Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
The homepage headline is not clear: It's not the aides who are being investigated for misconduct but the secretary. The aides are the whistleblowers. Sloppy editing.
Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 AM
The homepage headline is not clear: It's not the aides who are being investigated for misconduct but the secretary. The aides are the whistleblowers. Sloppy editing.
Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
Any reputable news organization should employ scare quotes in Jerome Powell Fed "investigation."
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Any reputable news organization should employ scare quotes in Jerome Powell Fed "investigation."
#BrokenPost catalogs how Trump's attacks on voting rights but positions it as merely "trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted...beyond typical political persuasion...challenging long-established democratic norms."
It's fascism.
It's fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
#BrokenPost catalogs how Trump's attacks on voting rights but positions it as merely "trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted...beyond typical political persuasion...challenging long-established democratic norms."
It's fascism.
It's fascism.
This is an endearing essay (gift link). But the presentation is telling: "As a journalist," she and The Times thought was suprahuman, but she turns out to be mortal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is an endearing essay (gift link). But the presentation is telling: "As a journalist," she and The Times thought was suprahuman, but she turns out to be mortal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...
Paper: The two-way effect of sycophancy and anger in interacting with ChatGPT.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
January 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Paper: The two-way effect of sycophancy and anger in interacting with ChatGPT.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
Paper from Minds and Machines: "Using AI for tasks that are fundamentally about communicating is replacing communication with something that is not communication...."
Losing Our Voice? Generative AI and the Degradation of Human Expression
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Losing Our Voice? Generative AI and the Degradation of Human Expression
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
January 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Paper from Minds and Machines: "Using AI for tasks that are fundamentally about communicating is replacing communication with something that is not communication...."
Losing Our Voice? Generative AI and the Degradation of Human Expression
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Losing Our Voice? Generative AI and the Degradation of Human Expression
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 11, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Hey @hiltonhotels.bsky.social, I just canceled my reservation at your hotel because you side with ICE, with murderers, with fascists. You might as well delete my account. I will not be staying at Hilton hotels.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Hey @hiltonhotels.bsky.social, I just canceled my reservation at your hotel because you side with ICE, with murderers, with fascists. You might as well delete my account. I will not be staying at Hilton hotels.
OK, then, this is a test: What do we call power unrestrained by law? Authoritarianism? Dictatorship? Fascism? The end of the rule of law and democracy? You fail the test #BrokenTimes.
January 8, 2026 at 11:41 PM
OK, then, this is a test: What do we call power unrestrained by law? Authoritarianism? Dictatorship? Fascism? The end of the rule of law and democracy? You fail the test #BrokenTimes.
Well, this is timely: The cover of issue No. 4 of Entertainment Weekly when I launched and edited it: March 9, 1990. Story by @markharris.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Well, this is timely: The cover of issue No. 4 of Entertainment Weekly when I launched and edited it: March 9, 1990. Story by @markharris.bsky.social
Times job posting: "If you've ever wanted to sit at the front door of history and try to make sense of it all, now is your chance."
No, journalism should stand at history's back door, calling on lessons of the past, not hubristically writing a future.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
No, journalism should stand at history's back door, calling on lessons of the past, not hubristically writing a future.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Times job posting: "If you've ever wanted to sit at the front door of history and try to make sense of it all, now is your chance."
No, journalism should stand at history's back door, calling on lessons of the past, not hubristically writing a future.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
No, journalism should stand at history's back door, calling on lessons of the past, not hubristically writing a future.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
Here is The Times Editorial Board two days after Kent State. Today, the day after Minneapolis, The Times editorial page is praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s diet.
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Here is The Times Editorial Board two days after Kent State. Today, the day after Minneapolis, The Times editorial page is praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s diet.
Times editorial after Kent State: "It is evident from the eyewitness account of this newspaper's correspondent (who saw and heard no sniper fire) that the National Guardsmen shot at the students without warning in an unconscionable act of military panic."
Today, The Times is silent.
Today, The Times is silent.
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Times editorial after Kent State: "It is evident from the eyewitness account of this newspaper's correspondent (who saw and heard no sniper fire) that the National Guardsmen shot at the students without warning in an unconscionable act of military panic."
Today, The Times is silent.
Today, The Times is silent.
This generation's Kent State.
January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This generation's Kent State.
And here the #BrokenTimes victim-blames all Minnesota.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
And here the #BrokenTimes victim-blames all Minnesota.
This morning, the #BrokenTimes resorts to its Trump-centric news judgment--because he gave them the interview Biden wouldn't. And...
January 8, 2026 at 12:01 PM
This morning, the #BrokenTimes resorts to its Trump-centric news judgment--because he gave them the interview Biden wouldn't. And...
It took the #BrokenTimes long enough to get its news judgment act together. Journalists thing "news judgment" is a magical talent of theirs. Not so much
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It took the #BrokenTimes long enough to get its news judgment act together. Journalists thing "news judgment" is a magical talent of theirs. Not so much
This is The Times' news judgment vs. The Guardian's. The Times' is Trump-centric, The Guardian's human-centered.
January 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
This is The Times' news judgment vs. The Guardian's. The Times' is Trump-centric, The Guardian's human-centered.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE: "Get the fuck out of our city."
January 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to ICE: "Get the fuck out of our city."
Scarborough called Trump -- again -- and this is what we learned from it: "He was very excited and proud" and he said "this time, we're going to keep the oil."
January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Scarborough called Trump -- again -- and this is what we learned from it: "He was very excited and proud" and he said "this time, we're going to keep the oil."
Chevron up 5%. American values.
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Chevron up 5%. American values.
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
The propaganda continues. CBS is Fox Jr.
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The propaganda continues. CBS is Fox Jr.