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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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Ben Smith / @benyt: I wrote this week on my favorite news sites around the world, many of them under threat https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams: A State Department spokesperson in @benyt's new column refuses to go on the record to say that it defends independent media. Astonishing. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Ben has written a number of highly influential and provocative columns in his first few months at The Times. I would argue this is his most important yet. Please read. https://twitter.com/...
Ross Tapsell / @rosstapsell: A good reminder of the vital role some underfunded news orgs play in reporting truth to power in Southeast Asia. Focus is on Malaysiakini & Rappler due to recent govt crackdowns but Tempo & Tirto in Indonesia also crucial. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Smart of @benyt to take the debate over “cancel” culture, & quickly shift the frame, & refocus on the journalists in Egypt, Malaysia, & the Philippines facing violent repression —often from regimes propped up with US tax-dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Crabtree / @jamescrabtree: “Mr. Gan, the co-founder of Malaysia's most important political news site, is leaving his hatchback at home on Monday morning.... That's because Mr. Gan thinks there's a good chance he'll be going straight from the courthouse to jail.” https://twitter.com/...
Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: What threats to free speech actually look like, and how Trump is making it worse, by @benyt: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@suilee: Thank you for writing about this @benyt. Independent journalism in so many parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia where I sit now, is under siege. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Not mentioned in the piece, but in a similar vain: In Morocco security forces recently arrested reporter @OmarRADI—& he's reportedly been under surveilence, thanks to tools provided by Israeli spyware firm NSO & its owner, UK private equity firm Novalpina https://forbiddenstories.org/ ...
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/...
William Yang / @williamyang120: “Many governments around the world are looking to an alternative model in China, which puts tight controls on domestic media and is in the process of imposing its stifling regime on Hong Kong,” writes @benyt. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: glad @benyt is covering the global assault on independent media. when you look at each of these cases, fundamentally they reflect government corruption, thirst for power, and resistance to democratic debate and public interest reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Tara Francis Chan / @taramfrancis: So refreshing to read about media and free speech issues that aren't U.S.-centric. If you haven't heard of Malaysiakini and Rappler, take a few minutes to read about these brave outlets 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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
Rick Edmonds / Poynter: Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund, has won the auction to buy the McClatchy newspaper chain
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/...
Sebastian Tong / Bloomberg: McClatchy Says Chatham Asset Management Wins Auction Bid
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/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: democracy dies in auctions to hedge funds 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/ ...
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Audible's new chief content officer Brad Schwartz is out, after Audible employees found an old sexual-harassment lawsuit at Pop in which he was named — Brad Schwartz was supposed to help the Amazon division challenge Spotify in podcasting — About a month after Audible announced …
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Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: New: Just last month, Audible hired a head of programming to develop original series/podcasts (and take on @Spotify). He's now gone. Here's why: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: Former Pop TV President Brad Schwartz Out at Audible After One Month
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Another chapter in Audible's tangled history with workplace culture, sexual harassment and original programming. https://www.bloomberg.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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Ryan Glasspiegel / Outkick: Woj Suspended By ESPN
Ben Strauss / Washington Post: ESPN suspends Adrian Wojnarowski, its star NBA reporter, after profane email to senator
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: .@espn don't suspend a reporter, ask tough questions of @NBA about their pro-#China, anti-America bias. Start reporting for goodness sake https://twitter.com/...
Mollie Walker / New York Post: Sen. Josh Hawley against ESPN suspending Adrian Wojnarowski
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
@spj_tweets: “Worthy local reporting requires time, expertise, talent and institutional knowledge. At the Buffalo News, we had less of those every month, and the readers knew it. The same has happened across the larger landscape of local news.” 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/...
@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
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
Mark Jurkowitz / Pew Research Center:
Survey: US adults aged under 30 follow election and pandemic news less closely than older adults, are most critical over news coverage of George Floyd protests — The youngest adults, those ages 18 to 29, differ from older Americans in their news consumption habits as well as in their responses …
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@facttank: 31% of Republicans ages 18 to 29 say President Trump and his administration get their facts right on #COVID19 almost all or most of the time. That is, by a substantial margin, the lowest percentage of any Republican age group. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@facttank: Democrats overall tend to express more favorable views of the media than Republicans, but Democrats ages 18 to 29 have a considerably less favorable view than other age groups in the party. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Elisa Shearer / @elisashearer: Fun new data on young adults! Young Democrats give less positive assessments of media performance on Floyd protests & COVID-19. Young Republicans, meanwhile, give less positive assessments of Trump & the admin's response to the protests & COVID-19. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Webb / @gmikewebb: Lots to unpack here. But ultimately, looks like we still have a lot of work to do. #newsliteracy https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...
Kat Devlin / @kat_devlin: Adults under age 30 offer the most critical evaluation of the media regarding the George Floyd demonstrations and coronavirus outbreak https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@facttank: % of Americans ages 18 to 29 following news about each topic very or fairly closely: ▪️The 2020 presidential election candidates: 35% ▪️The coronavirus outbreak: 75% ▪️Demonstrations protesting the death of George Floyd: 83% https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... 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
@kutv2news: CNN reported Friday that writer Blake Neff used a pseudonym to write bigoted comments about Black and Asian people, as well as women, on the online forum. https://kutv.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/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: Neff bragged that the first draft of anything Tucker Carlson says is “written by me.” Tucker credited him in his book acknowledgements for research, which means Neff's word and ideas fuel Carlson's show, the highest-rated in cable show in history. https://www.cnn.com/...
Hussein Ibish / @ibishblog: Exactly the same https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: One thing I've found missing from the discourse about the head writer of the Tucker Carlson show being outted as an N word spewing racist is that it's the #1 rated cable news show. Media blames tech for causing division in the US but ignores the context of what's popular on TV. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Gais / @hannahgais: the only thing i would add is people tend to dismiss these sorts of stories as obvious while forgetting the fact that the reason why it isn't shocking is because reporters have been slowly hammering away at carlson's and the caller's connections to white nationalists for years. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: I'm confused because this seems on brand with the show. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Cheng / @kenchengcomedy: Fox news: I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there's racism going on in here! https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR: Fresh Scrutiny For Fox's Tucker Carlson As Top Writer Quits Over Bigoted Posts
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/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: Because Tucker Carlson's show so obviously markets white nationalist ideas to its audience, and because white nationalists have been so effusive in their admiration for him and what he is doing, it's tempting to dismiss this story as “obvious.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: 'It's Pathetic!' CNN's Stelter, Darcy Rip Tucker Carlson for ‘Smear’ Against Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Leigh Beadon / Techdirt: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
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/...
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/...
Ross McCafferty / @rossmccaff: He should move to Britain. He'd have three columns and a radio show within a fortnight. https://twitter.com/...
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/
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian: ‘His hatred is infectious’: Tucker Carlson, Trump's heir apparent and 2024 candidate?
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/...
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News: Top Tucker Carlson writer at Fox News resigns after alleged racist, sexist online remarks
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/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Writer for Tucker Carlson Resigns After ‘Abhorrent’ Online Posts Are Revealed
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
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/...
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: Tucker Carlson's ex-lead writer has a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic social media posts
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/...
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/...
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
While many news orgs have celebrated the discomfort of Facebook, many haven't joined the ad boycott as few have the scale to forgo Facebook's distribution power — Mark Zuckerberg and Noam Chomsky are strange bedfellows in this political moment, but both found themselves on the same side …
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@cjr: “Advertising on Facebook is like paying trucks to take your product to newsstands or paying carriage costs for cable television. It is access to the market more than it is brand promotion.” https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: New from @emilybell: “One of the striking aspects of the #StopHateForProfit campaign is that, while many news organizations have celebrated the discomfort of Facebook, not many of them have actually joined the boycott.” https://www.cjr.org/...
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 Guardian, @rezaaslan, @kiminsley, @juliaioffe, @bznotes, @drvox, @borzou, The Wrap, @sikhprof, @wesleylowery, @eliclifton, @sarajbenincasa, @marlownyc, @danaafana, @originalspin, @rezaaslan and @rosieisaholt
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Nesrine Malik / The Guardian: The ‘cancel culture’ war is really about old elites losing power in the social media age
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/...
David Roberts / @drvox: This is what “cancel culture” actually looks like: minority voices being shut down by powerful white people. https://www.thedailybeast.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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
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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Maghan McDowell / @maghanmcd: Magazines can be dismissed as trivial pursuits for privileged readers, but this “lighthouse for magazines” doesn't sell fantasy or truth in print form. It sells intricately designed, artfully produced excuses for people to step out of their lives https://www.newyorker.com/...
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/...
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/...
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
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