Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Big Journalism is terminally timid (or worse). Neither the Post nor the Times could ...
Big Journalism is terminally timid (or worse). Neither the Post nor the Times could bring itself to call the Alabama murders what they were -- not "racially motivated" (in both papers' headlines) but simply and directly, racist.
The lack of journalistic spine is remarkable.
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2023-08-27 11:49:03Event JSON
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