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This isn't the odds, it's the stakes.

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Of the five boroughs in NYC, Staten Island is Trump's stronghold. Yet today the borough's newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, "enthusiastically" endorsed Harris, calling her "the only choice in 2024," and delivering some tough love to readers 🧵

Semafor boss to Jeff Bezos: "We need you, Jeff, to roll up your sleeves and get in the game. A last minute, controversial decision to cancel presidential endorsements is the kind of backward-looking tinkering that ultimately slows down this reinvention." semafor.com/article/11/03/…

Margaret Sullivan Jay Rosen Most did not.

In her interview with me about "not the odds, but the stakes," Margaret Sullivan asked me: Did it work? I said real success would have required broad adoption of a more urgent principle, replacing "state of the race" reporting with the race to secure democracy. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-media-crit…

Yep. This is what good faith critics and loyal readers are seeing and saying as we round the final turn. From Parker Molloy

The former public editor of the New York Times, Margaret Sullivan, interviewed me about the six-word newsroom corrective I have been floating since 2022: "Not the odds, but the stakes." margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-media-crit…

"With the 2024 presidential election a few weeks away, one question was top of mind for staff at The New York Times: Had the paper’s leadership noticed how many Democrats had become furious at it over its coverage of Donald Trump?" semafor.com/article/11/03/… What's striking to me

In today's Times. nytimes.com/2024/11/04/us/…

I agree with Dan.

I remember trying to talk about the crisis around the lack of trust in mainstream journalism at a panel last year and getting shrugged off. This is going the increasingly be a problem, no matter who wins today.

.The Philadelphia Inquirer is a for-profit, owned by a nonprofit. Has ads, subscriptions & donations. Breaks even. And models how to cover local elections. 👇

I did my doctoral dissertation (1986) on the idea of a public informed by the press. I'm not sure that idea survives this.

As we say on the internet, "some personal news..." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this essay I take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight. pressthink.org

Thanks to Jay Rosen for introducing these very useful terms and concepts: "The view from nowhere” and the “savvy style” in political journalism both spread in this fashion, as did this mantra during the 2024 campaign: “Not the odds, but the stakes.” pressthink.org/2025/06/some-p…