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Craig R. McCoy / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Philadelphia Inquirer Executive Editor Stan Wischnowski announces his resignation, days after uproar over the newspaper's “Buildings Matter, Too” headline — Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has announced his resignation, days after discontent among …
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Hayley Miller / HuffPost: Philadelphia Inquirer's Top Editor Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline
Marc Tracy / New York Times: Top Editor of Philadelphia Inquirer Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter’ Headline
Justin Wise / The Hill: Top Philadelphia Inquirer editor resigns after ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ headline
Abraham Gutman / @abgutman: Earlier this week an offensive headline ran in The Inquirer print paper, leading to staff protests and journalist of color in the newsroom taking a “sick and tired” day. Today, the executive editor announced his resignation. Wow. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Sam Adams / @samuelaadams: I don't know if this is the right solution to the Inquirer's problems, but it is noteworthy how decisively they acted while the NYT drags its feet responding to the Cotton op-ed https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: After an indefensible “Buildings Matter, Too” headline rubbed salt in old wounds, top editor Stan Wischnowski is out at the @PhillyInquirer, reports @marcatracy. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: Compare the groping for a scapegoat at the NYT to how the Philly paper handled a much smaller fuckup this week https://www.inquirer.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: It would be great to see a person of color who is committed to diversity take this job. https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: Hey @jbennet wanted to make sure you saw this https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has announced his resignation, days after discontent among the newspaper's staff erupted over a headline...” https://www.inquirer.com/... ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ ...was the headline.
Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News: Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor resigns after publishing controversial headline
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Philadelphia Inquirer Top Editor Resigns After Uproar Over ‘Building Matters, Too’ Headline
Claire Smith / @mzcsmith: I enjoyed working with Stan. I understand his decision. I wish this didn't have to be, but sometimes mistakes are so grievous they cannot be outrun. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rispoli / @rispolimike: What must follow next from @PhillyInquirer & @lenfestinst is meaningful reform, incld. advancing race equity inside newsroom, bringing communities into editorial process, & promoting coverage, esp. of the criminal legal system, that lifts up community concerns, voices, and needs https://twitter.com/...
Lorrie Goldstein / @sunlorrie: Stan Wischnowski resigns as The Philadelphia Inquirer's top editor over a headline “Buildings Matter Too” about vandalism during protests against racism and police brutality in the city: Here's the column: https://inquirer.com/... Here's the story: https://www.inquirer.com/...
Paul Wiggins / @paulwiggins: “Stan Wischnowski, a 20-year veteran of the paper, stepped down days after the publication of an article that led to a walkout by dozens of Inquirer journalists.” https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Stassen-Berger / @rachelsb: Stan Wischnowski, top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, announced his resignation, days after discontent among the newspaper's staff erupted over a headline on a column about the impact of the civil unrest following the police killing of George Floyd. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Ryan Deto / Pittsburgh City Paper:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is accused of barring two Black reporters from covering protests, retaliating against reporters who supported them by censoring stories — Late in the evening on June 5, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette removed two stories from its website that were shared earlier in the day on the paper's social media platform.
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Miriam Berger / Washington Post: Pittsburgh paper accused of barring black reporters from covering protests, censoring stories
Steadman / @asteadwesley: Not only did the Pittsburgh Post Gazette remove a black journalist from reporting on the protests when she pointed out that white people riot also, but the paper has now killed links to previous stories after the guild denounced them. Shameful https://www.pghcitypaper.com/ ...
Michael A. Fuoco / @michaelafuoco: @PittsburghPG management has apparently pulled 2 stories—today's protest and city council discussing police brutality—off the PG website after the reporters tweeted support for @alexisjreports. A journalism cardinal sin. #IStandWithAlexis https://apnews.com/...
Theresa Clift / @tclift: This is absolutely appalling. We will never get more black journalists, which we desperately need in this industry, if this is the way they are treated. #IStandWithAlexis @PGNewsGuild https://apnews.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: My jaw is still on the floor over this story on what's happening at the @PittsburghPG this weekend, including the management's refusal to explain their actions https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Dalton / HuffPost: Pittsburgh Journalists And Mayor Support Black Reporter Pulled From Covering Protests
Brittany Hailer / Pittsburgh Current: Pittsburgh Media Accountability: How the city's protests shine a light on systemic issues in our newsrooms
Charlie Deitch / Pittsburgh Current: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Removes Second Black Journalist from Protest Coverage in Two Days
@will_bunch: 1. This is a shocking report and it appears to be true: A check of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website right now shows no stories about Friday's protests or police brutality. The P-G has completely abdicated its responsibility to its community. Some background... https://twitter.com/...
Dorey Scheimer / @doreyscheimer: Pulitzer winning photojournalist @msantiagophotos, another prominant black journalist at the PG, also barred from protest coverage https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press: Post-Gazette reporters denounce black colleague's removal from protest coverage
Kat Stafford / @kat__stafford: “We feel taking a black woman off the most monumental national story about civil rights in the last 50 years is punishment. We have very few black journalists. Someone who has the contacts and the insights for this story, that is what you want.” https://apnews.com/...
Kat Tenbarge / INSIDER: 2 Black reporters at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette were barred from protest coverage and the paper …
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: What's been unfolding at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “has underscored one of the fundamental challenges American media faces with its coverage: a lack of diverse voices, including of black journalists, in newsrooms...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Marc Carig / @marccarig: The assault on the free press from power-hungry authorities is awful yet predictable. Assault from within is unconscionable. Here's an example of speaking up when an important local institution has been compromised. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Gentille / @seangentille: Truly disgusting and shameful stuff going on at the Post-Gazette, a great newspaper owned and run by toxic, racist losers. Solidarity to the many, many, many good and talented people who work there. https://www.pghcitypaper.com/ ...
Mike Madden / @mikemadden: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette allegedly has decided black journalists can't cover these protests because being black makes them biased https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steadman / @asteadwesley: The papers management is also scrubbing bylines and changing lead photos, according to reporters. “Instead of a shot showing protest signs, the new lead photo is now of Pittsburgh Police kneeling with marchers at a different march than Lee covered.” https://www.pghcitypaper.com/ ...
Michael A. Fuoco / @michaelafuoco: I and members of the @PGNewsGuild stand solidly with @alexisjreports in strong opposition to the unconscionable action of the @PittsburghPG. #IStandWithAlexis https://www.pghcitypaper.com/ ...
Jordyn Grzelewski / @jgrzelewski: It's wrong of @PittsburghPG to take a Black reporter off its protest coverage, for a tweet that rightfully & hilariously points out the hypocritical ways “looting” is talked about & reported on. The paper should immediately reinstate @alexisjreports. #IStandWithAlexis https://twitter.com/...
Michael A. Fuoco / @michaelafuoco: As Benjamin Franklin said, “We either hang together or we hang separately.” That truism is why members of the @PGNewsGuild are posting word for word, photo for photo the tweet that got @alexisjreports banned from covering issues related to George Floyd's murder. #IStandWithAlexis
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News apologizes for displaying a graphic depicting market rallies after the killings of Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, and George Floyd — Fox News Channel on Saturday apologized after the display of an on-screen chart showing stock-market gains in the wake of infamous killings …
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Fox News Apologizes for ‘Insensitivity’ of Chart Showing Stock Performance After Killings of Black Men
Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: Stocks Are Rallying Despite Nationwide Protests. That's Typical.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Ad-Free Login - Go Ad-Free & Join The Movement
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News: Fox News Aired A Graphic Showing How Stock Markets Rose After George Floyd And MLK's Deaths
Alternet.org: Fox News displays chart showing that killing black people is good for the stock market
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Fox News Bashed For Noting Stock Gains After Attacks On Black Men
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo: Fox News Apologizes For Chart Comparing Stock Performance After Killings Of Black Men
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Fox News Apologizes For Infographic That Showed Stock Market Gains After Martin Luther King …
Hollywood Reporter: Fox News Apologizes For Graphic on Stock Market Gains After Killings and Civil Unrest
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: Fox News workers will keep working remotely through at least the end of July, and Fox doesn't expect the full workforce on site until fall at earliest
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Jodi Beggs / @jodiecongirl: but they're telling their viewers that COVID is a hoax I don't understand https://twitter.com/...
The Daily Beast:
In a staff meeting, James Bennet admits NYT did “invite” Cotton's op-ed as executives take turns apologizing to staff about the senator's column — In a tense staff meeting, the paper admitted to inviting Sen. Cotton to write the “Send in the Troops” column …
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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.)
Osita Nwanevu / New Republic: Tom Cotton and the Elite Media's Dalliance With Illiberalism
Laura Wagner / VICE: ‘New York Times’ Staffers Grill Leadership Over Tom Cotton Op-Ed During All-Hands
John F. Harris / @harrispolitico: Those who condemn @JBennet over the Cotton op-ed should consider at least tempering their judgments with knowledge that—at both @TheAtlantic and @nytimes—he's been instrumental in leading teams preserving and modernizing two essential institutions of American journalism.
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: “Do we really believe that we are airing out genuinely important views, as opposed to seeking to expand our business by catering to alternate political persuasions?” https://www.vice.com/...
Barbara Ehrenreich / @b_ehrenreich: This week the NYT printed Tom Cotton's fascist screed and turned down my op ed about photo-journalist Linda Tirado's loss of vision in her left eye to a rubber bullet in Mpls. Just a coincidence, I'm sure .
Michael Goodwin / New York Post: Leftists are in firm control at The New York Times
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: I don't know the particulars of what's going on at the Times but to deny there's a power struggle between old school liberal values and... whatever is happening now... is just absurd. It's happening at institutions all over th US and it's apparent from the backlash to her tweets. https://twitter.com/...
John Nichols / @nicholsuprising: As a reporter who has covered quite a few conflicts, I stand 100% — make than 1000% — in solidarity with @SominiSengupta's assessment. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Concha / @joeconchatv: The normally asnarky Swan goes full snark. And rightfully so... https://twitter.com/...
Frank Schaeffer / @frank_schaeffer: Please read my friend Michelle Goldberg's outstanding piece “Readers should grasp what people like Cotton are arguing, not because it's worth taking seriously but because it is being taken seriously, particularly by our mad and decomposing president.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Robert Kornhauser / @rbrtkornhauser: I'm currently holding for minute 32 with the @nytimes to cancel my subscription, so something must be happening. And yes, the NYT makes you CALL THEM to cancel. https://twitter.com/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: As a result of the Cotton controversy, the @nytimes is considering reducing the number of op-eds published by as much as 20% in order to increase scrutiny on pieces before they run https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Ulrich Speck / @ulrichspeck: Probably most underrated problem with democratic politics today: “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.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gideon Rachman / @gideonrachman: This piece in the New York Times - about the New York Times - is more thoughtful and interesting than its incendiary headline suggests https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ali Khan Mahmudabad / @mahmudabad: @nytimes Executives Take Turns Apologizing to Quell Staff Revolt Over Tom Cotton's ‘Send in the Troops’ Meanwhile @IndianExpress and @ThePrintIndia and others continue to publish pieces by hate mongers! But hey, it's #India! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: Again the critical issue precisely defined: “the value of airing Cotton's argument has 2 b weighed against the message The Times sends, in this incendiary moment, by including it w/in the bounds of legitimate debate” Zuckerberg dodging that too @Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: “I've started to doubt my debating-club approach to the ? of when to air proto-fascist opinions” Just right & the same issue that rebellions in Facebook & the military raise: how far can a democracy go in treating anti-democratic impulses as legit debate? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: This was the question I asked after the Tom Cotton oped was published in NYT https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: A crisis of conviction at the New York Times
@mattdpearce: Well, for all the huffing and puffing about censorship after the organized protest at the New York Times, by all accounts it sounds like it actually opened up the door to a bunch of open newsroom democracy and intensive debate about how everybody could do their jobs better. https://twitter.com/...
John M. Cunningham / @jmcunning: Kudos to the NYT staffer who asked these questions at today's all-hands meeting. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Zack Beauchamp / Vox: The New York Times staff revolt over Tom Cotton's op-ed, explained
@jordansarge: it's incredible to read james bennett's ouroborian description of the tom cotton op ed editing process in this piece & remember that the line on this guy is that he's supposed to be some sort of singular editorial visionary https://www.vice.com/...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: The Times solicited the piece from Tom Cotton. Discussed the angle. Edited it. Published it. But besides that the dastardly thing slipped through the net! https://twitter.com/...
Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: “Additionally, [@bariweiss ] was insulting to all of our foreign correspondents who have actually reported from civil wars.” https://www.vice.com/...
Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla: It took a lot of @nytimes journalists & columnists to break their conditions of employment & speak out to bring about this result. Kudos to all. Speaking up & out has never been more important. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: Good overview of the Tom Cotton op-ed mess, from @erik_wemple. Refreshing that some of the people involve recognize that a key problem is the sheer *bad faith* employed by the likes of @SenTomCotton: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Via @PostOpinions
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/...
@motherboard: “In publishing the Tom Cotton piece, haven't we effectively validated depictions of Black Americans as terrorists in exercising their First Amendment rights to protest police brutality?” https://www.vice.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: ffs he's paid buckets of money to edit an opinion column. minimum wage grocery employees are risking their lives every day. some black nyt employees have to do their job despite racist management. he does not have the toughest job imaginable. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: 1. Not just a capitulation. A total surrender. The groveling for running a provocative op-ed by a sitting senator expressing an opinion I do not share but is widely supported is instructive. But groveling won't appease the social justice mob. https://www.vice.com/... via @vice
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This report on today's staff meeting at the New York Times is based on a recording the Vice reporter obtained. https://www.vice.com/... It's worth reading. The Times staff asked excellent questions.
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: First q at all-hands NYT mtg today was “How does our leadership reconcile the Times' official statement that the op-ed did not meet our standards with James' defense of its publication on Wednesday with A.G.'s implicit defense in his note to staff on Thursday?” /1 https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: According to @vicenews: Sulzberger said that his memo functioned as a placeholder communication while they dug into “what had happened.” He turned the question over to Bennet, who offered an abject apology. https://www.vice.com/... /2
Jane Martinson / @janemartinson: While we've been fixating on the BBC the palaver still the NYt is quite something https://twitter.com/...
Nina Bernstein / @ninabernstein1: “Bennet confirmed that Cotton's column will not run in the newspaper's Sunday print edition.” https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: I can't emphasize that last part enough. If it was just people like me making noise, Sulzberger, Bennet & co would've dug in their heels. NYT employees, particularly black & POC, forced this apology — and should keep pushing for more, or NYT will revert https://twitter.com/...
Sam Thielman / @samthielman: So: Many miles away from @JBennet's ridiculous argument that Cotton's militant racism was an fascinating, underrepresented provocation, the truth turns out to be that his team had seen it publicly articulated, solicited an essay codifying it, and then ran that essay unread https://twitter.com/...
@luxalptraum: I, too, have gotten a NY Times op-ed because an editor liked some tweets I did 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/...
Quarantine Toddler Task Force / @patrickcoffee: More: “Bennet admitted that the opinion page had seen Cotton's tweets on the subject and 'we did ask if he could stand up that argument. I'm not sure we suggested that topic to him but we did invite the piece.'” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@sivavaid: @B_Ehrenreich @lpolgreen You MUST be mistaken, Barbara. I was led to believe by the esteemed editor @JBennet that the op-ed page embraces ALL perspectives and ideas without exception. NOTHING is out-of-bounds for that brave editor. I'm sure it's just in a cue.
Dion Nissenbaum / @dionnissenbaum: This is from one of journalism's most esteemed combat correspondents and a one-time Marine Corps infantry officer. 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/...
@petersterne: I think people are critical of Bennet precisely because they're familiar with his tenure at The Atlantic and the NYT opinion page. https://twitter.com/...
Annie Ma / @anniema15: If you're going to hire journalists of color, good. But are you going to listen to what they have to say? Because what's the point of having people in the room if their voices aren't heard at the table?
Annie Ma / @anniema15: I'm not going to knock the good-faith efforts so many newsrooms have taken to bring on journalists of color, but the past few days have made it clear that whatever we've done as an industry is not enough.
Annie Ma / @anniema15: It's been 50 years since the Kerner report on race/unrest in the '60s. This line has always stuck with me, particularly now: “The press has too long basked in a white world looking out of it, if at all, with white men's eyes and white perspective. That is no longer good enough.”
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: ftr, NYT publisher publicly supported the Cotton op-Ed, before he turned against in.....in the span of 6 hours 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/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: If The NY Times Doesn't Publish My OpEd On Why James Bennet Is An Incompetent Dweeb, It Must Hate Free Speech
Tom Cotton / @tomcottonar: Attention @nytimes—I'd like to report an editorial that violates your new policy against publishing editorials that are “contemptuous in tone”. https://twitter.com/...
@beautybind: Seems like something you should figure out BEFORE you gave a racist, fascist a national platform. 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/...
Amanda Marcotte / @amandamarcotte: Good job by @michelleinbklyn on the mistake of the NY Times to publish Tom Cotton's fascist op-ed, while still understanding the problem faced by newspapers who want to represent the realities of conservative opinion on their pages. https://www.nytimes.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/...
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[Thread] Contributing writer Wajahat Ali says some NYT reporters and editors live in fear of the “Bret Stephens Policy” forbidding public criticism of his work
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@wajahatali: ***HR update: I have been told HR now says if anyone has felt their employment or work environment was threatened because they criticized Bret Stephens to please report it.
Maura Quint / @behindyourback: It's not surprising but it's still maddening that Bret Stephens was raging against the idea of safe-spaces on college campuses while trying to turn the whole world into a place so cozy and safe he'd never have to hear a single tiny DROPLET of criticism about his terrible ideas. https://twitter.com/...
Driftglass / @mr_electrico: @jayrosen_nyu @Shoq @bluegal @soledadobrien And yet Wajahat Ali reports that the Stephens' tantrums have had a measurable influence on NYT culture. That management enforces an informal “Bret Stephens Policy” which amounts to “Don't say or write anything that might piss Bret off”. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: This is a fascinating thread, and it has reinforced for me a growing feeling that, for the sake of both journalists and readers, the best social-media policy for a major publication is...none. (Short, non-personal-essay thread.) > https://twitter.com/...
Sara Benincasa / @sarajbenincasa: With all the stuff Wajahat and family have been through in the past few years - and how much he has done to publicize organ donation and how families deal with medical stress - this is amazing to me. Speaking up like this is a very big deal. Read the whole thread. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: At this rate the NYT opinion desk is going to have quite the Monday morning meeting. This thread is an eye-opener. https://twitter.com/...
A Goldman / @agoldmund: This is so insane https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: it goes without saying but using your position of power and influence to try and get other people in trouble with their employer for any critical comments, threatening their income and job security, is repulsive https://twitter.com/...
Fatthew Yglazyass / @ruckcohlchez: Bret Stephens is fully a “campus leftists are killing free speech” guy yet there's an entire policy at the NYT about how to protect his widdle fwagile ego from having to hear anything even slightly critical https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: Thread. We have a number of prominent media folks scolding us about what they call “intellectual intolerance” (which distorts/overstates what is going on) but the way it plays out is they often are the ones with the thin skin. Stephens has already shown this more than once. https://twitter.com/...
@zlingray: how is it possible to value bret stephens in this way, like youre just willing to sacrifice everything to have bret on the team. https://twitter.com/...
Paul F. Tompkins / @pftompkins: So many headaches and heartaches over one goofball https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This is also known as the Jake Tapper policy/ The Helen Lewis Policy / The Gloria Ryan policy ... etc etc https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Levenson / @tomlevenson: Brave thread. Bret Stephens is a bad op-journalist. By bad I mean he writes stuff that is poorly argued & often based on false premises or claims of fact that are so twisted as to mislead readers. @nytimes leadership's Stephens Policy devalues the great work of so many there. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Helmuth / @laurahelmuth: An important thread for journalists who are prevented from speaking the truth on social media. The bullies should not win. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: *HR reporting line immediately crashes, servers burst into flames* https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Incredible thread: When Bret Stephens contacted university administrators to try to get a professor who mocked him on twitter in trouble, he was merely doing what he routinely does in the Times. This is a Pulitzer Prize winner who uses his power to disempower others. https://twitter.com/...
Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein: Good thread on free speech https://twitter.com/...
@hkesvani: Anyway I guess its good that the criticisms that “coddled leftists” had about the NYT all turned out to be both true and also somehow worse than expected https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Read this thread. Bret Stephens is known and feared within the NYT for reporting his colleagues to management when they criticize him or say something he doesn't like. https://twitter.com/...
Luciana Lopez / @luciana_f_lopez: I am finding this window that has opened up into the internal culture of the NYT this week fascinating. https://twitter.com/...
Mari Uyehara / @mariuyehara: There's a Bret Stephens or two at every office. And staffers of color rarely say anything out of fear of being labeled “difficult” and getting sidelined. If employers were serious about meeting this moment, they'd find the one in their office instead of issuing bland statements. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Goldman / @lisang: Gold. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Lyga / @barrylyga: Read this thread and marvel that any organization would go to such lengths to protect a sniveling pseudointellectual bucket of brain feces like Bret Stephens. https://twitter.com/...
David Darmofal / @david_darmofal: The NYT is such an important & influential institution in our country. Kudos to @WajahatAli for saying this. We need more truth-telling like this from inside the Times. https://twitter.com/...
Foster Kamer / @weareyourfek: Actual Fucking Bedbug @BretStevensNYT, everyone. Bret, email my bosses. Please. I would love the opportunity to laugh about you with them. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Brogan / @jacob_brogan: It's striking that those who rail against “cancel culture,” as Stephens has, often seem most committed to silencing those who offend them. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Flynn / @flynnwaslike: This is a hell of a lot of extra work to put your staff through on behalf of a bad person who's not good at his job @nytimes https://twitter.com/...
Ron Hogan / @ronhogan: Send @JBennet and @bariweiss packing, and Bret Stephens after them. https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: Hey speaking of James Bennet and Bret Stephens, here's a thread you should read about Bret Stephens whining to NYT leadership whenever a colleague criticizes one of his shitty columns (which must be pretty often because they're all shitty.) https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Just a reminder that Bret mocked rape victims as coddled for wanting a break-out room during a discussion on assault https://twitter.com/...
Gary Legum / @garylegum: Even if Bret Stephens was a halfway-decent writer and thinker, none of this would be justifiable. But you throw in the fact that he sucks, and one wonders what's the point of keeping him around your op-ed page. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Crockett / @emilycrockett: Workplaces need some kind of screening procedure during the hiring process that rules out fragile, abusive assholes. The rest of us would have so many fewer problems. https://twitter.com/...
Ayesha A. Siddiqi / @ayeshaasiddiqi: you all really wanted to work somewhere with this kind of culture of coercion and suppression ? Not to mention the vitriol they published. You all consented to your silence being bought. I guess it's good you're finally being honest. But are you being honest w yourselves https://twitter.com/...
Dave Schilling / @dave_schilling: What is described in this thread is workplace harassment. Apparently, the freedom of ideas the Times claims to champion ends at the Op-Ed page. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Freedman / @freedaaron: Of course it comes out that Bari and Bret are tattlers. That's how they all started: silencing the mostly brown and black people they disagree with. So much of the “free speech” movement is a right-wing scam to silence dissent. https://prospect.org/... https://twitter.com/...
David Marcus / @blueboxdave: When did the Times turn into Real Housewives of New York Journalism? https://twitter.com/...
Scott Heins / @scottheins: The extent to which the New York Times bends over backwards to protect Bret Stephens's terrible ideas and shattered ego is...quite gross! https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: Stephens has an unbelievable amount of power in the journalism world. He's a judge of major journalism prizes. He's got a huge megaphone. He's got a Pulitzer! He should be unemployed. https://twitter.com/...
@thomaswilburn: I've been hearing that a lot of publications are thinking about their social media policies during these times, and it's worth considering how the NYT's policy is actively weaponized, and contributes to an abusive internal culture: https://twitter.com/...
Megan Specia / New York Times:
In a role reversal, foreign governments, among them Turkey and Australia, call on American authorities to respect press freedom and protect reporters — Citing police actions against journalists, Germany, Australia and Turkey call for respect for press freedom.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: What's a journalist supposed to be now — an activist? A stenographer? You're asking the wrong question.
Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ board demands U.S. local authorities halt assaults on journalists
Ross Dawson / @rossdawson: Shifting tides outlined in @nytimes In Turnabout, Global Leaders Urge U.S. to Protect Reporters Amid Unrest - Citing police actions against journalists, Germany, Australia and Turkey call for respect for press freedom. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: 2. Pompeo accurately lists many rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party, far greater than occurs in the US. But he doesn't acknowledge the extraordinary # of recent incidents of violence against journalists in US — possibly at least 280, CPJ says: https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: We are officially no longer leader of the free world. https://twitter.com/...
@fastcompany: George Floyd protests: Press Freedom Tracker shows attacks on journalists are growing https://f-st.co/kcCwZSm
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Democratic leaders worldwide are calling on the US government to protect journalists who report on the protests—a useful intervention when done in good faith by governments that themselves respect media freedom. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pressfreedom: “What is the point of press credentials issued by your agencies if armed officers can ignore them and treat journalists as criminals?” CPJ board sends a rare letter to U.S. governors, mayors, and police chiefs calling on them to halt attacks on journalists https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesworld: Experts say the recent attacks reflect a growing pattern of anti-press violence in the United States. Pauline Adès-Mével, a spokeswoman for Reporters Without Borders, said the frequency and the intensity of the U.S. attacks are “shocking.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Messina / @chrismessina: “Foreign governments, among them Turkey and Australia, call on American authorities to respect press freedom and protect reporters.” https://www.nytimes.com/... SMH. We've lost the plot — as @profgalloway calls out on @PivotSchooled. Do you still call America “exceptional”? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Pam Fessler / @pamelafessler: Was it only one week ago that CNN's Oscar Jimenez was arrested for covering protests in Minneapolis? It seems so long ago. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: The governments of Germany, Australia and Turkey are condemning attacks on reporters in the U.S. and calling for American authorities to respect press freedom and protect reporters, both local and foreign. https://www.nytimes.com/...
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker / @uspresstracker: As the @USPressTracker verifies reports of more than 300 press freedom incidents across 60 cities related to the #GeorgeFloyd protests, you'll find them all here: https://pressfreedomtracker.us/ ...
Adam Klasfeld / @klasfeldreports: INBOX: @PressFreedom is investigating “at least 280 reports of anti-press violence since May 26,” mostly by police officers, the group writes in a letter demanding U.S. governors, mayors and police chiefs halt these assaults and arrests. Doc: https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Neely / @billneelynbc: 280 reports of attacks on journalists in 33 states of the US. Unprecedented. Journalists are being treated “as criminals” by police, says the foremost body representing the constitutional rights of the press in the US. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Williams / @williamsjon: “We will keep fighting for rights of journalists to safely work in your communities, without fear of assault or arrest. Because that is our responsibility.” Proud to stand with rest of board @pressfreedom- journalism is not a crime. #PressFreedom #EndImpunity #GeorgeFloydProtests https://twitter.com/...
John McCarthy / The Drum:
Interview with BuzzFeed News' James Lamon, head of content for Europe, on producing both viral content and investigative journalism after job cuts and furloughs — BuzzFeed's ‘Joy and Truth’ philosophy sets pizza and kitten virality as unlikely bedfellows to hard-hitting news.
Tara Kelly / Poynter:
Profile of member-funded French local news site Mediacités, which has gained 20% additional paying readers with solutions-based investigations amid the pandemic — This case study is part of Resilience Reports, a series from the European Journalism Centre about how news organizations across Europe …
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Comscore: G/O Media brands saw YoY drop in site traffic in April, with Deadspin down nearly 85%, Gizmodo ~58%, Jezebel ~52%, and Lifehacker ~24% — G/O Media — parent company of brands including Deadspin, Jezebel and Gizmodo — expects a 30% decrease in its total advertising revenue during the second quarter.
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Keith Hernandez / @keithrhernandez: Many publishers are going to blame COVID-19 for their revenue decline this year when in actuality they are just giant herbs who ruined something that was good with their mediocre ideas. https://digiday.com/...
Jack Marshall / @jackmarshall: suspect we'll see this across the board. businesses blaming corona for their already shaky models. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron Blm / @dellcam: Gizmodo traffic has dipped 58% in the year since it came under new management. Many highly qualified writers quit after @banikarim was inexplicably replaced w/ an idiot who came, fucked shit up & quit. We lost tons of referrals from Deadspin (rip). https://digiday.com/...
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Twitter and Facebook remove a video tribute to George Floyd posted by Trump's campaign, after receiving a copyright complaint under DMCA — Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul of the website's policy on copyrighted material.
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@jack, Politico, Gizmodo, @can, @maxandersson, CNN, The Verge, @scottnover, @b_fung, @viacristiano, @charlesarthur, @chrismessina, @b_fung and Mashable
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@jack: Not true and not illegal. This was pulled because we got a DMCA complaint from copyright holder. https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / Politico: Facebook, Instagram join Twitter in removing Trump campaign videos over copyright complaints
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Twitter and Facebook Take Down Trump Campaign's Tribute Video to George Floyd for Copyright Infringement
@can: There's an “everything is securities fraud” feel to this where we act on copyright infringement much more swiftly than we act on inciting violence. “Financialization is the root of all evil”? https://twitter.com/...
Max Andersson / @maxandersson: A bad law being used against somebody who is both powerful and evil is still a bad law... But this still brings a smile to my face. https://www.politico.com/...
Kim Lyons / The Verge: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram removed a Trump campaign video over copyright complaint
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Update: @Facebook has also taken down the Trump video for copyright violation, joining @Twitter. The video still appears on @YouTube. https://www.adweek.com/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Facebook spokesman @andymstone tells me that, as on Twitter, this video from the Trump campaign has been removed over a copyright claim. https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano: UPDATED: Facebook and Instagram have joined Twitter in taking down a Trump campaign video tribute to George Floyd over copyright complaints https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: The copyright complaint is legit under the DMCA, apparently, though it's not clear which copyright owner (of an image in a video) complained. So of course the Trump campaign is throwing the hissiest of fits. Expect a lot of this, though - both the DMCA actions and hissy fits. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Messina / @chrismessina: Yes, Mr. President, copyright still applies to you. No, this isn't censoring conservative voices. This is capitalism. https://thehill.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Facebook's statement: https://twitter.com/...
Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR's public editor answers questions about terms used to describe protests and George Floyd's death, focusing on importance of not trying to economize words — Since a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd on Memorial Day, NPR has faced ethical challenges every hour of every day …
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NPR Public / @nprpubliceditor: The #GeorgeFloydProtests are a complicated story. Too much focus on the looting distorts the picture. But minimizing it leaves NPR open to accusations of bias https://www.npr.org/...
NPR Public / @nprpubliceditor: NPR needs to tell its listeners what happened to #GeorgeFloyd. The listeners who wrote in were angry to hear phrases like “died in police custody” https://www.npr.org/...
Allison Carter / @allisonlcarter: This is a really good explainer of why and how journalists grapple with the words we use to describe everything from George Floyd's death to riots vs protests. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: He was murdered, and we should have said so from the start. The actions of the police officer was overly aggressive and lacked a level of care that would be normal in other western countries. If this had happened in any other country, you would have defined it as murder. https://twitter.com/...
NPR Public / @nprpubliceditor: “But this is a political story. It is a story of historic proportions. And so it requires a lot more context.” @lourdesgnavarro https://www.npr.org/...
NPR Public / @nprpubliceditor: “There is an understanding of what is happening and its roots and that, I think, is a sign of a healthy news organization and important, robust coverage. It is finding people who actually understand what it is that they're covering...” @lourdesgnavarro https://www.npr.org/...
NPR Public / @nprpubliceditor: Reporting on the aftermath of the death of #GeorgeFloyd needs more words, not less. It shouldn't rely on imprecise labels https://www.npr.org/...
Tom Dreisbach / @tomdreisbach: This @kellymcb piece explains some of the internal thinking re NPR's language use. But I think the piece misses the fact that we *can* call the killing of George Floyd an “alleged murder” and Chauvin an “accused murderer,” as we routinely do when civilians are charged. https://twitter.com/...
Poynter:
Some newspaper chains are adjusting their furloughs to cover protests: Gannett pulls some reporters out of furlough and McClatchy excludes most from theirs — We asked. Some answered. Here's what we found out. — Around 4 in the morning on May 31, after another night of walking miles …
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@newsguild, @aliknez, @ctguild, @kristenhare, @spj_tweets, @kerrymflynn, @spj_tweets, @itsren, @toddlighty, @poynter and @kristenhare
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NewsGuild-CWA / @newsguild: “We had people downtown and in all corners of the city. ...I'm proud of the work we did but imagine how much better it could have been if so many of us weren't on furlough.” @Crepeau @chicagotribune reporter @CTGuild https://www.cnn.com/... #SaveTheNews https://www.savethenews.org/ https://twitter.com/...
@aliknez: And elections... My colleague @phillej_ tells @CNN: “We stay real positive because we know these stories are important and at the end of the day we have to tell them.” https://twitter.com/...
@ctguild: Read this CNN report and consider that @tribpub furloughed our journalists at one of the worst conceivable moments in history to reduce newsroom firepower. Why did they do it? To hand a little more money to shareholders and executives https://www.cnn.com/...
Kristen Hare / @kristenhare: >@kerrymflynn and I didn't plan this, but her story on how local reporters are struggling to cover what's happening now amidst furloughs and shrinking newsrooms is a great companion piece with how newsrooms are adjusting https://www.cnn.com/...
@spj_tweets: “I knew the people who have been running around covering the pandemic have been covering it nonstop and now we have this, so they [must] be exhausted,” @ReporterAmber from @Enquirer told @CNNBusiness. “I volunteered because somebody has to sleep sometime.” https://www.cnn.com/...
@kerrymflynn: With rounds of layoffs over the years and current furloughs, local newsrooms have been dealing with their own crisis. Now, they're juggling covering two crises — the pandemic and the protests — with even fewer resources https://www.cnn.com/...
@spj_tweets: “Who's left to document what's happening? @Poynter reached out to several news organizations and newsrooms that announced furloughs. Some have delayed them. Others say it's up to the individual newsrooms.” https://www.poynter.org/...
Ren LaForme / @itsren: I understand times are tough. But doesn't it also seem like an abdication of responsibility to be working less than a full staff (whatever that means anymore) right now? https://poynter.org/...
Todd Lighty / @toddlighty: Tribune Publishing on whether it will fulfill its civic duty during coronavirus pandemic and anti-police protests by staffing up: “We do not anticipate widespread cancellations of furloughs given the severe ad revenue declines we are trying to address.” https://www.poynter.org/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
President of White House Correspondents' Association objects to close spacing of seats at WH “press conference”, calling it a violation of CDC guidelines — President Donald Trump made a last-minute appearance before the press in the Rose Garden to tout the latest unemployment figures …
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@yamiche, @whca, Talking Points Memo, Vanity Fair, CBS News, @deadline, @jayrosen_nyu and Washington Post
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Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Incredible. WH made reporters, including myself, sit *closer together* at the president's remarks in the Rose Garden today and *violate the federal government's social distancing policy for the pandemic* because they thought the seating arrangement “looks better.” From @whca: https://twitter.com/...
Zoë Richards / Talking Points Memo: Reporters Call Out WH For Flouting Social Distancing Rules, Using Media As Political ‘Prop’
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: White House, Defying CDC Guidelines, Rearranged Press Seats Because “It Looked Better”
Jason Silverstein / CBS News: White House makes reporters sit closer and defy social distancing because it “looks better”
Deadline Hollywood / @deadline: CNN's Jim Acosta noted that the chairs for the press were originally distanced apart as they have been for previous Rose Garden events during the coronavirus crisis. But they were moved just before Trump went on TV https://deadline.com/...
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