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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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@twittersafety: At Twitter, we're committed to protecting people's ability to express their fundamental civil rights safely — especially voting. That's why we're expanding our Civic Integrity Policy to protect against attempts to undermine vital democratic processes. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / Politico: Twitter's new rules will flag it if Trump claims early victory
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Twitter Sets New Election Restrictions On Voting Misinformation, Candidates Prematurely Declaring Victory
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter's rules address worries over ‘peaceful transfer of power’ in US election
Tarisai Ngangura / Vanity Fair: Can Twitter Stop Trump from Running Away With the Election?
Monique Meche / @moniquemeche: Protecting the global public conversation around elections requires us to respond to new behaviors we observe and to ensure we're doing everything we can to keep people safe. Read about our policy expansions below 👇 https://twitter.com/...
@policy: Our Civic Integrity Policy has been updated and expanded — we're committed to protecting the integrity of the election conversation and strive to do this work transparently. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: “We will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process,” announces @Twitter. “We will begin enforcing this updated policy in 7 days.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Derella / @derella: Actions not words. We're committed to protecting our U.S. democratic process https://twitter.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Twitter is tightening its rules against voting misinformation
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Twitter expands misinformation rules ahead of U.S. election
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: Twitter to Label, Remove More Election-Related Tweets With Misleading Information
Shannon Bond / NPR: Twitter's New Rules Aim To Prevent Confusion Around The 2020 Vote
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Twitter steps up its fight against election misinformation
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: How bleak and surreal that this policy is being rolled out in the context of an American election: Twitter will prohibit posts “inciting unlawful conduct” that prevents a peaceful transition of power. https://www.cnn.com/... @MarshallCohen
Yoel Roth / @yoyoel: We're updating our Civic Integrity Policy to expand how we'll label or remove misleading content that suppresses voter turnout or undermines trust in the electoral process. Enforcement of our updated rules begins 9/17. Learn more: https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Starting next week, @Twitter “will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process” under an expanded civic integrity @policy https://blog.twitter.com/... TBD how they enforce it, particularly for the Trumps https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
In March 2016, CNN's Jeff Zucker floated a weekly show for Trump and offered debate advice, according to audio of his chat with ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen — Zucker told Cohen of his fondness for Trump, who the CNN president described as ‘the boss’ — CNN president Jeff Zucker oversees …
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Incredible stuff here, including Zucker floating a weekly show for Trump in mid-2016 https://www.foxnews.com/...
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: “It's not that I don't want to talk to [Trump] every day. I've just got to be careful, because, I've just got to be careful ... But you know what? I'm going to give him a call right now and I'm going to wish him luck in the debate tonight.” https://twitter.com/...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: question for CNN: did Zucker call all of the candidates to wish them good luck in the debate or only Trump? https://www.foxnews.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: @benyt @pkafka I may be misreading PK but I don't think his implication was that Cohen is the one leaking the tape here.
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: @benyt @poniewozik @pkafka The biggest question is “why is this being released now, in this way” and the second biggest question is “what do the tapes mean/say” but the biggest question I have is “why is this not the biggest media story right now, Ben!?” (I know why, but it needs to be bigger.)
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: @pkafka The weird thing is, it makes Zucker look bad but not in any surprising (for him) way—and if the idea is to benefit Trump [somehow?], if anything it undercuts the argument that Fake News CNN will do or say anything to ruin him.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I'm going to guess that whoever has access to Michael Cohen's taped conversations with CNN anchors and execs has access to Cohen's taped conversations with... other people. And that we are less likely to hear about those conversations.
Adam Felber / @adamfelber: Yeah, wtf? It's almost like people at that network are allowed to express thoughts that might not be in lockstep with the front office! I can see why this confuses you! https://twitter.com/...
Brit Hume / @brithume: Interesting behavior from a network which regularly accuses Fox News of being too close to Trump. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Ron Nehring / @ronnehring: The cable network most responsible for Trump winning the 2016 GOP nomination was not Fox. It was CNN. I was there. CNN latched onto Trump to successfully drive ratings at the expense of other candidates. They gave Trump 10 min of air time for every 1 min given to others. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: If you are a straight news reporter at CNN, this will make for very painful reading: https://www.foxnews.com/...
Joe Walsh / @walshfreedom: Donald Trump won in 2016 because the GOP was weak & out of touch with its voters. Donald Trump also won in 2016 because the media enabled him. ALL the media. Not just Fox News. Right Jeff Zucker? https://twitter.com/...
Andréa López / @bluechoochoo: As Nate might say, we don't have to update any priors about Zucker. https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: Oy. Also, characterizes it as a “post-election” plan, underscoring the constant theme of 2016: people throughout media and politics basing their actions on the assumption that of course, LOL, Trump was never going to get elected so why not grab the ratings and make a buck. https://twitter.com/...
Business Insider:
Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after Jamal Khashoggi's killing, according to Woodward's new book — - President Donald Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the assassination and dismembering …
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Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Trump Praises Bob Woodward, Explains Why He Agreed to Interviews: ‘I Thought it Would be Interesting to Talk’
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Trump Bragged About Protecting Saudi Crown Prince After Khashoggi Murder, Woodward Reports
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair: Report: Trump Bragged About Protecting Saudi Prince Whose Goons Dismembered a Journalist via Bone Saw
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill: Trump reportedly said he protected Saudi crown prince from Congress: ‘I saved his ass’
Eliza Relman / @eliza_relman: Trump boasted that he “saved” Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman from scrutiny over Jamal Khashoggi's murder. “I saved his ass. I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.” from @sonam_sheth and @jchaltiwanger https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Dan Rather / @danrather: Outrageous is far too mild a word. Please feel free to fill in your own. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
A reconstruction of a series of errors that led to the NYT getting sued by Sarah Palin for an editorial on gun control — It was just before midnight, on June 14, 2017, when James Bennet, then the New York Times' editorial page editor, sent an anxious text to a Washington colleague. — “Are you up?
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@bgrueskin, @bgrueskin, @bgrueskin, @bgrueskin, @elmunc, @elmunc, @bgrueskin, @bgrueskin, @sulliview, @dabeard, @bgrueskin, @erikwemple, @bgrueskin and New York Times
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Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: A judge recently green-lit Sarah Palin's lawsuit vs the NYT. How did the Times' editorial page and its former editor, James Bennet, get into this fix? I've read thousands of pages of depositions, emails, story drafts and texts. Here's my @CJR story: https://www.cjr.org/... 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Bennet dove in and added sentences linking the 2011 shooting to Palin's map. Shortly after it went online, Twitter exploded. Bennet sent texts to the staffer who wrote the original editorial. He acknowledged, “I just moved too fast. I'm sorry.” https://www.cjr.org/... 4/ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Palin is claiming defamation. Her rationale is that it disrupted her relationship with Fox News (even though she continued to work for them and got another contract). She also defended the use of the word “aim” in her brochure, with a reference to moose hunters: 6/ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: @elmunc With the caveat that my JD is from Twitter University Law School ... media lawyers often tell editors that correcting mistakes swiftly and transparently can go a long way toward mitigating a suit. But whether that applies to the verdict or damages or both is beyond my ken
Eric Muller / @elmunc: @BGrueskin @CJR if any, but wouldn't the question of *liability* (or lack thereof) turn on the knowing or reckless falsehood of the initial publication the day before?
Eric Muller / @elmunc: @BGrueskin @CJR Great story, Bill! One question from a lawyer-who-is-definitely-not-a- defamation-expert. Your piece says that one factor for the jury will be the speed and openness with which the NYT remedied the mistake. I can see how that would be relevant to the amount of damages, /1
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: By the next day, the Times edit page was in a state. They knew they had a huge problem. They ran one correction, then added another. It didn't matter. Palin filed suit several days later. 5/ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Then move to 2017, when a gunman shot several people, including Rep. Steve Scalise, at a baseball practice. A DC-based edit-page writer sent in a first draft, mentioning the map but not as an incitement. Then, she said, NY editors “did what they were going to do” 3/ https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: A fascinating dive by @BGrueskin, from court documents, into an editing error that probably helped cost James Bennet his job & resulted in a lawsuit in which Sarah Palin must prove actual malice by NYT to prevail. It gives me chills because you can see exactly how it unfolded. https://twitter.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: Anatomy of a mistake—how @nytopinion got sued by Sarah Palin. https://www.cjr.org/... by @BGrueskin @CJR https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: When AG Sulzberger, the NYT publisher, announced Bennet's departure last June in the wake of the Tom Cotton op-ed, he noted that it represented “a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years.” 7/7 https://www.cjr.org/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: This is a sharp reconstruction by @bgrueskin: How the New York Times editorial page got sued by Sarah Palin https://www.cjr.org/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: It starts in 2011, when a gunman killed 6 & wounded others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Some initially blamed Palin for a map her PAC had promoted, with stylized crosshairs on 20 districts. There was no evidence the assassin had seen the map. https://www.cjr.org/... 2/ https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google says it will remove Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party or make a voting claim, says it improved breaking news systems — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …
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Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and misinformation
Danny Sullivan / The Keyword: How Google delivers reliable information in Search
Jacqueline Davalos / Bloomberg: Google Blocks Search Suggestions to Stop Election Misinformation
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it will block autocomplete for searches that suggest voting outcomes
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Google says it will block autocomplete search suggestions that could sway voters ahead of the US election
Cherlynn Low / Engadget: Google will remove misleading election-related autocompletes
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google now uses BERT to match stories with fact checks
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Megyn Kelly to launch production company Devil May Care Media, which will back podcasts and other shows on current events, starting with her own podcast — Megyn Kelly isn't on a mainstream news outlet at present, but that isn't going to keep her from broadcasting.
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite: Megyn Kelly Announces New Podcast, Media Company With ‘No B.S. No Agenda. No Corporate Overlords’
Bethany S. Mandel / @bethanyshondark: Heck yeah @megynkelly!! https://variety.com/...
Rebeccah Heinrichs / @rlheinrichs: Megyn Kelly Launches Independent Media Company “I answer only to my audience and my conscience. Those who like what I have to say will find the experience deeply rewarding. Those who don't can look elsewhere” @megynkelly https://variety.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Megyn Kelly couldn't quite quit the News Corp orbit for her exclusive “new thing” roll-out: https://www.wsj.com/...
Emily Zanotti / @emzanotti: Congrats @megynkelly! I'm going to take this as inspiration to finally start that podcast I've been talking about forever. Probably. Anyway, you're amazing! https://variety.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Megyn Kelly launches her own company, Devil May Care Media
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow Center introduces COVID-19 Cutback Tracker, an interactive map and searchable database that tracks media cuts since the start of the pandemic — Since March of 2020, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has been collecting data on cutbacks to US newsrooms happening amid the novel coronavirus pandemic …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @emilybell, @byaliceli, @sararafsky, @__gabbymiller, Poynter and @meredithshiner
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Emily Bell / @emilybell: How and when did COVID19 affect your newsroom? The first public phase of our newsroom cutback tracker is here - great job by @__gabbymiller and @beteprown ...read about it here, and contribute data (link in the article) https://www.cjr.org/...
Alice Li / @byaliceli: This vital and disheartening tracker from @kristenhare, @TowCenter, @beteprown @__gabbymiller shows US newsroom cutbacks that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. We need journalism more than ever. But journalism also needs us more than ever. https://www.cjr.org/...
@sararafsky: Thank you @eaXLR! And thank you to all the panelists, @aaronkfoley @SarahStonbely @docmattweber @businessofnews for showcasing your impressive work and a great discussion. https://twitter.com/...
@__gabbymiller: Today @TowCenter published a database that was 6+ mos in the making. Thousands of rows of data became an interactive map of cutbacks in newsrooms across the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic began. https://www.cjr.org/...
Kristen Hare / Poynter: This database shows media layoffs caused by the coronavirus
Tom Ley / Defector:
Defector, the subscription-based sports blog created by former Deadspin staffers, formally launches — Welcome to Defector, an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin. Let me tell you who we are, and how we got here.
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@bdwilliams910, @robert_hiltz, @loudmouthjulia, @patrick_wyman, @timmarchman, @theshums, @xoxogossipgita, @athertonkd, @jimswiftdc, @robert_hiltz, @jackpmoore, @lorenzofb, @lollardfish, @weareyourfek, @rohannadkarni, @kevin_church, @taylorcocke, @ashleyfeinberg, @bijanstephen, @fidmart85, @jasonschreier, @daviddtss, Dang Dude, What The Heck?, @joshsternberg, @kevin_church, @mccarthyryanj, @fruhlinger and @kundun_ilikedit
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Brett Williams / @bdwilliams910: I know everyone has shared their fav passage from this, but this really stood out to me. Every zombie headline makes it clear that those people do not understand this (and that they're absolutely insufferable). Really hyped to see what happens next https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Robert Hiltz / @robert_hiltz: This is obviously coloured by spending my formative years as a journalist at Postmedia, but the response to cascading crises seems to be making reading the news worse and worse for the actual reader, so long as the assholes in head office get to line their pockets.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: “This is an industry being run by people who, having been betrayed by the promise of exponential scale and IPOs, now see cheapening and eventually destroying their own products as the only way to escape with whatever money there is left to grab.” https://defector.com/...
Patrick Wyman / @patrick_wyman: I can't even put into words how happy I am that Defector exists, that it's posting blogs, and that it's trying something new and different. Read them, subscribe, and support their work: How We Got Here https://defector.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Well look at that! https://defector.com/...
Layton Shumway / @theshums: Speak on it, @DefectorMedia. I've been in the “content” game for a long time, and I can verify a lot of this from personal experience. (Please excuse the swears.) https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@xoxogossipgita: i really do be having PTSD from my previous place of employment lmao https://defector.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “Every bad decision that has diminished media—every pivot to video, every injection of venture capital funds, every round of layoffs, every outright destruction of a publication—was only deemed necessary by the constraints of capitalism and dull minds.” https://defector.com/...
Jim Swift / @jimswiftdc: In reading this, it reminds me a bit of how the @weeklystandard ended, how MediaDC mismanaged things, and why the Examiner went along with all the bad ideas. https://defector.com/... Subscribe to Defector.
Robert Hiltz / @robert_hiltz: Trying, and failing, to think of a media institution that has responded to the last decade or so by getting better. https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jack Moore / @jackpmoore: If you miss the days when every article wasn't designed explicitly to game social media algorithms, you should go subscribe to @DefectorMedia. AKA the answer to: “If those Deadspin fucks don't like their bosses they should start their own site.” https://defector.com/...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb: Anyone who cares about journalism should read this. https://defector.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: “When we all stood in that abandoned office 10 months ago and detonated our own careers together, it was because we were tired of watching the most insipid, parasitic members of the media industry go on charting its course. Are you? ” Yes. https://twitter.com/...
Foster Kamer / @weareyourfek: sorry to drool here, but anyone who's worked with me over the last decade has heard me say these words: homepage traffic is critical. sensibility is what most everyone else lacks, and what readers will come to you for. https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rohan Nadkarni / @rohannadkarni: I'm so proud of the @DefectorMedia gang and so happy to see them back. I missed y'all https://defector.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: i am EXTREMELY excited to finally have a good website to read even though i accidentally made my username “ashley_feinberg” because i did not know you could use spaces and have been told that i cannot change it yet and so must live with my humiliation https://defector.com/...
Fidel Martinez / @fidmart85: Man I hope defector succeeds but also holy smokes I didn't notice the glaring Caucasity of deadapin until just looking at the masthead, which I guess isn't surprising given the blinding whiteness of sports journalism in general
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier: If you care at all about media and the websites that make the internet half-decent, you should read this (and subscribe to Defector): https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Dennis Jr / @daviddtss: shout out to Defector for raging against the unfair journalism machine by continuing to have non-Black folks covering sports!
Dylan Shearer / Dang Dude, What The Heck?: Deadspin is Dead, Long Live Deadspin
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: This is interesting for lots of reasons, but also sponsored by Warby Parker https://defector.com/...
Kevin Church / @kevin_church: I'm not even a sports person but I signed up to @DefectorMedia for a month because they're good writers and maybe they'll get me into, I dunno, jai-alai?
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Majorly rooting for the folks at Defector, who deserved way, way better than the Spanfeller era. And serious props for getting a site that rails against venture capitalists sponsored by Warby Parker. https://defector.com/...
Reuters:
Sources: Chinese authorities have told major media outlets not to cover Mulan after controversy over the film's links to the Xinjiang region — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have told major media outlets not to cover Walt Disney Co's release of “Mulan”, in an order issued …
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Alana Mastrangelo / Breitbart: Report: China Bans Media from Covering Disney's Mulan After Concentration Camp Backlash
Megha Rajagopalan / @meghara: Incredible. Disney, which hoped Mulan would be a hit w Chinese audiences, shot parts of the film in Xinjiang— a name now synonymous with internment camps. It even thanked some of the region's public security bureaus. How did China repay Disney's support? https://www.reuters.com/...
Patrick Frater / Variety: Media Blackout Adds to ‘Mulan’ Woes as Disney Readies China Theatrical Launch
Scott Mendelson / @scottmendelson: In retrospect, releasing MULAN on PVOD where folks could examine the credits with a fine tooth comb, may have seriously backfired... Exclusive: China bars media coverage of Disney's ‘Mulan’ after Xinjiang backlash - sources | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/...
@lymanstoneky: BAHAHAHA, Disney bent over backwards to accommodate China's censorship, deleted all the best songs and characters because China didn't like them, publicly kissed up to the genocidaires in Xinjiang.... and now China's state media won't promote Mulan. https://www.reuters.com/...
Brendan O'Kane / @bokane: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward womp womp https://twitter.com/...
Antony Dapiran / @antd: Disney Execs: “Sure, this Mulan thing is turning out to be a bit of a disaster in the West, but we'll more than make up for it with the China box off-... Oh.” https://twitter.com/...
Emily Y. Wu / @emilyywu: Interesting development. Hollywood (+ everyone else) take note! This is how Mulan/Disney is repaid for trying so hard to please China, even filming in Xinjiang and thanking XJ authorities who have been operating concentration camps. https://www.reuters.com/...
Jim Hanson / @jimhansondc: Karma bites @Disney kowtowed to China in the credits of #Mulan But now the backlash hit against filming it in the Uighur concentration camp zone & China is killing Disney's expected $$$ or I should say ¥¥¥ windfall Perfect https://www.reuters.com/...
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline: ‘Mulan’: U.S. Senator Blasts Disney For “Whitewashing Genocide” In China
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
The Atlantic has added 325,000 paid subscribers since launching a paywall a year ago; 20,000+ signed up over last weekend after Jeffrey Goldberg's post on Trump — New York (CNN Business)President Trump wrote The Atlantic off as a “dying” magazine last week after it published an explosive story …
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Digiday, The Atlantic, @kerrymflynn, Variety, Washingtonian, @thebryandavis, @scottnover, @dangainor, @edbott, @carloslozadawp, @yair_rosenberg, @dangillmor, @kerrymflynn, @kerrymflynn and bookforum.com
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Max Willens / Digiday: 'We've really reset our floor': How The Atlantic gained 300,000 new subscribers in the past 12 months
@kerrymflynn: News: The Atlantic added 325,000 paid subscribers since introducing a paywall a year ago. More than 20,000 signed up over Labor Day weekend (Sept 3-7) after the explosive Trump story I spoke w @JeffreyGoldberg + Michael Finnegan about how they got there https://www.cnn.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: The Atlantic Signs Up Record 20,000-Plus Paying Customers After Article About Trump Trashing U.S. Military Dead
Mimi Montgomery / Washingtonian: The Atlantic Has Added 300,000 New Subscriptions in the Last Year
Bryan A. Davis / @thebryandavis: Incredibly proud of the team here @TheAtlantic. A year after launching our subscription strategy, we announced the support of 300k new subscribers. We're building a platform for sustainable journalism, and I'm grateful to support that work. https://digiday.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: A digital subscription to @TheAtlantic is $50, so @JeffreyGoldberg's article brought in $1 million+ (more if print or premium sub), plus recurring revenue in future years. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gainor / @dangainor: It laid off 68 staffers in May ... according to CNN https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: I've had my disagreements with The Atlantic but they are worth supporting. Consistently excellent work. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: So 20,000 new subscribers signed up for @TheAtlantic this past weekend. They must have had some big story or something: https://www.cnn.com/...
@yair_rosenberg: If Trump was actually a good businessman, he'd use an affiliate link every time he trashed The Atlantic for reporting bad things he's done, so at least he'd make some money off the thousands of subscriptions he's been driving their way https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Imagine that — people will pay for high-quality journalism after all. https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Enjoyed chatting with @JeffreyGoldberg about The Atlantic's editorial strategy, some of which @edyong209 told me about for this story https://www.cnn.com/... and then this one: https://www.cnn.com/...
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Sources: HBO Max's ad-supported tier may launch in Q2 2021 with two to four minutes of ads per hour; AT&T wants advertisers to spend a minimum $250K/quarter — WarnerMedia has started pitching advertisers on its flagship streaming service HBO Max. — WarnerMedia has told ad buyers …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Bob Woodward defends his decisions to wait to reveal Trump's early pandemic comments: he aimed to provide fuller context than could occur in a news story — Two waves of outrage greeted the news on Wednesday of Bob Woodward's latest White House chronicle, a book entitled “Rage.”
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Just interviewed Bob Woodward about criticism regarding the timing of his scoop about President Trump's acknowledged downplaying of the coronavirus. 1/
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Asked directly whether earlier publication of his interviews would have saved lives, Woodward responded, “No! How?” He pointed out that Trump made that comment on March 19, and he had already made an Oval Office address on March 11. Confirmed cases were taking off. 4/
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: “Even Graver Than in Watergate”: Will the Woodward Bombshells and Damning Book Blitz Blow Up Trump's 2020 Chances?
Jose Antonio Vargas / @joseiswriting: If journalism is a public trust—a trust that has consistently eroded—and Bob Woodward is an associate editor at @washingtonpost, why did Woodward sit on this information while Americans suffered and died? https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian: Bob Woodward rejects criticism that he sat on Trump ‘deadly’ virus remarks
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: CNN Correspondent Defends Woodward for Withholding Tapes of Trump's Covid Downplaying: 'He Didn't Realize What He Had'
Alex Shephard / New Republic: Bob Woodward's Critics Are Missing the Point
Memex 1.1: Quote of the Day … - Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for Reagan 1984-9 — Musical alternative to the morning's radio news
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Should Bob Woodward have reported Trump's virus revelations sooner instead of saving them for his book? Here's how he defends his decision, and my view. ... My column here https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kim Fox / @kimfox: I'm just going to boost this note @Sulliview received from a reader to the top of this retweet, so we can all sit with this. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: > @MichaelSocolow on Woodward fracas: “The bigger issue is that journalists hold incredibly damaging information all the time, for all kinds of reasons... To assume reporters always rush to publish... is to overlook a lot of the history of U.S. journalism.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: To be clear, I am not suggesting that Woodward should have released the tape in February; he did have more reporting to do. But at some point, that reporting was done and he had to write the book. It's September. If he had revealed in August, July, June, what might have changed? https://twitter.com/...
Meghan Roos / Newsweek: Bob Woodward Criticized For Sitting on Trump Coronavirus Admission to Sell Books
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: Both the President* and Bob Woodward Knew This for Months and Kept It From the Public
Al Tompkins / Poynter: Was it unethical for Bob Woodward to withhold Trump's coronavirus interviews for months?
@anamariecox: @dcbigjohn If you don't publish in a situation like this, *why are you in journalism* to begin with? The knock on Woodward has always been that he's a stenographer to power not a force for public good and...it is correct.
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad: The Worst Part of Woodward
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …: Rage, Rage Against the Dying of (De)Light
Arden Dier / Newser: Woodward Defends Withholding Trump Virus Remarks
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: It sounds like, once again, Woodward has failed at writing a book and has instead written a container for scoops. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports: Bob Woodward and the Ethics of the Presidential Scoop
Alan Mairson / Towers of Babel: Bob Woodward, Storyteller
Amee Vanderpool / SHERO: Trump is to Blame for Woodward, Too
Eric Garland / @ericgarland: Bob Woodward outright states he *didn't have a legal reason* - an embargo, NDA - to not tell America that Trump was lying about COVID. He simply waited for 200,000 Americans to die first. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Ng / Breitbart: Hollywood Erupts on Trump over Bob Woodward Tapes: He ‘Must Resign,’ ‘Impeach Him Again’
David Sirota / TMI: Woodward Is Now Trump's Human Shield To Help Him Win The Election
Isaac Saul / Tangle: The Trump tapes. … Today's read: 15 minutes. — This is the longest edition of Tangle ever.
Lyz Lenz / @lyzl: man, go to hell https://twitter.com/...
@notesfromhel: To be clear: Bob Woodward, a white journalist, a celebrated hero of journalism, sat on information (in order to sell a book) that disproportionately cost more Black and brown people their lives. May that also be part of the breathless discussions over morals and ethics...
@derektmead: complaining about “The Media” is basically an Aristocrats joke, but Bob Woodward holding a scoop for months to hustle a book goes a long way towards explaining why many people think journalists are cynical careerists! https://twitter.com/...
Jana Lynne Sanchez / @janasanchez: What will it take for his supporters to wake up. He's just admitted to what we said all along - he allowed 200,000 Americans to die unnecessarily. He's created a cult of “its just like the flu and no need to wear a mask” which has led to so much death https://www.nytimes.com/...
Judd Apatow / @juddapatow: Can we take even one day to at least all agree the President consciously let 150,000 people die before you start debating the journalism??? Our President is a murderer. What if 200k people died in one day? Would you instantly want to chat about the article about it? https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Journalism is a service to the public. It is not a factory manufacturing books or newspapers — with the daily reports Woodward dismisses — or the commodity, content. Losing sight of that service is a mortal journalistic sin: deadly to journalism.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Bob Woodward violated the prime directive of journalism: to serve the public. In his silence, he is complicit in Trump's murders. I believe he should relinquish his Pulitzers. He is a journalist no more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: I mean, who gives a shit really? What would it have changed? The president and his press secretary are confronted with, like, DNA evidence of their own lies daily. Trump just denied saying something 3 days ago YOU CAN WATCH HIM SAY ON YOUTUBE https://twitter.com/...
@baseballnerd07: @joe_sheehan context is important, Trump said on February 7 what the truth was. While reporters have a job to report that, ultimately it is the President's responsibility to tell the truth and lets be honest, the only street he did not want to panic was Wall Street.
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: So much dismaying nonsense in this Woodward story but the utter, absolute failure of elementary literary criticism should not be overlooked https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: This is a very good piece indeed https://www.nytimes.com/...
Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch: readers “tantalized by the promise on its dust jacket of “an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind,” will quickly get schooled in a lesson that apartment hunters in NY often have to learn: A window can only be so vivid if it looks out onto an air shaft” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Robinson Meyer / @yayitsrob: In a previous set of tweets, I speculated that Woodward had an agreement not to publish his reporting until his book came out. He didn't, says new reporting from @Sulliview, so I deleted those tweets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: Today's “mad at Woodward” drama does seem like a very on the nose example of the Trump-era phenomenon of people getting mad at someone or something (Woodward, the NYT, FB, etc) because the person they're really mad at (Trump) isn't responsive to their criticism. https://twitter.com/...
Nathaniel Friedman / @freedarko: Tl;dr Woodward waited because he was doing old-fashioned journalism, maybe we should rethink that model and do memes instead. https://twitter.com/...
David Dennis Jr / @daviddtss: Whole thread bullshit https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: The President of the United States told the nation's most famous journalist that a pandemic was deadly and airborne, and the journalist held the audio tape for months to keep it for a book, as 200,000 people died. This is not spinnable. Sorry. https://sirota.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: This, by the way, is what gets lost in the @twitter era, where every big scoop is forgotten 12 hours later. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Sheehan / @joe_sheehan: No, they understand fine, they just think a book advance is less important that 175,000 lives. Hand-waving what Trump said privately as “sensational quotes” is bullshit of the highest order. Woodward protected his bag. Don't pretend it was more than that. https://twitter.com/...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: An important thread from @ErikWemple. People who are criticizing @realBobWoodward don't understand the reporting process. Publishing sensational quotes back in March wouldn't have made a difference. Taking the time to build the context might. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: The excellent @ErikWemple, always tough on us reporters when we deserve it, has a good run-down of why this critique falls apart under reasonable examination. https://twitter.com/...
@will_bunch: This devastating, must-read NYT book review really captures how I feel about Trump, Woodward and this whole increasingly tired exercise that really needs to be shut down on 11/3 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “What if the real story about the Trump era is less about Trump and more about the people who surround and protect him...a tale not of character but of complicity?” @jenszalai reviews RAGE: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@alexnowrasteh: Thank you Mr. Woodward. You were one of the few who actually took the time to confirm facts before shooting them into the ether - a rare and valuable trait during a pandemic. https://twitter.com/...
Mike L. Goodman / @them_l_g: On the one hand I think the last seven months have made people forget just how hard it was to get people to take this seriously in February. OTOH MAYBE REPORTING WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID WOULD HAVE HELPED WITH THAT https://twitter.com/...
@karlitaliliana: Well it would be great if some journalists pushed those officials on the record about their complicity. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Setting ethical debate aside, this has an easy answer. For months many dismissed seriousness/need for distancing/need for masks, citing Trump. Reporting that Trump said privately how deadly COVID is/that it spread airborne could have changed those people's behavior & saved lives https://twitter.com/...
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: Seems fair actually https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “What would it take at this point, amid the crush of books about the Trump White House — after the Mueller report and an impeachment trial and now the coronavirus pandemic — for a revelation about the president to be truly surprising?” https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Here's @Sulliview's conclusion on Woodward's withholding — for months — information that might have helped save countless lives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: A lot of professionals keep secrets for a living, not just reporters, and most professions have developed legal or ethical codes that place limits on that obligation of secrecy by, as the legal profession puts it, recognizing “the overriding value of life and physical integrity.” https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Very informative read from @Sulliview who spoke to Bob Woodward about the process of the revelations in his Trump book. The truth paradox is strong here - how could he tell if it was the truth? - but MS is right, even on a slender chance of changing outcomes why wait? https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Rubin / @jrubinblogger: agree—>"Still, the chance — even if it's a slim chance — that those revelations could have saved lives is a powerful argument against waiting this long." https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: Interesting that Woodward is being criticized for not speaking out sooner given that we know there were countless advisers & officials who stood by as Trump misled a nation...and did nothing. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Woodward is a book author and the implicit understanding with his sources is that he'll interview them, interview them again and again and again until he can stitch together something authoritative, in book form. 2/
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Wrote a piece about... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■- ■ (⌐■_■) Ethics in journalism. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: I would not want on my conscience having withheld from the public my certain knowledge that the cult-leader president of the United States was relentlessly lying about the coronavirus danger.
@mattdpearce: Which is likelier: Woodward dents the course of the pandemic by dropping the Trump tape in March, or Woodward dents the course of the presidential election by dropping the Trump tape now?
@mattdpearce: The subtext of this WaPo interview is that Woodward thinks the latter scenario is likelier? Or at least it's the one he was primarily thinking about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@emilylhauser: And this is why you need to stop saying “journalism's broken” just because Bob Woodward is. https://twitter.com/...
@newsladykatie: Anyway, thread. Unionize your newsroom, subscribe to your local paper and ask why the hell Bob Woodward sat on tapes while the president lied to sick and dying American people.
@petersterne: We've been living with Trump for more than 3 years. We must know by now that “Trump secretly knows the truth and merely lies for political gain, so exposing the truth will force him and his acolytes to admit it & change their behavior” isn't how any of this works.
Lainna Fader / @lainnafader: Hm no still pretty indefensible https://twitter.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: a good & fair report from @Sulliview —> Should Bob Woodward have reported Trump's virus revelations sooner? Here's how he defends his decision. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: I'm an author who published a book on COVID-19 containing far more accurate and detailed info on the virus than Woodward, so I'll naturally be seen as jealous. No—it's that I *teach* journalism and ethics to university students and can't now unteach what Woodward has taught them.
Emily Crockett / @emilycrockett: Yes. I do NOT want to hear cynical takes about how it wouldn't have changed minds. Even if those takes are true—which I honestly doubt. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Woodward did say that if anything he gathered was a legitimate public health issue, he would have gone to The Post and sought to have it published forthwith. “It wasn't. It wasn't,” he told me. 5/
Xbox Gene Pass Ultimate / @genepark: Bob Woodward gives his reasoning for holding the tapes. Tl;dr: he wanted to present it in the full context of a book; he doesn't do daily journalism; and he didn't think much of the comments at the time, when Fauci was still telling people to not change daily habits. https://twitter.com/...
@emilyctamkin: He didn't think much of the comments when Trump said he was intentionally playing down how dangerous the virus was? Or in the spring when we were all in lockdown? Or in early summer when Trump encouraged states to open up? https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: I'm no Woodward but I do always put off transcribing until the absolute last minute maybe it was that https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Bennett / @geoffrbennett: AP: Woodward said Trump called him “out of the blue” in early February to “unburden himself” about the virus. But Woodward said that only in May was he satisfied that Trump's comments were based on reliable information. https://apnews.com/...
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: Sure of Trump saying on tape that the virus was airborne? Or sure of Trump saying on tape that it was deadly? https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: It took him three months to nail down all the reporting about what Trump knew about coronavirus, when he learned it and how all that related to the public pronouncements he was making. It wasn't until May that he put those pieces together. 3/
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Addressing only issues of process, Woodward said that when Trump talked about coronavirus — “deadly stuff” — in their Feb. 7 interview, he (Woodward) didn't know where Trump was getting his information, whether it was true, and so on. 2/
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: AP's @hitalie reports: “Woodward said Trump called him ‘out of the blue’ in early February to ‘unburden himself’ about the virus...” https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ron Elving / NPR: Trump Consistently Bends Reality, Sells His Narrative In Interviews For Woodward Book
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: And finally, there's a lot of commentary about how Woodward was just out to sell books. Well, of course Woodward is out to sell books. All book authors are out to sell books. 7/
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: That method explains how he gets officials and presidents to cooperate with him. If he were doing daily dispatches and attending all the White House briefings, he wouldn't be getting 18 on-the-record interviews with President Trump. 3/
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