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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 21/09/2026

Some personal news: I'm honored to be the new Welch-Bridgewater Chair in Sports Journalism at Oklahoma State University. Excited to invest in our amazing, ambitious students to ensure one of the first and largest sports media programs in the world remains one of the best.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 11/09/2026

Today's college students weren't alive on September 11, 2001. I miss doing this lecture series. I wonder if revamping it for a new generation would be effective. dylanmclemore.com/2011/09/13/t...

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Teaching September 11

One of my senior-level seminar courses took a break from our normal lecture schedule last week to look back at the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their impact on journalism, culture, and …

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 28/08/2026

We did a study earlier this year that found virtually no one in weather media adopted "Gulf of America." However, many switched to shorthand "Gulf." Given the proximity of the other Great Lakes, I'm not sure "Lake" will work to dodge the controversy.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 27/07/2026

Super media wonk stuff: CBS has been relegated to a digital subchannel in my hometown of Jackson, MS. The Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate of over 70 years is switching to CW. The Hearst-owned ABC affiliate will now also air CBS network content on a subchannel. www.wapt.com/article/wapt...

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16 WAPT will expand programming to include CBS on Aug. 1

Beginning Aug. 1, you'll be able to watch CBS programming right here from 16 WAPT, including CBS primetime shows, CBS Sports, and CBS News.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 19/07/2026

As you're watching this World Cup final, realize roughly 1 in 4 people on earth are doing the same thing right now. Nothing brings us together like sport. And in sport, there's nothing like the World Cup.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 13/07/2026

🚨 AI is a media literacy issue 🚨 People who believe McConnell's newspaper is AI generated are using AI to "enhance" the image, then taking the gibberish it produces as proof the original is fake. It's a circle of misinformation.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 13/07/2026

The McConnell photo raises a hazard of AI in breaking news. Generative AI- the reason people are hyper-skeptical to begin with- initially reasoned the photo and the newspaper were AI fabrications. They only corrected after humans ID'ing it as today's WaPo reached their corpus.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 09/07/2026

I'm teaching a fully online asynchronous course this summer. I hate webcam proctoring. My university bills students extra (even for fully automated recording!). Screw that. The guardrails are down, the exams are as AI-resistant as I can manage... let the fireworks begin.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 06/06/2026

Excited to be a part of this conversation with brilliant scholars from around the world. Join us! #ica26

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 04/06/2026

#ica26 tip: The Two Oceans Aquarium is excellent. And the already affordable admission is even less expensive if you buy your ticket on-site after 3 p.m.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 03/06/2026

#ica26 tip: If touring Cape Point / The Cape of Good Hope, absolutely opt to hike from the lighthouse to the southernmost point. It's exhilarating and the views are spectacular! But you'll miss it if you take the road to the photo-op with the sign.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 07/05/2026

I know I sound like an old man yelling at clouds when I complain about overreliance on shoddy LMS like Canvas... but sometimes the curmudgeons are right!!!

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 05/04/2026

Before this morning, Donald Trump had never used any form of "fuck," "bastards," or "Allah" on Truth or X (he has quoted others using the words). Searching for the use of an apostrophe to shorten a word is tougher, but I can't find him ever doing it before.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 05/04/2026

News media should publish Trump's statement as written. Broadcasters under FCC regulation should dare the chairman to cry indecency over quoting the presdient's public remarks. The language is newsworthy. Don't sanitize it.

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 10/03/2026

A lab lizard longed for freedom and knocked out power to the Oklahoma State University campus

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 19/02/2026

Hair splitting over this CBS/FCC/Colbert thing. Maybe it's easier to think of in terms of another FCC regulation: indecency. The FCC doesn't censor. Networks censor because if they don't, the FCC can fine them. Who is driving the censorship? The one administering the punishment.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 17/02/2026

CBS says that The Late Show didn't want to provide equal time. But all the network had to do is give candidates late night airtime on a few Texas affiliates. The rule doesn't require Colbert interview them all... did CBS?

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 09/02/2026

You can tell the rage baiters were counting on Bad Bunny doing something overtly anti-American and were left with "he sang in Spanish." Real old man yells at cloud vibes over there today.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 09/02/2026

Last year's Super Bowl was also a blowout and set a viewership record anyway. I doubt this one gets there for two reasons: 1. Not close to the same star power as Eagles v. Chiefs 2. No free stream to pad the numbers (last year's got an extra 13.6 million from Tubi)

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 09/02/2026

I'm deeply offended. I was promised my all-American halftime show would be in ENGLISH!

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 09/02/2026

Like that Adrien Brody TurboTax commercial? Here's a reminder why Intuit can afford a celebrity Super Bowl ad...

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

After FOX drew widespread criticism for their totally redesigned minimalist score bug at last year's Super Bowl, NBC plays it safe. Rounded some edges but otherwise the graphics package is unchanged.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

Green Day didn't go off-script? THAT'S the power of the National Football League.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

Believe it or not, this will be Mike Tirico's first Super Bowl from the play-by-play chair. He took over for Al Michaels after the 2022 game. Then FOX got 2 of the last 3 as NBC lined up its Super Bowl rotation with the Winter Olympics in the new NFL rights deal.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

You don't have to pay to watch the Super Bowl! You don't have to bootleg the Super Bowl! NBC is an over-the-air broadcast network! It's what that antenna on your parents' ancient Magnavox is for! Plug it it! Point it at the sky!! Free TV!!!

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

Biggest reason you're watching the Super Bowl tonight: The ads? The halftime show? A party? The game itself? No polls here, so just reply with your answer!

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/02/2026

The Super Bowl was one of my favorite Twitter experiences. This year I'm trying it out here. Show me what you've got, Bluesky. Let's make some second screen magic.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 07/02/2026

NBC cut the Milan crowd booing JD Vance in its tape delay of the Opening Ceremony. Not about appeasing Trump. NBC's Olympics coverage has been wall-to-wall nationalism for decades. They won't air a thing in primetime that makes the US look less than gold. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 27/01/2026

What a tragic exemplar of the shift in our country the last decade: One of the richest men in the world went from saving a great newspaper and investing in its public service to tanking the whole enterprise because he couldn't stomach perspectives that weren't his own.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 26/01/2026

A subreddit called r/the_darnold, a parody of r/the_donald filled with MAGA-style cult adoration for Sam Darnold, is having a moment as their GEQBUS (God Emperor Quarterback of the United States) makes the Super Bowl.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 21/01/2026

Y'all sure seemed to enjoy convincing yourselves Donald Trump was dead last night. Is pissing on a grave you fantasized part of the moral superiority of this place, or no?

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 20/01/2026

Journalism nerds rejoice! This is our championship!

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 18/01/2026

The 60 Minutes CECOT piece was originally scheduled to air in the prized broadcast window after a late afternoon NFL game on CBS. Today is the first Sunday all season that CBS has no NFL games. And 60 will go directly against a playoff game on NBC. Millions of viewers lost.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 18/01/2026

Rare a story fits so neatly in my sports media + 1A law sweet spot. No, the president can't dictate a broadcast window for a football game. But he doesn't have to. It'd be terrible optics for ESPN to counter Army-Navy with a CFP game. It won't happen. Now Trump can take credit.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 15/01/2026

Do university leaders think caving to every tantrum is going to deter that behavior? They're pandering to their own demise.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 03/01/2026

On one hand, this is what every local TV news station says about their city/state in every promo ever aired. On the other, those newsrooms also commit to holding the powerful accountable. CBS - in the preceding value - pledges to lend them a microphone.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 22/12/2025

60 Minutes had the late afternoon NFL lead-in this week. Next week, FOX has the late game. It's a difference of tens of millions of viewers.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I asked a bunch of media lawyers and law professors to read Trump's lawsuit against the BBC. Every expert said they're skeptical about Trump's chances. Here's more of what they said >>> www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/m...

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Trump’s bizarre $10 billion BBC lawsuit has even more holes than his other media actions | CNN Business

Up until this year, it was unheard of for a sitting American president to sue a news outlet. In just a few months, President Donald Trump has managed to make it seem normal.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 17/12/2025

Some of my thoughts on Trump v. the BBC in this morning's Reliable Sources. (Don't worry, I'm still a Cowboy, not a Sooner 🤠)

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 06/12/2025

Twice this week the University of Oklahoma has announced they have no idea if an instructor actually did anything wrong, but because politicians out to destroy higher ed complained, they immediately yanked that instructor from the classroom. I'm sure that'll be the last one...

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 02/12/2025

Want a real First Amendment issue on a college campus? The University Alabama - relying on a memo from AG Pam Bondi - just shut down two student publications because they cover women and black students. thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 01/12/2025

Bad stuff happening in Oklahoma. There is no First Amendment issue. There is no religious discrimination. The graduate instructor exemplified model teaching. The student and her mother targeted the instructor because she is transgender. The university is helping because grad students are powerless.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 08/11/2025

College football you can watch for free with an antenna this weekend: N'western @ 19 USC 2 Indiana @ Penn St 7 BYU @ 8 Tx Tech 3 Texas A&M @ 22 Mizzou 9 Oregon @ 20 Iowa Iowa St @ TCU Stanford @ N Carolina LSU @ 4 Bama Navy @ 10 Notre Dame Nebraska @ UCLA Sam Houston @ Oregon St

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 18/09/2025

In two days, conservatives went from lambasting their own AG for punishing hate speech to cheering government coercion of ABC into punishing Jimmy Kimmel for hate speech. How?? I study social identity, and this is a classic example of how it works.

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Dylan McLemore @dylanmclemore.com · 16/09/2025

Don't miss how widely this is being condemned. Conservatives of all stripes, including plenty of MAGA loyalists, are raking Bondi over the coals for such a bafflingly wrong and dangerously anti-free speech remark. Meanwhile, Trump is doubling down. Will be interesting to see who blinks first.

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