Q&A discussion Saturday, May 11, 6 ET, 3 PT

Our monthly online meet up for paid subscribers will focus on the ongoing, deeply problematic media coverage as the 2024 election is upon us. Trying out a Saturday chat this week!

This past Saturday’s baguettes, my (almost weekly) morning task as I work on the Weekend Report.

Hi all,

Next Sunday, I’m visiting my mom for Mother’s Day. So we’re going to meet for our Zoom Q&A on Saturday. Plus, some people have asked for a different day, so hopefully this works for them!

Jamison Foser, an incisive progressive media critic who writes Finding Gravity here on Substack—which you should subscribe to if you don’t already—will join me to talk about the continued problems with corporate media as the election is upon us and what journalists should be doing.

I spoke last week on my SiriusXM program with longtime journalist, author, media analyst, and City University of New York journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, who’d written a searing piece on The New York Times coverage, and he gave us a lot of media history for context on the current state of affairs. I speak regularly on my radio program with New York University media professor Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin of Press Watch as we explore all the bad ways the press is covering politics in general and the election.

And Jamison Foser has been on the program as well, so I’m glad he’ll be joining us in our online Q&A. Jamison has worked as a political strategist for years and was executive vice president at Media Matters, working there in the early days from 2004 to 2012. So we will have a lot to discuss with someone who’s been deeply involved in the mix of politics and media.

We’ll meet this Saturday, May 11, at 6 p.m. ET and 3 p.m. PT.

These Zoom chats are for paid subscribers, and you can upgrade below (or above) if you want to join.

I will send the link for registration next Saturday, early in the day, before I send out the usual Weekend Report (as I'm making the dough and baking those baguettes.)

Thanks!