David T. Z. Mindich
@davidtzmindich.bsky.social
A professor of journalism at Temple University, I am the author of books and articles that can be found here: https://www.davidtzmindich.com/ . My areas are "objectivity" (in quotes), democracy, journalism history, and minority representation.
On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which was signed by Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965, I look back and forward to our own time.
We Still Ask, “How Long?” — Writing About Our Generation
My parents participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery march, a protest that culminated in Lyndon Johnson’s signing the Voting Rights Act, 60 years ago on August 6. In Alabama, as she and my fathe...
writingaboutourgeneration.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which was signed by Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965, I look back and forward to our own time.
Teaching and Writing in a Time of DEI Backlash. Thursday, Aug. 7, at 10:15 a.m. at the AEJMC bsky.app/profile/aejm...
July 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Teaching and Writing in a Time of DEI Backlash. Thursday, Aug. 7, at 10:15 a.m. at the AEJMC bsky.app/profile/aejm...
Why democracy needs careful journalists like Jake Tapper.
Mullin: "In 2009 there was sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration with Epstein."
Tapper: "No, that's not right. It was 2008. The U.S. Attorney at the time was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee He went on to become President Trump's Secretary of Labor."
Tapper: "No, that's not right. It was 2008. The U.S. Attorney at the time was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee He went on to become President Trump's Secretary of Labor."
July 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Why democracy needs careful journalists like Jake Tapper.
"If everyone has just a little bit of courage, then no one has to be a hero." --Rep. Sarah McBride, quoting her father on Pod Save America.
April 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"If everyone has just a little bit of courage, then no one has to be a hero." --Rep. Sarah McBride, quoting her father on Pod Save America.
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Next Week! Join our lunchtime roundtable to talk news ownership & presidential endorsements with @sulliview.bsky.social, Matt Brown, @davidtzmindich.bsky.social & Caitlin Petre. Register here: bit.ly/4i5fi2a @asc.upenn.edu @lizhallgren.bsky.social @dassarma.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Next Week! Join our lunchtime roundtable to talk news ownership & presidential endorsements with @sulliview.bsky.social, Matt Brown, @davidtzmindich.bsky.social & Caitlin Petre. Register here: bit.ly/4i5fi2a @asc.upenn.edu @lizhallgren.bsky.social @dassarma.bsky.social
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The Washington Post & LA Times sparked controversy by not endorsing Kamala Harris at the direction of their owners. What could this mean for journalism under Trump? Learn more at our roundtable with @sulliview.bsky.social, @davidtzmindich.bsky.social, Matt Brown & Caitlin Petre: bit.ly/4i5fi2a
March 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Washington Post & LA Times sparked controversy by not endorsing Kamala Harris at the direction of their owners. What could this mean for journalism under Trump? Learn more at our roundtable with @sulliview.bsky.social, @davidtzmindich.bsky.social, Matt Brown & Caitlin Petre: bit.ly/4i5fi2a
Participating in my first protest of the new administration: a union-led protest in NYC yesterday against cuts to education and medical research. I wasn't a speaker... just a body in the crowd... but it felt like a good start.
February 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Participating in my first protest of the new administration: a union-led protest in NYC yesterday against cuts to education and medical research. I wasn't a speaker... just a body in the crowd... but it felt like a good start.
Attempting to transfer incarcerated transgender women to men's prisons has got to be one of Cheeto Mussolini's shittiest and most dangerous moves ever.
February 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Attempting to transfer incarcerated transgender women to men's prisons has got to be one of Cheeto Mussolini's shittiest and most dangerous moves ever.
Note to my U. S. Rep:
I am outraged by Trump's EO that seeks to bar transgender women prisoners from serving in federal women's prisons. Moving these women to men's prisons subjects them to sexual assault and other violence by male prisoners. I urge your office to fight this cruel executive order.
I am outraged by Trump's EO that seeks to bar transgender women prisoners from serving in federal women's prisons. Moving these women to men's prisons subjects them to sexual assault and other violence by male prisoners. I urge your office to fight this cruel executive order.
Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates (Gift Article)
In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Note to my U. S. Rep:
I am outraged by Trump's EO that seeks to bar transgender women prisoners from serving in federal women's prisons. Moving these women to men's prisons subjects them to sexual assault and other violence by male prisoners. I urge your office to fight this cruel executive order.
I am outraged by Trump's EO that seeks to bar transgender women prisoners from serving in federal women's prisons. Moving these women to men's prisons subjects them to sexual assault and other violence by male prisoners. I urge your office to fight this cruel executive order.
For those of you still taking a break from the news, this is a good time to reengage. The Times reported today on plans to start deportation raids in Chicago. Those of us with some degree of privilege have the moral responsibly to keep our eyes open and protect the least powerful.
January 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For those of you still taking a break from the news, this is a good time to reengage. The Times reported today on plans to start deportation raids in Chicago. Those of us with some degree of privilege have the moral responsibly to keep our eyes open and protect the least powerful.
With Trump's insanity about Greenland, Panama, and Canada, it's a good time to watch what I consider to be the all-time funniest take on him: John Mulaney's "A Horse in the Hospital." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...
There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke
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January 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
With Trump's insanity about Greenland, Panama, and Canada, it's a good time to watch what I consider to be the all-time funniest take on him: John Mulaney's "A Horse in the Hospital." www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...
My latest article, printed Christmas morning, inspired by a movie that asks existential questions about how the world would look without us. writingaboutourgeneration.com/blog-2-2/wha...
What’s Wonderful about this Life — Writing About Our Generation
It’s A Wonderful Life premiered in December 1946 and nearly eight decades of Christmases later, we keep watching George Bailey peer over a bridge railing, his head filled with a ...
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December 25, 2024 at 1:41 PM
My latest article, printed Christmas morning, inspired by a movie that asks existential questions about how the world would look without us. writingaboutourgeneration.com/blog-2-2/wha...
I don't care how many friends I lose over this controversial opinion, but the time has come for a courageous stand, even if I stand alone. Here goes: I think polio is bad.
December 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
I don't care how many friends I lose over this controversial opinion, but the time has come for a courageous stand, even if I stand alone. Here goes: I think polio is bad.
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"Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission"
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
Trump Names Charles Kushner as Pick for Ambassador to France
The announcement elevated Mr. Kushner, the father of President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and the recipient of a presidential pardon at the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:30 PM
"Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission"
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
and so now he will be US ambassador to France
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
As a historian who studies race and representation, I often dip into Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, which explains clearly and cogently how elites have long used bigotry and xenophobia to keep workers in check. Zinn can help us to understand Trump (A thread). 1/x
November 25, 2024 at 7:20 PM
As a historian who studies race and representation, I often dip into Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, which explains clearly and cogently how elites have long used bigotry and xenophobia to keep workers in check. Zinn can help us to understand Trump (A thread). 1/x
I try to be nonpartisan in front of my large Journalism and Society lecture class, but today I told my students how disgusted I was by Nancy Mace's resolution that would forbid trans women from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity, targeting one person: Sarah McBride. Just vile.
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
I try to be nonpartisan in front of my large Journalism and Society lecture class, but today I told my students how disgusted I was by Nancy Mace's resolution that would forbid trans women from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity, targeting one person: Sarah McBride. Just vile.
November 21, 2024 at 12:06 AM
It was 8.5 years ago that I wrote this widely-shared piece in CJR about the need for journalists to push back against then-candidate Trump like Edward R. Murrow did against Joseph McCarthy. Years later, some of you might find it timely. www.cjr.org/analysis/tru... @columjournreview.bsky.social
For journalists covering Trump, a Murrow moment
As Edward R. Murrow wrapped up his now-famous special report condemning Joseph McCarthy in 1954, he looked into the camera and said words that could apply today. “He didn’t create this situation of fe...
www.cjr.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:47 PM
It was 8.5 years ago that I wrote this widely-shared piece in CJR about the need for journalists to push back against then-candidate Trump like Edward R. Murrow did against Joseph McCarthy. Years later, some of you might find it timely. www.cjr.org/analysis/tru... @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Who made this? Ahahaha
November 15, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Who made this? Ahahaha
There are many reasons to be frustrated with the New York Times, but it is still one of our best checks on power and worthy of our attention and financial support. Today’s powerful editorial: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Reckless Choices for National Leadership
Three extreme cabinet nominations demonstrate his contempt for a responsible executive branch.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:55 AM
There are many reasons to be frustrated with the New York Times, but it is still one of our best checks on power and worthy of our attention and financial support. Today’s powerful editorial: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...
Has there ever been a pick worse than Matt Gaetz?
November 13, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Has there ever been a pick worse than Matt Gaetz?
In case you're in the market for a new media textbook. The second edition of this book is out now.
November 13, 2024 at 12:52 AM
In case you're in the market for a new media textbook. The second edition of this book is out now.