Walt Mossberg

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@JimClarkeAP @MickiMaynard @JeremyLittau @Sulliview @NPR Exactly. Tweets from town council meetings and sporadic public radio coverage, wile better than nothing, aren’t filling the gap. We need dedicated full time online local pubs and dedicated local radio, both with sizable trained staffs, to fill the gap. In hundreds of places. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MickiMaynard @JeremyLittau @Sulliview @NPR I’d bet a lot of money that, among the small minority that listens to public radio, an even smaller minority listens to anything but national NPR or PRI shows. It’s not remotely the same as the immersive, quality local journalism that existed in many places. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnLMacFarlane I agree 💯%! — PolitiTweet.org

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@MickiMaynard @JeremyLittau @Sulliview @NPR I’m not mythologizing. I *know* this was how it was, at least at the mid-market local paper where I got my start. I personally did that kind of coverage, day after day. And, many years later, I observed it in a much smaller local pub in another state. It is not a myth. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MickiMaynard @JeremyLittau @Sulliview @NPR I agree lots of small local papers were lousy. But if you think live tweeting of a council meeting is the same as a journalist’s coverage, with sources and context, you’re mistaken. I’m glad your NPR station covers your council, but I doubt they cover every issue at each meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@philipberne @wirecutter I don’t know anyone at @wirecutter, but my guess from afar is that they are trying to review so many wildly different things that they’ve lost focus on average buyers. Anyone would find it hard to enforce consistent standards across so much stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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@philipberne I don’t know much about water bottles, but I know a ton about reviewing products, and I’ve lost faith in the @wirecutter. We bought a toaster oven they rated highly and it was not only hard to use, but dangerously hot to touch, which should have disqualified it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MickiMaynard @JeremyLittau @Sulliview And how many localities are as fortunate as you are? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyLittau @Sulliview I *do*agree with your central thesis that we should be aiming for local journalism that does those things only it can offer. I’m just saying that you’re mistaken if you don’t think lots of people want to read about routine things like school boundaries or local tax rates. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyLittau @Sulliview I disagree. There’s no regular journalistic coverage of local government on social media, for instance. There’s episodic, partisan commentary. If you want to know what your school board really did at every meeting, with full context, you an only find it through local journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MsZteach: Thank you to @NewsLitProject for one of the best sessions I have been to in ways to empower students with news literacy! Fasc… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyLittau @Sulliview 2/... It also includes routine, but scarce, things like coverage of town councils and school boards and big development projects and even which street is going to be closed or widened. Wedding notices and local obits. Local sports and arts coverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyLittau @Sulliview 1/ This is terrific analysis, Jeremy, and I agree with it. But I think the high-demand end of your bell curve doesn’t just include swashbuckling things like crime coverage and investigative reporting.... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: .@PostBaron says, @NewsLitProject is “helping people sort fact from fiction and make critical judgments about all the in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewsLitProject: “I think we’ve really lost track of what is a fact. It’s amazing these days," says @PostBaron in his keynote with @Indi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: .@PeterD_Adams sharing “15 Ways to Empower Students with News Literacy” at #NCSS2019. “Young people have a right to news… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: .@PeterD_Adams sharing ways to combat misinformation with educators at #NCSS2019: “We have to disrupt this term ‘fake ne… — PolitiTweet.org

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@4brindellina If the author of the tweet wants me to know that SHE contacted the papers and that SHE thinks they are biased, I have no idea why she tagged me in her post. I don’t live in Chicago and don’t work for those papers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@4brindellina Just to clarify: this tweet is written, wittingly or not, in a way that might suggest I accused the major Chicago newspapers of bias. I did not do any such thing. I didn’t contact them. And I have no reason to think they are “biased”. — PolitiTweet.org

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@clockwerks My deepest condolences, Trei. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewsLitProject: "If you don’t know what the News Literacy Project is and does, it’s time you do." — ICYMI, great piece earlier this wee… — PolitiTweet.org

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@barrettbuss @washingtonpost @Nationals @NFL @ahess247 I don’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s also notable that, while the @NBA team might be most popular in some other cities, the @WashWizards lag badly here due to decades of utter failure. It’s tied with our championship @WNBA team for fans’ affection. — PolitiTweet.org

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This ⁦⁦@washingtonpost⁩ sports poll is skewed by the ⁦@Nationals⁩ World Series win, but it’s also an indictment of the ownership & management of DC’s once-dominant ⁦@NFL⁩ franchise. (cc ⁦@ahess247⁩: MLS has gained a lot, but has a long way to go here.) https://t.co/CsNMrudCYy — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkThompson_DC @ScotMackRI @projo My first byline in a real paper, and my first Page One story, were in the Bulletin. — PolitiTweet.org

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Though primarily built for the U.S., the @NewsLitProject’s @Checkology digital news literacy curriculum is being used in a classroom in Chile to help students combat misinformation during a period of unrest. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @AjitPaiFCC Of course he is. — PolitiTweet.org

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How one company you’ve never heard of swallowed tens of thousands of text messages — then spit them back out. This is why letting carriers handle messaging is a terrible idea. And that includes letting them handle the new RCS messaging system. https://t.co/p9HCCnnSrE via @Verge — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlanRosenbergPJ @JimClarkeAP @projo @BostonGlobe I couldn’t agree more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasondunn No. The key is to raise the qualifications and admit fewer people. — PolitiTweet.org