Vince Filak
@doctorofpaper.bsky.social
UW-Oshkosh journalism professor, author of "Dynamics" media textbooks, blogger at DynamicsOfWriting.com, #Mizzou Ph.D., @DailyCardinal alum. Editor of JMC Educator. Come for the knowledge, and the sarcasm is free.
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Always read @parkermolloy.com — "The essay isn’t the point. Curth is the point. And the point after Curth will be someone else — another trans teacher, another trans healthcare provider, another trans person who made the mistake of existing in public while the machine was looking for a new target."
Same Script, Different Target
A trans instructor in Oklahoma gave a bad essay the grade it deserved. What happened next follows a formula the right has perfected.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Always read @parkermolloy.com — "The essay isn’t the point. Curth is the point. And the point after Curth will be someone else — another trans teacher, another trans healthcare provider, another trans person who made the mistake of existing in public while the machine was looking for a new target."
It’s beginning to look a lot like Cliche-mas in journalistic writing (A Throwback Post)
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Cliche-mas in journalistic writing (A Throwback Post)
It’s not that I don’t want a Christmas miracle or a white Christmas or a bit of holiday cheer. And if I had but one holiday wish, as I got a kiss under the mistletoe, it would be this: …
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Cliche-mas in journalistic writing (A Throwback Post)
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Tell me how to help people with money I might not actually get: A look at the Anthropic AI lawsuit and its $1.5 billion settlement:
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Tell me how to help people with money I might not actually get: A look at the Anthropic AI lawsuit and its $1.5 billion settlement
As if this semester hasn’t been weird enough, I got this email from a colleague on Monday: In case you hadn’t seen this, Anthropic is being sued for copyright infringement. Two of your books…
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December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tell me how to help people with money I might not actually get: A look at the Anthropic AI lawsuit and its $1.5 billion settlement:
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
The Rolling Stones
Indigo Girls
Paul McCartney
Cyndi Lauper
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
Indigo Girls
Paul McCartney
Cyndi Lauper
The Rolling Stones
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts.
Leonard Cohen
The Gaslight Anthem
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young
Dessa
Leonard Cohen
The Gaslight Anthem
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young
Dessa
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts.
Dave Swabrick
Motörhead
Oysterband
Ben Caplan
Bob Dylan
Dave Swabrick
Motörhead
Oysterband
Ben Caplan
Bob Dylan
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
The Rolling Stones
Indigo Girls
Paul McCartney
Cyndi Lauper
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
Indigo Girls
Paul McCartney
Cyndi Lauper
The Rolling Stones
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✨ @jeffpearlman.bsky.social is WEARING AN EXPOS CAP and TALKING ABOUT THE BILLY RIPKEN 1989 FLEER "FUCK FACE" CARD. youtu.be/hcgMH4qMVYw?...
Billy Ripken & The F*** Face Card | The Funniest Baseball Card Of All-Time
YouTube video by Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
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November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
✨ @jeffpearlman.bsky.social is WEARING AN EXPOS CAP and TALKING ABOUT THE BILLY RIPKEN 1989 FLEER "FUCK FACE" CARD. youtu.be/hcgMH4qMVYw?...
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Our representative survey of 1000+ journalists reveals:
• Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks
• How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly
• Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies
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• Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks
• How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly
• Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Our representative survey of 1000+ journalists reveals:
• Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks
• How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly
• Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
• Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks
• How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly
• Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
It’s time for some unpleasant honesty for journalism folks based on the Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza/RFK Jr. debacle
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It’s time for some unpleasant honesty for journalism folks based on the Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza/RFK Jr. debacle
THE LEAD: As much as I wished this weren’t the case, we aren’t finished learning all the lurid details of the Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza/RFK Jr. debacle: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote disgr…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It’s time for some unpleasant honesty for journalism folks based on the Olivia Nuzzi/Ryan Lizza/RFK Jr. debacle
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They used to have seats that didn’t crush you and serve food that was actual food. Like once we got a lobster tail on a flight. Not kidding
Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They used to have seats that didn’t crush you and serve food that was actual food. Like once we got a lobster tail on a flight. Not kidding
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This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
The line is “How much sizzle do we get versus how much heat do we have to take?” And if you find yourself asking that question, it’s rarely about something good.
So where, precisely, is the line for Vanity Fair?
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi
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November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The line is “How much sizzle do we get versus how much heat do we have to take?” And if you find yourself asking that question, it’s rarely about something good.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one that didn’t give money to a man describing RFK JR and felching.
And that has made all the difference.
I took the one that didn’t give money to a man describing RFK JR and felching.
And that has made all the difference.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one that didn’t give money to a man describing RFK JR and felching.
And that has made all the difference.
I took the one that didn’t give money to a man describing RFK JR and felching.
And that has made all the difference.
As a scummy weasel whose mother didn’t raise me right, I’d like to offer my support to the loud, rude piggies and terrible reporters out there (A Throwback Post)
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As a scummy weasel whose mother didn’t raise me right, I’d like to offer my support to the loud, rude piggies and terrible reporters out there (A Throwback Post)
President Donald Trump spent part of the last several days living up to his reputation of being “combative” with the media. During an event featuring a Saudi Prince, he told a journalis…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
As a scummy weasel whose mother didn’t raise me right, I’d like to offer my support to the loud, rude piggies and terrible reporters out there (A Throwback Post)
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Today we bring back one of the most popular features of the blog: The Junk Drawer.
Dig through the post to find out about court cases involving newspaper raids, why we need copy editors and the nicest possible insult I've received in years:
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Dig through the post to find out about court cases involving newspaper raids, why we need copy editors and the nicest possible insult I've received in years:
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The Junk Drawer: The Big, Beautiful Edition
Welcome to this edition of the junk drawer. As we have outlined in previous junk drawer posts, this is a random collection of stuff that is important but didn’t fit anywhere else, much like that dr…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Today we bring back one of the most popular features of the blog: The Junk Drawer.
Dig through the post to find out about court cases involving newspaper raids, why we need copy editors and the nicest possible insult I've received in years:
dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/19/t...
Dig through the post to find out about court cases involving newspaper raids, why we need copy editors and the nicest possible insult I've received in years:
dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/19/t...
Breaking (or Broken) News: The pros and cons of keeping track of what’s going on in small towns via social media during the decline of legacy media
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Breaking (or Broken) News: The pros and cons of keeping track of what’s going on in small towns via social media during the decline of legacy media
While driving home from Milwaukee this weekend, I could see a haze of smoke in the distance that just kept getting bigger the closer I got to the house. I first spotted it about 20 miles south of w…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Breaking (or Broken) News: The pros and cons of keeping track of what’s going on in small towns via social media during the decline of legacy media
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Bad Teddy
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Bad Teddy
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I'm terrified of AI, but for sports fans, this is pretty amazing. www.instagram.com/living.cardb...
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I'm terrified of AI, but for sports fans, this is pretty amazing. www.instagram.com/living.cardb...
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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As a former IU faculty member, this doesn't shock me. But it does make me so angry and so, so sad.
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
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November 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
As a former IU faculty member, this doesn't shock me. But it does make me so angry and so, so sad.
If you're looking for ways to discuss and debate ethics in the media, here are a couple ideas (one planned, the other accidental) for this week's Throwback Thursday post:
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If you can make an easy decision and not feel torn about it, you really didn’t have an ethical dilemma (A Throwback Post)
Around this time of year, we tend to cover ethics in a few of my classes. Granted, we talk about the importance of ethics all year in various ways, but this is when we hunker down and say, “O…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If you're looking for ways to discuss and debate ethics in the media, here are a couple ideas (one planned, the other accidental) for this week's Throwback Thursday post:
dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/13/i...
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If you're looking for a simple and engaging exercise for a media class today, here's a quick post on how you can have them take a peek at the media coverage of the end of the shutdown:
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Exercise Time: How did your media frame the ending of the shutdown?
(There’s not a lot of gray area in how Jon Stewart framed this, but you might find more nuance in the other media you consume…) The government shutdown began its bureaucratic crawl towa…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
If you're looking for a simple and engaging exercise for a media class today, here's a quick post on how you can have them take a peek at the media coverage of the end of the shutdown:
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dynamicsofwriting.com/2025/11/12/e...
“The Tool Doesn’t Know It’s Hurting You:” Learning user responsibilities in working with Artificial Intelligence
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“The Tool Doesn’t Know It’s Hurting You:” Learning user responsibilities in working with Artificial Intelligence
(I’ve done a number of dumb things with tools. This one, thankfully, has never occurred to me.) On a relatively frequent basis, I find myself with a new cut, ding, gash, burn or other similar…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The Tool Doesn’t Know It’s Hurting You:” Learning user responsibilities in working with Artificial Intelligence
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The median home price in the U.S. is $435,000. At 6.5% interest:
30-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,750
- Total Loan Cost: $989,800
50-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,450
- Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300
$1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.
30-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,750
- Total Loan Cost: $989,800
50-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,450
- Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300
$1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The median home price in the U.S. is $435,000. At 6.5% interest:
30-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,750
- Total Loan Cost: $989,800
50-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,450
- Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300
$1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.
30-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,750
- Total Loan Cost: $989,800
50-Year Mortgage:
- Monthly Payment: $2,450
- Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300
$1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.