Damon Kiesow
@damon.kiesow.net
Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
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Damon Kiesow
@damon.kiesow.net
· Nov 12
Who am I following here?
People who create, develop and protect knowledge.
Who study history and democracy.
Who take a critical eye to technology.
Who monitor public health, labor, supply chains.
People who create, develop and protect knowledge.
Who study history and democracy.
Who take a critical eye to technology.
Who monitor public health, labor, supply chains.
Co-governance is dead. Tenure is tenuous. Texas is dismantling higher education.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Co-governance is dead. Tenure is tenuous. Texas is dismantling higher education.
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"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."
Public Universities FTW!
Public Universities FTW!
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."
Public Universities FTW!
Public Universities FTW!
The moment you decide a public service is "losing money" is the moment people in rural areas can start the clock to the day they have to pay double for a commercial supplier.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The moment you decide a public service is "losing money" is the moment people in rural areas can start the clock to the day they have to pay double for a commercial supplier.
Someone tweets this every year but Bob Cratchit's 15 shillings a week is about $65,000 annually, inflation adusted today.
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Someone tweets this every year but Bob Cratchit's 15 shillings a week is about $65,000 annually, inflation adusted today.
“Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, upon a Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.”
Guess who’s playing with his phone after bedtime again? (No, this is not what licenses do, ch. LXXVII)
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
December 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, upon a Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.”
Home Alone isn’t really a Christmas movie; it’s a thinly veiled allegory of Boomer guilt about the Regan Administration - an era of high crime, growing economic inequity, and parental absence dressed up in tinsel.
December 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Home Alone isn’t really a Christmas movie; it’s a thinly veiled allegory of Boomer guilt about the Regan Administration - an era of high crime, growing economic inequity, and parental absence dressed up in tinsel.
If digital platforms use AI to to present search results including news reports and they libel someone through a summarization error - they need to be held accountable as any other publisher would be.
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If digital platforms use AI to to present search results including news reports and they libel someone through a summarization error - they need to be held accountable as any other publisher would be.
Reposted by Damon Kiesow
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
Make reading the news subversive again.
December 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Make reading the news subversive again.
This is a great summation of the ethics of the Weiss affair by @theravennareport.com www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yDt9Lp/
Replying to @BabyPineapples When ‘Both Sides’ Becomes a Shield for Power & Propaganda, Journalism Fails #bariweiss #freepress #cbsnews #contrarian #journalisticintegrity
TikTok video by The Ravenna Report
www.tiktok.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This is a great summation of the ethics of the Weiss affair by @theravennareport.com www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yDt9Lp/
Hey, so do we know how Joe Pesci was aware those tire marks were made by a 1963 Pontiac Tempest not a 1964 Buick Skylark before he called his hostile expert witness?
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hey, so do we know how Joe Pesci was aware those tire marks were made by a 1963 Pontiac Tempest not a 1964 Buick Skylark before he called his hostile expert witness?
Sad but common. Gannett drained the Rolla Daily News of resources, sold it to more local owners who merged it into a competitor. Now the original domain is - AI, spam, pink slime? Not sure? But not Rolla, Missouri.
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Sad but common. Gannett drained the Rolla Daily News of resources, sold it to more local owners who merged it into a competitor. Now the original domain is - AI, spam, pink slime? Not sure? But not Rolla, Missouri.
A paradox of the digital age is earned media is great for the mission of journalism and almost useless for the business of journalism.
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A paradox of the digital age is earned media is great for the mission of journalism and almost useless for the business of journalism.
This is such a great example of the digital power shift to consumers. Once content leaves your owned-and-operated property - you lose any control and so now we are all watching pirated video from Canada.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is such a great example of the digital power shift to consumers. Once content leaves your owned-and-operated property - you lose any control and so now we are all watching pirated video from Canada.
Here is a thing 30-year veteran investigative journalists enjoy: condescending memos from corporate.
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Here is a thing 30-year veteran investigative journalists enjoy: condescending memos from corporate.
Reposted by Damon Kiesow
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes.
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Reading 'Manufacturing Consent' and striking how much of it is now outdated (e.g. barriers to entry due to capital costs) and how much is totally relevant: consolidation and elite service (e.g. just this week: CBS.)
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reading 'Manufacturing Consent' and striking how much of it is now outdated (e.g. barriers to entry due to capital costs) and how much is totally relevant: consolidation and elite service (e.g. just this week: CBS.)
Reposted by Damon Kiesow
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
Broken website; Unintentional art.
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Broken website; Unintentional art.
Reposted by Damon Kiesow
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
In 1983 Bagdikian warned that 50 companies controlled most of the U.S. media.
Can you imagine having 50? A veritable golden age of diverse ownership by comparison.
Can you imagine having 50? A veritable golden age of diverse ownership by comparison.
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
In 1983 Bagdikian warned that 50 companies controlled most of the U.S. media.
Can you imagine having 50? A veritable golden age of diverse ownership by comparison.
Can you imagine having 50? A veritable golden age of diverse ownership by comparison.
The new owners at CBS are not huge fans of news.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The new owners at CBS are not huge fans of news.