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KPCC public radio reporter Josie Huang was arrested while covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in LA, on charges of “interfering with a lawful arrest” — Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang Saturday night while she was covering …
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Scott Schwebke / @thechalkoutline: ABC7 showing video of radio reporter being taken down to the pavement by officers, handcuffed and led to a patrol car outside of hospital where two #LA County deputies shot in ambush are being treated @LASDHQ #crime #SoCal https://twitter.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Somehow I was able to start a new video right away. You see my phone clatter to the ground and I start shouting “I'm a reporter...I'm with KPCC.” I scream for help from the TV reporters I know are around the corner doing their 11 p.m. live hits https://twitter.com/...
Los Angeles Times: Two L.A. County sheriff's deputies shot, critically wounded in attack captured on video
James Queally / @jamesqueallylat: This shouldn't need to be explained but: You're allowed to be absolutely disgusted by the attack on @LASDHQ deputies AND highly critical of their treatment of @josie_huang covering that shooting outside the hospital. These things are not mutually exclusive.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Last night I was arrested and charged with obstructing a peace officer by @LASDHQ after videotaping their interactions with protesters in Lynwood. This is what I remember and what I have on video and audio.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: I'm grateful to the crew at @ABC7 @abc7leanne for filming what happened to me last night, and for Leanne and @OSV227Hex getting my phone back to me which let me share my videos. I know it is important to document what happened. Said phone is somehow alive! https://twitter.com/...
Frank Stoltze / @stoltzefrankly: BREAKING: My colleague @josie_huang has been detained in Compton by #LASD deputies. We don't know why. I know her to be an extremely competent and responsible journalist. This video of five deputies on top of her is highly disturbing. https://twitter.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Thank you https://onscene.tv/ for what is the clearest footage of my arrest by @LASDHQ. It's how I remember it — like being tossed around in the ocean and then slammed into rock https://twitter.com/...
Suzanne Nuyen / NPR: 2 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies Shot In Apparent ‘Ambush’ Near Train Station
@pressfreedom: We condemn @lasdhq's arrest of @kpcc's @josie_huang while she was working in Los Angeles & are disturbed by video of many officers pinning her to the ground. https://laist.com/...
Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime: Trump Demands Death Penalty for Shooter of 2 Los Angeles Deputies, If Victims Die (VIDEO)
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Hi, all. I'm out of county jail and am headed home. Thank you for caring. I have seen @LASDHQ tweets and have thoughts and videos to share soon after a little rest
Mark Ridley-Thomas / @mridleythomas: We must continue pray for the two ambushed sheriff deputies and their families.🙏🏾 We must also require that the Inspector General launch an immediate investigation into the arrest of @josie_huang. The Citizens Oversight Commission must convene a special meeting on this matter.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: I was at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood last night covering a press conference led by Sheriff Villanueva about the shooting of two deputies. One of the deputies is a mom of a 6 year-old. I felt my chest tighten thinking about the little boy. https://twitter.com/...
@nprextra: NPR is appalled by the arrest of Josie Huang, a KPCC public radio reporter, who was performing her job last night—gathering facts to inform the American public. The rights of journalists are protected by the First Amendment, and essential to an informed public and our Democracy.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: I texted video to editors. When I looked up from my phone, the small group of men had dispersed & deputies were following at least 1 man down the street. I walked behind, using the zoom on my camera so I could keep physical distance. A couple deputies looked at me as I filmed. https://twitter.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: After the press conference, I went to my car in the hospital garage and was tying things up on the phone with 1 of my editors. It was almost 11 pm. Then I heard loud shouting outside the garage, so I went to check things out. I had on a lanyard around my neck with a press ID.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: A handful of men were on the sidewalk. A couple were carrying large flags. Others were filming deputies and taunting them. One deputy pointed a weapon at the protesters. I started filming on my phone, standing off to the side. No one took issue with me being there. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Dessem / @matthewdessem: The point of police departments flagrantly lying in their public statements about events captured on video is not to deceive, but to demonstrate in the most demoralizing way possible that they cannot be held accountable for anything. We have to prove them wrong.
Megan Garvey / @garveymcvg: This is the video @josie_huang sent right before she was tackled and arrested. Some reporters have told me sheriff's officials claimed she rushed the ER. Not true and totally out of character https://twitter.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Here's more of the video, the zoom is still on. I saw a commotion ahead of me. Deputies rushed one man and chased another. I was filming an arrest when suddenly deputies shout “back up.” Within seconds, I was getting shoved around. There was nowhere to back up. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mendelson / @a_mendelson: We have a story up @LAist about the arrest of correspondent @josie_huang while she was covering a protest earlier tonight: “Huang, an award-winning journalist, allegedly obstructed justice. The department has refused to provide details of what happened.” https://laist.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: I was put in the back of a patrol car — the start of some 5 hours in LASD custody that began with the deputy refusing to uncuff me so I could put my face covering back on, telling me I just had a “scrape” when I was bleeding from my foot and not giving me back a shoe
Giffords / @giffordscourage: Our hearts are with the two deputies severely injured in Los Angeles. As they fight for their lives, we must fight for a country that is safer from gun violence. https://www.latimes.com/...
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: More of 9️⃣3️⃣ 7️⃣ in Lynwood CA The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department claimed @josie_huang never identified herself as a reporter You will be shocked (shocked!) to discover that was a lie 12 September 2020 PM https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: This is false. You guys should check out the video where the reporter is heard screaming her station affiliation over and over and over again. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: The reporter caught this on video. She repeatedly identified herself as a reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Typos Miura / @seanmiura: If you don't know @josie_huang's work, she's been covering underreported Los Angeles Asian American stories for years and reporting from all sides of the protests throughout the summer She's an incredibly valuable journalist who was wearing her credentials and doing her job https://twitter.com/...
John Bowden / The Hill: Video shows police pinning journalist covering LA protest to ground during arrest
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: NPR's news chief, SVP Nancy Barnes @nancycbarnes, issuer statement against sheriff department's arrest https://twitter.com/...
Chad Loder / @chadloder: The @LASDHQ just got caught in another blatant lie. They didn't count on the fact that KPCC reporter @josie_huang left her phone recording during the violent arrest. You can clearly see her Press Pass dangling from her neck and you can hear her shout “Press! I'm with KPCC!” https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: If what's being reported about the recording of this incident is true—that NPR journalist @josie_huang repeatedly identified herself as press, & had a press pass around her neck—than, here we have the LA County Sheriff lying about the circumstances of its arrest of a journalist. https://twitter.com/...
Megan Garvey / @garveymcvg: This is our terrific reporter @josie_huang who has been covering this story for hours. @LACoSheriff @LASDHQ where is Josie? Why are reporters being arrested? Where can I go get her? https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: @LASDHQ Hey, turns out that you lied. There's video! Go figure. Such a cop thing to do. https://twitter.com/...
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Thank you all for the support and to the loveliest colleagues at @KPCC and @LAist. Our newsroom works really hard to cover our community and is proud to exercise our 1st Amendment rights, along with all the rest of you.
@lataco: This is a fear all editors have as they send especially POC journalists to cover very important but tense news situations. @MayorOfLA @LACoSheriff @LAPDChiefMoore @HildaSolis what are we doing to heal this city and protect everyone from violence? And uphold the 1st amendment? https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: If they're willing to lie about a reporter — where their actions are guaranteed to be scrutinized — imagine how much they're willing to for the average POC https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Blackmoore / @sblackmoore: Five deputies to take down one NPR reporter. Good job guys. And you wonder why everybody thinks you're a bunch of fucking thugs. https://twitter.com/...
@latguild: We condemn the arrest of @KPCC/@LAist reporter Josie Huang, who was doing a job protected under the First Amendment. Journalists have the right to inform the public. That includes coverage of every aspect of a protest in public spaces, including police interaction with citizens.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: After my phone drops, it keeps recording and it captures two deputies damaging my phone by kicking and stepping on it. I can hear myself in the background shouting: “You guys are hurting me” and “Stop it.” It feels very out-of-body to play this back. https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: Statement from @AAJAla and @AAJA on the arrest of journalist and AAJA member @josie_huang: https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Two California Deputies in Critical Condition After Being Shot in Apparent Ambush
Sanden Totten / @sandentotten: This is a disgrace. This is what it looks like when the first amendment is under attack. This is the second time police have wounded a @KPCC journalist. @MayorOfLA what are you doing about this? https://twitter.com/...
Lulu / @lourdesgnavarro: Despite her badge (clearly visible) and her shouting her affiliation (according to reporters on the scene and why wouldn't she?! ) this is what @LAPDHQ put out https://twitter.com/...
@aclu: Journalists should never be arrested or attacked by police for doing their job. The First Amendment doesn't allow it. To Josie Huang and journalists nationwide: We're with you. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Well, here it is. Video evidence that the LA Sheriff lied today about the arrest of a journalist. They tweeted that NPR reporter Josie Huang “did not identify herself as press.” (See: https://twitter.com/...) You can hear her say she's a reporter & name her outlet in this clip. https://twitter.com/...
Kimi Yoshino / @kyoshino: This is disturbing — @josie_huang is identifying herself as a radio reporter and her press ID is hanging around her neck. @LASDHQ https://twitter.com/...
@krismul: This is beyond distressing. Esp since the dept rep I spoke to in the middle of the night INSISTED that she had not id'd herself as a reporter. The presence of mind she shows here is remarkable. https://twitter.com/...
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: This could be any of us, journalist or protester or passerby; you could be arrested by law enforcement officers who then put out a narrative spinning events in their favor and forcing you to prove your innocence; an illustration of police abuses under protest in 2020 https://twitter.com/...
Frank Stoltze / @stoltzefrankly: UPDATE: #LASD claims my colleague @josie_huang violated 148PC - that's obstruction of justice. They are not giving any details. They're taking her to the Century Regional Detention Center now. This kind of treatment of a respected LA journalist is disturbing. @SPJLA https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hewlett / @mhewlettwsj: #JournalismIsNotCrime https://twitter.com/...
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: KPCC Reporter Josie Huang Forced to Ground, Arrested While Covering Protester Arrest (Video)
Bruce Haring / Deadline: LAist Reporter Josie Huang Released After Arrest For Obstructing Justice In Confrontation Outside Hospital
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Internal documents from The Intercept regarding exposed source Reality Winner show an extreme level of newsroom mismanagement, hubris, and a whitewashed probe — Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom. — Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak?
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Chuck Ross / @chuckrossdc: >@benyt goes after The Intercept over the Reality Winner situation. The column doesn't mention that two government leakers to Buzzfeed (James Wolfe and Natalie Edwards) were prosecuted for leaks while he was editor https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: So basically a source believed Greenwald cared about the truth, risked her career to show it to him, and he said “fuck this, it goes against my narrative,” let some fifth-string jabronis handle the story, and now the source is in prison sick with coronavirus.
@wilson__valdez: The other main takeaway is that Glenn Greenwald was presented with a whistleblower leaked internal NSA documents on the RUSSIA story that he'd been obsessed with for years....and just completely dismissed it & waved it away b/c it went against his priors. As a journalist does. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Laura Poitras blasts The Intercept for its handling of the Reality Winner situation. “Not only was this a cover-up and betrayal of core values, but the lack of any meaningful accountability promoted a culture of impunity and puts future sources at risk.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@wilson__valdez: And then, to put the cherry on top, the outlet that is so insistent on ‘holding everyone accountable’ basically swept it under the rug with absolutely no accountability. B/c it's principles for thee, not for me. https://twitter.com/...
@cmclymer: Goddamn, dude. Goddamn. They thoroughly screwed over Reality Winner. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@wilson__valdez: And yet again, Reality Winner's direct reason for leaking was that she was a fan of TI, was listening to their podcast & heard Greenwald's ‘skepticism’ of Russian interference (& naively believed it was in good faith). Glenn Greenwald is the direct reason she leaked. https://twitter.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: the failure to protect reality winner was shocking from the start, esp given the intercept's top notch security team. @benyt explains what happened. https://twitter.com/...
Katie MacBride / @msmacb: A thorough accounting of this is so long overdue https://www.nytimes.com/...
@azi: “Not only was this a cover-up and betrayal of core values, but the lack of any meaningful accountability promoted a culture of impunity and puts future sources at risk.” — Laura Poitras to @benyt: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dancow: Damn, Reality Winner's mom came out of retirement and took a job at a local jail “so she could feel closer to her daughter, and understand her experience behind bars” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Lee / @ralee85: The hypocrisy here is astounding. This is exactly what the Intercept routinely criticizes the DoD and intelligence community for. Zero accountability or transparency. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: “Greenwald was in Brazil and when he heard about the [Reality Winner] document, he was not interested. He told me that he considered its claims about Russian hacking during the 2016 race ‘wildly overblown’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: “The startling carelessness about protecting Ms. Winner was particularly mystifying at an organization that had been founded on security. The Intercept had hired leaders in digital security...Mr. Cole did not involve them at all.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @jgentgesdo The article makes clear that I had no role in the story or the handling of the documents but maybe you're illiterate and therefore can't process that part.
@wilson__valdez: And what did she get for her sacrifice of leaking to an outlet she trusted, to convince Glenn that his skepticism was misplaced? A bunch of amateur hour behavior, from an outlet with ‘lofty’ standards that ultimately got her locked up. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: I didn't know that one of the reporters on the Intercept's Reality Winner story is now the chief spokesman of the NYPD https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: This is well worth reading. I hope someone with an equivalent platform — obviously it won't be his — does an equally scathing take on the multiple, repeated, and catastrophic-to-the-republic scandals at the NY Times, many of which the organization has yet to even acknowledge. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @ChuckRossDC @benyt It also doesn't mention the NYT sources who were prosecuted: https://www.nytimes.com/... (Also forgot to mention that the NYT had a big part of the Snowden archive but shut down its reporting on it years before TI did)
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Has NYT “fully regained its swagger” since it helped lie the country into one its worst wars, had a reporter do serial fabulism, suppressed the story of Bush's illegal domestic spying until Jim Risen threatened to publish it in his book, & imploded with internal strife in 2020?
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Important to remember that Reality Winner is not the only source who's been subjected to a leak investigations. The Reporters Committee has great data on this; you'll find alleged sources for a bunch of places: NYT, BuzzFeed, Newsweek, & the Intercept https://www.rcfp.org/...
@nytimes: Failing to protect an anonymous leaker is a cardinal sin in journalism, writes @benyt. The remarkable thing in the instance of Reality Winner — a whistle-blower and NSA linguist — is that The Intercept didn't seem to try to protect its source. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Always a treat when the NYT tries to malign the journalism of independent outlets: The Intercept never quite “regained its swagger,” except for all those stories it broke and that time last year when its year-long exposés changed the politics of the world's fifth-largest country. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Evans / @rezendi: Old news, kind of moot, but darkly interesting that The Intercept outed Reality Winner basically because they hired traditional journalists in an attempt to be/seem more establishment... but it turned out their new hires couldn't even spell “opsec.” https://www.google.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Back when I was at the Committee to Protect Journalists, I wrote about how this was a growing problem; bad security protocols at outlets are worth talking about. But, let's not forget who's putting people in jail. https://cpj.org/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Deeply embarrassing and tragic story about the Intercept, where nobody has faced any consequences for failing to protect Reality Winner, who was sentenced to 5.25 years, and whose mom is now a corrections officer to learn what her daughter's life is like https://www.nytimes.com/...
Judy Trinh / @judyatrinh: A fascinating look at how lofty journalism goals are undone by the desire to break big news. The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. But It Didn't Protect a Source. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Reality Winner is still in a federal prison (and recovering there from COVID) because Intercept journalists blew her cover. And then they botched their own investigation. So this is Greenwald's takeaway from the @benyt piece that landed tonight⬇️⬇ ️ https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Just stunningly inept https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Tenet, the first major movie debut since the pandemic's start, passes $200M globally, despite lackluster North American box office sales of $6.7M in 2nd weekend — Christopher Nolan's “Tenet” crossed the $200 million mark globally, propped up by overseas grosses while U.S. cinemas struggle …
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: ‘Mulan’ Struggles in China as ‘Tenet’ Crosses $200 Million at Global Box Office
Tom Brueggemann / IndieWire: ‘Tenet’ Earns $6.7 Million, Total Box Office Is Under $15 Million: Theaters Are in a World of Hurt
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Warner Bros. delayed sharing daily box office grosses for Tenet over worries they could be misinterpreted, breaking industry norms and angering rival studios — People who closely follow box office earnings have noticed a surprising lack of transparency surrounding ticket sales for “Tenet …
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@variety: Warner Bros. decision to tightly control #Tenet's box office reporting may no longer be the exception to the rule. It could signal a new precedent for media companies always eager to avoid scrutiny https://variety.com/...
Dan Barrett / Always Be Watching: Netflix pays $30 million for new Zendaya film
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: 😱😱😱 $6.7 million domestic box office for Tenet this weekend with NO competition Even if NY/LA/SF were open and that number was $10 million — there is simply no consumer demand to return to movie theaters Every studio needs to push their major films into 2021 #endofstory https://twitter.com/...
Spiral Curse Demarco / @clarknova1: And you can thank Netflix, who normalized not reporting results. Why should any of these companies do it, since one of their biggest competitors does and no one seems to mind? https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: ‘Tenet’ Slows to $6.7 Million at U.S. Box Office as Theater Reopenings Taper Off
Sonaiya Kelley / Los Angeles Times: Box office: ‘Tenet’ is still hiding key details, as ‘Mulan’ disappoints in China
Zak / @zakkondratenko: I mean....their decision two days ago to push Wonder Woman to Christmas says as much as any data right now https://twitter.com/...
Madhu Menon / @madmanweb: Warner Bros. Won't Share ‘Tenet’ Box Office Data, Angering Rival Studios https://variety.com/... Looks like the box office take is terrible thanks to Nolan's ego needing the movie to be released in the middle of a pandemic.
@davidpoland: S.O.B. Standard Operating Bullshit We are in a freak show. Remember when U dropped its Trolls VOD number by whispering it to WSJ? People still quote that as fact. Warner Bros. Won't Share ‘Tenet’ Box Office Data, Angering Rival Studios https://variety.com/... via @variety
Jesse Crap / @jessecarp: The Saturday 1pm at my local is empty. 0 tickets sold. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Jarbo / @mjarbo: This.... Is not good. #TENET is the canary in the coal mine and its what we all feared Warner Bros. Won't Share ‘Tenet’ Box Office Data, Angering Rival Studios https://variety.com/...
Aditya Sood / @adityasood: Stanley Kubrick — who invented modern box office data reporting by forcing Warner Bros. to be transparent about it in the 1970's! — is turning over in his grave. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: Warner Bros & Sony Hiding Box Office Numbers From Rival Studios On ‘Tenet’ & ‘Broken Hearts Gallery’: Here's Why
Rafael Motamayor / The Playlist: ‘Tenet’: Warner Bros. Is Refusing To Share Box Office Data, Actual Opening Weekend Gross At Around $12M
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: The Only Mystery Bigger Than Tenet's Plot: Its Box Office
Ronan Shields / Adweek:
Amazon has added Twitch inventory to Amazon Advertising, making it easier for media buyers to include Twitch audiences in their programmatic ad campaigns — The streaming network is now part of Amazon Advertising — Twitch inventory has been opened up to Amazon Advertising customers. Source: twitch
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
YouTube to make engaged-view video ad conversions, which occur after users view 10+ seconds of a skippable ad but don't click, a standard metric this year — Advertisers have been challenged to determine the impact of video ad campaigns on conversions when they can't compare them across ad formats.
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
How work on an indie film set has changed after new COVID-19 protocols, including talent isolation, single-serve craft services, and a COVID compliance officer — As Hollywood crawls toward some version of normalcy amid the coronavirus pandemic, we at Variety have been curious …
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Matt Donnelly / @mattdonnelly: I recently spent the day on a film set to observe stringent new COVID-19 safety protocols in action. Here's what I learned. 🧵 https://variety.com/...
@variety: How will the day-to-day work of film and TV production resume? After an invitation from two indie film producers — Maurice Fadida & Eric B. Fleischman — to visit the set of “The Knocking,” @MattDonnelly was able to observe the new protocols in action https://variety.com/...
Ash / @ashcart: i hope that whatever happens, viewers give their favorite shows some extra grace this year—these people are creating entertainment FOR YOU under incredibly difficultly circumstances just so (most of) us can watch—safely—from the comfort of our homes. a little grace. that's all. https://twitter.com/...
Leo Sheng / @ileosheng: I can't share what I've filmed, but between the two sets I've been on since July: - temperature checks upon arrival - masks on until cameras roll (for actors/talent) - one prod: testing 2x/week - instructions on mic'ing myself - after plane, quarantine 2 weeks before shooting https://twitter.com/...
Adam B. Vary / @adambvary: As productions slowly begin to start up again, @MattDonnelly has this fascinating and fabulous look at how one independent production is making filmmaking in the age of COVID-19 work: https://variety.com/...
Erin Napier / @erinrnapier: For those curious—this is a little what our work life is like now making Home Town. A COVID compliance officer and his temp check gun, checking everyone in at arrival. Missing our crew lunches every day, but thankful I get to share it with @scotsmanco. https://variety.com/...
David Robb / Deadline:
Study: in 2019-2020, 42% of streaming shows had a female protagonist vs. 27% on cable; 32% of streaming shows had female directors, up from 15% the year before — Shows made for streaming services are much more likely to employ women in front of and behind the cameras than programs …
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Interview with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, on reforming Section 230 and whether the process around Trump's social media EO has become corrupt — Jessica Rosenworcel won't talk about what everyone really wants her to talk about. She can't. But what she says about everything else speaks volumes …
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@protocol: Jessica Rosenworcel can't talk about taking the position of FCC chair. But right now, she's very focused on Trump's Section 230 executive order and the state of the U.S. digital divide. https://www.protocol.com/...
Mike Murphy / @mcwm: “Turning the FCC into the president's speech police isn't the answer.” - @JRosenworcel https://www.protocol.com/...
Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e: .@JRosenworcel worries there's deep political corruption surrounding the White House's social media executive order. She says “we should be concerned” that the president is retaliating against those who speak out, including Commissioner Michael O'Rielly. https://www.protocol.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Congressional report finds USA Today's Susan Page, who is to moderate a VP debate, hosted an event at her home honoring Medicare boss Seema Verma in Nov. 2018 — An online backlash following reports of Verma's PR spending. But it didn't underwrite Page's party, which USA today says was …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: Susan Page of USA Today criticized for hosting off-the-record event honoring Trump appointees
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: USAToday's Susan Page wrote a piece based on an interview w/ Seema Verma in 2017 — 18 months before hosting that party for the Medicare chief — and let's just say, this was not what you might call “a hard-hitting piece.” More like open mic night. https://www.usatoday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: If you missed this @jeremymbarr story, read to the list of highest profile women journos in the US, and tell me why any of them would host expensive, off-the-record parties for people they may end up covering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: I just don't get why she would be allowed to moderate a debate after this disclosure. At the very least it's the appearance of impropriety if not the thing itself https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @moorehn @Sulliview @jeremymbarr this is also the trade media model, to a certain extent. you ask the people you cover to pay for entry into awards/lists/honors/etc, then have them pay to attend the event that gives out the awards, then have your sales team get ‘congrats’ ads from source's companies, etc etc
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: This defense of a journalist hosting a party for powerful people in government doesn't make sense. Not being paid back $4,000 is part of the reason it *is* a problem. It's like when politicians/ corporations say campaign contributions carry no influence https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: How has Susan Page not recused herself from moderating the VP debate yet?? https://twitter.com/...
Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets: Susan Page of USA Today has been widely criticized for hosting an off-the-record event honoring Trump appointees. She was recently picked to host the vice-presidential debate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris D. Jackson / @chrisdjackson: Had not read this before... https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: @benyt @Sulliview @jeremymbarr That's also a violation of federal law as well as almost every major newspaper's ethics rules so we're better off staying with “no winners” here IMO. 😬
Ben Smith / @benyt: @moorehn @Sulliview @jeremymbarr Not to defend this one but ... better that you are bribing a source than that a source is bribing you?
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Yep this. Also interesting that Politico neglected to name the host—who is also a reporter—for USA Today. Seems like a big miss. Keep all of this in mind when people from the @nytimes tell you that journalistic credibility comes only from “breaking news”. 1. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Similarly: Why do elite journos quote people who they know are lying or being moronically stupid but not call what they say lies and stupidities? Why do they engage in split-the-difference false equivalence that leaves readers uninformed? Cocktail parties. https://static.theintercept.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: Page spent $4k to host off-the-record party for Trump appointee Page is moderating one of the Trump/Biden debates https://twitter.com/...
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: Yup. 🎯@debates can proceed without finding a new host — but only while making a mockery of past bleats about civility or impartiality, such as those described below. https://twitter.com/...
@jljacobson: Perhaps the single greatest through line of this administration and @GOP is massive corruption. @SusanPage has actually ENGAGED in that corruption. She must recuse from the debates. @USATODAY https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: @Sulliview @jeremymbarr This is so clearly unethical, such an obvious conflict of interest, such a clear indication of why Washington reporting is a mess. I am amazed any news outlet would allow or defend this.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: @Sulliview @jeremymbarr Also curious: The story says Page “paid $4,025 for catering” plus a few hundred dollars in other costs. Did she expense it, and did Gannett/USAToday wind up footing the bill? At some news orgs, this would be considered a sourcing expense.
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Journalists were worried they'd face punishment at work for saying “Black Lives Matter” or donating to bail funds or attending protests. Meanwhile, “objective” journalists host secretive parties for Trump administration officials and it's totally chill https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Greg Pinelo / @gregpinelo: Moderating a Presidential debate is a huge privilege. I had no problem with Page previously, but surely there's someone else without this kind of entanglement: Susan Page of USA Today criticized for hosting off-the-record event honoring Trump appointees https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tina Issa / @tinaissa: Here's what I want to know: WHY does she still have a job when she has spent 3.5 M of Taxpayer money on her personal Consultants? I'll tell you what, the next Administration has its work cut out for it b/c they have to go after this massive corruption https://www.politico.com/...
Catherine Rampell / @crampell: Think about all the low-income people who could have gotten healthcare using the millions in taxpayer dollars Verma spent on her personal PR https://www.politico.com/...
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times: Column: Seema Verma, our awful Medicare boss, spent lavishly to burnish her public image
Michael Hiltzik / @hiltzikm: Question: what would be the percentage decline in op-Ed submissions if editors insisted on proof that the bylined author actually wrote the piece? https://www.google.com/...
Alexander W. McCall / @awmccall: I don't understand how journalists like Susan Page don't see the problem with hosting parties for politicians who are part of an administration they're supposed to cover? 🧐 https://www.washingtonian.com/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The more well-known or wealthy the “writer”, the more likely someone else wrote it. https://twitter.com/...
Murshed Zaheed / @murshedz: Doesn't matter whether @SusanPage herself paid 4 the party hosting one of the shadiest Trump officials: Seema Verma. What matters is that she hosted a party 4 someone who used 2 work w Pence & now Paige is gonna “moderate” Pence's debate v Harris. Not ok. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The taxpayer-funded party in Verma's honor was held at the home of @SusanPage, who is scheduled to moderate the VP debate this fall but will hopefully be removed. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine: Veep Debate Moderator Page Hosted Party Honoring Pence Protégé Verma
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times: Investigation of Medicare Chief Exposes Underside of Washington
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Rachel Maddow's show, which had its two biggest audiences ever with Mary Trump and Michael Cohen, offers authors a concentrated audience of book buyers — NEW YORK (AP) — It's high season for books that pick apart Donald Trump's presidency, and Rachel Maddow is a big beneficiary.
Discussion:
Charles Adler / @charlesadler: Apparently some shows offer the literate stimulating content while some others are like certain political organizations that are perfectly happy to bamboozle the less literate. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “There isn't any show on television that sells more books than Maddow,” says Keith Urbahn of the Javelin literacy agency. “... The most engaged, book buying audience bar none. Every time one of our authors has been on, she has shot the book to number one.” https://apnews.com/...
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman:
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph — On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind.
Discussion:
Sachin Rekhi / @sachinrekhi: Goodreads joins Craigslist, LinkedIn, and many others as decades old products that are hard to disrupt. Network efforts win again. https://www.newstatesman.com/ ...
Adrian Roselli / @aardrian: Amazon owns Goodreads and has little incentive to improve it. That is a space asking for competition while also very much in need of it. https://www.newstatesman.com/ ... I started using The StoryGraph about a month ago, did not use Goodreads previously.
Clare Malone / New York Magazine:
Profile of Ben Smith, NYT's Media Equation columnist, who is deeply devoted to scoops, intrigued by raw power, and is unafraid of making people uncomfortable — Puckish chaos agent" is how Charlie Warzel describes his former BuzzFeed News boss and current New York Times colleague Ben Smith. "
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Discussion:
Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: Journalists to be—take this advice. “If you're not breaking news, you don't have any credibility,” Smith said. Get sourced. Dig deep. Break stories. https://nymag.com/...
John McQuaid / @johnmcquaid: This piece on Ben Smith is all about how edgy and iconoclastic he is for the NYT, yet his point of view about journalism in the Trump era seems deeply conventional and in perfect conformity with the NYT house ideology - that is, vague https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashley McCollum / @mccollumashley: Fearless, shit stirring and “lives for the drama.” NYMag only scratched the surface of the nuance of @benyt but I'm glad his walking away if he's bored by your conversation made it in. https://nymag.com/...
Mike Murphy / @mcwm: guess I should resign then https://twitter.com/...
Matt Dangelantonio / @the5tooljourno: THREAD: 1/ I think I get what the quote is trying to say — that if you're not reporting original stories you're just reporting what others scooped you on — but I worry this advice is dangerous and could give journos-to-be the wrong idea of what makes you “good” or “credible.” https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Zayas / @alexandrazayas: This mostly made me realize there are at least 10 female journalists at the NYT I'd read profiles on, a good number of them, editors. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Ravenscraft / @lordravenscraft: In my own little corner of the service journalism world, some of the smartest, most hardworking, most overlooked people spend all their time and energy on translating information and expertise into actionable info for the average person. But it's not juicy scoops, so fuck em https://twitter.com/...
David S. Bernstein / @dbernstein: I have never considered breaking news to be among my most important goals or the source of my credibility as a journalist. (Whether I have any credibility is another question.) https://twitter.com/...
David Oliver / @doliver8: oh my god this WRITING is so good via @ClareMalone https://nymag.com/... “Smith's column isn't the deeply philosophical, dignified sort that evokes a quiet room and brooding thoughts over cups of tea; it has hot thumbs, sweaty armpits, and AirPods that keep dying.”
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Enjoyed @NYMag's story on @benyt, especially its CNN Reliable Sources mystery. A+ salty response from CNN comms. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@profjeffjarviss: [Comment about this article that makes clear we are in same orbit] https://nymag.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: Why is this behavior considered OK in any setting? https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Clare Malone / @claremalone: I wrote about @benyt and how he's brought his shit-stirring internet values—and scoops!—to the New York Times. https://nymag.com/...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: The “you” here obviously is a first-person you. In any event, I agree with him. If you (by which I mean you) want to be in journalism and don't want to break news, I say good, more scoops for me (not you) https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Well-deserved love for @benyt, stirrer of strife https://nymag.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: If would-be journalists would like advice about the many, many other ways to be both excellent and credible, there's many of us who'd be happy to help. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: Ben has been living rent free in my head for 8 years now, and I'll never feel any closer to understanding his weirdness. Now add one more mystery: where the heck is the light source in this photo coming from https://nymag.com/...
Micah Cohen / @micahcohen: The sad thing is if this mentality was less prevalent, “breaking news” would actually be somewhat meaningful — and then the mentality would have at least a little value. It's a viscous cycle! https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Hopper / @jesshopp: To “get sourced/break stories” you need some things that are hard to come by these days, namely: An editor and publication looking to assign this sort of work, stand behind it, pay decent for it. Easier if yr staff, not freelance. Does this advice even apply outside NYT newsroom? https://twitter.com/...
Noah Goldberg / @noah__goldberg: We need a new brand of reporter: media reporter reporters. These reporters will exclusively report on reporters who report on reporters okay? https://nymag.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: I think I broke news one time during my tenure at BuzzFeed and somehow Ben still thought I was doing good work; he's talking about a specific sort of reporting work here (aka his own) https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: With respect to my colleague @benyt, some of the best journalists in the industry don't break news and have the most credibility in the business. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Nobody breaks less news than me, so I think I have the credibility to say that the scoop skeptics criticizing @benyt are mostly misreading this quote. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dominic Holden / @dominicholden: Ben Smith helped union-busting at his own BuzzFeed newsroom. He and his team no-showed at a key meeting & blew up negotiations, then stood by his staff when they lied about us in the press. Shocked to now read he dislikes “ethical judgments” about media! https://nymag.com/...
Michael Slackman / @meslackman: In a short time, @benyt has returned the “Media Equation” column — made legendary by David Carr, the straight-talking ex-addict journalism folk hero who died in 2015 — to the position of power it had attained during Carr's time in the chair. https://nymag.com/...
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: This story is funny and well done but it makes Ben sound like a sociopathic boss. In my experience he was humane, realistic, helpful, encouraging, and approachable—but I guess that's not a story he would want to write https://nymag.com/...
Jason Foster / @byjasonfoster: Breaking news is always good, but this sentiment just isn't true. That's like telling a baseball player, “If you're not hitting homers, you don't have any value.” https://twitter.com/...
Sammy Roth / @sammy_roth: Strong agree. Scoops are cool, but so much of the most important journalism is finding new and innovative ways to tell the same stories again and again. And yes I am thinking about climate change. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: This is an incredibly stupid, reductive, and limiting vision of what journalism is and should be. Scoop obsession leads to a media that's insular, obsessed with minutiae, and incapable of imparting a holistic sense of what's happening to its readers. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Stedman / @scottmstedman: This is the worst advice I've ever heard and its why the New York Times is going in the wrong direction. Don't hunt scoops. Tell stories that speak truth to power and further the public's understanding of the world around them. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Huseman / @jessicahuseman: I respectfully disagree. There are far more important things than being the first to tell a story. Telling it well and telling a full story is, in my view, far more critical to this profession. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Kolson Hurley / @amandakhurley: Hard pass. https://twitter.com/...
G A B Y / @gabydvj: no offense but i just published an 8300 word story that didnt break any new information but did explain an incredibly arcane system in a humanizing way and i think that gives me credibility lol https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Drepper / @danieldrepper: I joined BuzzFeed News in 2017 because I loved my interview with Ben. Then, for the next three years, every time we talked I was afraid of boring him and he'd just end the conversation. This seems like a pretty good profile of @benyt. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@blakehounshell: This is a fun read, but it kind of makes @benyt out to be some kind of arsonist. But he's pretty fair and thoughtful, I find. https://twitter.com/...
@tanvim: This is important (I certainly try to do this!) but not the only thing good journalists do. You can also explain esoteric policies, connect the dots on how they came to be, and tell complicated, nuanced stories and unpack new ideas. https://twitter.com/...
@rachelysanders: one of the things I've always appreciated most about @benyt, as someone who like to yell at people, is how much he likes being yelled at. excellent portraiture by @ClareMalone https://nymag.com/...
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / @kannoyoungs: I would just add that breaking news comes in many forms. Go sort though data and provide readers context. Travel and get to the truth on the ground. FOIA documents and unearth new details. I love a good SCOOP — any piece that shines light and pushes the story forward https://twitter.com/...
Delia Cai / @delia_cai: “Smith has dictated texts and emails to his son while driving for years” < — um lol i didn't know you could do that but now I have new standards for my non-existent children https://nymag.com/...
Dan Papscun / @papscun: Come for the subject, stay for an iconic @theferocity quote. “Ben is a messy bitch who lives for the drama.” https://nymag.com/...
Matthew Kassel / @matthewkassel: “I like asking weird, awkward questions that don't necessarily make me seem like a good person.”
Lissandra Villa / @lissandravilla: This profile really captures @benyt. He is a mad scientist, and newsrooms are his laboratories. https://nymag.com/...
Michael J. Coren / @mj_coren: “Every beat is basically just power,” says Ben Smith, NYT media columnist and ex-BuzzFeed editor in chief. It's “the question of who's winning and who's losing,” said a former BuzzFeed editor. https://nymag.com/...
Shareen Pathak / @shareenpathak: Why do I like this sentence so much “Smith's column isn't the deeply philosophical, dignified sort that evokes a quiet room and brooding thoughts over cups of tea; it has hot thumbs, sweaty armpits, and AirPods that keep dying.” https://nymag.com/...
Matthew Kassel / @matthewkassel: “I don't really think about myself politically,” he said. “My ideology, to some degree, is really very much about journalism.” https://nymag.com/...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: Literally 100 percent of the times an editor has walked by my desk in the Vox offices, I am playing Dominion Online https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams: “Afterward, I was told, the story circulated that Hanks was heard muttering “Fuck BuzzFeed” in the elevator.” https://nymag.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Ben Smith is a pain in the ass...read this very good profile by @ClareMalone https://nymag.com/...
Nu Wexler / @wexler: “It also may be that, for the bosses, there's something oddly flattering about being targeted by Smith: His scrutiny is further confirmation of your power.” https://nymag.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: learning that part of ben smith's success in journalism appears to be that he likes scoops https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Having a tough time with the sentence “On nights when his stories drop, blue-check-mark tweeters weigh in on Smith's latest.” https://nymag.com/...
Nichole / @tnwhiskeywoman: I try to take note of the people who don't get quoted, who don't have cute stories of grudging respect and camaraderie. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: This section contrasting Ben Smith's politics with that of the NYT, which the author describes as increasingly adversarial to Trump, seems off. The criticism of the news media is it is accommodating to Trump, and that it doesn't call out lies or racism. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rayford / @katie_rayford: Very happy the cheeseburger incident is now on the record. Also describing Ben “like a cast member of The Sandlot all grown up” is...perfect Great profile of @benyt, the only person I know who has pissed off Tom Hanks & likes fighting with Tucker Carlson https://nymag.com/...
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