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Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Sinclair says it will delay airing and add more context to an America This Week segment that features “Plandemic” conspiracy theory, after social media backlash — Sinclair Broadcasting on Saturday said it will delay its scheduled airing of a news segment featuring …
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@wearesinclair: After further review, we have decided to delay this episode's airing. We will spend the coming days bringing together other viewpoints and provide additional context. All stations have been notified not to air this and will instead be re-airing last week's episode in its place.
@wearesinclair: We hear your feedback regarding a segment on this week's “America This Week.” At no juncture are we aligning with or endorsing the viewpoints of Dr. Mikovitz or Mr. Klayman or endorsing the “Plandemic” documentary. Full stop.
@wearesinclair: We also interviewed a medical expert who debunked Dr. Mikovitz's claims as conspiracy theories. We're a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial.
Tom Jones / Poynter: Outrageous claims about Dr. Fauci should never see the light of day on Sinclair Broadcast
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg: Sinclair Pulls the Plug on Fauci Propaganda — This Time
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited ‘Plandemic’ researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci
Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America: Sinclair gives “Plandemic” conspiracy theorists a platform to spread their lies about Dr. Fauci and the coronavirus
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Sinclair says it will postpone and ‘rework’ segment featuring conspiracy theory about Fauci
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: So Sinclair is going to air something so discredited that even Facebook took it down. https://www.cnn.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: Underrated detail here is the inclusion of Larry Klayman, an expert in nothing who is known most prominently for raising money to file lawsuits that immediately fail https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: “Fortunately, Media Matters for America... and CNN, the cable network, late last week published critiques of the upcoming show that sparked a backlash on social media and forced Sinclair to reconsider.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: Sinclair Broadcast was forced to postpone a hit piece suggesting Anthony Fauci is a Covid-19 villain - but it's just the latest episode in the TV company's long-running campaign of packaging political smears as part of the “marketplace of ideas.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post: Sinclair TV stations delay airing interview with ‘Plandemic’ researcher amid backlash
@mmfa: UpdateL Sinclair said that it would delay airing the episode featuring a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist, and tell its local news stations to re-air a prior episode. However, @zpleat found that the segment has already aired on at least one local station https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John Fugelsang / @johnfugelsang: “Look, we're just a right-wing for-profit-news outlet; we don't actually BELIEVE the disinformation we produce & deliver via the public airwaves to your increasingly paranoid grandparents.” - Sinclair, translated https://twitter.com/...
Lorenzo Hall / @lorenzohall: “It's really a magnitude different now because of the anger,” Fauci said. “There are people who get really angry at thinking I'm interfering with their life because I'm pushing a public-health agenda,” he continued. @wusa9 https://www.cbsnews.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: Sinclair came to its senses and is going to “delay” airing that interview with the person who falsely claims that Fauci somehow helped engineer the COVID virus. At this point, it'd be surprising if that interview ever saw the light of day. https://twitter.com/...
Rev. Michael Coren / @michaelcoren: Two regular characteristics of conspiracy theorists, both produced by feelings of inadequacy: need to assume ownership of ostensibly exclusive information, no matter how bizarre; need to blame one's failures on other people and groups. https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The reversal from Sinclair comes after the company defended airing the conspiracy theory earlier today. Bolling had also defended the segment to me yesterday. But sources tell me that viewers flooded local stations with complaints about the segment. https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Meanwhile, Fauci tells @davidaxelrod that he's getting “serious threats” against him, his daughters, and his wife. He said it's “tough” and wondered, “I mean, really, is this the United States of America?” https://www.mediaite.com/...
Hanna Brooks Olsen / @mshannabrooks: I remain unsurprised by anything Sinclair does. I watched them sweep into the station where I worked and immediately begin union busting, editorializing the content, and generally creating a toxic culture of fear. https://twitter.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: 2/ Above a chyron that reads “Did Dr. Fauci Create Coronavirus?” @FoxNews ‘Medial A-Team’ member @NBSaphierMD claimed it's likely that the coronavirus was “man-made within a laboratory.” Ref: https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Billy Wayne Davis / @billywaynedavis: “We got caught lying blatantly and promise to be more subtle next time.” https://twitter.com/...
India Willoughby / @indiawilloughby: Crazy - basically setting the thicko mob on Dr #Fauci . America has got to be one of the scariest places on the planet at the moment. https://www.cnn.com/...
Nick LaFave / @nicklafave: TV news group ADMITS man's theories are debunked. Yet still chooses to air them. They are knowingly airing lies. That's not journalism. That's propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Who needs Russian disinformation when you have US companies willing to poison their own audiences with discredited conspiracy theories? https://twitter.com/...
Caitriona Balfe / @caitrionambalfe: This is so irresponsible and frustrating. When we attack our scientists and experts we put peoples lives in danger. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Helmuth / @laurahelmuth: It's not controversial. It's a lie. Amplifying coronavirus conspiracy theories will kill people. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Charles / @mrjoshcharles: This is f**king appalling. “Rework” to provide proper “context” on a shit sandwich? https://twitter.com/...
Biden War Room / @bidenwarroom: Sinclair controls almost 300 local news stations across the US, and now they're deliberately trying to spread misinformation about Covid in the middle of a pandemic. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nevins / @scottnevins: I've been warning you all about Sinclair Broadcast Group owning your local TV station. Check to see! https://twitter.com/...
Alternative Noaa / @altnoaa: Other viewpoints? How about just not including anything that is completely discredited. That's a good place to start. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Silverman / @sarahksilverman: Jesus we live in the scariest movie https://twitter.com/...
Dana Nessel / @dananessel: Important thread by @NickLaFave of @wzzm13. Real journalists stand up for real journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: 1. Good they pulled the broadcast, but... 2. This isn't a “gotta hear from both sides” kinda situation where you just need “other viewpoints.” If one “side” is spewing dangerous, debunked, conspiracy theories, YOU DON'T NEED TO AIR THOSE. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: It's a relief that Sinclair backtracked on this, but mind-boggling that they were even going to do it in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: America is ungovernable. We cannot defeat this pandemic while a healthy proportion of the population is invested in believing total nonsense. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: As a propaganda machine, Sinclair is far more dangerous than OANN. Although it's emerging a little more as itself lately, it is still for the most part a stealth network that operates through local “community” stations that present to the viewer as ABC CBS NBC & Fox affiliates. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: .@oliverdarcy's reporting on Sinclair gets results https://twitter.com/...
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: There are no other view points. You were preparing to air a crazed conspiracy theory that will lead to more dead Americans. Sinclair is toxic, malicious and irresponsible. The company's conduct is utterly shameful. You are Propagandists that spread a virus of lies that poison https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Many of us went into journalism because we felt it a public service that provided accountability. But Sinclair would do a public service by shutting down. https://twitter.com/...
Molly McKew / @mollymckew: We don't pay enough attention to how bad Sinclair is and how it contributes to the warped perceptions of the country. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Klaas / @brianklaas: If you want to know why American politics are so crazy, here's one reason. If you break the way citizens get information, you break democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Sciutto / @jimsciutto: In 2016, Russia flooded the US with disinformation to influence an election. In 2020, some of the worst is coming from within our country. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: You operate nearly 200 televisions stations. When you use that platform to elevate dangerous conspiracy theorists, you are responsible. Full. Stop. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: Sinclair Broadcasting, if it had existed 80 years ago: “We hear your feedback regarding our airing ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’ We are not aligning with the viewpoints of the authors. But we believe in a marketplace of views. And we take no responsibility for anything.” https://twitter.com/...
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: Full Stop. You are super spreaders of disinformation and conspiracy theories. Full Stop. You are a deeply irresponsible company. Full Stop. You are in part the reason why the nations leading infectious disease specialist, Anthony Fauci has to have Secret https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Don't broadcast lies and then claim to support the “marketplace of ideas” A lie is not an idea It is a lie https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Oseroff-Spicer / @nathanoseroff: These two sentences sound in tension with one another https://twitter.com/...
Marc E. Elias / @marceelias: This is exactly what they did in 2004 when they were set to smear @JohnKerry. They backed down to public outrage at the last minute The FCC should look at whether they are meeting their obligation to act in the public interest. https://www.politico.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: Shorter @WeAreSinclair: We're not endorsing insane conspiracy theories that are likely to get people killed... we're just giving them national TV exposure. Isn't this the kind of criminally irresponsible behavior by a broadcaster that the @FCC should do something about? https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Boycott those who support this abrogation of Sinclair's public responsibilities as the owner of these stations using public airways. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Sinclair was going to beam the Plandemic conspiracy theorist into millions of homes so she could accuse Fauci of creating COVID, but @mmfa reporting triggered other reporting, social media outrage, and probably internal dismay, so they pulled it. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Dillon Richards / @kocodillon: Supporting the marketplace of ideas does not mean you have to air dangerous conspiracy theories on the public airwaves, even if you debunk them in a different segment... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile: The marketplace of ideas doesn't mean you air a truly demented conspiracy that Dr. Fauci created COVID on your stations across the country. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Thread: it's always easier to defend speech than to say where you would draw the line. That is why the firing of David Shor will get more discussion as a free speech issue than media that reaches 40% of the US peddling conspiracies, though the latter is a more instructive case. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: A lot of people are dying in America because some refuse to take minimal public health actions, often because they believe in false conspiracies. Spreading those conspiracies (Fauci created the virus!) is deeply irresponsible. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Webb Mitovich / TVLine: Sinclair TV Stations Nix News Program Featuring COVID Conspiracy Theorist Behind Banned ‘Plandemic’ Video
Jack Brewster / Forbes: Sinclair Delays Broadcast Of ‘Plandemic’ Interview; Host Promises Better ‘Context’
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: Sinclair to delay airing of interview with researcher in conspiracy video, ‘Plandemic’
Bruce Haring / Deadline: Sinclair Broadcasting Delays Airing Eric Bolling Interview With Pandemic Conspiracy Theorist
Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look back at Hearst under Troy Young and its move to spike the Bryan Singer story, which became important to the #MeToo movement after The Atlantic ran it — The workplace environment at the company's magazine division was troubled under Troy Young. And it may not have been good for ambitious investigative journalism, either.
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@benyt, @benyt, @perlberg, @bananapeele, @martinlieberman, @kimmasters, @cliffordlevy, @rmac18, @kerrymflynn, @amandamull, @nbj914, @jeffreygoldberg, @cindygallop, @bernstein, @karaswisher, @mikiebarb, @azi, @annehelen, @lainnafader, @freeblackgirl, Fashionista, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, @onesarahjones, @michelleruiz, The Wrap, @prachigu, New York Times, @katie_robertson, @jessicavalenti and Adweek
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Did Hearst's Culture Kill Hearst's Biggest Magazine Story? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Also: The backstory to this is not what we thought it was! https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: Interesting story here from @benyt, who recently criticized @RonanFarrow for implying, without proof, that media executives conspired to kill a Me Too story about a Hollywood titan over fears their own internal misconduct problem might be revealed https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anna Peele / @bananapeele: Crazy. The Hearst media kit says the print mag has a paid circulation of 2.2 million, which is...very high. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Lieberman / @martinlieberman: In the end, @benyt quotes @JeffreyGoldberg saying, @JayFielden “stood up for his writers, and he stood up for a story that was true, and he doesn't get the credit he deserves for doing that.” https://ow.ly/... Wow. What a read. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: The Atlantic did the brave thing in publishing allegations against Bryan Singer when Hearst did not. This took months of very difficult reporting and Hearst shamefully abandoned its reporters. 1/2 https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: “They spiked a story that should have been published in the public interest for reasons unknown.” It's Sunday night. That means it's time for another big media scoop from @benyt. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rmac18: like a phoenix rising from the ashes with his $5,000 coach suitcase and vintage patek philippe https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: “Shrinking businesses make for bitter workplaces, and it's true that Mr. Young shifted Hearst away from... glossy print journalism toward the new reality of clicks + algorithms. But I've never seen crude talk as part of the digital transformation” - @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amanda Mull / @amandamull: can't figure out what to say about this passage on the Brian Singer story that Esquire shut down and we eventually published https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: A twist! I was bitter about Fielden's Esquire—mostly bc Granger's was far and away my favorite period of periodicals—but it turns out Fielden left after Hearst execs killed @maxapotter's Bryan Singer investigation, and actively encouraged @TheAtlantic to run it when he couldn't. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: .@JayFielden did a brave thing when he was editor of Esquire, and in this @benyt column he gets the credit he deserves: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cindy Gallop / @cindygallop: No woman deemed in need of ‘considerable mentoring and coaching’ would ever get made leader and paid a shit-ton of money. 'Mr. Young was named the president of @Hearst. With the promotion came a plan to give him “considerable mentoring and coaching” @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: This man is, somehow, owed an apology https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: “Shrinking businesses make for bitter workplaces, and it's true Young shifted Hearst away from a freewheeling era of glossy print journalism toward a new reality of clicks & algorithms. But I've never seen crude talk as part of the digital transformation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: https://www.nytimes.com/... (The kicker is a reminder that social media's snap judgments can be so flawed.)
@azi: “for many reporters who have covered the media industry's recent bouts of self-examination, the issue of who, exactly, decides which subjects merit journalistic investigation is at the heart of the matter.” — @benyt's latest gem: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: Have long wondered how the Bryan Singer piece got spiked at Esquire and @benyt got the fucked up story: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lainna Fader / @lainnafader: “For generations, the abuses of power we loosely group under #metoo were considered a private matter. It's not coincidental that those terms were set by powerful men who often had their own skeletons to hide and the incentive to protect each other.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evette Dionne / @freeblackgirl: “There's a real hypocrisy to elevating Troy Young to lead a company populated with magazines that are preaching women's empowerment.” This is horrifying. It is good he resigned but every other person who contributed to that toxicity should resign too. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: Hearst Magazines replaces CEO after employee outcry over ‘toxic culture’
Sarah Jones / @onesarahjones: once again: the way Troy Young and Hearst responded to the union drive is quite instructive https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Ruiz / @michelleruiz: Standing by Troy Young is such a strange, strange hill for @Hearst to die on. There are so many other individuals who could do this job well (also: better) without violating employees who are just trying to do their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Hearst Magazines Names Debi Chirichella as Interim Replacement for Ousted President
Prachi Gupta / @prachigu: I'm glad to hear that Troy Young is stepping down in light of the disturbing allegations reported by the Times. I hope this paves the way for leadership who will listen to employees and empower them: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times: Debi Chirichella, CFO of Hearst's magazine division since 2011, is named interim president of the division following the departure of Troy Young
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: After @benyt and my story detailing the culture at Hearst and the history of sexualized remarks by the magazine division president Troy Young, Mr. Young has resigned https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jessica Wakeman / Patreon:
Profile of NYT Style's editor Choire Sicha, well-liked by most, as the section confronts the pandemic's unique coverage demands — Art by Shawné Michaelain Holloway The man behind the curtain of the New York Times's most innovative section emerged fully formed from the Internet.
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@tolles, @jordannovet, @studyhallxyz, @_grendan, @studyhallxyz, @studyhallxyz, @markberman, @studyhallxyz, @hhavrilesky, @jessbidgood, @benyt, @studyhallxyz, @mccanner and @simonowens
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Chris Tolles / @tolles: What a nice piece about @choire. The best would be to have the Headline in the NYT about his ascension to EIC one day end with an exclamation point. https://www.patreon.com/...
Jordan Novet / @jordannovet: 'After our call, he sent me a long email explaining why it is the Style section's other editors, writers, and designers who do the real work. “I don't really ... do anything,” Sicha wrote' https://www.patreon.com/...
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: What Are We Doing in this Article? Profiling Choire Sicha. We Were Trying So Hard to Headline This Profile of Choire Sicha! But, Like, Do Headlines Really Matter Anymore?
Brendan O'Connor / @_grendan: king https://www.patreon.com/...
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: Telling Details? This Profile of Choire Sicha Has Them. You Might Think Your Editors Know What They're Doing. Choire Sicha Doesn't. (But Actually He Does)
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: This New York Times Editor is Reexamining the Style Section. But Does It Matter? Choire Sicha Did a Weird Fidget With a Scarf While Talking to Our Reporter. Here's Why That Matters.
Mark Berman / @markberman: a story about the central figure of the 21st century digital media world https://www.patreon.com/...
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: the real secret of NYT Style is that it's actually edited by @choire's cat https://www.patreon.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Heather Havrilesky / @hhavrilesky: Also, @Choire is the trickster God who nurtured Ask Polly to adulthood and this piece by @JessicaWakeman is A+. As Wakeman makes clear, good bosses are like good parents: They give you room to be yourself & fuck up & they're gentle & encouraging about it. https://www.patreon.com/...
Jess Bidgood / @jessbidgood: This profile is about @Choire and the NYT Style section, but it's also such an interesting rumination on editing generally and it's so good https://www.patreon.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: A nice @JessicaWakeman piece about (among other things) @choire made @NYTStyles a kind of platonic ideal of Gawker https://www.patreon.com/...
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: a thread of alternate headlines for our @choire profile: HED: You Will Be Surprised When You Read This Profile of Choire Sicha SUB: But you might learn something, too. https://www.patreon.com/...
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Facebook hired StopFake in Ukraine to flag Russian disinfo, but critics accuse the fact-checking group of ties to the far right and of bias in its fact-checking — Facebook hired a Ukrainian group battling Russian disinformation to flag misleading posts. But critics say the fact checkers' work veers into activism.
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@antontroian, @antontroian, @antontroian, @maximeristavi and @arictoler, more at Techmeme »
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Anton Troianovski / @antontroian: A StopFake member was photographed in 2017 meeting with a white-power rocker who sings about “six million words of lies.” “He has also been photographed alongside Rabbi Yakov Bleich, but this does not make him a member of his synagogue,” StopFake responds. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anton Troianovski / @antontroian: The group, @StopFakingNews, says the accusations are part of slanderous “information attacks.” A journalist who raised them, @Sergogotv, fled the country amid death threats, which StopFake has condemned. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anton Troianovski / @antontroian: Facebook said its fact-checkers pledge nonpartisanship when they sign on to an outside group's code of principles, https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.or g/. The group, @factchecknet, said it was conducting an “interim assessment” of StopFake. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maksym Eristavi / @maximeristavi: Please don't overlook the gravity of the threat to actual lives in this story — and the reluctance of @Facebook to assist the journalist who investigated their fact-checker in defending herself and her two small kids from doxing, online harrasment https://www.nytimes.com/...
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Study on news gaps in the UK: while overall news use remains higher than before the pandemic, women and people under 55 are less likely to access COVID-19 news — A woman wearing a face mask uses her phone on London Bridge in March 2020. — Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos — Introduction |
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@risj_oxford: As news use has fallen, news inequalities have grown in the UK. As the chart shows, #COVID19 news use has fallen more sharply among women and among people under 55 📌 Read our report https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: UK ‘coronavirus communications crisis’ is reflected in info inequality. As news use has dipped from early pandemic peak, gaps have widened, notably around age (young people less likely to stay informed) and gender (women less likely), @risj_oxford report. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@risj_oxford: News avoidance and news inequalities grew in 🇬🇧 during the pandemic 📌 This is one of the findings of a new report, authored by @dragz @antoniskalog @_FelixSimon_ @rasmus_kleis and funded by @NuffieldFound 📱 Read it here https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... 🧶 Key findings in thread https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Amazon Prime won't stream Yankees games this season as planned, after Yankees' YES Network decided to keep match-ups in the shortened season for itself — - Tech giant won't be streaming 21 baseball games as planned — Broadcasts would have been its first move as part-owner of YES
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Rich MacLeod / @richmacleod: MLB Opening Night saw a 232% increase in the ratings. So much for those “boycotts.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Nick Turner / @newsynick: This was supposed to be the season Amazon started streaming Yankees games. But its foray into baseball broadcasting will have to wait. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @gerryfsmith
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Amazon won't stream baseball games after all
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
NYT's coverage of Ted Yoho's expletives aimed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her response, cast her as the norm breaker and downplayed his verbal attack — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes some people very uncomfortable, and apparently that includes some editors and reporters at the New York Times.
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@reallyndacarter, The Cut, @richlightshed, @markmazzettinyt, @bergopolis, @svscarpino, @mikkoalanne, @naijavote, @fabiochiusi, @clintsmithiii, @jfitzgeraldmd, @evilgalprods, @zunguzungu, @feministabulous, @narrovictor, New York Times, @vijisathy, @margotroosevelt, @byjoelanderson, @stevesi, @kumarraonyc, @jacktodd46, @froomkin, @mjb_sf, @thecut, @blackamazon, @padmalakshmi, @creynoldsnc, @hodgman, @amandamarcotte, @nymag, @marty_lederman, @gabbystern, @froomkin, The Guardian, @kirktousaw, @froomkin, @joshelman, @rationaldoge, @brucebarcott, @cdespinosa, @nanaslugdiva, @sineadefitz, @froomkin, @jbendery, @jayrosen_nyu, @carolynbmaloney, @soledadobrien, @vladsavov, @hshaban, @jayrosen_nyu, The Edit, New Yorker and kottke.org
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Lynda Carter / @reallyndacarter: Okay, seeing this last night totally made my birthday that much sweeter. Love your decor, @AOC! Never stop being fierce and brave. 💫 https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Traister / The Cut: The Poison of Male Incivility When a woman dares respond to it, she's seen as “disruptive.”
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: politics aside — “this” 👇 could only happen on Twitter https://twitter.com/...
Mark Mazzetti / @markmazzettinyt: Solid 2010-2020 time warp here @AshleyRParker @maureendowd https://twitter.com/...
Amy Berg / @bergopolis: The Poison of Male Incivility: When a woman dares respond to it, she's seen as “disruptive.” This defines my worst ever experience in a writers room. It's okay for men to be cruel, so women who don't sit there and take it are the problem. https://www.thecut.com/...
Samuel V. Scarpino / @svscarpino: Lamp, badass art, overstuffed power chair 11/10. https://twitter.com/...
Mikko Alanne / @mikkoalanne: Every word of this. Also, why is @RepTedYoho still in Congress? | The Poison of Male Incivility by Rebecca Traister https://www.thecut.com/...
Ayisha Osori / @naijavote: Recommended reading for anyone working on equality & inclusion & going up against the ‘norm’ There is a deliberateness to how words are used to ‘other’ those we are scared of !or don't agree with. Change the narrative without apology: we are all other https://www.thecut.com/...
Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi: Transcript of @AOC's powerful speech about Yoho's “apology” https://www.rev.com/...
Clint Smith / @clintsmithiii: “...patriarchal power abuse remains so expected as to not be notable as a violation of norms or civility...Instead, it simply coexists with the authority, the command, the humanity of white men — it's just part of what their power looks like.” @rtraister https://www.thecut.com/...
Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald / @jfitzgeraldmd: The fact that her brilliant response to being disrespected is portrayed as more “disruptive” to the status quo than the profane, emotional outburst of her male colleague was, shows how normalized sexism is in patriarchal workspaces. https://www.thecut.com/...
Mere Smith / @evilgalprods: Every time I read a @rtraister piece, I feel a little bit calmed - it's like being reassured that all the bullshit sexist stuff you've been railing against, someone 10x as smart as you has been thinking the same way https://www.thecut.com/...
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: Ted Yoho is not running for office in 2020 (he announced that in December). Ted Yoho is running for Fox News commentator. https://www.rollcall.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Liz Plank / @feministabulous: Reading @rtraister in moments like these is an absolute requirement. https://www.thecut.com/...
Victor Narro / @narrovictor: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes some people very uncomfortable, and apparently that includes some editors and reporters at the New York Times. https://presswatchers.org/... via @froomkin
Jessica Bennett / New York Times: A.O.C. and the Daughter Defense
@vijisathy: I chose not to share the The New York Times piece on purpose and instead opted for the New Yorker one — glad for see folks are all over this double standard. https://presswatchers.org/... via @froomkin
Margot Roosevelt / @margotroosevelt: Huge pushback on how @nytimes trashed @AOC https://presswatchers.org/...
Joel D. Anderson / @byjoelanderson: Until @rtraister mentioned it here, it never occurred to me that being openly and profanely misogynstic toward AOC might actually be politically useful for Ted Yoho. But of course it would. https://www.thecut.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: What's So ‘Disruptive’ About AOC Standing Up for Herself? // This is a very good analysis of the language used by the NYTimes to report on this incident and puts the reporting in a broader context on language and power. https://www.thecut.com/...
Kumar Rao / @kumarraonyc: This is a brilliant and elucidating piece about patriarchy, double-standards, and social norms from @rtraister— about @AOC's equally brilliant and elucidating House floor speech. https://www.thecut.com/...
Jack Todd / @jacktodd46: When we most need the New York Times to lead the way, it is failing significantly to curb the sexism and racism so obvious in its treatment of AOC. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: The @nytimes article on @aoc's riveting speech against abusive sexism was full of sexist double standards and embraced the framing of her critics, casting her as a rule-breaker trying to “amplify her brand” https://presswatchers.org/...
Melinda Byerley / @mjb_sf: Nope still don't regret canceling my subscription in 2016. https://twitter.com/...
@thecut: “Until we can see how white men have taken advantage of sexism and racism for their own gain—how they've built their own ‘brand,’ the American brand—on the backs of the ‘f*cking b*tches’ forever, we're not really reading a full story,” writes @RTraister https://www.thecut.com/...
@blackamazon: This is something people have pointed as a plan for a while, attacking WOC especially Black women and Latinas is a well known strategy. We just actually aren't commissioned to write it https://twitter.com/...
Padma Lakshmi / @padmalakshmi: Language matters. @rtraister breaks down the framing of AOC as a “cheeky”, “media-savvy” Congresswoman who “excels at using her detractors to amplify her own political brand” as a diminishing and “woefully incomplete” analysis of her political impact: https://www.thecut.com/...
Christina Reynolds / @creynoldsnc: .@aoc gave a powerful speech on behalf of ALL women who have dealt with this kind of misogyny. She made it about others, and invited other women to tell their stories to educate people—literally the opposite of amplifying a personal brand. Do better, NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Hodgman / @hodgman: Maybe she's just trying to say a true thing so people (men) will listen, hear, and see it for once. Maybe she's not trying to win some kind of schoolyard mind fight or score chummy debate club back pats. Maybe that framing is not just tiresome but part of the prob. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Marcotte / @amandamarcotte: It really is wild how the @nytimes treated it as a given that women are obliged to take men's abuse without complaint and that there's something sinister about women joining forces to fight back against male harassment. https://www.thecut.com/...
@nymag: Whether or not men are saying it out loud, the reduction of their would-be female peers has helped clear away potential impediment to their own professional trajectories. Ted Yoho makes this very clear. @RTraister writes https://www.thecut.com/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: What I find most shocking & disheartening is that (apparently) no one in the editorial process noticed the manifest problems. @froomkin https://twitter.com/...
Gabby Stern / @gabbystern: Re: @froomkin's critique of the NYT article on @AOC's speech: Why are people surprised when some reporters lean on political narratives to frame their coverage? This journalist crutch has been our reality (aka bane) for half a year amid #COVID19. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Hmm. @nytopinion quickly and prominently runs letter to the editor saying: “That you chose to frame Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's condemnation of sexism in Congress as an effort to ‘amplify her own political brand’ and as ‘disruptive’ is shameful.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian: AOC represents the future of America: women who refuse to be silenced | Arwa Mahdawi
@kirktousaw: This by @froomkin is excellent. The @nytimes has many problems and misogyny is one. “The fundamental problem with the story, as Shaban noted, was that it cast Ocasio-Cortez as the violator of norms, rather than questioning the norms she was denouncing so eloquently.” Yes. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: So who edited the @AOC piece? People want to know. Could it have been @jonathanweisman? That might explain a lot: https://presswatchers.org/... But I bet it went all the way to the top, too. Printing the word “fucking” in the Times is not a middle-manager level decision. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Elman / @joshelman: Good article on the coverage of the past few days. The news story here is how inappropriate it is for sitting congressman calling someone a “f@&$king b:;(h” on the steps of the Capitol. Not the response, not the person attacked. https://presswatchers.org/...
Bruce MacDonald / @rationaldoge: “The fundamental problem with the story ... was that it cast Ocasio-Cortez as the violator of norms, rather than questioning the norms she was denouncing so eloquently.” https://presswatchers.org/... via @froomkin
Bruce Barcott / @brucebarcott: This is why those of us who love (and sometimes contribute to) the @nytimes also have to speak out when the paper—once again—reflexively bows to white male institutional power. You're not “upholding standards,” @nytimes. You're promoting misogyny. https://presswatchers.org/...
Chris Espinosa / @cdespinosa: The Times let go their Public Editor, the esteemed @Sulliview, on the theory that outsiders would police its misfeasance better than an insider could. Froomkin is doing an excellent job here trying to do that. https://twitter.com/...
Barbara Smith / @nanaslugdiva: This article is well worth reading about NYT'S article about AOC's speech. One thing I'd like to note is that it isn't lost on me that AOC experienced this aggression days after another prominent Latina's family was viciously attacked. The misogyny and racism are connected. https://twitter.com/...
Sinad Fitzsimons / @sineadefitz: Thanks for amplifying this @froomkin ! Great article. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Damn I left out the part where they called her “cheeky”. https://presswatchers.org/...
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: “Rather than report on how Ocasio-Cortez's riveting, viral speech on the House floor on Thursday was a signal moment in the fight against abusive sexism, Times congressional reporters ... filed a story full of sexist double standards.” https://presswatchers.org/... via @froomkin
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes some people very uncomfortable, and apparently that includes some editors and reporters at the New York Times.” @froomkin's round-up and critique. https://presswatchers.org/...
Carolyn B. Maloney / @carolynbmaloney: I stand in solidarity with @AOC & commend the way she & others spoke out against sexism and harassment on the House floor. As she says, we must hold perpetrators of sexism accountable, wherever we encounter them, for true equality. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: The problem is: politics as branding is not a particularly good lens. https://twitter.com/...
Vlad Savov / @vladsavov: @espiers Hamza noticed this same unevenness of language and broke it down succinctly: https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Words this article uses to describe and frame AOC and her repeating a reported sexist slur used against her by a white man in Congress: “upended traditions” “norm-shattering moment” “amplify her own political brand” “disruptive and viral event” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I get the backlash to this piece. But for political reporters at the Times, a “savvy” lens — where the objects are branding, positioning, messaging, virality — is a neutral way to look at the game. In their minds, they are depicting @AOC as a savvy player. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Izzie Ramirez / The Edit: Calling Out Sexism is Not an Ambitious Grab of Power
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Local Scripps-owned stations in 42 markets, including NYC, have gone dark on Dish Network after the companies failed to reach a deal on carriage rates — Two TV giants are once more at loggerheads over channel rates, and this time it might significantly hurt your access to local news.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
IFJ survey of 558 female journalists from 52 countries shows 56% think COVID-19 has increased gender inequality in the industry — More than half of female journalists worldwide have experienced worsening gender inequality since the Covid-19 pandemic began, according to a new survey.
Sonam Vashi / Columbia Journalism Review:
A hotline run by advocacy org Freedom for Immigrants has become crucial to journalists for gaining firsthand accounts from inside US immigrant detention centers — In the first episode of the final season of prison dramedy Orange is the New Black, one character, Maritza Ramos, faces deportation.
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@cjr: New from @sonamvashi: Through the hotline, Freedom for Immigrants gathers first-hand reports from inside detention centers, which enables it to identify trends and fuel accountability reporting on conditions for detained immigrants. https://www.cjr.org/...
@gijn: The US National Immigration Detention Hotline run by @MigrantFreedom is an avenue to gather 1st-hand reports from inside detention centers, which enables it to identify trends &fuel accountability reporting on conditions for detained immigrants https://www.cjr.org/... @sonamvashi https://twitter.com/...
@migrantfreedom: The most reliable source of information regarding conditions in ICE jails and prisons comes from those on the inside and their loved ones. Read this profile of our National Immigration Detention Hotline. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cmargalaz: Check out @sonamvashi profile of @MigrantFreedom hotline As ICE seeks to destroy records, the hotline allows us to record and publicize their abusive and neglectful practices. We won't stop until these jails and prisons are abolished! ✊🏽 https://www.cjr.org/...
Sonam Vashi / @sonamvashi: Early this year, I spoke with @MigrantFreedom about the hotline they operate that forms a rare link between immigrants in detention facilities and the outside world—a link that, during COVID-19, is more important than ever—for @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/...
Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:
The print edition of O: The Oprah Magazine will end after the Dec. issue; Hearst says OprahMag.com has an audience of 8M and it will keep investing in the brand — The joint venture between Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. and Hearst Magazines marked its 20 year anniversary in April and is known …
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Barry Yeoman / @barry_yeoman: I used to joke-not-joke that the four most powerful words in my vocabulary—words that could get a call returned stat—were “I'm from Oprah Magazine.” No matter how you regard Oprah herself, the editors there let me write important stories and gave me the space to do them justice. https://twitter.com/...
Sharareh Drury / Hollywood Reporter: Oprah Winfrey's Magazine to Cease Regular Print Publication (Report)
Chantal Fernandez / @chantalfdez: In other Hearst-related news, Oprah's O Magazine will no longer publish on a monthly schedule, 20 years after it launched as a joint venture between Harpo and Hearst https://www.businessoffashion.com/ ...
@leratomannya: O: The Oprah Magazine to Cease Regular Print Publication | News & Analysis, BoF Professional | BoF https://www.businessoffashion.com/ ...
@publisherslunch: O: The Oprah Magazine's Print Version Will Stop Publishing with the December Issue https://www.businessoffashion.com/ ...
Mara Reinstein / @marareinstein: Sad day for OG magazine journalists https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News host Jesse Watters tries to walk back praise for pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon, after telling Eric Trump that Q “uncovered a lot of great stuff” — ‘GREAT STUFF’ — Fox News host Jesse Watters attempted to walk back his apparent endorsement of the unhinged …
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Zachary Petrizzo / @ztpetrizzo: Fox News' @JesseBWatters has some high words of praise for QAnon — which has been responsible for two murders, two child abductions, one terrorist incident, one church vandalism, one restaurant arson...etc.... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: Conservative TV networks tout conspiracies
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast: Fox News' Jesse Watters: QAnon Has ‘Uncovered a Lot of Great Stuff’
Matt Stieb / New York Magazine: Fox News Host Jesse Waters Praises QAnon for Uncovering ‘Great Stuff’
Ellen Cranley / INSIDER: Fox News host says far-right conspiracy movement QAnon uncovers ‘great stuff’
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: I don't know if it's worse if Watters knows what he's doing or if he doesn't. It's outrageous that this is given any quarter by major media outlet, even on Fox. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: This is an extremely bad look for @JesseBWatters. https://twitter.com/...
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