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Joshua Benton

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2 years

"Deutsche Bank has been cooperating with this office" has to be one of the more terrifying-to-Trump things Tish James said this morning

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4 years

I have finally figured out what Twitter's feed design was born for: dramatic reveals of insane bird feet

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There are two approved Louisiana history textbooks for the state's 8th graders. This is how one of them introduces the Civil War: as tough times for a poor young white woman whose family owned 120 slaves.

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Joshua Benton

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10 months

One of the richest men in the history of mankind, casually endorsing the end of voting rights for Americans without children.

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I'm not sure how you write a story about how great the schools in Highland Park, Texas, are without noting that they exist entirely to allow rich white Dallasites to maintain Jim Crow-style segregation. THREAD

These Teachers Taught Super Bowl, Masters and World Series Winners—at the Same High School

Highland Park High School in Dallas is on a remarkable run in the sports world thanks to graduates Scottie Scheffler, Matt Stafford and Clayton Kershaw.

www.wsj.com

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Astonishingly racist: The Louisiana House votes to make juvenile records PUBLIC — but ONLY in the three Blackest urban parishes that include New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport.

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Story from a very long House floor session last night: Louisiana House approves releasing youth crime records in majority-Black parishes #lalege #lagov via @theadvocatebr

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Joshua Benton

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There is some nonsense going on in Caddo Parish (Shreveport), Louisiana. Black man and white man run against each other for sheriff. Black man wins by 1 vote. He's the first Black sheriff elected in this majority-Black parish. There's a recount, as you'd expect. He wins that…

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Joshua Benton

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3 years

Wow — this is awful. For the record, @Harvard has no school of journalism, no department of journalism, and no professors of journalism. (It does have @niemanfdn ! But we have no faculty and no classes. And it does have @ShorensteinCtr , but no journalism-specific faculty.)

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3 years

I have been the victim of a very serious phishing attack. I’m putting this statement out to set the record straight about what I’ve been through. I will not be addressing this issue any further on social media.

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5 years

I did it, I found the worst gif on the internet

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Joshua Benton

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3 years

In the Pfizer vaccine trial for 5- to 12-year-olds, there were 4,647 participants and only 5 "severe adverse events," none of them related to the vaccine. The best of them, BY FAR: "Ingestion of a penny (1 person in the vaccine group)"

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Joshua Benton

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A former NBA player dies young, and AI writes this headline: "Brandon Hunter useless at 42" And check that prose: "Former NBA participant Brandon Hunter who beforehand performed for the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic, has handed away on the age of 42."

Ed (Spinoza Enjoyer) ✡️

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AI should not be writing obituaries. Pay your damn writers ⁦ @MSN ⁩

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Joshua Benton

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5 years

How in the world do you (a) create a formula to determine how much “adversity” a 17-year-old has faced, (b) using only school-level and neighborhood-level data, not personal data, and then (c) hide the formula’s results from the kid?

SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background

The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in...

www.wsj.com

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Joshua Benton

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2 years

It's jarring how comparatively little attention is being given to the fact that the last president was *impeached* specifically for trying to extort Ukraine and playing footsie with Russia and he's gonna run again in 2 years

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Joshua Benton

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9 months

Everyone involved in this newspaper raid is going to regret awakening the interest of journalists in Marion County affairs

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9 months

The judge who granted the search warrant against the Marion, KS newspaper once drove into a school building. This happened while her license was suspended for an earlier DUI. She had been an active prosecutor for eight years already when this happened.

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Joshua Benton

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2 years

Since Giuliani’s last year in office, murders in NYC are down ~50%, major felonies are down ~40%. Perceptions of crime are so wildly divergent from reality, so tightly tied to emotional responses to societal change.

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Joshua Benton

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5 years

Anybody remember two months ago, where an established and respected journalist accused the president of the United States of raping her?

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

Remember that dramatic Page 1 of the @nytimes last Friday, with the enormous spike showing 3.3 million unemployment claims? To save the Times graphics team the trouble, this is what the same page would look like with today's 6.6 million unemployment claims.

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

These are not, on the whole, great ways to say “Trump, claiming unprecedented power to bypass laws and Congress, signs order to defund Social Security and Medicare”

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7 months

Louisiana principal Jason St. Pierre removed a girl as student body president and denied her access to scholarships because... he didn't like the way she danced at an off-campus party, saying she "wasn’t living in the Lord’s way."

Louisiana student's punishment for dancing video draws outrage: 'Let the girl dance'

To Rachel Timonet, the video is harmless: Just her 17-year-old daughter, Kaylee Timonet, laughing and dancing with her friends to a DJ at a party after the Walker High School

www.theadvocate.com

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

If I ran a newspaper, I'd be running organized daily tests of the postal system. Every day, send a set number of letters to a set number of locations — across town, three towns over, your state capital, big coastal cities, rural areas. Track how long each one takes to get there.

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Joshua Benton

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7 years

Somehow, “President Asks FBI Director to Jail Reporters” is only the third-biggest Trump-related story of the last 24 hours

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5 years

It is frankly astonishing that the @nytimes is treating a credible accusation of rape against the president by a well-known journalist as *a book publishing story*

E. Jean Carroll Accuses Trump of Sexual Assault in Her Memoir (Published 2019)

In her forthcoming book “What Do We Need Men For?,” the Elle advice columnist says the president assaulted her in the 1990s.

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Benton

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2 years

"Most of our large universities are turning out socialists, cynics, and atheists"! So we're starting a new college "to teach pure Americanism"! The speaker: Nathan Bedford Forrest II, describing in 1921 a new college in Atlanta owned by the Ku Klux Klan.

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

This guy ran in a D+71 district — one of the most Democratic districts in the country — and lost 86-14. And yet he’s saying it was probably just the most massive and counterintuitive voter fraud in human history.

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Joshua Benton

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3 years

Other things to know about Jeffrey Clark, the scheming DOJ lawyer here: — It took 16 months for the GOP Senate to confirm him — A year ago, he was found to have been practicing law without a license — He represented BP in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Joshua Benton

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7 years

I am sick and tired of these clickbait headlines

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3 years

This is how it introduces Reconstruction: through the gosh-darn sticktoitiveness of Francis Tillou Nicholls, the ex-Confederate "redeemer" who crushed black political rights.

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Joshua Benton

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5 years

The @nytimes is a glorious and critical institution. But how ABSOLUTELY INSANE is it that its vision of the struggling middle class is someone making $200-400K in a Pennsylvania small town?

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Joshua Benton

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1 year

His people are really not great at the stagecraft of politics — you don't set your guy up for his standup staring into the sun so his eyes vanish

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DeSantis looks like he's having a great time during his Hannity interview

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Joshua Benton

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3 years

Having Elon Musk host SNL seriously feels like the show's biggest misstep since having Trump host

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Joshua Benton

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6 years

I am kind of amazed that this exchange hasn't gotten more attention: Top officials from both the Trump and Clinton campaigns agreeing that Facebook's ad-pricing algorithm charged Clinton 100 to 200 TIMES as much for its ads as it charged Trump.

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Joshua Benton

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6 years

My small contribution to this eternal debate: We can distinguish between "lie" as a noun and "lie" as a verb. Something can be a "lie" without knowing if the person saying it is "lying." Example: "The Holocaust never happened" is a lie, even if the person saying it believes it.

Maggie Haberman

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Right and the point here is we don’t know. So absent that omniscience, we have all reported he said something that wasn’t true and explained just how untrue it was. All day on Twitter and in the pages of NYT.

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

Bret Stephens cites a Henry Harpending paper in his "Jewish genius" column Here's an @nytopinion piece from *just last year* noting Henry Harpending was a white supremacist nut about this stuff

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Joshua Benton

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5 years

An underrated part of the @Saints ' game-winning FG last night is that @wil_lutz5 and @thomasmorstead are both already celebrating when the ball is still like 40 yards from the goalposts

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Joshua Benton

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5 years

Of the Boston public high school valedictorians the @BostonGlobe tracked down, more became homeless than became doctors (the career 1/4 of them had said they aspired to). Today, only 40% earn more than $50K a year, and 1 in 4 don't have a college degree.

Valedictorians | What became of Boston’s brightest?

These Boston high school valedictorians set off to change the world. But good grades only got them so far.

apps.bostonglobe.com

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

The @nytimes has more subscribers today than it has ever had in its history — over 5 million. It made $140 million in profit last year. Its newsroom has grown from 1,110 to 1,700 journalists in the past six years, and it's gonna be around a lot longer than @realDonaldTrump .

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Advertising in the Failing New York Times is WAY down. Washington Post is not much better. I can’t say whether this is because they are Fake News sources of information, to a level that few can understand, or the Virus is just plain beating them up. Fake News is bad for America!

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Joshua Benton

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Okay, hold on. Bloomberg describes this guy as a "Shy Trumper," someone "hesitant to share their politics with pollsters, colleagues, and friends." But this guy also self-published a book called "TRUMPBOOK: How Digital Liberals Silenced A Nation Into Making America Hate Again"

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

Not dystopian at all, the sky robots who demand humans not approach one another

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WATCH: A drone was seen flying over a Manhattan park on Saturday, urging pedestrians to “maintain social distancing.”

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Joshua Benton

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6 years

I love how fast companies shift from "pay us lots of money and we will optimize your advertising so it changes more people's minds!" and "jk, ads don't work, ha ha" in times of crisis

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Advertising is not coercive; people are smarter than that 5/8

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Dallas ISD students are 69.9% Hispanic and 21.4% Black. Highland Park ISD students are 6% Hispanic and 0.8% Black. 85% of Dallas students qualify for free/reduced lunch. 0.2% of Highland Park students do.

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Joshua Benton

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The "middle class" "everyday Americans" the @nytimes chose to highlight here have household incomes of: $120-200K $120-200K $200-400K $200-400K $75-100K $120-200K $120-200K The median US household income is $61,000.

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Joshua Benton

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2 years

Matthew Stafford, Clayton Kershaw, and Scottie Scheffler are very talented athletes, and I have no reason to think they aren't wonderful people. But a story that portrays their high school as some kind of hits factory should acknowledge *why and how* it became one — bigotry.

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Joshua Benton

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6 years

When Kavanaugh is claiming to have no idea who Ford is, he was hanging out all the time with HER BOYFRIEND throughout the summer of 1982! (Kavanaugh testified that Chris Garrett is the "Squi" in the famous July 1 calendar entry.)

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One way to describe Nellie Bowles' "German great-great-great-grandfather" is as a San Francisco butcher. Another is as the "the Cattle King of California," the largest landowner in the U.S., and founder of a family fortune that's lasted six generations.

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None of this is accidental, of course: Rich white people have zealously guarded the enclave they've built for themselves, for many decades.

Highland Park - History and Social Justice

justice.tougaloo.edu

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141 years ago, on New Year's Day, a boy was born in Tolcsva, a village connected only a few years earlier to the rest of Hungary by rail. He was the first of what would eventually be 12 born to parents Michael and Hannah. Nine months later, the family set sail for America. 1/x

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This is a map of the Dallas Independent School District. See the white hole in the middle labeled University Park and Highland Park? Those are called the Park Cities, and they make up Highland Park Independent School District. It's very white.

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Joshua Benton

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3 years

This might even be worse — the "life in antebellum Louisiana" chapter. It is literally: "Look at this cool French white guy who lifted his sense of rhythm from slaves playing in Congo Square"

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After Joe McCarthy was censured by the Senate in 1954, he stayed in office for two-plus more years. But other senators publicly ignored him; his speeches were to an empty chamber; the press no longer bit on his claims. He became a pariah. Just spitballing for Hawley and Cruz.

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Scoop from @kdoctor : "Leaders in the field of nonprofit journalism are deciding over the next 48 hours whether or not to make a bid for all of @mcclatchy , sources tell me." The idea: create the country's first major nonprofit newspaper chain.

Newsonomics: The next 48 hours could determine the fate of two of America's largest newspaper...

The next 48 hours may decide the fate of two of America's largest newspaper chains that collectively serve almost a fifth of all American local newspaper readers. And what happens in those hours...

www.niemanlab.org

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Joshua Benton

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The transcript text is right around 2,000 words, and the call took exactly 30 min — that's about 66 words per minute. That's quite slow — roughly half normal speaking rate. (Zelensky is fluent in English.) Could suggest how much text isn't included.

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Highland Park didn't have a single Black homeowner until ***2003***. The town paper put the event on p. 1 with the lede: "Guess who's coming to dinner — and staying for a while?"

2003: Watson Has Stayed For a While - People Newspapers

Tactless coverage of black homeowner made national news By Kara Mauerhan | Special Contributor As a town with roots that date back to 1837, Highland Park has experienced quite a few firsts: first...

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A white man makes dozens of homemade bombs and plants three of them at a BLM rally — but luckily the bombs are discovered before they can kill anyone. For doing that he gets...zero prison time? Just probation?

Pittsburgh man gets probation for planting bombs Downtown

A man who left a bag of bombs Downtown during the 2020 George Floyd protests won't have to go to prison. U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose on Monday...

www.post-gazette.com

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25% of 18- to 24-year-olds, 19% of Hispanics, 15% of blacks, 22% of essential workers, and 31% of unpayed caregivers for adults have "seriously considered suicide" in the past 30 days

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It is interesting that by far the worst American natural disaster (in terms of lives lost) of the past century is being treated as a weird regression-driven footnote

The Associated Press

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Harvard-led researchers conclude that Puerto Rico had up to 4,600 more deaths than usual in the period after Hurricane Maria.

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When the town was planned in 1913, it required all property owners to have a deed covenant saying it "shall be used for residence purposes only, and by white persons only...not excluding bona fide servants of any race."

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(And, just to be technical, Louisiana doesn't officially "approve" textbooks, in that school districts are free to choose whatever textbooks they like. But this is one of the two Louisiana history textbooks that are officially reviewed by the state in the list districts get.)

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Highland Park didn't get its first Black student until ***1974***. They'd never even *had* to set up "separate-but-equal" school systems. They'd found the simpler solution: Just don't have any Black students to begin with!

The Black Detour

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James Lockhart Was The First Black Student To Attend Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas (1974)

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The magic of all this segregation is that Highland Park residents pay a school property tax rate ~10% ***less*** than Dallas residents do — but their tax base means they still get to spend 78% ***more*** per student than Dallas schools can.

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One of the many maddening things in this John McWhorter column is his claim that a typical 19th-century American was "better educated in some ways" than today's college graduate. His evidence: a quote he liked from some dude's diary in the 1830s. 1/x

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4 years

Hot damn, this lede

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For giggles, I checked how this AI company @Seekr_io currently rates the "reliability" of stories on Kevin McCarthy's ouster as speaker. VERY HIGH: Breitbart, Daily Mail, NY Post, OANN, ZeroHedge, WashTimes VERY LOW: Bloomberg, NYT, BBC, Guardian, ABC, NBC, Time, Politico 🤔

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The Messenger says it is partnering with AI company Seekr because humans are bringing too much personal bias into journalism

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Ah, but what if those live-in servants had (gasp) kids of their own? Highland Park taxpayers literally *paid* Dallas schools to take its few Black residents off their hands into the 1960s.

The History Of Race In Dallas: Highland Park’s Past, Present And Future

“I said, ‘So, it’s a separate school system, in the middle of this other school system?’ It was unreal to me. People in Dallas are just used to this now. But to an outsider, I just saw this map and...

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Joshua Benton

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When a Chilean president with a cabinet stuffed with Pinochet buddies is ragging on you about the peaceful transfer of power

Sebastian Piñera

@sebastianpinera

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Chile rechaza las acciones destinadas a alterar proceso democrático en EEUU y condena la violencia e indebida interferencia con las instituciones constitucionales Chile confía en la solidez de la democracia estadounidense para garantizar el imperio de la ley y estado de derecho.

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As done by @nytimes here: The statement is a lie, regardless of Trump's state of mind.

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58% of adults oppose hormone treatments for 15- to 17-year-olds. Headline: "Most Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP" 58% support a clean debt-ceiling bill with zero spending cuts. Headline: "Americans split on who they’d blame if U.S. defaults" Same number!

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Bonus: You'll be SHOCKED to learn Highland Park has been a leader in pushing anti-CRT nonsense. The idea that Highland Park schools might be "indoctrinating" its students against white people may be the most hilarious thing I've ever heard.

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"Racist Elijah Cummings" "has done a terrible job for the people of his district." "Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully." "Elijah Cummings spends all of his time trying to hurt innocent people." "Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!" to "My warmest condolences"

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Using broader community data means that the richest white kid and the poorest black/Hispanic kid in a given high school are assigned the same “adversity score”

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Perhaps worth remembering in the context of teenaged Kavanaugh: He joined a secret society at Yale known for excessive drinking and nicknamed “Tit and Clit.”

The Yale Secret Society Brett Kavanaugh Joined Was Mostly About Drinking, Yale Alumni Say

No Skull and Bones.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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There's a lot of new detail in this story. Among other things, Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, contacted the Washington Post and Feinstein in July, and took a polygraph in August, but then decided she didn't want to come forward.

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The District of Columbia has a higher median household income than any of the 50 states

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3 years

Ummmm, check out how Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt frames D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood: "It’s going to be about structural changes, like adding two new welfare states to the union so that they can cement their power for a generation."

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Given how little attention climate change gets in the national media, to waste even a fraction of it on deniers paid by the fossil fuel industry making things up is a journalistic sin

Media Matters

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CNN's Rick Santorum praises Trump administration trying to bury report on climate change: "A lot of these scientists are driven by the money"

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That student, James Lockhart, enrolled for a single school year. Six years later, as of this 1980 Texas Monthly story, he remained the only Black graduate in Highland Park history.

No Man’s Land

Welcome to Highland Park, a small town right in the middle of Dallas where the living is easy and time stands still.

www.texasmonthly.com

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"I'm not allowed to say anything anymore," says man quoted in national magazine, who will vote for Trump because, in today's P.C. climate, you can't even insult people to their face anymore without them unfriending you

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All the pieces of American criminal-justice dystopia: — a black man stopped "because" his headlights were too bright — who then gets tased 4 times, killing him — all of it filmed for the nation's entertainment by "Live PD" — which then destroys the video

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(I doubt the other textbook is much better — I just haven't found a copy of it online yet, so can't be sure.)

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This book was published in 2015.

Louisiana Our History, Our Home

www.amazon.com

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Joshua Benton

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I wrote about how Amazon's doorbell company @ring is, um, hiring a managing editor? To oversee crime reporting? More importantly, it's about what happens when coverage of crime is done by institutions that have a financial incentive to make you afraid.

A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end...

Because what good is a panopticon if you can't generate some clicks?

www.niemanlab.org

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In 2005 — not long ago! — I was covering K-12 schools for @dallasnews and co-wrote this story: Highland Park HS had an annual "Thug Day" when all the rich white kids dressed up as Black people. Also, "Fiesta Day," for dressing up as your lawn guy.

Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Education

archived 28 Sep 2013 09:07:30 UTC

archive.ph

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Joshua Benton

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4 years

"We can't call the assasination an 'assassination,' assassinations are illegal" is not a good thought process for journalists to go through

Al Tompkins

@atompkins

4 years

Should journalists call the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani an "assassination?" Assassinations are illegal. i.e. “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."

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Police can do that because Highland Park makes all sorts of normal behavior — jogging! eating in a park! playing tennis! "protracted lounging"! — either illegal or reserved for Highland Park residents only.

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Consider this my gift to the world: Here are the daily/Sunday circulations of the largest newspapers in the United States — information that is surprisingly difficult to find online! These are all the papers with daily circulation of at least 75,000:

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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Seriously, this is how it sums up antebellum life in Louisiana. Would anyone reading this understand that the majority of human being in the state were enslaved? Or that being enslaved wasn't mostly about getting to "gather to cook, talk, sing, dance"?

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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The years after Brown v. Board of Education were spent trying to figure out how to avoid getting sued and forced to educate Black kids. Dallas eventually stopped taking them.

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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I'd like to hear the justification of any news outlet that interviews or quotes anyone CONTRACTUALLY BARRED from saying anything negative about a candidate.

southpaw

@nycsouthpaw

6 years

Interesting moment on CNN: After Rob Astorino defends Trump’s post-conviction praise of Paul Manafort, Poppy Harlow notes Astorino is on Trump’s 2020 advisory cmte. He says yes. So he’s signed an NDA, she adds. He nods. Which has a non-disparagement clause. He sits frozen still.

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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An alderman — a recent president of the Dallas Bar Association! — asked residents to fire all their Black servants so the town could avoid the issue. Another alderman suggested ethnic cleansing, "that all Negroes be moved out of Highland Park," but someone noted that's illegal.

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Joshua Benton

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New by me —> An incomplete history of @Forbes as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism. You simply can’t have 1000s of unpaid, wildly conflicted people writing unedited copy at scale and expect all they produce to meet journalistic standards!

An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism - Nieman Lab

I sometimes think about what the, oh, 1997 version of me would find most surprising about the news industry of today. For all that's happened in the worlds of newspapers and TV news, I think it might...

www.niemanlab.org

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

2 years

An HP senior in that story: "I think it’s real scary to go to school with blacks and I’m glad I don’t have to." The writer: HP kids see "people of different races not as fellow students but as servants, people who provide convenience and comfort for them, who aim to please."

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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Gotta admit, dude knows how to charm advertisers

Best of Dying Twiter

@bestofdyingtwit

6 months

“Many of the largest advertisers are the greatest oppressors of your right to free speech”

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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In 1969, when the town worried that some of its ~50 Black children — again, the kids of live-in servants — might try to enroll, it banned all kitchens in "servants' quarters." Starve 'em out! It worked: The number dropped quickly to zero.

The History Of Race In Dallas: Highland Park’s Past, Present And Future

“I said, ‘So, it’s a separate school system, in the middle of this other school system?’ It was unreal to me. People in Dallas are just used to this now. But to an outsider, I just saw this map and...

hpbagpipe.com

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

5 years

In March 2008, @brianstelter wrote a story for @nytimes about how young people were getting news online. It's a pretty straightforward story — but there's one quote in it that still has an impact on debates about digital journalism today. 1/x

Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On (Published 2008)

Younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news but conduits as well, sending out links and videos to friends.

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

2 years

That tax base has also allowed Highland Park to have 3.5x as many officers per capita as Texas (and 2.8x Dallas), despite having little crime. For decades, HP police have been used as a sort of private security guard for keeping undesirables out of town.

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

5 years

Cities that no longer have a 7-day home-delivered print newspaper: Pittsburgh Youngstown Cleveland Detroit Ann Arbor Flint Grand Rapids Syracuse Harrisburg Toledo Rough, *rough* time for newspapers around the Great Lakes.

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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"Students at Highland Park High School dressed as gang members, rap stars, maids and yard workers this month during homecoming week — a tradition one Dallas civil-rights leader says is racially insensitive." (See, we needed someone in the lede to *say* the obvious. No bias!)

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

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"On senior Thug Day, students wore Afro wigs, fake gold teeth and baggy jeans. On Fiesta Day, which was to honor Hispanic heritage, one student brought a leaf blower to school." An outraged whistleblower called us about it.

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

5 years

The @nytimes has a course to teach its reporters data skills, and now they’ve open-sourced it

The New York Times has a course to teach its reporters data skills, and now they’ve open-sourced it

You can now VLOOKUP the SUMPRODUCT of the Times' training efforts. It's SORT of a TREND; even AVERAGE journalists can CONVERT data skills TO_DOLLARS.

www.niemanlab.org

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

5 years

It's *almost* as if there are deep structural issues that hold back even the brightest low-income and minority students in American life!

Valedictorians | Eight takeaways from the Valedictorians Project

What we learned about Boston’s public schools and where we are failing our students

apps.bostonglobe.com

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

2 years

(That story also called the female half of the homebuying couple, then 36 years old, "a girl.")

American Postcard: At Last

Highland Park, Texas, one of the wealthiest enclaves in America, is a beautiful village, refined and leafy, filled with parks, set in the heart of Dallas.

www.newsweek.com

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Joshua Benton

@jbenton

3 years

(Technically, you can also get a "Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, field: Journalism" via @HarvardExt , but that is a separate open-admission program designed for adult learners, taught by adjuncts, and with no full-time journalism faculty.)

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@jbenton

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Well, one. There was one Highland Park family who didn't want to give up their live-in maid. So she kindly rented an empty apartment within Dallas district boundaries so her maid's kids could pretend to live there.

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