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The media pundit's pundit. Written by NYC insider Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine covers news, media, journalism, and politics.

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12,360 from 22 Sep 2001 to 30 Oct 2026
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Latest

October 2026

  1. A day in the life of the #BrokenTimes

September 2026

  1. They’re covering the wrong AI story
  2. 25 Years
  3. Labor and the Linotype

August 2026

  1. Sam Clemens, compositor
  2. Introducing my book ‘Hot Type’
  3. Words matter. Damnit.

July 2026

  1. AI Communism

June 2026

  1. California’s squandered opportunity
  2. To redefine progress
  3. (The) Public(‘s) Media: The New Jersey Model
  4. AI has a communication problem

May 2026

  1. Mourning that which never was
  2. Don Newhouse
  3. Pope Leo and human intelligence
  4. Ted Turner

April 2026

  1. Technology Does Not Belong to the Technologists

March 2026

  1. Announcing ‘Intelligence: AI and Humanity’
  2. Habermas and his coffeehouses
  3. Rethinking intelligence

January 2026

  1. Back from a brink

September 2025

  1. The nation is lost

August 2025

  1. Len Tow

July 2025

  1. Whither Colbert? Whither democracy
  2. The Times’ Mamdani vendetta

February 2025

  1. Here we go again

January 2025

  1. The whole world is whining
  2. How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy

November 2024

  1. It’s the racism, stupid
  2. How Fucked Are We? Very.

October 2024

  1. The technology addiction trope

September 2024

  1. How they have failed us
  2. What’s become of The Times & Co.?
  3. The unprecedented grand coalition

August 2024

  1. How Murdoch makes a meme
  2. California’s Deal for News
  3. Could a new day dawn at The Times?
  4. What ‘Press’?

July 2024

  1. White voters heard here
  2. In mass media’s death throes
  3. As complicated as Black and white

June 2024

  1. How to save news?
  2. The new pyramid of discovery
  3. This is no way to save the news

May 2024

  1. Demote the doomsters
  2. News bills: From bad to worse

April 2024

  1. The Times is broken
  2. Newspapers can be jerks

March 2024

  1. AI in Reflection

February 2024

  1. Reflections in the ‘woke’ mirror

January 2024

  1. Is it time to give up on old news?
  2. Make Bell Labs an internet museum
  3. In the echo chamber
  4. Journalism and AI
  5. A journalism of belief and belonging

November 2023

  1. Artificial general bullshit

September 2023

  1. Gibberish from the machine
  2. A generation later: What have we learned?
  3. Moving on
  4. Copyright and AI and journalism

August 2023

  1. A few unpopular opinions about AI

June 2023

  1. California’s protectionist legislation
  2. ChatGPT goes to court

May 2023

  1. Trafficking in traffic

April 2023

  1. Darrell V. Jarvis, 1926-2023

February 2023

  1. Journalism is lossy compression

December 2022

  1. Writing as exclusion
  2. We, the tweeters

November 2022

  1. On joining Mastodon
  2. Telling the story that defies telling
  3. Hope for a post-Musk net

October 2022

  1. Habermas online
  2. 20 Post-it provocations on media

September 2022

  1. Publishers’ political blackmail
  2. — BuzzMachine

August 2022

  1. The story media miss: themselves

June 2022

  1. How harmful is it?

May 2022

  1. Toward a journalistic ethic of citation

April 2022

  1. Concede defeat to bad speech

March 2022

  1. Where is our moral line in Ukraine?

February 2022

  1. Who’s breaking the news?

January 2022

  1. The journalism of expectations
  2. Web .0000012

December 2021

  1. Continua: Lessons from two books on books
  2. Disinformation is not *the* problem

October 2021

  1. Studying the internet
  2. God made a social network

September 2021

  1. Aftermath

July 2021

  1. Someone made my father sick

May 2021

  1. A thank-you note to the net

March 2021

  1. Statement to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust

February 2021

  1. Murdoch’s law and the net
  2. In league with Murdoch
  3. Scissors and Murdoch’s cynicism

January 2021

  1. Here comes the judge
  2. Trump v. Facebook
  3. The Counter-Reformation
  4. Speechless: An allegory for our time

December 2020

  1. Our movement

October 2020

  1. The roots of totalitarianism & Trump: To a new journalism
  2. Trump’s scorched Earth
  3. Facebook: Constitution before statutes

September 2020

  1. The end of applause
  2. Attacks on the People’s Press

August 2020

  1. The YouTube convention
  2. The history of print, media & journalism in 45 minutes
  3. A few pandemic pivots

June 2020

  1. The time is now, cable news
  2. Journalism school: Why now?
  3. The last stand of the old, white man
  4. Mark Zuckerberg: Now is the time for your Oversight Board
  5. Speech is not harmful: A lesson to be relearned

May 2020

  1. Sprouts from the ashes
  2. A conversation with Steak-umm’s Twitter voice, Nathan Allebach

April 2020

  1. The open information ecosystem
  2. COVID Journalism: Episodes 1-4
  3. 9/11-19

March 2020

  1. Time for Experts
  2. In this crisis, God bless the net

February 2020

  1. Stop. Stop the presses.

January 2020

  1. The next net: expertise
  2. In defense of targeting

December 2019

  1. Enough testosterone
  2. Thank you, Kamala Harris

November 2019

  1. Harmful speech as the new porn
  2. Polls subvert democracy: Media’s willful erasure of Kamala Harris’ campaign

October 2019

  1. Unpopular decisions

September 2019

  1. For a National Journalism Jury
  2. ‘Decomputerize?’ Over My Dead Laptop!
  3. How the Dystos Defeated the Technos: A dystopian vision

August 2019

  1. Worries
  2. Governance: Facebook designs its oversight board (should journalism?)
  3. Beto to journalism: ‘What the fuck?’

July 2019

  1. Evidence, please

June 2019

  1. News Publishers Go To War With the Internet — and We All Lose

May 2019

  1. Regulating the net is regulating us

April 2019

  1. A Crisis of Cognition
  2. Proposals for Reasonable Technology Regulation and an Internet Court

March 2019

  1. Media Education and Change

February 2019

  1. Europe Against the Net
  2. Scorched Earth

January 2019

  1. Journalism is the conversation. The conversation is journalism.
  2. We Have Met the Problem. Guess Who?
  3. A Rising Moral Panic
  4. The kids are alright. Grandpa’s the problem.
  5. Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.

December 2018

  1. The Spiegel Scandal and the Seduction of Storytelling
  2. Facebook. Sigh.

August 2018

  1. There is no Trump without Murdoch
  2. Congratulations, America. Victory against Infowars!

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