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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Trump's campaign sends a letter demanding CNN retract a poll showing Biden leading; CNN lawyer says the campaign is threatening litigation to muzzle speech — President Trump's reelection campaign has sent a cease and desist letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker demanding that the network retract …
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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman / @repbonnie: Oh, “whining.” I thought he said “winning.” https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The Washington Post reported that during the 2016 campaign, Herring “banned stories about polls that showed anyone other than Trump in the lead, according to emails and interviews with OAN journalists.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: Recall that Trump has claimed that his lawyers sent a letter to WaPo or ABC to complain about a 2016 poll, and then they gave him better results. (Also recall that WaPo says it never got any such letter and obviously didn't change its polling.) https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: LO - and I cannot stress this last part enough - L https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Hersko / IndieWire: President Donald Trump Sent CNN a Cease-and-Desist Due to a Poll He Didn't Like
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: Wow this left wing political correctness is getting out of you know what I'm tired https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Nash / Mediaite: CNN Nukes Trump Campaign's Cease and Desist Letter Over Negative Poll: ‘Factually and Legally Baseless’
@cnnpr: “To the extent we have received legal threats from political leaders in the past, they have typically come from countries like Venezuela or other regimes where there is little or no respect for a free and independent media.”
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: I'm no pollster but this strikes me as a pathetic ask from the trump campaign https://www.cnn.com/...
Jonathan Turley / @jonathanturley: I am not sure how one actually sues over a poll, particularly when CNN showed Trump at 38 percent and Gallop later showed him at 39 percent. I am sure about is that this is like complaining about the weather in Washington. https://thehill.com/...
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Disney and other companies have suspended advertising on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in recent weeks, as Carlson ramped up criticism of protests — Tucker Carlson may have one of the most watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information: Four corporations that say they support Black Lives Matter but sponsor Tucker Carlson
Aimee Carrero / @aimeecarrero: Isn't he always losing advertisers? How has he not just run through them all? Or maybe they cut ties publicly and then silently come back. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: @joshsternberg @Disney They were purchased through a third party. They've now instructed the 3rd party not to buy ads on Tucker
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: @joshsternberg @Disney I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to know exactly what is going on. They claimed to have been previously unaware these ads were being placed. But they also acknowledged the ability to stop them, and said they would do so.
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @JuddLegum @Disney did they tell you if running ads on tucker was part of upfront buy or scatter? do you know how much of disney's ad spend on fox news went to tucker, and how much goes to other programs? did disney say how, for a ‘family-oriented’ company, they came to running ads on fox news?
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @JuddLegum @Disney Yeah, Disney doesn't make any buys on its own. Disney's media firm, I believe, is OMD? But knowing whether they bought time in the upfront (which would be hundreds of millions a year ago) or scatter (much less in aggregate now, but more expensive) helps in knowing intent.
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @JuddLegum @Disney Oh that's interesting that they don't know where their TV ad spend is going. I know that's a common thing in digital but first time I heard a brand claim ignorance about TV!
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @JuddLegum @Disney and then - will disney put money into fox news for this year's upfronts? lots to unpack with these tv deals. and then let's not even get started on what these companies are spending programmatically, where who knows where their ads end up.
Steven Pasquale / @stevepasquale: Why in God's name was Disney ever advertising on Tucker Carlson in the first place? https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: UPDATE: This morning, I reported that @Disney was still advertising on Tucker Carlson, who is using his platform to trash the Black Lives Matter movement A few minutes ago, Disney told me it will no longer run ads on the program https://popular.info/...
Dani Di Placido / Forbes: ‘Fox News’ Host Tucker Carlson Gets Triggered By 'Sesame Street's' Elmo
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson leaves The Daily Caller and sells his roughly one-third stake to co-founder and publisher Neil Patel, who now owns a controlling stake — Co-founder Neil Patel now owns controlling stake in conservative news website — Tucker Carlson is leaving the Daily Caller …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Tucker Carlson Sells His Stake in The Daily Caller
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Tucker Carlson has sold his roughly one-third stake in @DailyCaller, and he's leaving the publication: https://www.wsj.com/... Scoop from @keachhagey.
Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile: This seems like kind of a strange excuse in this WSJ article on some Daily Caller writers having white nationalists ties. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Laura Ingraham also got out of LifeZette, which allows her — and now Tucker Carlson — to face less blowback when one of those sites gets into hot water https://www.wsj.com/...
@keachhagey: Tucker Carlson is parting ways with the Daily Caller. Co-founder Neil Patel now owns controlling stake https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Amee Vanderpool / @girlsreallyrule: Tucker Carlson is leaving the Daily Caller, the conservative digital publication he co-founded a decade ago. But, the best part is the quote Carlson gave about it.: “I'm just too absorbed in what I'm doing, I wasn't helping in any way...” 😂https://www.wsj.com/ ...
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: Mr. Patel now owns a controlling stake in the website—the rest of which is owned by investor and major Republican donor Foster Friess and a few other small investors—which makes the Daily Caller the largest digital-media company owned by a person of color https://www.wsj.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Leaves the Daily Caller Co-founder Neil Patel now owns controlling stake in conservative news website https://www.wsj.com/...
Peter J. Hasson / @peterjhasson: “which makes the Daily Caller the largest digital-media company owned by a person of color.” https://twitter.com/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: Tucker Carlson Sells His Share of the Daily Caller A Decade After Co-Founding the Website
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: Tucker Carlson leaving The Daily Caller
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Bon Appétit releases a statement conceding its racially insensitive past, vowing extensive changes like prioritizing people of color for its EIC candidate pool — Bon Appétit, the Condé Nast-owned food title that found itself embroiled in controversy this week …
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Julia Bascom / @juststimming: Ok but are you gonna be paying Sohla and other BIPOC staff for their video appearances (retroactively and going forward) or not? https://twitter.com/...
Meghan Kathleen / @meghankathleen: This is a lot of talking without a firm strategy or plan. Lots of ideas, but what follows should be concrete action with a corresponding timeline in which the Bon Appetit org can be held accountable. Also, fire Alex Delany. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A remarkable document. Not sure I have read any like it. The staffs of Bon Appétit and Epicurious apologize to readers for a history of “racism at these brands” amid a “toxic, top-down culture” that they commit to changing. https://www.bonappetit.com/... Published on the company's URL.
Adrienne Shih / @adrienneshih: “We have been complicit with a culture we don't agree with and are committed to change. Our mastheads have been far too white for far too long...the recipes, stories, and people we've highlighted have too often come from a white-centric viewpoint.” https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Emily Heil / Washington Post: Amid accusations of discrimination, Bon Appetit staff vows to ‘dismantle racism’
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I know I have much work to do. But I won't be tweeting about that; I won't trivialize the tasks or act as if I know enough to even grasp yet what all they are. To be clear: I'm not putting myself above BonApp. I'm saying in white-run media institutions, we're all BonApp.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: BonApp is not alone. Every journalistic organization—including schools, & my school—needs such self-examination, training, & concrete actions. Even then: “This is just the start. We want to be transparent, accountable, and active as we begin to dismantle racism at our brands.”
Tien / @_tiennguyen: i think admitting racism in light of all this is not remarkable. it is the absolute, absolute, absolute least they could do. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: “Other times we have appropriated, co-opted, and Columbused them. While we've hired more people of color, we have continued to tokenize many BIPOC staffers and contributors in our videos and on our pages.” Bon Appetit repents for their sins. https://www.bonappetit.com/...
@niemanlab: .@bonappetit promises to: ▪️Hire more freelancers of color ▪️"Center, rather than patronize," contributions of marginalized people ▪️Build trust with BIPOC contributors ▪️Launch multiple columns by BIPOC on print and digital platforms https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Corby Kummer / @ckummer: “To start, that means prioritizing people of color for editor in chief...and resolving any pay inequities that are found across all departments. It means dismantling the toxic, top-down culture that has hurt many members of our staff both past and present."https://www.bonappetit.com/ ...
Kim Severson / @kimseverson: Some fresh comments from @bonappetit. Some staffers thought it was watered down, but a corporate-approved statement from Conde Nast that uses the term Columbusing and admits racism is remarkable. https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Judgmental Fish Nun / @maxfalkowitz: “We have been complicit with a culture we don't agree with” Everything that's come out has shown you were way more than complicit. You absolutely agree with it. Don't you dare absolve yourself of that responsibility. https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Letter from @bonappetit staff: “At times we have treated non-white stories as ‘not newsworthy’ or ‘trendy.’ Other times we have appropriated, co-opted, and Columbused them.” By all means, true not just of food writing. https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Andrea Gonzlez-Ramrez / @andreagonram: Meanwhile execs at “feminist” outlets are not apologizing to their current/former BIPOC staff for creating a toxic work environment, and are instead using vague language about “hearing you” and “making room.” https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Megsie / @megpascoe: Okay, but pay Sohla and Priya and whoever else wasn't compensated for their work properly? https://twitter.com/...
Seth Cohen / Forbes: Vogue's Anna Wintour Admits “Hurtful” Mistakes, But Is Her Apology On Race More Than Just Fashionable?
@queenozymandias: Maybe nitpicking but “BIPOC” has a specific purpose and meaning - to highlight anti blackness/anti indigenous racism. Using it as a catchall term for POC is the literal opposite of that purpose! And also it's EXTRA weird to use it here bc many of the ppl leading this are Asian? https://twitter.com/...
Liana Aghajanian / @lianaagh: Still seething but this is the understatement of the century: “At times we have treated non-white stories as “not newsworthy” or “trendy.” https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Pete Wells / @pete_wells: I never thought I'd see the day when a Condé Nast title (or “brand") made a statement like this. The word that comes to mind is revolutionary. https://www.bonappetit.com/...
Patricia I. Escrcega / @piescarcega: I am so proud of the Bon Appetit staffers working so hard from the inside to make change. It is incredibly hard, important work to do. I am frustrated that demanding equality is so revolutionary and remarkable. https://twitter.com/...
Maria Town / @maria_m_town: But will you provide Sohla, Gaby, Priya, and other BIPOC staff with equal pay and back pay for all previous on-camera time? https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Bon Appétit Offers ‘Long-Overdue Apology’ After Adam Rapoport Steps Down
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
At a Condé Nast town hall, CEO Roger Lynch claims ignorance of diversity and pay issues and says the company plans to conduct internal studies of these matters
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Rachel Premack / Business Insider: Bon Appétit's editor in chief just resigned …
Elizabeth Thompson / @bizzyt: Roger Lynch, CEO, just told staff re: pay and diversity “truthfully, if these concerns had been brought up earlier, we could have dealt with them sooner.”
@smittenkitchen: I am so disappointed that the magazine where I had a column for two years treated its BIPOC employees so poorly and knowingly, deliberately, tokenized and underpaid them. Whether or not @bonappetit takes this opportunity to rebuild from the ground up is on them. 1/3 https://twitter.com/...
Zahir Janmohamed / @zahirj: Condé Nast, the parent company of Bon Appétit, donated $1 million to racial justice organizations but refused a pay raise to its one black staffer just days after this donation. https://twitter.com/...
Manik / @manikrathee: The CEO of @CondeNast just wishes someone told him about racism and sexism so he could have solved them both Exceptional. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Taylor / @kate_h_taylor: There are so much truly sickening stories in @rrpre's investigation into Bon Appétit's toxic and racist culture https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Siddhartha Mahanta / @sidhubaba: I read Rachel's story and immediately threw my phone across the room. Hell of a story by an exceptional journalist. Whether or not you care about food or food media, check it out: https://twitter.com/...
@smittenkitchen: 14 years ago — publishing has changed significantly since then but I do not believe that we are any less interested in good recipes and great food stories. If you ever want publishing advice or financial backing from a food blogging grandma, I would be delighted to help. 3/3
Alyse Whitney / @alysewhitney: working at bon appetit was one of the most emotionally damaging chapters of my life. thanks @rrpre for working to expose the toxic environment weeks before any of the news surrounding adam came out. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Sameera / @samkap: Look at how the blame is put back on the people who weren't compensated well by the company HE runs. Why is the blame on them? This happens so regularly, I'm so tired. https://twitter.com/...
Xand Venturas / @xandventuras: As a fan of BA, this and the other stories that have been coming out lately have been hard to read. But I'm so glad that they are. It's really emphasised my own blindspot in identifying a lack of diversity in the media I consume. https://twitter.com/...
@the_iron_chic: Me 3 months ago: Omg I love the BA test kitchen! So fun, I'm a Claire stan! Tee hee! Me now: Burn Condé Nast to the ground and salt the earth where it stood https://twitter.com/...
@jenny8lee: There are breadcrumbs of @CondeNast culture that have been reported throughout the years. Here is one from 2007 where the EIC of GQ used “Asian whore” in his editor's letter twice. Page Six did report on it. But it wasn't considered a big deal. https://twitter.com/...
@smittenkitchen: But I know there is there is an industry of untapped talent that could tell a world of diverse food stories in the kind of publication I'd love to read but rarely get to. “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” I started self-publishing Smitten Kitchen 2/3
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: Walker-Hartshorn, whose makes $35k and hadn't gotten a raise in her tenure as Rapoport's assistant, was asked to clean Rapoport's golf clubs, fetch his son's passport + teach his wife to use Google Calendar. She's the only black woman on staff. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
A&E cancels reality series Live P.D., which had been renewed for 160 episodes a month ago, following nationwide protests and calls for police reform — EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable. A week after Live P.D. was pulled …
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Michael Schneider / Variety: A&E Canceling ‘Live PD’ Following Ongoing Protests Against Police Brutality
USA Today: ‘Live PD’ says it destroyed video of Javier Ambler II's death during 2019 Texas police stop
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Just one month ago A&E ordered 160 new episodes (!!) of the police reality show “Live P.D.” Today, the network canceled the series.
Dan Abrams / @danabrams: Shocked & beyond disappointed about this. To the loyal #LivePDNation please know I, we, did everything we could to fight for you, and for our continuing effort at transparency in policing. I was convinced the show would go on. . More to come. . .https://deadline.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: @danabrams @lookner How about some transparency in that Austin police killing?
Catherine Garcia / The Week: A&E cancels Live PD as police brutality protests continue across the country
Reid Nakamura / The Wrap: ‘Live P.D.’ Canceled at A&E Amid George Floyd Protests
Jessika Walsten / Multichannel News: A&E Cancels ‘Live PD’
Sean Larkin / @sean_c_larkin: Hey #livepdnation...just want to say THANK YOU for bringing us into your homes every Friday and Saturday night these past few years. You guys were amazing to interact with as we all watched officers perform their duties, live on TV. Be safe everyone. https://deadline.com/...
Brakkton Booker / NPR: A&E's Popular Show ‘Live PD’ Is Canceled Amid Protests Over Police Brutality
David Friend / @dfriend: A&E has pulled the plug on “Live PD” after it was revealed that a camera crew filmed the death of a Black man in custody by Austin law enforcement — and that the video had been destroyed. (Variety) https://variety.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: A&E says goodbye to Live PD. “This is a critical time in our nation's history and we have made the decision to cease production on Live PD.” Network leaves door open a crack for possible return.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This is much more surprising than Paramount canceling “COPS” because “Live P.D.” is a much bigger hit for A&E: https://twitter.com/...
Chris Mastrianni / @mastriannichris: Wow.... this show did some much to help bridge the gap between community relations and law enforcement. I saw it first hand. This show helped officers at @RCSD talk with citizens who would have never spoke to cops before. They saw the person not the badge. This show helped us. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A black Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter says the executive editor's letter defending a decision to prevent her from covering protests was dehumanizing — The executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette defended his paper in a fiery front-page essay Wednesday morning against charges …
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David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Pittsburgh PG executive editor Keith Burris re @alexisjreports: “No fair person could make the case that our actions were race-based. We will not apologize for upholding professional standards in journalism or attempting to eliminate bias.” /MORE https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Keith C. Burris / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Keith C. Burris: Truth, fairness and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Lisa Cunningham / Pittsburgh City Paper: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor's photo with Trump proves own journalistic bias he claims to condemn
@y00lz: Misleading: I doubt there's a “protest beat” at any paper, just like we didn't have coronavirus beats. These huge breaking news situations are abnormal, overwhelming and all-consuming for newsrooms. Pretty much everybody will pitch in to cover the endless cascade of news. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Rogers / @rob_rogers: I am guessing Keith Burris penned his screed about journalistic integrity by the light of his tiki torch. He calls it reason. We call it racism. #IStandWithAlexis #IStandWithMichael #GeorgeFloyd #PittsburghProtests https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: 3/ Burris confirmed tgat 80 Post-Gazette journalists, including Michael Santiago, were also sidelined from covering protests for retweeting @alexisjreports' original offending tweet in solidarity with her. It compares looters to those who trashed area after concert tailgate.
Fleetwood Max / @maxxi_pad: Hasnt the post gazette ownship been forcing the staff to work out of contract for like 3 years? https://twitter.com/...
@daya: .@PittsburghPG as someone who's been interviewed by you for years, it's super sad to see the actions you've taken with @alexisjreports @msantiagophotos & now this “open letter” defending your actions instead of voicing support for your employees when they need it the most. https://twitter.com/...
David Boardman / @dlboardman: This is the same Keith Burris who: 1) On Nov. 9, 2016, called Trump “a Jacksonian hero,” 2) On MLK Day 2018, ran an editorial “Reason as Racism,” defending Trump's “shithole countries” comment, a position so outrageous that members of the publisher's family disavowed it. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: This is the same team that fired the paper's political cartoonist for making fun of the president too much https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sean Gentille / @seangentille: Here's the latest bit of insane bullshit from the PG. It is going to ruin a bunch of peoples' days. “A journalist can be a commentator or a chronicler. He or she cannot be both at the same time”— a man who, literally and simultaneously, runs the editorial page AND newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
@gollypon: fuck your garbage ass paper; the only air of class in your entire company is the gothic font in your logo and the only use you have to the public is giving them something to burn for smores https://twitter.com/...
Ben Montgomery / @gangrey: Stated as fact: “A journalist can be a commentator or a chronicler. He or she cannot be both at the same time.” Really? https://twitter.com/...
@daya: removing your black journalists from coverage of one of the most important civil rights movements in recent history + disciplining your black employees who stood up for them differently than your white ones all contribute to the very systemic racism the world is talking about. https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Curtis / @bryancurtis: Am I reading this right? The executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is accusing the paper's guild and/or his own employees of “defamation?” https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Jay Scott Smith / @jayscottsmith: All the fake morality and elitism that people have grown to hate about Journalism is jam packed into this. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Gentille / @seangentille: Think about this claim. How bizarre! How hilarious! I think “gaslighting” is one of the most overused and inaccurately applied terms in the discourse. That said, this is it. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: This is a giant, steaming pile of poo coming from @PittsburghPG Editor: https://www.post-gazette.com/ ... On re-assigning @alexisjreports: “You can disagree with that ethic, or dismiss it as passe. But you cannot, fairly, call it racism.”
Allie / @alliejoan98: How are they going to talk about journalistic ethics and not even touch on the articles they took down, rewrote, and published under the same headline with no warning to the writers https://twitter.com/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: I read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor's ludicrous me-against-the-newsroom screed today. I did not realize he put it on the front page. https://www.npr.org/... It's a good thing nobody can work in that newsroom right now.
Stephanie Lulay / @slulay2: “We will not apologize for upholding professional standards in journalism or attempting to eliminate bias”😳🙃 What opinion did @alexisjreports reveal by tweeting photos of a Kenny Chesney tailgate?! “Truth, “fairness” &...complete B.S. #IStandWithAlexis https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Matt Moret / @mttmoret: It's almost as if thousands of people - including a U.S. Senator, the Lt. Gov. of the state and the mayor of the city - are reasonable enough to make that exact case, and then Keith Burris told them all to shut up. https://www.post-gazette.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Bound / @brandonbounds_: First off, I just wanna say that the majority of the retweets are with comments, so that's something. Second, there is A LOT to unpack here to the point where it's just easier to say there needs to be a new executive editor. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: 4/ Burris is known in newsroom for calls for civility. Some reporters say that is meant to stifle debate. As editorial page editor, Burris argued Trump's remarks should never be characterized as racist. He called charges of racism “the new McCarthyism.” https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: I only lived in Pittsburgh for 4 years, but the idea that the Post-Gazette has “has devoted more time, words or space to questions of discrimination, race prejudice, or justice” than any other newspaper ever has is beyond belief. https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Mandy Jenkins / @mjenkins: PPG management clearly has not been paying attention to what is going on in its newsroom, industry or city. This is a disgrace. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: My original story on @PittsburghPG, race and protest coverage https://www.npr.org/... Top editor's response below - which justifies handling of black reporter on ethical grounds and sidesteps central tension of disparate treatment of white reporter in near identical circumstance https://twitter.com/...
Brady Langmann / Esquire: Alexis Johnson Isn't Covering Pittsburgh's Protests Right Now. The Reason Is Maddening.
Ryan Deto / @ryandeto: “We assumed the lie was so outrageous that it did not need refutation.” This statement from Burris, even if ignoring all the other bad faith arguments in this piece, is more proof of his inability to understand how media works, which is his most important duty as editor. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Gentille / @seangentille: a great big inevitable turd — because the author and the PG's exec editor and the editorial page boss🚨are the same guy🚨and he thinks “being called racist” is as bad as “being racist.” https://twitter.com/...
Jim Hanson / @jimhansondc: Powerful defense of false charges of racism & actual journalistic ethics Reporters should not opine on stories they “report” & When an organization upholds actual ethics regarding a black person That is NOT racism https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Anna-Lysa Gayle / @annalysagayle: There's a lot going on in this piece. “We did what we did for purely journalistic reasons. And here's the thing:...Every single person leading the propaganda campaign against this newspaper, most of whom work for this newspaper, knows this — absolutely knows this — full well.” https://twitter.com/...
@pittsburghpg: In recent days, the readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been subjected to a great deal of disinformation, including accusations of racism toward management. It's time for the rest of the story. https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Sarah Boden / @sarah_boden: I'm still at a loss...what opinion does Keith Burns think @alexisjreports was voicing in her tweet. He doesn't explain it here. He just accuses her of “strong commentary.” I would like to know EXACTLY what about Johnson's tweet Burns finds so objectionable. https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Colin Dunlap / @colin_dunlap: @seangentille also, if the Block family has such a long and storied history championing civil rights, probably help your cause to point out some. Or even just one.
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Let me be blunt: Keith Buriss has no business running a newsroom, and my old boss John Robinson Block has proven he has no business running a newspaper. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachel C. Abrams / @rachelabramsny: NEW: “They seem to think that racism is only shown by burning crosses.” Staffers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette continue to revolt, while the executive editor calls the criticism “defamation” @marcatracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: In a front-page essay, the Post-Gazette's executive editor said a black reporter was sidelined from covering protests for ethical reasons: “You cannot, fairly, call it racism.” Reporter @alexisjreports is calling for his departure. My story for NPR: https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: 6/ Burris calls charge of racism a “repugnant” union tactic - again, without addressing disparate treatment for white colleague warned about his own tweet using a vulgarity to describe a looting suspect the same day.
@daya: and instead of using your platform to acknowledge that you talk about your white grievances and the “corrosive potency” of the racist label. nah this ain't it @PittsburghPG give alexis and michael their work back https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: 5/ Now, as other newsrooms seek to make amends with black citizens, readers, and colleagues during a period of intense protest over racial justice, and as they stand accused of bias, Pittsburgh PG execs draw line in sand, saying they serve as arbiters of journalistic propriety.
Armando / @armandondk: Lol this is a ridiculous response. I'm embarrassed fir this paper. This guy can't lead that newsroom. He has to go. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: 2/ Burris says Johnson was barred from coverage because her tweet betrayed bias. Does not address case of white colleague warned about tweet disparaging man accused of looting was allowed to keep writing about protests until union pointed out disparity - as NPR reported Monday /
Dejan Kovacevic / @dejan_kovacevic: Uh, no. Not this. Try again tomorrow, Toledo guy, next time with a shred of dignity and maybe even a little respect for the 250-year-old institution you're curiously hellbent on destroying. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Los Angeles County plans to issue guidelines on Thursday for restarting film and TV production; some productions are expected to restart in July and August — Los Angeles County is set to issue its guidelines on Thursday for the restart of film and TV production, allowing filming to resume as soon as Friday.
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Tom Tapp / Deadline: Los Angeles Coronavirus Update: Model Predicts County May Run Out Of ICU Beds In 2-4 Weeks …
Tom Tapp / Deadline: Film And TV Production Can Restart In L.A. On Friday, So Long As Protocols Are In Place …
Tanya Giang / @tanyagiang: I'm so confused how California went from a cautiously, maybe, if science ok's it, looking at July 4th reopening to now resuming schools, gyms, bars, & productions in the middle of spikes in case averages. Honestly don't know how to react to this. What?! How?! https://twitter.com/...
Britt Matt / @dreamundeferred: June 12th?! Y'all do know COVID-19 is still out here right? And that we just had a spike in LA county? Pfft, don't look for me on set. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max temporarily pulls Gone With the Wind, the American classic considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its positive view of slavery — The 1939 film has long been considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its positive view of slavery.
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Mark Harris / Vulture: The Absolutist Case for Problematic Pop Culture
Nick Gillespie / Reason: Should We Stop Streaming Gone With the Wind?
Julia Alexander / The Verge: HBO Max temporarily removes Gone with the Wind because of ‘racist depictions’
Ignacio Esains / CortaCable: El debate sobre HBO Max va más allá del racismo y la censura
Christina Sommers / @chsommers: 1984 “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten...every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeva Lange / The Week: The Gone with the Wind conundrum
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: i like that they don't even bother to get Hattie McDaniel's name right while cynically using her to defend Gone With the Wind https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: I disagree. Censoring is something the state does, seeking to prevent anyone from accessing the work in question. What private parties do is choose not to have a work on their platform, not to associate w/ it—an expression of their values, rightly or wrongly, but not censorship. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: Wow. you would think a journalist might, I dunno, call the company that removed the film to find out why. She would learn they intend to return it to the library “with a discussion of its historical context.” Or she could read CNN's story: https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Kludt / @tomkludt: somewhere, there's a guy preparing to record a live stream while watching Gone with the Wind in his car
@kararbrown: So the problem when you don't have enough diversity in your leadership is you're sort of forced to listen to whatever any Black or person of color says because you don't have anyone qualified to push back. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Kludt / @tomkludt: “Oh, so you want to temporarily remove a racist-ass movie at a time of heightened racial sensitivity? Well, then say good bye to Ferris Bueller's Day Off!” https://twitter.com/...
Jedediah Bila / @jedediahbila: You can't censor our history or the books, TV shows, films that reflect that history. Goes for issues of race, gender, sexuality, everything. Learn from it all, grow from it all. When you know better, do better. Teach your kids about the past to enable them to be better, kinder. https://twitter.com/...
Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher / @tommyxtopher: How long before Trump holds a Gone with the Wind viewing party at the White House with Diamond, Silk, and Ben Carson?
@usatoday: HBO Max has temporarily removed “Gone with the Wind” and plans to include a denouncement of and discussion about the film's racist depictions upon its return. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Peter Wolf / @peterawolf: People who defend and are friends with Nazis shouldn't quote Orwell. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Gisriel / @jimmforce: I have a lot of thoughts about Gone with the wind being taken off HBO Max but basically I read the editorial from John Ridley and I agree with what he said. He made good points about why it should go. Read what he said before talking about film history https://www.latimes.com/...
@wajahatali: For all mourning the loss of their beloved Gone With The Wind on HBO Max & who have a newfound love of Hattie McDaniel, grieve no more! The movie is available on Amazon Prime! You can also download it, rent it & buy it! Now about racism, police brutality, & voter suppression...
Ms.TymberleeChanel / @tymberleehill: Pls educate yourself. Recognize she wasn't allowed to sit Inside the theatre the night she won. & only more stereotypical roles were offered to her after her win. & youll get your racist movie back in a week w/this info. Hattie being acknowledged is what theyre trying to do. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Concha / The Hill: Megyn Kelly roasts HBO for dropping ‘Gone with the Wind’: ‘Where does this end??’
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: The streaming service said it planned to eventually bring the 1939 film back “with a discussion of its historical context.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gay Alcorn / @gay_alcorn: Marvellous piece. John Ridley: Why HBO Max should remove ‘Gone With the Wind’ for now https://www.latimes.com/...
Patricia Sauthoff / @gitagovinda: I recently saw Gone With the Wind with my mom and her cousin. They walked out of there muttering, “wow, that was racist af”. Yup. https://twitter.com/...
Starr Rhett Rocque / Fast Company: HBO Max pulls ‘Gone with the Wind’ for its romanticized depiction of slavery
@latimes: “Gone With the Wind,” when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color, writes John Ridley, Oscar-winning screenwriter of “12 Years A Slave,” for @latimesopinion. https://www.latimes.com/...
James Holland / @james7holland: The desire to censor history is always wrong. Gone With the Wind was made in 1939, and therefore comes with the baggage of that period. You can't wipe that context from our past. The film is actually a reminder of what we had wrong then. Why hide that truth? https://twitter.com/...
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ViacomCBS' Paramount Network pulls the plug on the long-running TV show Cops after protests over the death of George Floyd; old episodes still air on Pluto TV
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: ‘Cops’: Disney In Discussions With Local Stations Dropping The Show About Replacements
Will Thorne / Variety: ‘Cops’ Canceled at Paramount Network
Megyn Kelly / @megynkelly: ‘Live PD’ is consistently one of the highest rated shows on cable. But now it may go away bc even watching a police show is somehow offensive to some. (Secret option #2: if you don't like it, don't watch.) https://deadline.com/...
Nicole Sperling / New York Times: ‘Cops,’ Long-Running Reality Show That Glorified Police, Is Canceled
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone: ‘Live PD’ TV Series Canceled in Wake of Protests Against Police Brutality
Dave Biscobing / @davebiscobing15: With news that ‘Cops’ is cancelled by Paramount Network, now might be a good time to revisit what we caught behind the scenes between the show's producers and Glendale Police's abusive officers. https://www.abc15.com/... https://variety.com/...
Dan Barrett / Always Be Watching: Cops is cancelled. Gone With The Wind yanked.
Rashad Robinson / @rashadrobinson: For 30 years, #COPS has normalized injustice and misrepresented crime, policing and race. But it's far from the only crime TV show to do so. It's time for Paramount's peer networks to take a stand against depictions of the criminal justice system that promote systemic racism. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Expert on blackface says something or other about a tv show. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Coaston / @cjane87: Perhaps with some free time the producers of “Live PD” can hand over the footage of a man dying on camera after repeatedly telling officers he couldn't breathe before they tased him again. https://www.statesman.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Jia / @oliverjia1014: As a film buff and as a history buff, I really don't like the precedent this sets. Pretending history never existed doesn't make it go away. Nor do archaic attitudes that were products of their time take away from the cultural and historical value of works of art. https://twitter.com/...
Travon Free / @travon: Ok, maybe you misunderstood what we were asking for... https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / New York Times: ‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads?
Ariana DeBose / @arianadebose: So we can't acknowledge the triumph that is Hattie McDaniel now? Gone with the Wind is still a part of our history. We cannot erase what was, but viewing a film like this with OPEN eyes- we can certainly learn and help change future story telling. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Feinberg / @scottfeinberg: This is idiotic. We should learn from the past, not pretend it never existed. https://twitter.com/...
Hoai-Tran Bui / /Film: ‘Cops’ Canceled at Paramount Network Amid Global Anti-Police Brutality Protests
Travis Clark / Business Insider: An extensive study breaks down how police TV shows can normalize wrongful actions by their protagonists …
Jasmyne Keimig / The Stranger: Slog PM: City of Seattle Sued for “Unnecessary Violence,” …
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: COPS cancelled after 33 seasons
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett says many of its 260 regional outlets have 10 or fewer news staff and a lot have five or less; The Ithaca Journal in NY has just a single reporter — It's common for the smallest of Gannett's 260 regional outlets to have staffs of five or fewer, the company's top news executive confirmed
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@coreypein: It seems to me that in a local news operation with 1-5 editorial staff, and owners thousands of miles away, the journalists could simply decide to walk out the door one day and take most of their readers with them.
@coreypein: They'd need a press, and distribution, and a revenue model, of course. But that's all doable. The barrier to achieving this kind of journalistic independence seems to be as much psychological as it is monetary. The power of the paycheck to instill discipline is remarkable.
@coreypein: @AlexYablon Yeah I don't have real answers on the revenue side but when I see giant corporations passing the hat like any schlub on Patreon I think this must be achievable.
Asher Moses / @ashermoses: The rise of “ghost newspapers” - regional papers which might have little to no local staff covering barely any local news. “This is how newspapers die” https://www.poynter.org/...
Howard Altman / @haltman: The Ithaca Journal now has a smaller staff than the sports section I ran as sports editor of The Ithacan at Ithaca College. Freedom of the press isn't free https://twitter.com/...
Corey Pein / @coreypein: I actually see some reason for hope in this story about the skeleton crews left to run local newsrooms that are owned by corporate conglomerates. https://www.poynter.org/...
Tim Morris / @tmorris504: “The Ithaca Journal now has no locally based editor or publisher and just a single reporter. Ithaca has 30,000 residents and another 30,000 students at Cornell University and Ithaca College (each with a robust student news organization).” https://www.poynter.org/...
Rick Edmonds / @rickedmonds: A bad case of the small-market blues: Gannett's daily Ithaca Journal is down to one locally-based reporter. Two well-staffed college outlets are filling some of the news gap. https://www.poynter.org/...
Jeff Selingo / @jselingo: I got my professional start at @ithacajournal in 1995 when it was an afternoon newspaper with a robust staff. This is just one example of the death of local journalism and ironically an underreported story. https://www.poynter.org/...
Becky Metrick / @beckymetrick: To my Chambersburg/Franklin County followers... this may explain some things. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Stevens / @stuartpstevens: This is a green light to every crooked politician to steal from taxpayers. No local news is a super accelerant for corruption. https://twitter.com/...
Anna / @alittlelamb8: I'm honestly just disappointed by this story. It doesn't accurately depict the news environment in Ithaca. At the @ithacavoice and @ithacatimes we work pretty hard to bring stories to people. Do your due diligence @RickEdmonds https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / @nickatnews: So so sad. I've read lots of @ithacajournal articles from the '90s. Reading those vs. the current newspaper makes you realize just how much is missed. Grateful for @cornellsun @ithacavoice @ithacatimes @IthacanOnline but they can't do it all either. https://www.poynter.org/...
ReporterMcCabe / @neilwmccabe2: Well, people are getting their information from somewhere else. People need news and they find it. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Recording Academy tweaks rules to remove “urban” from some Grammy Awards categories but adds it to another, promises to make necessary adjustments in the future — The Recording Academy announced a series of updates for its 2021 awards, including eligibility rules for best …
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Jem Aswad / Variety: Recording Academy Chief Harvey Mason Jr. on Social Change and What the 2021 Grammys Might Look Like
Jem Aswad / Variety: Grammy Awards to Drop ‘Urban’ Term
Ben Sisario / @sisario: Headlines that Grammys have killed “urban” are misleading. They dropped it here, added there. Awkward timing as changes were decided weeks ago, but complaint has been around a looong time. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Grammys drop ‘Urban’ from R&B category amongst new rules that ‘reflect the current state of the music industry.’
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Publishers using Google AdSense say they are being penalized by Google's Confirmed Clicks, which, sources say, can reduce programmatic ad revenue by 40-60% — Publishers are once again caught in the crosshairs of Google's quest to clean up the open web. — Over the last six months …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
In conservative media's alternative universe, rioters are still prowling America's biggest cities, Minneapolis is still burning, and the unrest is getting worse — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
Discussion:
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: Seriously. We will have no America anymore unless we do something about the alternative reality of FOX & RW media. Because this is now 100% propaganda. Wonder if FOX broadcasters ever read about what happened to those media owners in Rwanda? https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: If you're the sentimental sort, and you still think Fox is a NEWS network, read the @ReliableSources newsletter today. It describes how Fox is producer of an artifical present where the rioting is still happening, including misleading use of old footage. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Watch Fox News for a few hours, and you might think rioters are still prowling America's cities, smashing windows and stealing handbags. You might think Minneapolis is still burning and the unrest is getting worse. The coverage is deeply misleading >> https://www.cnn.com/...
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