably.
Colin Cowherd
Pat McAfee
Dave Portnoy
Stephen A. Smith
You can try to prove me wrong but you will fail miserably.
Let’s celebrate a victory for the good guys - you know, the press and the First Amendment.
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
apnews.com/article/kans...
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
apnews.com/article/kans...
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper says his rural county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over police raid on the paper in August 2023.
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Let’s celebrate a victory for the good guys - you know, the press and the First Amendment.
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
apnews.com/article/kans...
Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper
apnews.com/article/kans...
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Good for Andrew! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Epoch Times Reporter Resigns After Publication Signs Pentagon Rules
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October 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Good for Andrew! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
I thought Dana Holgorsen was an offensive guru. Huskers have 6 points all game. QB has been sacked numerous times. Hmmm. Of course, defense doesn’t look good either. A lousy performance from what is supposed to be the 25th-best team in the nation.
October 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I thought Dana Holgorsen was an offensive guru. Huskers have 6 points all game. QB has been sacked numerous times. Hmmm. Of course, defense doesn’t look good either. A lousy performance from what is supposed to be the 25th-best team in the nation.
Proud of the Pentagon reporters who walked out rather than sign onto Pete Hegseth’s ridiculously unconstitutional, anti-free press policies.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com/article/pent...
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com/article/pent...
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.
apnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Proud of the Pentagon reporters who walked out rather than sign onto Pete Hegseth’s ridiculously unconstitutional, anti-free press policies.
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com/article/pent...
Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
apnews.com/article/pent...
Reposted by David Swartzlander
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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October 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
ALL news outlets that cover the Pentagon should oppose these unconstitutional, anti-First Amendment policies. Prepare for a plethora of leaks from Pentagon workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...
Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions
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October 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ALL news outlets that cover the Pentagon should oppose these unconstitutional, anti-First Amendment policies. Prepare for a plethora of leaks from Pentagon workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...
The Apprentice is a thin-skinned Big Baby who became a Big Bully when an ignorant electorate voted for him. This is what America gets - the loss of free speech and a free press. Is freedom to assemble next? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates
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September 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Apprentice is a thin-skinned Big Baby who became a Big Bully when an ignorant electorate voted for him. This is what America gets - the loss of free speech and a free press. Is freedom to assemble next? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
Not only is this bullshit, it’s an unconstitutional attempt to conrol media. Prepare for a lawsuit, Pete. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access
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September 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not only is this bullshit, it’s an unconstitutional attempt to conrol media. Prepare for a lawsuit, Pete. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
As I told my students for years, the antidote to hate speech is not censorship. It’s more speech. It’s counteracting the hate speech, not censoring it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel and the Future of Free Speech in America
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September 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As I told my students for years, the antidote to hate speech is not censorship. It’s more speech. It’s counteracting the hate speech, not censoring it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
The judge threw out the suit because it was too lengthy and digressive, like his speeches. But I’m sure it could have been dismissed on its merit - or lack of merit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...
Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The New York Times
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September 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The judge threw out the suit because it was too lengthy and digressive, like his speeches. But I’m sure it could have been dismissed on its merit - or lack of merit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...
Surprise! The Trump administration may have violated the U.S. Constitution by pressuring ABC to muzzle Jimmy Kimmel. I thought the president took an oath to defend the Constitution , not violate it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line
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September 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Surprise! The Trump administration may have violated the U.S. Constitution by pressuring ABC to muzzle Jimmy Kimmel. I thought the president took an oath to defend the Constitution , not violate it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
Cowardice defined by ABC. ABC suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ “indefinitely” over Charlie Kirk comments - The Hollywood Reporter
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Cowardice defined by ABC. ABC suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ “indefinitely” over Charlie Kirk comments - The Hollywood Reporter
Reposted by David Swartzlander
Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.
“They Fear Our Lenses”: Gaza Photojournalists Speak Out
Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.
Self-censorship at the formerly great WaPo. So much for free expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Self-censorship at the formerly great WaPo. So much for free expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
At 93, Dan Rather still is reporting, holding the powerful accountable. He’s a national treasure. Steady. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Dan Rather Is Still Chasing the News
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September 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
At 93, Dan Rather still is reporting, holding the powerful accountable. He’s a national treasure. Steady. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...