Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lizzie O'Leary

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

14K followers 1.7K following 3.7K posts

I host What Next TBD at Slate. A show about tech, power and the future. Who wants night bacon? https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd [email protected] Signal: Lizzieohreally.31

slate.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Feb 28

Mom, thank you ??

A screenshot of the podcast What Next TBD from slate, sent to the host by her own mother.

13 11 170

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 15h

In this house we believe Mr. Nuggy is real

A hand holding Dory Fantasmagory, Center of the Universe.

1 12

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 17h

I forgot the term “coffee table.”

I kept saying “the thing in the living room with the books on it.”

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 17h

[six hours of me wondering why I came into a room]

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 17h

Perimenopause is great. I just put carrots in the cabinet.

4 28

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 23h

Please don’t harass reporters who have nothing to do with this.

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I’m not implying intent. I just think this is a very difficult time and we (journos) need to be super careful with our framing choices.

2 3 46

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

I am not insinuating CNN was trying to trick people. I am a journalist with 25 years of experience (including at CNN) saying this was poorly done. Standards matter. Doing our jobs well in very difficult times means being exacting in what we put out. I think it showed poor news judgment.

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

The post definitely. I could make an argument for using it on the story. The “what is the insurrection act” hed is ok with it. One that implies Portland/Chicago would not be ok.

It’s a tough editorial call imo. Because this is such a charged issue.

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Most people will not read the piece or look at the date on the photo. I’ve been a journo for 25 years, and we know how readers will interact with this. This is poorly done.

1 2

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Important* lol. Damn phone.

1 8

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Walsh Portland native.

1 2

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Entirely on*

1 1 26

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

I know and respect Zach and the piece is good. It’s just a bad photo choice based on entirely how we know readers interact with stories and photos.

5 5 110

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

I read the piece and I like and respect Zach. I still think it’s a bad combo.

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

I have read the article and I know and respect Zach. But when a post circulates like this, without the impotent context, and you place it as a header image, you are strongly risking the reader drawing the wrong conclusion

2 5 60

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

73 740 3.4K

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

And from LA

Reposted by Lizzie O'Leary

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

45 270 640

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Jingle bell sing, in the jingle bell dock.

3 49

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock

3 40

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao nah

Reposted by Lizzie O'Leary

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

200 1K 5.7K

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 1d

Relevant to my, uh, interests