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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 1d

As a news nerd I'm always fascinated by org charts, and to me even more telling than who Bari reports to is who will report to her. Troops, territory and budgets are the actual stuff that shapes news coverage. Controlling them is how you control the narrative a news org shapes.

David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 1d

A terminal case of main character syndrome.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, "Let's do the fucking news" is instant cringe legend

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

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 cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Survivorheads: Do we think Bari's gonna make Jeff Probst start saying "come on in, guys" again?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Joe Bernstein @bernstein.bsky.social · 2d

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, as far as I know she has never claimed to have been a columnist, I was responding to a WSJ story that called her a columnist.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Weiss is clearly very good at what she does, and has built something impressive. It is not my kind of opinion journalism, but I'm a let a thousand flowers bloom kind of person. That doesn't change the fact that she was never a New York Times columnist.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Staff columnists at the Times tend to be either long-tenured, highly decorated news reporters or editors, or they are recognized experts with a depth of knowledge in a specific field.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

If I Ran the Media™
Fewer stories on:
—How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging
—How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY]
—How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up

More of:
—Which points of resistance are actually working
—What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of
—Real-world tariff/immig effects
—ETC

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Everything in the world is so terrible, but we have a new dog and she is perfect. Introducing: Grizzle!

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 5d

Impossible to delink this from the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - the total militarization of law enforcement. Story opens with a Black Hawk helicopter deployed against Americans and only gets worse from there abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 7d

In fact it is ideal! This movie has been very much on mind...

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 8d

A question for you all for a piece I’m writing: what is your favorite portrayal of a journalist in popular culture, and why? And do you have a theory of why journalists are enduring protagonists in culture despite the abysmal trust rating they receive?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 8d

Klobuchar recently voted against offensive weapons for Israel, which was a huge break with her past. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

Opinion | She’s a Democratic Bellwether, and She’s Changing Her Position on Israel

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe not *best* but most likely and a significant improvement would be Amy Klobuchar.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8d

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 8d

History: "But the right did not learn cancel culture from the left; the modern right in America emerged as a censorious movement."
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13d

This also just seems like a statistical fluke? 2025 isn't even over yet. It's weird to publish an article about a "trend" that applies to 6 months out of the last three decades.

Right-wing terror attacks and plots exceed left-wing attacks and plots every single year since 1995

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 13d

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 13d

Say more! I don't love it either, but not sure I can articulate why?

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