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Margaret Sullivan looks at three gross ethical lapses of US journalists that came to light in one week, making the week "journalism's week of shame" in the words of Jill Abramson.

Sullivan looks at the cases of Michael Wolff, Landon Thomas Jr., and Olivia Nuzzi.

Recently released emails show Wolff, while reporting on Epstein, coaching him on how to manipulate Trump.


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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly-lessons-in-unethical-media

"Seven million people show up, but don’t make the front page.

Last weekend, the largest collection of public gatherings in modern US history took place, across all 50 states.

Only once in all of American history have more people turned out in demonstrations on a single day. That was on April 22, 1970, as part of the original Earth Day movement."

~ James Fallows


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https://fallows.substack.com/p/putting-the-public-back-in-public

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, FUCK the New York Times.

Even in this both-sidesing, they're moving the needle towards the fascist by calling the calm "comparative."

This is why I keep saying to people in targeted cities: POST YOUR TRUTH. Because shitsheets like this will publish this crap.

FUCK the NYT.

(Picture ganked from Pope Hat.)

Photo of a page of The New York Times both-sidesing Trump, Vance, Miller, and ICE's lies about Portland as "Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'?" which even in its both-sidesing moves the needle to the right by calling the calm "comparative."

Recently the website has been full of annoying autoplaying videos. At this moment, there are six autoplaying videos on the landing page, and three of them are in a special hashtag <nyt-betamax> which dodges the Firefox Disable Autoplay extension. (I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to add a CSS rule to hide the element.) What is this about? Hasn't anyone told the Times that "pivot to video" was a scam?

Microsoft Disables Some Services to Israel’s Defense Ministry

Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”

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[Bias alert - usually favors Israel]

Sept. 25, 2025

The review found evidence that was using ’s cloud storage services to hold surveillance data on , according to a company blog post. The data included records of millions of phone calls made daily between Palestinians, confirming reporting this year from and the Israeli news site +972.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/microsoft-israel-defense-ministry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.0KDo.Y_dI0t-o5tVo&smid=url-share








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Via @ 6:23pm ET on Sept 15, 2025

, the beloved behind children’s such as “,” “” and “,” has been approved for (MAID).

A profile of Munsch published Sunday revealed that he applied for shortly after being diagnosed with .

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canadian-childrens-author-robert-munsch-approved-for-maid/

sued the , 4 reporters, & for at least $15 billion Monday, claiming & , & citing reputational damage.

Trump's suit cites a series of articles, one an editorial prior to the 2024 election, which said he was for office, & a 2024 published by titled "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune & Created the Illusion of Success".


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-file-15-billion-defamation-libel-lawsuit-against-new-york-times-2025-09-16/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Timothy Burke takes an incisive, illuminating look at how mainstream media ALWAYS treat stories of white men in the US — typically heterosexual ones — committing mass murder in the name of right-wing ideology.

His lens for the analysis is New York Times' report on Vance Boelter written by Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño, and Ruth Graham.

Boelter, Ă  la New York Times, is, it turns out, complex, mysterious, an individual.


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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-privilege-of-depth

God damn, NYT!!! Can’t you get anything right?!? How about “ALLEGES” no evidence?

The entire world knows that this is a cover up. At least differentiate between claims and actual evidence!

To anyone still wondering if New York Times can disgrace itself even more than it already has in recent years, Dan Froomkin has an answer:

"The sad fact is that there is nothing terribly out of character about the New York Times’s decision to publish a deceptive hit piece about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, based on hacked data supplied by a noted eugenicist to whom they granted anonymity."


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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-state-of-the-new-york