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I hope non-journalists can appreciate how embarrassing this is.

Jon Passantino@passantino.bsky.social

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

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non-journalist here. embarrassing? maybe for a journalist, but as an American taxpayer funding this horror it’s a lot more than fckn embarrassing - it’s journalistic malpractice full stop

Wait, since when does a story stop being news because the editor’s friends weren’t talking about it? If the reporting is wrong, challenge the evidence. But “nobody cares” is a pretty embarrassing excuse for keeping it off the air.

When “My pals don’t think it’s important” is a higher rationale than “Informing the public”, whoops. Sadly, it drags down trust in journalism overall too.

I was just at a hipster Sukkot and all the Israelis were talking about how it’s actually good that their PM let them get terror attacked to stay in office and out of jail.

oh no, this is standard issue American Corporate Brain, where some pricks are absolutely, categorically wrong but shield themselves by declaring "this is above your pay grade" or "he's two tiers above you so he's smarter/ knows more than you". Just more US culture trash to take out and burn

The only real investigative journalists left are the "1st amendment auditors" like Otto the Watchdog. Most everybody else is just a paid shill who should be roundly ignored.

Forget just a bad journalist; that "Raice" person is a myopic, self-important, arrogant, narrow-minded tribalistic fool, in addition to being a genocide-enabling propagandist.

How far down the list do you have to go to stop knowing that anything coming out of their mouth is a lie? Can we ever trust a republican or forever know they are the scorpions and we are the frogs

Fascists don't care whether what they do is embarrassing (or unethical, or illegal for that matter). They care about getting away with it. They literally define a person's worth by their power and ability to do that. And the thing they enjoy the most is toothless outrage from their opponents.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

I hope non-journalists can appreciate how embarrassing this is.