Adam Rose
@adamrose.bsky.social
Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press + 🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC) 🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social 🆕 Anchor on Medlines
Almost as important as Trump's press ban is where he announced it: Truth Social, which he owns and uses to post official government business. Now, he’s selling early access to those posts as a subscription service to anyone who pays $100k/month. More in this video by @adamrose.bsky.social:
"The obvious reality is that Trump has blown through cultural and constitutional norms to become the least open president in modern history," FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @factcheck.afp.com.
Joe Biden did not ban 440 journalists from White House
Supporters of US President Donald Trump defended his efforts to ban certain news organizations from the White House by falsely claiming his predecessor Joe Biden revoked access from hundreds of journa...
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I didn't learn em dashes from AI. AI learned em dashes from me! It's not just em dashes offering a false "tell." It's all sorts of classic writing techniques like negative parallelism. (See what I did there?) TBH, I'm so old I prefer double hyphens. They just get autocorrected to em dashes.
AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI. - Poynter
Writers are scrubbing em dashes and second-guessing old habits to avoid being mistaken for machines
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The First Amendment protects speech regardless of viewpoint, especially if it is adversarial to the government. Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain why Trump banning @cnn.com, @ms.now, and @politico.com from the White House is incompatible with the Constitution.
Come say hi! This Saturday at Cal State LA we'll be talking about censorship of the arts, entertainment and news media. And that means LOTS to talk about lately ...
“This, certainly, from an outside observer’s perspective, looks like retaliation for him committing acts of journalism,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social about the detention of Carlitos Ricardo Parias.
Richard LA’s impossible beat.
Independent creator-journalists such as Carlitos Ricardo Parias, known as Richard LA, are especially vulnerable to retaliation—and deportation.
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Critical read by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com. Ellisons know a scary amount about you via Oracle. (Ever wonder, "what's their actual product"? It's YOU / your data!) By taking over mass media, they can give America false fears, causing us to give up even more of our data & privacy.
The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger
With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.
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Hahaha. Best thing on the internet today. Some adults still think they can trade away everyone else's rights in some pointless effort to keep kids off the internet. Not only will kids win in the long run, they'll humble adults in the funniest ways to do it. @npr.org out here catching strays. 😭😭😭
This American Life@thisamericanlife.org · last wk.Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/78g1b584
"News is something that they don't want you to print, and all the rest is public relations." 🎯🎯🎯 Perfectly said, thank you @johncusack.bsky.social!!!
Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · last wk.“I think everybody knows that a free press is kind of vital to democracy, right? Don't you think?” **applause** Watch @johncusack.bsky.social highlight the importance of freedom of the press on The Tonight Show Starring @jimmyfallon.bsky.social.
The hearing for CNN, MSNOW and Politico's lawsuit against Trump's White House media ban is happening right now. I'm trying to listen, but so many people are trying conference call line it's alternately a busy signal, drops out, or says it has ended. 🫠 Here's a live thread from someone listening:
AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · last wk.Listening to the hearing in the challenge to Trump banning Politico/MSNow/etc from the WH Parties will get 20 minutes a side. Judge starts with "where I'm at, so you can tailor your argument" "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists ... DC Circuit held in Sherrill there's a
President Donald Trump is banning @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, and @politico.com from the White House. But can a U.S. president do this? Watch FPF’s @adamrose.bsky.social break down what to expect next as the administration increases its attacks on the free press.
Good news: Most U.S. adults know that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press. Bad news: "Most" means 51%. Lord help us. Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/q...
For those wondering about practical aspects of White House press credentials and press pool, here's a good example from lawsuit filed by CNN, MSNOW and Politico. Of course Constitution allows SOME limits, but NOT if content based like Trump is attempting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
David Ellison should put his mouth where his money is.
Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 2w agoReporters and advocates are calling on David Ellison to speak out against Trump's attacks on CNN journalists he seeks to employ and back legal action to uphold their rights. If he doesn't, it'll be clear his claims to support press freedom are all talk.
The state attorneys general consent decree with Paramount to secure a merger with Warner Bros includes requirement for a "News Editorial Independence Board" for CBS News and CNN. Here are the exact terms for the board, which will be appointed by... ::checks notes:: ... David Ellison.
My immediate reaction to Trump banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House? The law exists in two separate and unequal places ...
Will President Trump actually be able to ban Politico, CNN, and MSNOW from the White House
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A college administrator calls the cops on a student reporter A college QB laughs at an AI video of his coach slapping a woman journalist The president lunges at a Black woman reporter who dares question him It's past time to fight back against anti-media violence www.inquirer.com/opinion/viol...
Violence toward journalists is a symptom of a terminally ill U.S. democracy | Will Bunch
From Trump’s unhinged outbursts to calling the cops on a student journalist, a free press dies in tandem with the American Experiment.
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KNBC has confirmed it was their station’s helicopter that crashed in Los Angeles tonight. Condolences to everyone at the station and the friends and families of those lost. Many in LA journalism community hurting tonight. Sending love.
The Trump administration's targeting of journalist visas was 'fundamentally un-American and a betrayal of the First Amendment,' FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @scmpnews.bsky.social.
US judge blocks Trump’s ‘absurd’ visa caps for students, journalists
The last-minute freeze keeps old rules in place as legal challenge by university groups and labour unions makes its way through the courts.
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GOP Rep. Randy Fine wants to investigate Max Blumenthal for covering the funeral of Iran’s ayatollah. Fine is doing this to build MAGA credibility, but conservatives should be wary: This playbook can easily be turned on them when Democrats control Congress. @adamrose.bsky.social explains:
Bill Plaschke wrote one of the worst columns of his career last week. This week he wrote one of his best. This is an ace writer at work. Study up, kids! I've known Bill almost 20 years. He is just as humble and funny in person. Total sweetheart. Be like Bill. (Well, except at predictions.)
Bill Plaschke knows his Rams perfect prediction was the worst. Will he stop now?
Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke shares some readers' reactions to the Rams losing their opener after he predicted they'd go undefeated.
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"Using slurs to smear and silence critics is its own form of hate speech, no matter how carefully they word it through their publicists. How dare they falsely invoke antisemitism for something as selfish as their business interests?" FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social said.
Media Analysis: Mark Ruffalo, Paramount, and weaponized antisemitism
Passivity Blaster: Why I signed the Jewish open letter supporting Mark Ruffalo and opposing the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger — a media literacy breakdown
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How about this: Any time government investigators want employees to take polygraphs on whether they leaked a story to a reporter, the officials the story implicates also need to take polygraphs on whether the reporting is true.
Pentagon Subjects Roughly 50 Members of the Joint Staff to Polygraph Tests in Expanded Leak Hunt
The aggressive effort comes in the wake of news reports about the military’s diminished stocks of crucial munitions as the U.S. fights Iran.
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Dozens of immigrants have died in private detention facilities. Many suffer medical neglect. There's fear journalist Richard Parias may need his arm amputated after ICE shot him. How bad is it? We don't even know. That's why Gavin Newsom must sign this powerful public records bill in California.
First Amendment Coalition@facoalition.bsky.social · last mo.SB 423, authored by @senatorgonzalez.bsky.social, requires local agencies to disclose 911 calls and related records from detention facilities across the state. It now awaits signature by @governor.ca.gov Newsom. firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/de...
Me, on repeat to LA Mayor Karen Bass's office for 3+ years: "LAPD's training is inadequate. Even their own training bureau says so." Bass this week: "What is the training? ... it does not seem to be adequate." She appointed the chief and all commissioners. It's HER LAPD. Where's she been?!?
Deaths of 2 Men in Los Angeles Police Custody Set Off Investigations
Mayor Karen Bass questioned police training to handle mental health crises after the city released graphic video footage of officers’ actions.
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Rubén Salazar was an L.A. Times journalist who died 56 years ago while covering the Chicano Moratorium. Several local reporters and community members recently gathered to discuss his legacy and the pressures of reporting under threat of police violence and retaliation. 🧵1/7
This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank
Since the start of the second Trump administration, dozens of L.A.-based journalists have been struck with less-lethal rounds by police while covering ICE protests, according to data compiled by @adamrose.bsky.social, chair of the press rights committee of the Los Angeles Press Club. 🧵4/7
Why the death of a reporter 55 years ago matters to those covering LA protests today
Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds.
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On same album Dolly Parton released "9 to 5" she also covered Woody Guthrie's "Deportee." It's about the US government deporting 28 Mexicans on a charter plane that crashed and killed all aboard. The US buried them anonymously in a mass grave. The song speaks symbolic names to offer them dignity.
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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