Jeffrey Platsky
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Former: Investigations-USAToday NY Network. You can take the kid out of Queens, but you can't take the Queens out of the kid. Lifelong Mets fan. Yankees? Feh!
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Sports Director at
#Binghamton
TV station, responsibilities: shoot, write, edit and anchor daily sportscast as 1-person sports department. Wage $15-$16/hour. Intern position: $15/hour. Nexstar CEO total 2023 pay: $29.1 million. Nexstar 2023 net income: $346 million.
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Juxtaposition: While Bezos is spending billions to go up in space, his ex is giving billions to worthy causes.
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‘The WNBA will donate proceeds from the sale of its “Bigger than Ball” women’s empowerment merchandise to groups working against racial inequities.’
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After 2 hr delay Bon Jovi finally appears on stage blaming jersey weather for the delayed start of
@DSGOpen
concert
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@RonFilipkowski
Ms. Greene: May I recommend you extend your stay until Thursday and score an invitation to one of thousands of Passover Seders being conducted Wednesday evening in NYC households.
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@jkelly3rd
@mattdpearce
@MichaelBraga2
@RebekahLSanders
In a world where companies are competing for critical talent this is wrongheaded. Journalism will never attract the ‘best and brightest’ with Neanderthal attitudes. Wow. Just wow.
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@ClydeHaberman
Can you imagine Jonas Salk’s reax to vaccine hesitancy? Had the opportunity to interview him in ‘78 while covering the walk up to the ‘89 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. A remarkable man considering he chose not patent the polio vaccine.
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Read this for an example of top notch investigative reporting.
New: Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man’s land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can’t investigate, federal agencies turn a blind eye and prosecutors reach paltry settlements.
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Since I don’t drink coffee, I started off my first day in retirement with a legacy Four Loko (notice caffeine on the ingredient list) as my morning pick me up. Perfectly preserved in my humidity controlled Four Loko cellar, where I keep my stock of flavorful legacy delights.
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Nexstar CEO Perry Sook total compensation:
2023: $29.1 million
2022: $39.3 million
2021: $21.1 million
Nexstar net income:
2023: $320 million
2022: $857 million
2021: $941 million.
The ratio of annual total CEO pay to the total annual compensation of median employee was 509-1.
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Binghamton University professor M. Stanley Whittingham wins Nobel Prize.
@binghamtonu
Whittingham is known for his ground breaking work on lithium ion batteries. via
@pressconnects
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@Sulliview
For too long, media has allowed their critics to dominate the one-sided debate with little or no aggressive defense in the form of a concerted education campaign informing the public of journalism’s role in a free society. We now pay a dear price for long ignoring the attacks.
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@kurteichenwald
Even with wide protections offered by Times v. Sullivan, Fox News is skating on very thin ice based on these shocking revelations.
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Ms. Sullivan notes the hypocrisy of Fox News leaning heavily on First Amendment defense in Dominion suit while trashing other media outlets who use the same defense for legit reporting. READ THIS NOW.
The blatant hypocrisy of Fox’s biggest names trashing journalists while the company leans on a lofty First Amendment defense about the importance of press rights. My column in
@GuardianUS
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@HawleyMO
@fud31
@simonschuster
It’s easy to threaten a lawsuit. It’s more difficult to file a legit lawsuit. And it will be even tougher to win this lawsuit.
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@AccountableGOP
@RealChrisKocher
And we in NY thought this guy was fringe. Four of these candidates make this guy look strangely credible.
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“
@PSBMatt
: A close look at U-E grad Jon Jones' obscene career statistics in the
#UFC
http://t.co/kA2y1fFeyO
via
@pressconnects
”
@JonnyBones
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#Binghamton
@RumblePoniesBB
attendance for Scherzer rehab: 7,461, an all time record for the franchise in its 35 year history.
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@VaughnEGolden
‘Do the Hustle’ should be playing in the background the way she danced around that question.
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Today's
#Yiddish
phrase: Er hot azoy fil seykhl vi in kloyster mezuzes.
Translation: He has as much sense as a church has mezuzahs.
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The
@pressconnects
newsroom watchdog handed down to me from
@BySteveReilly
now has a home between
@ByKatieBorrelli
and
@PSBABorrelli
. It is in good hands.
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@marcmolinaro
Gasoline price rise primarily due to lapse of state/local gas sales tax moratorium - not supply issues.
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It is "Jon Campbell’s world, and we’re just tweeting in it." A big attaboy to
@JonCampbellNY
of
@WNYC
for taking the
@CityAndStateNY
title of "Tweeter of the Year."
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Crowd seemed to love the Bon Jovi show despite the two hour delay. 11:45 pm end to show, about 1 hour 40 in total.
@DSGermain
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.
@NYGovCuomo
, in today's SOS address said: "green energy...will create thousands of good, secure jobs." 124MW wind farm in eastern Broome will create 2 permanent jobs with $100M in fed & state tax incentives.
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With another round of layoffs pending for today and tomorrow. It’s a wonder the Gannett management team and board of directors aren’t charged with crimes against journalism
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To all my friends, colleagues and sources who left best wishes on my Twitter feed today: "A sheynem dank."
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Absolutely no one who has covered the
@NYGovCuomo
administration as a member of the press is surprised by allegations of fear, intimidation and bullying that were the hallmarks of his management style.
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During the caronavirus period
@pressconnects
dropped the paywall for stories dealing with public safety issues.
#binghamton
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@AllisonLCarter
@CaseySeiler
I’d like my Starbucks latte to be free. I’d like my doctor’s visit to be free. My plumber presented me with a bill after he fixed my leaky pipe. Free isn’t how the world works, even in the world of investigative journalism.
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Gannett believed it could sweep Monday’s job action under the rug. Execs cannot be pleased the employee protest received wide play across the media. It’s time to treat the remains of the Gannett reporting staff - however few - with respect.
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My souvenir from the Miracle on Ice from my reporting associate on the side of the rink from me. 40th anniversary this Saturday. Most of America saw this on tape delay. What they didn’t see was the uproarious post game presser at Lake Placid High School auditorium
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.
@RedSox
star
@mookiebetts
returns to PBA competition for the first time since bowling a 300 game in the 2017 PBA World Series of Bowling IX competing in PBA Hall of Fame Classic Jan. 13-19 at International Training and Research Center in Arlington, Tx.
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Fitness tracker should have a setting for snow shoveling.
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Love the days when you drive home from an assignment and the story writes itself in your head on the way back to the office.
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Bob Woodward gives former
@pressconnects
reporter
@BySteveReilly
, now Woodward’s assistant, a shoutout while being interviewed by
@andersoncooper
on
@CNN
tonight.
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@TheLeadCNN
@jaketapper
@KFILE
Presented to you, a 2/13/1992 clip from the
#Binghamton
newspaper covering the
@RepJeffries
controversial invitation to his uncle to speak
@binghamtonu
@KFILE
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The nation forgot but WE REMEMBER victims of the April 3, 2009
#Binghamton
#massshooting
Parveen Ali
Almir Alves
Marc Bernard
Marie Sonia Bernard
Li Guo
Lan Ho
Layla Khalil
Roberta King
Jiang Ling
Mao Xiu
Dolores Yigal
Haihong Zhong
Maria Zobniw.
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Tim Tebow will be eating
#spiedies
this spring as he is expected to become a member of the
@Mets
AA franchise in
#Binghamton
,
@RumblePoniesBB
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@tyee23
Observers and former Gannett staffers are trying to figure out: 1) What strategy is the company employing to achieve sustainability?; 2) What is the end game to successive waves of layoffs?; 3) Has the company finally exhausted a journalist's commitment to reader?
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While we’re obsessed with allegations of bad behavior by
@NYGovCuomo
, let’s remember a simpler time when other gestures by NY governors got tongues wagging.
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As we mark yet another mass shooting today in Sacramento, let us remember 13 innocent victims of the Massacre of Front. St. April 3, 2009.
#Binghamton
#massshooting
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U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney received endorsement from NRA at same venue where Binghamton’s most notorious mass murder practiced his marksmanship before killing 13.
#NY22
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@Sulliview
Pica poles, sizing wheels, scanner copy, spike pole, Telerams, TRS-80s, China pen.
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Remembering the victims of the
#Binghamton
#massshooting
on this 12th anniversary of the tragedy.
Parveen Ali
Almir Alves.
Marc Bernard
Marie Bernard
Li Guo
Lan Ho
Layla Khalil
'Bobbie' King
Jiang Ling
Mao Hong Xiu
"Dinah" Yigal
Haihong Zhong
'Mima' Zobniw
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Today we say goodbye to
@MaggieGilroy
who will be leaving the
@pressconnects
staff for another opportunity. She has been the constant source of good spirits in the newsroom. She's a seasoned pro with a can-do attitude. We will miss her dearly.
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.
@RumblePoniesBB
home opener bottom of the first: Alvarez, Baty, Mauricio smoke the ball to the fence. 2-1.
@Mets
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Want to appear on the local evening news? Hang out at the I81 rest stop in Kirkwood. Wait for a camera crew to stop by asking motorists about 1) gas prices; 2) holiday travel. It is close to a sure thing for tonight’s broadcast lede.
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@bradheath
Using this rationale, using pivot tables on an otherwise innocuous government database to gain insights into about any subject for an analytical story, I guess, amounts to hacking in their view.
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Needed to employ a flamethrower to cut through the 1/2-inch of ice under today's snow. It defied the snow blower.
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Gannett annual meeting over and done with in 8 minutes, 20 seconds. Only "questions...pertinent to the business of the meeting" were accepted. There were none. Off-topic inquiries were directed to investor relations. Third year in a row Gannett meeting lasted less than 15 min.
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If you think the vote count is slow, it is lightning speed compared to a typical agency response to a FOIL in NYS.
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As we near the 12th anniversary of America's most forgotten deadly mass shooting let us remember the victims of this tragedy that still affects many.
#binghamton
#broomecounty
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Remembering the victims of the
#Binghamton
mass shooting 15 years ago today.
Parveen Ali
Almir Alves
Marc Bernard
Marie Bernard
Li Guo
Lan Ho
Layla Khalil
Roberta King
Jiang Ling
Mao Hong Xiu
Dolores Yigal
Haihong Zhong
Maria "Mima" Zobniw
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Capacity at Mirabito Stadium is 6K. We’re at it for 2-for-1 beer night and Max Scherzer Rehab with
@RumblePoniesBB
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@bradheath
$1.2 million for depreciation over an 8 1/2 month period. How do the calculate that? Seems a little bloated from the surface.
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Remember the days when the Thanksgiving paper was twice the size of the Sunday newspaper? In the 80’s, 90’s,
@pressconnects
used to have nine, ten sections, maybe more, on Thanksgiving, with 160-180 pages, some pre-printed, and multiple circulars stuck between.
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Today is the 14th anniversary of America's forgotten mass shooting.
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@CaseySeiler
@NYGovCuomo
And the lack of shame there will be for those who failed to shine a light on his highly questionable tactics meant to keep people in line.
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Signs that things are slowly returning to normal in
#binghamton
. Little League tryouts at MacArthur Park.
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14 years ago, 12 immigrants and their teacher - 'Bobbie' King - were murdered in a
#Binghamton
mass shooting. Today, on the anniversary, we remember the innocent victims.
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The current version of the
@mets
AA farm team
@RumblePoniesBB
may be the most talented at this level since the Wright, Reyes days.
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Horrors of horrors: Something is wrong with the ESPN hot dog feed
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Agree with
@TipMahoney
: If there are NY gubernatorial debates this year, one should be devoted solely to UPSTATE (traditionally defined) issues.
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A year later, Grand central Station is relatively deserted at 7:20 pm on a Tuesday.
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Think TV is a glamorous profession. Not at the local level. This is an ad for an on-air personality at a local TV station (162 market). Check the wage scale.
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.
@PrezHarvey
@binghamtonu
demonstrates the POWER of print!
#journalismmatters
Photo courtesy of Binghamton Univ.
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Journalism lesson: Treat sources fairly over the years and they will talk to you even when things go terribly sour for them.
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Thanks to all the people who have emailed me over the past three months and thanked me privately for my work. If you want to keep government and business accountable subscribe to a newspaper, either digital or traditional.
#journalismmatters
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@davidfolkenflik
Not so long ago Fox News made this statement following the Dominion defamation lawsuit settlement: "This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards."
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Want a shot at getting on the local evening TV news tonight? Stop by the I81N Welcome Center and wait for a crew to show up for a story on the start of the summer travel season, or gas prices headed into summer.
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@BenMullin
Prediction: If it hasn't already happened, watch a wave of 'quiet quitting' sweep over Gannett properties.
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My wife forced me to cease the Post-retirement legacy Four Loko for morning pick me up streak at one. She put this in front of me. Suggested mixers that will give me an early charge.
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.
@NYtimes
@maureendowd
perfectly captures the lost newsroom atmosphere. Miss overhearing give-and-take between editor and reporter, and - in a former day - trash fires when ashtrays would be dumped into a can filled with newsprint.
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Starting today will NY state agency press reps actually talk to reporters rather than relying on ‘on background’ responses to emailed questions - which was unprecedented - or, worse, resort to no response at all?
#NYS
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If there were no press conferences or press releases would local broadcast news disappear?
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Demographics of largely rural Conklin, NY, home to Buffalo mass shooter (2020 Census):
White: 95.7%
Hispanic: 7.6%
Black: 0.6%
Median HH income: $58,311
2,200 residents
% of pop. with Bachelors degree or higher: 13.8%
One in five 65 or older
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What gun lobby boycott? Dick's Sporting Goods posts best same store quarterly sales performance in six years despite CEO Ed Stack's very public stand on gun control.
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Cuomo, during his Monday presser, correlates the NYC exodus with crime rise. Maybe he should also look at a correlation between the NYC and NYS exodus with the income tax rate rise rise.
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