Jay Rosen

I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
Here's my little fix for @meetthepress. I don't pretend it solves the problems but it does address them. A little. https://t.co/fI3NqkGuvd
RT @mattyglesias: Some choice words from an expert about what went down last night: http://www.vox.com/2014... https://twitter.com/mattygl...
Which means the guests would be taking a risk by coming on. But it also creates a system for the producers to know whom to invite back. 4/4
What's now called the "roundtable" discusses and — by the end of the show — votes on how well guests did in... beat the talking points. 3/4
A guest's job is clear: do better. Having already heard the talking points, the audience can quickly recognize their repetition. Then... 2/4
My fix for @meetthepress: turn it into Beat The Talking Points. Literally. As interviews begin, the talking points are ably paraphrased. 1/4
"The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Times always rolls over for them in stories like these.” http://blogs.reuters.com/jacksha...
Mismanagement by NBC— and his agent. Gregory was meant for grilling salmon on morning TV. "Telegenic" was his real talent. Why not move him?
Today one of the most miscast journalists ever in TV News was finally given a break by NBC. David Gregory is no longer host of @meetthepress
"And there was rejoicing. Yay." Still, Chuck Todd isn't going to be that much better. Like Gregory, he only absorbs GOP talking points. - Anika
So @dlind of Vox says a different police agency in charge every night. @jbouie of Slate says St. Louis County police in charge since Sunday.
For writers few things take as much discipline as Twitter during live events, as @NateSilver538 found out last night. http://www.politico.com/blogs...
Why there’s no accountability for the police in Ferguson by @DLind (a rising star) http://www.vox.com/2014... comes closest to answering my Q's.
Learned something this morning. That many of my subscribers (and their subscribers) think a trend = an explanation. https://t.co/hYHQKJeFnm
...and in euthanasia news, David Gregory is out, Chuck Todd in as host of Meet the Press http://money.cnn.com/2014... according to @brianstelter.
Clarify my last tweet: I'm aware of the national trend: militarizing the police. I'm asking what police in Ferguson thought they were doing.
What I am looking for this morning is some journalism that digs deep into why police in Ferguson were armed to the teeth and questions that.
"But 20 years in to the ad-supported web, we can see that our current model is bad, broken and corrosive." http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... Brilliant.
RT @GovJayNixon: Canceling all appearances at the @MoStateFair to visit North #STL County tomorrow. Statement to follow.
RT @macloo: Bunches of people commenting (on Twitter) that Facebook is an epic FAIL for news tonight. #ferguson
Where is the governor of Missouri? @GovJayNixon.
The most hopeless topic in media criticism. I've never seen light escape from it. Is NPR Biased In Its Gaza Coverage? http://www.npr.org/blogs...
Nice that they share with the little people these pretty glimpses, don't you think? http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifesty... Sally Quinn on Lauren Bacall.
An interesting comparison between the US and UK press systems in this response to my "production of innocence" post. http://tenminutespastdeadline....
RT @SchumacherMatos: Gotten a lot of feedback re: the Intercept article. Am investigating.
HuffPost Live now I'm talking about the New York Times deciding to use the word "torture" for acts of torture. Watch: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r...
RT @PaulBegala: NYU's @jayrosen_nyu calls Maureen Dowd's column "truly awful." NYT ed pg editor @andyrNYT calls it "masterful." http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014...
2/2 The story in @the_intercept is here: https://t.co/nAmh9PxNnt @NPR's vapid and unresponsive response is here: https://t.co/4x2XReOty6
Reporting that a study vindicates the surveillance state but not that the company is funded by the surveillance state? Basic error, @NPR 1/2
ABC News airs live video of Robin Williams' home, gets slammed on social for the stupidity of it, then apologizes. http://www.imediaethics.org/News...
"When you follow someone, you'll see their posts in your News Feed," Facebook tells its users. No, you won't. Untrue. http://almightylink.ksablan.com/social-...
Agreed. FB could have applied work towards better user filtering tools... But they've ended up with a business model that depends on the artificial scarcity from their auto-filtering algorithm: "pay us to reach everyone following you." And worse, people and brands rationally try to game the algorithm by posting low-quality clickbait. There's a lot less clickbait on Twitter and Tumblr IMO and I think that's because neither has an algorithmic filter system. - Andrew C (✔)