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David K. Li / NBC News:
Radio shock jock Don Imus, an early pioneer of the genre known for his controversial and often offensive statements, dies at 79 — He had announced on Jan. 22 that he was retiring, telling fans: “Turn out the lights...the party's over. — Radio shock jock Don Imus, one of the early pioneers of his genre …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: Don Imus, Radio Host Who Pushed Boundaries, Dies at 79
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter: Don Imus, Legendary ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Dies at 79
Connor Mannion / Mediaite: Don Imus Dead at Age 79
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: In his heyday Imus was the best interviewer—an epic talent. Many great on-air memories in his Astoria studios, and (sorry, haters) responsible for my 17-year radio career. “Don Imus, Legendary ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Dies at 79 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Flashback: It was Les Moonves who fired Imus for Imus' comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hannity / @seanhannity: (1/2) I'm heartbroken. I knew the REAL Don Imus. Imus adored his wife and son and his adopted son and had a heart of gold. The work he did for children with cancer will live on forever. Every email he ever sent me made me laugh... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost: Don Imus, Racist Radio Show Host, Dead At 79
Sean Hannity / @seanhannity: (2/2) ...Always Smart, witty, irreverent, and iconoclastic. God speed Don Imus as you move to the great rodeo in the sky. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@blackamazon: And this is why misinformation flourishes because it's not public/private or if/but it's AND https://twitter.com/...
@nydailynews: Radio icon Don Imus — a New York institution for decades at WNBC and WFAN — is dead at 79 The shock jock had been on radio for 50 years and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
David Gura / @davidgura: “There has been radio silence from a lot of people ... who could have spoken up and said, ‘I find this offensive,’” Gwen Ifill said. “These people didn't speak up.” Then, she turned to Tim Russert and David Brooks: “Tim, we didn't hear from you. David, we didn't hear from you.” https://twitter.com/...
Steve Cochran / @cochranshow: He was cranky. He was mean. He was hilarious. He was great. And when I was a kid...and wanted to be on the radio...he was my idol. Don Imus dead at 79. They'll never be another like him. RIP IMUS. #ImusInTheMorning https://www.nytimes.com/...
@thr: The radio personality passed away on Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas http://thr.cm/...
Lin Wood / @llinwood: I never met I-Man. Did 1 remote interview with him years ago, 6:30 am from home office. Afterwards, kids said my name was misspelled on chyron. I did not care. I had survived the I-Man. He was good man & provoked great conversations. Named my mare Deirdre for his wife. Respect. https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner: ‘Good riddance’: Don Imus death prompts backlash on social media
William Mansell / ABC News: Controversial former radio host Don Imus dead at age 79
Teresa Roca / The Sun: Don Imus dead: Legendary radio host of Imus In The Morning dies in hospital aged 79
Lauren Novak / DoYouRemember?: ‘Imus In The Morning’ Host Don Imus Dies At 79
Mark R. Levin / @marklevinshow: The extraordinary Don Imus has passed. A true legend. May he RIP. (A more worthy tribute when I return to our beloved radio airwaves.) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News: Don Imus, giant of New York airwaves who pioneered shock jock genre, dead at 79
Stephen Andrew / Celebrity: ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Legendary Radio Personality Don Imus Dead at 79
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline: Famed Radio DJ Don Imus Dies At Age 79
Victoria Miller / The Inquisitr: Don Imus Dead, Controversial Radio Broadcaster Passed Away At Age 79
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Veteran radio and TV broadcaster Don Imus died this morning. He was 79. He had been in the hospital since Christmas Eve, according to a statement from his family.
Sam Dorman / Fox News: Don Imus, TV and radio personality, dies at 79
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Don Imus, Radio Host of ‘Imus in the Morning,’ Dies at 79
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: The NYT's Don Imus obit must be read to be believed. Classic McFadden. (via @NYTObits) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Don Imus, former radio broadcaster, dead at 79
Joe Concha / The Hill: Controversial radio host Don Imus dies at 79
Elon Green / @elongreen: Lol he didn't do that in private. That's why everyone knows about it. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast: Infamous Shock Jock Don Imus Dead at 79
Dave Nemetz / TVLine: Radio and TV Host Don Imus Dead at 79
@nytmetro: For nearly a half-century — from his start on local stations in the West in 1968 until his retirement in 2018 — Mr. Imus entertained and offended countless millions with his mercurial outbursts https://www.nytimes.com/...
Barry Yeoman / @barry_yeoman: Perspective on #DonImus. Here's @gwenifill's original op-ed piece: https://nyti.ms/2Qr9Qv1 (hat tip @ladrine). https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Updated the story: Source close to Imus family said radio broadcaster Don Imus had been battling pneumonia http://bit.ly/2QtfjBF
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: “[Mr. Imus] won some early notoriety by calling a Sacramento McDonald's on the air and ordering 1,200 hamburgers...” https://www.wsj.com/...
Steven Zeitchik / @zeitchikwapo: Has there been a personality that shaped as many contemporary media cultures as Don Imus? Talk radio, cable news, the digital discourse — all would look fundamentally different without him. Debate the legacy; respect the influence.
@benschwartz_: “pushed boundaries” - in the country that invented the minstrel show, he was enforcing boundaries. https://twitter.com/...
Marc Fisher / Washington Post: Don Imus, talk-show host who turned bad behavior into big ratings, dies at 79
Stephen Miller / Bloomberg: Don Imus, U.S. Radio-Show Host Who Thrived on Shock, Dies at 79
USA Today: Legendary radio host Don Imus dies at age 79 after being hospitalized since Christmas Eve
Emily Bicks / Heavy.com: Don Imus Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Dr. Danna Young / @dannagal: But if your product is predicated on the amplification of the worst instincts among us, does compassion/charity done in private mean you're *actually* a good person? I ask because based on our media landscape lots of people will have to answer that same question sooner or later. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Duaine Hahn / People.com: Controversial Radio Broadcaster Don Imus Dies at 79
Vanessa Romo / NPR: Controversial Shock Jock Don Imus Has Died At 79
David Gura / @davidgura: “My concern ... is not that people are sorry that they say these things, they are sorry that someone catches them.” In 2007, Gwen Ifill appeared on @MeetThePress, with Tim Russert, @nytdavidbrooks, @JohnJHarwood and @Eugene_Robinson, to discuss Don Imus: https://youtu.be/... .
Mike Lupica / New York Daily News: ‘I said everything I needed to say’ — Don Imus, who worked nearly 50 years without a net, changed everything in radio
Jeffery Martin / Newsweek: Shock Jock Don Imus' most controversial quotes during his lifetime
Richard M. Nixon / @dick_nixon: The cancer charity was investigated for fraud. https://twitter.com/...
Spencer Neale / Washington Examiner: Legendary radio host Don Imus dead at 79
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: In public he was an irascible growler “who led pranks and parodies that could be tasteless, obscene and sometimes racist, sexist or homophobic.” In private he raised millions for wounded vets and kids with cancer. NYT's obit captures all of Imus https://www.nytimes.com/...
George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Spotify will suspend political ads in early 2020, citing the lack of tools to review them; source: political ads are not a significant source of its revenue — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers — Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising …
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Zak Kukoff / @zck: My concern with announcements like these is that they reward the worst behaviors in politics. When paid reach is banned — Outrage, anger, base appeal = free reach https://twitter.com/...
Who Targets Me / @whotargetsme: An increasingly common position for big tech. Though still no answer to what's ‘political’. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify Will Suspend Political Ad Sales in 2020, Citing Need For More Robust Ways to Vet Content
John Henson / @john_henson: They were “successful” online because of Russian troll farms and cyber crimes, which the campaign was aware of and actively sought. And you're best known for lying about the inaugural crowd size, hiding in the bushes and whoring yourself out on Dancing with the Stars. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Spicer / @seanspicer: Notice that after @realDonaldTrump @GOP we're successful online in 2016 they all now want to ban political advertising: Via @Reuters Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020 https://www.reuters.com/...
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Spotify will ‘pause’ airing political ads in early 2020
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Hmmm. Spotify doesn't allow microtargeting of ads, does it? Banning mass-audience political ads is a shrug. It's only in microtargeting where political ads can become toxic to democracy. Hence my problem with Facebook and Trade Desk's empty words. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Good for @Spotify. @facebook seems to be one of the last holdouts for political ads, which is doubly bad considering they're allowing deliberate falsehoods in them. https://twitter.com/...
Logan Dobson / @logandobson: congratulations to random Spotify ad salespeople on their new jobs determining what is “Political” and what isn't https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If @Spotify was taking $ to run political ads, it should have added disclaimers linked to a public file of disclosures. What other tech companies run ads without transparency? @verizonmedia? @Reddit? Reminder: Self-regulation isn't enough! https://e-pluribusunum.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Glazer / @emilyglazer: Spotify is suspending political ads in 2020. “Executives had previously been concerned that political ads could bother Spotify's listeners and lead to negative feedback,” + employees had to manually monitor political ad creative, per our reporting: https://www.wsj.com/...
Kerry Flynn / CNN: Spotify will stop running political ads in 2020
David Matthews / New York Daily News: Spotify is suspending political advertising ahead of 2020 elections
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Spotify to Suspend Political Advertising
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: ps would be helpful if advertising trade press dug in harder on Facebook and TTD's failed but convenient logic that sunlight is the best disinfectant for false political advertising considering microtargeting serves disinfo campaigns by providing the very darkness. @adage https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Kraus / Mashable: Spotify suspends political ads — for now
Sean Captain / Fast Company: Spotify is banning political ads—but there's a catch
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: Spotify latest platform to halt political ads
David Porter / 8tracks blog:
As 8tracks prepares to shut down on December 31, its co-founder shares a post-mortem of what went wrong with the once-promising music streaming startup — 8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind …
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J Herskowitz / @jherskowitz: One of the longest and most impressive runs of a musictech generation. 👏🙏 https://twitter.com/...
David Porter / @davidporter: 8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019. More here: https://blog.8tracks.com/...
@agaresia: oh my god 8tracks shutting down on the 31st ???? i need to grab my playlists https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Hasief Ardiasyah / @hasief: Haven't used it in a while, but I loved 8tracks for making playlists back in the pre-Spotify era. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast is in advanced talks to acquire Xumo, which offers an ad-supported video streaming service, as Comcast prepares to launch NBC's Peacock — Deal would help cable giant's digital-video ambitions as it prepares to launch its own video-streaming service
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Meghan McCarty Carino / Marketplace: Streaming TV might go back to the future by embracing ad revenue
Todd Spangler / Variety: Comcast Might Be Buyer Free-Video Streamer Xumo Has Been Seeking
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Comcast Reportedly in Advanced Stages of Buying XUMO
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Comcast Reportedly In Talks To Buy Free, Ad-Supported Streamer Xumo
Robert Briel / Broadband TV News: Comcast eyes Xumo acquisition
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable: Comcast in Talks to Buy Streamer Xumo: Report
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: I don't really have a feel for what Xumo is or wants to be, but it is on my TV, which is prob worth something https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ventimiglia / @tomventimiglia: @mediagazer Advanced Talks would be a good name for an M&A-themed podcast
Richard Lawler / Engadget: WSJ: Comcast might buy the free streaming app Xumo TV
Andrew A. Rosen / @aagave: Reads like Xumo can be a free version of Peacock the market seems to be anticipating from Comcast. Also curious to see if Comcast mirrors the Viacom-PlutoTV strategy of IP-exclusive channels for the purpose of ad sales. @lindayacc will be fun listen on this deal if it goes thru https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Last media deal of the year? Comcast in talks to acquire streaming TV service Xumo as it prepares to launch Peacock. By @patiencehaggin and @sizpatel. $CMCSA https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Patience Haggin / MarketWatch: Comcast may be set to buy free-streaming service Xumo
Heather Bryant / Nieman Lab:
In 2020, the question of how to save newsrooms will start to shift to how to save journalism as a process, emphasizing more collaboration and inclusiveness — Heather Bryant is founder and director of Project Facet. — There are always two conversations happening in any given field.
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@thischrishorne: I didn't think I could be a bigger @HBCompass fan but reading this, I know better now. All of this, over and over until everyone is singing along: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Kiefer / @matt_kiefer: “As we continue to grapple with the questions of how to make journalism sustainable, we must also grapple with what kind of journalism should be sustained.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Antonio Attolini / @antonioattolini: “How and when do we decide between trying to save the newsrooms that have shown no interest in being better and focusing on helping develop and support the new and...” 1/2 https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. / @nikkiusher: “The newsroom that publishes an accessible and clear explainer of the ballot...is doing the service of journalism. The newsroom... runs the breathless account of winners and losers...is participating in the industry's attention marketplace” via @HBCompass https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Antonio Attolini / @antonioattolini: “...willing existing organizations that are putting in the effort and work to be diverse, to be collaborative, to prioritize audience needs over platform demands, and to actively defend against the attempts of powerful interests to weaponize the news cycle?” 2/2
Simon Galperin / @thensim0nsaid: An independent press helps people navigate decisions, builds empathy, and serves the public interest. The news industry turns journalism into a commodity and trades it like any other POS corporation. Which are we trying to preserve? From @HBCompass: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alexander Lim / Storybench:
Q&A with NYT designers Antonio De Luca and Sasha Portis about creating an interactive story on New York City's subway map for the map's 40th anniversary — For the 40th anniversary of the New York City subway map, The New York Times created an interactive story that all but places you directly inside the map.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What Chuck Todd blamed on naiveté to lessen his error of ignoring the GOP's spread of disinfo was in fact willful blindness and malpractice — That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.
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Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 4/ ... succumb to the “premise of symmetry” or false equivalence. In that sense this isn't Roy Cohn Redux (although he's certainly the model for Trump & Co.). Nor do I think access to these shows lends credibility to the charlatans—not among any serious viewers, anyway, ...
Veronica Escobar / @vgescobar: This is precisely why the Sunday morning shows (with very few exceptions) are so incredibly frustrating to watch. 👇🏽 http://pressthink.org/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 3/ I'm skeptical that it causes an “epistemological crisis,” or that, in @Kasparov63's words, it misinforms, exhausts critics, or “annihilate[s] truth.” The mine run of viewers of MtP, or the readers of the @nytimes, etc., aren't fooled (I hope not, anyway) when those outlets ...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 1/ Have @chucktodd and others like him really been so naive and gullible? I doubt it, but I also don't care all that much. The more interesting & important inquiry, methinks, ... http://pressthink.org/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 10/ One more thing: Are we, the outraged, better off if @MeetThePress, et al., continue to give these folks an audience, so that we can see, and more forthrightly confront, what we're up against, rather than staying in our echo chambers here in our Twitter feeds?
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 5/ ... all of whom are more likely to be infuriated or disgusted than to be persuaded. I *do* think that @jayrosen_nyu might be onto something, though, when he suggests that the reason the Trumpers go on such shows is to instigate “confrontation[s] with journalists” b/c ...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 2/ is to identify the *harms* caused when @MeetThePress continues its business as usual w/guests such as Kellyanne Conway, Ted Cruz, et al., who so freely & unashamedly spout patent nonsense and self-professed “alternative facts.”
Puesto Loco / @puestoloco: Disrobing Chuck Todd, Jay Rosen shows how the media empowered & fuels Trump's Disinformation Machine: • Make stuff up • Spread it on social media • Repeat it..to journalists • Pocketing for the party..mistrust of the news media to help insulate..Trump http://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@toure: Amazing story. Chuck Todd the political director admits he did not understand basic Republican disinformation strategy. RT @jayrosen_nyu: The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. http://pressthink.org/... My new post. I hope you will read it.
Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: Great piece by @jayrosen_nyu lambasting the media for being so slow to acknowledge the right's full-throttle use of sheer *disinformation,* and media figures' inability (or unwillingness?) to fully adapt to the deep asymmetries it has produced: http://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 6/ ... “fighting with the press helps them with core supporters.” (Although, even there, does it really make a material difference in how, e.g., FoxNews viewers think of NBC, or does it serve mostly to confirm their worldview?).
Bernard Zuel / @bernardzuel: This is as relevant to the insider political reporting of much of the Australian media (save for a handful like Katharine Murphy, Michael Pascoe, Michael West & oddly, ex News journos now able to speak) as Americans. https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur: When you read this, please remember that Chuck Todd isn't just the host of Meet The Press; he's also the *political director of NBC News* https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: This inherent belief in the integrity and honor of folks who exist in the same social class as you and who run in the same professional circles, who as Rosen said, break bread with you, despite evidence to the contrary is a BIAS, and one that has done untold damage to our country
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: This both-sideism tht ensapsultes so much of our political reporting is actually the opposite of objectivity. To ignore, down play or overlook what is clear because we need to give both sides equal time and treatment even when one side openly & strategically lies is not objective
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: So, one, this was so spot on, and infuriating, and frightening in that we know little will likely come of Todd's admissions. Two, what is glaring but unsaid — this is just another stark example of the lie of objectivity. This reveals the subjective decision to ignore facts. https://twitter.com/...
Rabbi Latz / @ravmabay: Brutal. But fair. https://twitter.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: Really important post by @jayrosen_nyu about the “confession” by @chucktodd. Journalists (and especially editors) need to do much better. Too many have been sleep walking through the destruction of our democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: December 26, 2019 — Today began and ended with Trump melting down.
Sarah Lerner / @sarahlerner: “That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before Chuck Todd discovered it. That attacks on the press were baked into Trump's political style was knowable from 2015 on.” https://twitter.com/...
Merrill Brown / @merrillbro: Fine work here @jayrosen_nyu. Would welcome you or a media reporter putting a similar seiries of questions to Todd's Sunday and weekday competitors. The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd http://pressthink.org/...
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: If I were talking to *Rolling Stone* about the sources of the public's distrust of the media, I might consider that some of the source lies in the media. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ...
@deniseshrivell: Familiar? 'Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it's a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in' #auspol http://pressthink.org/...
Chris Messina / @chrismessina: This piece on Chuck Todd is on point. We're talking Iraq War-level malpractice by the MSM when it comes to uncovering and debunking the disinformation/#Trumpaganda agenda. We're fscked. /cc @borthwick https://highly.co/... pic.twitter.com/ySD5g8pbmv
Linda Fader / @lindafader: Behold Chuck Todd a 47-year-old ingenue who's been working in politics since 1992, somehow managing to believe until December 2019 that the contemporary Republican Party deserves the presumption that they are equal partners in truth telling. Thank you Jay Rosen. https://twitter.com/...
@digitalsista: Then he wants to quote a BW he doesn't even know. In the most inaccurate ways. He didn't even get her name right. BW has been calling this out this entire time and now a WM just discovered it. pic.twitter.com/oDhW3F4oo4
@digitalsista: Let me just say this. As someone who spends her career on countering disinfo the media as always been complicit. The fact that he even gets to admit this and keeps his job is the actual failure here. https://twitter.com/...
Aisha Sultan / @aishas: “Chuck Todd called it naïveté in order to minimize the error. This we cannot allow.” https://twitter.com/...
Nancy Jane Toppan / @janetoppan: This piece by @jayrosen_nyu about Chuck Todd's ‘sudden’ realization that he's allowed @GOP to advance RAM on his show is excellent. Let's have @KatyTurNBC or @NicolleDWallace host @MeetThePress please. https://twitter.com/...
Sylvia K. Alston / @sylviakalston: I'd LOVE to see @JoyAnnReid take over @MeetThePress Its far past time we have a woman of excellence in that role, excuse me- a black woman of excellence in that role. https://twitter.com/...
Adam L. Penenberg / @penenberg: “I think we all made the mistake of not following Toni Morrison's advice, which is when people tell you who they are, believe them. (Ed note: Maya Angelou is the author of this quote.)” How meta, since they are discussing Trump's lies and fake news.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Most read piece on Media Twitter today? Probably @jayrosen_nyu's post about @ChuckTodd. “That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it...” http://pressthink.org/...
Andrea Chalupa / @andreachalupa: Far past time for @MSNBC and @MeetThePress to replace @chucktodd with an actual journalist. #ChuckToddIndustrialComplex https://twitter.com/...
Anne Ward / @annecw: It is truly sad that @chucktodd's salary depends on not understand the harm of disinformation campaigns and his role in disseminating them to a larger audience.
Phil Kalina / @pkalina: ...quoting Upton Sinclair @jayrosen_nyu also quotes Garry Kasparov: “The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” That is how Trumpism operates.
Michael Leppert / @michaelleppert: I read it-patiently waiting for Rosen's plan of action for today. He wrote that Todd/NBC doesn't have any “earthly idea” what to do, but then also didn't offer one either. I write (not a journalist) and I would rally around a good idea on this if it were offered. @jayrosen_nyu
@xgambitt69x: IMO I think the answer would be something like what @NicolleDWallace did once and just cut off the interview and she literally said “this is full of lies and we can't go on”. 💥
@bandyxlee1: This is the essence of “conflict of interest.” Almost all politicians have conflicts of interest that would disqualify them in any other job. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This is what I meant by practices with a premise. The premise of your suggestion is that the “opposing” pols would have opposing views on a common set of facts. But the destruction of that common world is powering the movement that has overtaken one of the two parties.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: That's why the treatment of Mann and Ornstein in 2012 is so important. They had the epiphany and sounded the alarm. They were members in good standing of the establishment club. Ornstein was once the most quoted person in Beltway journalism. And then... they were placed outside.
Whitney Phillips / @wphillips49: A nice breakdown of how wide-eyed claims of naivety are not acceptable explanations for how people who are paid money to know better, do not know better. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Zwillich / @toddzwillich: This is a key passage in @jayrosen_nyu's critique of @chucktodd and political media's response to GOP disinformation. It desperately recommends @page88's @realTrumpcast discussion with historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat. If you listen, you'll “get why.” https://podcasts.apple.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@amy_siskind: “Todd repeatedly called himself naive for not recognizing the pattern, itself an astounding statement that cast doubt on his fitness for office as host of Meet the Press...” http://pressthink.org/...
@naretevduorp: .@chucktodd admits to being naive about the @GOP strategy of lies. From my vantage point, Chuck is less of a naïveté, and more of person who allows his biases to guide his objectivity, or the lack thereof. More simply, success has caused Chuck to devolved into a biased hack. https://twitter.com/...
Teymoor Nabili / @teymoornabili: You don't get to claim you are naive about politics when you have these kinds of positions." Is the US media finally opening its eyes? And how long will it take for the UK media to spot the resemblance, and learn the lessons of GE 2019? http://pressthink.org/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: US journalists need to not only understand asymmetric political polarization & our epistemic crisis but change how they work in response. @jayrosen_nyu critique of @chucktodd is harsh but earned: http://pressthink.org/... @MeetThePress laundered lies & engaged in false equivalency https://twitter.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / @msignorile: This is a powerful and comprehensive analysis of Chuck Todd and his actions by @jayrosen_nyu Read it. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: Good critical analysis by Jay on the “epistemological crisis” at Meet the Press brought on by the spreading of disinformation as part of the theater of hate directed at the press. But, as with his criticism of @PostBaron a few days ago, it's less clear what he expects MTP to do. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen White / @sgw94: This explains the problems with Chuck Todd as not only the MTP host but also NBC's political director a lot more calmly and coherently than I did. I wish I knew how he got that job and how he continues to keep it with this stunningly consistent level of incompetence. https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Britt / @zathras3: Meet the Press meets Beat the Press: @jayrosen_nyu writes with incredulity about the @chucktodd Rolling Stone interview. If you're a political insider in journalism, you don't get to use naïveté as an excuse for getting the story wrong. http://pressthink.org/...
Michael Zimbalist / @zimbalist: Meet the Press has become unwatchable for me. The reasons why are brilliantly captured in this post by @jayrosen_nyu. Read it! http://pressthink.org/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Worth reading. The basic takeaway: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: NYU Professor Jay Rosen Tears Chuck Todd for Just Now Realizing Republicans Lie for Trump
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Q&A with Chuck Todd about a Dec 29 edition of Meet the Press focusing on journalism and disinformation with guests like NYT's Dean Baquet and WaPo's Marty Baron
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, The Wrap, @jordanchariton, @soledadobrien, @jljacobson, Breitbart, Fox News, @brianstelter, @porpentina2017, @jimhansondc, @teri_atthepaper, @drvox, @katzonearth, @teroterotero, @lukebrussel, Washington Examiner, The Wrap, Axios, BizPac Review, @hoi_pollois, @karacalavera, @imillhiser, @patblanchfield, @adamantxyves, @brooklynmarie, @soledadobrien, @elongreen, @armandondk, @mayatcontreras and @jayrosen_nyu
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. http://pressthink.org/... My new post. I hope you will read it.
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: ‘Meet the Press’ to Air Special Edition on ‘Alternate Facts’ Days After Chuck Todd Interview Backlash
Jordan / @jordanchariton: It's truly amazing seeing the glorification of one of the premiere access journalists of our time https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: [It has become standard that many in the press fail to accurately assess and take responsibility for their own major failures] https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Jacobson / @jljacobson: I have a big problem with this piece on @chucktodd in that he does none of this. https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... Because Todd is the ultimate both-sides-er and the ultimate inside-the-beltway narrative driver and he does not own any of it.
Brian Flood / Fox News: NBC News Chuck Todd ripped for ‘embarrassing, enraging’ comments about disinformation
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “One of the things we don't fully appreciate in mainstream media on these attacks is that it's become fun to attack the press, if that makes sense, on the right. It doesn't matter if we're right or wrong, attack them anyway.” https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Porpentina / @porpentina2017: Chuck Todd is either an idiot or complicit. Think about it; he said he was surprised by this? He was surprised for THREE YEARS?! Right! This was to sell advertising for the show. If it wasn't, then he isn't intelligent enough to host this news institution https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Jim Hanson / @jimhansondc: The only way this is not utter garbage Is if it's a confession https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Teri Carter / @teri_atthepaper: This is a remarkable interview, but it's because Chuck repeatedly talks about how naive he is about politics and how Trump has been using the media for years. Chuck's not naive, he's complicit. Chuck Todd's show has done very well in the Trump era. Follow the $$$$$, always. https://twitter.com/...
David Roberts / @drvox: The question, of course, is what he's going to change going forward. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan M. Katz / @katzonearth: OK cool. Now he can retire and let someone competent do the job. https://twitter.com/...
Tero Kuittinen / @teroterotero: LOL Chuck Todd is so widely despised he is STILL Number 1 trending topic, three days after that spectacularly dumb interview. He is like America's train meat pastry complaint guy.
Luke Brussel / @lukebrussel: If more journalists have an epiphany like Chuck Todd's maybe appropriate and accurate coverage of the Trump Administration and supporters will emerge (at last). #BothSides https://twitter.com/...
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner: Chuck Todd has a theory about media mistrust
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: NBC News' Chuck Todd Admits He Was ‘Naive’ About GOP's ‘Misinformation’ Campaign
Fadel Allassan / Axios: NBC's Chuck Todd claims Republicans have an “incentive” to spread misinformation
Vivek Saxena / BizPac Review: Chuck Todd gets brutal backlash for wild ‘confessional’ about GOP on coordinated disinformation campaign
Lois Winkler / @hoi_pollois: Chuck Todd covers politics like he's covering sports: short plays lead to short plays, things happen, winners + losers switch places regularly. Yay, boo. No depth, no arc of history w real people + effects, just bodies on a field. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Calavera / @karacalavera: “Naive”? Chuck Todd has been completely incompetent! https://twitter.com/...
Ian Millhiser / @imillhiser: This is interesting, but I think many political journos overestimate the impact of disinformation and underestimate the impact of bad editorial judgment. The story that elected Trump — Her Emails — was true. It just shouldn't have be covered as the most important story of 2016. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Blanchfield / @patblanchfield: this interview with @chucktodd, in which he describes his own being “naive,” is more accurately a portrait of a man defined by such intellectual inertia and general laziness that even having read it I can hardly believe it's real https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Yes Yves Yes / @adamantxyves: Given how he's shut down people on Twitter (particularly minorities) who tried to warn him, I'd say that “naive” is not the right word here. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Or he could have, you know, listened to us experts. But hey https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: So: in short: chuck Todd tells @RollingStone he was “just absurdly naive in hindsight” when Sean Spicer lied about inaugural crowd size When Kellyanne Conway coined ‘alternative facts’: “wait a minute” an incredulous Chuck Todd interrupted, laughing. (1) (1) https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: The punchline is he said this in an interview about his role in spreading disinformation https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Armando / @armandondk: I like Todd's misidentifying a Maya Angelou quote as from Toni Morrison. On point. https://twitter.com/...
Maya Contreras / @mayatcontreras: 1. Glad Chuck Todd FINALLY realized that Trump & his entire team have been spreading disinformation since he declared his run. 2. Chuck should have caught on years ago, that's literally his job. 3. He quoted Maya Angelou but attributed it to Toni Morrison. 🤦🏽♀ ️ Do better, Chuck. https://twitter.com/...
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
William Greider, a reporter, editor, and author who wrote about the economy and politics for WaPo, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and other outlets, dies at 83 — In interviews with Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, he exposed doubts about the supply-side economics that the administration had embraced.
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Joe Costello / @ofbyforbook: After I sent to him, he called me and said his eyes welled up reading the piece. So, raise a glass and shed a tear for the passing of William Greider, a great American, you won't find the likes of him around much these days. Cheers Bill
Christopher Federico / @chrispolpsych: RIP, William Greider. Sounds weird in some ways to write it now, but his late '80s / early '90s articles in Rolling Stone played a non-negligible role in my political socialization. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Merrill Brown / @merrillbro: Thanks to @KatrinaNation for a moving tribute to one of the great journalists of our day, William Greider who just passed away. Bill was an absolutely brilliant writer. https://www.thenation.com/...
Joe Costello / @ofbyforbook: Impeaching Politics Past, William Greider, December 3, 1973 pic.twitter.com/RjrFtnqpcu
Ari Berman / @ariberman: Devastated by passing of my old @thenation colleague Bill Greider. Grew up reading Bill in @RollingStone & he was invaluable mentor to me when I moved to DC as young reporter. He truly spoke truth to power & gave voice to the voiceless https://www.nytimes.com/...
Santa Wayne / @g_portmanteau: One last one. When Bill worked at Rolling Stone, he shared the political beat with Hunter S. Thompson, who nicknamed him “Dollar Bill Greider.” HST once tried to harangue a night clerk at a motel to score painkillers for Bill after Bill had hurt his back. A sweet gesture.
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: William Greider, Journalist Who Focused on Economy, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/... Bill Greider was a senior Washington Post editor when I was a lowly intern there, and he exemplified journalism with both a head and a heart. RIP.
Josh Mankiewicz / @joshmankiewicz: “Journalist Who Focused on Economy” doesn't quite do it. It's true, but what it doesn't explain is just how stunningly good Bill Greider was. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ashraf Laidi / @alaidi: Greider's book on the history of the Fed is the ultimate work ever existed on the topic. William Greider, Journalist Who Focused on Economy, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Costello / @ofbyforbook: About a dozen years ago, I got a call from Bill Greider asking if I'd help him find a piece in the Post's archives he had written, “in 73 or 74.”, for the book he was working on. “I should know how to do this, but I know you can do it quickly.”
Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout: 14 years ago I entered an office piled with books, and met this legend, who had a heart as big as the ocean and a beautiful mind. I cherish those conversations. His book, “Who Will Tell the People,” was a world-view changing read. What a loss, and life. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Nichols / The Nation: William Greider Knew What Ailed the Democratic Party
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: Economy journalist Greider passes away
Tom Philpott / @tomphilpott: A great one has passed. His “Secrets of the Temple” had a profound impact on me: peeled back the cliches & obfuscations of Wall Street & the financial press to reveal who wins/loses from neoliberal economic policy. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Sanger / @sangernyt: Very sad to hear of the passing of my friend Bill Greider, a mentor to two generations of journalists, a great writer, reporter and ultimately an editorialist. We were neighbors in both Washington and Vermont, where, until not long ago, he lived in.... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jordan Green / @jordangreentcb: William Greider's journalism inspired me to apply for an internship at @thenation, which led to many other things. Rest in peace. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “He was disaffected from the day-to-day mechanics of politics,” Cameron Greider said, “but he was never disaffected from the notion that America could live up to its promise.” So sorry for your loss, Cameron. And ours. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: I used to talk about “Who Will Tell the People” by William Greider so much that @mgerber937 threatened to mock up the cover for a book called “I Will Tell the People!” with a picture of me on the front angrily shaking my fist https://www.nytimes.com/...
Damon Silvers / @damonsilvers: On Christmas Day my dear friend and mentor Bill Greider died. Bill wrote THE book on the Federal Reserve system—Secrets of the Temple. Bill was a great reporter, a patriot, a progressive populist, & a true friend of working people. May his memory be a blessing. #1u @AFLCIO
Richard / @rjeskow: Bill Greider, a great writer and great friend, died yesterday. He showed me kindness, generosity and respect at a time when I was a pariah in most journalistic circles — for both my views and my prose. I learned a lot from him, if not nearly enough. My heart hurts. I'll miss him. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Alter / @jonathanalter: I didn't know Bill Greider but he was a compleat journalist—great reporter, elegant writer, incisive thinker. We need more like him. https://twitter.com/...
Katrina vandenHeuvel / @katrinanation: Bill Greider,who died yesterday,longtime @thenation national affairs correspondent,understand something all too rare in this 24-7 media world.The process of reimagining democracy requires not only real respect for the people, deep reporting, historical insight, but also patience.
Jennifer Taub / @jentaub: I just learned of his passing tonight. So very sad. Met Bill for the first time in 2009 at a conference in Amherst. He was so very kind and generous with his time and ideas.
Eric Etheridge / @eetheridge: RIP Bill Greider, on the far left below with the rest of the Rolling Stone dream team — PJ O'Rouke, Jann Wenner and Hunter S Thompson — interviewing candidate Bill Clinton in Little Rock in 1992. pic.twitter.com/Ba0UddPfMO
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Bill Greider was a goddamn giant who saw the current incoming oligarchy decades before anyone else. RIP.
Anthony Wright / @aewright: William Greider's book, Who Will Tell The People?, was an inspiration, as was his magazine reporting for @RollingStone and @TheNation. The book was key to my thinking of my college senior thesis and my career. RIP Bill Greider. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: When I was a wee malcontent I read Who Will Tell the People by William Greider ten times, and then I looked up his address in the phone book and wrote him a letter and he called and invited me to have lunch with him. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: RIP William Greider. There's a passage in his book Who Will Tell the People that to me captures the significance of the election and rise of @AOC: “Power can accumulate in mysterious ways, if citizens believe they possess this right.” https://interc.pt/2KIWrO8 pic.twitter.com/se7dW5OxJ0
Tim Morris / @tmorris504: Greider's best-known books include “One World, Ready or Not” (1997), about the global economy; “Secrets of the Temple” (1987), a critique of the Federal Reserve system; “Who Will Tell the People? The Betrayal of American Democracy” (1992) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bob Hutton / @herecomesdrbob: One of the most important (unassigned) writers I discovered in college. Still not sure how to pronounce his last name... William Greider, Journalist Who Focused on Economy, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Caputo / @marcacaputo: Greider's “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country” is a must read. I never thought a book about the fed could be a page-turner, but he did it https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Walker / @notjessewalker: William Greider has died. After years of reading him, I finally met him during the short-lived Come Home America project; he seemed like an all-around mensch. RIP. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Juliet Eilperin / @eilperin: I met Bill Greider before I knew what a journalist was - he was just the kind and gracious dad around the corner. It was only once I got to college that I started reading him that I realized he saved his sharp words for his subjects. I'm sorry he's gone. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Tasini / @jonathantasini: If you want to read THE definitive book about the Federal Reserve, read his book “Secrets of The Temple”. He truly was what journalists are supposed to be. RIP. #WilliamGreider #FederalReserveBoard https://www.nytimes.com/...
Binyamin Appelbaum / @bcappelbaum: I have long admired the way Greider wrote about economic policy, placing the emphasis on the consequences for ordinary people and everyday life. RIP. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: Awful news. Bill was one of my heroes. A story I told him: I was on a 1st date with a woman who asked me for a book rec. I said my fave was “Who Will Tell the People.” She borrowed it. I used the excuse of asking for it back to call her again. Shes my wife https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: “He was disaffected from the day-to-day mechanics of politics,” Cameron Greider said, “but he was never disaffected from the notion that America could live up to its promise.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Skanda Amarnath / @irvingswisher: Interesting to read that the political evolution that Greider triggered in me was similar to the one that he went through. Greider was once a big fan of Robert Taft (when he was in college). Reading SoT helped snap me out of my Ron Paul phase... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: “Asked in a 2009 interview with Princeton Alumni Weekly if the university had shaped his political philosophy, Mr. Greider said no.” hahahahah Classic quote from Bill in his NYT obit. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Darrell Williams / @willdarrell: One of his greatest contributions..... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Dan Balz / @danbalz: Bill Greider was a brilliant and big-hearted journalist, for the Post, for Rolling Stone, for The Nation. He reported tirelessly, wrote elegantly and did everything with passion and conviction, a voice now lost to all of us. He taught me so much. RIP, Bill.
Blaine Harden / @blaineharden: He was kind to young reporters. Once wrote a story I'll never forget. It said don't bother reading Sunday newspapers—Go outside and get some exercise.
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: Bill had grown up privileged and often spoke to me of getting to know the labor movement as a young reporter at the Louisville Times. During strikes, he'd call me and he'd wanna know what people were saying in the strike. He cared a lot more about workers than pundits.
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: I'm so immensely sad and crying to hear the news of the death of my friend & mentor William Greider. When I got my first job in journalism, his office was down the hall from me and became an invaluable mentor to me. He was a deeply honest person not afraid of challenging power
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: The thing about Greider was if you were working on a story, he'd tell you “I know a plumber in Chicago, whose been organizing on these issues.” He was someone, who valued the expertise of workers more than experts
Mike Elk / @mikeelk: Once in the WH, Greider had a showdown w/ Bill Clinton when he called him a sell out. Clinton got pissed and yelled at Greider Later Clinton bragged to a biographer “I did everything but fart in his face.” - @davidsirota on the incident https://www.huffpost.com/...
Shareen Pathak / Digiday:
Survey of 135 publishers: 50%+ say direct-sold ads are big source of revenue, 40% had no subscription rev, affiliate ads at most a small revenue source for 82% — For publishers, the biggest priorities heading into 2020 are how to grow revenue they can control: Both through direct-sold ads and subscriptions.
Sara K. Baranowski / Nieman Lab:
2020 will be the start of an exciting era for community news with local outlets producing high-impact reporting that experiments with new formats and engagement — Sara Konrad Baranowski is editor of the Iowa Falls Times Citizen. — The attention of the news industry …
I-Hsien Sherwood / Ad Age:
For ad agencies, the 2010s weren't as bloody as the 2008 recession, but plenty of them failed or were absorbed including Young & Rubicam and J. Walter Thompson — Economic turmoil, internal strife, poor management or just bad luck meant the end of these shops
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
A look back at how Facebook and Twitter evolved over the 2010s, chasing size and influence at a cost to society that will take years to understand — The two companies had a bad run in the 2010s. It was their own fault. — It's been a rough decade for Facebook and Twitter.
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@ekp, @kantrowitz, @laurahelmuth, @gregoriancant, @espiegler and @mrshanerussell, more at Techmeme »
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Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: “Over the course of 10 years, they made a series of misguided product decisions that transformed them from online amusement parks into hellscapes.” Facebook & Twitter's spiral into toxicity, harassment, fake news, hate, genocide, and election interference https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/y4JZvRsWFp
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: My takeaway after covering Facebook and Twitter's descent into chaos in the 2010s: They did it to themselves. Chasing size and influence, they made a series of product decisions that backfired spectacularly. I trace them here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Laura Helmuth / @laurahelmuth: Facebook and Twitter “prioritized growth and influence over safety ... achieving great wealth and power as a result, but at a cost to society that won't be fully calculable for some years to come.” Important history from @Kantrowitz https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @kantrowitz
Greg Brian / @gregoriancant: I arrived here in 2009 and saw all it's done in covering the decade's most historical events. On that front, it's been invaluable in giving us instantaneous response to events. Socially, it's brought out the worst in people, except for a rare few. #Twitter https://twitter.com/...
@espiegler: What @Facebook & @finkd gave us. Far too generous to say they're “scrambling to clean up.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/Dj8Y4VDuY1
Shane Russell / @mrshanerussell: Facebook's decision add a mobile share button ignited fake news on its service. People spread all manner of lies without much thought — the share button removed almost all hesitation from the act of sharing — as long as those lies confirmed their worldview https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
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