David Kocieniewski
@davidkski.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @ Bloomberg/Businessweek Father, writer, skater, paddler, baker, raconteur, rabble-rouser & SuperTaster https://tinyurl.com/mrftjkzf dkocieniewsk@bloomberg.net Encrypted: linemate@protonmail.com
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
Thompson's brilliant "Who Goes Nazi?" piece is a prescient, perfect way to understand the cowardice of the Trump era - especially the complicity of the media. @LeahFlanagan wrote this excellent updated version in 2017. Today the situation is far worse. theoutline.com/post/1453/wh...
Who goes Nazi? Media edition
It’s a great game to play with people
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I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience
Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 2w ago“Reporters were barred from recording video” whaaaaaat
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
This article is what's called a "beat sweetener," where access journalists write a story that's extremely flattering to one of their sources in order to keep the line open www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War
Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
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In terms of capitulation, Kleins’s is something else. He faces absolutely no regulatory pressure, has no government funding or contacts. He just felt the need to say “I’m one of you.”
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2mo agoShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Me: Why don't you just buy a bigger desk NPR: It's... that's not the point Me: It's only tiny because you bought a tiny one
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the White House press corps knows and accepts both the appearance and reality of its obeisance
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-white-...
If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.
The plan? Start doing the things that ruined your approval rating again—right before the midterms
Is it possible to run a successful business without fully embracing the worst tenets of capitalism? Black people have done it for centuries. Here's a list that proves it.
The Top 10 Black-Owned Businesses of All Time
Is it possible to run a successful profitable business without adopting the worst parts of capitalism? Well, Black people actually did it.
dlvr.it
Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.
I took one look at that man’s hair and decided to trust everything he had to say about pool and pool related products
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3mo agoAs luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
It’s so cool that our bodies work in such a way that you can accidentally brush your hand against the stove pulling a pizza out of the oven and have a mark on you for the rest of your life reminding you you’re too dumb to cook pizza
How and why does John Travolta look like Shaun King
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.
Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)
damn I was gonna quote-post with an excerpt but I can't pick, every one is a banger, well done
Anil Kalhan@akalhan.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Huck shows great disrespect for the Court’s precedent in Dred Scott when aiding the fugitive Jim, presumably due to liberal indoctrination by the Widow Douglas.” #JimCrowJohn
