So I lurk a lot, both keep sane during the week, and to pick up some story ideas. I wanted to make this post a while ago and chickened out, but seeing that post about Maddow fawning over Biden's new dog made me want to try with this account again.

US media is absolutely a big-L Liberal institution. But you'd be surprised how many socialists, or socdems at least, write for smaller and mid-size newsrooms. So AMA about trying to be a reporter with leftist views in a decidedly anti-left racket, or about the inner workings of American news outlets that aren't CNN, MSNBC or Fox.

  • effervescent [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    From a minimal experience in a news room, every shift would start with calling to check at the end of the cops’ shift to see if anything had happened overnight. They’d often fax press releases that would just be reworded slightly to be less info-dump-y