h.b. flyte

Tag: journalism

  • Messaging to the middle loses every time

    Democrats Lost the Propaganda WarRyan Cooper | The American Prospect “Lord knows there are plenty of unemployed journalists willing to work. Sample subscriptions could be handed out en masse, and revenue bolstered by directing liberal advertisements their way. A dozen such papers could be run for half a decade with maybe a tenth of what liberals spent on 2024…

  • Who gets to be a teenager?

    An open letter to NPR: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-killing-ten-black-workers-and-shoppers-in-buffalo Why purposefully use “teenager” in this headline to describe the adult male pleading guilty? His attack was racially motivated and since we have a long history of “aging up “ Black people in our media to make them seem more threatening, this is a bad editorial choice. “Man pleads…

  • Is the NYTimes relevant to anyone but other journalists?

    https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2022/11/democrats-hold-off-red-wave-and-new.html I use “other” loosely, but pointing back to the NYTimes and not actual journalists.