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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Multiple staffers protested a NYT op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the US military to be used against protesters; many said it endangered black NYT staffers — “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger,” dozens of Times employees tweeted in solidarity on Wednesday evening.
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James Bennet / @jbennet: I want to explain why we published the piece today by Senator Tom Cotton. https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Bennet / @jbennet: We understand that many readers find Senator Cotton's argument painful, even dangerous. We believe that is one reason it requires public scrutiny and debate.
James Bennet / @jbennet: Times Opinion owes it to our readers to show them counter-arguments, particularly those made by people in a position to set policy.
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: The best way to shut down a bad opinion is not to suppress it but to share a better opinion.
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Our own newspaper has reported that this is misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: THREAD: As a former @nytimes Op-Ed editor I am reluctant to weigh in on my alma mater. But the decision to publish @SenTomCotton calling for troop deployments to quell unrest falls short of sound journalistic practice. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The emerging divide in journalism is not between “let all relevant arguments be heard” and “don't publish opinions we find repulsive.” It's between those who ask, “is this something we should be amplifying?” and those who don't see the importance of putting the question that way.
David Brooks / @nytdavidbrooks: I believe in democracy. I believe in a free press. I believe in open debate. I love it when my newspaper prints pieces I disagree with. It causes me to think.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: “This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger”: New York Times staffers band together to protest …
Joe Concha / The Hill: Cotton praises NY Times for ‘standing up to the woke progressive mob’ in publishing opinion piece
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: It's important to understand that what the mob is now doing to the NYT is what they did to Evergreen University. They hate liberal institutions and they want them dismantled from within. These people are not liberal and they are a disgrace to journalism.
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: NYT reports that some sources will no longer be providing them with information as a result of the Cotton op-ed. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: In most cases, the beauty of a free and diverse press is that, if you disagree with something that's been published, you can publish a rebuttal. Or you can mock the author of the piece. Or you can just fucking ignore it.
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: I don't think it's controversial to believe that reporters should always be on the side of putting more information into the public sphere about how public officials think. This is true also when the public officials in question think dumb fucking thoughts.
@sivavaid: Just so everyone understands, @nytimes staff are forbidden from disparaging the reputation of the organization. So every staff member expressing disgust with Cotton and @JBennet (and therefore standing for truthful and intelligent journalism) is risking her or his job.
Tom Cotton / @sentomcotton: The nation must restore order. The military stands ready. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zach Carter / @zachdcarter: This is the most openly authoritarian piece of writing I've read from an American politician who has been in power during my lifetime. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: just to be crystal clear: Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger. https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Leandra / @leandrareports: Black journalists at The New York Times are calling out the company for publishing this Op-Ed. “Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.” https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Crouse / @lindsaycrouse: My entire feed: “Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Pretty remarkable amount of public pushback. Internal frustration from the news side toward the opinion side has been building for years though as @ashleyfeinberg reported in 2018 https://www.huffpost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: my colleagues said it more eloquently: Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger. I stand by my colleagues in solidarity. https://twitter.com/...
@profcarroll: Being mad about Cotton martial law op-ed is just being mad that it was published. It's not a call for censorship. It's freely expressing dissent that the choice to publish it was truly abhorrent. The counter response is oppressive by insinuating we should suppress our disdain.
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this lazily characterizes both the experience i've had having tough, honest, deeply important conversations w/ dozens of colleagues the last 18 hrs as well as the important, good faith conversation we were having as opinion staff when this was tweeted. https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: I'll probably get in trouble for this, but to not say something would be immoral. As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Publicly attacking coworkers in a forum where you know they can suffer great consequences for criticizing you or responding could certainly be described as safetyism
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I am just about to pub a new @nytopinion column calling out Facebook for putting people in danger by allowing Donald Trump to run wild on the platform. I would be remiss if I did not second what Charlie said below. This puts black @nytimes staff in danger and I stand by them. https://twitter.com/...
Max Strasser / @maxstrasser: I am in in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting. This inaccurate in both characterizations: It's not a civil war, it's an editorial conversation; and it's not breaking down along generational lines. https://twitter.com/...
Damon Linker / The Week: When journalists stop believing in debate
Siobhan Ball / The Daily Dot: Staffers say New York Times op-ed calling for military intervention puts lives in danger
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: I would not have published that piece, for a multitude of reasons. About fifth on the list is that ridiculous line about ‘radical chic’ https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic: James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
Isabel Togoh / Forbes: ‘This Puts Black Staff In Danger’: New York Times Writers Revolt Over Tom Cotton's Op-Ed; Cotton Responds
Steadman&trade / @asteadwesley: Supporting my colleagues, and particularly the black ones. if electeds want to make provocative arguments let them withstand the questions and context of a news story, not unvarnished and unchecked https://twitter.com/...
Joan Walsh / The Nation: Jim Mattis vs. Tom Cotton: No Contest
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / @taffyakner: Finally: Running this puts Black people, including Black @nytimes staff, in danger. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Nash / Mediaite: Fox News Questions Tom Cotton on ‘Send in the Troops’ Op-Ed: 'It's Not Just Woke Progressives' Opposing These Policies
Max Cohen / Politico: Cotton says New York Times ‘stood up to the woke progressive mob’ by running controversial op-ed
John Nolte / Breitbart: The Radical Tail Wags the Dog at the New York Times
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: But the Cotton piece isn't original, or even timely. it might have been 2 days ago, but Pentagon, @EsperDoD and Mattis have been clearly pushing back. The governors haven't asked for military deployments—in fact, several told Trump it would make things much worse.
Hend Amry / @libyaliberty: There is a difference between an opinion you disagree with and an elected official's unethical propaganda to justify horrific government actions. It might cause you to think but it causes others to die. https://twitter.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: So why run this op-ed? It's true that since its inception in 1970, the page has run controversial and provocative perspectives—I know, because I edited many of them, by Republican and conservative writers, from 2011-15. (Hey @BobbyJindal!)
Trey Graham / @treygraham: “Online Ire,” sneers the hed, as though the Times' own staff weren't up in arms, as if their union hadn't formally protested, as if literate, engaged, thinking adults across the nation hadn't expressed moral outrage about a massive failure of judgment. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: If only this platform had an oversight board, which could make binding decisions about the questionable choice to amplify hate and misinformation to millions globally by posting (and profiting from) garbage content like this under the veneer of defending political speech. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Feels like this might become a thing. https://twitter.com/...
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: You should step down. On the other hand, The NY Times is an objectively pro-war institution whose staff remained largely silent as its editorial board, columnists & contributors backed up virtually every imperial regime change campaign the US waged in the last thirty years. https://twitter.com/...
Della / @della_morte_: The Times reporting on themselves about how they fucked up and no one is happy with them as though there is a disembodied entity called The NYTimes" floating above all this instead of a bunch of people making decisions. https://twitter.com/...
@kevinkfyam: This piece was published on June 3 2020 2:52 pm ET, ie June 4 2020 2:52 am Beijing time. At that moment 31 years ago, the People's Liberation Army was on a murderous rampage in Beijing. Both the topic and timing of this piece are insults to the fallen in #TiananmenMassacre. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Fleishman / @glennf: NY Times reporter fact-checking an error-riddled anti-American screed published by NYT Opinion by a sitting US Senator. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Chen / @msmelchen: Am I imagining it, or did the NYT have to go even more out of its way to explain to its readers why it published Sen. Tom Cotton than why it published an op-ed by the deputy leader of the Taliban? https://twitter.com/...
Qasim Rashid / @qasimrashid: A sitting US senator calling for the US military to murder black & brown civilians isn't an opinion—it's an actionable call to violence with the legislative ability to do so. https://twitter.com/...
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: this is a guy who spent 20+ years defending his decision to air a “debate” about whether black people were actually dumber than whites. https://twitter.com/...
@karlbode: some writers politely criticized their employer for amplifying fascism https://twitter.com/...
Alex F. Baldwin / @verumvulnero1: Didn't the NY Times publish an OpEd by the Taliban? https://twitter.com/...
Keith Richburg / @keithrichburg: Xi Jinping could not have timed it better... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: a sorta weird detail in the nyt write up about this since sources threaten to stop talking all the time. The report doesn't go further than this. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Hess / @amandahess: Cotton's op-ed “undermines the journalistic work of our members, puts our Black staff members in danger, promotes hate, and is likely to encourage further violence” - our union https://twitter.com/...
Michael McFaul / @mcfaul: Did you invite General Mattis or Admiral Mullen to write an accompanying piece with a “counter-point” of view? I haven't seen their pieces in your paper much. https://twitter.com/...
Tiffany C. Li / @tiffanycli: This is also the crux of the issue for many online speech problems on tech platforms. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Lowry / @richlowry: Destroying property—not so bad Running an op-Ed calling for law-and-order—an intolerable outrage https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: agree. this is also an idea i've devoted *a lot* of my criticism of tech platforms to over the last 4 years. and yesterday i wasnt quick enough or nearly forceful enough in citing my objection. my own privilege was on the line & i held onto it. i'm ashamed of that. https://twitter.com/...
@adamdavidson: Leadership at the @nytimes needs to learn: publishing op-eds that say falsehoods is not part of ethical journalism. If nobody can make an argument with facts and reason then it need not be published. It is not a “counter-argument.” It's propaganda. #falsebalancekills https://twitter.com/...
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: i figure that's worth mentioning if we are going to start accusing people of being a “disgrace to journalism”
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: it's not just ideologically inconsistent/hypocritical but was also cowardly. i should have used my platform - same one i do the external criticizing with - to do that when it also had personal stakes for me. gonna shut up for a bit now and listen
@chillmage: It is absurd to suggest that any private company, whether Facebook or The New York Times, is somehow undermining the enterprise of free speech by not giving the sitting president and members of Congress unlimited carriage. They have federally funded avenues for public speech
Wesley / @wesleylowery: based on the words of those in the latter camp “more speech! speech can't be violence! the public will pick the best opinions we should publish them all!”, they'd be fine with NYT publishing an op-Ed that argued “We Should Kill the Jews” or one that argued “Bring Back Slavery” https://twitter.com/...
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: journalists criticizing the editorial decisions of their employer is a coup now? what about the marketplace of ideas? https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Parra Blessing / @gabeblessing: I couldn't disagree more with Tom Cotton. I found his Op-Ed appallingly wrong-headed. AND YET, it *is* an Op-Ed piece, by a sitting US senator, and reflects widespread sentiment on the right. I find it appallingly wrong-headed to suggest it shouldn't have been published at all. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: there are so many black people who I love and care about who work at the NYT, and they deserve so much better than to have their own employer endangering not only their lives but the lives of their friends and families and millions of other Americans
Richard Brody / @tnyfrontrow: Nothing but contempt for @nytimes serving as a mouthpiece for tyranny. Some ideas are moral enormities, outside the bounds of reason, even if spewed by an elected official; big difference between reporting on the fact that someone says it and giving that person a platform.
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: You disabled the comments tho. So... scrutiny? Without pushback by a reporter? Public debate? Without a platform to do so? https://twitter.com/...
Hong Kong Hermit / @hongkonghermit: US senator Tom Cotton is calling for a massacre of American protestors, on the anniversary of Tiananman, and this clown at the NYT is *publishing* the death threat. https://twitter.com/...
@chillmage: In the past week I have seen an astonishing number of colleagues in my industry simultaneously misunderstand the First Amendment, the role of editing, and the institutional power of state officials, who already unilaterally have the means to publish. https://twitter.com/...
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: Sources! You should definitely be mad at the Times about this! So very mad! And the ultimate expression of your righteous anger is sending all of your tips to hunterwalker@protonmail.com! https://twitter.com/...
Austin Ramzy / @austinramzy: What an awful thing to see here in Hong Kong, where people are fighting to keep the right to memorialize those killed 31 years ago today when Beijing did just that—send in the troops https://twitter.com/...
@thewrap: NY Times Union Criticizes Paper's Decision to Publish Op-Ed That Called for the U.S. Military to Crush Protests https://www.thewrap.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Journalists who've spent a week outraged at indiscriminate police violence (especially employed against them!) now somehow can't understand how an op-ed explicitly calling for an *even more aggressive response from the state* amounts to a call for an escalation of state violence
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Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review:
The core problem with NYT publishing Tom Cotton's op-ed isn't that the arguments are painful or dangerous, but rather that the column was built on lies — Yesterday, the New York Times Opinion section ran an Op-Ed column by Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas and a close ally of President Trump …
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Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: I've been mocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars. They told me it was a sideshow. But this was always why it mattered: The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and transform them.
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: W/r/t Tom Cotton's oped and the choice to run it: I agree with our critics that it's a dodge to say “we want a totally open marketplace of ideas!” There are limits. Obviously. The question is: does his view fall outside those limits? Maybe the answer is yes.
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: I'm in no way surprised by what has now exploded into public view. In a way, it's oddly comforting: I feel less alone and less crazy trying to explain the dynamic to people. What I am shocked by is the speed. I thought it would take a few years, not a few weeks.
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: Here's one way to think about what's at stake: The New York Times motto is “all the news that's fit to print.” One group emphasizes the word “all.” The other, the word “fit.”
@timherrera: Three things: 1. That NYT Opinion staffer's thread is a deeply misleading characterization of discussions happening internally. I'm in many of the channels these talks are happening in — she is not. (I just checked.) The discussions are ...
@timherrera: ... respectful, emotional, nuanced, PAINFUL, thoughtful. 2. By definition, she can't be privy to many of those discussions, as she is an Opinion employee and there's a firewall between Opinion and the newsroom. 3. I can be reprimanded for these tweets. She can't be for hers.
Joel D. Anderson / @byjoelanderson: you've got some nerve, given that you reported my wife to her boss because she politely declined to meet with you for coffee. https://twitter.com/...
Jane McManus / @janesports: The falsehoods in the Cotton piece should have DQ'd it, this piece says. The Times editorial page isn't a propaganda board. https://twitter.com/...
Jazmine Hughes / @jazzedloon: The Guild statement - which I helped draft with many, many others - fully recognizes that the op-ed desk has a responsibility to publish a diverse array of opinions, many of which people may find disagreeable! Cotton's op-ed, however, clearly crosses a line. https://twitter.com/...
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: very cool to publicly disparage your colleagues as emotionally weak people undermining the institution
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: More bullshit from @jbennet. Nobody is saying the Times should have “ignored” Cotton's views. I've been saying for days the Times should editorialized in favor of his expulsion from the Senate! Instead, Bennet chose to promote Cotton. https://messaging-custom-newsletters.ny times.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: The point is: everyone has a line. The argument is over where it is and who to listen to in setting it.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / @taffyakner: @bariweiss This is not the fight you think it is; it's different. And it's a great time for Opinion to listen to and not dismiss the real-world impact on its work on the jobs of reporters at the paper. I'm happy to talk more about this with you.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / @taffyakner: @bariweiss This doesn't feel true from where I'm sitting, Bari. Ignoring our colleagues' concerns and dismissing them as generational wokeness (Everyone I'm speaking with is 40+) is ignoring what's actually at stake, which is the dignity and safety of our colleagues. We can't stand idly by
Dana Stevens / @thehighsign: Agog at the fact these supposed professional writers (Bari & Sully) don't grasp that “civil war” & “coup” are not the greatest metaphors to toss around at a moment when our cities are under actual, non-symbolic military occupation. https://twitter.com/...
Gal Beckerman / @galbeckerman: @aoscott I wish people on the outside could see the thoughtfulness and consideration taken with our comments on the internal slack channels. I don't see a war. I see people grappling with hard questions.
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: Would any major paper publish this op-ed? I strongly suspect not. And if they did, you could imagine the newsroom would revolt and the paper's reporters covering the protests would probably say something along the lines of “this op-ed puts us in danger.”
David Klion / @davidklion: Lazy argumentation and willful ignorance can be written off as incompetence, but undermining your colleagues as they risk their careers and publicly defending the position of your bosses is a matter of character.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: @jennydeluxe Just lazy language and lazy thinking.
Victor Pickard / @vwpickard: There's a long-standing fear that if fascism were ever to take firm root in America, too many in our media would remain complacent or even complicit in its rise to power. Recent actions by Mark Zuckerberg & the NYT, under the guise of promoting free speech, seem to bear this out.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: I don't know about y'all, but when @aoscott, @taffyakner and @jennydeluxe tell you you're wrong, I think you're wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: Let's say a prominent elected official wrote an op-ed whose argument was: “It's time for Trump suspend habeas corpus and indefinitely detain all journalists covering the protests until order is restored.”
Jenna Wortham / @jennydeluxe: also ‘civil war’ and ‘woke’ are both exaggerations and reductive of the dialogues and concerns at large. all conversations are extremely thoughtful and respectful, with desires to understand and exchange ideas. it's heartening for me, someone with 10+ years at the paper, to see.
Bryan Washington / @brywashing: genuinely curious tbh given that just this afternoon the publication asked Black authors to write reading lists on race for free https://twitter.com/...
@ben_alpers: @ErikWemple @nytimes @NYTimesOpinion @nytopinion The most charitable description of @nytimes decision to publish that Cotton piece is that it was murderously lazy. But the paper's own defense of that decision has been utterly dishonest and insulting to its readers. AG Sulzberger badly needs to learn the First Law of Holes. 7/7
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / @taffyakner: @galbeckerman @aoscott Yes, agree. It's beautiful to watch this. It is one of those rare moments where you feel like the world could be made better.
@sivavaid: They keep trying to make this a matter of “disagreement” instead of the editors' dishonesty, laziness, and complete lack of standards. https://twitter.com/...
@aoscott: I am 53 and sleepy as hell but what I see at my paper is not a Civil War at all. I don't understand what is gained by describing it that way https://twitter.com/...
@ben_alpers: @ErikWemple @nytimes So that letter is making a substantive assertion about that Tom Cotton piece: if it wasn't accurate, Sulzberger claims, we wouldn't have published it. But where's the argument for that claim? 2/
@ben_alpers: @ErikWemple @nytimes @NYTimesOpinion @nytopinion So quite beyond the facts that Tom Cotton's column wasn't “accurate” and that Sulzberger, Bennet, and the others who decided to publish it have offered us no argument for its accuracy, the claim that accuracy is a criterion by which @nytopinion makes choices is simply a lie. 6/
@dstfelix: let's talk about how sulzberger got to be the publisher of the times in the first damn place
Brandy Jensen / @brandyljensen: i guess the new york times social media policy does not extend to logging on and calling your young colleagues giant pussies
@chillmage: It's a lot easier to advocate for “both sides” on the issue of fascism when you suspect the fascist side will not raise eyebrows at you when they are in power
@ben_alpers: @ErikWemple @nytimes If @nytimes is defending its decision to give a platform to fascism on the basis of that fascist argument's accuracy, they at least owe us a defense of its accuracy. Did they fact check Cotton and conclude his assertions were truthful? 3/
@lindaholmes: Mm, I've been in enough contentious editorial meetings to dismiss any description of neat divisions between two camps of journalists. And I haven't even been in very many. For one thing, AS IF there would only be two camps. Of journalists!
Marge / @margarita: I would suggest to a certain opinion writer to get better friends—but it's clear she doesn't deserve better friends.
@chillmage: The real cleavage in American politics right now is that one side is calling for a military crackdown on the citizenry and the other side is simply asking not to be killed in the street by armed men who do not see their humanity
@chillmage: I have a feeling the people continuing to endorse the Tom Cotton op-ed are aware of the risk of right-wing authoritarian rule and have decided their right to speech will fit comfortably in the gaze of the party
Tom McAllister / @t_mcallister: where do opinions even come from? nobody knows, they just show up in our offices and we have no choice but to put them in the newspaper, our little terrarium for ideas to grow and thrive
@lostblackboy: Bari, I strongly encourage you to have conversations with your colleagues, especially your black ones, instead of tweeting about them. You have the privilege of directly contacting any of them, yet you choose to reduce your co-workers concerns to a “woke civil war.” https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: really, truly proud of all the times people on the tl just absolutely going for it god bless you all
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: Bari was best-known in college for crusading to have professors she saw as unccepably pro-Palestine punished. She's literally the campus culture warrior she's trying to deride here. https://twitter.com/...
Colin Spacetwinks / @spacetwinks: one of the fun things about right wingers constantly talking about college lefties (or even generic libs) being too quick to “shut down debate” is they always present it as some recent awful phenomena when buckley shit his pants over it in the 60s https://twitter.com/...
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Oh, this is beautiful. Truly. If the world had listened to her brilliance, there would have been no controversy about a US Senator proposing to use the military to make war on American citizens and getting the most prestigious piece of Op-Ed real estate to do so. Beautiful. https://twitter.com/...
Otto Von Biz Markie / @passionweiss: No one mocks you for writing about the campus culture wars. They mock you for writing about it with unbelievable credulity, lack of intellectual rigor, and your dishwater bland prose. https://twitter.com/...
Eli Valley / @elivalley: Bari Weiss is one of the most vociferous and effective warriors against free speech in America today. She has repeatedly demanded the destruction of people's livelihoods for voicing their viewpoints. This grift needs to end. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Friedman / @bfriedmandc: someone please put this newspaper down like old yeller https://twitter.com/...
Arthur Chu / @arthur_affect: Nobody who uses the word “wokes” as a noun in this way should be allowed to write words for money https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: You all remember that core liberal value: If someone thinks protesting Americans should be murdered in the streets by their country's military, you HAVE to give them 800 words in your newspaper https://twitter.com/...
@wajahatali: People, this is bullshit. Talk to other editors at the @nytimes. That's all I'll say. https://twitter.com/...
Solomon Georgio / @solomongeorgio: This bad logic with an even worse defense. Just say you want to print unchecked opinions of racists and fascists. Sorry your weak ass doesn't like to be challenged by people with empathy. Maybe quit your job if you're going to be so overly sensitive and need a safe space https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Bernhardt / @jonbernhardt: that Weiss is a mendacious propagandist for the calcified powers atop print media isn't really worth dinging her over too much; that is after all the role she was hired for. but it's fair play to be appalled that she's endlessly indulged while being so BAD at it https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Lopatto / @mslopatto: who could possibly have guessed that bari weiss is a liar https://twitter.com/...
Jenna Wortham / @jennydeluxe: this doesn't feel accurate or right to me from my purview of our internal slacks and the multiple private conversations I've had; and it also undermines the older employees who are rightfully outraged as well https://twitter.com/...
Hunter / @hunterdk: Maybe now NYT editors can see how brazenly dishonest Bari is about everything else. https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: Maybe the “young wokes” are also upset that the NYT opinion page has gone from influential and respected to inessential trolling garbage filled with hot takes about sinking Iran's navy or militarizing American streets with no reflection on why those ideas are dumb. https://twitter.com/...
Mosharraf Zaidi / @mosharrafzaidi: The dynamic Weiss describes is a microcosm of political discourse globally (with variations based on context). One caveat: troll farms, state and non state funded, skew this dynamic to drag it into the gutter. This is deliberate & achieves a vital goal: eliminating nuance. https://twitter.com/...
Conner Habib / @connerhabib: This is an idiotic analysis, and rather rich coming from the same fool who says criticism of murderous Israeli government policies is tantamount to antisemitism. https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: No, this is a lie. The group that favors publishing Tom Cotton does not emphasize “all”; there is much they do not publish. You just don't want to admit that publishing Cotton is not being “all inclusive” — it favors his viewpoint. https://twitter.com/...
Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown: okay, but........the modifier is there for a reason? if the original intention of the motto that's been overtaken by The Youngs is the front half, why even have the back half? https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Brogan / @jacob_brogan: Unless you're publishing some sort Borgesian absolute newspaper that literally records every earthly fact as it unfolds, the quality of your publication would presumably always be determined by the fitness of the things it contains. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Sealy-Harrington / @joshuasealy: This framing is absurd. “Fit” qualifies “All”. All the news *that is* fit to print. Bari's “group”, which emphasizes “all”, isn't respecting the @nytimes motto—they're ignoring it. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: If NYT published a piece from someone saying that Israel shouldn't exist, Bari would lose her mind. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Adler-Bell / @samadlerbell: literally no one is on the side of “all.” it's a conflict over who gets to decide what counts as “fit.” white executive editors want to maintain exclusive power over that decision; younger black workers think they should have some input (at least when their lives are at stake) https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: Further, the debate over whether to emphasize “all” or “fit” is one for the news section. The op-ed page has never been about “all”—and if you pretend it's about news, then Cotton's piece, a rehash of the ugly, un-American position he publicly took days earlier, doesn't qualify.
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: This framing is so disingenuous. The NYT op-ed page is not a come-one-come-all public square; it's a rigorously curated section that invites in few and is closed to many more. https://twitter.com/...
Saeen / @saeen90_: @ParkerMolloy i dunno about weiss but this is what bret stephens had to say about letting lawmakers broaden the overton window to include politically incorrect criticisms of aipac & israel https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: @bariweiss Bari, would you commission an op-ed from someone calling for something completely antithetical to your views? Would you commission a piece from someone arguing that Israel shouldn't exist? I certainly doubt it.
Brian Schatz / @brianschatz: I've submitted non-fascist opinion pieces to the Times in the past but no luck so maybe this is just sour grapes.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This is such a willful misrepresentation of things and ignores so many of our older colleagues, many who have been with the NYT for decades, who have spoken out. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: but... that's not even what “all” means in the motto https://twitter.com/...
Randall Colburn / The A.V. Club: Enjoy some on-point parodies of Tom Cotton's trash New York Times op-ed
Jon Allsop / @jon_allsop: “At some point, the Times and its opinion page are going to have to learn how to speak in terms of the values they believe in — and be able to distinguish them from those they oppose.” @CJR's public editor for @nytimes, @gabrielsnyder, on the Cotton oped: https://www.cjr.org/...
Kenneth C. Davis / @kennethcdavis: “The paper's news side has already reported how promoting claims of unbridled urban unrest is part of the ‘untruths, conspiracy theories, and other false information...running rampant online’ and being pushed by Trump and his allies.” via @CJR @gabrielsnyder https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic: Against the Insurrection Act — Senator Tom Cotton argued Wednesday …
Lisa Eadicicco / Business Insider: Jack Dorsey appears to have unfollowed the New York Times on Twitter after it published …
Andrew Naughtie / The Independent: George Floyd protests: New York Times staff revolt over Republican senator's opinion piece urging Trump …
Tiffany May / @nytmay: Beijing sent in the troops on June 4, 1989. Student activists who died in the crackdown have been mourned every year in Hong Kong for the past three decades. Running this op-ed puts the lives of black people, including black @nytimes employees, in danger. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder: Racism is rooted in lies that white people tell about black people. Standing for the truth — and against racism — requires unmasking those lies. The New York Times fails in its mission to seek the truth when it lends its platform to others to tell lies. https://www.cjr.org/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Memo: NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the Tom Cotton op-ed was printed in the spirit of openness to a range of opinions, notes staffers' pain, vows to listen — New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger defended the paper's decision to publish an op-ed from Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) …
Discussion:
@jenvalentino, New York Times, @emilyrpeck, @lilitaylor, @jenvalentino, @xeni, @taylorlorenz, @jenvalentino, @dataeditor, @jenvalentino, @jenvalentino, @samuelaadams, Breitbart, @kendrawrites, @jenvalentino, @jenvalentino, @amaditalks, @ben_alpers, @jenvalentino, @jonbecker and @dataeditor
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is hard. The truth is hard to find. The truth is hard to know. The truth is more important now than ever. A Thread. https://twitter.com/...
@lilitaylor: Very good thread. I think there's something to glean in Jennifer's framing. The main insight for me is: “The truth is...” followed by fact and evidence. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that journalists, after years of being called “the enemy of the people,” are under attack, as @marcatracy and @RachelAbramsNY report. And Black journalists bear the weight. The truth is important. I stand in solidarity with my colleagues. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Xeni Jardin / @xeni: @jenvalentino @marcatracy @RachelAbramsNY Proud subscriber for this reason. Thank you for your service.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Please read this thread https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that NYT reporting does not support the idea that police officers have borne the brunt of recent violence. As @shailadewan and @ByMikeBaker showed, officers have used batons, gas and rubber bullets on protesters, bystanders and journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that the majority of protests in NYC have been just that: protests, not riots or an “orgy of violence.” Times journalists such as @dgbxny, @AliWatkins, @cegoldbaum, @alanfeuer, @AshleyAtTimes, @Azi and more have reported this extensively. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that @daveyalba of The New York Times has reported that unsubstantiated theories about antifa are among the primary pieces of misinformation being spread about current protests and unrest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sam Adams / @samuelaadams: just a little collection of the lies Tom Cotton was allowed to print in the New York Times, as demonstrated by the Times' own reporting https://twitter.com/...
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart: New York Times, Journalists Freak Out over Tom Cotton Op-ed Calling for Military to Restore Order
@kendrawrites: When the NY Times publisher says that opinion pieces have to be accurate but the institution's own reporters have compiled a thread detailing how the opinion piece they published that all but called for the extrajudicial killings of Americans is inaccurate. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that these events are not “carnivals for the thrill-seeking rich,” but as @jeligon and @abscribe described for Times readers recently, are overwhelmingly about “a long line of violence against African-Americans.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: For example, the truth is that Senator Tom Cotton, in an opinion piece, misquoted Article IV Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which never says the federal government has a duty to the states to “protect each of them from domestic violence” but refers to state requests for aid. https://twitter.com/...
@amaditalks: An important debunking of the Tom Cotton drivel published by the New York Times today. https://twitter.com/...
@ben_alpers: One more thing related to this thread: the Sulzberger letter tells you exactly the sort of boost that the Grey Lady is, knowingly and admittedly, giving to fascists when it publishes their opinions. @nytimes claims to be certifying their accuracy and good faith. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / @jenvalentino: The truth is that, as @traceytully and @KevinGArmstrong reported, cities have avoided violence not with an “overwhelming show of force” but through community efforts and eschewing officers in military-style gear. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT employees send letter to Bennet and top management asking for an editor's note to examine claims made in Cotton's op-ed, which “undermines the work we do” — With reporters in harm's way covering the protests, Cotton's op-ed “pours gasoline on the fire,” …
Discussion:
@vanityfair, @joepompeo, Media Nation, Boing Boing, Mediaite, @mathewi and @mlcalderone
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@vanityfair: “I've not experienced a backlash like this before, internally or externally,” says a source at the Times. “It feels like a boiling point for so many of the internal and editorial tensions of the last few years” https://vntyfr.com/9tj85Mg
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: NYT journos sent a letter to the brass re: Cotton op-ed asking for corrections/"an editor's note or follow-up, or...a fully reported news story" to “examine...cherry-picked facts woven together with hyperbolic assumptions that were gross exaggerations.” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: No, The New York Times shouldn't have published Tom Cotton's ugly little screed
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: NY Times Suggests Readers Don't Know Difference Between Opinion and News in Report on Cotton Op-Ed Mutiny
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “We believe his message undermines the work we do, in the newsroom and in opinion, and violates our standards for ethical and accurate reporting for the public's interest. It also jeopardizes our journalists' ability to work safely and effectively” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: NYT employees have sent a letter to publisher AG Sulzberger, Dean Baquet and top managers seeking seeking corrections, an editor's note or follow-up story in response to Cotton's “cherry-picked facts” and “gross exaggerations,” @joepompeo reports https://www.vanityfair.com/...
James Bennet / New York Times:
James Bennet defends publishing Tom Cotton's op-ed, saying readers who might oppose Cotton's view need to be aware of it if they hope to defeat it — More on our decision. — We published a piece yesterday that angered many readers, including many of my colleagues here at The Times.
Discussion:
Slate, CNN, @alxthomp, @ted_scheinman, @jmhattem, @hillarykelly, @alexandermcnabb, @chaykak, @oliverdarcy, @thor_benson, @jerylbier, @walldo, @joshuaadouglas, @benschwartz_ and @kidkotok
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate: Newsroom Breaks Into Open Revolt After New York Times Publishes Call for Military Crackdown
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Opinion editor James Bennet published a response: “I worry we'd be misleading our readers if we concluded that by ignoring Cotton's argument we would diminish it...it is impossible to feel righteous about any of this. I know that my own view may be wrong” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ted Scheinman / @ted_scheinman: (Naturally, in explaining his decision to publish Cotton's op-ed, Bennet is careful to avoid addressing Cotton's factual errors *even once*: https://www.nytimes.com/...)
Julian Hattem / @jmhattem: the defense from @JBennet doesnt address why editors chose to publish Cotton's outright misinformation, lies & obfuscation, outlined below Its not just that the argument is dangerous. its also based on lies, which we expect newspapers to correct https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hillary Kelly / @hillarykelly: This is a joke that does not address even a quarter of the concerns of the staff, readers, and sometimes-writers for the Times, like me. Bennet has deeply marred the trust many people still have in the paper, especially egregious at a time like this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexander / @alexandermcnabb: This is interesting, complicated and - perhaps - important at this time. Why would you amplify a view you viscerally loathe, knowing that your core role is to promote balance and, ultimately, truth? Here: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: “think for yourself” about whether the military should be called on to harass, abuse, and kill protestors https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet defends publishing Tom Cotton's op-ed, writing, “It would undermine the integrity and independence of The New York Times if we only published views that editors like me agreed with...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Thor Benson / @thor_benson: Start sending the New York Times your pro-murder pieces, everyone. They have to publish them. https://twitter.com/...
@jerylbier: Kind of a disturbing conclusion by the editorial page editor of the @NYTimes: “...debating influential ideas openly, rather than letting them go unchallenged, is far more likely to help society reach the right answers...” but I could be wrong... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: “According to one employee, Senator Tom Cotton's column has netted the Times the highest ever number of cancellations in a single hour.” https://slate.com/...
Josh Douglas / @joshuaadouglas: This is still woefully inadequate. He presents all of the reasons why NOT to publish the piece, and then basically shrugs his shoulders. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Schwartz / @benschwartz_: It's disheartening to see how much basic responsibility he abdicates as an editor. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Kotok / @kidkotok: The only options for how to handle an evidenceless argument opinion editor personally disagrees are publish or “ignore”? This furthers impression that as @tomscocca said, opinion section's standards for conservative viewpoints appear “tokenistically low” https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philly Inquirer apologizes for “Buildings Matter, Too” headline and says that it will create a process for discussing and disclosing these types of lapses — An Inquirer headline suggested an equivalence between the loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans. That is unacceptable.
Discussion:
HuffPost, The Media Nut, @brandontrevion, @nhannahjones, The Hill, @joshsternberg, @jamiecentral, @sulliview, Mediaite, @noahyoo, @jessbidgood, @bwaxman, @genepark, @lisagartner, @pwoodreporter, @abgutman, @laurencaguirre, @abgutman, @sarahljaffe, @calefati, @sarahljaffe, @calefati, @rebekahlsanders, Poynter, @dmastrull, @ingasaffron, @feliciasonmez, @rhodes_dawn, @iiwrites, @elaheizadi, @johnny_2hats, @mikeorren and @angelasink
Discussion:
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost: Philadelphia Inquirer Staffers Launch Protest After Paper's ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: Not everything is fit to print
Brandon Bell / @brandontrevion: Today, I'm joining my colleagues of color at the @PhillyInquirer and calling in sick and tired. Things need to change. We call on The Inquirer to do better. To be better. Here is the open letter we sent our newsroom leadership yesterday: https://docs.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: This has been a fundamental problem with news institutions, now and in the past. They attempt to cover racism and inequality without understanding it themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Wise / The Hill: Philadelphia Inquirer reporters skip work after paper publishes ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ headline
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: We are at a moment where the press matters as much as any time in our history. Unforced errors, like poorly worded headlines or insensitive frames or serving as a mouthpiece for fascism, quickly erode whatever trust the media has left with the citizenry. https://medianut.substack.com/ ...
Jamie Gutfreund / @jamiecentral: Highly recommend this newsletter from @Joshsternberg. Previously Adweek's media & tech reporter - now leaning into the opportunity to share a strong and independent POV. Worth a read. https://medianut.substack.com/ ...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Very good take here https://twitter.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Philadelphia Newspaper Apologizes for Running ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline After Staff Protest
@noahyoo: Solidarity with the staff of the Inquirer who are taking a stand today https://twitter.com/...
Jess Bidgood / @jessbidgood: The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes a detailed apology, signed by 3 top editors, for a very bad headline. It includes their plan to stop something similar from happening again and a direct apology to their employees of color https://twitter.com/...
Ben Waxman / @bwaxman: Now: -Stop publishing mugshots -Stop printing the names of people who have been accused but not convicted of a crime -Stop publishing stories that only rely on law enforcement sources https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: The inquirer explanation is up. It states that all processes were correctly followed. at least 3 editors approved the buildings matter too headline,which somehow in a ghastly turn of events became only the 2nd worst headline that started a staff revolt https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Gartner / @lisagartner: Posted late last night. The apology is unequivocal, but falls short of asking the tough question: WHY did editors make this mistake? It's not a typo. It's a symptom of a bigger problem re race in the newsroom. Concrete action needs to be promised. https://www.inquirer.com/...
@pwoodreporter: “We're tired of working for months and years to gain the trust of our communities — communities that have long had good reason to not trust our profession — only to see that trust eroded in an instant by careless, unempathetic decisions.” https://twitter.com/...
Abraham Gutman / @abgutman: “+40 staffers of color had signed onto an open letter to the paper's leadership about systemic racism ― not just in America, but in journalism... +30 of those staffers are declining to work for the day, & another 7 are carrying out a ‘byline strike.’” https://www.huffpost.com/...
@laurencaguirre: Today, I'm joining my colleagues of color at the @PhillyInquirer and calling in sick and tired. Things need to change. We call on The Inquirer to do better. To be better. Here is the open letter we sent our newsroom leadership yesterday: https://docs.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@abgutman: @sarahljaffe We are going to hear a lot of companies say that they are committed to *start* a conversation, as if workers of color everywhere (including newspapers) haven't been raising the same issues for decades. As if those companies haven't “committed"in the past. It's gaslighting.
Jessica Calefati / @calefati: *STAFF RESPONSE* Today, nearly three dozen of my Inquirer colleagues who are journalists of color and find themselves Sick and Tired are calling out Sick and Tired. I commend them for this powerful action. Our union leaders also stand with them in solidarity.
Sarah Jaffe / @sarahljaffe: so many open letters https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Calefati / @calefati: During yesterday's emotional, two-hour, newsroom mtg, one reporter wondered aloud, “IS THIS IT?” Is this the moment when things change? I certainly hope so. My talented, hardworking, vulnerable colleagues who voiced their pain over this incident & others deserve nothing less.
Rebekah L. Sanders / @rebekahlsanders: Byline strike too? Inject this into my veins https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Anchors David Muir, Norah O'Donnell and Lester Holt on network news' mission in covering the George Floyd story
Diane Mastrull / @dmastrull: Never do I want to ever again see my colleagues of color in the kind of pain and anguish I witnessed today. @PhillyInquirer says it finally now hears them. Prove it. They're tired of empty words. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Inga Saffron / @ingasaffron: I was glad to see @PhillyInquirer respond with this apology and explanation for the unfortunate headline that accompanied my column Tuesday. I am deeply sorry for the trauma it caused black people in Philly, and my black and brown newsroom colleagues. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: They are waking up to headlines of op-eds in their own newspapers equating the loss of black lives to the loss of buildings. Think about that. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Dawn Rhodes / @rhodes_dawn: Added context. After the initial uproar about the print headline, they changed the online headline to: “Black Lives Matter. Do Buildings?” The piece, in my view, still was an attempt to equate buildings with Black lives. So as the staffers said, this is about more than headlines https://twitter.com/...
Imaeyen Ibanga / @iiwrites: Journalists of color, maybe even especially Black journalists, are always at risk in newsrooms & yet these journos felt strongly enough to come together & let themselves be seen & heard. You love to see it. The Inquirer must know the city is 36% Black & yet it did this. https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: The full letter is worth reading. An excerpt that voices a not uncommon experience: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Infanti / @johnny_2hats: The headline overshadowed it for legitimate reasons, but Inga's column itsef was fantastic and very much worth your time. It brought a ton of intelligence and important perspsective into the public discourse. In short, it was everything a column should be. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Orren / @mikeorren: If we don't make mistakes, we aren't trying hard enough. When we listen, own up to them and apologize sincerely, we earn the right to keep writing history. This differentiates us from the really fake news. https://twitter.com/...
Angela Couloumbis / @angelasink: The work we as do as journalists is hard - even more so these last few months, as we've worked in isolation. But if we don't have the trust of the people we write about, then we are failing to do our jobs. This apology is a step. More is needed: https://www.inquirer.com/...
RELATED:
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Majority of Philly Inquirer journalists of color called in sick today in protest of the “Buildings Matter, Too” headline while seven withheld their bylines — At least 34 of the Philadelphia Inquirer journalists of color—the vast majority of those on the staff …
Discussion:
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: The Philadelphia Inquirer's journalists of color are taking a “sick and tired day” …
Julie Moos / @juliemmoos: At the @PhillyInquirer, 34 journalists of color are out today following a newsroom decision to run a column headlined, “Buildings matter, too.” At @nytimes there will be a town hall w/leadership Friday, sparked by the decision to run Tom Cotton op-ed. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
In a 53-38 vote, the Senate confirms Michael Pack, Trump's pick to lead the global media agency that oversees the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and more — The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the global media agency that oversees the Voice of America.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Washington Post, @mkraju, @catargetbot, @carlababbvoa, @ewong, @cqnow, Law & Crime and @cjf39
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Donna Cassata / Washington Post: Senate confirms Trump nominee to lead agency overseeing VOA despite investigation
Manu Raju / @mkraju: Joe Manchin the lone Democrat to vote to confirm Michael Pack to head agency overseeing Voice of America. The nomination was confirmed by the Senate today, 53-38. https://www.senate.gov/...
@catargetbot: LOGGED NEW SENATE VOTE (00113) Michael Pack, of Maryland, to be Chief Executive Officer... https://www.senate.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Carla Babb / @carlababbvoa: Today, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack to be Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) which oversees @VOANews He is the Agency's first Senate-confirmed, presidentially appointed CEO.
Edward Wong / @ewong: Senate has just confirmed Steve Bannon ally Michael Pack to lead US agency on global media. He will oversee @VOANews, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, etc. Journalists are worried. Story w/ @CatieEdmondson earlier: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cqnow: Michael Pack is also under active investigation by the D.C. attorney general for alleged self-dealing and self-enrichment. https://ow.ly/...
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime: McConnell-Led Senate Confirms Trump Pick to Oversee State-Funded Media Despite Criminal Investigation
Conor Finnegan / @cjf39: Just in- Senate confirms Michael Pack to lead @USAGMgov, fmrly known as @BBGgov, which oversees @VOANews. Pack's a conservative filmmaker, partners often w/Steve Bannon. He and his nonprofit are reportedly under investigation by DC Attorney General. More: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook will start blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying ads in the US this summer and is rolling out labels for ads and posts from those outlets — Facebook said Thursday it will begin blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying advertising in the U.S. this summer.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, @hadas_gold, About Facebook, Variety, CNBC, Business Insider, CNET, @arriadna, @noupside, @mariabustillos, @sarafischer, @ngleicher, @ngleicher, @hadas_gold, @tkradio, @ngleicher and @ngleicher, more at Techmeme »
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Facebook adds labels identifying state-controlled media
Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: New: Facebook is rolling out its state-media labels. In the US, users will see labels on state media posts, and info on their pages. State media also won't be allowed to buy ads in the US ahead of 2020 election (But can buy ads elsewhere) https://www.cnn.com/...
Rebecca Davis / Variety: Facebook to Start Labeling Content From State-Controlled Media
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook will block ads from state-controlled media outlets
Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider: Facebook starts adding labels to ‘state-controlled media’ …
Corinne Reichert / CNET: Facebook to label posts by state-controlled media
@arriadna: Too little too late @Facebook @fbnewsroom, leaving posts that incite violence up for days and weeks and Trump posts untouched even with a label is unacceptable #BoycottFacebook https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: Post from Facebook on their new policy to label state-controlled media. This will spark a lot of debate about what is / is not “state media” and I'm curious to hear people's thoughts (read the post before commenting; some of the framework is in there). https://about.fb.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: Is it labeling itself https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, says FB hasn't really seen examples yet of foreign state-backed outlets using ads to promote manipulative content to US users, but FB is taking this action out of an abundance of caution ahead of the 2020 election. https://twitter.com/...
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: Labels will be visible on the Pages of entities, on their organic posts, and in the ads library. In the months to come, we will begin blocking advertising from SCMEs into the US in advance of the 2020 US Presidential election, and rolling out labels on individual ads.
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: We're evaluating individual entities to assess whether they are under the whole or partial editorial control of a government, and focusing on their funding, their organizational structure, and other indicia of independence. https://www.facebook.com/...
Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: Among the outlets that will be labeled (this is just a portion): Russia Today, Sputnik, RIA Novosti, CCTV, Xinhua News, People's Daily, PressTV, 2Mma, DPRK Today, TV 5 Thailand, Philippine News Agency and People's Television Network https://twitter.com/...
Toby Knapp / @tkradio: Well it's about time. Now, figure out how to do this with the same entities who do this under the cover of bs fake accounts. https://twitter.com/...
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: We will be working with external experts to roll out labels to additional entities around the world in the weeks and months to come. We also have an appeals process so that entities that believe they have been labelled in error can appeal.
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: Labels will be visible globally on the Pages of entities and in the ads library. In addition, we are labelling organic posts in the US, and in the months to come, we will begin blocking advertising from state media into the US in advance of the 2020 US Presidential election.
Sarah Boseley / The Guardian:
One paper in The Lancet that led to COVID-19 drug policy changes has been retracted at the request of its lead author after doubts arose about its data — Retraction made after lead author says he can no longer vouch for accuracy of data — The Lancet paper that halted global trials …
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STAT, The Lancet, The Verge, @davidsharp84, @jeremyfaust, Bloomberg Law, @thelancet and @agnescallamard
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Andrew Joseph / STAT: Lancet, New England Journal retract Covid-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
The Lancet: Retraction: “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19 …
Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: Hydroxychloroquine study retraction shows the problems of speedy science
David Sharp / @davidsharp84: “One paper.” This sounds like MSM spin. It was a pretty major study that was widely reported. It reveals a major problem with the scientific community MSM won't seriously address. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Faust / @jeremyfaust: In an important moment for science and data transparency, @thelancet announces that its 96,000 observational study on hydroxychloroquine has been RETRACTED. A sad story but an important one. https://www.thelancet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@thelancet: Today, three of the authors have retracted “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis” Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Agnes Callamard / @agnescallamard: The Lancet withdraws the article cited by thousands of Media, which led to many policies changes related to #chloroquine. What a scandal. Shameful. Millions of people, probably most of the world population, is in need of a #Covid19 treatment @skirchy https://twitter.com/...
Brad Artziniega / The Official Medium Blog:
Medium launches Newsletters, to let publications start newsletters on the platform and get replies from readers directly in the publications' inboxes — Four years ago, we launched Letters to help Publications connect with their audience directly in their readers' inboxes.
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: If you're looking for an uplifting story to remind you of the before times, Medium pivoted again https://blog.medium.com/...
Clemens Stromeyer / SpringUp Stories: A Medium Fightback 🤔
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Medium pivots to become Substack https://twitter.com/...
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
In their annual meeting, Comcast shareholders rejected three investor proposals, including a demand for an outside probe into sexual harassment at NBC News — Comcast shareholders, led by Chairman Brian Roberts, rejected three proposals from investors, including a demand for an outside investigation into sexual harassment at NBC News.
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Meredith Nardino / Us Weekly: Matt Lauer Wants to Do a ‘Big TV Interview’ After Sexual Misconduct Scandal
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A press photographer in London was hit on the head with a bottle by protesters, an Australian newswoman was grabbed, and an Australian news team was also chased — A press photographer was attacked during Black Lives Matter protests in London last night as members of the media faced intimidation from some in the crowd.
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