In which the Murdochs' Journal swallows whole PR from the miniMurdochs' CBS.
Nick Bilton Tries to Steady ‘60 Minutes’ After Chaotic Week
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/nick-bilton-tries-to-steady-60-minutes-after-chaotic-week-c943ae55?st=N57RLD

And the FT is credulous: "What began as an effort to modernise CBS News has spiralled into one of the most dramatic newsroom crises in recent US media history."
Modernize? No. Destroy.
Inside the CBS mutiny against Bari Weiss and David Ellison
https://www.ft.com/content/6b54109c-cc81-4b2c-961d-9ef91b38aa4c

And so does The Times.
New ‘60 Minutes’ Chief Promises Independence in Bid to Reassure Staff
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/business/nick-bilton-60-minutes-memo.html

@dalias
See the new image. How's that?

@dalias
I was afraid someone would think the X was part of the mailer: fake on fake.

The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.

It doesn't much matter, as CBS is already dead and 60 Minutes was a dead show walking, but this is a disaster upon a disaster.
CBS News Names an Outsider, Nick Bilton, to Lead ‘60 Minutes’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/media/nick-bilton-60-minutes-bari-weiss.html?smid=tw-share

"Unusual." Swirl that around the journalistic palate. "Unusual." You couldn't find a better and more informative adjective, #BrokenTimes?

A prudent call (at the link) to "Stop calling it ''AI psychosis'" by Tamsin Parnell
In The Web we Weave (below) I wrote about similar issues with alleged "internet addiction."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03019-4

@Gargron
I guess I see AI ghosts everywhere.

Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.

At last: A motion calling for the mainline Presbyterian Church to "publicly repudiate Christian Nationalism as a theological error and moral threat" and "a theological distortion that replaces faithfulness to Christ with idolatrous allegiance to coercive systems of power that seek control, enforce conformity, and undermine both democracy and the integrity of Christian witness."
h/t to my sister, the Rev. Jarvis
https://lakemichiganpresbytery.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/PLM-Overture-to-the-227th-General-Assembly-of-the-Presbyterian-Church.pdf

Trump's friends. Trump's economy.
Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/shell-profit-oil-iran-war.html?smid=tw-share

Who knew that Ask.com even made it into this century? The Times waxes nostalgic about a site no one used.
So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/business/ask-jeeves-shuts-down-internet-search-engine.html?smid=tw-share

Allegory for all that is happening: Trump goon confiscates Oscar from the star of movie about authoritarian Russia, arguing it could be used as a weapon on a flight escaping authoritarian America.
Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/oscar-missing-pavel-talankin-putin-documentary

Happy ending to a story that still should not have occurred: Lufthansa found the Oscar. https://deadline.com/2026/05/oscar-winners-missing-academy-award-update-1236877350/

This sucks. RIghtsCon canceled days before because the government of Zambia says it needs to "fully [align] with national procedures, diplomatic protocols, and the broader objective of fostering a balanced and consensus-driven platform for dialogue.”
https://www.404media.co/rightscon-human-rights-conference-suddenly-postponed/

@Gargron
The current definition (and motive) differs from the original.

The New Yorker asks the wrong question, and enters into the Luddism derby against The Atlantic and The Guardian.
"I don’t like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it....I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor"
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/what-will-it-take-to-get-ai-out-of-schools

As of 9:15, Washington Post is way behind The Times on this story in its hometown: the cost of cutbacks.