Chris Faile
@faile.bsky.social
In stealth mode. Former PR leader for Deloitte's financial services team. Personally, an East Villager who loves books, the water and old David Bowie tunes.
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yikes: "What's the point of standards?"
What used to be the Tiffany Network is now apparently borrowing a tagline from an online dating site circa 2010.
What used to be the Tiffany Network is now apparently borrowing a tagline from an online dating site circa 2010.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Yikes: "What's the point of standards?"
What used to be the Tiffany Network is now apparently borrowing a tagline from an online dating site circa 2010.
What used to be the Tiffany Network is now apparently borrowing a tagline from an online dating site circa 2010.
Reposted by Chris Faile
Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
No baseball for five months after this— will enjoy the free baseball, even if we gain an hour tonight!
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
No baseball for five months after this— will enjoy the free baseball, even if we gain an hour tonight!
What is the correct pluralization of an egg and cheese sandwich? Is it like attorneys generals, eggs and cheeses??
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What is the correct pluralization of an egg and cheese sandwich? Is it like attorneys generals, eggs and cheeses??
The ability to ask intelligent questions and drive out intelligent answers is one of the most unheralded skills a person to have, Someone needs to teach this.
@andrewrsorkin.bsky.social on the art of the interview: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/c...
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The ability to ask intelligent questions and drive out intelligent answers is one of the most unheralded skills a person to have, Someone needs to teach this.
This applies to more than just journalism too. The amount of throat-clearing pablum everywhere is at an all-time high. It's freeing, redlining out whole chunks of unneeded text and getting to the point.
Respect your audience!
Respect your audience!
For @talkingpointsmemo.com I wrote about the one journalistic skill that bloggers did better than any other writers, which was to get to the fucking point.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This applies to more than just journalism too. The amount of throat-clearing pablum everywhere is at an all-time high. It's freeing, redlining out whole chunks of unneeded text and getting to the point.
Respect your audience!
Respect your audience!
Deborah Cohen's "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial" -- about a number of foreign correspondents in the run up to World War II, as well as its aftermath -- is the best book I've read so far this year.
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Deborah Cohen's "Last Call at the Hotel Imperial" -- about a number of foreign correspondents in the run up to World War II, as well as its aftermath -- is the best book I've read so far this year.
Much love to Ninth Street Espresso for introducing me to this wonderfulness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC06...
The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions - Seu Jorge
YouTube video by Music Sphere
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September 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Much love to Ninth Street Espresso for introducing me to this wonderfulness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC06...
One of the best little details from the Johnny Carson biography was that "The Tonight Show" head writer had a sign above his desk reading thusly:
IT LEFT HERE FUNNY.
This should be in *every* comedy writer's room.
(CC: @latenightercom.bsky.social, @kibblesmith.com, @mikescollins.bsky.social)
IT LEFT HERE FUNNY.
This should be in *every* comedy writer's room.
(CC: @latenightercom.bsky.social, @kibblesmith.com, @mikescollins.bsky.social)
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of the best little details from the Johnny Carson biography was that "The Tonight Show" head writer had a sign above his desk reading thusly:
IT LEFT HERE FUNNY.
This should be in *every* comedy writer's room.
(CC: @latenightercom.bsky.social, @kibblesmith.com, @mikescollins.bsky.social)
IT LEFT HERE FUNNY.
This should be in *every* comedy writer's room.
(CC: @latenightercom.bsky.social, @kibblesmith.com, @mikescollins.bsky.social)
Found on the sidewalk in front of an apartment complex, guessing they made the move. Not a bad list, maybe?
July 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Found on the sidewalk in front of an apartment complex, guessing they made the move. Not a bad list, maybe?
While I'm not surprised, this is still very depressing to read: www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
Young people won’t, or can’t, read a book. Now democracy is dying. Coincidence? | Will Bunch
A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy.
www.inquirer.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
While I'm not surprised, this is still very depressing to read: www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
@darthbluesky.bsky.social: How do you feel about these two cute stuffed alpacas named Coco and Lulu?
July 26, 2023 at 12:43 AM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social: How do you feel about these two cute stuffed alpacas named Coco and Lulu?
After 24 years of living in Manhattan, I have caught and killed my first 🐭 in an apartment. Argh.
May the next streak go longer!
May the next streak go longer!
July 26, 2023 at 12:37 AM
After 24 years of living in Manhattan, I have caught and killed my first 🐭 in an apartment. Argh.
May the next streak go longer!
May the next streak go longer!
I learned a new word today: "Thalassophobia."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/11/ocean-2023-scary-sharks-orcas-riptides/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/11/ocean-2023-scary-sharks-orcas-riptides/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert
A dip in the ocean this summer? No thanks.
With its relentless riptides, attack orcas, surprise sharks and horrifying tales of the very deep, the big blue sea gets a great big nope
www.washingtonpost.com
July 18, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Continuing a 🧵 of the books I’m reading in 2023: #17 is Jennifer Egan's "The Candy House." It's good, but does it reflect poorly on me that I liked "A Visit from the Goon Squad" more?
July 14, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Continuing a 🧵 of the books I’m reading in 2023: #17 is Jennifer Egan's "The Candy House." It's good, but does it reflect poorly on me that I liked "A Visit from the Goon Squad" more?
This @zitron.bsky.social piece is so spot-on insightful that I sentence him to become Twitter's comms director for a period of six months: https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-the-honest-internet
The End of the Honest Internet
The concept of “free” social networking is a kind of unspoken social-financial contract that only exists as long as operators understand the value that users are creating. A user posts for “free...
wheresyoured.at
July 7, 2023 at 11:47 PM
This @zitron.bsky.social piece is so spot-on insightful that I sentence him to become Twitter's comms director for a period of six months: https://wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-the-honest-internet
This WIRED story by @greenwell.bsky.social is so, so good!: https://www.wired.com/story/the-night-17-million-precious-military-records-went-up-in-smoke/
The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Fifty years ago, a fire ripped through the National Personnel Records Center. It set off a massive project to save crucial pieces of American history—including, I hoped, my grandfather’s.
www.wired.com
July 7, 2023 at 12:52 PM
This WIRED story by @greenwell.bsky.social is so, so good!: https://www.wired.com/story/the-night-17-million-precious-military-records-went-up-in-smoke/