🧵Thread🧵 I launched a newsletter, called Holden Court, about the media, what they get wrong & why it matters. The goal is to reach beyond what my 🧵s have on Twitter & to build a better recent history of media & media criticism. You can sign up at the link in my bio. More ⤵️
At that link you can read my launch piece and get a better idea of what it is that I’m trying to do. The piece also walks through a recent example of bad media coverage that I worry we’re already forgetting about: the start of Covid.
My general premise for the newsletter is that media criticism could be a lot better; more driven by what the media actually does and says and more set in recent context, rather than an impressionistic sense that the media is hopelessly off-track.
I think doing so will help convince the majority of Americans, who currently trust the information they get from the national media, to be more critical, or at least more clear-eyed about the veracity of some of that info.
But doing that will require setting a baseline: here’s what the media has said and done, in their own words, not an interpretation of that which might play better on social media or TV. By chronicling that history accurately, I think we can all find more common ground.