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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources detail a history of insensitive and racist comments by Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News exec who has now been placed on administrative leave — Sources say Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News executive, has an extensive history of insensitive comments.
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NABJ Headquarters / @nabj: #NABJ calls for @ABC News/@Disney to immediately launch a transparent, external investigation led by a diverse law firm to examine all of the allegations detailed in @yashar's report, while conducting a thorough review of ABC News Exec Barbara Fedida and the talent dept. https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: 1. EXCLUSIVE: For the past six months I've been investigating a very powerful media executive you've never heard of: ABC News head of talent Barbara Fedida. What I uncovered is confidential settlements, racist and inappropriate statements, and more... https://www.huffpost.com/...
Shermichael Singleton / @shermichael_: Reading this makes me wonder how many Barbara Fedida's are at other news organizations? News orgs can no longer say they want diversity, they need to prove it. Hire more black journalists, tv commentators & more internships for black students. Your actions show what you value. https://twitter.com/...
Dorothy Tucker / @dorothy4nabj: To Black @ABC employees, we got your back. We need to hear from you. Please share your experiences. NABJalerts@gmail.com https://twitter.com/...
Deesha / @deeshadyer: Well. Fedida oversaw D&I efforts. Per the report, Fedida allegedly “actively sabotaged diversity efforts” after black ABC staffers noted that a planned 2016 town hall event with then-President Barack Obama that focused on race relations featured an all-white planning committee" https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: ‘GMA’ anchors side with Robin Roberts while addressing ABC exec controversy
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: The most disturbing part about this investigation isn't that a news executive repeatedly made racist comments. Quite frankly that doesn't surprise me at all. It's that that same executive was over the network's diversity & inclusion efforts. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Chuck D / @mrchuckd: Now starts the combing out of abusive corporate execs ... and those secret boardroom meetings. I've been saying for years it ALL starts there... a virtual torch to Viacom would unveil a lot of ‘roaches’ ....truss it https://twitter.com/...
Alex Burns / @alexburnsnyt: ABC News did good, tough reporting on Mike Bloomberg NDAs as a political issue during the 2020 campaign — not sure how ABC corporate can justify keeping journalists gagged with comparable legal devices https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: I guarantee there are *loads* of people who work at @ABC who would love nothing more than to retweet this but are afraid of what will happen to them if they do. So I'm just gonna retweet it again for them. (Correcting earlier tweet in which I mistakenly tagged a different outlet) https://twitter.com/...
Jami Seymore / @jamiseymore: Wow. Give this one a read. Excellent reporting by @yashar https://twitter.com/...
Don Champion / @donchampiontv: I'd love to see you all offer legal and support services for black journalists who encounter discrimination. The problem is that big. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: This is an interesting read. Reminds me of the cnn exec who told me: “Roland Martin isn't the ‘right kind of’ Black person.” She didn't want me to book him on my show. L https://twitter.com/...
Kimberly Adams / @kareports: This thread... wow. As others have suggested, now would be a great time for allies to demand their news orgs or other companies release BIPOC from the NDAs they signed on the way out. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: This is a powerful thread and even more powerful story. As a person of color who occasionally works in TV, you often wonder if the people in charge of so-called “diversity initiatives” actually care about the issue. This sounds like a worst-case scenario in that regard. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: The National Association of Black Journalists, where I co-chair the Media Monitoring Committee, has demanded ABC conduct, transparent, independent investigation into allegations of abuse and racism contained in a recent Huffington Post report. https://twitter.com/...
@rolandsmartin: If anyone wants to know why I never got a show at @CNN, despite having successful specials ratings wise, just look at this @soledadobrien tweet: https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: ABC News probes claims executive made racist comments about black staff
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: Since @yashar is the source on this and the one who gets to determine for the rest of media lemmings/morons what is “racist” or “inappropriate,” I automatically presume this story is at least partly PC bullshit... probably worse. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Fung / @lfung: 'As part of her role at ABC, she oversees the network's diversity and inclusion efforts.' Yikes! @yashar spoke with 34 sources for this story on a powerful @ABC exec with an extensive history of insensitive comments + more than a dozen HR complaints https://www.huffpost.com/...
Julin Castro / @juliancastro: The allegations in this bombshell report highlight rampant discrimination and mistreatment by an ABC executive. In an industry already famous for its lack of diversity, this should serve as one more wake up call for all media companies. https://www.huffpost.com/...
@wajahatali: After reading this the question is how did she still have this job? How does she still have the job? Why? https://twitter.com/...
Ameshia Cross / @ameshiacross: Read it y'all. Just read it 👇🏾 https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Damning portrait of top official at ABC News from @yashar https://twitter.com/...
Yvette Nicole Brown / @ynb: Haven't I been saying that folks are tired & starting to speak up about the horrible treatment they've endured?! This is just the beginning. And that should only be scary to the horrible, wretched & the racist. Everybody else, y'all good! 😘 #unMUTEny #Everyday #WeSeeYou https://twitter.com/...
@itsgabrielleu: Calling a Black woman, who talks often abt being raised in public housing, who went on to be a federal prosecutor, & then a beloved panelist on The View “low rent” is racist & elitist. Fact that none of these claims are new lets u know how much they value diversity & inclusion. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Roginsky / @julieroginsky: It's fascinating that so many news organizations, which are ostensibly dedicated to investigative journalism predicated on transparency, are so willing to cover up their own wrongdoing though the use of NDAs. @LiftOurVoicesUS https://twitter.com/...
Gretchen Carlson / @gretchencarlson: For all journalists who risked their jobs by having courage to tell their stories thank you. For all of u who didn't get hired b/c @ABC was fearful these kinds of stories could come to light — there may be a chance now! The more we all speak up together the more power we have. https://twitter.com/...
@aprildryan: “Sources say a senior ABC News executive has an extensive history of insensitive comments” This expose about a top ABC News executive using offensive racially-insensitive comments has sent shockwaves through the media industry today. https://www.huffpost.com/... #ABCNews #NABJ
@slpng_giants: Hope this isn't one of those “internal investigations” that magically disappears in a month. https://twitter.com/...
Tre Ward / @trewardwbal: A stunning investigation into a top ABC executive with an alleged history of racial and insensitive comments — https://twitter.com/...
Rachel / @rachelnoerd: Story reveals why leading news correspondent @marascampo abruptly stopped appearing on GMA in 2017. According to the report, Schiavocampo was fired in retaliation for leading diversity efforts at ABC News. The 4-time Emmy Award winning journalist has never spoken about it b4 https://twitter.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: ABC News has spent millions of dollars on settlements, including at least one re: racial discrimination, to defend the executive who oversees its diversity efforts. She has been the subject of more than a dozen HR complaints and a 2016 investigation. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Janice Dean / @janicedean: It's unbelievable that this woman was in power for so long at @ABCNetwork. Good for @yashar for exposing this. https://www.huffpost.com/...
@itsgabrielleu: The amount of secret settlements & HR complaints against folks like this that are made is astonishing and nothing happens. Quite the opposite, these folks are protected & promoted. https://twitter.com/...
Don Champion / @donchampiontv: How many other media execs have years and years of complaints against them and are still in power? I certainly can name a few. Fedida is one among many. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Seales / @amandaseales: All these truths coming out! Glad y'all gonna see what goes on behind the scenes. https://twitter.com/...
@itsgabrielleu: And this from the person in charge of diversity and inclusion efforts!? 👀 This is SO common. So damn common. How many careers and lives must be affected before these folks are shown the door? https://twitter.com/...
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: Wow, this thread. Racism in the corporate media world. https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 3. Fedida has a history of making insensitive, inappropriate, and at times racist remarks. She referred to Sunny Hostin, a black former federal prosecutor and current co-host of the View and an ABC News legal analyst, as “low rent.” https://www.huffpost.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 2. In the midst of fraught contract negotiations with GMA co-anchor @RobinRoberts, Fedida, according to three sources, said in a meeting: what more does Robin want? It's not like we're asking her to “pick cotton.” https://www.huffpost.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: ABC News: “There are deeply disturbing allegations in this story that we need to investigate, and we have placed Barbara Fedida on administrative leave while we conduct a thorough and complete investigation...” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “She's now been placed on administrative leave while the network investigates” https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: ABC News exec put on leave over comments about Robin Roberts, other Black colleagues
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, racist statements
Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: ABC News Exec Placed on Administrative Leave Over Insensitive Comments
Dean Balsamini / New York Post: ABC News exec placed on leave amid conduct probe
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: ABC News Talent Chief Barbara Fedida Placed on Administrative Leave Over Report Alleging Use …
Ted Johnson / Deadline: ABC News Senior Vice President Barbara Fedida Placed On Leave As Network Investigates Claims …
Matt Taibbi / Reporting:
US media has devolved into a succession of moral manias and is destroying itself with internal uprisings about staffers' “politically problematic” decisions — Sometimes it seems life can't get any worse in this country. Already in terror of a pandemic, Americans have lately …
Discussion:
New York Magazine, @olivianuzzi, @nachristakis, @andreasshrugged, @sbkaufman, @iyervval, The French Press, @james7holland, @drjohnm, @jgunlock, @jodieemery, @jonhaidt, @anavrta, @clausvistesen, @davereaboi, @hkanji, @whotown, @intelligencer, @robinhanson, @robkhenderson, @yudapearl, @ianfelipesays, @goodwinmj, @pegobry, @mtaibbi, @mehdirhasan, @greenfield64, @ryanlcooper, @olivianuzzi, @ryanlcooper, @mehdirhasan, @mtracey, @dtortorici, @ryanlcooper and @mattyglesias
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine: Is There Still Room for Debate?
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: “...instead of hearing what our differences are and how we might address those issues, newspaper readers will instead be presented with page after page of people professing to agree with one another. That's not agitation, that's misinformation.” — @mtaibbi https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis: “Eight news organizations dealt with internal uprisings. Most involved groups of reporters and staffers demanding the firing or reprimand of colleagues who'd made politically “problematic” editorial or social media decisions.” https://taibbi.substack.com/ ... via @mtaibb #AmericanMaoism
Andreas Backhaus / @andreasshrugged: 'Our brave truth-tellers make great shows of shaking fists at our parody president, but not one of them will talk honestly about the fear running through their newsrooms. People depend on us to tell them what we see, not what we think. What good are we if we're afraid to do it?' https://twitter.com/...
Scott Barry Kaufman / @sbkaufman: “Liberalism is not just a set of rules. There's a spirit to it... A spirit that seeks not to impose orthodoxy but to open up the possibilities of the human mind and soul.” https://nymag.com/... Very thought-provoking piece by @sullydish. https://twitter.com/...
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra / @iyervval: 2n the 2nd is by @mtaibbi eviscerating the highly intolerant & intimidating environment in newsrooms today. All up both pieces argue that what we are seeing is a Neo-Maoist revival of the #CulturalRevolution complete with its extrajudicial excesses https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
David French / The French Press: God Save America from Fearful Christians
James Holland / @james7holland: This is required reading. @mtaibbi on what is going wrong in our news media. This is about the US, but we are seeing some of the same things develop in the U.K. Let's hope British editors cope much better than their American colleagues have. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
John Mandrola / @drjohnm: I'm fearful to RT this. But here goes. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Gunlock / @jgunlock: Another good reminder to limit ones time here. I've recently done that and it's made a difference to my mental wellbeing. Beautiful passage. https://twitter.com/...
Jodie Emery / @jodieemery: True. “The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation.” https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Jonathan Haidt / @jonhaidt: I have been away from Twitter for a while because of its intensifying nastiness. But I must share this essay by @sullydish, which lays out a vision of a liberal society, and explains how Twitter and current moral passions are pushing us away from it. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ani / @anavrta: President Donald Trump is a clown who...seems determined to talk us into civil war. On the other... it feels liberating to say...the American left has lost its mind. It's become a cowardly mob of upper-class SM Addicts snd Twitter Robespierres. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Claus Vistesen / @clausvistesen: A fine piece by Taibbi about the madness currently scouring the halls of journalism, and many other institutions. https://taibbi.substack.com/ .... 1/2
David Reaboi / @davereaboi: Finally read this Taibbi piece that's getting a lot of praise. Eh, it's not terrible. But there isn't a tiny fraction of me that cares about any of these people or their livelihoods. It's just enemies eating each other. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Hussein Kanji / @hkanji: They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it's established now that anything can be an offense https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Susan Kirschbaum / @whotown: I left #journalism albeit trend journalism awhile ago. If you've read #Whotown, like Sarah Rosen, I often felt nudged to “color stories” per editors' proclivities. I agree with this article. “R.I.P. the media as we know it.” cc: @seanonolennon https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
@intelligencer: America is in a revolutionary moment. Being able to question ideology is more important than ever, writes @sullydish https://nymag.com/...
Robin Hanson / @robinhanson: “There is more dogmatism in this ideology than in most of contemporary American Catholicism. And more intolerance. Question any significant part of this, and your moral integrity as a human being is called into question.” https://nymag.com/...
Rob Henderson / @robkhenderson: “The media in the last 4 years has devolved into a succession of moral manias. We are told the Most Important Thing Ever is happening for days or weeks at a time, until subjects are abruptly dropped and forgotten, but the tone of warlike emergency remains” https://taibbi.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@yudapearl: I've found this new article https://taibbi.substack.com/ ... to provide the most thoughtful narrative of the destruction of American news media and, by implication, the destruction of academia as well. I'm still optimistic, knowing that people with no salary to protect WILL speak up.
Ian Hilgart-Martiszus / @ianfelipesays: This is a great and really long article that everyone should read. The part about the data scientist who was fired for retweeting data hit a little too close to home. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Goodwin / @goodwinmj: “The news media is destroying itself” - this is a disturbing read on the revolts taking place in US media “In a business where the first job requirement was the willingness to ask tough questions, we've become afraid to ask obvious ones” https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: “Writers and editors will shape views to avoid upsetting colleagues... Instead of hearing differences, newspaper readers will be presented with page after page of people professing to agree with one another. That's not agitation, that's misinformation.” https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Pro-tip: don't rely on the Washington Free Beacon to make your argument that a professor was investigated for reading a letter by MLK when in actuality fact he was investigated for repeatedly and defiantly using the N-word.
Jeff Greenfield / @greenfield64: I hesitated before linking to this piece by Matt Taibbi. The fact that I hesitated was what convinced me to post it. I urge every journalist to read it... https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: the global pandemic of Tendentious Contrarian Brain has claimed all too many
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: I encourage everyone to read the entirety of @mtaibbi's column. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: who else didn't read the op-ed in question. it was somebody important... it'll come to me... https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Deeply disingenuous piece which cuts so many corners to make its argument about free speech and woke mobs. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: All @mtaibbi is saying here is what is privately said among journalists all the time, in DMs and over drinks, but never in public for fear of professional retribution. Virtually no journalist who draws a salary from a left/liberal outlet will take the risk https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Dayna Tortorici / @dtortorici: This, to me, is an excellent example of what it looks like when you confuse correlation with causation https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I am of slightly too minds about this stuff because I think most of the people raising the alarms are being a bit overly dramatic and “destroying itself” certainly fits that mold. But if you just dial it all down by 20% this is right on. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
US news media is changing because boundaries around acceptable national discourse are shifting, and media has always taken part in enforcing and contesting them — The media has gone through painful periods of change before. But this time is different. — In January 1939 …
Discussion:
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: Today, Black Lives Matter is closer to consensus, abolishing prisons is a debate, and there's a fight to classify Cotton's proposal to deploy troops against US citizens as deviant. The idea space is just as large as it's been in the past — perhaps larger — but it is in flux.
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: Those boundaries, thankfully, change over time. They're changing now. BUT: that doesn't mean they narrow. It means they shift. Ideas that were dismissed two decades ago become legitimate. Ideas that were championed two decades ago become abhorrent.
Ben Whitelaw / @benwhitelaw: “A lack of alternative routes to audience allowed news organisations to justify publishing unmediated agendas without considering the wider influence of the pieces, or their implied endorsement of those views. ” On NYT/Tom Cotton fallout by @emilybell https://www.cjr.org/...
David Greenberg / Politico: The New York Times Used to Be a Model of Diverse Opinion. What Happened?
Clay Travis / @claytravis: Good read here ripping @nytimes in @nytimes over Tom Cotton editorial decision. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: Bret Stephens, who literally called the managers of people who dared disagree with him in public, complains about “a spirit of ferocious intellectual intolerance sweeping the country and much of the journalistic establishment with it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@spj_tweets: In 1986, the media historian Daniel Hallin argued that journalists treat ideas as belonging to 3 spheres, each of which is governed by different rules of coverage: the sphere of consensus, the sphere of deviance and the sphere of legitimate controversy. https://www.vox.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: There's a bunch of social, economic, and demographic reasons behind the way things are changing right now, and I try to track them here. And the contest is more public than it's been in the past. But we've never had a static idea space. This isn't new. https://www.vox.com/...
Andrew Rosenthal / @andyrnyt: The white supremacists have been heard loud and clear Bret. It's not that people are too shallow to hear it or to understand it. They are rejecting it. Tom Cotton can say this loudly and slowly for us dim witted liberals. It will still be racist garbage. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meena Thiruvengadam / @meena_thiru: They're also unevenly enforced and not updated or shared with staff nearly often enough. https://twitter.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: Two decades ago, an article like Cotton's could easily be published, an essay arguing for abolishing prisons or police would languish in the submissions pile, and “Black Lives Matter” would be covered as controversial.
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: The point I use it for in the piece is: There have always been boundaries around acceptable discourse, and the media has always been involved, in a complex and often unacknowledged way, in both enforcing and contesting them.
Josh Hammer / @josh_hammer: “What kind of paper will The Times be if half the nation doesn't get to be even an occasional part of that conversation?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@niemanreports: “The media prefers to change in private. Now it's changing in public.” The American media has gone through painful periods of change before. But this time is different. https://www.vox.com/...
Emily Jashinsky / @emilyjashinsky: A few good takes from very different thinkers on what's happening in media right now: @ezraklein: https://www.vox.com/... @DamonLinker: https://theweek.com/... @andrewschulz and @joerogan at the 1:10:00 mark https://www.youtube.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: Some global lessons here. Particularly this: “Media and cultural power runs 10 years ahead of demography, and political power 10 years behind.” https://www.vox.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: “The news media likes to pretend that it simply holds up a mirror to America as it is. We don't want to be seen as actors crafting the political debate...[shaping] the boundaries of the national discourse. We are, of course. We always have been.” https://www.vox.com/...
Dan Froomkin / Salon:
NYT's op-ed page should be radically transparent: establish public standards for accuracy, good faith, and pertinence, and explain and contextualize exceptions
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New York Times, @nielslesniewski, @charlesmurray, @dgardner, @jeffjarvis, @drewholden360, @carloslozadawp, @seungminkim, @alfonslopeztena, @lionelbarber, @nickkristof, @fenitn, @sarahellison, @pwolodarski, @joenbc, Washington Post, @seantrende, @seantrende, @katiekings, @rosiegray, @cleoabram, @froomkin, @ebruenig, @katiekings, @ashleyfeinberg, @ashleyfeinberg, @jaycosttws, @froomkin, @sulliview, @emilybell, @seantrende, @karaswisher, New York Times, @spj_tweets and CNN
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Roger Cohen / New York Times: The Outcry Over ‘Both Sides’ Journalism
Niels Lesniewski / @nielslesniewski: Seung Min and I are the same age (she's a couple weeks older), our professional lives have run in parallel, and she has always been the best. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Murray / @charlesmurray: I was so impressed with James Bennet after a single meeting that it kept my hopes for the NYT alive. Until it couldn't. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gardner / @dgardner: “Objectivity” vs. “moral clarity” is a horribly flawed way to frame the debate within journalism. “Objectivity” is impossible, thus the label is misleading. And “moral clarity” stigmatizes and marginalizes contrary views — which is why it was so popular among neo-cons c.2003. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: A roundup of the protests, not of all the problems: Ignited by public protests, American newsrooms are having their own racial reckoning https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Drew Holden / @drewholden360: The message to opinion editors should be abundantly clear: it doesn't matter how good and kind and honorable you are. If you give in to the mob, eventually it'll be your head on a pike. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: Huh. If the debate newsrooms are having is between “one truth” and “both sides,” we lose either way. It's like a choice of dogmatism or laziness. Truth is not about positioning; it's about discovery. And if you see only two sides on any issue, look harder. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: +1. So often, other journalists have insinuated/outright said I have only gotten to where I am bc I am both a racial minority and a woman. I have worked so hard to try and prove them wrong. It's only been in the last few years I've felt I finally earned my career bc of my skills. https://twitter.com/...
Alfons Lpez Tena / @alfonslopeztena: “A place of moral clarity” can easily mean there is only one truth. The liberal idea that freedom is served by open debate, even with people holding repugnant views, is worth defending. If conformity wins, democracy dies. By @NYTimesCohen https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lionel Barber / @lionelbarber: Great piece of thoughtful writing on the Cotton controversy from one of the very best foreign correspondents/ commentators @NYTimesCohen : “I still believe in ‘Both Sides’ Journalism” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Glad my @nytopinion colleague @NYTimesCohen included in his column today a tribute to James Bennet, @jbennet: “a man of exceptional honor and decency, humanity and sensitivity... “journalistic integrity” personified.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fenit Nirappil / @fenitn: For far too long, people of color in newsrooms have had to work twice as hard to prove themselves and have been ignored or sidelined. It hurts our journalism and corrodes audience trust. This reckoning is overdue https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: “I told my father I was probably going to get kicked out of the Times for speaking out. And my father said, ‘So be it. You said the right thing.’ ” @WajahatAli told me. Latest, with @farhip and @ElaheIzadi https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Peter Wolodarski / @pwolodarski: “If I have always been skeptical of objectivity I have always believed in fairness.That is to say, in the attempt to speak to people on both sides of a question, to report your way to some approximation of the truth by filtering diverse views"@NYTimesCohen https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Scarborough / @joenbc: “The Times of my youth aspired to be nonpartisan, while the editorial page was liberal. But our news pages have become more ideological, oriented toward the perceived truths of the successor ideology.” ~@DouthatNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Washington Post: Ignited by public protests, American newsrooms are having their own racial reckoning
Sean T At Rcp / @seantrende: What this really is, though, is the internet coming full circle. In the early aughts, the promise of the blogosphere was the democratization of discourse. One of the early books—a really good one!—was explicitly premised on destroying gatekeeping. 20/ https://www.amazon.com/...
Sean T At Rcp / @seantrende: So it's just sort of weird to see people trying to re-build the gates now, in a form that in so many ways reflects what stood before. Weird, sort of depressing, but I suppose not in the least bit surprising. 23/23
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: Finally, we owe a thanks to you, our readers, for adding your views on the Cotton Op-Ed and its fallout, and I encourage you to keep writing in. I look forward to more conversation and collaboration as we move ahead. (5/5) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: Does the Times plan to, at any point, stop publishing content about the Tom Cotton op-ed, or is it just stuck like this https://twitter.com/...
Cleo Constantine Abram / @cleoabram: 👋 one of that “young generation of journalists” here. what else should I read about news media shifts + media history? (looking for other articles like this from @ezraklein, books like @superwuster's Attention Merchants, podcasts...) https://www.vox.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Not a lot of substance here from @katiekings, the new editorial page editor of the NYT. But an admirable commitment to conversation and collaboration with readers going forward. Here's what I think they should do, btw: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Bruenig / @ebruenig: Some of our marquee writers wrote and spoke on what happened regarding the publication of Sen. Tom Cotton's op-ed last week. You can find their commentaries, and some notes about the future of the section, here: https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: If you'll indulge me a thread: We've spent a lot of time talking about what we stand for in @nytopinion following our publication last week of Tom Cotton's Op-Ed. (1/x) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: if there's one thing i love, it's elevating conversations worth having to inform what discourse looks like in a polarized world https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: new york times start using words that have any sort of meaning whatsoever challenge
@jaycosttws: Good thread from Sean on what is often called the “second face of power.” https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Press Watch is up @Salon! Can the New York Times opinion section heal itself? Yes — it can even lead the way https://www.salon.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Thoughtful and provocative https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Provoked by some of the journalistic eruptions of this week, I wrote about how social media policies are either absent, out of date, or not giving reporters what they need ...(or ignored. ) Maybe think of them instead as editorial policy https://www.cjr.org/...
Sean T At Rcp / @seantrende: Long-ish thread here. This @ezraklein piece is interesting, if only because of what it tells us about how the media is biased. This bias isn't the aggressively anti-conservative bias of right-wing fever dreams, and isn't ideological as such. 1/ https://www.vox.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Read @ezraklein: The New York Times's Tom Cotton debacle, and the media's new reality - Vox https://www.vox.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / New York Times: Our Writers' Responses to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Fox News website published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, removed them after inquiries — Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) …
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Jim Brunner / @jim_brunner: NEW: Fox News ran digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle's protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone #CHAZ https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... via @seattletimes
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Fox News Takes Down Altered, Misleading Photos from Reports on Seattle Protests
Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom: Today Fox News ran this photoshopped image on their home page. They used digital editing to insert the man with the gun into the Free Cap Hill image. I cannot stress enough what a severe violation of journalistic ethics this is. @JimBrunner has the story. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Fox News ran unethically edited pictures that make Seattle protests look more violent https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Neal Colgrass / Newser: Fox News Pulls Doctored Pics of Seattle ‘Zone’
@raeloverde: F*X NEWS LIED ABOUT PROTEST COVERAGE????? THE S H O C K THE ABSOLUTE SHOCK I TELL YOU https://twitter.com/...
Sydney Cromwell / @syd_cromwell: In journalism school, I was taught that so much as editing a lamppost out of an image to make it look a little nicer is unethical. This is unconscionable manipulation and outright lying. https://twitter.com/...
Ragnar Weilandt / @ragnarweilandt: Fox News inserts gunmen into photos in their coverage of Seattle's protests https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Mark Pocan / @markpocan: So Faux News viewers, what you got to say? (Normal people, this should be good) https://twitter.com/...
Michaela Mulligan / @michaelarm97: And this is why media literacy should be thought in schools https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Last Saturday, Fox News was apologizing for their on-air graphic correlating the stock market's performance with the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd, Martin Luther King Jr. and Michael Brown https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: They tried to make him look more “Jewish” because anti-semitism. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Joseph Stern / @mjs_dc: Fox News, a totally normal and respectable media outlet, digitally manipulated photos of Seattle's “autonomous zone” by photoshopping in a gunman. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Fox News removes altered images from Seattle protest
@heathervescent: Deception mass media style. Take a kernel of truth, roll it in a thick coating of deception and post it on your news site. This is not reporting, this is domestic #infowar - against Americans by an American corporation. Treachery. Betrayal. ht @GlenHiemstra & @davidmryder https://twitter.com/...
Frank Bajak / @fbajak: Doctoring images - like fabricating quotes - is what gets people fired in journalism. https://twitter.com/...
@westwingreport: 1) News organizations often make honest (stupid but honest) mistakes - like running the wrong b-roll 2) Fox does dishonest things - deliberately - like going out of its way to digitally alter video https://twitter.com/...
Kaz Weida / @kazweida: My sister who lives in Tacoma but works in Seattle had to reassure my parents who watch Fox News that she was not in mortal danger. We need to push Fox News for a retraction of this coverage and an apology for misleading the public. This is not acceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: The 'shopped images appear to be trying to bolster collapsed narratives about extortion and permanently posted armed sentries https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: Fox News will not be held accountable for propaganda as usual. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Fox News runs digitally altered images to make the CHAZ look more ominous — including using a photo from Minnesota two weeks earlier — then offers inaccurate correction https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: Fox's site had no disclaimers revealing the photos had been manipulated. The network removed the images after inquiries from The Seattle Times. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... via @seattletimes
Simon Rosenberg / @simonwdc: Read this story. Fox News caught doctoring images to exaggerate violence at protests. Even for Fox this is unbelievable stuff. https://twitter.com/...
@seattletimes: As part of a package of stories about Seattle's CHAZ, Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: People use the term “the media” in a way that somehow excludes incredibly popular and influential conservative media outlets, but it continues to be the case that this is where the biggest problems with the media are. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: No seriously. We've GOT to do something about the fire hose of lied, or we won't ever survive as America. https://twitter.com/...
Reid Wilson / @politicsreid: Fox News so desperate to portray my home town in a bad light that they're mashing up photos to suggest Seattle is occupied by Gun-toting looters. What an embarrassment - https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones: Fox News Is Losing It Over Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Colin Birge / Shrewsbury Tech: Being our best selves
Jordan Moreau / Variety: Fox News Removes Altered Photo of Seattle Protests From Website
Marty Johnson / The Hill: Photojournalist experts criticize Fox News for altering images of protests in Seattle
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Yikes. The Seattle Times asked Fox News about the misleading images on its homepage. Per the Seattle Times, Fox then proceeded to provide a statement to the paper with inaccurate information. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “I think it's disgraceful propaganda and terribly misrepresentative of documentary journalism in times like this, when truth-telling and accountability is so important,” one photojournalism ethics expert said of the manipulated images on Fox's homepage. https://twitter.com/...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Fox News Used Digitally Altered Photos in Coverage of Seattle Protests and ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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Hugh Langley / @hughlangley: The internal drama at Quibi continues to be far more gripping than anything on Quibi https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Tensions at the top of Quibi between founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were once so bad she threatened to quit. Now their uneasy partnership is being put to the test. Great yarn from @BenMullin https://www.wsj.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Quibi is burning a truly heroic amount of cash. It raised $1.75 billion from investors, expects to have spent *a billion* of it by *October* and will need to raise at least $200 million more by the middle of next year to keep going. https://www.wsj.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: Qwibby is Color, Clinkle and WeWork and probably a few other failures all wrapped up into one https://www.wsj.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: “Its success hinges, in part, on whether the duo at the top can overcome their sometimes clashing styles and leverage their more than 80 years of combined business experience.” Mmmmm.... I dunno, does it? https://www.wsj.com/...
Sparrow Advisers / Sparrow One: The Quibi that could have been — “We're a startup” Meg Whitman …
Alison Weissbrot / AdExchanger: What Quibi Has Gotten Right And Wrong So Far
Voice of America:
Internal docs: CDC's media relations office was instructed to refuse interview requests from VOA, citing WH tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda — We were shocked to read the internal CDC documents instructing the agency's media relations office to refuse media requests from …
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Amanda Bennett / @abennett: We expect this in the countries we broadcast to that don't have a free press, not here. #afreepressmatters @VOANews https://twitter.com/...
PropOrNot ID / @propornot: People just assume that Voice of America is “state-controlled media” because, like NPR, it's supported by public funding, but Trump is actually really mad at VOA for factually reporting on things that made him look bad... Just like he's mad at the rest of actual journalism ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Mia Farrow / @miafarrow: This is outrageous. The CDC is instructed to refuse media requests from “anyone associated with Voice of America,” citing ridiculous Trump tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda. The CDC is now an arm of Trump. https://www.insidevoa.com/...
Tetch Torres-Tupas / Philippine Daily Inquirer:
A court in Manila finds Rappler CEO Maria Ressa guilty of “cyber libel”, along with former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. — MANILA, Philippines - Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa has found Rappler's Executive Editor and CEO Maria Ressa …
CNN:
The open hostility that journalists faced during the protests is the result of a years-long systematic propaganda campaign that has roots in authoritarianism — Stelter: Appalling targeting of reporters covering the story — Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion …
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “What we are seeing now... with so many journalists assaulted and even being placed under arrest so they look to the public like the criminals Trump suggests they are, is the result of five years' exposure to a highly effective propaganda campaign.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
As a movement swells toward police reform across the nation, journalists should reevaluate their characterizations of protester and police behavior — In the two and a half weeks since George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, was killed in police custody, the US has entered its most sustained evaluation of law enforcement in years.
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@cjr: New from @Jon_Allsop: The press must keep the spotlight on police reform efforts and not let lawmakers wane (like with, say, gun reform). We must also reevaluate how we cover policing and whose accounts we believe. https://www.cjr.org/...
Monika Bauerlein / @monikabauerlein: And likewise you should read Jon's piece, and follow its links to lots more detail about the more toxic aspects of press coverage of policing. https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Rome / @jimrome: .@NateBoyer37 on the death of George Floyd, why kneeling players are patriotic, the American Dream vs. the American Nightmare, police reform, and why he's so inspired by the protests. LISTEN: https://www.jimrome.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ali Ingersoll / @ali_ingnews: I wrote about the relationship between the press and police for @llantwit's class in grad school and since have done a bit of independent reading on the topic. This is a good place to start to understand it. Moral Panic Theory, specially moral entrepreneurs, is another. https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: “For too long, many police departments have dictated the terms of the conversation, and the press has been complicit in laundering their one-sided stories. It's time for that to stop.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Jon Allsop / @jon_allsop: The press has two jobs now vis-à-vis the police: 1. to keep a long-term spotlight on the reform push and convene a genuinely broad debate, and 2. to change our coverage of the police, in terms of language we use, and who we choose to trust. Me for @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/...
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
Editors and publishers of Black publications discuss shaping the BLM story, their continued role with Black communities, and the pros and cons of copublishing — Last week, as anti-racist protests gripped communities around the world, Black people from news outlets by and for them convened …
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@cjr: As mainstream outlets used words like “looting” or “riot” or “chaos” to describe recent anti-racism protests, @alexandrianeas writes, “the Black press, the group agreed over Zoom, felt the burden of changing the narrative.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Jayme Fraser / @jaymekfraser: The Black press has particular criticisms of mainstream coverage about the ongoing protests that we should address: https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “We are an outlet that focuses on the Black community.... The issues that are at the core of protesters' message—racism, brutality, systemic issues—that's not new to our platform.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Noah Hurowitz / Columbia Journalism Review:
NYPD shouldn't be in charge of issuing press passes as they routinely deny them to freelancers and small outlets, and have broad discretion to confiscate them — Last week, before heading out to report on New York City's intensifying protests over the death of George Floyd …
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Anya Schiffrin / Columbia Journalism Review: Nonprofit news site The Conversation increased global page views to 81M in April, up from 40.1M YoY, with contributor submissions tripling during the pandemic
@cjr: As the coronavirus spreads, misinformation abounds, and news consumers struggle to grasp the uncertain nature of science, The Conversation - a nonprofit that brings academic writing to a general audience - is thriving. https://www.cjr.org/...
Godfred Akoto Boafo / @eastsportsman: Amazing work from our team. The Conversation thrives during the pandemic https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Scott White / @scott_white: “AT A TIME when journalism is being hit hard globally and some are predicting the end of independent journalism in some parts of the world, it's time to take a look at what may survive.” The Conversion thrives during the pandemic https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Noah Hurowitz / @noahhurowitz: More than a dozen journalists who reached out to me for this story said they were either not covering protests in NYC — or were concerned for their safety — due to their lack of NYPD credentials https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “I've been arrested before for not carrying press credentials.... I had, in fact, applied for a pass weeks earlier, but the department told me to wait until the following month; I was being punished for doing my job while in bureaucratic limbo.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Noah Hurowitz / @noahhurowitz: For @CJR, I wrote about how the NYPD's antiquated press-credential system, frustrating and opaque in normal times, has been an active threat to press freedom and the safety of journalists during the protests in NYC https://www.cjr.org/...
Reuters:
UK's Cineworld backs out of its $1.65B deal to buy Canadian cinema operator Cineplex, citing breach of terms; Cineplex denies claims, says it will file lawsuit — (Reuters) - Britain's Cineworld Group Plc (CINE.L) said on Friday it abandoned its $1.65 billion deal to buy Cineplex Inc (CGX.TO) …
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Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Cineworld abandons $2.3bn Cineplex purchase
Jill Treanor / The Sunday Times: Cineworld pulls out of blockbuster Canadian deal
Canadian Press: Cineworld scraps $2.8-billion takeover of Canada's Cineplex, setting up legal battle
Saleha Riaz / Yahoo Sports: Cineworld axes $1.65bn Cineplex deal
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: U.K. Exhibitor Cineworld Terminates Deal To Buy Cineplex Of Canada
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