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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 …
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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/ ...
Washington Post: Ignited by public protests, American newsrooms are having their own racial reckoning
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.
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.
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/ ...
Joel Bloom / @joeldbloom: I disagree that “Two decades ago, an article like Cotton's could easily be published.” Cotton is the culmination of 30 years of moving the range of “acceptable” political discourse to the extreme far-right, to the point that actual authoritarianism is seen as normal conservatism. https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: I encourage everyone to read the entirety of @mtaibbi's column. https://taibbi.substack.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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: the global pandemic of Tendentious Contrarian Brain has claimed all too many
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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 — After the Tom Cotton snafu and the departure of James Bennet, the Times has a golden opportunity to set an example
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Vox, @ezraklein, @ezraklein, @ezraklein, @joenbc, @emilyjashinsky, Finanz.dk, New York Times, New York Times, @seantrende, @seantrende, @katiekings, @rosiegray, @cleoabram, @froomkin, @jayrosen_nyu, @ebruenig, @katiekings, @ashleyfeinberg, @ashleyfeinberg, @jaycosttws, @spj_tweets, @froomkin, @sulliview, @emilybell, @seantrende, @karaswisher, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Post and CNN
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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
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: 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: 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/...
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/...
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/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / New York Times: Our Writers' Responses to the Tom Cotton Op-Ed
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/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: After reading this, you will understand the shifts in power and information flow that have led to a moment of upheaval at the New York Times, and in other newsrooms. Things will make more sense. (Fair warning: I am quoted.) 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/...
@spj_tweets: “If there is any benefit for journalism to the shift in media control from press institutions to platforms as gatekeepers, it is that news organizations can deploy resources more thoughtfully in this regard.” https://www.cjr.org/...
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/...
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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@yashar, @nabj, Los Angeles Times, @shermichael_, @oliverdarcy, @liamstack, Hollywood Reporter, @dorothy4nabj, @amandaseales, @wajahatali, @julieroginsky, The Wrap, @davidmweissman, TVNewser, @trewardwbal, @ameshiacross, The Hill, @yashar, @yashar, @itsgabrielleu, @gretchencarlson, @jamiseymore, @itsgabrielleu, @janicedean, Variety, @soledadobrien, @ynb, @shookytwts, @itsgabrielleu, @rachelnoerd, @juliancastro, @aprildryan, @zigmanfreud, @deggans, @slpng_giants, @donchampiontv, @davidfolkenflik, New York Post, @rolandsmartin, @lfung, Deadline and @brianstelter
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@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/...
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/...
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: ABC News executive put on administrative leave over comments about Black colleagues
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/...
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/...
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/...
Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: ABC News Exec Placed on Administrative Leave Over Insensitive Comments
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/...
Amanda Seales / @amandaseales: All these truths coming out! Glad y'all gonna see what goes on behind the scenes. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: ABC News Executive Barbara Fedida Put on Leave Following Accusations of Insensitive and Racist Comments
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: Wow, this thread. Racism in the corporate media world. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: ABC News Talent Chief Barbara Fedida Placed on Administrative Leave Over Report Alleging Use …
Tre Ward / @trewardwbal: A stunning investigation into a top ABC executive with an alleged history of racial and insensitive comments — https://twitter.com/...
Ameshia Cross / @ameshiacross: Read it y'all. Just read it 👇🏾 https://twitter.com/...
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: ABC News executive placed on administrative leave after reports surface of insensitive, racist statements
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/...
@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/...
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/...
Jami Seymore / @jamiseymore: Wow. Give this one a read. Excellent reporting by @yashar 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/...
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/...
Variety: ABC News Exec Barbara Fedida Placed on Administrative Leave After Report of Insensitive Comments
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/...
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: 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/...
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/...
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/...
@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
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/...
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/...
@slpng_giants: Hope this isn't one of those “internal investigations” that magically disappears in a month. 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/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Damning portrait of top official at ABC News from @yashar https://twitter.com/...
Dean Balsamini / New York Post: ABC News exec placed on leave amid conduct probe
@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/...
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/...
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, New York Times, @ct_bergstrom, Axios, Fox News, @willsommer, Gizmodo, CNN, Wall Street Journal, @simonwdc, @seattletimes, Talking Points Memo, @mollyjongfast, @westwingreport, @kazweida, @jason_a_w, @heathervescent, @mattyglesias, Mashable, @davidmweissman, @mjs_dc, @adamgoldmannyt, The Wrap, Mother Jones, @cynthiaboaz, Shrewsbury Tech, @dansolomon, @eoinhiggins_, @oliverdarcy, @aaronblake, @oliverdarcy, @melissajpeltier, @jeremymbarr, @fbajak, Rolling Stone, @politicsreid, The Hill, The Daily Dot and Variety
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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
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/...
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Fox News removes altered images from Seattle protest
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News: Dispatch from ‘CHAZ’: Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes as cops struggle to figure out who's in charge
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Fox News ran unethically edited pictures that make Seattle protests look more violent https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Fox News Tries to Make Seattle Protests Seem Scarier With Crappy Photoshopping
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations
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/ ...
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo: Fox News Manipulates Pictures Of Seattle Protests Then Lies About It
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: They tried to make him look more “Jewish” because anti-semitism. 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/...
@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/...
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/...
Siobhan Neela-Stock / Mashable: Fox News used doctored images to ‘report’ on Seattle protests
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: Fox News will not be held accountable for propaganda as usual. 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/...
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
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Fox News Used Digitally Altered Photos in Coverage of Seattle Protests and ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’
Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones: Fox News Is Losing It Over Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Colin Birge / Shrewsbury Tech: Being our best selves
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Frank Bajak / @fbajak: Doctoring images - like fabricating quotes - is what gets people fired in journalism. 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/ ...
Marty Johnson / The Hill: Photojournalist experts criticize Fox News for altering images of protests in Seattle
Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot: Fox News Photoshopped gunman into stories about Seattle's ‘autonomous zone’
Jordan Moreau / Variety: Fox News Removes Altered Photo of Seattle Protests From Website
Siraj Datoo / Bloomberg:
Twitter restored the account for financial website Zero Hedge, saying it “made an error” in suspending the account in January — Twitter Inc. reinstated the account of Zero Hedge after suspending it earlier this year, saying it made a mistake in accusing the libertarian financial website …
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Sven Henrich / @northmantrader: Twitter: “We made an error in our enforcement action in this case,” a spokesperson for Twitter said in an email." https://twitter.com/...
Ed van der Walt / @edvanderwalt: I, for one, think the mistake is letting these misinformation mongers back on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Biz Carson / Protocol:
Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic — If it seems like everyone is launching a newsletter these days, well, you're not wrong. Chris Best, CEO and founder …
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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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Associated Press, Financial Times, Telegraph, Canadian Press, Yahoo Sports, The Sunday Times, Deadline, Variety and Finanz.dk
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Alice Hancock / Financial Times: Cineworld abandons $2.3bn Cineplex purchase
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 Treanor / The Sunday Times: Cineworld pulls out of blockbuster Canadian deal
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: U.K. Exhibitor Cineworld Terminates Deal To Buy Cineplex Of Canada
Amal Clooney / Washington Post:
A preview of an expected verdict Monday for Maria Ressa, the Filipino American journalist charged with “cyber libel”; US response will send a signal to others — Amal Clooney is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, Britain's special envoy on media freedom and counsel to Maria Ressa.
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@billbrowder, @daveyalba, @charlieangusndp, @jason_kint, @pzfahad, @myhlee, @davidakaye, @davidakaye, @davidakaye, @postopinions and @rebecca_vincent
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Bill Browder / @billbrowder: On Monday a Philippine court will decide whether or not @mariaressa an American journalist is sentenced to seven years in prison for “cyber-libel” for nothing more than simple anti corruption reporting. Her tormentors should be Magnitsky sanctioned https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: It is wrong for the government to shut down independent press. To the Philippine government: We are watching https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charlie Angus Ndp / @charlieangusndp: The international community needs to speak up for @mariaressa She put herself at risk testifying to the international grand committee speaking out against the corruption in Philippines. We need to be there for her. @DamianCollins @bobzimmermp @beynate https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: A test for democracy in the Philippines “If Maria is convicted and locked up for doing her work, the message to other journalists and independent voices is clear: Keep quiet, or you'll be next.” #HoldTheLine https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Fahad Shah / @pzfahad: “Increasingly, we see false information proliferating while honest reporting is being suppressed — leaving people in the dark and democracy on the line.” - writes Amal Clooney on @rapplerdotcom CEO @mariaressa's case in Philippines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: Amal Clooney writes in @PostOpinions on how @mariaressa's case is a test for democracy: “The world will be watching on Monday, and no one should be watching more closely than the U.S. government. Because as well as being Filipino, Maria is American.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: i submitted an amicus to the court, laying out relevant human rights law issues. Will post it later, here's a story: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: amicus ('friend of the court') filing is here (pardon some typos here and there) https://freedex.org/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: Important piece by Amal Clooney here. all eyes should be on the #Philippines and my hope is that governments are making clear how seriously they take this threat to media and specifically @mariaressa https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@postopinions: On Monday we will know the verdict in one of the most brazen and consequential journalism cases of the decade. Amal Clooney has the latest on @mariaressa: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rebecca Vincent / @rebecca_vincent: Amal Clooney for @washingtonpost ahead of @mariaressa's verdict hearing on Monday: “If Maria is convicted and locked up for doing her work, the message to other journalists and independent voices is clear: Keep quiet, or you'll be next.” #HoldTheLine https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
When TV shows like Tucker Carlson's spark controversy, companies can generate goodwill by withdrawing ads, but the money usually shifts elsewhere on the network — Tucker Carlson is, once again, losing advertisers. But the real question is whether Fox News Channel is losing any of the cash …
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New York Times, @waltshaub, @jonleeanderson, @jackshafer, @nytpolitics, Mediaite, @rezaaslan, @davidzmorris, @dbrauer, @kylegriffin1, @stands, @jasonfalter, @millerstream, @waldojaquith, @aaschapiro, @aaschapiro, @bristei, @philkensaban, @slpng_giants, The Hill, The Banter, Pancake Brain, CNN and The Verge
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Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: They're just now figuring out that they shouldn't be sponsoring the White Power Hour With Tucker? https://twitter.com/...
Jon Lee Anderson / @jonleeanderson: Yes, but all is not lost. He still has foot fungus ads: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Loses More Advertisers https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: Remember when mounting your boycott of Tucker Carlson's advertisers that more than half of Fox News Channel revenues come from subscriber fees. https://www.latimes.com/...
@nytpolitics: On Monday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson cast doubt on the reasons behind the unrest prompted by the police killing of George Floyd. Since he made those statements and others, prominent companies have distanced themselves from his prime time show. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Tens of Thousands Tweet #StandWithTuckerCarlson Hashtag — Including 11 Whole Blue Checks
Reza Aslan / @rezaaslan: They'll be back. https://twitter.com/...
David Z. Morris / @davidzmorris: Good god, the buried lede here: 1/3 of Tucker Carlson's ad revenue, and ~5% of Fox News' TOTAL ad revenue comes from ... MyPillow. h/t @JohnBuysse https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Brauer / @dbrauer: Mr. Pillow spends OVER ONE-THIRD of the ad dollars propping up Tucker Carlson's s show (from which other advertisers are fleeing because ... racism). https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: Since Tucker Carlson's comments on Black Lives Matter protests, companies including the Walt Disney Company, Papa John's, Poshmark and T-Mobile have distanced themselves from his Fox show, joining other businesses that have backed away in recent years. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jasonfalter: @mediagazer @bristei Yeah because telling the truth is so bad... At least that's what he is doing. The rest of media... not so much.
Waldo Jaquith / @waldojaquith: Tucker Carlson's business model is selling pillows to white nationalists. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: It's interesting to see corporate leaders like the CEO of T-Mobile take a moral victory lap after pulling ads from Tucker's show, since they'd evidently been OK with Tucker until a month, & they are still paying Fox to advertise at a different time slot. https://edition.cnn.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Fox News tells The Verge that “all national dollars/ads were moved to other programs and there has not been any national money lost.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Advertisers like to flee from TV programs at the slightest hint of controversy. But it's not clear they are really moving any money away from the network they say offended them https://variety.com/...
@slpng_giants: CONFIRMED: @Poshmarkapp has stopped advertising on Tucker Carlson Tonight. This is the 7th advertiser to leave the show this week, along with other names like @Disney @PapaJohns & @TMobile. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marty Johnson / The Hill: Tucker Carlson sees big-name advertisers bolt after comments on Black Lives Matter
Lauren Duca / Pancake Brain: Fuck Tucker Carlson
Brian Stelter / CNN: Tucker Carlson ad boycott cause headaches for Fox News
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:
Google says it's updating its advertising policies to prohibit demographic and zip code targeting for housing, employment, and credit ads — The update will roll out in the U.S. and Canada this year. — Google is updating its advertising policies around housing, employment and credit opportunities, the company announced Thursday.
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The Keyword, @markrrobertson, @caro_milanesi, @marypcbuk, Ars Technica, Search Engine Roundtable, Ad Age, Engadget and AdExchanger
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Scott Spencer / The Keyword: Upcoming update to housing, employment, and credit advertising policies
Mark Robertson / @markrrobertson: Every once in a while, Google does something where I think to myself “🙏 that's excellent, I'm proud of them for that” and then I think to myself “wait! what? they weren't already doing that?” https://twitter.com/...
Carolina Milanesi / @caro_milanesi: Over the past week you got all the proof you needed that #AI will never be able to be #fair if the systems that provide the data for the algorithms are broken in the first place. Glad to see companies address the wrongs we have now when it comes to #discrimination and data https://twitter.com/...
Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk: in the US it is illegal to discriminate against people re housing and credit, so maybe the headline should be ‘Google updates its advertising policies to not break the law any more’ https://twitter.com/...
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: Google Ads To Prevent Housing, Employment & Credit Advertisers From More Targeting Options
George P. Slefo / Ad Age: Google announces new policy to restrict discriminatory ad targeting
@niemanlab:
A thread collecting tweets by journalists of color speaking about racism and discrimination they faced while working in newsrooms — Over the last week, journalists of color have been talking about the racism and discrimination they've faced while working in newsrooms. Their experiences show that that racism in news media is institutionalized. We're collecting their tweets here (THREAD).
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Nieman Lab, @alwaysalejandra, @by_justin, @monachalabi, @im_pulse, @arisacox, @mendezberry, @brendapsalinas, @trudeaukwe, @vptwritenow, @meena_thiru, @cande313, @karenyuan_, @diinsilversmith, @dennisjting, @thatsjonnyfrank, @marissanne2011, @webjournalist, @webjournalist, @webjournalist, @mitrakalita, @drnatmcpherson, @abhabhattarai, @michaelroston, @brittanybritto, @tailyrirvine, @sophiekasakove, @anupkaphle, @svatikirsten, @kainazamaria, @rljourno, @mattwaite, @zainaerhaim, @raphaeldelag, @balkissoon, @laurahazardowen, @tahtone and Nieman Lab
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: Five do-them-now steps to making your newsroom (and coverage) more representative
Alejandra Ramos / @alwaysalejandra: All this publishing pay talk reminds me of the time one of my bosses at Hearst told me they couldn't give me a raise but that I should try to appreciate the value of “non- monetary benefits” like “getting to enjoy the escalator waterfall every morning.”
Justin Ray / @by_justin: What doesn't get said enough is the pain poc have to go through in order to get diversity. The worst moments in my career happened at CJR. One conversation left me in tears. And while my actions yielded new writers, hires and even events, I'll never get a sorry or a thank you.
Mona Chalabi / @monachalabi: I was traumatized by my time at FiveThirtyEight. I don't use that word lightly. I've gone to therapy about it. I continue to have nightmares that I still work there and wake up with my jaw throbbing from the clenching and grinding.
Idrees Ahmad / @im_pulse: Recently @NiemanLab brought up the issue of discrimination in newsrooms and on the same day someone from @BBC forwarded me a resignation letter that a woman of colour had sent on their mailing list that starkly illustrates these concerns. #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/...
Arisa Cox / @arisacox: If you've never considered what Black, Indigenous and other journalists of colour across North America go through on a daily basis, please read below 👇🏽 The number of stories and blue checkmarks is astounding. Please RT. #blackinthenewsroom #blackoutmedia https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Mndez Berry / @mendezberry: The antidote: Working at Vibe early in my career was crucial for me. In mainstream journalism, you're taught to aspire to prestige (read white) publications like the @newyorkermag, where Latinas are almost invisible. https://twitter.com/...
Brenda Salinas Baker / @brendapsalinas: This one goes out to all the BIPOC journos who have been told we are “difficult to work with” by white managers. 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
Christine Trudeau / @trudeaukwe: At my first public radio job I was told to introduce myself as Native to station donors. I was told that white reporters did a better job covering Indigenous Affairs, that “halfbreed” isn't offensive, and that I wasn't really Native because I was only “part Native or whatever.” https://twitter.com/...
Veronica Toney / @vptwritenow: That one time I led and edited an entire digital project about black history, and they gave the newsroom award for it to the white woman on the team. https://twitter.com/...
Meena Thiruvengadam / @meena_thiru: For me, one of these moments was the time my boss - sitting next to me in a meeting with his boss - stretched out his leg to lower the chair I was sitting in while I was speaking. A seat at the table is not enough. https://twitter.com/...
@cande313: A short story about micro aggression and not having the right words in the moment: Last year at a conference right after I joined Outlier a person said to me upon introduction, “Oh! You're the person @sarahalvarezMI hired. Isn't it nice she is letting you ride her coattails?” https://twitter.com/...
Karen Yuan / @karenyuan_: i told an editor that i spent part of my childhood in china and he leaned back in his chair and said, “wow, but you have NO accent.” and then twice more: “you have no accent. no accent at all.” and then just looked at me appraisingly, speculatively, like i was a fascinating curio https://twitter.com/...
Shondiin Silversmith / @diinsilversmith: My professor told me that by the end of the program I would be just a journalist not a Native journalist. I wanted to pack my car and drive back to my rez that night. Every pitch I did in that program related to Indigenous communities was met with doubt and ignorance. https://twitter.com/...
Dennis J. Ting / @dennisjting: A coworker once told me I had “chinky eyes.” When I called her out on it, she said it was okay to say, that it's just an adjective, like “brown eyes.” After trying to explain why it was wrong, she finally said she wouldn't say that word anymore - in front of me. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Franklin / @thatsjonnyfrank: I overheard a manager at one of my previous stations tell someone that she thinks the annual #NABJ convention is just a “big party.” Needless to say — I went to the convention that same year, networked, and landed another job. Best decision ever made. 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
Marissanne L-T / @marissanne2011: Reading all of these experiences is truly upsetting. The truth is slowly coming out. The public unmasking of newsrooms. ☕️ https://twitter.com/...
Robert Hernandez / @webjournalist: I have had countless private conversations with journalists of color seeing others share their stories about their careers... and feeling guilty for not being able to share their own. It's a heavy burden being forced to stay quiet because you know you'll get in trouble.
Robert Hernandez / @webjournalist: I remind them they — existing, doing good work and speaking up at strategically at work — are also part of the solution. There is no requirement to make a public statement to be part of the solution. We know we all have these stories.
Robert Hernandez / @webjournalist: PSA to JOCs: It's okay that you didn't share your story. I'm serious. You are NOT a failure. Some of us can't afford to take that risk or burn that bridge — and that's okay. You are still part of the solution fighting to fix this huge problem. It's okay. We know. We all know.
S. Mitra Kalita / @mitrakalita: Yes. Also saving it for the memoirs when #PublishingWillPayMe big time. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Nat McPherson / @drnatmcpherson: I love LOVE that folks are sharing their traumas. Tell it. Tell it all. Between this thread and the #BlackintheIvory thread, I could just weep for all of us who continue to experience this bullshit but keep pushing bc we believe in our work. https://twitter.com/...
Abha Bhattarai / @abhabhattarai: An editor at a national newspaper once asked if I was *sure* I was comfortable writing in English. This, after he'd read my work, seen my résumé and asked many questions about my childhood in Texas. (Also, English is the only language I can write in.) https://twitter.com/...
Michael Roston / @michaelroston: If you haven't already, you should read as many of the tweets in this thread as you can. Block out some time and read them all. https://twitter.com/...
Brittany Britto / @brittanybritto: if y'all aren't listening... idk what to tell you https://twitter.com/...
Tailyr / @tailyrirvine: At an intern lunch, we went around the table doing introductions. After mine, the coordinator said in front of the entire table that he wishes his son was Native so he could get free college and casino money. I think about it often and wish I confronted him instead of freezing. https://twitter.com/...
Sophie Kasakove / @sophiekasakove: This is an embarrassment and a call to action for all white people in media: https://twitter.com/...
Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle: During college, I got rejected for internship at local paper, Greeneville Sun, so many times that my journalism professor yelled at the owner/editor. Doug Watson, the ME (he liked me), said: “They'll never hire someone like you no matter how good you are.” https://twitter.com/...
Svati Kirsten Narula / @svatikirsten: I'm having flashbacks to all the confusing and unfair things I've experienced in various newsrooms—and honestly still don't know what to think about those experiences. I blame myself for many of them; maybe I shouldn't? 🤷🏽♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: If you work in a newsroom and this is surprising to you please take some time to consider why. https://twitter.com/...
Ricardo Lopez / @rljourno: Important thread here. Hope ALL newsroom managers are reading and heeding these stories. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Waite / @mattwaite: One of the most infuriating things I've ever read on this hellsite. https://twitter.com/...
Zaina Erhaim / @zainaerhaim: 13 years of experience in media, a position as communications manager, a master from a British university, still, in many events, I am introduced as “citizen journalist” by the hosts, as #Syria|ns r not white enough 2b recognised as professionals. #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/...
Rapha / @raphaeldelag: to all my white journo colleagues listen to us read 👇🏽 https://twitter.com/...
Denise Balkissoon / @balkissoon: White journalists: read this. BIPOC journalists: you're probably mad enough already. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: in my quick analysis of the RTs this morning, I found that women are sharing this thread about twice as often as men 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
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 …
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, @noahhurowitz, @cjr, @noahhurowitz, American Press Institute, @notscientific and bookforum.com
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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
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/...
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