today on The Broadside: how a rock from western NC is key to making basically every semiconductor in the world…and why it’s important to know where all the raw materials we need for our stuff actually comes from. featuring @edconway.bsky.social
www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
“What the sustained quoting of dehumanizing language makes exceedingly clear is that newsrooms are not in the habit of reflecting on past coverage, particularly when it comes to critiques of how they covered immigrants, foreigners, or foreign policy.“
Elite American media never had a “war on terror” reckoning. Palestinians are paying the price, writes @nausheen.bsky.social in an op-ed. Western journalists’ coverage of the genocide confirms that agenda-setting newsrooms learned nothing from their harmful post-9/11 reporting.
say what you will about the merits or downsides of an entire publication devoted to liberalism, the dominant ideology of Western polities…but it’s just sloppy journalism to equate liberalism with “the left”. also note that the only place Semafor uses “the left” is in its headline and lede…
feels like a particularly meaningful week to do a collab with PBS North Carolina. today on the Broadside from @wunc.org: the lore & facts on the Devil’s Tramping Ground, a bare patch of earth in Chatham Co. that’s been associated with rumors of the occult for centuries www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
we’ve lost federal funding, but we’re still here, still reporting. and your support is more important than ever. today is the last day of our emergency drive. thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has donated or upped your support so far! to contribute, you can go to wunc.org or call 800-962-9862 💚
whether that’s providing folks with breaking news and useful information about the world and their local area, facilitating emergency communications during disasters, or telling long form stories about our home like we do on The Broadside, public radio is a common good for everyone.
our station back then was @wunc.org & my parents are still sustainers 26 years later (with some breaks in between when they moved away). my dad works in Qatar right now but he still has WUNC playing on his phone all night. even before I joined WUNC, I always appreciated what public radio brings us…
I started listening to NPR when we moved to NC in 1998 and my dad would have it on in the car on morning commutes to school. we moved here here from Canada & were big on the CBC, so listening to & supporting public media in NC, too, was a no brainer.
always appreciate your work, Amanda!
excellent analysis and a much more convincing one than "AI is taking the jobs" - also reflects what I'm seeing in my circles
I didn’t find any of the explanations for what’s going on with the bad job market for new college grads satisfying, so I spent a week trying to figure out what was up and what it means for the larger economy. Turns out it’s not AI! Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
this is why granting anonymity to a source has to be carefully considered & ethically sound. anonymity has been so weaponized by bad actors in the internet age that the bar for how & to whom journalists allow it is higher than ever. & that's on top of the fact that the NYT story was not a real story
this is the source that the New York times used to tell a deeply problematic gotcha story that shows a deep misunderstanding and spreads misinformation about race, identity, history and racism. this is the source whose identity they protected and whitewashed:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
this week on The Broadside from @wunc.org, an eye-opening, fascinating discussion with historian @kathleenduval.bsky.social about her Pulitzer-winning book about a millennium of Indigenous history on this continent. we covered so much & yet barely scratched the surface! www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
congratulations and best of luck with your next step!
irony is deceased and rotting 6 feet under.
Why did ICE agents wear masks when arresting pro-Palestine scholars? It was “for the safety of agents and their families” out of fears of doxxing, one agent testified. chroni.cl/4eQ2a06
haha I get it now! A+ visual aid
“…pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy…becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move”
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
okay Your Idol is a banger about the power of toxic fandom, but maybe it also says something about this political moment
“scoop”? I don’t think that word means what you think it means
SCOOP: Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
I co-report for The New York Times: Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...
very good point about needing more yarn, thus more affordable yarn! and I had no idea about the sock yarn clubs, being a casual crocheter and not much of a knitter
I have written nothing, but my first thought is that it has to do with how much longer it takes to knit something than to crochet a comparable project, and what that means about who has the leisure time and money to spend on one vs the other
it’s! darn it.
on the latest episode of The Broadside from @wunc.org, the cost of crypto in Appalachia—and what might be taking its place now its gone bust.
ft. reporting from @janesartwell.bsky.social, Diana Temple-Raston & the Click Here team, & @raleighreporter.bsky.social www.wunc.org/podcast/the-...
what a shame for materialists that dakota johnson can’t deliver a line in a way that implies she’s ever felt a human emotion
as a student of history, I know it repeats itself, but the cycle is starting to get alarmingly short.
no, sadly. I’ll only make it out to seattle for AAJA this year. but if you’re passing thru NC on your way back home definitely hit me up!
haha too real! (hope to see you at one of these one day, btw!)
omg the TV people always make me feel like I rolled out of bed and forgot to wash my face
omg happy birthday to me! the description makes me feel like it will have Diary of a Prosecutor vibes and I loved that show (rip Lee Sun-kyun 💔)
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