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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News says the top writer for Tucker Carlson, Blake Neff, has resigned after details surface about years of his bigoted comments on an online forum — The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum …
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@oliverdarcy, New York Times, Washington Post, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, @erikwemple, Newser, Mediaite, The Wrap, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, TVNewser, @erikwemple, Raw Story, @anandwrites, @tammyforil, @padmalakshmi, @mehdirhasan, @gruber, @erikwemple, @mikedrucker, @geigernews, @erikwemple, @jillfilipovic, @erikwemple, The Hill, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @z_everson, @juddlegum, @ehananoki, @rosiegray, @dicktofel, @nutmegradio, @jasonleopold, @repmcgovern, @mollymckew, @dmihalopoulos, @julesk_fighter, @jefftimmer, @thefienprint, @kantrowitz, HuffPost, The Guardian and Deadline
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New: Fox News executives issue internal memo condemning the “horrific” behavior of former top Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff. https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Writer for Tucker Carlson Resigns After ‘Abhorrent’ Online Posts Are Revealed
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post: Tucker Carlson's chief writer resigns over racist and sexist posts, the latest trouble for Fox's most controversial star
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: The Right Stuff — Former “Review” staffer Blake Neff '13 settles in at Fox.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Large story by @oliverdarcy exposing how the top writer for @tuckercarlson spread racism and sexism pseudonymously on an online forum. The Fox News staffer, Blake Neff, has resigned. https://www.cnn.com/... 1/
Neal Colgrass / Newser: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Gets Outed Over Secret Posts
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: ‘Horrendous’: Fox News Condemns Racist, Sexist Comments Made By Tucker Carlson's Top Writer in Internal Memo
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox News Condemns Remarks By Former Tucker Carlson Staffer
Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times: Fox News condemns former Tucker Carlson writer for ‘horrific’ racist, sexist comments
Jack Brewster / Forbes: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Resigned Over Secretive Racist Remarks. Here's How He Was Exposed.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Resigns After It Was Discovered He Was Using Online Alias …
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson The online writings of Neff represent merely un-finessed iterations of the sentiment broadcast routinely on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and @oliverdarcy outlines direct connections between Neff's mindset and the output of the show.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Tucker Carlson's ex-lead writer has a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: This is like a chef going home and cooking every day. https://twitter.com/...
Tammy Duckworth / @tammyforil: .@realdonaldtrump and @tuckercarlson should know that attacks from insecure men who can't tell the difference between patriotism and nationalism will never diminish my love for this country. These titanium legs don't buckle. My op-ed in @nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Padma Lakshmi / @padmalakshmi: Neff worked at @foxnews for nearly four years & was @TuckerCarlson's top writer. - @CNN In a recent interview in @DartmouthMag, Neff said “Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me.” https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/ ...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Explains so much... https://twitter.com/...
John Gruber / @gruber: Impeccable Ivy League timing, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson Now: The scoop by @oliverdarcy marks the third time that Carlson has been busted for employing at the Daily Caller writers who'd posted vile racist thoughts on the Internet. In both of the two prior instances, Carlson claimed ignorance of the offenses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mike Drucker / @mikedrucker: Sure that's bad but wait until they find out Tucker Carlson's top writer was also publicly posting racist and sexist remarks under his own name on Tucker Carlson https://twitter.com/...
Bob Geiger / @geigernews: Top writer for Fox News Senior Malignancy Tucker Carlson, discovered to be a virulent racist. “I'm shocked. I never would have guessed this,” said nobody in the entire fucking world. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson So thanks to @oliverdarcy, Fox News has a handy flow chart diagramming the racist input into “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” And via Neff's own on-the-record remarks to the alum mag, he had a willing partner in Carlson.
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: Tucker Carlson and the Daily Caller do seem to have employed a whole lot of vitriolic racists and misogynists, huh? It's almost like it's not a coincidence. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson In an interview with Dartmouth's alumni mag, Neff said that he writes the “first draft” of everything that ends up on the show. He cites a mind-meld with the host: “I've gotten used to what he likes and what he thinks about.”
Marty Johnson / The Hill: Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns amid allegations he posted racist, sexist remarks online
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson Or perhaps I should say “education,” because the beat was really white grievance: https://dailycaller.com/... https://dailycaller.com/... https://dailycaller.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @oliverdarcy @TuckerCarlson The specifics surfaced by @oliverdarcy are damning, unfathomable, unsurprising. Before acceding to his job at Fox News, Neff worked as a reporter for Carlson's Daily Caller, covering education. https://dailycaller.com/...
Zach Everson / @z_everson: Remember when @Facebook teamed with the Daily Caller for fact-checking? https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: It's weird he resigned for secretly posting racist and sexist remarks when his job was to write racist and sexist remarks https://twitter.com/...
Eric Hananoki / @ehananoki: Blake Neff, the fired Tucker Carlson writer (https://twitter.com/...), had his byline on this Daily Caller article (subhed: “White man overruns indigenous peoples with superior technology”: https://twitter.com/...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: as others are pointing out, Blake Neff ( https://www.cnn.com/...) is among an increasingly crowded field of former Daily Caller writers who have been busted for racist language or associations
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: “Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Miriti Murungi / @nutmegradio: LOL. “Here's my segment on how white supremacy is a hoax,” written by a white supremacist. So Fox News has quite literally for years been airing segments written by top-tier racists. Although maybe he was just economically anxious. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: The writer, Blake Neff, previously was a reporter at The Daily Caller, which Carlson founded and has featured a handful of reporters who were also found to have posted racist and sexist remarks in online forums and blogs https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Jim McGovern / @repmcgovern: The only thing surprising about this is that he used a pseudonym. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Mihalopoulos / @dmihalopoulos: Writing what goes on Tucker's teleprompter by day. Posting racist and sexist comments under a pseudonym by night. But did this writer have to change his voice significantly from one platform to the other? https://www.cnn.com/...
Julie Kedzie / @julesk_fighter: I'm shocked. Shocked. Movie blurb: Writer is so insecure that he uses a pseudonym for what he thinks is his REAL voice online, only to find out that his ideas had been shining through his day job the entire time. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Fienberg / @thefienprint: It seems unfair that Blake Neff had to use a pseudonym if Tucker's been doing the same thing under his own name and on national TV for years. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Top Tucker Carlson writer (now ex-writer) was posting this insanely racist stuff online. Hard to read. Shocking but not surprising. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November — - Limiting political ads may help curb spread of misinformation — Decision on ban has not yet been made, people familiar say
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New York Times, @karaswisher, @rob_flaherty, @nytimesbusiness, @team_mitch, Variety, @yaeleisenstat, Deadline, @vanitaguptacr, @bloombergtv, @jennidigital, @juddlegum, @ariezrawaldman, @brendancarrfcc, @jason_kint, @rashadrobinson, @sentedcruz, @emmya2, @aaronbastani, @mattcompton, @anupamchander, @daveleeft, @profgalloway, @kevinroose, @alexstamos, @daveleeft, @rsg, @tsgiles, @hkreid, @politicswolf, @urbanachievr, @alxthomp, @jeffhauser, @janesports, @sarahfrier, @mccarthyryanj, @kylebrussell, @ttagaris, @rvawonk, @sarahfrier, @mhbergen, @markdistef, @ruskin147, @tonyromm, @emmakinery, @just_jenna and @rosenbergerlm, more at Techmeme »
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is akin to using a nuclear bomb to oust rodents and hurts the less well known pols and orgs: Facebook Considers Banning Political Ads Before US 2020 Election - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty: To put a fine point on this: Under this proposal the President could use organic posts to suppress voting by mail (as he did today), but Democrats could not run ads encouraging people to return their mail ballots. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: “Voter suppression is happening every day, and their inaction is going to have profound ramifications on the election,” said Vanita Gupta, chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Facebook May Ban Political Advertising
Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat: This would be a convenient way to avoid the biggest issues, including Facebook's policies & tools that allow politicians to spread disinfo, engage in voter suppression & micro target lies. I explain the real threats in my 2 OpEds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... & https://www.brookings.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Vanita Gupta / @vanitaguptacr: Political ads blackout just b/f the election won't address real time voter misinfo and suppression that Facebook is leaving up even though it violates their policy, see e.g. Trump posts this morn containing lies about legal voting methods. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg TV / @bloombergtv: Facebook's plan to ban political ads ahead of the U.S. election is an attempt to respond to pressure about an ad boycott while avoiding offending President Trump, says Techonomy Media founder David Kirkpatrick https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jenni / @jennidigital: This move is a ridiculous distraction and puts the forces working to suppress Black voters at an advantage. Hate speech remains untouched on FB while they continue to dismiss what civil rights groups are actually calling for: accountability. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: This is a bad idea but it does show Facebook is beginning to understand the implications of giving politicians the green light to lie in paid ads The weeks leading up to the election are going to be a catastrophe https://twitter.com/...
Ari Ezra Waldman / @ariezrawaldman: Once again, Zuck is gaslighting. It's not about political ads, it's about micro targeting, unequal application of content moderation rules to coddle Trump, brazenly pathetic definition and valorization of “free speech”, the antiregulatory discourses disguised as freedom. https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Carr / @brendancarrfcc: Less speech means more power for established gatekeepers. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Based on what? Yes a lot of grassroot campaigns come from progressives and yes there are massive data harvesting conpanies on that side, too. Both sides need to come to grips with the harms of microtargeting + political advertising and accept the ban until real solutions. https://twitter.com/...
Rashad Robinson / @rashadrobinson: .@Facebook claims to care about free expression but would rather restrict political speech altogether than take responsibility for curbing hate speech, voter suppression and disinformation. We have had clear demands for years. It's time to meet them. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Senator Ted Cruz / @sentedcruz: This would be a mistake. Banning political ads would: ✅Silence the free speech of candidates, groups, & Americans ✅Give the corrupt & biased Mainstream Media a monopoly ✅Empower Silicon Valley billionaires & their biased censorship practices https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Emmy Bengtson / @emmya2: THE ADS. ARE NOT. THE PROBLEM. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Bastani / @aaronbastani: Facebook Mulls Political-Ad Blackout Ahead Of U.S. Election. This is good, they shouldn't permit political advertising of any kind, anywhere - end of story. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Matt Compton / @mattcompton: FB has a problem with organic disinformation and hate speech. Paid ads—especially from campaigns—aren't the issue. In fact, banning advertising during GOTV in the middle of a pandemic that will force millions to vote by mail will suppress voter turnout. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@anupamchander: This would be an understandable decision but there is a loss: Having worked on a small local campaign, in my experience there is an order of magnitude difference in price between ads in Facebook and the local paper (which was subscribed to and read by a few, richer people). https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: For those not familiar - political TV ads in the UK aren't allowed. Instead, qualifying parties — those contesting a certain number of seats — follow an agreed formula. No reason this couldn't be replicated by Facebook in some measure.
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Hypothetically, if you wanted to be ~ excluded from the narrative ~ about the 2020 election without changing the core mechanics of your platform or wading into thorny politicized issues around organic distribution, this is probably what you'd do! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: This might reduce the pushback from the media companies who will benefit, but nobody should fool themselves into thinking pushing advertising back into TV and print is “progressive” in any way.
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: FB should repurpose them, reinventing the British party political broadcast rules for the internet era. https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Goodlatte / @rsg: Makes a world of sense. Let's hope they do it https://twitter.com/...
Tom Giles / @tsgiles: Facebook weighs blackout on political ads in run-up to the election. Nice scoop by @KurtWagner8 Would this help or hinder political discourse? Sure, disinformation and the company doesn't fact-check political ads. What about get-out-the-vote campaigns? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Heather Reid / @hkreid: Just to be clear: This is a cop-out by @Facebook to avoid dealing with the very real problem of disinformation in their organic content. This will hurt legitimate efforts to get out *correct* voting information to the people who need it. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Wolf / @politicswolf: Facebook enabled the facilitation of genocide in Myanmar, & its algorithms domestically magnify far-right propaganda & hate speech like Ben Shapiro. Banning Trump's deceptive ads doesn't do anything about that, & FB still reaps huge profits selling your data without political ads https://twitter.com/...
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: tHiS iS eLecTioN iNTerFereNcE https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Hauser / @jeffhauser: Tim is of course 100% right. Trump-Russia denialists focused on the modest sums spent on ads (~$125-150,000) rather than how the audience captured by those ads was organically nurtured on disinformation. And God knows what the Saudis/UAE etc also did in 2016 & are planning now! https://twitter.com/...
Jane McManus / @janesports: This is too sensible a measure for the current era. I fully expect a pivot to the pre-election advertising firehouse. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: This would be easier than finding all the misleading ads/voter suppression in time for it to matter https://twitter.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Non-partisan organizations, voting groups and even many states themselves are spending many millions of dollars in Facebook ads to get out the vote this year. Facebook banning ads this late in the game could really backfire: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell: Imagine the things people will put out to try to make up for it with organic engagement https://twitter.com/...
Tim Tagaris / @ttagaris: The problem is not the ads... it's the disinformation. x1000 This decision would disproportionately impact progressive, inurgent campaigns. But maybe that is the point. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr / @rvawonk: NEW: Facebook is reportedly considering imposing a ban on political ads in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November. This could limit some mis/disinformation, but at this point, it's also just as likely to ruin last-minute GOTV efforts. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: Kurt's full scoop here: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Twitter doesn't have political ads, google already sold the YouTube Election Day homepage ads to Trump
Mark Bergen / @mhbergen: Early congrats to the public sector advertising sales team at Google. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: This really shouldn't be controversial considering other countries (UK, Australia) have blackouts in place for TV/radio heading into the election. https://twitter.com/...
Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147: This would be an extraordinary u-turn but sounds quite likely https://twitter.com/...
Tony Romm / @tonyromm: some interesting context, for those curious: Facebook actually considered a similar thing — folks told us it could be akin to a 72-hr pre-election blackout — back in December when FB was under heat for Trump's ads. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Kinery / @emmakinery: Facebook doesn't fact-check ads from politicians or campaigns, a point of contention for many who say the policy means ads on the platform could be used to spread misinformation The potential ban is still only being discussed and hasn't yet been finalized https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jenna Lowenstein / @just_jenna: 1. The ads are not* the problem! 2. This would dramatically hamstring campaigns' ability to communicate and fundraise in the home stretch. https://www.bloomberg.com/... *or at least are a tiny crumb of the problem compared with mountains of organic misinfo
Laura Rosenberger / @rosenbergerlm: While I've called for @Facebook to halt political ads until there are effective regulations for online ads, changing its tune this close to the election is also problematic. This is the kind of thing they should have done long ago - doing so now may just create more chaos. https://twitter.com/...
The Objective:
Dozens of journalists and academics pen a rebuttal to the claims in the Harper's letter, whose signatories are criticized for failing to recognize their power — On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks …
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Los Angeles Times, Newser, NPR, @mattdpearce, @elle_hunt, @theneedledrop, @lenadunham, @rebeccakmccray, @rhodes_dawn, @concretemilk, @blackamazon, The Hill, @nilofer, @nberlat, @mehdirhasan, @diannaeanderson, @rmac18, @franifio, @sallyt, @nberlat, @moorehn, The Wrap, @mathewi, @ggreenwald, @willoremus, @lpolgreen, @hashtaggriswold, @espiers, @davidklion, @wihorne, @eoinhiggins_, @calebwatney, @mariayagoda, @sulomeanderson, @dataeditor, @satansjacuzzi, @katiepark and @ositanwanevu
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Mariah Kreutter / Los Angeles Times: A letter on why me having only 724 Twitter followers is an assault on free speech
Neal Colgrass / Newser: New Battle Over ‘Cancel Culture’ Is Getting Vicious
Christianna Silva / NPR: Thomas Chatterton Williams On Debate, Criticism And The Letter In 'Harper's Magazine'
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: “The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world, culminating in one of the greatest infringements on civil liberty of our time: I, specifically, have only 724 Twitter followers.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Elle Hunt / @elle_hunt: The highly specific rebuttals of this letter highlight the imprecision of the original https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Debatethonty Metano / @theneedledrop: My heart goes out to this young writer. 😢😢😢😢 😢😢😢😢 😢😢😢😢 😢 https://twitter.com/...
Lena Dunham / @lenadunham: Whenever I'm mourning any sort of criticism, my father always says, “ya gotta pay to play sister.” And he's right. If you are lucky enough to have an audience, you are blessed with push back too. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Rebecca McCray / @rebeccakmccray: This LA Times intern, @______mariah__ , gets the last word on The Letter; no other takes needed https://www.latimes.com/...
Dawn Rhodes / @rhodes_dawn: About that Harper's letter. “In truth, Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ people — particularly Black and trans people — can now critique elites publicly and hold them accountable socially; this seems to be the letter's greatest concern.” Here is our response. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Damo / @concretemilk: Brilliantly oblivious closing paragraph from this letter arguing that cancel culture is a myth: “Many signatories on our list noted their institutional affiliation but not their name, fearful of professional retaliation.” https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
@blackamazon: One of the greatest conditions of the abominable condition we find ourselves in today is not “discursive tenor” but an abysmal power analysis cloaked in lugubrious disdain or detached snark . https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Anagha Srikanth / The Hill: More than 150 people have signed. — Hundreds of prominent writers …
Nilofer Merchant / @nilofer: “Their words reflect a stubbornness to let go of the elitism that still pervades the media industry, an unwillingness to dismantle systems that keep people like them in and the rest of us out.” (Loving all the receipts) https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: “cancel culture” is supposed to be a culture of special intolerance on the left. that's not real. what is real is institutional censorship, very often directed at marginalized people. not super complicated, though obviously bad faith dopes like this guy pretend it is. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: A longish response to the Harper's letter. I don't agree with everything in either letter but it's worth reading this one if you read the first one. https://twitter.com/...
@diannaeanderson: Really appreciate this letter of response to the Harper's letter: https://theobjective.substack.com/ ... Which, you'll notice, was not published in a major national magazine and instead appears on a Substack.
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: When I was initially asked to sign this, I was skeptical, largely because I didn't want to give more air to the initial dumb letter. But the words in this were clear, powerful, and important. Glad I had the opportunity to add my name. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Francesca Quarantini / @franifio: This open letter is like a reading guide for the original one, since the original cites no specifics. I'm glad people more versed on elite fragility have done this work, and put this out. https://twitter.com/...
Sally Tamarkin / @sallyt: This letter is absolutely essential and so important. I'm so grateful to the journalists of color who got it started and facilitated its writing, editing, and publication and to everyone who signed https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: I signed this response to the Harper's Letter. I think it's substantially more thoughtful, in part because more specific. I'm proud to have had the chance to put my name on it. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Concept: Retire all the tired “closed letter” jokes and pay attention to what marginalized writers are telling you about about how this media industry patronizes and shuts them out. Kind of like what's happening right now! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: 160 Journalists, Academics Rebuke Harper's Letter on Cancel Culture: ‘They Miss the Point’
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I am on record as not wanting another letter responding to the first letter, but I have to agree with @jilliancyork — it's a good letter. I would have signed this one if I had been asked https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Is it supposed to be incriminating to point out that someone holds this belief? https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: Setting aside the substance for a sec, what does it say that this grassroots rejoinder to the Harper's letter is significantly better-written and more clearly argued than the original one that was signed by people who are literally world-famous as writers? https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: This is worth your time. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: A group of journalists have written A Second Letter in response to The First Letter, and yes, it is everyone you think it is https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I know everyone is all Lettered out, but this is actually an incredibly thorough critique. (And btw, signed by Kerri Greenidge whose name was put on the original letter without her permission.) https://twitter.com/...
David Klion / @davidklion: No one asked me to sign this but I would very much like to, and I can think of dozens of other journalists who would probably like to as well. Anyway it's very good. What I like most about it is that it employs specificity and precision. It does the work. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Dr. William Horne / @wihorne: This is how you write a letter, ICYMI. But honestly, the whole “civility debate” is nonsense bc critiques of oppression & abuse signal a massive, grassroots rejection of elite power. In that respect, the Harper's letter is stupid & pointless as well as reactionary. https://twitter.com/...
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: Response letter does a good job on calling out the hypocrisy of many of the signatories to the original one https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Watney / @calebwatney: By the year 2023, all political discourse will consist of open letters, responses to open letters, podcasts about the response to open letters, cancellations based on the podcast responses to open letters, and open letters about cancellations in a recursive loop. https://twitter.com/...
Maria Yagoda / @mariayagoda: “In truth, Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ people — particularly Black and trans people — can now critique elites publicly and hold them accountable socially; this seems to be the letter's greatest concern.” https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Sulome / @sulomeanderson: I would have signed this. Some great journos of color on this list. I will point out that many of them were too afraid to include their names, fearing reprisal from their employers. That is what self-censorship, silencing and stifling expression looks like https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Steven Rich / @dataeditor: this gets at one of my many frustrations about the original letter: it's decided lack of specific examples in favor of uninterrogatable straw men https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
@satansjacuzzi: i signed this letter to express my solidarity w/ everyone else who has to jump through hoops and squeeze into boxes to try and make it. it's a long read, but i think it's an important analysis of what the original letter was really about — namely, power. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Katie Park / @katiepark: “The irony of the piece is that nowhere in it do the signatories mention how marginalized voices have been silenced for generations in journalism, academia, and publishing.” https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Osita Nwanevu / @ositanwanevu: I think one of the things people should note about this response letter is the space it takes to actually explain and examine specific examples. Whether you agree or not with their interpretations, that's something the original simply didn't do. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Profile of Evan Brandt, a reporter at The Mercury in Pottstown, PA, who once dropped by the home of Alden Global Capital's head to ask about value of local news — His newspaper has withered under a hedge fund. His industry was in turmoil even before a pandemic. But Evan Brandt won't stop chronicling his town.
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Media Nation, @jheil, @jamesfallows, @kenvogel, @trymainelee, @brittanyhorn, @jmitchellnews, @alissazhu, @jkennedyreport, @moorehn, @andreasharsono, @nytnational, @kevingormanpgh, @williams_paige, @westwingreport, @penserga25, @danbarrynyt, @motokorich, @johnson_carrie, @mikevacc, @jonathanchait, @sangernyt, @geraldposner, @nickkristof, @kenvogel, @patriciamazzei, @noelle_phillips, @dhm, @jeff_neiburg, @palafo, @repdesaulnier, @tommytomlinson, @scmitchp, @billlindeke, @emmaogreen, @pottstownnews, @wjeffreybrown, @froomkin, @catotato, @opinion_joe, @danrshafer, @anniesciacca, @tonyleys, @srodd_cpr, @ericeyre, @stvburns, @stvburns, @wardreporter, @andrew_chung_, @jonathanec12, @sameera22, @ron_fournier, @lizkimtweets, @lrozen, @pwoodreporter, @donnaditota1, @lrozen, @mikecouzens, @maryellenklas and @vellastrations
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: A beautifully told story that offers nostalgia about local news but not much hope
John Heilemann / @jheil: There is no better American newspaper writer than @DanBarryNYT. And I've read no more revealing, richly reported, exquisitely crafted piece on the crisis in local news than his profile of @PottstownNews. https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: This is an amazing story — with each new paragraph, you think, “What????” Congrats Jeremy Kohler and @stltoday https://www.stltoday.com/... (On value of local/city journalism, see also @DanBarryNYT today https://www.nytimes.com/... ) https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: In 1979, the Pottstown @MercuryX's TOM KELLY III took shocking photos of a man covered in blood who had just killed his pregnant wife. When the photos won a Pulitzer, Kelly comforted a co-worker sweeping the newsroom floor — the slain young woman's father https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Trymaine Lee / @trymainelee: Dan Barry being Dan Barry. A story so richly written, in his style. Yet, so accessible. And the story itself. I really miss local newspapers and guys like Evan Brandt. We lose so much by losing those papers and the dogged folks who fill their pages. https://twitter.com/...
Brittany Horn / @brittanyhorn: This is so well written it's painful. As always, if you value knowing what's going on in your community; if you value the men + women who dare to ask those hard questions; if you value local news — please subscribe. Frankly, it's an investment in where you live. https://twitter.com/...
Jerry Mitchell / @jmitchellnews: Reporters like Evan Brandt make #journalism great. This is why we need nonprofits like @MississippiCIR to fill in gaps b/c of layoffs etc. We give our hard-hitting stories to every newspaper in Mississippi, free of charge. #JournalismMatters #TruthMatters https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alissa Zhu / @alissazhu: Absolutely haunting. Reading this story was deja vu. The story of The Mercury is the story of local newspapers everywhere and it makes me want to scream https://twitter.com/...
John Kennedy / @jkennedyreport: Overworked, underpaid and unlikely to appear as cable-news pundits, they report the day's events, hold officials accountable and capture those moments — a school honor, a retirement celebration — suitable for framing. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: A great story about the quixotic instinct for truth — no matter the obstacles — that is at the heart of all true journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono: “To make a huge profit in the newspaper business, you have to cut, cut, cut, and be willing to see the product get worse year by year,” said vulture capitalist Heath Freeman who killed The Mercury newspaper in Pottstown https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytnational: Evan Brandt, proud reporter for a once-proud newspaper — The Mercury in Pottstown, Pa. — emerged from his Toyota with press identification dangling from his neck, the photo old enough to be of someone else https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Gorman / @kevingormanpgh: This is a powerful story, one with so many relatable moments. At a time when people gleefully shout fake news, an industry is being gutted by vultures. Journalists view our jobs as a calling for a greater cause. https://twitter.com/...
@williams_paige: “I blame the public a little bit. People do not recognize — do not champion — what we do.” Devastating: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@westwingreport: “If you came back to the newsroom and you didn't smell like smoke, you hadn't done your job.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Penserga / @penserga25: This piece has been circulating on journalist Twitter today for a reason - what's happening in Pottstown, Pa. is happening everywhere. Support your local newspaper: https://twitter.com/...
Dan Barry / @danbarrynyt: Photographers and videographers are absolutely essential to local journalism - a reality underscored by the haunting, evocative work of @hsakagphoto that accompanies my story: A Reporter's Lonely Mission When the Writing Is on the Wall https://www.nytimes.com/...
Motoko Rich / @motokorich: Evan Brandt, the last newspaperman in Pottstown, PA. A reminder to subscribe to your local paper. “Evan is the voice of the voiceless. He speaks for the little people. If we lose him, we're in trouble.” @DanBarryNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carrie Johnson / @johnson_carrie: Every word sings in this @DanBarryNYT masterpiece, which simultaneously moves me to tears and motivates me to be a better reporter https://twitter.com/...
Mike Vaccaro / @mikevacc: My greatest training ground was working at the Olean (N.Y.) Times Herald one summer, meeting local citizens and telling their stories. As the peerless @DanBarryNYT so elegantly reminds us in this column, local journalism is an essential piece of the American tapestry. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Moving profile of the last reporter in a small town. What will happen to democracy when local newspapers will be a catastrophe. Philanthropists could still do something about it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Sanger / @sangernyt: Anyone who cares about the fast decline of local news - the 1st amend. in action in communities across the country - should read this beautifully composed, heart-wrenching account by the great @DanBarryNYT. Hedge funds and newsrooms are a bad mix. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gerald Posner / @geraldposner: Disturbing story for journalism “The economic paralysis caused by the pandemic has clobbered a newspaper industry already on the mat. With revenues plummeting, substantial layoffs, furloughs and pay reductions have followed in newsrooms across the country” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: A beautiful ode to local newspapers and the unsung journalists who make them tick: https://www.nytimes.com/... When these community papers go under, when these local journalists lose jobs, accountability is lost and social fabric unravels.
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: If you're wondering how important (& connected) local newspapers are to the communities they cover, read this beautifully written @DanBarryNYT ode to EVAN BRANDT, the last reporter left at the once proud Pottstown @MercuryX. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Patricia Mazzei / @patriciamazzei: You really want to spend some time with @DanBarryNYT and this ode to local newspeople, an unfortunately shrinking breed. Long live the local papers that form the beating heart of journalism https://www.nytimes.com/...
@noelle_phillips: Evan Brandt is an American hero, and there are more just like him keeping democracy alive by working as journalists at their hometown newspapers. #SaveLocalNews https://twitter.com/...
@dhm: “The truth is, to make a huge profit in the newspaper business, you have to cut, cut, cut, and be willing to see the product get worse year by year.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Neiburg / @jeff_neiburg: “His newspaper has withered under a hedge fund. His industry was in turmoil even before a pandemic. But Evan Brandt won't stop chronicling his town.” This, from @DanBarryNYT, is really good: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: Nearly all his colleagues who didn't quit have been laid off or bought out, effectively making him the last reporter covering Pottstown. His newspaper's distinctive building was abruptly emptied and later sold, so he works in his attic, with his 36 awards https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark DeSaulnier / @repdesaulnier: .@NYTimes shows you the demise of the local news industry through the eyes of the only reporter left covering a Pennsylvania town. As our country fights to combat a pandemic, it has never been more important to #SaveLocalNews. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tommy Tomlinson / @tommytomlinson: This piece by the great @DanBarryNYT got me choked up at the state of American journalism, pissed off at hedge-fund vultures, and inspired by Evan Brandt — who, while it all collapses around him, just does his damn job. https://twitter.com/...
Mitch Pugh / @scmitchp: Great piece. Must read. Support your local news organization. https://twitter.com/...
William Lindeke / @billlindeke: Alden Global Capital is making money for investors destroying newspapers like the Pioneer Press and this one in Pennsylvania. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emma Green / @emmaogreen: This is a profoundly important and profoundly depressing story on the way hedge funds have kept gutting local newspapers at a time when they're more needed than ever: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evan Brandt / @pottstownnews: Makes two of us. https://twitter.com/...
W. Jeffrey Brown / @wjeffreybrown: Feeling a bit sad for @PottstownNews that he's become a bit of a posterchild for the dying newspaper industry. https://twitter.com/...
Cat Coyle / @catotato: I will never forget my summer working with @PottstownNews at @MercuryX. Watching him work taught me what journalism is. Right now he's the only one we can turn to for news about my hometown. Fund local journalism! And don't turn the merc building into a boutique hotel. Please. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Nocera / @opinion_joe: “Dinosaur to dinosaur.” What a great line by @DanBarryNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Shafer / @danrshafer: This is that “cancel culture” that media twitter is all freaking out about, right? devastation of local news around the country? no?? why not?!? https://twitter.com/...
Annie Sciacca / @anniesciacca: This is both a beautiful tribute to local journalism and a haunting account of the impacts of Alden's gutting of its newspapers. The hedge fund also owns our own East Bay Times and Mercury News, and papers across the country. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Leys / @tonyleys: “Evan is the voice of the voiceless. He speaks for the little people. If we lose him, we're in trouble.” https://twitter.com/...
Scott Rodd / @srodd_cpr: Another @DanBarryNYT gem: The last reporter left covering Pottstown, PA. A cautionary tale about what happens to newspapers under hedge fund ownership. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Eyre / @ericeyre: One of my favorite newspapermen, @DanBarryNYT, writes about my old stomping rounds @MercuryX. So proud of Evan Brandt @PottstownNews and scores of other reporters just like him who keep their communities informed while hedge fund mgrs swirl like vultures https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Burns / @stvburns: “He knew he might get to ask only one question. His choice: “What value do you place on local news?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Burns / @stvburns: The most haunting aspect of this piece is its lack of a solution or success story. Because there aren't any so far, outside of the handful of papers that lucked out with a local philanthropist.
Steven Ward / @wardreporter: A lament of the death of local journalism. Also, a tribute to local newspaper reporters all over this country. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Chung / @andrew_chung_: “Forget dashing foreign correspondents and “All the President's Men”: Daily journalism often comes down to local reporters like Mr. Brandt. Overworked, underpaid ... they report the day's events, hold officials accountable” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan / @jonathanec12: This story is fantastic. The part where the reporter drives to the Hamptons to confront the hedge fund owner who bought his newspaper is fantastic. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sameera Khan / @sameera22: “Nearly all of his colleagues who didn't quit have been laid off or bought out, effectively making him the last reporter covering Pottstown ... He works in his attic, surrounded by a display of 36 journalism awards, many for public service.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ron Fournier / @ron_fournier: A great sentence in a great story about a great survivor of a great and dying cause: local media. God help us. “Pottstown, a town of 23,000 about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, is like many American places: between acts.” ~ @DanBarryNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elizabeth Kim / @lizkimtweets: The Times teased this all wrong! A reporter who won't stop chronicling his town but who also one who got so fed up that he drove to the Montauk mansion of the hedge fund owner who ruined his paper and asked him one question. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: vulture hedge funds buying newspapers to sell off the real estates, fire the news staff, and profit from the subscription lists and advertising revenue https://twitter.com/...
@pwoodreporter: I wonder what Randall Smith and Heath Freeman think when they read stories like this? Are they proud of themselves? Do they even care? If Smith, Freeman and Alden Global Capital have their way, what's happened to The Pottstown Mercury will happen to @baltimoresun. No question. https://twitter.com/...
Donna Ditota / @donnaditota1: This is both gutting and beautiful for a newspaper lifer like me. As always, Dan Barry is impeccable. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: the hedge funds & private equity firms that own many newspapers often siphon away profits...First, there is the real estate that can be sold off. Then there is the profit realized by shrinking expenses — inc. the new staff—while still collecting the advertising & subscrix revenue https://twitter.com/...
Mike Couzens / @mikecouzens: As usual, Dan Barry writes things that make you feel something. This is a story I'm sure will resonate with anyone who has been a part of @NewhouseSU. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Ellen Klas / @maryellenklas: I love these stories because I love these reporters - people who see journalism as a vocation, not a job. But it foreshadows what could happen at @MiamiHerald if a hedge fund wins the auction today and monetizes the newsroom by dismembering it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times:
In a letter to WSJ's EIC, some WSJ reporters and editors called for more muscular reporting on race and social inequities and skepticism of business leaders — A letter from a group of Journal reporters and editors calls for “more muscular reporting about race and social inequities,” …
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Wall Street Journal, @nealboudette, @nealboudette, @jeffjarvis, @tomdreisbach, @jayrosen_nyu, @hshaban and @marcatracy
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Neal Boudette / @nealboudette: @jayrosen_nyu @WSJ I personally heard directive on no victim stories. I am aware of the directives regarding Republican voices. The number of Dems quoted in stories was counted, tracked, compared to # R quotes. Was directly involved in labor/union stories that had to be re-written to slant to mgmt
Neal Boudette / @nealboudette: @jayrosen_nyu @WSJ At WSJ @geraldtbaker pushed eds/reporters to include more Republican voices in stories, slant labor/union stories toward mgmt. Stories abt “victims” - people screwed by big companies, gov etc - were strongly discouraged. “No victim stories” was familiar phrase. Saw it first hand.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Color me dubious. You chose to work for Murdoch, the most malign influence in English-language democracy. Eyes wide open. Wall Street Journal Staff Members Push for Big Changes in News Coverage https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Dreisbach / @tomdreisbach: “Reporters frequently meet resistance when trying to reflect the accounts and voices of workers, residents or customers... compared with executives, government officials or other entities.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Newsroom pushback at @WSJ. “Reporters frequently meet resistance when trying to reflect the accounts and voices of workers, residents or customers, with some editors voicing heightened skepticism of those sources' credibility...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Staff at the WSJ sent a letter to the top editor on June 23 calling for changes in how the paper covers race, including: — conduct a study of race/gender breakdown of the subjects of the WSJ's biggest stories — diversity in leadership and the newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Two weeks old, but NEW to you: Wall Street Journal staffers sent letter to eic Matt Murray with proposals to improve coverage and newsroom composition, with an eye toward racial, ethnic and gender diversity. Continues simmering conversation at the paper. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
In adapted excerpt from her forthcoming book, former Buffalo News chief editor Margaret Sullivan tracks its decline, a fate shared by newspapers nationally — Over her long career as a journalist, Margaret Sullivan has watched the decline of local news with growing alarm
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Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: An excerpt/adaptation from my book in the Washington Post magazine! Hope you'll give it a look and some thought .... Columnist Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now it's vanishing, leaving our ver... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nate McMurray / @nate_mcmurray: Beautifully written article by @Sulliview on the link between objective journalism and Democracy. It talks about NY27. “The lack of real journalism...meant that people were relying on gossip, conservative radio or social media,” McMurray said. " https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: Laugh about it as a tagline, sure, but, in an excerpt from her new book — Ghosting the News — @Sulliview shows how democracy actually does die in darkness — or at least when local journalism collapses and isn't there to shine a spotlight on misdeeds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan / @dan_higgins: Dad worked for the Courier-Express. Mom and her dad both worked at The News. I delivered the News (and wrote 2 stories for them as a stringer). And I'm running out of characters but this explanation and elegy for news in Buffalo by @Sulliview hits home https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ron Fournier / @ron_fournier: We're losing something critical to democracy, local media, and few people notice or care. Please read @Sulliview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Lyman / @lyman_brian: I enjoyed this piece, and I've certainly seen newspaper resources decline in my career. But it's notable that when national outlets write about the decline in local news, they focus on regional papers that retain a firepower I can only dream about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@savethenews: As local newspapers vanish & big tech companies take over the market, our Democracy is put in peril. @margaretsullivan details the importance of upholding quality news at the local level, and the need to save one local newspaper at a time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matt Villano / @mattvillano: Great piece from @Sulliview about what happens when local newspapers shrivel. I found her recollections about the @TheBuffaloNews particularly fascinating, as I did my first newspaper internship there in the summer of 1995. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... #journalism
@westwingreport: “As local journalism declines, govt. officials conduct themselves with less integrity and corporate malfeasance goes unchecked. With the loss of local news, citizens are: less likely to vote, less politically informed, and less likely to run for office.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Cook / @chriscookttu: This is a stark view of the future of local news. Relate this piece to rural communities and the impact is equally, if not more, devastating. Who will be left to tell your story? #newspapers https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Pope / @kylepope: I've read this book and it's fantastic — urgent and important and necessary. Join us Monday to talk about it https://www.eventbrite.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Blake Rutherford / @blakerutherford: Please subscribe to your local newspaper if you can. https://twitter.com/...
@wbfo: Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now, she writes, it's vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. An expansive retelling of her long history at the Buffalo News and what's happened since she left as Editor in 2012. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ross Barkan / @rossbarkan: This is a very good column by @Sulliview. The only workable solution for saving local newspapers is a large federal subsidiary. News needs a public bailout. There is no other way anymore. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Clay Carey / @byclaycarey: This is so true. I'm very excited to be working a series of research/interview projects related to local news in smaller markets. The first piece of that should drop next month, so stay tuned (and forgive the shameless self promotion) https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: New from me at @niemanlab: @sulliview has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Local news is dying and most Americans don't know it. This excerpt from @sulliview's new book is a gut punch, a love letter, and hopefully an avoidable prophecy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charlie Specht / @charlie_reports: As usual, @Sulliview says it better than anyone else possibly could. Getting “the call” from her when I was a senior at @StBonaventure was a moment I'll never forget. The News should re-establish the investigative team she started. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen reverses course, tells TV network execs it will start measurement of out-of-home viewers, like those at watch parties, in ratings starting this fall — Despite a pandemic that has forced many Americans to shelter at home, Nielsen will, after all, follow through on its plans to chase TV viewers in bars, hotels and offices.
Stephania Taladrid / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Univision has become a lifeline to the Latino community, balancing pandemic and US election coverage, as its ratings have skyrocketed in recent months — How Univision has guided Latinos through a historic election cycle — On Friday the thirteenth of March, Lourdes Torres …
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Raju Narisetti / @raju: How @Univision has guided Latinos in America through a historic election cycle https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
@cjr: With a pandemic disproportionately killing Latinos, a president hostile to the network, and a high-stakes election coming up, Univision has had much to cover the last six months. https://www.cjr.org/...
Rosemary Mercedes B. / @mercedro: “The notion of a TV network being a lifeline may seem an exaggeration, but in polls, Latinos have consistently ranked Univision as one of the most trusted institutions in the US. During its PT news hours, Univision has an audience of nearly 2mil.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNBC becomes the latest media outlet to face embarrassing ethics questions after a leak prosecution; the DIA analyst involved received 30 months in prison — In April 2018, Henry Kyle Frese, then an analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, exchanged some messages with Amanda Macias, a reporter for CNBC.
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Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: “The move to punish the revelation of state secrets to media outlets has hardened over the years into a reliable prong of anti-mediaism in the United States.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@mvhaydencenter: “I don't think there's any difference in the fervor by which the government wants to find leakers. The government just couldn't find these people and now it's a lot easier to do so.” —@MarkSZaidEsq, whistleblower atty & fmr Hayden Center panelist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@postopinions: The move to punish the revelation of state secrets to media outlets has hardened over the years into a reliable prong of anti-mediaism in the United States. @ErikWemple has the latest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mark S. Zaid / @markszaidesq: I've handled classified leak investigations since mid-90s. “I don't think there's any difference in the fervor by which the government wants to find leakers,” says Zaid. “The government just couldn't find these people and now it's a lot easier to do so.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Charter says it is raising its Broadcast TV fee to $16.45/mo starting in August, citing rising programming fees; Comcast had raised its fee in Dec. to $15/mo — Hidden fee not included in Spectrum's advertised prices raised yet again. — Charter Communications is raising the “Broadcast TV” …
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Phillip Dampier / Stop the Cap!: Confirmed: Spectrum Plans to Raise Rates; Broadcast TV Fee: $16.45/mo
Marsha Collier / @marshacollier: Charter's hidden “Broadcast TV” fee now adds $197 a year to cable bills Hidden fee not included in Spectrum's advertised prices raised yet again #techradio 📻 https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Jerome / @joejerome: People are playing their cable providers $200 a year...to access “free” over-the-air broadcast channels. Glad I cut the cord: https://arstechnica.com/...
Delia Cai / Deez Links:
Q&A with Aleksander Chan, who co-owns Discourse Blog with ex-Splinter colleagues, on finding its identity, shifting to a paid model, joys of a small audience — This week's interview is with Discourse Blog's Aleksander Chan, who talked to us about launching the political blog earlier …
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@kerrymflynn, @jscros, @oaklandside, @mjenkins, @eramshaw, @mcwm, @raju, @soshnick, @restofworld, @aleksnotalex, @chaykak and @mathewi
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@kerrymflynn: The media business has arguably never been under so much pressure, with many companies forced to cut costs and others unfortunately going under. But despite all of that, some new publications have launched in recent months or are preparing to do so soon https://www.cnn.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: my comment on discourse blog's first week of paid subscriptions https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@oaklandside: We never dreamed we'd launch @oaklandside in the midst of a global pandemic and a powerful national protest movement. Here's a bit about how we tore up our plans, and mobilized faster, when we felt it was important to do so as local journalists. https://www.cnn.com/...
Mandy Jenkins / @mjenkins: YES to this from @aleksnotalex: “We're not the next Dow Jones or anything or Condé Nast 2.0. But maybe we can be this small sustainable thing that eventually supports just us.” https://www.cnn.com/... You don't need to build an empire to make an impact.
Emily Ramshaw / @eramshaw: Proud to be launching @19thnews news in this time with the extraordinary @andreamvaldez, and proud to serve on the board of @Oaklandside, featuring the great @tasneemraja. https://www.cnn.com/...
Mike Murphy / @mcwm: some good news for the media industry in this crazy time https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: The “we” here being the goat-eating, peripatetic and uber-talented Mr @AnupKaphle https://twitter.com/...
Scott Soshnick / @soshnick: .@Sportico CEO @gloverd gives his thoughts on media startups in this CNN piece: https://www.cnn.com/... #sportsbiz
@restofworld: Things we did while launching Rest of World in the middle of a pandemic: got coronavirus, shut our office, hired 10+ new people, moved to the US from Nepal, had our first kid https://www.cnn.com/...
Aleksander Chan / @aleksnotalex: i did MORE PRESS if you can believe it: honored to be in @delia_cai's very good newsletter deez links today talking about, say it with me now, @discourse_blog https://deezlinks.substack.com/ ...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: this is great because of 1) Delia's newsletter, an indie digital media business, 2) Discourse, an indie digital media business, 3) nice description of how an indie digital media business can work https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “We're doing less! And it's good, because now we can exclusively do posts we feel good about. It feels purer. No more bullshit posts we have to do to meet our numbers to stay alive. I think it's a much healthier way to think about publishing” https://deezlinks.substack.com/ ...
Jason Gutierrez / New York Times:
Philippine lawmakers formally shut down ABS-CBN, the country's largest broadcast network, which Duterte accused of bias, and deny it broadcast franchise renewal — By voting not to renew the franchise of ABS-CBN, lawmakers silenced a major network that had come under fire from President Rodrigo Duterte.
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@melissagrelo, @piamagalona, @morethanbunnies, @janella_angeles, @reaproy, @ethanz, @cwarzel, @benyt and @dannyarao
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Melissa Grelo / @melissagrelo: This is absolutely terrifying. Freedom of the press under attack and the government is succeeding at silencing one outlet at a time. https://twitter.com/...
@piamagalona: Mr. Duterte has often gone after members of the press that he dislikes. He has called journalists “sons of bitches” and warned that they were not exempt from the possibility of physical attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hillary / @morethanbunnies: This is a really big deal. I know it's instinctive for a lot of people to read something like that and think “well that makes sense” because it's not America, but the past few months have seen a dangerous & systematic effort to dismantle free speech/criticism of the president. https://twitter.com/...
Janella Angeles / @janella_angeles: This is absolutely horrifying. To learn more about this dangerous law, what's happening in the Philippines and how to help, here's a resource to boost ⬇️⬇️ ⬇️ https://parasapinas.carrd.co/ https://twitter.com/...
Phil Robertson / @reaproy: .@attyharryroque performs the ‘oh, who me?’ game on the @ABSCBNNews shut down, like his boss #Duterte didn't repeatedly & publicly threaten ABS-CBN with loss of their license because he didn't like their coverage. He wins the totally lame excuse award. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: If the persecution of @mariaressa didn't tip you off, here's proof positive that open society in the Philippines is closing: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: (whispers: if you care about speech and ~*the discourse*~ you may want to throw more focus at what's going on in the philippines) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The Philippines, @mariaressa says, represents the US's dystopian future; they just shut down their biggest broadcaster for being too critical of the government https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ, ICFJ, and Reporters Without Borders launch a campaign called #HoldTheLine to support Rappler's Maria Ressa and other independent media in the Philippines
Discussion:
American Press Institute, @pressfreedom, @iwmf, @mariaressa, @sheilacoronel, @cmsennott and @spj_tweets
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@pressfreedom: Join CPJ and 60 #pressfreedom organizations in our call to #HoldTheLine in support of journalists Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. and independent media in the #Philippines. Sign and share the petition in support: https://rsf.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@iwmf: “We can't stay silent because silence is consent. We need to be outraged, to fight back with journalism.” Together with @pressfreedom, @ICFJ and @RSF_en, we stand with #MariaRessa to #HoldTheLine and demand justice. Join us - sign the petition here: https://rsf.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: Thank you, @pressfreedom and @courtneyr for helping us #HoldTheLine. What a thread!! #CourageON #DefendPressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Sheila Coronel / @sheilacoronel: We @columbiajourn are proud to join the #HoldTheLine coalition in support of @mariaressa @rapplerdotcom & independent media in the #Philippines. #DefendPressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Profile of Trump's new campaign spokesperson and ex-WH deputy press secretary, Hogan Gidley, who quit journalism to work in politics and become a TV personality — On the morning of May 19, Larry Kudlow was booked as a guest on the Fox Business channel. This in itself wasn't unusual.
Discussion:
@olivianuzzi, @ericschultz, @exumam, @jamespmanley, @brent858, @9coacheswaiting, @timodc and @joshuahol
Discussion:
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: Correction: my story initially described Hogan Gidley's bag as a duffel bag. He has informed me it is actually a satchel briefcase. I regret the error. https://nymag.com/...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: @MarcACaputo Alternatively: “Gidley — who speaks to the president half a dozen times a day and hosts his closest advisers, including his daughter and son-in-law, at his home for cocktails — seems to be genuinely unaware of what's happening around him.” https://www.google.com/...
Andrew Exum / @exumam: “Hogan Gidley” and “Heard Galis” are names with incredibly strong Ole Miss energy. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Manley / @jamespmanley: Somewhat hapless? Hogan is way out of his league https://twitter.com/...
Brent / @brent858: people forget she was just casually friends with Milo Yiannopoulos https://twitter.com/...
@9coacheswaiting: Not gonna lie, 85% of this profile can be summed up by “graduate of Ole Miss” https://twitter.com/...
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