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After staff objections and debate, NYT says Sen. Cotton's op-ed fell short of standards; sources: James Bennet said he didn't read the essay before publication — After a staff uproar, The Times says the editing process was “rushed.” Senator Tom Cotton's “Send In the Troops” essay is now under review.
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Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Three more, including a contributing op-ed writer who has a bit more freedom to speak up. To date, I've found 13 NYT staff who said Weiss is misrepresenting what happened, and zero who support her account. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Three other NYT staffers contradict Weiss. (If you see others, please reply and I will repost). As one points out, opinion writers are not subject to potential discipline for criticizing co-workers that other NYT employees are, meaning some are taking risks by disagreeing w Weiss https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: I have not found a single NYT staffer who agrees w Weiss. Here are two more who say she misrepresents internal NYT conversations in basic ways. How can people trust the judgment of a journalist whose colleagues would risk being punished to point out she is untrustworthy? https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Another NYT staffer contradicts Weiss (notice how careful they are to not name names). As with others, disputes Weiss's central claim about a big generational divide. You also get a sense that these were emotional conversations that people did not expect to be reposted. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: “James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Anther NYT staffer contradicts Weiss. No doubt some people will take it as proof of how intolerant the organization is - but perhaps some will question the reliability and goals of her reporting given how other journalists are responding. https://twitter.com/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: NY Times Acknowledges ‘Rushed Editorial Process’ in Publishing Tom Cotton Op-Ed: ‘Did Not Meet Our Standards’
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Bari Weiss wrote a thread about conflict in the NY Times. Other NY staff are pulling it apart. Whats the lesson? It's easier to do stories based on simplistic free speech stereotypes when there are not a bunch of reporters in the room to immediately fact-check you https://twitter.com/...
Jon Lovett / @jonlovett: Tom Cotton got exactly what he wanted out of this entirely predictable mess. A bad faith screed, a good faith backlash, a bad faith defense of free speech, ending in a victory lap by him and mea culpa by The Times. What a dumb dangerous unforced error. What a waste of time.
@derektmead: No editor can read every story but it's hard to imagine how a lead editor doesn't read an op-ed asking the military to curtail the 1st Amendment. “Flag anything spicy to me” is not hard to ask! https://twitter.com/...
Tom Cotton / @tomcottonar: How is everyone at the @nytimes doing tonight?
Ben Smith / @benyt: Only one winner here https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Emmrich / @stuartemmrich: Perhaps the most amazing detail in this @nytimes story about the Tom Cotton Op-Ed? Not that James Bennet didn't read it before it was published, but that it was a photo editor who flagged it as ‘inappropriate.’ Oh, he was ignored, of course. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Berman / @tcberman: “A false equivalence, but historical images are there now,” he wrote to Mr. Rubenstein on Slack, the internal messaging software used by Times employees “Yeah, there are a few in there,” Mr. Rubenstein responded, adding an emoji of a frowning face. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Rhodes / @tigerbeat: The Op-Ed was handled by @RubensteinAdam [who is 25 & formerly @weeklystandard] During the editing process, he asked a photo editor, Jeffrey Henson Scales.. raised an objection.." Bennet didn't read it https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Christ they still think the newsroom/opinion confusion is the issue https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Attiah / @karenattiah: NYT admitted that senior leadership didn't read the op-Ed before publishing. Tom Cotton is also insulting NYT on Fox and Twitter. I hate being right. https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Bennet didn't even read the goddamn martial law piece riddled with falsities because it was “rushed” and so it's an even more painful negligence to fascism and it's white privilege he still has a job. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachel C. Abrams / @rachelabramsny: We updated our story on Tom Cotton's op-ed with internal objections - including before publication - from within the newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/... @marcatracy @edmundlee
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: I am loving all the takes on here that declare free speech is a journalism organization allowing a sitting senator to threaten to use the US military to suppress the free speech rights of Americans exercising their democracy.
Tom Cotton / @tomcottonar: Suggest @nytimes staff bring some popcorn to this town-hall meeting. The woke mob is VERY ANGRY—be prepared to repent! https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Hours after the publisher and the top section editor defended the op-Ed — and after the editor said he hadn't read it before publication — the New York Times issued an extraordinary mea culpa. Our early story. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karen McGrane / @karenmcgrane: James Bennet @JBennet didn't even read the Tom Cotton op-ed? What exactly are you doing that's more important than inciting fascist violence against citizens in the @nytimes ? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: @TimAlberta @Olivianuzzi It. Had. Factual. Errors. In. It. Why can't you understand that?
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: The editor in charge of the Opinion section, James Bennet, didn't even read it prior to publication!?!?! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Alberta / @timalberta: @ParkerMolloy @Olivianuzzi I can. But since when it that disqualifying? Op-ed pages are notorious for playing fast and loose. Sarah Palin sued the Times ed board for an egregious factual error! Nobody demanded they take it down.
Tim Alberta / @timalberta: btw the irony is 1) no way Cotton's proposal receives this sort of scrutiny and debate had it been published anywhere else; 2) the NYT dissenters have reminded us that op-ed pages are garbage and big ideas belong in stories or preferably in long, kick-up-your-feet mag pieces
Josh Spiegel / @mousterpiece: “James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published.” So then, what exactly is it that you DO in this job? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mo Ryan / @moryan: Absolutely stunning incompetence and mismanagement from Bennet — at the worst possible time. How many apocalyptic screwups before NYT takes action? Bennet has to go. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Goldberg / @mattgoldberg: See you again in 3-6 months when we do all this over again. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Bennet declined requests for interviews.” Those requests came from reporters at ... The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dean Van Nguyen / @deanvannguyen: The editor who has spent two days caping for this piece didn't even read it before publication? Raaaaaaa https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul Cantrell / @inthehands: Incredible. Many will rush to condemn “editing by mob,” and while yes that is a concern, it's a _good_ thing when the alternative is apparently _no editing at all_: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Jerkins / @morganjerkins: I am thankful that this information is all out in the open but I just cannot believe that James Bennet did not read the op-ed before it was published. How? How in the world did this happen? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: Yikes. Even if you defend publishing this, how is it not something that the section leader needs to read, consider, debate and approve in advance? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: @ABCFlowe It's a good question. Opinion content is cheap and gets clicks, but there's a lot of it out there and I doubt it is a plus for NYT's bottom line (likely a loss leader). So I would guess it's prestige given they are the nation's paper of record.
Andy Flowe / @abcflowe: @JeremyLittau Genuine question - what's the point of an OpEd section in 2020 anyways? Why isn't it just a completely separate publication? Seems antiquated.
Sean Smith / @protanope: @JeremyLittau Again, the big issue here is that the editor, Bennet, didn't read the thing before putting it out! “Mr. Bennet said in a meeting that was attended by Mr. Sulzberger late on Thursday that he had not read Mr. Cotton's essay before it was published”
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: @marcatracy Ok thanks for answering my question. So my second question is: did *anyone* read the op-ed before publishing? Did either Bennet or Sulzberger read it before writing long defenses about its value? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: @bariweiss Bari, before you joined your commander's side in the civil war, did you know he hadn't actually read the op-ed yet? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ron Hogan / @ronhogan: Fire @JBennet. Fire @bariweiss. It's the only way to restore the reputation of the @nytopinion section—and, by extension, the @nytimes—which their sloppy, unprofessional conduct has heavily tarnished. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: so, wait, @JBennet was out on this website defending a piece he now says he didn't read before publishing? So either he's lying, and he should be fired for lying, or he's telling the truth and he should be fired for negligence. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Starke / @laurenstarke: This seems insane? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@lauritaisabelle: This is what happens when the editing process is rushed or eliminated. Stop. Laying. Off. Editors. Slow Down. Use JUDGMENT. Think about what you're sacrificing for a hot take. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lindsey Adler / @lindseyadler: NYT is reporting that its opinion section editor didn't read Tom Cotton's essay before it ran. How do you ostensibly hear “a sitting senator wants to write a piece in support of sending the US military to fight US citizens” and just say “sounds good!” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@tomandlorenzo: “We published this because people need to read and scrutinize difficult ideas” followed by “We didn't read it before publishing it” is one stunning journey. I can't even wrap my head around the conceitedness and condescension. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@chillmage: This is an astounding failure. It should be career ending https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: This episode demonstrates how much leverage ranks and file employees have over corporate leadership. Facebook employees: now is your chance to speak up. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Susan Kostal / @skostal: We are all busy, but f*ucking reading the content is the first step. “Near the end of the day, James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said he had not read the essay before it was published.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr. Vijai Singh / @vijaitsingh: “Near the end of the day, James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Rubin / @jrubinblogger: the apologists who defended the shoddy peice the NYT now rightly admits was replete with misinformation should undertake some self-reflection https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ian Fraser / @ian_fraser: Wait. @JBennet didn't read Tom Cotton's ‘Send in the troops’ piece before publication but still defended it in a six-tweet thread? 🤔https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
@abgutman: Hold up. “James Bennet... said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published.” But both he and the publisher defended the op-ed as a triumph of open mindedness?! That's gaslighting. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: “Near the end of the day, James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published.” I just....cannot get over this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Hard to fathom this. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: NYT admits the piece was not fact-checked. Which isn't a new revelation for op-eds there. But as has been pointed out at nauseam over the past few years, opinions are one thing; wild claims without evidence used to build opinions are a whole other matter. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: I have other problems with the piece ("Actually, doing fascism is good!" isn't advocating for your readers), but the NYT could 100% improve its opinion page by applying fact-checking standards to opinion pieces again.
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Marc Tracy / @marcatracy:
NYT spokeswoman: a review made clear that a rushed process led to publishing an op-ed that didn't meet standards; NYT will examine long- and short-term changes — NEW: Times spokeswoman sends mea culpa https://twitter.com/...
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The New York Times has stopped defending its Tom Cotton op-ed. Here's a statement from a company spox: https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: NY Times Says Tom Cotton ‘Send in the Troops’ Op-Ed ‘Did Not Meet Our Standards,’ Promises Reform
Tom Sherwood / @tomsherwood: “...a rushed editorial process” is not a very good excuse for a journalism enterprise. Much of journalism itself is rushed. That's why you need clear thinking editors (and skilled copy editors) to flag faulty or foolish things. @kojoshow @wcp https://twitter.com/...
Tabatha Southey / @tabathasouthey: tfw you get distracted and accidentally turn the op-ed page of the @nytimes into a Tiananmen Square Massacre fan site. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The Cotton episode thus cements the notion that Bennet has failed as a manager over and over as he pilots one of the most influential stretches of U.S. journo real estate.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: In his statements on the topic, NYT editorial page editor James Bennet hasn't mentioned that he actually read the piece prior to publication. It would be hard for the top editor of such a section to read *everything* pre-publication, considering its prolific output.
Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley: Does this include hiring diverse writers and editors? Paying them equally? Because I've seen this exact apology from other publications and nothing changes if leadership doesn't. https://twitter.com/...
Lon Harris / @lons: I mean, writers, come on, you know how it is. The moment you hit send, you look back at your piece and realize it's full of fascism. Amirite? https://twitter.com/...
Rachel King / @rachelking: The NYT op-ed section has less oversight than a blog. https://twitter.com/...
@jerylbier: So I guess the bright line between the news side and editorial side the New York Times just got a little dimmer. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Shipman / @shiplives: This may be a good start. It all depends on how they proceed. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Testimony that surfaced through Palin's subsequent lawsuit revealed that Bennet hadn't done the most basic research before he inserted the offending language in the editorial. It was another instance of bad management.
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: An op-ed from a U.S. senator did not meet the editorial standards of the @NYTimes, but op-eds by Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Maduro, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Taliban did. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: The sound of @JBennet being thrown under the bus https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: “reducing the number of Op-Eds we publish” is a pretty brutal statement of no confidence in the page's leadership https://twitter.com/...
John McCormick / @mccormick150: So the NYT throws editorial page editor @jbennet right under the bus — and promises to cheat its paying customers by publishing fewer op-eds. https://twitter.com/...
John Hudson / @john_hudson: For those whose main issue was the relaying of unfounded/unsubstantiated claims in a paper of record (rather than its incendiary perspective), the Times' mea culpa and commitment to expand “fact checking operations” is not nothing. Not sure who wanted fewer op-eds though https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Burge / @jeremyburge: Wasn't so hard: be more selective with op ed pieces, even if it means publishing fewer of them https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mack / @astrokatie: @marcatracy It hasn't occurred to me that the resolution to this would be, “sorry, we just weren't really paying much attention”
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: My reporting indicates that the Opinions section of the newspaper is contemplating the slashing of up to one fifth of its daily output, the better to exert greater oversight over pieces like Cotton's.
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.)
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: !!!! Someone just said in the Slack that James Bennet claimed he never read the Cotton op-Ed before it was published. And that no one in senior management did either.
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: 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.”
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.
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/...
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.
@yashar: I have confirmed with a source on the NYT slack that this comment was made. If true, who read it? 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/...
@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 ...
@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/...
Marge / @margarita: I would suggest to a certain opinion writer to get better friends—but it's clear she doesn't deserve better friends.
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/...
@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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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
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/...
Elizabeth Lopatto / @mslopatto: who could possibly have guessed that bari weiss is a liar 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
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: very cool to publicly disparage your colleagues as emotionally weak people undermining the institution
@dstfelix: let's talk about how sulzberger got to be the publisher of the times in the first damn place
@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/
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/...
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.
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/...
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.
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/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: but... that's not even what “all” means in the motto 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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
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
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.
@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/
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/...
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
@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/...
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/...
@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
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/...
Hunter / @hunterdk: Maybe now NYT editors can see how brazenly dishonest Bari is about everything else. https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: @jennydeluxe Just lazy language and lazy thinking.
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/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: If NYT published a piece from someone saying that Israel shouldn't exist, Bari would lose her mind. 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.
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/...
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/...
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.
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.
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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/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Bennet wrote an op-ed of his own earlier in the day that made much of the op-ed page's “interrogation” of Cotton's argument and subjecting it to the discipline of essay writing, but did not disclose he hadn't read Cotton's piece himself prepublication. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.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/...
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/...)
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/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: At about 1 pm, James Bennet defends the Cotton “send in the troops” op-ed at length: https://www.nytimes.com/... About five hours later, a Times spokesperson says “a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an op-ed that didn't meet our standards” https://twitter.com/...
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) …
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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/...
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times: Tom Cotton's Fascist Op-Ed
Dan Gainor / Fox News: NY Times flip-flops and says Sen. Tom Cotton op-ed it published on rioting is unfit to print
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/...
@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/...
Liz Garbus / @lizgarbus: very excellent thread https://twitter.com/...
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.
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Our own newspaper has reported that this is misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: The best way to shut down a bad opinion is not to suppress it but to share a better opinion.
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.
Victor Garcia / Fox News: Cotton rips NY Times over op-ed apology: ‘A child mob truly is in charge at The New York Times tonight’
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: “This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger”: New York Times staffers band together to protest …
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.
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: NYT says Tom Cotton editorial ‘did not meet our standards’
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/...
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/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: NY Times ‘Civil War’: Opinion Writer Bari Weiss Gets Buried By Colleagues for Tweeting Her Takes …
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/...
Mary Emily O'Hara / Adweek: Why Journalists Are Walking Out of Newsrooms in Protest
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/...
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: New York Times journalists have condemned the publishing of a US senator's controversial Op-Ed. Here's …
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/...
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/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 2. The New York Times confirms that the editor of its editorial page @JBennet did not read the Tom Cotton op-ed before it was published To not review an op-ed written by a US Senator at a time of heightened tensions (or any other time) is malpractice https://www.nytimes.com/... 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/...
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/...
Damon Linker / The Week: When journalists stop believing in debate
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/...
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
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/...
@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.
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/...
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/...
Alex F. Baldwin / @verumvulnero1: Didn't the NY Times publish an OpEd by the Taliban? 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/...
Joan Walsh / The Nation: Jim Mattis vs. Tom Cotton: No Contest
Tiffany C. Li / @tiffanycli: This is also the crux of the issue for many online speech problems on tech platforms. 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/...
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”
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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/...
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.
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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/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Very good take here https://twitter.com/...
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/ ...
@noahyoo: Solidarity with the staff of the Inquirer who are taking a stand today 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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Philadelphia Newspaper Apologizes for Running ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline After Staff Protest
@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/...
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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
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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.
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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/...
Donna Cassata / Washington Post: Senate confirms Trump nominee to lead agency overseeing VOA despite investigation
@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/...
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz / Insider:
Activists from white nationalist group VDare posed as VICE Canada reporters while asking protesters' names during a livestream in DC; VICE condemns the stunt — - VDARE, a far-right anti-immigration nonprofit, hosted a livestream where they asked anti-racism protesters to identify themselves …
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Southern Poverty Law Center: White Nationalist Group Posed as VICE Reporters While Identifying D.C. Protesters
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: This is disturbing. I also think it's a backhanded compliment of how effective @MackLamoureux has been in covering the far right in Canada for Vice. https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: SIO roundup of online activity related to ongoing protests, incl our work finding fake “Live"-streams. There've been lots of q's ab if state actors are involved; the post discusses overt state media. There is currently no evidence of IRA-style activity. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
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.
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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/...
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook will block ads from state-controlled media outlets
Shannon Bond / NPR: Facebook Begins Labeling ‘State-Controlled’ Media
Rebecca Davis / Variety: Facebook to Start Labeling Content From State-Controlled Media
Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider: Facebook starts adding labels to ‘state-controlled media’ …
Corinne Reichert / CNET: Facebook to label posts by state-controlled media
Kevin Collier / NBC News: Facebook to start labelling state-run media
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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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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 …
James Rogers / Fox News: Controversial COVID-19 papers retracted from the Lancet, New England Medical Journal amid backlash
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/...
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.
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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