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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hicks Equity Partners, a PE firm with ties to a co-chair of RNC, has held talks in recent months about acquiring and investing in Newsmax — Hicks Equity Partners, a firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is pitching investors on a new conservative news channel
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@andrewfeinberg, @benmullin, TVNewser, Variety, @chrisruddynmx, Business Insider, @chrisruddynmx, @joehagansays, Poynter, The Sun, The Hill, @benmullin, The Wrap, @rebeccaballhaus, @thom_hartmann, UPROXX, @asharma, Slate, Mediaite, The Guardian, Bloomberg, CNN, Vox and The Week
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Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Meanwhile on OAN... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: SCOOP: Trump allies are raising at least $200 million to fund a new conservative TV network. They've expressed interest in buying Newsmax, which has seen a ratings surge since the election: https://www.wsj.com/... w/ Juliet Chung, @keachhagey and @rebeccaballhaus
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy: 'We Would Like to Overtake Fox News In the Next 12 Months, and I Think It's Do-able'
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Newsmax CEO: ‘We Are Not Actively Selling,’ Have No Desire to Be ‘Trump TV’
Christopher Ruddy / @chrisruddynmx: Lawful recounts and courts will decide. Newsmax will accept state results and the Electoral College when certified, unlike @CNN who never accepted @realDonaldTrump's 2016 win. (2/2)
Kate Duffy / Business Insider: The CEO of Newsmax says the channel will never become ‘Trump TV’ — but he's open to giving the president a weekly show
Christopher Ruddy / @chrisruddynmx: .@brianstelter's claims about @newsmax are about as inaccurate as @CNN's polling. Unlike every other network, including Fox, we're covering actual vote fraud, and the legitimate demand of millions that vote tallies reflect actual results. (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Joe Hagan / @joehagansays: Trump looking to mainstream and weaponize reactionary delusions for people who prefer to live in a fictional world. https://www.wsj.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: The damage being done by Fox News
Kassidy Vavra / The Sun: Trump's allies ‘trying to create pro-Donald news network by buying right-wing outlet Newsmax for $200MILLION’
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Newsmax boss Chris Ruddy thinks President Trump will come around. “My experience is, he will accept the result of the state certification. He may not be happy.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Pro-Trump Hicks Equity Partners Seeks to Raise $200 Million for Fox News Rival, Tried to Buy Newsmax
Rebecca Ballhaus / @rebeccaballhaus: For nearly two years, Trump allies have been exploring ways to build up a formidable competitor to Fox News. One target they recently zeroed in on: the fledgling pro-Trump cable channel Newsmax TV. W/@BenMullin Juliet Chung @keachhagey https://www.wsj.com/...
Thom Hartmann / @thom_hartmann: Fascinating; they're trying to raise $200 million to buy Newsmax for Trump TV. If he was a real billionaire, he could just buy it himself. Allies of President Trump explore ways to [buy] pro-Trump news channel Newsmax TV. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Ryan Nagelhout / UPROXX: Trump Surrogates Reportedly Want To Buy A News Network To Compete With Fox News
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Exclusive — Trump allies have targeted Newsmax as a buyout target, as they look for a way to take on Fox News. Raising over $200mn for effort to shape conservative media. scoop via @BenMullin @keachhagey @rebeccaballhaus & Juliet Chung https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Trump Tags a Random ‘Alfred E. Newman’ Twitter Account as He Bashes Fox for Interviewing Buttigieg
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: ‘Walked a fine line’: how Fox News found itself in an existential crisis
Sebastian Tong / Bloomberg: Newsmax CEO Says Not Actively Selling Company: Variety
Brian Stelter / CNN: Trump voters are flocking to a TV channel that claims Biden is not president-elect
Matthew Walther / The Week: Trump's losing war with Fox News
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
The race between far-right media outlets like OANN and Newsmax over which will embrace Trumpism the most heats up, as Fox News gets blamed for Trump's defeat — MAGA nation may be turning its back on Fox News — but it doesn't know where to go. — Parler, the “free speech” …
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@existentialfish, @brianstelter, @dandrezner, @mikeisaac, @mollyjongfast, @doomedparade, @noupside, @tina_nguyen, CNN, @mehdirhasan, CNN and NPR
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John Whitehouse / @existentialfish: trump rally speaker calls fox news “enemy of the people” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Another record night for @Newsmax: For the first time, one of its shows topped the 1 million viewer mark, according to Nielsen TV ratings. “Greg Kelly Reports” averaged 1.06 million viewers at 7pm last night. Fox News averaged 2.06 million at the same hour.
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: Anyone who thinks the future of the GOP is bright might want to read this story. https://www.politico.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: Fox News championed trumpism for four years and all they have to show for it is a spurned, radicalized audience who turned on the network after it called AZ and the race for Biden. now trumpists think FNC is “too liberal” and they're flooding to newsmax. that must suck for rupe! https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Fox News radicalized it's audience into needing even more pure trumpist propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
JayKeeley / @doomedparade: @FINALLEVEL Fox News not extreme right wing enough 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: The demi-media outlets like Newsmax and OANN, who compete to tell the conspiratorial part of the pro-Trump audience what they want to hear, smelled blood after the election night AZ call for Biden. Remarkable how quickly this shift happened. https://twitter.com/...
Tina Nguyen / @tina_nguyen: NEW from me: With Fox News now verboten among Trump's diehard supporters, the influencers and news outlets of MAGA Nation are fighting over who gets to control the echo chamber — measured by who can promote the best pro-Trump conspiracies the loudest. https://www.politico.com/...
Alexis Benveniste / CNN: Fox News has never seen competition like this
Brian Stelter / CNN: The Trump-Fox News relationship is coming to a head. Here's what might be coming next
David Folkenflik / NPR: Analysis: Is Trump's Next Foe Fox News?
Patrice Peck / Wired:
A journalist's account of starting “Coronavirus News for Black Folks”, and how Black people have long had to use DIY media to work around slow, mainstream press — In April, I started Coronavirus News for Black Folks. It gave me a kind of second sight.
Discussion:
@benthompson, Columbia Journalism Review, @benthompson, @benthompson, @benthompson, @aexm, @benyt, @jbenton, @wiredculture, @wired, @hayesbrown and @speakpatrice
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Ben Thompson / @benthompson: Can't say I'm shocked that Columbia Journalism Review is leading the way in insisting that Substack, whose greatest business flaw is that it doesn't own publisher email lists or customer payment data, is a publisher and not a platform. Just blanket assertions 🤷♂️ https://twitter.com/...
Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review: The Substackerati — Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
Ben Thompson / @benthompson: The real lesson for Substack is that they should beware of features in publications representing industries they are disrupting. CJR isn't writing about failed Shopify merchants 🤷♂️ https://www.cjr.org/...
Ben Thompson / @benthompson: Meanwhile this paragraph makes no sense. Independent writers are entrepreneurs, not contractors. And the only person refusing to acknowledge what Substack is is the author. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Thompson / @benthompson: What part of the free signup process is, as the author states, “discouraging” people from using Substack? Literally anyone in the world can create a Substack. Or perhaps that is the true objection. https://twitter.com/...
Ana Milicevic / @aexm: @benthompson I wonder how they think of WordPress
Ben Smith / @benyt: @jbenton @benthompson I think people underestimate how much Substack is giving away by letting writers keep their lists? You're going to see a lot of the biggest ones follow The Browser to cheaper, software-as-service platforms if Substack can't offer something more
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: C'mon, we even have a terrible word for things that are both platform and publisher (hint: it's not pubform). Like Medium, Substack is an open platform anyone can use *and* a company that offers money (+ benefits, legal support, etc) to certain people it decides it really wants. https://twitter.com/...
@wiredculture: In April, I started ‘Coronavirus News for Black Folks.’ It gave me a kind of second sight. I could see where the country is headed—and how blind it's been. https://www.wired.com/...
@wired: In April, journalist Patrice Peck started the newsletter “Coronavirus News for Black Folks.” She was worried that the Black community was going to be uniquely devastated by this pandemic. Then her fears came true. https://www.wired.com/...
Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown: This reflection on the coronavirus's replay of history in the Black community from @SpeakPatrice is a must-read https://www.wired.com/...
Patrice Peck / @speakpatrice: For @WIRED's latest issue: Wrote about the powerful history & legacy of Black folks saving ourselves w/ FUBU media. From 19th century trailblazer Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler to Bill Jenkins, who tried to stop the US Syphilis Study at Tuskegee in the 60s. https://www.wired.com/...
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — WarnerMedia-owned streaming service will be available beginning Tuesday — HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire TV devices beginning Tuesday, Nov. 17, the streaming service said Monday.
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Variety, Fast Company, nexttv.com, TechCrunch, The Streamable, The Wrap, ComingSoon.net, GameSpot, FierceVideo, @xpangler, @xpangler, @xpangler, @xpangler, @pkafka, @lucas_shaw and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »
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Todd Spangler / Variety: HBO Max Is Finally Coming to Amazon Fire TV
Jared Newman / Fast Company: HBO Max is finally landing on Fire TV streamers
Jon Lafayette / nexttv.com: HBO Max Makes Deal For Amazon Fire Carriage
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: HBO Max arrives on Amazon Fire TV devices
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: HBO Max is Finally Coming to Fire TVs and Fire Tablets, App Will Be Available Tomorrow
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: HBO Max Will Finally Be Available on Amazon Fire TV Devices
Mat Elfring / GameSpot: HBO Max Finally Coming To Amazon Fire TV Devices
Ben Munson / FierceVideo: HBO Max finally arrives on Amazon Fire TV devices
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: For now, HBO Max still remains unavailable on @Roku, which has 46M active accounts https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: As of the end of the third quarter, WarnerMedia said 28.7 million customers were eligible to get HBO Max. The Amazon deal will immediately boost that number to at least 33 million. https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Earlier this year, Amazon said it had nearly 5 million HBO subscribers through Prime Video Channels. They're now all going to get HBO Max (boosting WarnerMedia's HBO Max totals in one stroke) https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Starting tomorrow, subscribers who get HBO through Amazon Prime Video Channels will have access to @hbomax https://variety.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Big for HBO/ATT (and people who watch TV using Amazon hardware). Last remaining holdout for HBO is Roku. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Patricia Escárcega, LA Times' first Latinx food critic, denounces the paper, accusing it of paying her significantly less than her white male counterpart — Los Angeles Times food critic Patricia Escarcega denounced the newspaper in a Twitter thread on Sunday, accusing her employers …
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@piescarcega, @eileenguo, @billaddison, @juliancastro, @sandyhooper, @pilarpedrazatv, @bermudezwrites, @piescarcega, @piescarcega, @piescarcega and @piescarcega
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@piescarcega: Last night, after nearly 6 anxious months of being told “the company will have a response for you shortly,” my employer, @latimes, finally handed me a decision on the pay discrimination claim I filed through my union.
Eileen Guo / @eileenguo: Hiring for diversity is not enough if you're not also equitably paying and supporting us. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Addison / @billaddison: Management received a formal letter from me months ago to make my position clear: I stand with Patricia in her fight for equity. We are co-critics, we perform the same job, we should be paid equally. https://twitter.com/...
Julin Castro / @juliancastro: A disturbing thread on newsroom discrimination that demands answers from the @latimes. Just two months ago @DrPatSoonShiong apologized for persistent prejudices the Times has cultivated and committed to do better. This thread shows little or no real progress has been made. https://twitter.com/...
Sandy Hooper / @sandyhooper: This is how you put your privilege to work. Keep going. https://twitter.com/...
Pilar Pedraza TV / @pilarpedrazatv: An eye popping thread on pay discrimination based on gender and ethnicity. https://twitter.com/...
Esmeralda Bermudez / @bermudezwrites: Deeply ashamed of every @latimes manager who contributed to this decision. Patricia doesn't deserve this. Just weeks ago, the @latimes publicly documented the paper's long history of abusing & ignoring communities of color. Our leaders vowed to do better. This is not the way. https://twitter.com/...
@piescarcega: Without telling me, the company classified me as a junior critic upon hire, even though I was told repeatedly by managers that I was equal to my co-critic, and I have always been expected to do the same work, and held to the same expectations and standards.
@piescarcega: The letter says I deserve to make only two-thirds of what my co-critic is paid — even though we have the exact same job responsibilities — because I do not bring prestige to the paper, and because the company says our job classifications aren't the same.
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Profile of Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC's Today show, whose status was heightened after her tough questioning of Trump at a crucial point of the campaign — Since she held President Trump's feet to the fire at a crucial turning point of the campaign, her future at NBC News appears bright.
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Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Really great advice from @SavannahGuthrie for aspiring journalists on nerding out on your beat instead of working for “access.” “You'll find stories,” and when you do get someone, “they'll immediately recognize that you're serious and that you're tough.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Barnicle / @mikebarnicle: Simple description of @SavannahGuthrie? Simply the best! https://twitter.com/...
Lee Satterfield / @leesatterfield: Please read this wonderful piece on the awesome in every way @SavannahGuthrie - as my hubby loves to say- the harder you work, the luckier you get! https://twitter.com/...
@davidshepardson: .@SavannahGuthrie gracious, modest kicker quote: “There's no reason I should be here. I didn't work any harder than anybody else. I'm just in on the joke. I know how lucky I am.” https://twitter.com/...
Alaina Urquhart / @alainatothemax: Lol the comment section: “This nasty woman was so mean to Trump for actually calling him on his bullshit and asking him straight forward questions that he was forced to answer during a presidential town hall where he is meant to answer questions! DISRESPECTFUL!” https://twitter.com/...
Savannah Guthrie / @savannahguthrie: Truly blown away by this. Thank you, @SridharPappu and @nytimes for the honor of being in your pages. https://twitter.com/...
Willie Geist / @williegeist: Twitter does not offer enough characters to describe how I feel about my friend @SavannahGuthrie. Just proud, generally, and completely unsurprised by her performance with @POTUS that night. If you're just joining the crowded SG bandwagon, welcome aboard! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caroline Cummings / @carorcummings: Love this last quote in the @nytimes profile of the unmatched @SavannahGuthrie -> “I'm just in on the joke. I know how lucky I am.” https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Savannah Guthrie, the “Today” show co-host, is no stranger to asking tough questions. With experience as a White House correspondent, on “Meet the Press” and anchoring “NBC Nightly News,” she promises to be a bold name for the network. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Darcy Schild / INSIDER: Savannah Guthrie said her ‘crazy uncle’ comment to Donald Trump at the election town hall ‘just came out’
Kristen Welker / @kwelkernbc: Beautiful profile of my friend @SavannahGuthrie that captures her strength and brilliance perfectly. The best of the best. There is no one better. 💕 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@thepressboxpod: Savannah Guthrie on her “crazy uncle” line with Trump: “I'm shocked at myself. I don't even know if it's a good thing that I said it. That just came out.” More here from @SridharPappu: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Feldman / @feldmike: Couldn't be prouder of @SavannahGuthrie - feeling pretty lucky myself. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephanie Ruhle / @sruhle: No promise needed... @SavannahGuthrie IS a bold name, a big brain & a leader at @NBCNews - Stoked to see @nytimes recognizing her talents https://twitter.com/...
Brian Koppelman / @briankoppelman: this is a great piece about a great person and friend. https://twitter.com/...
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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
A look at Abby Phillip's career in journalism, from Politico to CNN, as her star rises following her anchoring of CNN's election week coverage
A look at Abby Phillip's career in journalism, from Politico to CNN, as her star rises following her anchoring of CNN's election week coverage
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@amandawgolden, @sifill_ldf, @courtneyanjax, @nytimes, @jeligon, @fvaraorta, @bepryor, @attorneycrump, @ashkan, Context is King, @nickkristof, @abbydphillip, @tiffanydcross, @vashtie, @donlemon, @secupp, @choo_ek, @drtsion, @nytimes, @katierosman, @ryanstruyk, @olivianuzzi, @adamgoldmannyt, @valeriejarrett, @davidaxelrod, @aliciamenendez, @weijia, @millie, @jmhansler, @itsmelissabrown, @katesullivandc, @mollymotoole, @djrothkopf, @yamiche, @biannagolodryga and The Media Nut
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Amanda Golden / @amandawgolden: Two thoughtful @nytimes profiles worth your Sunday read on two incredible & badass role models: @SavannahGuthrie Is Feeling Lucky https://www.nytimes.com/... @abbydphillip Is Next-Gen CNN https://www.nytimes.com/... Congratulations to you both!!!
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_ldf: The cool professionalism of @abbydphillip, @Yamiche & @AprilDRyan in the face of Trump's ugly disrespect - led me to write this piece. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Love seeing them each get the recognition they deserve. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Courtney Cole / @courtneyanjax: This is such a good read. If you're not sure who @abbydphillip is yet, check out this article. As a female journalist of color, it's inspiring to see her do her thing. —> Abby Phillip Is Next-Gen CNN:https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
@nytimes: In 2020, the treatment of Black women (Breonna Taylor) and the political capital of Black women (Stacey Abrams and voters) has dominated news cycles. Abby Phillip's commentary on CNN, as she predicted the election's result, took command of the moment. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Eligon / @jeligon: My dream lineup for presidential debate moderators in 2024: @abbydphillip, @Yamiche & @nhannahjones https://www.nytimes.com/...
Francisco Vara-Orta / @fvaraorta: She was the crown jewel of those non-data driven analysts during election week. Always thoughtful and on the mark explaining the nuances of this election and its outcome https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Pryor / @bepryor: I've been a fan of Abby Phillip since she started covering the Clinton campaign for WaPo, and I'm an even bigger fan after reading this profile. Wow. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Crump / @attorneycrump: America needs more strong Black women in TV news. @Yamiche @JoyAnnReid & @abbydphillip are showing what happens when you elevate Black women into positions of prominence. They offer brilliance that keeps our leaders accountable & pushes our country forward!https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Diversity is half the battle; inclusion is a bit more challenging. I noticed something on election night, but didn't write about it until reading @nytimes' piece on the talented @abbydphillip. https://www.mediagazer.com/... Would you give up your seat? https://contextisking.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: Diversity & Inclusion: Are You Willing to Give Up Your Seat?
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Great profile of @cnn's @abbydphillip and what she has brought to political coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: I don't even know what to say. Grateful for this moment. Thank you @katierosman https://www.nytimes.com/...
@tiffanydcross: “The ways that I contribute to the conversation come from both the years I have worked as a reporter but also what happens to be my own lived experience,” she said. Yassss @abbydphillip 🙌🏽🙏🏽 ♥️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Va$htie / @vashtie: I loved watching her during the election 🥰! I was frazzled and stressed, but her graceful calm and cool kept me from ripping my hair out. @abbydphillip https://twitter.com/...
Don Lemon / @donlemon: Great profile on our @abbydphillip. She was great during #CNNElection coverage. Check it out. https://twitter.com/...
S.E. Cupp / @secupp: This woman. Just...this woman. To say I'm proud to be a colleague is an understatement. I heard from so many friends asking who she was. Now they know. 🔥🔥🔥 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Esther Choo / @choo_ek: Get her a show https://twitter.com/...
@drtsion: I do barely watch TV but during the election week, I realized cable news was STILL dominated by white males. It was so refreshing to see people like @abbydphillip, and we need more representation of #BlackGirlMagic in media. You are an inspiration to many around the world, Abby. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: “Black women did that,” said Abby Phillip, a CNN correspondent, on Nov. 6, the day before victory would be declared for Joe Biden. In an election dominated by fast-talking policy dudes, her deliberate commentary and context stood out, writes @katierosman. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ryan Struyk / @ryanstruyk: I've gotten to work with @abbydphillip since 2014 when I interned at @ABC - incredibly smart, so kind (even when all my pitches were awful), so thoughtful, always willing to take time to give advice. So proud of her well-deserved stardom and proud to work with her at @CNN. 🎉😍 https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: A beautiful description of what sets @abbydphillip apart, stylistically, from so many others on TV. When she says something, it's because she has something to say—not because she's filling time or trying to create a moment. Her moments create themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: In a field crowded with fast-talking bros, @abbydphillip stands out for her reserve. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Valerie Jarrett / @valeriejarrett: Outstanding profile on superstar @abbydphillip! Every journalist should be able to say this👇🏼. “Mostly I feel like I did what I wanted to do, which was to be honest and straightforward and knowledgeable and present and to tell the truth.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: .@abbydphillip is proving that you can be thoughtful, deliberate and impactful on TV. And she's just getting started! I've watched her emerge during this campaign season as a star at @CNN. I am proud to call her a colleague. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alicia Menendez / @aliciamenendez: Among my favorite parts of this profile of @abbydphillip is the peak into her friendship with fellow superstar @Yamiche. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Weijia Jiang / @weijia: “The ways that I contribute to the conversation come from both the years I have worked as a reporter but also what happens to be my own lived experience.” Precisely why her contributions to the conversation are so brilliant. Cheers to @abbydphillip! https://twitter.com/...
Millie Tran / @millie: Let this be the last year we stop correlating ambition with being “very quiet” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Hansler / @jmhansler: “The ways that I contribute to the conversation come from both the years I have worked as a reporter but also what happens to be my own lived experience,” she said. Great profile of all-star colleague @abbydphillip https://www.nytimes.com/...
Melissa Brown / @itsmelissabrown: I love this profile of @abbydphillip. It's always a good reminder in journalism today that you don't have to be the loudest person in the room to be the most effective. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kate Sullivan / @katesullivandc: Abby is not only incredibly smart and impressive, she is also a very kind and generous colleague. Love this fantastic profile of the wonderful @abbydphillip in the @nytimes today. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: For days on end, she was simply brilliant. Thank you @abbydphillip! https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Rothkopf / @djrothkopf: Great to see this recognition for @abbydphillip. She has emerged as one of the real superstars of television political coverage, insightful, thoughtful, just great day-in and day-out. One of the handful of the very best. Phillip Is Next-Gen CNN https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: .@abbydphillip is brilliant, kind, and deserves all this shine and more. Read about her. 👇🏾 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mattyglesias:
Vox cofounder Matthew Yglesias is leaving the outlet after more than six years and launching a Substack newsletter, Slow Boring — Hey folks, some personal news. Co-founding @voxdotcom with @ezraklein & @MelissaBell has been one of the great adventures of my life but after 6+ years on the job I've decided it's time for me to move on to something new that I'm really excited about.
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Slow Boring, @yascha_mounk, @pmatzko, @timcrimmins, @raju, @conordougherty, @progrockfarmer, @libertyrpf, @alanrmacleod, @britnidlc, @saletan, @daveweigel, @benyt, @nikhil_palsingh, @benthompson, @andrewfeinberg, @a_centrism, @alexkotch, @zaidjilani, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @drvox, MediaPost, @athertonkd, @mattyglesias, @annamerlan, @neontaster, @stevebenen, @ashleyfeinberg, @ezraklein, @moustacheclubus, @bfishbfish, @coreyhutchins, @pkafka, @germanrlopez, @chrislhayes, @aryehcw, @cardiffgarcia, @stevekrak, @mkstnr, @mattyglesias, @paulg, @carnage4life, @antoniogm, @jeffspross, @davidklion, @_tamarawinter, @douthatnyt, @kerrymflynn, @jbenton, Fox News, Table For One and One Man & His Blog
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: Welcome to Slow Boring
Yascha Mounk / @yascha_mounk: It is depressing that life for folks like @mattYglesias is increasingly untenable at left-of-center publications like Vox. It's all the more exciting that we are, collectively, creating new spaces for interesting thinkers to be themselves. Please support Matt! https://twitter.com/...
Paul Matzko / @pmatzko: Traditional journalism is dead, long live the webizine! The webizine is dead, long live the crowdfunded journalist! https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Crimmins / @timcrimmins: Substack: unironically where you go in 2020 to reclaim the freedom and heterodoxy of your 2010 ThinkProgress blog. https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Vox, itself born out of individual “brands” rising above umbrella media brand, then the @washingtonpost, keeps adding to that tradition. Best wishes, @mattyglesias https://twitter.com/...
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: I discovered Matt when he was at Slate and was (obviously) a huge fan of The Rent is Too Damn High. All the best in your new adventure. https://twitter.com/...
@progrockfarmer: Taibbi, Greenwald, Land, Yglesias, Thomas777, Sixsmith, and myself. Substack Race. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Liberty / @libertyrpf: Vox co-founder leaves Vox for Substack because he has more freedom there 🤔 I guess getting the product & business model right creates a huge tractor beam pull and lots of stuff happens quickly. https://twitter.com/...
Alan MacLeod / @alanrmacleod: Watching a trickle of writers moving to being completely reader-supported turn into a flood is a potentially incredible moment in the history of journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Britni de la Cretaz / @britnidlc: Editors save you from yourself!! They are not the enemy!! https://twitter.com/...
Will Saletan / @saletan: @mattyglesias @voxdotcom @ezraklein @MelissaBell Freedom and diversity are good in part because they promote the exchange of ideas. I'm glad we live in a country where a guy like Matt can find a place to speak his mind. And I hope you'll read him, especially if you disagree. Because that's how we learn. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: Bring 👏back 👏blogging 👏 https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Among other trends, it feels like all the old bloggers are going back to their roots. And now it pays! Wild. https://twitter.com/...
Nikhil Pal Singh / @nikhil_palsingh: Imagine repeatedly turning the noble principle of freedom of expression into an occasion for narcissistic self-promotion. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Thompson / @benthompson: Matt Yglesias always made me regret not keeping up my blog after college. I thought it was too late ☺️. It's very cool to see things come full circle. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: A guy who has had an unbroken chain of steady media gigs since 2003 is leaving the large, profitable organization he founded to cash in on his 485k followers with a subscription mailing list is a victim whose “life” has been made “untenable?” Give me a fucking break, Yascha. https://twitter.com/...
@a_centrism: Remember when Yglesias tweeted that he had “gone down an Unz Review rabbit hole” and then he and Ezra ("genes have nothing to do with intelligence") Klein got into a tiff on Twitter? Remember how we all tweeted that it was only a matter of time before he would leave Vox? https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: @sullydish You could read Matt's first post and discover that the main reason he left is bc Vox is a click-driven (ad-based) model that didn't allow him to write as much about wonky state politics as he'd like, but that wouldn't fit your free speech martyr narrative. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: Why was Matt's title at Vox senior correspondent? I don't think he did any reporting... With that out of the way, he's one of the best bloggers out there, really gets the format. So he should have a fun time on substack https://www.slowboring.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: this rhetoric serves this person's personal platform, which will earn him and the others parroting this absurd argument future book deals and more supporters who already believe them conveniently ignores the fact that people w/ large followings are making bank by jumping ship https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: the best grift in media today is telling your hundreds of thousands of followers that you're suppressed with nowhere to take your voice, and that they should pay a lot of money annually to support you
David Roberts / @drvox: Excited to read some old-school Matt blogging. (Reading Matt blogging in the early 2000s was basically my introduction to the whole world of blogging & political commentary.) And I gotta give it up: “Slow Boring” is a genius name. Genius. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost: ‘Vox’ Cofounder Matthew Yglesias Headed To Substack
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: [at the Substack water cooler] ME: so, why'd you join? SULLIVAN: My coworkers didn't like my phrenology GREENWALD: I was edited once, hated it YGLESIAS: I missed blogging. You? ME: After a furlough became a layoff, my part-time gig took 60+ days to pay & I needed groceries
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I'm hoping to spend less time on here and more doign genuinely *social* media in a comments section. But for now a taste! https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: An editor would ask you to back this statement up with examples and proof, as well as anything the subject himself has said about his departure, which is why being edited is generally a good thing https://twitter.com/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: Yglesias going to substack and if you tell me this has nothing to do with him signing the Harper's Letter and the subsequent controversy with Emily VanDerWerff I will laugh in your face. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Benen / @stevebenen: When it comes to aughts-era blogging, I'm a bit like the guy who kept wearing old clothes, waiting for trends to circle back. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: Dude quits his job for what'll likely be more money? Driven out by the woke left. Guy fired for showing co-workers his dick on camera? Driven out by the woke left. Yascha Mounk steps on an elaborate series of rakes, repeatedly whacking himself in the balls? That's right—woke left https://twitter.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: I've read @mattyglesias since we were bloggers in college and there's no one I've learned more from. I'll miss working with him daily, but am eagerly subscribing to this, and you should, too! https://twitter.com/...
@moustacheclubus: become a bit of a contrarian pivot to the substack after researching likely audience size the work https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Fishbein / @bfishbfish: Folks are free to do what they want etc. and Matt has a big platform, but I think people are overestimating Substack's reach. https://twitter.com/...
Corey Hutchins / @coreyhutchins: Another writer with a cultivated national audience leaves a major publication (this one he co-founded) to go it alone on Substack https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: And, it turns out this convo was kind of an audio draft of @mattyglesias' Substack debut. https://podcasts.apple.com/... https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
German Lopez / @germanrlopez: Matt was one of the smartest people I've worked with, and he'll be missed at Vox! Everyone should subscribe to his blog. https://twitter.com/...
Aryeh Cohen-Wade / @aryehcw: I definitely did not expect the 2008-era blogosphere to be recreated a dozen years later by a single company. https://twitter.com/...
Cardiff Garcia / @cardiffgarcia: Happy for Matt, one of the OG econ bloggers (he sometimes blogged about fake topics too like “politics” and “culture"). This'll be a great match https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Since Yglesias signed the Harper's Letter and was essentially labeled a transphobic apologist, this has been inevitable. Vox will soon be thoroughly uniform in thought - precisely the opposite mission it once sought to achieve. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Kastner / @mkstnr: Take his salary and pay sbnation bloggers more @voxdotcom https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: But I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running at Substack. Today's my last day at Vox, and my first post is already up. Check it out and enjoy! (And subscribe, subscribing is important) https://www.slowboring.com/...
Paul Graham / @paulg: One by one, all the most interesting writers are moving to Substack. https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Substack leapfrogging Medium after a 5 year head start is a startup story for the ages. This is what happens when your business model isn't aligned with providing the best user experience. Even veteran entrepreneurs make mistakes. https://twitter.com/...
Antonio Garca Martnez / @antoniogm: Can the last person to leave the East Coast media establishment please turn off the lights on the way out? https://twitter.com/...
David Klion / @davidklion: Digital media is at the very beginning of what should be a fascinating experiment in whether having editors makes any difference to readers. FWIW, @JewishCurrents is intensively edited, and even my weekly newsletter receives an editorial pass (sign up: https://jewishcurrents.org/...) https://twitter.com/...
Tamara Winter / @_tamarawinter: “I love Vox, but there was an inherent tension between my status as a co-founder of the site and my desire to be a fiercely independent and at times contentious voice.” can't keep up with the recent Substack wins, wild https://twitter.com/...
Ross Douthat / @douthatnyt: All Substack needs is Coates to make the time machine complete. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: The Substackization of brand-name political commentary continues apace https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias quits, cites ‘inherent tension’ and desire to be ‘independent’ voice
Alex Reimer / Table For One: I'm a non-famous journalist on Substack. There's nothing romantic about this.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Matthew Yglesias on why he left Vox: the “damaging trend” of increased sensitivity about language, and pushing back against media's dominant sensibility
Matthew Yglesias on why he left Vox: the “damaging trend” of increased sensitivity about language, and pushing back against media's dominant sensibility
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What Really Matters, @conor64, @hdxacademy, @conor64, @rottenindenmark, @donutshorts, @sophie_e_hill, @andyguess, @soashworth, @mypalsammy, @c_kavanagh, @jamiljivani, @glcarlstrom, Fisted by Foucault, @bungdan, @carloslozadawp, @cshea4, @radiofreetom, @smarick, @therealhoarse, @theatlantic, @bymikebaker, @page88, @mattlech, @derektmead, @samthielman, @timmarchman, @bro_pair, @scottgreenfield, @billdifilippo, @nachristakis, @russbengtson, @wfkars, @richardgrenell, @carlypreilly, @sullydish, @swright230, @raysawhill, @richardhanania, @conor64, @guptar, @carlosbravoreg, @brad_glasgow, @britnidlc, @wesyang, @originalspin, @conor64, @adwooldridge, @thesarahkelly, @jessesingal and @razibkhan
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Russell Max Simon / What Really Matters: Being on Substack is turning in to an identity marker
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: Ideological bubbles make us more confident that we know everything, more set and extreme in our views, more prone to groupthink, more vulnerable to fallacies, and less circumspect. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... (I cite some interesting Cass Sunstein research to back up these claims.)
@hdxacademy: “Compelling evidence points to a big cost associated with ideological bubbles...They make us more confident that we know everything, more ...extreme in our views,...more vulnerable to fallacies, and less circumspect.” @conor64 @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: Mainstream media organizations should work to maintain ideological diversity, even if that causes tensions among the staff members who are least tolerant of ideas that they don't share. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: Fully deranged to focus on these publications as examples of ideological conformity and not mention a single example from right-wing media. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Donut Shorts / @donutshorts: 1/ Every college president in the country should read this story on why Matthew Yglesias left @voxdotcom https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Sophie Hill / @sophie_e_hill: once again: in almost every rich democracy, lack of political engagement and the difficulty of voting according to your preferences are much bigger problems than extremism or over-confidence https://twitter.com/...
Andy Guess / @andyguess: Someone could use a little primer on “Avoiding the Echo Chamber About Echo Chambers”: https://kf-site-production.s3.amazonaws .com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Ashworth / @soashworth: Twice-cursed tweet. https://twitter.com/...
@mypalsammy: “However, in an age when news departments operate on tight budgets, many in the media tend to believe whatever they're told by any source they trust, reserving investigative journalism solely for those they find dishonorable or suspicious.” ~ DK Which is a problem. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Kavanagh / @c_kavanagh: Am not a fan of Yglesias (he deletes his tweets for a good reason) but his departure from Vox feels notable. Sub stack seems to becoming a pretty significant platform. https://twitter.com/...
Jamil Jivani / @jamiljivani: A must-read from @conor64 News outlets are “today less ideologically diverse in their staff and less tolerant of contentious challenges to the dominant viewpoint of college-educated progressives than they have been in the recent past” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Gregg Carlstrom / @glcarlstrom: It's surreal that this debate over editorial diversity in journalism is largely taking place amongst a group of people whose professional experience is limited to sitting behind computers in a handful of major American cities and opining about things. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Niccolo Soldo / Fisted by Foucault: Weekend Reading 2020 11-14 — “The buck stops here”, said President Harry S. Truman …
Dan Murphy / @bungdan: I don't have strong opinions about the guy and haven't finished the article. But I laughed aloud. “He felt it was important to challenge the “dominant sensibility” in the “young-college-graduate bubble” that sets the tone at many digital-media orgs.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “If you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety, then it's very challenging to do good work.” @mattyglesias explains why he left @voxdotcom: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Chris Shea / @cshea4: I loved working at Vox for 2 years, and sitting next to Matt. If anyone told him to rein in his views and adopt a “statesmanlike” tone, I think that was a mistake. Looking forward to reading both his Substack and the remaining excellent Vox writers. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Tom Nichols / @radiofreetom: This piece about why Yglesias left Vox is pretty interesting. But I think blog culture and working without editors helped to create a lot of the problems of modern media and I'm not sure that returning to a collection of blogs is the answer. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Smarick / @smarick: I so wish I could get into the heads of these progressive-publication leaders who keep losing writers who won't reflexively embrace every aspect of progressive scripture. Do these leaders realize they've created laughably, dangerously homogenous cultures? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@therealhoarse: Shorter: a young white male pundit was pressed to operate within a system where their thoughts and opinions weren't the only thing that mattered. They didn't like that so they quit to make more elsewhere. Hardly a tragedy. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@theatlantic: “I fear that in the short term, Americans will encounter less rigorous and more polarizing journalism. In the long term, a dearth of ideological diversity risks consequences we cannot fully anticipate,” @conor64 writes: https://on.theatln.tc/RIDabPQ
Mike Baker / @bymikebaker: Vox, which was founded 6 years ago, gets labeled as “traditional media” here https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Virginia Heffernan / @page88: A word about intellectual diversity and dissent. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Matt Lech / @mattlech: Do you think your promotion of Jordan Peterson should be read as indicative of the sorts of “ideological diversity” you think should be prioritized? How should his arc reflect on your credibility? And who else have you tried to bring to the table? https://twitter.com/...
@derektmead: mainstream media should think about the many many people who leave, ignored by, or are run out of the industry without the luxury or time to build a launch plan for their subscription airing of grievances blogs https://twitter.com/...
Sam Thielman / @samthielman: the act of publication, indeed of speech, limits the possibilities for discourse. that's what makes it “discourse” and not “monologue.” people disagree on where the limits ought to be. this has been said so often that it's no longer interesting or clever to pretend you don't hear https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Maybe Vox staffers were not threatened by bold ideological heterodoxy but were just irritated by having a notorious moron who doesn't report or have any idea what he's talking about, ever atop the masthead? https://twitter.com/...
Dan O'Sullivan / @bro_pair: I note this article doesn't contain any interviews with anyone at the publication the subject is leaving. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield: “The people making the media are young college graduates in big cities, and that kind of politics makes a lot of sense to them,” he said. “And we keep seeing that older people, and working-class people of all races and ethnicities, just don't share that entire worldview.” https://twitter.com/...
Bill DiFilippo / @billdifilippo: viewing everything as the latest chapter in the culture wars must be exhausting https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis: Depressing development: @mattyglesias leaves @voxdotcom As he rightly observes, “If you treat disagreement as a source of harm, then it's very challenging to do good work.” These young adults and their colleges have failed. | @conor64 https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Russ Bengtson / @russbengtson: maybe “ideological diversity” is not served by catering to someone who wrote an entire book about how America should have a billion people https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Summers / @wfkars: @khneori Matt Yglesias, who is leaving Vox for Substack for unspecified reasons that may have nothing to do with ideology at all.
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: Vox is about diversity of opinion? Josh, please..... https://twitter.com/...
@carlypreilly: Let me be the 20-something in your feed saying: l don't want to live in a world where our media content is controlled by 20-somethings who think that a colleague signing a letter in support of free speech makes them unsafe https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Short answer: no ideological diversity allowed at Vox Media. Ahem. It makes the woke feel “unsafe”. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@swright230: One trend that exacerbated that challenge: colleagues in media treating the expression of allegedly problematic ideas as if they were a human-resources issue. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ray Sawhill / @raysawhill: Wokism pressures make another old-timer pack up and leave. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Richard Hanania / @richardhanania: This misses the point. Portrays the issue as these institutions going “left.” None of his coworkers cared about the Yglesias position on taxes or foreign policy. It's identity politics, not as an abstract issue, but a certain class of professional loons. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: I talked to @mattyglesias about his move to Substack. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... I expect he'll thrive in blogger mode, as he has before—and I fear that Vox, like the NY Times, Slate, New York, The Intercept, and others, will be ill-served by declining ideological diversity
Ruchi Gupta / @guptar: Important observations on the increasingly homogeneous “woke” media space which is shutting down meaningful deliberation on the liberal side. We see it in India not in media (obviously) but in the liberal activist space, esp online https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Carlos Bravo Regidor / @carlosbravoreg: “It's a damaging trend in the media in particular because it is an industry that's about ideas, and if you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety, then it's very challenging to do good work” (@mattyglesias). https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Brad Glasgow / @brad_glasgow: Matthew Yglesias left Vox, huh? That's to be expected. Can't have someone disagreeing with the Social Justice Left at Vox. I disagree with him that it's an age issue, though. Young people tend to be more likely SocJus, sure, but look at academia. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Britni de la Cretaz / @britnidlc: there it is, folks: “Yglesias felt that he could no longer speak his mind without riling his colleagues.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Wesley Yang / @wesyang: The usurpation of a culture of reasoned argument by one of policing contrary views out of existence through appeals grounded in claims of emotional harm happened first in colleges — and then everywhere those graduates went https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Yang / @originalspin: @conor64 Serious question: How do you conclude that a platform consisting of writers publishing solely for a small set of paying individuals who are prefiltered as fans of the voices in question will be a corrective against growing intolerance of heterodoxy, as opposed accelerating it? https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: One thing @mattyglesias told me while speaking about the media industry generally that I very much agree with: “If you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety,” he said, “then it's very challenging to do good work.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Adrian Wooldridge / @adwooldridge: A depressing read, particularly the sentence about the growing trend for media people to treat the expression of allegedly problematic ideas as if they are human-resources issue https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Sarah Kelly / @thesarahkelly: Ok and if you treat sources of harm or personal safety as mere differences of opinion, then that's fine??? https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: I did not anticipate that Matt Yglesias would be this forthright about his departure, but this is useful. One thing he mentions is being reported to his bosses by a colleague for signing the Harper's letter, which made the colleague in question feel unsafe https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Financial Times:
Privacy campaigner Max Schrems files complaints in Spain and Germany claiming Apple's IDFA ad tracking tools unlawfully track users without consent — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law by enabling iPhone users …
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Apple's IDFA gets targeted in strategic EU privacy complaints
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Apple illegally tracks iPhone users to target them with ads, EU privacy activism group claims in lawsuit
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Privacy campaigner targets Apple's use of device tracking for advertisers
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Privacy Group Files Legal Complaints in Europe Targeting Apple's Device Identifier Service for Advertisers
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Apple's iOS ad-tracking targeted by European privacy campaigner
Finn Ltzow-Holm Myrstad / @finnmyrstad: 1. Another interesting privacy case being brought forward by @NOYBeu (@maxschrems organisation) today: Filing a complaint against the Apple ad ID, as it does not have a valid consent. This will be very interesting. Why should you care, you say? https://noyb.eu/... #GDPR
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Interview with President Macron on free speech and secularism, as he accuses the English-language press of “legitimizing” the violence of terrorist attacks — After terrorist attacks, France's leader accuses the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence.”
Discussion:
@laurenzcollins, @lailalalami, @jonmontpetit, @nytimes, @nkulw, @joey_shea, @jameskmcauley, @benyt, @yair_rosenberg, @holland_tom, Al Jazeera, @curtmills, @jaketapper, @yasserlouati, @obrien and Persuasion
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Lauren Collins / @laurenzcollins: OK, first off: zero question that @jameskmcauley (PhD in French history) and @onishinyt (who, for the record, works side-by-side with French reporters) and other reporters understand the concept of laïcité, so let's get that smokescreen out of the way. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laila Lalami / @lailalalami: 🧐 “After a wave of complaints from readers and an angry call from Mr. Macron's office, The Financial Times took the article off the internet — something a spokeswoman, Kristina Eriksson, said she couldn't recall the publication ever having done before.” https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Montpetit / @jonmontpetit: It is striking how familiar Macron's criticisms are to followers of public debate in Quebec: “he argued that the foreign media failed to understand 'laïcité...” “Our model is universalist, not multiculturalist,” he said, https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with columnist @benyt, accused the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence,” after terrorist attacks in France, “and saying that the heart of the problem is that France is racist and Islamophobic.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: Muslims or people of Arab descent constitute <10 percent of France and roughly half of its prison population https://twitter.com/...
Joey Shea / @joey_shea: French President Macron, heir one of the largest colonial empires in history, complains to @benyt that the English-language media is “imposing their own values on a different society.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
James McAuley / @jameskmcauley: “If you have any question on France, call me,” @EmmanuelMacron tells @benyt. Except that's not how it works at all. We call often; neither @washingtonpost nor @nytimes Paris corros have ever been granted interviews (unlike Fox News). We'd love the chance! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yair Rosenberg / @yair_rosenberg: Yes, @benyt's interview with French president Macron about his criticisms of the American media is characteristically excellent, but what I really want is for him to interview the NYT's #1 foreign leader critic, Benjamin Netanyahu. Make it happen, people. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Holland / @holland_tom: American culture these days is often at its most instinctively imperial when it thinks it is being anti-imperial https://twitter.com/...
@curtmills: “[Emmanuel Macron] has some bones to pick with the American media: about our ‘bias,’ our obsession with racism, our views on terrorism, our reluctance to express solidarity, even for a moment, with his embattled republic.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Macron criticizes those in US news media who, he says, legitimize extremist violence and say “that the heart of the problem is that France is racist and Islamophobic.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yasser Louati / @yasserlouati: This outright contempt from Macron speaks volumes. Subservient French media coverage about his policies have litterally made him unaccustomed to journalists doing their job, to the point of holding critics responsible for his own failures to prevent terrorist attacks. Pathetic https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / OneZero:
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — New link at onezero.medium.com
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Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote about what news people are actually reading on Facebook, how @FacebooksTop10 goaded the company into releasing the kind of data we need, and why it still isn't nearly enough. https://rsci.app.link/...
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: This by @WillOremus is the best summary of the Top 10 List Saga that I've read The upshot is that we need more transparency—from all platforms. Even then, things will probably still be confusing & complicated. But in a slightly more informed way! https://onezero.medium.com/...
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
BuzzFeed expands its Black culture vertical Cocoa Butter, which launched in 2015 as a collection of social media accounts, with a YouTube channel and newsletter — BuzzFeed is building out its Black Culture brand Cocoa Butter into more of a standalone business.
Josh Terry / VICE:
As part of the Justice at Spotify initiative, 18,000+ musicians demand at least a penny per stream, more financial transparency, and an end to royalty lawsuits — Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers explains the ‘Justice at Spotify’ campaign. — JT