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Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Chatham Asset Management, McClatchy's largest creditor, has won an auction to buy the bankrupt local news company — Chatham Asset Management, the New Jersey hedge fund that is McClatchy Co.'s largest creditor, has won an auction to buy the bankrupt local news company.
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Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: Miami Herald Owner McClatchy Newspapers to Sell to Chatham Hedge Fund After Bankuptcy Auction
Cezary Podkul / @cezary: Hedge-fund manager Chatham Asset Management won a bankruptcy auction for McClatchy. A Chatham sale would mean roughly 1/3rd of all newspapers sold in the U.S. will be published by companies controlled by financial firms, including Alden Global and Fortress https://www.wsj.com/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: BREAKING: Chatham hedge fund wins auction to buy McClatchy, and Miami Herald - will seek final approval from bankruptcy court https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ ...
Rick Edmonds / Poynter: Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund, has won the auction to buy the McClatchy newspaper chain
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: democracy dies in auctions to hedge funds https://twitter.com/...
Sebastian Tong / Bloomberg: McClatchy Says Chatham Asset Management Wins Auction Bid
Theresa Clift / @tclift: When the less bad of two hedge funds submitting the winning bid to buy your newspaper chain passes for “good news,” it must be 2020 https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: The new owner of the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star and many other great papers also owns the National Enquirer. Think about that the next time your local school board, police department or transportation system secretly messes up your kids, public safety and roads. https://twitter.com/...
@campbellsl: Hedge funds are killing U.S. journalism and for those of you who say, “Good,” enjoy that unfettered power from your leaders. No watchdogs spells trouble for all of us. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Doctor / @kdoctor: It's official: @mcclatchy says Chatham will be its new owner. Bankruptcy sale still requires judge 7/24 approval. Possible, a bump or 2 til then. But, big question: What will Chatham do: Operate, seek merger partner or sell to individual/civic buyers? https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ ...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: File under: financial investors' increasing control of the American publishing industry. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Steve Marmel / @marmel: “Chatham is the majority owner of Canada's largest news chain, Ottawa-based Postmedia Network Canada Corp., and also owns American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer.” This seems bad. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Dukes / @mtdukes: “Chatham is committed to preserving newsroom jobs and independent journalism that serve and inform local communities during this important time.” https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ ...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: The owner of the National Enquirer now owns America's second biggest chain of local newspapers https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Abramowicz / @lisaabramowicz1: It's likely that one-third of all US newspapers will soon be published by companies controlled by financial institutions. https://www.wsj.com/...
Drew Taylor / @mrdrew_taylor: Not that McClatchy was in great financial shape before, but hedge funds have notoriously sucked newspaper companies dry and have proven time and time again that they have no interest in reinvesting in them. https://twitter.com/...
@will_bunch: Make no mistake — “hedge-fund journalism” is a threat to American democracy as we know it. This is a very, very dark day https://twitter.com/...
Elaine / @eclisham: And could we refresh our memories WHY McClatchy bought Knight-Ridder? Answer: Because Knight-Ridder's *19%* profit margin was deemed by its board to be insufficient. Public ownership of newspapers has been disastrous, made worse by monopoly-market greed and complacency. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kopack / @stevekopack: 160+-year-old McClatchy newspaper empire sold to Chatham Asset Management, owner of the National Enquirer's parent company, in bankruptcy auction. McClatchy owns the Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, The Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee & more. https://www.prnewswire.com/...
@wsj: Hedge fund Chatham won a bankruptcy auction for McClatchy, one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers. The sale would end 163 years of family ownership. https://www.wsj.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: And here's the McClatchy take on it, via the Miami Herald. The hedge fund that now owns the chain says it “is committed to preserving newsroom jobs and independent journalism that serve and inform local communities during this important time.” https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...
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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
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: A beautifully told story that offers nostalgia about local news but not much hope
Giana Han / @giana_jade: This made me cry. As in, i'm lying in my bed with actual tears on my cheeks right now. https://twitter.com/...
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / @lourdesgnavarro: 'I blame the public a little bit," said Ms. March, who retired as the Mercury's editor in 2016. “People do not recognize — do not champion — what we do. I walk around my community and they thank me. But they don't want to support it. They don't want to pay for it.” https://twitter.com/...
Woody Cain / @wycain: Love/hate this story. When I worked at a daily paper, the woman who wrote our obituaries sighed one day & held up an obit form. A piece of paper condensing a whole life into a page. She said “every time I get one of these, we lose a reader & never get them back.” Different era. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Mcnally / @joemcnallyphoto: A beautifully written and photographed piece in the @nytimes — poignant, devastating, heartfelt and observant as to why good local news is so important to communities everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@timothyorourke: Evan Brandt is a reporter for The (Pottstown) Mercury in Pennsylvania. The last reporter. “(He) is the voice of the voiceless. ... He speaks for the little people. If we lose him, we're in trouble.” Support #localnews. Journalism makes us stronger. Subscriptions matter. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Mills / @robert_mills: I worked with some of @PottstownNews former colleagues when we all teamed up to cover Sandy Hook for DFM. They too were great journalists at a great newspaper, just south of where I grew up. This is part of America dying. Hometown papers aren't CNN. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Whatever ya do, make time for @DanBarryNYT this weekend He let er rip https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Reporters like @PottstownNews are a dying breed, and that has huge consequences for uncovering corruption in towns across the county. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brad Plumer / @bradplumer: “He can't bear to think of communities not knowing about a proposed tax increase, or the politics behind a town official's ouster, or yet another public agency violating the open-meetings law by conferring in private. But it's impossible to be everywhere” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytnational: The economic paralysis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has clobbered a newspaper industry already on the mat. Consider The Mercury in Pottstown, Pa. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: This is the best profile of a struggling newspaper, and the struggling industry itself, that I have ever read. It's the profile of an American institution about to go down for the count, while the public watches without a care: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Slackman / @meslackman: One day you're in Pottstown, frantically striving to keep up with the news. The next, you're standing outside a multimillion-dollar mansion 240 miles from home, holding a sign “INVEST IN US OR SELL US.” Such is the desperation of a frustrated newspaperman https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Levy / @timelywriter: This is an incredible story. I urge you to read it. The power of local reporters and local newspapers to improve lives and communities is real and this proves it. Something needs to be done urgently to save these institutions. https://twitter.com/...
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: One day soon we may look around and local news, the best kind anyway, may be gone completely and we will be grateful at least that @DanBarryNYT brought us this wonderful, tragic piece of journalism paleontology. Best line: “dinosaur to dinosaur” https://twitter.com/...
Ellen L Weintraub / @ellenlweintraub: Social media cannot make up for the loss of local journalism “in terms of an informed electorate; an accountable government; a sense of place.” https://www.nytimes.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@williams_paige: “I blame the public a little bit. People do not recognize — do not champion — what we do.” Devastating: https://www.nytimes.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/...
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/...
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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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/...
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post: Tucker Carlson's chief writer resigns over racist and sexist posts, the latest trouble for Fox's most controversial star
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/
Asha Rangappa / @asharangappa_: Much of what Neff posted became part of Tucker's scripts (sometimes word for word). It beggars belief that the kinds of things he wrote was not also spoken out loud with Tucker and others. Nice cover-up but nobody's buying it. https://twitter.com/...
Curious George / @impishchimp: Fox News fans are not bothered in the slightest by this news. https://twitter.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: Blake Neff's racism inspired the messages in Tucker's book as well as his TV show. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hussein Ibish / @ibishblog: Exactly the same https://twitter.com/...
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: I'm confused because this seems on brand with the show. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: Other than the naughty words, nothing he said on those forums is substantively different from what Carlson does every night on the air. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Cheng / @kenchengcomedy: Fox news: I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there's racism going on in here! https://twitter.com/...
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian: ‘His hatred is infectious’: Tucker Carlson, Trump's heir apparent and 2024 candidate?
Ishena Robinson / The Root: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Resigns After Being Revealed as a Racist (On the Internet)
Blue Bee / @blue_bee_pllntr: Wait till these executives see what Tucker himself says on air every single night. If they indeed actually are shocked by “horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior” https://twitter.com/...
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: 'It's Pathetic!' CNN's Stelter, Darcy Rip Tucker Carlson for ‘Smear’ Against Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Ross McCafferty / @rossmccaff: He should move to Britain. He'd have three columns and a radio show within a fortnight. https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News: Top Tucker Carlson writer at Fox News resigns after alleged racist, sexist online remarks
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/ ...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: This is like a chef going home and cooking every day. 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/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Writer for Tucker Carlson Resigns After ‘Abhorrent’ Online Posts Are Revealed
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/...
Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Tom Embury-Dennis / The Independent: Tucker Carlson's top writer quits Fox News amid allegations he secretly posted racist comments …
Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times: Fox News condemns former Tucker Carlson writer for ‘horrific’ racist, sexist comments
Neal Colgrass / Newser: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Gets Outed Over Secret Posts
Jack Brewster / Forbes: Tucker Carlson's Top Writer Resigned Over Secretive Racist Remarks. Here's How He Was Exposed.
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox News Condemns Remarks By Former Tucker Carlson Staffer
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Tucker Carlson's ex-lead writer has a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: The Right Stuff — Former “Review” staffer Blake Neff '13 settles in at Fox.
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/...
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/...
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.
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.
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.”
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/ ...
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/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
While autocrats crack down on independent journalism in Malaysia, Russia, China, Egypt, the Philippines, Hungary, and elsewhere, the US looks the other way — Independent journalism is on the defensive, from Hungary to Malaysia. — Like many American media types, I spent a lot …
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Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: What threats to free speech actually look like, and how Trump is making it worse, by @benyt: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: When I left Cairo to work for The Times in New York I remember thinking, “If this doesn't work out maybe I can come back and see if @Linaattalah will give me a job.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Digital news outlets, from Hungary to Malaysia, are now in more danger than ever, writes @benyt. The attacks on them are a tribute to an independence that reflects the best promise of the internet and to the threats they pose to autocratic leaders. 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
Discussion:
The Atlantic, @sulliview, @michaelroston, @dangainor, @hotlinejosh, @theatlantic, @nprmichel, @darickr, @picardonhealth, @rickgoldring, @nate_mcmurray, @dan_higgins, @lyman_brian, @westwingreport, @byclaycarey, @nbj914, @ron_fournier, @mattvillano, @charlie_reports, @dankennedy_nu, @savethenews, @wbfo, @rossbarkan, @froomkin, @kylepope and @blakerutherford
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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/ ...
Michael Roston / @michaelroston: An important point in excerpt from @Sulliview's book: audience for hard news in many newspapers was long overestimated. Many subscribers wanted sports, stock prices, classified ads; they can get that all elsewhere now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gainor / @dangainor: If news can't survive then they are doing it wrong. | Columnist Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now it's vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: “The journalism that Americans need to function—the institutions that provide people with the information they require to make decisions for themselves and for the country—is in the midst of a mass extinction.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@theatlantic: The threat Americans face, Margaret Sullivan argues in her new book, is not just the news that lies. It is also the news that will never exist in the first place. @megangarber on the slow-moving disaster that's hard to see: https://on.theatln.tc/zyZOTuX
Michel Martin / @nprmichel: If you're worried about the state of news in America—you're right . This is a must read https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@darickr: Why we're awash with claims of “fake news” and conspiracy theories. It erodes Democracy. “The lack of real journalism in a lot of the more remote parts of the district meant that people were relying on gossip, conservative radio or social media,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andr Picard / @picardonhealth: The disappearance of local news is a slow moving disaster and a threat to democracy. @megangarber reviews “Ghosting The News,” a new book by @Sulliview https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... via @TheAtlantic #journalism
Rick Goldring / @rickgoldring: Without legitimate local media, people rely on bloggers, social media and even elected officials for their local news and quite often the content is misleading. Twenty five years ago, there were 3 papers that provided meaningful coverage on #BurlON. Now, just @InsideHalton. https://twitter.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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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
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/ ...
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/...
@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/ ...
@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/ ...
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/ ...
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Interview with ex-CNN host Reza Aslan, who says Jeff Zucker canceled his show Believer to appease Trump over Aslan's 2017 tweet calling Trump a “piece of shit” — CLEARING THE AIR — The ex-CNN personality reveals how his acclaimed show “Believer” was destroyed …
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The Wrap, @sikhprof, @rezaaslan, @kiminsley, @juliaioffe, @bznotes, @borzou, @wesleylowery, @eliclifton, @sarajbenincasa, @marlownyc, @danaafana, @originalspin, @rezaaslan and @rosieisaholt
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Simran Jeet Singh / @sikhprof: Wonder what integrity looks like? How about leaving behind the dream you've been building for decades rather than cowering to Trump's bigotry. Respect to @rezaaslan for keeping it real when it would have been easier not to. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Reza Aslan / @rezaaslan: Thank you brother https://twitter.com/...
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: Always wondered why CNN gave candidate trump hours of airtime while ignoring other candidates' events. A guy helping his buddy by creating fake news. https://twitter.com/...
Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes: Cancel culture silenced the most prominent Muslim voice on national cable networks. “And in June of 2017, I am one of the most prominent Muslim voices in America. And the #CNNisISIS tag is indicative of it, that this was motivated by Trump's anti-Muslim sentiment.” https://twitter.com/...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: The writer @rezaaslan literally got canceled for basically nothing. Don't recall any of the @Harpers magazine “free speech” defenders coming to his defense back then. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: “So this is one of the world's leading Muslim cable-news commentators being iced out because he upset Trump and Jeff Zucker.” “Exactly” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Eli Clifton / @eliclifton: Funny how pearl clutching about “cancel culture” seems to mainly come from media elites who aren't used to being challenged and aren't actually “cancelled.” Read Reza's interview to see how politics and corporate interests ACTUALLY cancel dissenting voices. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Benincasa / @sarajbenincasa: ACTUAL cancelation invariably comes at the hands of those in bed with fascism. https://twitter.com/...
Marlow Stern / @marlownyc: Unlike @JK_Rowling or @realDonaldTrump, Reza Aslan knows what it's like to really be canceled... over a single tweet. Here's the whole crazy backstory, including plenty of shade at CNN's Jeff Zucker: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Dana Afana / @danaafana: “These are just ways of making sure that certain voices that are troublesome and that undermine the system that we live under are silenced—and silenced in the name of “civility,” “free speech,” or “cancel culture.” It's truly what's at stake here. Interesting piece w/ @rezaaslan https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Yang / @originalspin: The danger of stage-managed, top-down “cancellation” by the coordinated forces of the right, in service of the central state and its would-be autocrat, is and has always been more of a concern in this country than “illiberal mobs” of the left. https://twitter.com/...
Reza Aslan / @rezaaslan: Unlike J.K. Rowling or Donald Trump, I actually know what it's like to be canceled. https://twitter.com/...
Rosie Holt / @rosieisaholt: “To me, the real “cancel culture” doesn't involve elites but people of color and marginalized voices. It involves anyone who may, say, speak out in favor of Palestine. These elites with giant platforms and followings are not the ones being silenced.” https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Draper / New York Times:
Sources: ESPN suspended NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski for sending a vulgar email to Sen. Josh Hawley, who criticized NBA's use of messages like BLM on jerseys — Adrian Wojnarowski, who is known for his “Woj bombs” of breaking news, emailed a different kind to a U.S. senator.
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The Hill, Washington Post, Outkick, @jeremy_danner, @sethamandel, @hawleymo and @walsha
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post: ESPN suspends Adrian Wojnarowski, its star NBA reporter, after profane email to senator
Ryan Glasspiegel / Outkick: Woj Suspended By ESPN
Squirrely Danner / @jeremy_danner: It would be amazing if @HawleyMO expected the same level of decorum and professionalism from POTUS as he does a sports reporter. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: He got suspended for an actual Woj Bomb! But seriously this is heavyhanded he shouldn't be suspended. I would rather the league just addressed the China point https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Televised WH press briefings, which have become theatrical spectacles, should limit reporters' roles to audio as the cameras affect how the press asks questions — five days after he was inaugurated—President John F. Kennedy held the first live, televised press conference in American history.
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Cyclops / @scotttbrower1: “...the tactic has given the administration the opportunity to use the cameras in the room to project its message, surrounded by reporters who aren't able to ask many follow-up questions.” Narrator: Whining because the tactic is effective. https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
@cjr: New from @BGrueskin: Most journalism takes place outside the public view. Televised press briefings flip the script, which risks turning reporters into dramatis personae, as they compete for attention and air time. https://www.cjr.org/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: In 1961, JFK held his first press conference. 65 million Americans saw it. You know what they didn't see? The reporters. That worked out really well. Let's do it again. My column, via @CJR https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “It's hard to see how the public benefits from seeing reporters on camera, and it's inevitable that the attention of the cameras affects the questions the press asks, and the way the press asks them.” https://www.cjr.org/...
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, @loupas, @nytimesbusiness, @team_mitch, Deadline, @rob_flaherty, @yaeleisenstat, @vanitaguptacr, @bloombergtv, @jennidigital, @juddlegum, @ariezrawaldman, Variety, @brendancarrfcc, @jason_kint, @rashadrobinson, @sentedcruz, @emmya2, @aaronbastani, @mattcompton, @anupamchander, @daveleeft, @profgalloway, @kevinroose, @alexstamos, @daveleeft, @rsg, @tsgiles, @hkreid, @politicswolf, @urbanachievr, @alxthomp, @jeffhauser and @janesports, 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/...
Lou Paskalis / @loupas: I am touched by their sincerity and sense of urgency: “@Facebook Inc. is CONSIDERING imposing a ban on political ads on its platform in the DAYS LEADING UP TO the U.S. election in November, according to people familiar with the company's thinking.” https://www.bloomberg.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/...
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/...
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/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Facebook May Ban Political Advertising
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/...
Nathan Taylor Pemberton / New Yorker:
Profile of Casa Magazines, an immigrant-owned newsstand in NYC's West Village that is struggling to survive amid the pandemic and the slow death of print media — The most recognizable newsstand in Manhattan's West Village, Casa Magazines, had been open every day for the past twenty-six years, without exception.
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@emiliapetrarca, @mediavoicespod, @nathanheller, @susannahbreslin, @ganzeer, @laneflorsheim, @caitlin_thomps, @soutikbbc, @j_fuller and @nathanpemberton
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Emilia Petrarca / @emiliapetrarca: “He let out a conciliatory sigh when I informed him that [this story] would appear only on The New Yorker's Web site. 'I don't like digital. I like print,' he noted again. ‘But send me a link.’” https://www.newyorker.com/...
@mediavoicespod: In just the past decade, Ahmed said that the number of magazines he carries in the shop has shrunk by a third. A thousand publications or more have disappeared in this time because, as he puts it, the world now prefers to “look with its fingers.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
Nathan Heller / @nathanheller: The irony (or not) is that this piece would have fit seamlessly into the magazine before there was even a Web site. Beautifully done. https://twitter.com/...
Susannah Breslin / @susannahbreslin: An ode to the print magazine https://www.newyorker.com/...
@ganzeer: The irony of an article on the virtues of print culture and print retail appearing only on the New Yorker's digital platform and not in print. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Lane Florsheim / @laneflorsheim: Casa Magazines siren!! One of my favorite West Village/NYC places. (Owner Mohammed Ahmed's looking for a benefactor, someone please save this important store....) https://www.newyorker.com/...
Caitlin / @caitlin_thomps: Attn: NYC magazine lovers—the WV's beloved Casa Magazines is in trouble. Go pick up some titles from Mohammed and Ali, and if you're too rich for your own good, “the only living shrine to print culture in New York City,” could use an investor or two... https://www.newyorker.com/...
Soutik Biswas / @soutikbbc: Hyderabad-born Mohammed Ahmed, the last king of print, runs the most famous magazine store in New York and wants to keeping selling them until he dies. #Magazines #media @Rubenbanerjee https://www.newyorker.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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@maxwelltani, Los Angeles Times, @senthorun, @barstoolbigcat, @jpbrammer, @pwafork, @timcast, @zerohedge, Exchange the Experience, @mattdpearce, @theneedledrop, @rebeccakmccray, The Guardian, @concretemilk, Newser, NPR, @elle_hunt, @rhodes_dawn, @lenadunham, @blackamazon, @nilofer, The Hill and @nberlat
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Dozens of journalists and people in academia and publishing have signed a lengthy response to the Harper's letter. The response will be released this morning.
Mariah Kreutter / Los Angeles Times: A letter on why me having only 724 Twitter followers is an assault on free speech
Senthorun Raj / @senthorun: “The intellectual freedom of cis white intellectuals has never been under threat en masse, especially when compared to how writers from marginalized groups have been treated for generations.” Facing discomfort and accountability isn't #cancelculture. https://theobjective.substack.com/ ...
Big Cat / @barstoolbigcat: Looks like we have a good old fashioned signed public letter off, folks https://twitter.com/...
James Morrow / @pwafork: So the big response to the Harpers free speech letter is a bunch of tendentious attempts to claim cited cancellations didn't happen followed by a laundry list of cancellations that should have happened. Maybe just better to argue on the merits, guys? https://twitter.com/...
@zerohedge: Hey @nytimes what exactly are the NDAs you impose on your journalists? https://theobjective.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jean-Luc Tilly / Exchange the Experience: The Harper's Letter and Cancel Culture
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/...
Debatethonty Metano / @theneedledrop: My heart goes out to this young writer. 😢😢😢😢 😢😢😢😢 😢😢😢😢 😢 https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca McCray / @rebeccakmccray: This LA Times intern, @______mariah__ , gets the last word on The Letter; no other takes needed https://www.latimes.com/...
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian: Harper's free speech letter has ‘moved the needle’, says organiser
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/ ...
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'
Elle Hunt / @elle_hunt: The highly specific rebuttals of this letter highlight the imprecision of the original https://theobjective.substack.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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
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/ ...
Anagha Srikanth / The Hill: More than 150 people have signed. — Hundreds of prominent writers …
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/...
Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of Byron Allen, whose assets include Entertainment Studios, The Weather Channel, and 15 local TV stations, on being one of the few Black media moguls — The comic turned mogul has played the long game since he was a kid, acquiring assets like The Weather Channel and taking …
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Seth / @sethabramovitch: A profile of Byron Allen, Hollywood's most exciting mogul. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Seth / @sethabramovitch: A lot of people pick up the phone when the subject is @RealByronAllen, including Eddie Murphy, who shared this chess story. ♟ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@ctam: Allen plans to continue building his media empire https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Mcguff / @mikemcguff: Byron Allen on His Plans for Media Domination: “I'd love to own CNN. ... And I will.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... via @thr
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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