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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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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times: Tom Cotton's Fascist Op-Ed
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: ‘Stunning Reversal’ From NYT on Op-Ed That Sparked Outrage
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/...
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: 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Zachary Evans / National Review: NYT Issues ‘Mea Culpa’ for Running Cotton Op-Ed after Internal Revolt
Christopher Rosen / Vanity Fair: Seth Meyers Denounces New York Times for Publishing “Sinister” Tom Cotton Op-Ed
Jesse Lee / @jessecharleslee: Exactly. I'm fairly sure even President Obama was turned down at times. Cotton is not in Senate Leadership, there was nothing insightful here—just saying “this is crap, pass” like they do 100 times a day isn't censorship. https://twitter.com/...
Hamid Bendaas / @hbendaas: @DavidKlion There's an expanded part of this story I'd like to see about how a 25 years old was given the responsibility to decide which op-eds run, seemingly unchecked.
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/...
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/...
David Klion / @davidklion: @mcbyrne @HBendaas Yes, although in this case I believe a certain white woman who is under 40 may partly account for the answer
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/...
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/...
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/...
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: Beyond satire. Yesterday: “It would undermine integrity & independence of NYT if we only published views that editors agreed with” Today: “We're sorry we thought integrity was more important than insulating our staff from scary ideas. Won't happen again” 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: This is why we don't cancel our NYT subscription over the flaws of the top opinion editor or certain columnists: solid, necessary, painstaking journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: videos like this and the untold other outrageous police escalations tonight in my feed illustrate the stakes of language like “One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force.” it's not a college seminar debate. lives are at stake. https://twitter.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/...
Lauren Starke / @laurenstarke: This seems insane? 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/...
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/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: There are many things to say about the Tom Cotton oped, and I said some, and might say some more. ... But here's a useful and common norm in a newsroom: “Hey, boss, you might want to take a look at this one before it runs.”
Joyce Carol Oates / @joycecaroloates: if the very editor of the Op-Ed page doesn't read the columns, why should anyone else read them? 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/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: “Because it's got Trouble written all over it, and because you told me, boss, that you want to see stuff like that. Every single time.”
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/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: People are going to be tempted to dunk on Rubenstein, who was hired from the Weekly Standard. But the onus should be on Bennet, who set the editorial process, and who churned out a 1,100-word defense this morning without mentioning he hadn't read the op-ed before publishing https://twitter.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/ ...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Read @michelleinbklyn people. https://twitter.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/...
Hannah Wise / @hwise29: “The culture at The Times frowns on intramural criticism. The journalism industry is in free-fall, and working here often feels like being on the last boat out of a burning harbor. It is not a small thing to risk one's seat on it,” @michelleinbklyn writes for @nytopinion. https://twitter.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/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The first two paragraphs of this column by @michelleinbklyn explain well how editors at the Times op-ed page got themselves into this jam. https://www.nytimes.com/... I recommend them to you.
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.
Matt Goldberg / @mattgoldberg: See you again in 3-6 months when we do all this over again. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: @DavidKlion Like, on the one hand it's appalling that they're scapegoating the noob. But on the other, lololololol.
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.
@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/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: @TimAlberta @Olivianuzzi It. Had. Factual. Errors. In. It. Why can't you understand that?
Ashley Schapitl / @ashleyschapitl: @Fritschner @jonlovett @nycsouthpaw In addition, anyone who's had an op-ed published in NYT knows the editing process is very rigorous. They make pieces much better and fact check, which just made it more inexplicable that something that's been determined to be misinformation was allowed through.
Jeffrey Lewis / @armscontrolwonk: Boy, you gotta give him credit for deciding to die on the hill of an essay he didn't read. https://twitter.com/...
@chillmage: This is an astounding failure. It should be career ending https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shruti Rajagopalan / @srajagopalan: People seem a lot more concerned that Cotton's ideas were published in the NYT than the fact that someone with Cotton's dangerous views was elected to represent Arkansas in the Senate! Can someone help the woke people of America point their outrage at the right target? https://twitter.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.
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: @Sulliview The most dangerous people in any newsroom are the ones who think “I can handle this myself.” And the Times seems to have a lot of those.
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: (I don't know anything else about Rubenstein's tenure at the NYT, but his Wikipedia entry is about him dunking on two people I very much dislike, so...)
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.
Emily Bell / @emilybell: @Sulliview @espiers ..the modern big news organisation is a total beast of scale and output, but I just cannot understand how in an electric, tense and historic week *in New York City* - all the top opinion editors were not reading everything except the cookery column before pressing send
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/...
David Klion / @davidklion: Just gonna let the screenshots tell the story here https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Fritschner / @fritschner: @jonlovett @nycsouthpaw And they could have just said “no!” and declined to publish, they do it many times a day including to Members of Congress and their press people including me not that I am bitter about it or anything ok maybe somewhat bitter
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.
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/...
Wilkie / @wilkieii: If a New York Times editor openly admits they didn't even read the piece they spent a whole day defending... does that imply the government had free rein to publish anything it wants in a newspaper of record? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@emilygorcenski: Literally the people at the Times are not doing the bare minimum at their job, this newspaper is a disgrace https://twitter.com/...
Trish Regan / @trish_regan: The liberal mob strikes again! Establishment media refusing to hear ALL sides. only ONE point of view in their minds is tolerable. When you shut down diversity of thought, you shut down our ability as a society to progress. 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/...
Tom Cotton / @tomcottonar: How is everyone at the @nytimes doing tonight?
Ben Smith / @benyt: Only one winner here https://twitter.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/...
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
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/...
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/...
@lauradurnell: The solution is not to limit op-eds. It's to f—ing read them before they go to press. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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/...
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/...
Mark Coatney / @mcoatney: This detail, from the @nytimes piece on that Tom Cotton oped, https://www.nytimes.com/... is kind of amazing: A employee of the Times referred request for comment from the Times, to a spokeswoman: https://twitter.com/...
@mattdpearce: learned while reading this that Cotton had previously literally called for the imprisonment of three New York Times journalists https://www.nytimes.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: tom cotton does not give a shit about the new york times or james bennet or the 25 year old editor who edited the piece or bari weiss. he thinks they're idiots and he played them, and he's right. imagine getting owned by that goose necked freak https://twitter.com/...
Hamid Bendaas / @hbendaas: @DavidKlion @mcbyrne That's definitely it, but also it seems like these wunderkinds who get rapidly promoted by their bosses are also never more than center-right politically. NYT wouldn't give a white male self-ID'd progressive that kind of authority
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”
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/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: @Sulliview I also just don't buy the section editor didn't approve it/know it had been assigned, given the prominence of the author and the week's events. And if he knew it was in the pipeline, why on earth didn't he look at it?
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: @espiers I can't explain it. Unless he's just very removed from oped, and more involved with, say, editorials.
@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/...
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/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: LMAO - the two senior people most responsible for this shitshow are going to let the buck stop with a 25-year-old editor: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Hard to fathom this. https://twitter.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
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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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Rich Lowry / National Review: The Inside Story of the Tom Cotton Op-Ed that Rocked the New York Times
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/...
Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics: NYT Reporters-Turned-Censors Pick a Perilous Path
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.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: A year ago, the section published an anti-Semitic cartoon, a failure that featured a statement from the newspaper that the editor involved was “working without adequate oversight” and that there was a “faulty process.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Perhaps the most remarkable instance of Bennet's poor management arose in the Sarah Palin incident of June 2017, when the editorial page pretty much accused her of inciting the murderous 2011 rampage of Jared Lee Loughner.
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: I'm so tired: https://twitter.com/...
Dan Rutherford / @rutherdan: I've helped write one NYT op ed on an environmental topic. The process of getting that through ~5 drafts, multiple levels of fact checking, etc. was arduous. Conservative op eds urging authoritarian crackdowns of peaceful protesters of police brutality: good to go, apparently! https://twitter.com/...
Lynn Comella / @lynncomella: Oh for FFS. What was the process? Who read the draft? Who edited the final version? Who gave it the green light that signaled this was fact checked and fit for print? Unbelievably irresponsible. Shame on you, @nytopinion https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This feels like a classic statement that is going to involve huge changes of process, internal reviews, and fewer pieces (which type of writer usually suffers when desks commission less?) while not actually tackling the core issues that led to the piece being published. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Schwencke / @schwanksta: Ah it took a review to uncover that, and in spite of the fact that the editor for the section and his boss, the publisher, both defended the publication already. Got it. https://twitter.com/...
@karnythia: When we got rid of the people who read things before they are published we opened the door to running terrible things....who knew this could happen? https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: It's remarkable that through all this, Bennet has — or had — remained a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of the New York Times. See this comment from Publisher Sulzberger in a recent excellent @bterris piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Terry McGlynn / @hormiga: The NYT just announced they weren't doing proper fact-checking on their op-eds. This would have been nice when they published op-eds by climate deniers. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: That said, any process that failed to escalate this particular op-ed — which advocated a military invasion of urban America — to the top boss is a process that requires overhauling. The section showed no awareness of how drastic a proposal was at hand.
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: I was going to say “well, check this first, who knows if it's real” (about the Tom Cotton op-ed) but it turns out this is the NYT media reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Quarynnetine Valente / @catvalente: TFW the best defense the graduates of every posh university you could name is “Look, nobody really read it, so whatever, calm down” https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: @marcatracy Is it true that Bennet didn't read the op-ed before it was published? https://twitter.com/...
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 …
Discussion:
@bariweiss, @katzonearth, @bariweiss, @bariweiss, @bariweiss, @bariweiss, @parkermolloy, @jazzedloon, @jennydeluxe, @chrislhayes, @davidklion, @yashar, @jayrosen_nyu, @timherrera, @timherrera, @donmoyn, @janesports, @jenvalentino, @aoscott, PRESS RUN, @jbouie, @aminatou, @chrislhayes, @byjoelanderson, @davekarpf, @bretweinstein, @taffyakner, @taffyakner, @jysexton, @dbessner, @nhannahjones, @jessewente, Roy Edroso Breaks It Down, @jennydeluxe, @libbycwatson, @galbeckerman, @vwpickard, @mcnees, @mehdirhasan, @benmathislilley, @chrislhayes, @thehighsign, @espiers, @jamisonfoser, @franklinleonard, @austin_walker and @brywashing
Discussion:
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.
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Bari, remember when you praised an op-ed demanding that @elivalley be uninvited from speaking at Stanford? https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/... 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: 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/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The danger, writes @gabrielsnyder, is that “the Times becomes a platform for those who are hostile to its core values” and at direct odds with its public mission. https://www.cjr.org/... It's unclear to me whether the top editors think that would be a problem. Many on staff do.
@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.
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Distressing news: Bari Weiss is exaggerating conflict, understating nuance, and mislabeling the world into false dichotomies. 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/...
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/...
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN: Why New York Times and Facebook employees are rebelling
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: very cool to publicly disparage your colleagues as emotionally weak people undermining the institution
Aminatou Sow / @aminatou: This is not about the campus culture wars. It's not a nerd debate at a DC party. Your colleagues are taking the time to to tell you they are in harm's way. They are telling you they do not feel safe or seen at work and your response is intellectual dishonesty. 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/...
Dave Karpf / @davekarpf: It was a sideshow then. It is a sideshow now. The reason you're being mocked is because you clearly don't have the range. Particularly in this bizarre, terrifying year, there are other stories to tell, other lessons to be learned, than the one you arrived with. Try harder. https://twitter.com/...
Bret Weinstein / @bretweinstein: Evergreen's meltdown was a preview, three years ahead of the curve and easily dismissed. The phenomenon is now center stage, at national scale—a symptom of the collapse of leadership. Some are waking up, others bending a knee. Let's hope the Republic fairs better than the college https://twitter.com/...
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
Jared Yates Sexton / @jysexton: So. A fascistic senator published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the military to be deployed in order to crack Americans' skulls and engage in widespread, systematic brutality and possible genocide and no one in charge bothered to read it beforehand. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Bessner / @dbessner: This is a disheartening (to say the least lol) opinion coming from such a powerful journalist, as if there isn't *always* a choice about the fitness of given news stories and opinions https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: @jennydeluxe Just lazy language and lazy thinking.
Jesse Wente / @jessewente: Thread alert. And I really need all the media folks and leaders who follow this account to really read it. Aloud maybe. So you hear it. https://twitter.com/...
Roy Edroso / Roy Edroso Breaks It Down: I Claim My Right To Express My Mainstream Conservative Opinion in the New York Times
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.
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.
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.
Robert McNees / @mcnees: Wow hard to believe someone who happily built an op-ed around a quote from a hoax twitter account would also completely misrepresent this to support her own long-running personal grievance against “(mostly young) wokes.” https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Reporters are literally being attacked in the street by police, by the state!, and Bari Weiss still seems to think that PC-on-campus is the free speech issue of our time. Not sure what's worse - her dishonesty or her idiocy. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mathis-Lilley / @benmathislilley: arguing that a piece must be confronted by anyone who cares about free society without having read it would be the ultimate farcical expression of this trope and as such I believe it's what happened 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.”
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/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Good lord. What kind of editor lets that go to press without reading it? I get that he's not line editing it, but this seems totally implausible. And if true, deeply negligent. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: I just retweeted almost every tweet in this thread, but I'm retweeting it again, because so many of y'all need read it all, at least twice, probably daily, until you start getting it. https://twitter.com/...
Austin Walker / @austin_walker: One one hand, this is a total breakdown of editorial leadership at the NYT. On the other, maybe this has just revealed the logic of the system in place as it was intended to functin. Maybe publishing a call to arms by a cryptofascist is a feature of white supremacy, not a bug. 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.
Discussion:
@jbennet, @nyguild, @daveyalba, New York Times, @jayrosen_nyu, @cwarzel, Poynter, Politico, @olivianuzzi, New York Times, @sullydish, @maxstrasser, @_cingraham, @olivianuzzi, @olivianuzzi, @sivavaid, @sentomcotton, @zachdcarter, @mikeisaac, ABC News, @alxthomp, Fox News, @profcarroll, Deadline, @pkafka, @brianstelter, @yashar and @mathewi
Discussion:
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.
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Our own newspaper has reported that this is misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/... 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.
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/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: An op-ed controversy led to a New York Times revolt. Here's what happened and why the Times was wrong.
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: The best way to shut down a bad opinion is not to suppress it but to share a better opinion.
Paul Krugman / New York Times: Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon
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.
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/...
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/...
Libby Cathey / ABC News: Backlash after Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton pushes Trump to invoke Insurrection Act in NYT op-ed: ‘Send in the Troops’
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/...
Howard Kurtz / Fox News: NY Times revolt over op-ed would crush dissenting views
@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.
Bruce Haring / Deadline: After Backlash, New York Times Says Sen. Tom Cotton Op-Ed Fell Short Of Its Standards
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Context: James Bennet, who runs the NYT op-Ed, and spent the last day defending the Cotton piece, was supposed to be one of the two leading candidates to replace top NYT editor Dean Baquet. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Read @michelleinbklyn on a “subsidiary of the crisis that has the country on fire.” 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/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “It has never been my expectation that every piece the New York Times publishes will confirm my personal worldview,” one employee wrote in a company Slack, “but it was also never my expectation The Times would run an op-ed calling for state violence” https://www.niemanlab.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
Discussion:
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/...
Liz Garbus / @lizgarbus: very excellent thread https://twitter.com/...
Soraya Chemaly / @schemaly: This is an excellent thread https://twitter.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
Discussion:
@alxthomp, @tomtomorrow, @nycsouthpaw, @profcarroll, @ted_scheinman, @mathewi, @marc_normandin, @parabasis, @originalspin, @atrios and @dangillmor
Discussion:
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/...
@tomtomorrow: I've had moments of weakness where I considered re-upping, but the painful memory of the effort it took to cancel my sub keeps me from returning 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/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Is it? @nytimes Are you sure? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ted Scheinman / @ted_scheinman: From a letter signed by 500 NYT employees: “At one point, Cotton misquotes the U.S. Constitution. This is a particularly vulnerable moment in American history. Cotton's op-ed pours gasoline on the fire.” https://slate.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/...
Marc Normandin / @marc_normandin: I feel bad for the people who do good work for the NYT because the Op-Ed monsters and lack of editorial rigor applief to that section overshadow it all https://slate.com/...
Isaac Butler / @parabasis: Bennet doesn't disclose that he hadn't read the piece prior to publication in this explanation to the Times readers. How can readers continue to trust him? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Variety EIC Claudia Eller takes a two-month leave after a tense exchange with a former employee over a post on diversity; Cynthia Littleton to be interim editor — BREAKING: Claudia Eller, editor-in-chief of our sister publication Variety, will take a two month administrative leave after making …
Discussion:
Variety, Breitbart, @kerrymflynn, The Wrap, @anoushasakoui, @maxwelltani, @piyasroy and @variety_claudia
Discussion:
John Nolte / Breitbart: The Left's Eating Itself. Let them Fight.
@kerrymflynn: Claudia Eller's memo is up on Variety: “I am so ashamed, humiliated and regretful for my actions and the pain it has caused both internally and externally. I sent a direct message to Piya to apologize profusely for my insensitive and ignorant remarks...” https://variety.com/...
Anousha / @anoushasakoui: “ I can say with certainty that her response was reflective of her intensity toward a journalist who had been at a competitive publication. This has been an incredibly stressful, painful year for everyone” https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Variety EIC Claudia Eller is taking a leave of absence following widely-criticized comments on Twitter, and staff complaints today. Here's her memo apologizing and announcing her leave: https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Piya Sinha-Roy / @piyasroy: @Variety_Claudia You're an EIC and you just called me bitter for calling you out for having not done enough in the past, when you could have. You could have created a beautifully diverse newsroom years ago. And you wonder why journalists on your team might not want to raise these issues with you.
BBC:
BBC names Tim Davie, one of its most senior executives, as the broadcaster's new director general — Tim Davie, one of the BBC's most senior executives, has been named the broadcaster's new director general. — Davie has been promoted from chief executive of BBC Studios …
Discussion:
Press Gazette, CNN, The Guardian, BBC, The Guardian, Forbes, @ellie_mcdowall, @dcms, @mrichardsonlaw, @garylineker, @amolrajan, @brianstelter and @radiomikehill
Discussion:
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette: BBC insider Tim Davie appointed new director-general
Mark Sweney / The Guardian: BBC appoints insider Tim Davie as director general
Josh Wilson / Forbes: BBC Appoints Tim Davie As New Director-General
Eleanor McDowall / @ellie_mcdowall: This makes 17 out of 17 BBC Director Generals who have been white men - a depressing commitment to this unbroken record. https://twitter.com/...
@dcms: Culture Secretary @OliverDowden welcomes today's appointment of new BBC director General Tim Davie. https://www.bbc.co.uk/... @bbcpress https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Richardson / @mrichardsonlaw: What a time to be announcing that you're hiring yet another white man to continue the line of exclusively white male directors since the position was created nearly 100 years ago https://twitter.com/...
Gary Lineker / @garylineker: Wish Tim well in what is an extremely demanding and largely thankless task. He's a good, intelligent man (thought I'd get my crawling in early) who I'm sure will do an excellent job. https://twitter.com/...
Amol Rajan / @amolrajan: Tim Davie has landed one of the most privileged jobs in Britain and global media, leading thousands of creative people at a remarkable moment in history. Aside from that, it's hell. My bit for @BBCNews. More to follow through the day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Tribune Publishing Company:
Tribune Q1: $216.5 in revenue, down 11.5% YoY; ad revenue down 20.6% YoY, or $20M; circulation rev fell 3.1% YoY, or $2.9M; digital subs rose 30.7% YoY to 370K — Digital content revenues and subscribers increase more than 30% year-over-year — Tribune Publishing Company (NASDAQ: TPCO) …
Reuters:
ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke download records this week with 40M US DAUs on Thursday, as users turned to it for unfiltered, breaking news — Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week …
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
Three Democratic senators pen letter to AT&T CEO about exempting HBO Max from data caps, saying it runs counter to AT&T's “stated support” for an open internet — Call it potential net neutrality violation — Some prominent Democratic senators are pressing AT&T …
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
The Australian Associated Press has been bought by a consortium of investors led by former News Corp CEO Peter Tonagh, saving up to 95 jobs — A consortium of investors led by former News Corp CEO Peter Tonagh will buy Australian Associated Press saving up to 95 jobs
Discussion:
Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, @tonygillies, @benitakolovos, @benitakolovos, @benitakolovos, @benitakolovos and Mumbrella
Discussion:
Zoe Samios / Sydney Morning Herald: AAP edges closer to rescue deal with Tonagh-led group but jobs still on the line
Matthew Doran / ABC: AAP newswire expected to be sold, averting closure
Tony Gillies / @tonygillies: AAP Newswire, Australia's trusted, independent news source will live on after all. A consortium led by former News Corp chief Peter Tonagh secured the win for journalism in the public interest. Finally, a good news story for an industry that has taken a hit lately. #AAPNewswire https://twitter.com/...
Benita Kolovos / @benitakolovos: “(The consortium) are very committed to the continuation of the Newswire. They see this as a philanthropic venture and will have the patience to work on new commercial opportunities to aim for long-term viability.”
Benita Kolovos / @benitakolovos: “Sadly, that means there will be job losses - without the revenue from News Corp or Nine, the new Newswire will not support our current complement of journalists, photographers, producers and associated staff.”
Benita Kolovos / @benitakolovos: “AAP and the consortium, including former News Corp CEO Peter Tonagh, have reached commercial terms and will now enter negotiations to complete a binding sale contract by the middle of June.”
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 …
Discussion:
Fox News, STAT, The Lancet, @bethanymac12, @melissaldavey, @profmattfox, @callapilla, @davidsharp84 and @mikewsc1
Discussion:
Brian Flood / Fox News: Network newscasts skip major hydroxychloroquine report retractions, org says
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 …
Bethany McLean / @bethanymac12: So a lot of people (rightly) raised questions about who would benefit financially if hydroxychloroquine worked. Given this, maybe we should also ask who stood to benefit financially by not giving it a chance. https://www.statnews.com/...
Melissa Davey / @melissaldavey: I would also like to recognise the massive role @mikewsc1 and @davidmunk played in this story - you can not get a story like this out without excellent, supportive and patient editors. It just doesn't happen without a team, and it wasn't all me. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Fox / @profmattfox: Well, this is going to be incorrectly used as evidence that: a) hydrochloroquine works (which we don't have evidence of) and b) you can't trust scientists (even though it was scientists that sounded the alarm on this). https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Calla Wahlquist / @callapilla: This is a significant retraction. Amazing reporting by @MelissaLDavey https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Mike Ticher / @mikewsc1: The Lancet has withdrawn its key paper on hydroxychloroquine, calling it a “shocking example of research misconduct”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Here's the back story by @MelissaLDavey, whose reporting played a large part in uncovering a huge medical scandal. https://www.theguardian.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:
American Press Institute, @brandontrevion, @miriamelder, @drjasonjohnson, @hollyotterbein and @alexjamesfitz
Discussion:
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/...
Jason Johnson / @drjasonjohnson: Protests across the nation are exposing the long standing bigotry and marginalization of black voices in journalism as well. https://twitter.com/...
Holly Otterbein / @hollyotterbein: Something's happening in the journalism industry. First an open revolt at the New York Times, now one at the Philadelphia Inquirer after a headline this week read “Buildings Matter, Too.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Fitzpatrick / @alexjamesfitz: Josh is smarter than we deserve https://twitter.com/...
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