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David Greene / @nprgreene: I find goodbyes hard. Especially this one. But after 16 years, I have decided to leave NPR at the end of 2020. I love the place and will sorely miss so many colleagues. I will always be a storyteller. And my adventures ahead involve other passions as well: 🏈 📖 🎙 🍷 https://twitter.com/...
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sources: Fox News agreed to pay a former assistant of Kimberly Guilfoyle more than $4M to settle a complaint about Guilfoyle's sexually inappropriate behavior — As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll …
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@newyorker: In order to avoid going to trial in an investigation of sexual harassment against its former star Kimberly Guilfoyle, Fox agreed to pay a Guilfoyle accuser upward of $4 million, @JaneMayerNYer reports. https://nyer.cm/iQFIgQ7
Reed Richardson / Mediaite: New Report Claims Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox After $4M Settlement with Assistant, Who Alleged Graphic Sexual Harassment
@newyorker: Kimberly Guilfoyle has maintained that her decision to leave Fox News, in 2018, was entirely voluntary. In a new investigation, Jane Mayer confirms that the network forced her out after a former assistant alleged sexual harassment against the host. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: In 2018 I reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle was forced out of Fox News after she faced allegations of sexual misconduct. In a new report, @JaneMayerNYer has the details of a multi-million dollar settlement that Fox News paid to Guilfoyle's assistant. https://www.newyorker.com/...
@newyorker: Among other things, she said that she was frequently required to work at Guilfoyle's apartment while the Fox host displayed herself naked, and was shown photographs of the genitalia of men with whom Guilfoyle had had sexual relations. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Rucker / @philiprucker: Trump campaign finance chair and top surrogate Kimberly Guilfoyle is accused of: -sexually harassing her assistant -offering hush money to cover it up -attempting character assassination to discredit assistant Extraordinary reporting by @JaneMayerNYer https://www.newyorker.com/...
@newyorker: Until now, the specific allegations against Guilfoyle have remained largely hidden. The draft complaint, which was never filed in court, is covered by a nondisclosure agreement.
Paul Goldberger / @paulgoldberger: Once again, @JaneMayerNYer has produced a brilliantly researched piece that reasonably, calmly and clearly helps you understand that things are even worse than you thought they were. https://twitter.com/...
@newyorker: Equally disturbing is what the assistant described as a coverup attempt by Guilfoyle. According to two well-informed sources, in order to avoid going to trial, Fox agreed to pay the assistant upward of $4 million.
Sean Woods / @seanwoods12: Good lord, the details in this piece are horrific. “It was an insane, abusive relationship. Rather than being a mentor, she was an afflictor.” The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
@newyorker: The former assistant has not been publicly identified, and, out of respect for the rights of victims of sexual harassment, The New Yorker is honoring her confidentiality.
@newyorker: Other times, Guilfoyle encouraged her to sleep with wealthy and powerful men, asked her to critique her naked body, required her to sleep over at her apartment, and exposed herself to her.
Stuart Stevens / @stuartpstevens: So Trump called out the Proud Boys to change the subject from his taxes and Melania attacked Christmas to change the subject from Proud Boys and Kimberly Guilfoyle went full Harvey Weinstein to change the subject from Melania mocking kids in cages and that's just 24 hours. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: Guilfoyle told her assistant that, “in exchange for demonstrating what Guilfoyle called loyalty, she would work out a payment to take care of her—possibly, she said, with funds from Bolling.
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: “...as I reported on this story, associates of Guilfoyle's contacted me, offering personal details about the assistant, evidently in hopes of damaging her credibility and leading me not to publish this report.”
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: “Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, declined to comment on the appropriateness of Guilfoyle overseeing the Trump campaign's finances, given the allegations about hush money and harassment levied against her by her former assistant.” https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: “In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of [Kimberly] Guilfoyle's assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: Lord, may I live righteous enough so that @JaneMayerNYer never calls me asking for comment. https://www.newyorker.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: The accusations are every bit as bad as you think. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Himler / @peterhimler: Another one from @JaneMayerNYer. This time on the @kimguilfoyle's lurid and heretofore reasons behind her sudden departure from #FoxNews: https://www.newyorker.com/... (@NewYorker)
LaToya Morgan / @morganicink: The Kimberly Guilfoyle harassment story is particularly disturbing. Yikes.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Report: In 2018, Fox News Allegedly Agreed to Pay a Kimberly Guilfoyle Sexual Harassment Accuser $4 Million to Avoid Going to Trial
Matt Webb Mitovich / TVLine: Kimberly Guilfoyle's Fox News Ouster: Details Surface on Sexual Misconduct Claims, Alleged Payoff Attempt
Charles Davis / Business Insider: A sexual harassment allegation against Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's campaign fundraiser, reportedly led to her Fox News ouster and a $4 million out-of-court settlement
Liz Wolfe / Reason:
NYT, which faced staff unrest and an editor's exit after running Sen. Cotton's op-ed on US protests, posted an op-ed praising China's crackdown on HK's protests — “The West tends to glorify” pro-democracy protesters “as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm …
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Regina Ip / New York Times: Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not
Yascha Mounk / @yascha_mounk: The boss of the NYT op-ed page was fired because he ran a controversial op-ed by a sitting U.S. Senator. But a few months later, a propagandist for an authoritarian regime gets to argue that a violent putdown of peaceful protests was needed in the same pages. This is just nuts. https://twitter.com/...
@yair_rosenberg: The real problem with the Cotton op-ed was simply that the NYT didn't subject him and his thesis to interrogation on the page, because they typically give political leaders greater latitude than most normal contributors. This has long been bad policy. And they haven't fixed it. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Wolfe / @lizzywol: To be clear: Hongkongers have lost some of their most basic and treasured political freedoms; they've been fired, stripped from positions at universities, silenced and intimidated, arrested and jailed for protesting. The culture of free speech that had formerly prevailed is lost.
Nina Schick / @ninadschick: The hypocrisy reeks. Can't be one rule for Tom Cotton and another for China apologists. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Wolfe / @lizzywol: “The scale and frequency of antigovernment protests has now subsided — thanks to a national security law for Hong Kong promulgated in Beijing on June 30.” Are you shitting me, @nytimes? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kathryn Watson / @kathrynw5: Publishing this opinion piece was a huge lapse in judgment and the NYT editorial board should apologize to the people of Hong Kong for publishing it and correct their error. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: Is there an NYT newsroom freakout about this? The paper has a huge presence in Hong Kong. What China has done to Hong Kong is not just an issue of abstract values but also has a direct impact on many of the paper's employees. https://twitter.com/...
@antoniogm: “The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland.” The NYT has lost its mind. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Drew Holden / @drewholden360: If you objected to Tom Cotton's op-ed, yet have no concerns about this piece of CCP propaganda, you've taken leave of either your intellect or your morality. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David / @dawidaltexian: @JChengWSJ Oh my God The NYT is literally carrying water for Xi Xinping I shouldn't be surprised though
@antoniogm: I buy the argument that any media of record should air diverging opinions, often from contentious if not outright objectionable public figures. But you don't publish CCP propaganda with nary a complaint, and then become a shrinking media violet when it comes to US politics.
Matt Steinglass / @mattsteinglass: People are noting the hypocrisy of running this “China was right to crack down in Hong Kong” op-ed after firing an editor over the Tom Cotton op-ed. But it's also a really useful case study of Orwellian language. Check out this bit: 1/2 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cody Fenwick / @codytfenwick: One upside of the NYT publishing this vile and authoritarian op-ed from a Hong Kong politician is it shows how similar GOP rhetoric and defenses of the CCP have become. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@reason: The op-ed distorts the situation in Hong Kong, spinning a fantasy of a just government restoring social order. Vague laws that give an authoritarian regime wide latitude to crack down on dissent are not, in fact, a recipe for freedom or for peace. https://reason.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Both sides!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj: Happy October 1 from Regina Ip: “Something had to be done, and the Chinese authorities did it...No amount of outcry, condemnation or sanctions...will alter the fact that Hong Kong is part of China and that its destiny is intertwined with the mainland's.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Berenson / @alexberenson: I know this idea is complicated, @yashar, but sometimes knowing the views of powerful people is valuable, even if you disagree with them. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Bradsher / @keithbradsher: Regina Ip on the National Security Law in Hong Kong: “...it fills longstanding loopholes — about subversion, secession, local terrorism, collusion with external forces. One person's ‘severe’ is someone else's intended effect.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shadi Hamid / @shadihamid: The double standard is remarkable. But there's time still: I expect @nytimes staffers to protest and speak out in the coming days, because this oped puts Hong Kong pro-democracy activists in danger https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The NYT's rule against publishing op-eds in which government officials argue for violent crackdowns on protestors seems to have been short lived. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Liz Wolfe / @lizzywol: This is rich. “The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland.”
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This is like a parody of Tom “Activate the Death Star” Cotton's NYT op-ed. “The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city by stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gabrielle Reyes / Breitbart: Pro-Communist Lawmaker in NYT: Hong Kong Protesters Sowed ‘Chaos,’ ‘Disaffection’ for China
Justine Coleman / The Hill: NYT opinion piece backing China's crackdown in Hong Kong sparks backlash
Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Sources: Russia's IRA is running a news site on US politics, reposting conservative content and paying US freelancers to write on politically sensitive issues — LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet …
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / @ryanbeckwith: Guys, here's the tipoff that the site you're freelancing for is actually a Russian front: It pays promptly. https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alan W. Silberberg / @ideagov: Real question is how many more yet uncovered as such. Where there is one, there is more. Like cockroaches. https://twitter.com/...
Natasha Bertrand / @natashabertrand: looks pretty much as you'd expect https://twitter.com/...
Molly McKew / @mollymckew: That anyone thinks “Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens” with its motto “don't get yourself fooled” sound like authentic things shows why we are trapped in the 2016 hell ring https://www.reuters.com/...
Camille Franois / @camillefrancois: 🆕 We worked w/ the inimitable @jc_stubbs to investigate the latest Russian information operation tied to the IRA, targeting far right users on social media ahead of the election (incl. Gab & Parler, for the 1st time), leveraging unwitting freelancers to write inflammatory pieces https://twitter.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: Information laundering (adding credence to a narrative by pushing it through established or recognizeable channels) in practice. This is the real risk this year, not trolls, bots, or foreign political ads. https://twitter.com/...
Ncsc / @ncscgov: New PSA from @CISAgov and @FBI: Foreign actors likely to use online journals to spread disinformation regarding 2020 elections. https://www.ic3.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: @wiczipedia Oh completely — calling it out makes perfect sense. The callbacks to 20th century IO tactics are fascinating. What's old is new again. And FBI/CISA seem to agree: https://www.ic3.gov/...
Ben Nimmo / @benimmo: Credit to @jc_stubbs of @Reuters, who tipped us off to this. A legend in his own byline. https://www.reuters.com/...
Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss: Oh look, another one. https://twitter.com/...
Natasha Bertrand / @natashabertrand: Trolls from Russia's Internet Research Agency posed as an independent news outlet and “Reuters identified three writers located in the US who contributed articles” to it—2 of whom are “established authors who had written for a number of right-wing outlets” https://www.reuters.com/...
Will Cheney / @cheneyaug: @NatashaBertrand I'd hate to see their sports section.
Chris Vickery / @vickerysec: ...the name they started with from June 2020 was “national alliance for ethnic balance and consciousness”, which sounds a little more sinister in leaning toward the racism angle.
Anatoli Rapoport / @rapoportanatoli: @NatashaBertrand NAEBC, if read in Russian, «нае бс» sounds very much like a phrase that means “to deceive” but with use of a vulgarity (literally - to f*** someone in order to deceive, наеб ать). GRU is becoming creative... lol
Josh Russell / @josh_emerson: If they have a left and right website, it's a safe bet they have others out there based on the personas they always use. https://twitter.com/...
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Google is giving $1 billion to news publishers — to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that
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The Media Roundup from Media Voices: Friday 2nd October: Google to pay publishers more than $1 billion to create and curate
Tpampalone / Global Investigative Journalism Network: What We're Reading: Financial Crimes in the US Art Market, Wayback Weaponization, and Google's $1 Billion for Publishers
Natalia Drozdiak / @nat_droz: .@Google announced it will pay #publishers more than $1 billion to license #news content, incl. to give readers free access to certain paywalled articles. It's a major concession to an industry that has long accused it of unfairly using their content. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@niemanlab: It's better to have a billion dollars than to not have a billion dollars. (Or so we're told.) But remember: Google's interactions with the news industry are always about its interests, not publishers'. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / CNN: Google agrees to pay news publishers more than $1 billion
Lucinda Southern / Digiday: ‘Quite cynical’: Publishers leery about Google's $1 billion news licensing pot
Amanda Meade / The Guardian: News Corp backs push for ABC and SBS to receive payments from Google and Facebook
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: Google to Pay Publishers Over $1 Billion for News Content
Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai: Proud to announce our biggest commitment to the future of news yet: the launch of Google News Showcase - a new kind of news experience for publishers and readers - along with a $1 billion global investment in partnerships with publishers. https://blog.google/...
Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News: Google pledges $1 billion over 3 years to pay news publishers for content
@alansoon: Perhaps the most expensive app ever built. $1 billion to create a news app for a niche group of users, to support a business model that we all know badly needs a sledgehammer, not a drip (mixed metaphor alert!). https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@slpng_giants: VERY conflicted on this. 1) @google has already pretty much destroyed the news industry. They shouldn't get credit for trying to save it. 2) They should have been doing this all along. 3) Do we want Google deciding which publishers survive and which ones don't? https://twitter.com/...
Rachael King / @sfwriter: Publications including Der Spiegel, Stern and Handelsblatt will supply article previews for a coming Google feature: Google News Showcase https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
@newsycombinator: Google is giving $1B to news publishers - for PR, not a product https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Have had string of emails from people asking what announced $1b planned payment to publishers globally for content for Google News Showcase might mean. Don't know. While we now have headline $ figure, still don't know much else. But a few hypothetical calculations in thread⬇️1/7 https://twitter.com/...
Gary Dickson / @gzy_d: 'When a corporate announcement seems to make no sense at all from a straight profit-and-loss perspective, it's probably about meeting a deeper need somewhere else — in this case, Google's need to be beloved enough to remain underregulated' https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Picking the winners: Is that really the solution? https://twitter.com/...
Felix M. Simon / @_felixsimon_: Great overview by @sarafischer on Google's new initiative to support publishers. Key takeaway: feels like a massive olive branch to the news industry & regulators (support but on Google's terms). Questions remain over who will get to participate & who won't (local news anyone?) https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. / @nikkiusher: So if you are ok with Google paying off publishers as a band-aid for problems they called, well, you shouldn't be https://www.axios.com/... - and my take, here for @openmarkets says why https://www.journalismliberty.org/ ...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Google's interactions with the news industry are always fundamentally about its interests, not publishers'” @jbenton writes. “There's nothing unusual or wrong with that, really.” Regular reminder: platforms are for-profit companies, not philanthropists. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Where there is a policy vacuum around news support, the platforms are making their own policies. Where it exists externally to the platforms - Australia for instance - there is resistance https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Dominic Ponsford / @domponsford: It is just over three years since Press Gazette launched its Duopoly campaign calling for a fairer deal between Facebook and Google and the news industry. It looks like Google has come up with the goods in a big way. https://twitter.com/...
Lorenz Matzat / @lorz: “... this is at its core: a way for Google to send money to publishers in a way that it hopes will address a PR problem and stave off hungry governments.. .... What could possibly make a company want to give away 0.15% of its revenue? The threat of someone else taking 10% of it.” https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. / @nikkiusher: Like, this is a band-aid to shut publishers up and pacify dissent - and do you want big tech funding your news???? (Goodness even public money would be better and I am not the biggest fan of pub media) https://www.journalismliberty.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ross Maghielse / @maghielse: Great analysis of the “Google's giving $1 billion to publishers” announcement. It's $1 billion spread across the globe over three years. It leaves everything pretty much where it already is and is arguably more beneficial to Google than to publishers. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
David Beard / @dabeard: I mean, it's good news, but ... “What could possibly make a company want to give away 0.15% of its revenue? The threat of someone else taking 10% of it.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Everyone is commenting on this in my feed: My reaction is: It's for a service on Google, so nothing really to see here people. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Lots of obvious caveats and questions, but this is at least directionally a good thing. Identifying quality news outlets is key. I will also note that a bunch of youse laughed at me when I suggested such a thing last February: https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Kayali / @laukaya: News Media Europe reacts: “Google News Showcase is no substitute for the EU publishers right.” #copyright https://twitter.com/...
Alex Barker / Financial Times: Google pledges $1bn to pay for news
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: I'm biased of course but as Google and Facebook expand these programs to curate content for specific surfaces on their platforms they should put a particular emphasis on highlighting visual journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Quentin Dempster / @quentindempster: What's this? @Google is moving in Europe to pay for copyrighted news content from media publishers. If Google accepts the principle of copy rights it should have no trouble in fair compensation for Australian publishers .. including the ABC and SBS. @PaulFletcherMP @ItaButtrose https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: here is a solid report on @FT which provides some balance to the “news” from Menlo Park. ht @alexebarker https://www.ft.com/...
Karen Percy / @percykaren: Google moves to pay *some* news and content providers on Europe. What will it mean for Australia's push to have Google and Facebook pay for news content? @withMEAA https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I've said what I think of this: It's blackmail by Murdoch, Springer, and big, old publishers. It's a bad precedent. It will hurt the new competitors we need in news. But publishers cashed in their political capital with pols to make this happen. https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Pierre Chappaz / @pierrechappaz: Google becomes a global publisher, while publishers become content producers for them. https://blog.google/...
Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: Google paying $1 billion to publishers for content in new News Showcase
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Take the money but... @Google is paying publishers more than $1 billion to create and curate high-quality content https://www.axios.com/...?
Charlie Beckett / @charliebeckett: Interesting. Google is going to pay a selection of publishers for content and share audience data. Raises all the usual questions about who gets the money but seems significant. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart McDonald / @travelfish: “ As part of this effort, Google says it will offer free access to select paywalled articles on some participating publishers' sites, with the idea being that the extra exposure will one day help publishers convert those visitors to subscribers.” LoL no. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Some details: - Launching first in Germany in Brazil (I spoke with a publisher in Brazil who said the money's been really helpful) - News “panels” allow pubs to curate their own stories in one place and eventually they can include things like audio and video as well as text https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨🚨 Google is paying publishers *more than $1 billion* to create and curate high-quality content for a new news product it's rolling out over the next 3 years. — It's by far the tech giant's biggest commitment to publishers ever https://www.axios.com/...
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Christine Fisher / Engadget: Google will pay publishers to curate a reliable news feed
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Google will pay publishers $1 billion to quell claims of unfairly profiting from their content
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Google pledges to pay $1bn to news publishers over next three years
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Steve Waldman / Poynter: How the government can help save local news without endangering its editorial independence
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@onaconf: Just announced: Today, in a joint partnership with the @MaynardInst and @opennews, we're announcing Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms. #JournoBelonging Read more: https://journalists.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@onaconf: Research on social change has found that movements can start when as few as 25% of a given population commits to speaking up and taking action. Vision25 can be that “social tipping point” for racial equity in journalism. #JournoBelonging
@onaconf: We're taking the remainder of 2020 to build the alliance, explore additional strategies, and secure financial support to launch fully in 2021. We invite you to be part of that process. #journobelonging Read more: https://journalists.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Fortune magazine executive editor Adam Lashinsky, who has written books on Apple and Uber, has left Fortune and will write for Insider and Business Insider — Fortune magazine executive editor Adam Lashinsky is leaving the publication and will write for Insider and Business Insider.
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Dan Primack / @danprimack: Still trying to process this. I'd have been less surprised if Trump quit to become CEO of TikTok. https://twitter.com/...
Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx: This is HUGE news. So excited to work with the amazing @adamlashinsky! https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Carlson / @nichcarlson: I am beyond thrilled to announce Insider just signed a new contributing writer. It's acclaimed author and (now former) Fortune Executive Editor, @adamlashinsky. Insider subscribers will get several features a year from Adam, as well as a regular column. I can't wait!
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Portland tech news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers, including Lisa Marie Segarra, Meira Gebel, and Mathew Katz — Portland technology news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers. — Among those laid off was Lisa Marie Segarra …
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Mathew Katz / @mathewkatz: I was laid off from Digital Trends yesterday, along with 16 other talented staffers and a bunch of freelancers. The editorial team at Digital Trends did some incredible work in the face of sparse resources and little brand recognition. Here's my favorites:
Genevieve Poblano / @genevievexp: Also, @JulianaJara19 @Mariatlopes! https://twitter.com/...
Nick Woodard / @nwoodard25: Alright, Oregon twitter. I suddenly have unlimited unpaid PTO, and my SO has a two-week break from school. It's road trip time. What are the sights we've gotta see, the spots we can't miss, the adventures we have to have? Bonus if they're dog friendly!
Francesca Chambers / @fran_chambers:
The Commission on Presidential Debates says it is considering adding “additional structure” to the format “to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues” — The Commission on Presidential Debates speaks: https://twitter.com/...
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@norahodonnell: EXCLUSIVE: @CBSNews has learned the Commission on Presidential Debates plans to issue strict new rules in the coming days that include cutting off a candidate's microphone if they violate the rules, per an informed source. More tonight on the @CBSEveningNews
Spencer Bokat-Lindell / New York Times: Should the Presidential Debates Be Canceled?
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: It's interesting to me that so many people are asking what “the fix” for the next debate is, and they seem to start by assuming there must be one. https://twitter.com/...
@waconzy: President Trump's reelection campaign said it opposes the Commission on Presidential Debates making changes to the format of the remaining debates after the commission said it would be adopting changes https://www.cnn.com/... 👉🏽 Listen @waconzy music https://fanlink.to/... #W...
Porter Anderson / @porter_anderson: Media: @brianstelter to @ErinBurnett on the Debate Commission: “This is a gentlemanly, old-fashioned, can't-we-all-just-get-along commission that exists in a blood-sport world. They've got to make changes. So far, no decisions have been made” as to how to adjust the #debates. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Bohn / @kevinbohncnn: Just in: A source close to the debates commission told CNN it has “not ruled out” anything about what changes it may enact. The source emphasized no decisions have been made; various options are considered. CNN is told the aim is to announce changes within the next 24-48 hours
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Trump Campaign Blasts Debate Commission as Biased
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: Commission on Presidential Debates has issued a statement on last night's debacle: “Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.” More changes to be announced...
Matt Viser / @mviser: JUST IN: Statement from the Commission on Presidential Debates: “Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.” https://twitter.com/...
Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe: But have they tried grounding the president or taking away his Fox & Friends for a couple weeks? https://twitter.com/...
Ian Millhiser / @imillhiser: This is good, I suppose, but I'm not looking forward to the moderators lashing out at Biden for trivial violations of the rules because they feel the need to appear “unbiased” after enforcing the rules several times against Trump. https://twitter.com/...
@rachelbitecofer: This is the ONLY condition under which I would accept debating Trump again if I was Biden https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: INBOX: The Commission on Presidential Debates is considering rule changes after last night. https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NEW: A frustrated Debate Commission convened today to talk rule changes. In consideration: -More limits on speaking times. -Penalizing interruptions by giving more time to opponent -Audio cutoffs are an option but some are hesitant to go that route https://www.nytimes.com/...
Larry Sabato / @larrysabato: This might work as long as the person with the red button uses it generously. But I wonder if Trump will submit? https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I am not optimistic for many reasons: 1. Same psychotic on the stage. 2. These moderators are not up to the task. CSPAN? A stenographic White House correspondent? A socializing Beltway correspondent? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: The Rules @debates set were clear. The campaigns agreed to them. But if candidates won't abide by them, there's no point in changing, The “structure” needed to make the next 2 debates work is to remove the ability to interject during those first 2 minutes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Shakira Sison / @shakirasison: Those who speak out of turn will be dunked in water. https://twitter.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Trying to imagine what “additional structure” would look like. Maybe they'll switch the whole thing to Zoom with poor Wi-fi connections. https://twitter.com/...
Tsar Becket Adams / @becketadams: going forward, debate moderators will have their choice of a trapdoor, hounds, a gong, or a cattle prod. https://twitter.com/...
Diane Duane / @dduane: “...Additional tools.” ...I don't know about the rest of you, but my imagination's running a bit wild. 🤣 https://twitter.com/...
Elisa Cardnell / @elisacardnell: I suggest the ability to mute the microphones and Katie Porter to pose the questions. https://twitter.com/...
@kfile: Each candidate interrupting will have slime fall from the ceiling like on 90s Nickelodeon. https://twitter.com/...
Nina Burleigh / @ninaburleigh: “additional structure” is Commission-speak for a mic mute button. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Right. So the Commission is now asking itself: Which is the optimal format for a debate when one of the participants is a sociopath? I think you can see the problem with that. https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Bennett / @geoffrbennett: New statement from the Commission on Presidential Debates: “Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. The CPD will be carefully considering the changes ...”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In an interview on Wednesday, Chris Wallace conceded he was initially reluctant to step in during the Trump-Biden debate, saying he doesn't favor muting mics
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Christopher Rosen / Vanity Fair: Seth Meyers Figured Out a Way to Get Trump to Stop Interrupting During Debates
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Chris Wallace: President Trump ‘Bears the Primary Responsibility for What Happened on Tuesday’
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: Moderator Chris Wallace on the wild presidential debate: ‘It was revealing’
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast: Ted Cruz and an Army of Trumpkins Trash C-SPAN's Steve Scully, the Next Presidential Debate Moderator
Max Greenwood / The Hill: Biden opens up 13-point lead over Trump in new national poll
Victoria Eavis / Lead Stories: Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Chris Wallace With Jeffrey Epstein — It's Wallace And George Clooney
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: “I'm just disappointed with the results. For me, but much more importantly, I'm disappointed for the country, because it could have been a much more useful evening than it turned out to be.” - Chris Wallace https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Solender / Forbes: Trump Demands No Debate Changes As His Campaign Alleges Debate Commission Bias
Brian Stelter / CNN: Failure of imagination: Why Trump can still shock the media
Emily Nussbaum / @emilynussbaum: It's disturbing to me that CW didn't see this coming. He's a smart guy & this has been Trump's psychology—his pathology—for years... It's a radical level of wishful thinking to imagine them having a real debate. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Trump Suggests He Won't Agree to Debate Commission's New Rules: Why Would I Do That ‘When I Easily Won?’
Philip Rucker / @philiprucker: Honest reflections and soul searching here from Chris Wallace, a pro's pro who was put in an impossible situation https://twitter.com/...
Amy Siskind / @amy_siskind: Zero self-awareness on how badly he failed: “I guess I didn't realize — and there was no way you could, hindsight being 20/20 — that this was going to be the president's strategy, not just for the beginning of the debate but the entire debate.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Lachlan MURDOCH toasted Chris Wallace in Cleveland with a glass of champagne last night, although Wallace tells me: “I didn't feel much like celebrating.” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott also on-hand. https://www.nytimes.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Chris Wallace: Trump ‘Bears the Primary Responsibility for What Happened’ at Debate (Video)
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did,” said Chris Wallace about moderating the debate last night. “I didn't realize — and there was no way you could, hindsight being 20/20 — that this was going to be the president's strategy.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pistachio: narrator: there were in fact many, many ways you could realize this. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: Real candor from Chris Wallace here: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Arnold / @schwarzenegger: I think Chris Wallace did a very good job considering the unruly situation. Next time, I'm available to help straighten it out.
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: I guess apples-to-apples TV ratings comparisons don't work compared to 2016 — fine print shows that Nielsen added THREE more networks to their viewership total and still didn't hit 2016 levels https://www.nielsen.com/...
@tvmojoe: Been #Buffering, but here's my dive into the (huge) ratings for last night's #PresidentialDebate. Fun fact: The 2020 debate actually had a bigger audience among voters 55+ than 2016's first debate. It fell short of the record because younger viewers bailed https://www.vulture.com/...
@usatodaydc: Fox News Channel drew 17.1 million viewers, the most of any network, while ABC led the broadcast pack with 12.1 million viewers. https://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/ ...
Chris Spangle / Ideological Origins with Chris Spangle: Notes for October 1, 2020 — How would we slip into Civil War? — The Atlantic …
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: I never dreamt that it wouldn't, since Trump has been on the political scene and in debates since 2015 and has always been exactly the same as he was last night. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “After the debate, Biden came up to Wallace and whispered in his ear: 'I bet you didn't think you were signing up for a boxing match.' Trump nodded to Wallace but said nothing to the moderator before exiting the stage.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Another interview with Chris Wallace reflecting on what went wrong: https://twitter.com/...
@chriswarcraft: NARRATOR: “Literally everyone knew that was going to be the president's strategy.” https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots: How You Know Trump Lost The Debate
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's my final debate ratings story. Upwards of 73 million viewers made it one of the highest rated debates in U.S. history. And the audience was just as big at the end as it was at the beginning, despite the shit show on stage. (Or maybe because of it?) https://www.cnn.com/...
Jennifer ‘Vote Early’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: He never dreamt it would go off track?? How can a journalist have been so unprepared for what was entirely predictable. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Fox News' leaders were happy with Chris Wallace's performance last night. “No moderator could have managed a debate of that magnitude better than Chris,” they wrote in a new memo to staff: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: *sigh* [He never dreamed it would go off the rails. I mean—how would one know, unless she had been watching every crazy televised presser and rally. I mean—no way one could have called that] https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rogers / @katierogers: “I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did.” Is he serious? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's the thing about the debate ratings: If you exclude the record-breaking first debate of 2016, which was off the charts, last night was HUGE. It was higher rated than almost every other debate in modern history. https://www.cnn.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: More: Murdoch (Lachlan), Suzanne Scott, and Jay Wallace, president of Fox News Media, all led a toast to Wallace at the Cleveland airport before all flew home from last night's debate.
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott & President Jay Wallace send out note to staff calling debate a “unique situation” and hailing Chris Wallace: “No moderator could have managed a debate of that magnitude better than Chris” Chris Wallace to NYT: “A terrible missed opportunity.” https://twitter.com/...
Nick Robinson / @bbcnickrobinson: Having chaired a Prime Ministerial debate I have nothing but sympathy for Chris Wallace who is a top class interviewer. I spent hours prepping what I would do if one of the leaders did a Trump & ignored the rules #Debates2020 https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: “I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did,” Chris Wallace said. Really? What about watching - and frankly enabling - Trump over the past four years made you think this would go any other way? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Ballhaus / @rebeccaballhaus: Chris Wallace on what he was feeling when he called the debate to a temporary halt and told the candidates that “the country would be better served” by fewer interruptions: “The answer to that question is easy: Desperation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katherine Faulders / @kfaulders: Recalling his thoughts as he sat onstage, with tens of millions of Americans watching live, Mr. Wallace said: “I'm a pro. I've never been through anything like this.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mosheh Oinounou / @mosheh: Wallace also warns that the ability of muting mics might not work either, adding that the person interrupting can still be picked up by the other person's mic. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Bennett / @katebennett_dc: Chris Wallace's advice to @kwelkernbc : “If either man goes down this road, I hope you'll be quicker to realize what's going on than I was. I didn't have that advance warning.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Chuck Todd Says Chris Wallace Not to Blame for “Trainwreck” Presidential Debate
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Wallace's performance will be remembered for his not standing up to Trump and laying down the law early on, and then—after it was too late—shouting at the current President. Like a bad parent, he was absent when needed & overbearing when it was too late.” https://www.cnn.com/...
@joncoopertweets: A Disgusting Night for Democracy Donald Trump made it so, and Chris Wallace let him. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@axios: Chris Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down...” Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left.” https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: I'm tempted to feel slightly bad for Chris Wallace but then I remember that he lends a thin veneer of legitimacy to a country-wrecking propaganda machine. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Lieu / @tedlieu: I disagree with @JamesFallows that Chris Wallace somehow did a disservice. Wallace did America a huge favor by letting the American people see @realDonaldTrump for who he really is. I am glad Wallace let @POTUS show how disgusting he can be. #Debates2020 https://twitter.com/...
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: Hundreds of thousands watched the Trump-Biden debate on Twitch, with streamers who normally narrate gaming sessions providing real-time commentary
Sara Fischer / Axios: Over 73 million people watched the first debate on TV
Deepak Adhikari / @deepakadk: The tough job of a moderator in a presidential debate. #Debate2020 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Neal Colgrass / Newser: Chris Wallace Does Some ‘Soul-Searching’
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: On the eve of Tuesday's debate, Chris Wallace declared his goal as the evening's moderator: “My job is to be as invisible as possible.” Quite. My take on a bumpy night in Cleveland: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patty Kuderer / @senpattykuderer: Torturous. Chris Wallace aged 20 years tonight. And America aged even more. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: There was no hope of fact-checking the debates live, but it's amusing that the debate commission guy said there would be plenty of time to check facts after the debate when the most-watched cable network's post-debate show rn is Hannity w/ Huckabee Sanders, Bongino, and Don JR.
Dan Barrett / Always Be Watching: Netflix bringing Conan to streaming
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