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John Bowden / The Hill:
In a New York Times interview, Trump says media will shift in his favor for the 2020 election because they need ratings: “they basically have to let me win” — predicted he will win the 2020 presidential race on Thursday due to a media shift in his favor, telling The New York Times …
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Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Hslf of Twitter thinks the Schmidt interview was revealing about the POTUS because it was his unfiltered thoughts. The other half is angry that @nytmike did not audition as an extra for the courtroom remake of “A Few Good Men” and interrupt him constantly.
Jack Shafer / Politico: Week 32: Trump Binges on Collusion Talk to Ring Out Year
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star: Donald Trump made 25 false claims in his latest New York Times interview
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: @nytmike Trump talking unfiltered has historically been vastly more revealing than jousting matches where he shuts down. The most revealing and significant things he's said in the last year were in these kinds of interviews.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post: Time at Mar-a-Lago is a respite for Trump — and a headache for his staff
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: Very respectfully, I don't think it's a choice between “let Trump say anything he wants” and “play prosecutor and interrupt constantly.” Interviewers can - and do all the time - politely challenge wildly false claims without derailing the whole interview. https://twitter.com/...
Byron Tau / @byrontau: It's nobody's business what tactics a print reporter chooses to use in an interview and if you don't like it, nobody is making you read it!
Ezra Klein / Vox: Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: Asked fairly senior Trump adviser for thoughts on NYT interview a few minutes ago. Person responded: “What interview? Today?” http://mobile.nytimes.com/...
Michael S. Schmidt / @nytmike: Today I interviewed @realDonaldTrump for a half hour at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Here's what he said: Trump Says Russia Inquiry Makes U.S. 'Look Very Bad'http://www.nytimes.com/...
Sam Stein / @samstein: 2. There are different goals in every interview. In some cases you want to draw your subject out. In others you want to confront him or her. In others you want them to lead you to certain places. In others you want to watch them as much as listen. etc....
Bryan Logan / Business Insider: White House aides reportedly blindsided by ‘embarrassing’ Trump interview
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: .@NYTMike: You're O.K. with me recording, right? TRUMP: Yeah. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Norm Eisen / @normeisen: Was mulling if @nytmike was right not to cross examine Trump more—but I think just letting him run at the mouth produced pretty damning results. Sometimes giving a blabber a mic is the way to go. http://twitter.com/...
Neera Tanden / @neeratanden: The reporter who did the interview was the Benghazi reporter had leaks dumped to him from the GOP House committee and was a guest of Chris Ruddy. A sycophantic interview is going to raise questions about the reporter. http://twitter.com/...
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Reporters have an incredibly tough job and face relentless bad faith, partisan attacks. But it's odd that a profession based on questions and criticism is often so overly defensive when questioned and criticized. http://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Reminder that NYT's reasoning behind getting rid of the public editor role was that readers would hold the paper accountable, especially on social media. http://twitter.com/...
Kara Calavera / @karacalavera: Of course he was happy with it. The man is a narcissist, and he knows how to play the media. The media still doesn't know that they're being played, though. Remember that time Trump put together a press conference that was actually an ad for his new hotel? http://twitter.com/...
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: Trump's NYT interview set off shockwaves and frustration in White House, with Hope Hicks calling him in the middle of it. But Trump was happy w/it and liked the near nonstop TV coverage. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Common thread of all the Mar-a-Lego stays/him being happier: he gets to remember life not as president. Great piece http://twitter.com/...
Joan Walsh / @joanwalsh: NYT journos smugly pooh-poohing everyone asking them questions about their work is also how we got 2017. http://twitter.com/...
Heidi N Moore / @moorehn: You know, having interviewed rich and powerful people all my career, let me just say this: kissing up does not actually work.
Mark Potts / @pottsmark: @moorehn Has anybody ever done an interview with a President who walked off in a huff mid-interview? Seems to me that would certainly constitute news. It's hardly unreasonable to ask a reporter to politely challenge ridiculous assertions.
Ted Boutrous / @boutrousted: Yes - and in my view this is not a close call. You go with the stream of consciousness, which is extraordinarily, epically revealing. Cross-examination would have shut it down. http://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: No, they're angry that there was no minimal pushback. And note that a lot of the criticism is coming from other journalists who you can't credibly accuse of not knowing how this works. https://twitter.com/...
Ana Navarro / @ananavarro: “False or misleading claims” is another term for damn lies. Trump lied 24 times in 30 minutes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller: Still No Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion As 2017 Draws To A Close
Michael Kruse / @michaelkruse: More than often. Just about always. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: I've long suspected Trump thinks this. Never thought he'd say it aloud though. pic.twitter.com/A249kBDhyu
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: @moorehn This is the “keep him talking” model of interviewing. You're referencing the check-on-power model. That's not how they do it with Trump.
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Most crucial observation here from @JoyAnnReid is Trump painting his own reality/seeing it as a celluloid reel that he's casting https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I'm a Times subscriber and think it's a great paper, but in my experience, people inside the Times thinks it's far more important than people outside of the Times do. And culturally, it creates a sensibility that everything the NYT produces is above reproach.
Sam Stein / @samstein: 4. The benefits of the Times approach to Trump do outweigh the downsides. For starters, Trump TALKS. and talks. and talks. And having him speak is, better than having him close down. period.
Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt: Get real. The reporter was the same one who broke the stories about Trump demanding loyalty from Comey and asking him to stop the Flynn probe plus many other scoops in the Russia probe. He also broke the story about Bill O'Reilly's $32 million sexual harassment settlement. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Shephard / New Republic: Why do political pundits still believe we haven't seen the real Trump?
Haley Britzky / Axios: Trump's free reign at his Winter White House
Marcus Gilmer / Mashable: Here are the government organizations and officials Trump insulted in 2017
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: In access journalism, you have to be disciplined and accept this as the price for the revealing moments in your “let him talk” interview. http://twitter.com/...
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian: Trump warns: no deal to protect Dreamers without cash for border wall
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: If you're an access journalist covering Trump: self-label as that, explain how you work, expect criticism, listen well to it— and soldier on
David Choi / Business Insider: ‘They basically have to let me win’: Trump believes the media will help him get reelected
Rafi Schwartz / Splinter: Trump Insists He Absolutely Can't Lose in 2020 Because the Media Industry Would ‘Tank’ Without Him
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Pres. Trump Says Media Will Help Him Win Second Term: ‘Without Me, Their Ratings Are Going Down the Tubes’
Jason Horowitz / @jasondhorowitz: In which @nytmike evokes my recurring nightmare of bumping into Obama or pope but without a pen. Except Schmidt is prepared and wins big. http://twitter.com/...
Lawrence Bonk / Mediaite: NYT Reporter Talks Incendiary Trump Interview: He Claimed Responsibility For ‘Success of the Press’
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: There is a whole lot of nutty in this interview that should be cause for concern. But on the main point, he's just wrong. In our country, no one—even the @POTUS—is above the law, and that makes America look very, very GOOD. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: My God. NYT staff didn't give any pushback whatsoever. No questions about the millions who may be uninsured after the tax bill? Or Trump's claim that Republicans are 5-0 on Congressional races? Or the polling that shows he's unpopular? Or his lack of action after mass shootings? http://twitter.com/...
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: Despite Trump frequently attacking the New York Times as “fake news,” it seems to be his newspaper of choice for exclusive interviews. http://twitter.com/...
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: What We Learned From Trump's Rambling New York Times Interview
Sam Stein / @samstein: 5. One of the benefits to the non confrontational approach, and it has to be noted, is that you are also far more likely to be able to get to talk to Trump again. It's just a fact. doesn't make it great. but it's true.
Sam Stein / @samstein: 1. there is no such thing as a perfect interview. Doesn't exist. There's always ways you f**ked up. Questions you'd ask differently, etc....
Sam Stein / @samstein: 3. being non-confrontational is not the same as being non-aggressive. In fact, some times the simplest, most innocent question can be the hardest probing.
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: Way to go, @maggieNYT! Trump will read this tweet and know that his NYT interviews will aways be “unfiltered.” He knows you and your colleagues will not ask follow-up questions. He can count on you to normalize him. Congrats on your continued access. http://twitter.com/...
@irisrimon: You don't know what you're talking about. You still think that this is just a weird presidency and the system is strong enough to get over it. It's not. http://twitter.com/...
LJ Breedlove / @ljbreedlove: If you're a journalist or want to be one, this description of handling an interview is stellar. Read and learn. http://twitter.com/...
Anthony Zurcher / @awzurcher: NY Times interview strategy was to let Trump talk. That left some questionable statements unchallenged. Contrast w/ how CNN's @jaketapper pushed & pushed until Trump said Judge Curiel was biased against him b/c of his Mexican heritage http://www.cnn.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Hend Amry / @libyaliberty: Good thread here on navigating the interview of the serial liar - aka Trump. When, where, and how to correct facts while still conducting a professional and non antagonistic interview. http://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: They did that last year http://twitter.com/...
Ryan Goodman / @rgoodlaw: President Trump “insisted” an average of once every 2 minutes for 30 minutes straight “that there has been ‘no collusion’ discovered by the [Mueller] inquiry” in interview with NYT's @nytmike: http://twitter.com/...
Matthew Miller / @matthewamiller: To get a sense of how far Trump has already shifted the goal posts, just imagine any other modern president saying this about DOJ. http://twitter.com/...
@hawaiidelilah: The most frightening part of this Trump interview with the No Pushback New York Times that helped give us this lunatic as president is this... http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
@irisrimon: Why aren't you guys press him? He give you all these interviews and you just let him vomit with not one tough question. It's so depressing. http://twitter.com/...
Susan Hennessey / @susan_hennessey: Fact check: The President does not have, in any sense, an “absolute right” to do what he wants with the Justice Department. http://twitter.com/...
Mary Hilton / @fmhilton: @mediagazer @jabowden4 They don't have to do diddly squat for DT. Fox News aside, most media would enjoy covering the impeachment trial and probably have lots drawn already for their spots among themselves...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Some fair pushback from a key “Trump's lies” corrector, @ddale8, in this thread: http://twitter.com/...
Dave Levinthal / @davelevinthal: “Failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me” “FAKE NEWS @nytimes is still lost!” “Failing @nytimes has become a joke” “Failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world” “Failing @nytimes, the pipe organ for the Democrat Party” And yet, @POTUS still talks w/ @nytimes. http://twitter.com/...
Citizens for Ethics / @crewcrew: Trump today insisted 16 times that there has been “no collusion” discovered Mueller's investigation. “It makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Said with equal respect, your public persona has become based in part on the very real idea that this president is quite different than others. That goes for almost all manner of interaction http://twitter.com/...
@irisrimon: This is an embarrassing take. The f**king “president” lies with every breath and journalists shouldn't press him because he will get upset?? What kind of banana republic bulls**t this is? http://twitter.com/...
@karoli: I don't know. It seems to me like a few well placed follow-up questions were in order. Like... - what's a copayment? - is single payer the answer, then? - where are those coal and steel jobs? - how did we ever survive before you came along? http://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This is a cop out. You can try and hold the most powerful man in the world to account, try and ask basic follow-ups, try and challenge brazen untruths, without acting like Lt. Daniel Kaffee. A complete false choice. http://twitter.com/...
Guy Gavriel Kay / @guygavrielkay: I forget when follow-up questions to test a statement were made illegal, but clearly they were. http://twitter.com/...
Chris Sacca / @sacca: This whole damn interview is nuts. But the particular quote below should keep any real patriot awake at night. http://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Because journalists can't be bothered to do basic journalism. Disheartening. http://twitter.com/...
Molly Hodgdon / @manglewood: For the umpteenth time in the past year, thousands of people are telling the @nytimes “this is not what we want from journalism” and @maggieNYT is condescendingly responding “lol no sweetie let me tell you why you're wrong”. http://twitter.com/...
@eshap: Said “no collusion” 16 times. Says “Russian investigation makes America look bad.” Sounds sUper not guilty! http://twitter.com/...
@bdgrabinski: would it kill one of these people to say “why do you lie multiple times a day” “why are you lying right now” “do you understand your job on any level” http://twitter.com/...
Robert Napper / @bythehandofbob: I'm not gonna hold my breath and wait for US journalism to save the republic. Hopelly the historians will recognize how badly our press served democracy in last 40 years. http://twitter.com/...
Ari Melber / @arimelber: Why oversimplify? An interview can be revealing and newsworthy, and the public can also have legitimate views about alternative ways to conduct the interview. http://twitter.com/...
Ted Lieu / @tedlieu: Criminal investigation by Special Counsel Mueller makes the US look very bad in the same sense that the criminal investigation by Special Counsel Cox made the US look very bad during Watergate. Executive Branch/campaign officials should not have been engaging in criminal activity http://twitter.com/...
Catherine Sanderson / @csanderson1217: Is not ever challenging him on anything a strategy? This is a serious question.
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: i've said it before but access journalism is a disease http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I wish this moment in the interview had been followed up by an effort to ask Trump to describe some of the provisions of the bill. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: Trump also lied that he has 158 million social media followers. As of November, it was, generously, counting all personal/POTUS/White House accounts, about 110 million. pic.twitter.com/5Nnhtr0kYp
Elliott Lusztig / @ezlusztig: I just wanted to point out how crazy it is that Trump is being so explicit in calling out the media for enabling him. There's something staggering about the blunt honesty of his statement here.
Tom Harrington / @cbctom: The notion that one cannot challenge effectively in an interview while keeping the subject engaged is a myth. It is not a conversation. It is an exercise in extracting information. Simple followups eg: what do you mean? What's an example? How do you know? work well & don't offend
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 1. For those complaining about Schmidt's interview with Trump, what people need to understand is when you're with POTUS in a situation that is unusual or unexpected, yes, you can grill him but he will simply get up and walk away. It is better to ask questions and let him speak.
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: There's also this weird idea in this criticism that this interview stands alone, on a pedestal, away from the world. It does not! It is one piece of a 1000 things that will be seen by millions before 5p Friday. People will write about each thing Trump said, and contextualize it.
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: These impromptu Trump conversations do produce newsworthy bits, and it does give you a greater sense of who he is. But something about this doesn't sit right with me. He just wants to spout off without challenge. He has Fox News for that, not the @nytimes. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: To Maggie's point, we've actually seen interviewers breezily tell Trump he's wrong without derailing interviews. A Forbes interview comes to mind. He just accepts his wrongness - because he knows he's lying - and quickly amends his point. It works.
David Greenwald / @davidegreenwald: Trump's campaign was hundreds of hours of him spouting whatever thought came into his head on live TV. He is the most unfiltered human being alive. Journalism is supposed to be the filter.
Holly Mosher / @filmsforchange: @mediagazer @jabowden4 CBS' Les Moonves did say that Trump was bad for America but very good for CBS - just like he said about Citizens United. It's disgusting they put ratings above country.
Arden Farhi / @ardenfarhi: How did @nytmike score an interview with an unstaffed @realDonaldTrump at his private golf club? Schmidt was the lunch guest of @ChrisRuddyNMX who introduced him to the president.
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: I think it is reasonable to ask if there were follow-up questions at points because y'all published only a partial transcript, but, generally, I do think that people are criticizing the interview (and not the story) unfairly. http://twitter.com/...
David Greenwald / @davidegreenwald: This isn't journalism pic.twitter.com/Snj0bI2yUo
Raju Narisetti / @raju: The @nytimes has enabled a lot of lies with this 30-minute interview transcription journalism https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: Trump told the NYT a whopper of a lie about the impact of his Luther Strange endorsement, falsely claiming he gave Strange a 20-point boost from fifth place. Strange was in second at the time; he remained in second, and he did not end up gaining at all in the polls. pic.twitter.com/60DI2qizi0
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: I hear what you're saying. However, this was an impromptu interview on Thursday. I'm assuming that, like the one @nytmike @peterbakernyt and I had in the Oval in July, Economist journos knew of intvu in advance/had lengthy list prepared etc https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: The fact that he's a clicks/ratings draw - or was during the campaign and he still sees it that way - doesn't feel highly debatable https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N Moore / @moorehn: Thank God Trump didn't say anything here that any rational journalist would have questions or skepticism about. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
T. R. Ramachandran / @yottapoint: If all it takes to be a NYT journalist is to ask questions & get unfiltered thoughts of the interviewee with no fact-checking or pushback, this job can be done by high school students. No, that's not hyperbole. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Mazie / @stevenmazie: Here's a key point in the Twitter debate over whether @nytmike should've live-fact-checked @realDonaldTrump in his interview. Still, there was room for pointed questions - see, e.g., @TheEconomist's interview with POTUS from May https://www.economist.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ari Melber / @arimelber: Forget attacking “fake news,” in this interview with the NY TIMES Trump also suggested the media favors him with overwhelming attention driven by ratings...
@ag_conservative: This is the most accurate thing Trump has ever said. It's a co-dependent relationship that they both benefit from. It's the rest of America that suffers because of it. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N Moore / @moorehn: OH MY GOD HAVE SOME F**KING JOURNALISTIC DIGNITY http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Julius Goat / @juliusgoat: Some day some real journalist is going to challenge Trump on this parody-of-a-pathological-liar bulls**t and the utter ease of exposing him is going to make it shamefully apparent what sycophants all previous interviewers have been. pic.twitter.com/qt9LASOao3
Colin Kahl / @colinkahl: There are many crazy things in the new Trump NYT interview, but one big piece of crazy is the notion that the media will be in the bag for him in 2020 because they fear what their ratings will be like if he loses. https://www.nytimes.com/... pic.twitter.com/KMddAnT1OK
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Transcript highlight: @ChrisRuddyNMX walk-on as de facto adviser (in lieu of actual press staff) https://nytimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Please bear this interview -'unprompted and eagerly agreed to by POTUS - when he holds his next rally and talks about the “enemy” re the media https://twitter.com/...
Topher Spiro / @topherspiro: If you read the transcript, there's no follow up here because Trump rambles on and on. But it's frustrating: no one ever probes his knowledge of policy. pic.twitter.com/FarlAFhfWe
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: This thread is EXACTLY why news organizations have historically been hesitant to publish transcripts. # https://twitter.com/...
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
How The New York Times' interview with Trump happened, with the help of a lunch invitation from Christopher Ruddy, Trump's longtime confidant and CEO of Newsmax — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday, President Trump came off the 18th hole of his golf course here and walked into the club house's Grill Room.
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Christopher Ruddy / @chrisruddynmx: .@realDonaldTrump respects NYT's Mike Schmidt because he's fair, glad to connect them at Trump International! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ross Barkan / @rossbarkan: Important to remember that for all his ridiculous words, Donald Trump is a baby boomer, a reader of print newspapers, and a New Yorker, which means he will always crave validation from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/...
John Aravosis / @aravosis: Okay I was defending him until now. You don't let readers “make their own judgements” about blatant lies. Lots of readers aren't informed enough to know they're lies. Your job is to not let yourself be used for disinformation. http://twitter.com/...
@hawaiidelilah: We have a president who uses his office to lie daily. In this access “let him talk” interview, there were at least 20 lies that earned zero follow up (far less from pushback) from the journalist. At the end of the day, the 4th estate should pursue TRUTH and not just stenography. http://twitter.com/...
Wooderson / @iamwoody79: Fluff, he does nothing but speak all day unchallenged on Twitter. The NYT is actually failed. Trump has been making us rally around it, only to help him further spread his message for “access”. Be a journalist, not a camera. We have enough. http://twitter.com/...
Matt Friedman / @mattfrieds: The 1st person account by @nytmike isn't about insider sausage making. It's the PR move more news orgs must make: http://www.nytimes.com/...
Cliston Brown / @clistonbrown: This is exactly what has been wrong with American journalism for a very long time: the notion that as long as you just accurately quote people, you've fulfilled your obligations. That's how we've gotten to a place where lies have acquired equal value with truth. http://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth de la Vega / @delavegalaw: This story is inadequate @nytmike. The public is entitled to know why it was, and how it came to be, that you were Christopher Ruddy's guest at Trump's club. THAT is the key question. As you, @NYTimes & intelligent readers know, this story does not start at lunchtime on Dec 28. http://twitter.com/...
Andrew Katz / @katz: “As I drove away from the club, I called my editors to tell them I had just spent half an hour alone with the president.” Would read a Part II with editor's perspective http://twitter.com/...
Avery Anapol / The Hill: NYT reporter defends impromptu interview with Trump
Annie Lowrey / @annielowrey: Lots! To know what the interviewee is thinking about. To have an argument pinned down on the record at a point in time. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Another way of looking at the interview question is ... what is the point of doing an interview at all if the interviewer, the subject, and the audience all know the subject lies shamelessly?
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: —@nytmike on his interview approach w/Trump: “I employed a strategy in which I asked questions about the most pressing issues of his presidency and then allowed him to talk” http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “I stood behind Mr. Ruddy, who told the president that Mike Schmidt from The New York Times was with him. As I made eye contact with the president, he appeared confused about who I was and why I was there” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael S. Schmidt / @nytmike: How the interview with Trump went down at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Leben / @judge_leben: Tonight the reporter posted the “inside story” of how the interview came about. Quite the route to an interview with the President. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: .@nytmike “Some readers criticized my approach, saying I should have asked more follow-up questions. I believed it was more important to continue to allow the president to speak and let people make their own judgments about his statements.” https://nyti.ms/2pZ9WQI
Steven Shepard / @politico_steve: I probably would have split the difference and played a quick nine. http://nyti.ms/2DyQ491 pic.twitter.com/I4eVJGtsWS
Mike Allen / Axios: Trump unchained: staff leaves, hardline ideas rise
Justin Baragona / Mediaite: The Internet Goes Wild Over Trump's New York Times Interview: ‘A Whole Lot of Nutty’
Keith Wagstaff / Mashable: Did the NY Times go too easy on Donald Trump?
Megan Specia / New York Times:
Facebook says it removed Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov's accounts due to US sanctions, prompting questions on why others, like Venezuela's Maduro, are still active — The strongman leader of the Chechen Republic has long been a prolific social media user, filling his accounts with photos …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Whatever the merits of the political choices here, the merger of Facebook power and government power is happening. This is why decentralization is the only real protection against concentrated power. http://twitter.com/...
New York / @nytimesworld: Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, used his Instagram accounts to post photos of him cuddling cats, lifting weights and soliciting poems about Russian President Vladimir V. Putin. Now, those accounts, and his Facebook page, have been taken down. http://www.nytimes.com/...
New York / @nytimesworld: Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram accounts and his Facebook page — which had over 4 million followers between them — were removed just days after he was added to the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control's sanctions list. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Kalev Leetaru / Forbes: Facebook's Deletion of Ramzan Kadyrov And Who Controls The Web?
Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran — “There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times: Iran Confronts 3rd Day of Protests, With Calls for Khamenei to Quit
MJ Azari Jahromi / @azarijahromi: @Durov: A Telegram channel is encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprising, and social unrest. NOW is the time to stop such encouragements via Telegram.
Pavel Durov / @durov: A Telegram channel (amadnews) started to instruct their subscribers to use Molotov cocktails against police and got suspended due to our “no calls for violence” rule. Be careful - there are lines one shouldn't cross. Similar case from October - http://telegra.ph/...
Pavel Durov / @durov: Calls for violence are prohibited by the Telegram rules. If confirmed, we'll have to block such a channel, regardless of its size and political affiliation.
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Background: @Telegram has a special position in Iran. Its “public channels” are an important source of news for many low-tech users. Competing services are often blocked, but Telegram makes concessions to avoid this (like setting up local CDNs https://www.iranhumanrights.org/ ... ).
Twitter Moments / @twittermoments: The CEO of Telegram, a major messaging application used in Iran, shut down a channel used to organize anti-government protests after the Iranian Minister of Communications alleged that it was being used to incite violence. https://twitter.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Many don't seem to understand why I object to @Telegram having unsafe, censorable public channels in an app that is promoted as a secure messenger. Some presumed I just don't understand how channels work. So let's talk about it:
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
In 2017, pro-Trump media and conspiratorial hyperpartisans amplified by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube created two parallel universes of information — On a blistering 107-degree Phoenix evening this August, thousands came to watch Donald Trump cobble together an alternate reality.
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Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: I am not sure it's possible to fully appreciate the implications of this sort of thing. Basically all democratic theory is built around the idea people have a roughly accurate and shared view of what's going on. What if they don't? https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?: Death to the Mass(es)!
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: “Somehow, both sides are winning even if nobody feels like they are.” Superb work here by @cwarzel on how the internet helped create America's current Upside Down, and how continued hyperpartisanship may only ensure that we all further delude ourselves. http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Sebastian Gawker / @libbycwatson: how. how do you get so far into a career writing about US politics and still find this a novel observation http://twitter.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: I've read it. But virtually no political commentary truly reflects it. And it's getting worse. http://twitter.com/...
Erin L. / @erinlank: Its pretty infuriating that at this point in 2017, Louise Mensch is still represented as anything but a vindictive con and a chaos agent. Let me get my megaphone: RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES PLAY BOTH SIDES http://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: “Tech's biggest platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, powered the push of conspiracy theories from the outskirts of political discourse to its heart.” http://twitter.com/...
Daniel Victor / @bydanielvictor: So basically news companies can either try their best to keep the concept of shared reality alive, or they can profit off its destruction http://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Sent by a friend. Worth a read. http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Kate Nocera / @katenocera: Really good read from Charlie, putting words to whatever is happening with :waves arms in twitter's general direction: all this http://twitter.com/...
Amy Siskind / @amy_siskind: All part of the authoritarian playbook: smearing reality to be conveniently unrecognizable. http://twitter.com/...
Tyler Dukes / @mtdukes: I picked a hell of a year to read The Big Sort.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: @brianstelter @cwarzel Not exactly. These shifts didn't all happen in 2017. Some Trends clear in 2011: http://radar.oreilly.com/... What happens online reflects - and can reinforce - polarization or anomie offline. Talk radio & cable news matter here: http://www.people-press.org/ ... http://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “2017 was the year we lost our shared reality,” @cwarzel says. Certainly true online. True offline too? http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Combine it with @raju's grim truth-telling about the business model in media and the picture gets darker. http://www.niemanlab.org/... http://twitter.com/...
John Otis / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Amid shortages of paper blamed on Maduro and a dearth of ads, 24 Venezuelan newspapers stopped printing since 2013; 10 shut down altogether, 14 publish online — The lobby of El Carabobeño includes a display of vintage cameras, engraving plates and paper cutters from the 1930s …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
New York Daily News editor-in-chief and publisher Arthur Browne is retiring on December 31, but the paper's new owner, Tronc, hasn't hired a replacement — As of Monday, the New York Daily News won't have an editor in chief or a publisher. — Arthur Browne, the veteran editor …
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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Startups aim to provide an alternative route to internet access via VPNs and mesh networks, amid net neutrality repeal, but their approaches are as yet unproven — From VPNs to mesh networks, efforts to find an alternative route to internet access are gaining ground in Silicon Valley
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Media and entertainment stocks 2017: Netflix, Lionsgate, Fox, Scripps among biggest gainers percentage-wise; Discovery, Viacom, CBS among biggest losers — The market has spoken for 2017. Looking at stock performance for the year, traditional media conglomerates can't match the momentum behind …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: How FANG Stocks Left the Media Business Snakebitten: A 2017 Retrospective
Vivek Wadhwa / VentureBeat: Bitcoin is going to crash and burn thanks to speculators
Martin Belam / The Guardian:
US court documents show Simon & Schuster was concerned that Milo Yiannopoulos' book manuscript included unsupported arguments, crude unfunny quips, and racism — Court submissions in lawsuit over far-right provocateur's memoir reveal concerns over weak arguments, boasting and racism
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Christine Zosche / Blog Network: Editor Notes Show Why Milo Yiannopoulos Failed as an Author
Upulie Divisekera / @upulie: The editorial comments are hilarious and also: http://twitter.com/...
Jason Pinter / @jasonpinter: 5,000 RTs on this. That is some serious Milo schadenfreude and editor love. I dig it. http://twitter.com/...
Barrett Brown / @barrettbrown_: Guy who can't write didn't do great job of writing a book despite being given huge amounts of money to do it http://www.theguardian.com/...
Paul Bloom / @paulbloomatyale: My favorite part was at the very end, when Milo, in the Acknowledgements, had a sentence politely thanking everyone at Simon & Schuster for their support. The editor crossed it out. http://www.theguardian.com/...
Paul Feig / @paulfeig: Agreed. This piece of human garbage trashed my Ghostbusters cast based on his evaluation of their physical attributes and then defended himself by saying he was concerned about their health. F**k him and the sexist horse he rode in on. http://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Pascalidou / @pascalidou: Why and how could the publisher sign and prepay for this racist, sexist, misanthropic crap? http://twitter.com/...
Sam Greenspan / @samlistens: Sure but like, remember that time that @simonschuster let @rgay walk away because they'd rather have had the the deal with Milo? Less funny-haha than funny-sad-because-they-actually-did- not-see-this-coming(-or-did-and-decided - it-was-worth-it-anyway) http://www.theguardian.com/...
Hassan Ali Kanu / @hassankanu: Almost seems like Milo Yiannopoulous is a comparatively talentless incompetent whose career & public profile (proud bigot) were engineered by & promoted onto a national platform by a series of individual wealthy donors & large institutions like Simon & Shuster/Breitbart. http://twitter.com/...
Steve Chiotakis / @radiochio: I'll simplify even more: “The publisher. . .sought to make his bigotry both digestible and marketable.” http://twitter.com/...
@hillarywarnedus: “Don't start chapter with accusation that feminists = fat. It destroys any seriousness of purpose.” I would need to bathe after reading his manuscript. http://twitter.com/...
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post: ‘Not even funny’: Editor's markup of Milo Yiannopoulos's manuscript draws ridicule, ire
Jason Pinter / @jasonpinter: This section of Simon & Schuster's rebuttal to Milo's lawsuit over DANGEROUS. http://twitter.com/...
Sarah Mei / @sarahmei: I went to the New York county clerk's website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor's comments as exhibit B. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Scott / @jessicascott09: Wow, the editor on Milo's book dropped the hammer (and dear lord what a bloodletting). http://twitter.com/...
John Ross Bowie / @johnrossbowie: God, this is a satisfying read. Milo doesn't suck because he's right wing, he sucks because he's a data-free hack. http://www.theguardian.com/...
Karen M. McManus / @writerkmc: This entire thread of editorial comments on “Dangerous” is gold, but nothing beats the stark, pained frustration of this particular section. http://twitter.com/...
@ejwillingham: omg the “DELETE UGH” is the best thing I've seen on Twitter all year http://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: These are maybe my favorite editors' marks on Milo's book. http://twitter.com/...
@benjaminhaddad: I am not going to praise a publishing house that knew exactly who Milo was, what his writing was, when they signed him. http://www.theguardian.com/...
Ali A. Rizvi / @aliamjadrizvi: This thread of Simon & Schuster's editor's comments on Milo's manuscript is just priceless. http://twitter.com/...
Ragnar Weilandt / @ragnarweilandt: I am wondering what kind of book @simonschuster was expecting when they gave Milo his advance. Still, their editor's take on the “Dangerous” manuscript is quite amusing/interesting... http://www.theguardian.com/...
Graham Linehan / @glinner: ‘Unclear, unfunny, delete.’ Let that be Milo's epitaph http://twitter.com/...
Zoe Margolis / @girlonetrack: *infinite laughing emojis* ‘Unclear, unfunny, delete’: editor's notes on Milo Yiannopoulos book revealed http://www.theguardian.com/...
Brianna Wu / @spacekatgal: This thread is glorious. A conservative editor goes over Milo's book page by page and points out his bad writing and faulty thinking. http://twitter.com/...
Aditya Chakrabortty / @chakrabortty: “Your best points seem to be lost in a sea of self-aggrandizement and scattershot thinking.” http://www.theguardian.com/...
April / @reignofapril: This is what happens when you sign someone because of their name alone, without determining if they can write, or even if they have a story to tell that someone can ghostwrite for them. Le shrug. http://twitter.com/...
Brown Sahiba / @rajyasree: V funny. And if only editors in India were as diligent and unflinching with their criticism while editing books by famous people in India. http://twitter.com/...
Jamelle Bouie / @jbouie: this thread is amazing and another chance for me to marvel at how anyone thought that milo was anything other than an attention-seeking dumb dumb http://twitter.com/...
Jesse Cox / @jessecox: I almost want to see what kind of s**t show this book would have been. Oh my god. Just go down this rabbit hole. http://twitter.com/...
Lamo's Adjutant / @kay_sesen: “Among other criticisms, the publisher's notes say Yiannopoulos needed a “stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats” http://www.theguardian.com/...
Ariel Dumas / @arieldumas: Sarah Mei is the last stone-cold hero of 2017. Thank you, @sarahmei. http://twitter.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: This is, hands down, the best thread you will read today. http://twitter.com/...
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: The publisher knew who Yiannopoulos was when they gave him a $255,000 advance. The editor's brutal comments are somewhat entertaining, but none of this should distract from the fact that they sought to make his bigotry both digestible and marketable. http://www.theguardian.com/...
Joe Bishop-Henchman: Milo wrote a book, and is suing his Simon & Schuster for refusing to publish it.
Katherine Krueger / Splinter: ‘There was NO blood, NO semen and there was NO Satanism’: Read The Scathing Editor's Notes on Milo's Killed Book
MJ Franklin / Mashable: Nobody hated Milo Yiannopoulos's book more than Milo's editor hated Milo's book
@erikwemple: Here's part of the email that Milo Yiannopoulos sent to his editors at Threshold Editions upon filing his manuscript in January 2017: pic.twitter.com/6nPNrYG2D7
Knitting Elk / @a_n_elk: Wait till you get to this one: pic.twitter.com/VyjXNt2wnh
Alana Hope Levinson / MEL Magazine:
Staffers at Mel, a men's magazine funded by Dollar Shave Club, grapple with how to respond to the #metoo movement — Lessons from trying to make content for men during Weinstein and #MeToo — I was sitting in my office chair when I got a rare Twitter DM from a male journalist alerting me to the existence of “Shitty Media Men.”
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Sam H. Escobar / @myhairisblue: Pausing every so often to weep while reading this piece on creating content for men post-Weinstein by @alanalevinson, which is as compassionate as it is piercing: http://melmagazine.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Julie DiCaro / @juliedicaro: “It's difficult to convey to a man that male violence, on every level of the spectrum, isn't just deeply personal but literally everywhere, and some of us haven't had the privilege of ignoring it until now.” The State of the Gender Divide http://melmagazine.com/...
Paul Ford / @ftrain: This is a great piece by @alanalevinson about personally and professionally unpacking the global stream of harassment allegations from within the context of “a men's magazine funded by Dollar Shave Club.” No hard conclusions, just infinite awkwardness. http://melmagazine.com/...
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