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There’s a big difference between “gone” and “gradually scrubbed.” There will always be a fight in creative industries between un creative shortcuts and genuine artistic process.

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That is absolutely not true. I see it in major artistic works every day. Watch Sinners, Lanterns, Furious, or Margo’s Got Money Troubles and tell me there isn’t major human creativity in big TV and film projects.

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Well, we’ll agree to disagree on Costco.

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I agree. Someone called Netflix the Costco of TV. And that’s what you get when most creative decisions about movies are made by algorithms and not executives leaning to support artists.

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He doesn’t have a show anymore. It was cancelled when Trump-appeasing executives bought control of CNN’s parent company, canceled the show and fired him. Luckily, CNN realized their mistake when a new executive began running the newsroom and hired him back a few years later.

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As a stone fan of British TV and Dominic West, it's tough to describe how much I enjoyed watching this new series on a wealthy couple's divorce and how the lawyers made it worse, called War. But I tried on WBUR/NPR's midday show Here and Now. LISTEN: loom.ly/DOY_2FY

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As someone who has followed his work and appeared on his programs for many years, I cannot tell you how wrong you are. But you’re really really wrong here.

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Super honored to interview CNN’s Brian Stelter as keynote presentation for Society of Professional Journalists national convention Friday. He talked on seeing Trump’s latest interview differently now that he’s sober, and his hope that CNN remains stable despite its purchase by Paramount/Skydance.

NPR’s Eric Deggans and CNN’s Brian Stelter seated onstage.

A montage of photos showing NPR’s Eric Deggans and CNN’s Brian Stelter at SPJ convention Friday.

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You should actually read the linked story. Because it is not focused on the argument you are so determined to dismiss.

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True. Although “most popular” and “best” are often two different things.

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If you missed: My essay looking at why I so dislike projects like The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century. Perplexing rankings, excluded shows and a U.S. TV-centric list is only part of the problem. Read on: loom.ly/f4976iA

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Refusing to believe something that is plainly true doesn't invalidate its truth, either. I mean, I'm only somebody who has worked in journalism for more than 35 years, talking to journalists in newsrooms that are using AI to varying degrees and networking with other academics studying the issue.

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Those are two different tasks. Likely using different systems. With different levels of control over the data. They’re not really comparable.

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People are using LLMs in many ways. Some scrape online sources for information to monitor emerging issues. Some quickly create visualizations for data. Some write code to create specialized apps - so they are notified, for instance, about stories published online on their beat.

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Finding how many times a person's name appears in documents with different kinds of formatting and different origins is a much more complex task.

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Working journalists have to learn how to use the standard technology in the field.

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I'm old enough to have heard the same things about the World Wide Web and Smartphones back in the day. This technology is here and journalists, especially young ones, have to learn how to use it wisely.

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Yup. Trying to ignore this technology would be like trying to ignore the spread of personal computers. But teaching how to use it accurately, ethically and effectively is the real focus.

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

CNN factchecker Daniel Dale: "It’s abundantly clear that there is no public official in Washington who lies like Trump...I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar." READ: loom.ly/EPklMOY

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Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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That's exactly the point. How do news organizations know how many times Donald Trump's name appears in 3 million pages of documents from the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein? AI can do the count relatively quickly.

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What AI is good for in journalism is processing vast amounts of data. It's good at helping you understand the contours of a complicated story to suggest where you might concentrate reporting and analysis. It can help you see patterns in data or make sure you understand its meaning.

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Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die

Before you go see that new movie about NBC's "To Catch a Predator" reports, read this amazing story digging deep into the moment when one of the subjects of their stings killed himself as police were about to arrest him. READ: loom.ly/-4ELfOk

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NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot.

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Knee jerk assumptions about AI use help no one. Ultimately, it's a tool, like a computer or Google. And it has beneficial uses in journalism.

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Given that one of our responsibilities is going to be to teach students how to effectively and responsibly use AI in journalism, its probably a good thing you've exempted yourself from the running. But thanks for your consideration.

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