Under Bari Weiss, the “C” in CBS News stands for Cringe. The Daily Beast’s article on this train wreck is…
Author: Alexandra Kitty
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J-Notes #1: How I Used AI to Audit CBS News’s Record
When Bari Weiss tells a room full of CBS News journalists that their work isn’t “producing a product enough people…
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The CBS News Cringefest Continues
Reading about CBS News’s “all hands” (but no brain) meeting was hilarious. That Bari Weiss thinks she can lure “the…
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Understanding ICE, Alex Pretti, and the Press
The editorial board at the Wall Street Journal had an extraordinary insight. Flawed, but shocking nonetheless. To understand the dynamics…
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Looking for Empires in all the Wrong Places, Part Two
Peasants make for lousy emperors. When you have to guess what power means, you often observe other people in charge,…
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Looking for Empires in all the Wrong Places, Part One
The problem with empire-building is that it comes down to parasites looking for established entities to subjugate. Everything is both…
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The Memes Will Continue: When Power Cosplays as the Powerless
The White House did not quietly share a misleading photograph; it publicly posted a taunt. A civil rights attorney is shown…
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The Ghost of WTTG: Why David Ellison’s CBS Takeover Will Fail
David Ellison thinks he can remake CBS News into a conservative outlet by installing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and purging…
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Missing the big picture of Mark Carney’s Davos Speech
I am not much into political theatre. Speeches, like press conferences, are canned events with little to no news value.…
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The Case for Journoturgy: Why Newsrooms Need AI as Dramaturg, Not Reporter
Journalism has editors. It has fact-checkers. It has copy desks and standards teams. What it doesn’t have, and desperately needs,…