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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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Variety, @benmullin, @andrewfeinberg, The Hill, @chrisruddynmx, @chrisruddynmx, Vanity Fair, TVNewser, @andrewfeinberg, The Guardian, The Sun, Poynter, @joehagansays, @benmullin, The Wrap, @rebeccaballhaus, @thom_hartmann, UPROXX, @asharma, Slate, Business Insider, Mediaite, Bloomberg and Vox
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Newsmax CEO: ‘We Are Not Actively Selling,’ Have No Desire to Be ‘Trump TV’
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
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Meanwhile on OAN... https://twitter.com/...
John Bowden / The Hill: CEO: ‘Newsmax would never become 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)
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/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Newsmax Is Going All-in On Trump to Try and “Overtake Fox News”
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'
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Counterpoint/Prediction: The recent interest in fringe TV is largely driven by Trump supporters' agreement with the president's claim that any election he loses is per se rigged and these channels will remain a safe space where Biden is treated as an unlawful usurper. https://twitter.com/...
Kassidy Vavra / The Sun: Trump's allies ‘trying to create pro-Donald news network by buying right-wing outlet Newsmax for $200MILLION’
Tom Jones / Poynter: The damage being done by Fox News
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/...
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
Yelena Dzhanova / Business Insider: Trump allies are reportedly considering buying out Newsmax to build a strong competitor to Fox News
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Trump Tags a Random ‘Alfred E. Newman’ Twitter Account as He Bashes Fox for Interviewing Buttigieg
Sebastian Tong / Bloomberg: Newsmax CEO Says Not Actively Selling Company: Variety
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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, Media Matters for America, @dandrezner, Reason, @benyt, CNN, @aidnmclaughlin, @mikeisaac, @mollyjongfast, @noupside, @tina_nguyen, @mehdirhasan, @doomedparade, 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.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America: Fox News led Trump to ruin. The network will still control the GOP.
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: Anyone who thinks the future of the GOP is bright might want to read this story. https://www.politico.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The interest in fringe TV has got to be at least in part that they are telling a suspenseful, riveting story about a close election, not a sad, boring one about defeat. It may be harder for them to compete w Fox when that ends. https://twitter.com/...
Alexis Benveniste / CNN: Fox News has never seen competition like this
Aidan McLaughlin / @aidnmclaughlin: Newsmax is now covering Fox News segments as anti-Trump in the same way Fox News covers CNN segments as anti-Trump https://twitter.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/...
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/...
JayKeeley / @doomedparade: @FINALLEVEL Fox News not extreme right wing enough 👇 https://twitter.com/...
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.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @benthompson, @asymmetricinfo, @benthompson, @nbashaw, @emmaroller, @ourobororoboruo, @thrasherxy, @nathantankus, @dtortorici, American Press Institute, @benthompson, @benyt, @aexm, @benthompson, @kerrymflynn, @jbenton, @wiredculture, @wired, @hayesbrown and @speakpatrice
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Clio Chang / Columbia Journalism Review: Profile of Substack, whose founders say it is a platform, not a media company, and they have less responsibility for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters
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/...
Megan McArdle / @asymmetricinfo: Greenwald, Sullivan and Yglesias got so big by starting blogs that they could sell to traditional publications. They are not monetizing an audience they acquired through larger institutions, but reclaiming one they created themselves. https://pullquote.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Nathan Baschez / @nbashaw: Honored and astounded that y'all still call it the “Baschez score” @cjgbest @hamishmckenzie 😆 https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Emma Roller / @emmaroller: “But as you peruse the lists, something becomes clear: the most successful people on Substack are those who have already been well-served by existing media power structures.” @cliomiso https://www.cjr.org/...
Frankie Huang / @ourobororoboruo: Really great piece that takes a hard look at what Substack and Substack creators are doing. It's really kind of funny how the power structures you claim to walk away from will follow you if you don't actively try to dismantle it. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: Reading every word of @cliomiso's @CJR longread on Substack, but this line from Substack's founding press release stands out. It's quite an analogy considering that Substack is supposed to help struggling writers & how Lyft and Uber worked out for workers https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Tankus / @nathantankus: This piece is very resonant to my experience with substack. It was what I needed to be when I needed it- a quick way of starting writing with the basic features I needed and the ability to activate paid subscriptions. I've had success beyond my wildest dreams. https://twitter.com/...
Dayna Tortorici / @dtortorici: “They have a system...that measures a Twitter user's engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their followers. This person is then assigned a score on a logarithmic scale of fire emojis. Four fire emojis is very good—Substack material.” 🔥 🔥 🙃 ☕️ 🔥 🔥 *this is fine* https://twitter.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: November 16, 2020 — Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism
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 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
Ana Milicevic / @aexm: @benthompson I wonder how they think of WordPress
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/...
@kerrymflynn: “@SpeakPatrice was not among those recruited to join Substack... ‘I think Substack should make it easier to discover newsletters...’ she told me. The way the top 25 lists are organized, she believes, is ‘to the detriment of Black journalists.’” https://www.cjr.org/... -@cliomiso
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/...
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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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple's ad-tracking system under attack by successful European privacy activist
Pdraig Belton / Light Reading: Regulators say Apple tracking code breaks EU law
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Apple's IDFA gets targeted in strategic EU privacy complaints
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Apple's iOS ad-tracking targeted by European privacy campaigner
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Apple hit with two privacy complaints in Europe over its mobile tracking tool for advertisers
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Privacy campaigner targets Apple's use of device tracking for advertisers
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Apple illegally tracks iPhone users to target them with ads, EU privacy activism group claims in lawsuit
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Privacy Group Files Legal Complaints in Europe Targeting Apple's Device Identifier Service for Advertisers
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
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/...
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: 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.
@xoxolizza: Such a painful but important thread to read. @latimes it's on you to close this #paygap. You “proudly” hired Patricia as UR 1st Latinix food critic 2 do the same job as @BillAddison. U have promoted them as co-critics. Bill himself has said they do the same work. PAY HER PROUDLY! https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Katz / @katzish: Thread. I don't know how you end up in this place, especially in a union shop, and how you deal with a complaint about it by...just telling the lower-paid woman/POC, by comparison to white man with same title, that that is all she deserves. https://twitter.com/...
Esmeralda Bermudez / @bermudezwrites: Several times in the past, when I brought up the fact that the @latimes wasn't hiring enough Latinos, managers would boast about the hiring of food critic @piescarcega, the only Latinx at @latimesfood. What they didn't say: She gets paid 2/3 of what her white co-critic makes. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Kadjo / @jessekadjo: This entire thread is disgusting. The @latimes should be ashamed of themselves. Pay @piescarcega her coins! 😡😡😡 She does the same work as @BillAddison and not paying her is clear discrimination on the fact that she is Latinx. These racist policies are illegal. #PayPatricia https://twitter.com/...
Jackie Summers / @jackfrombkln: In September the @latimes publicly acknowledged their failures on race. I cited them in my essay for @beardfoundation for taking accountability, until I saw this thread. The gap between lofty words and application is profoundly disappointing. https://www.jamesbeard.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Colleen Shalby / @cshalby: over the summer, management committed to righting discriminatory wrongs of the past and doing better in the future. but progress made has been upended by this decision and the backwards reasoning behind it https://twitter.com/...
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/...
@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 two-page memo that @latimes sent me yesterday was extremely painful to read. In the memo, the L.A. Times said I am not worth the same as my male or white colleagues.
@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.
@piescarcega: This decision is a sharp reversal of what the @latimes indicated over the summer, when I was informally told that it was working on a resolution, and when an @latimes manager called me in June to tell me that the company was “fixing” the Grand Canyon-size pay gap between its...
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/...
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, /Film, TechCrunch, Forbes, Adweek, Fast Company, nexttv.com, Ad Age, Pressroom, The Streamable, The Wrap, The Week, The A.V. Club, Bustle, GameSpot, @xpangler, @pkafka, Cord Cutters News, @lucas_shaw, @xpangler, @lucas_shaw, @xpangler, @xpangler and FierceVideo, more at Techmeme »
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Todd Spangler / Variety: HBO Max Is Finally Coming to Amazon Fire TV
Hoai-Tran Bui / /Film: HBO Max is Finally Coming to Amazon Fire TV Devices
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: HBO Max arrives on Amazon Fire TV devices
Rachel Sandler / Forbes: HBO Max Is Finally Coming To Amazon Fire TV
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: HBO Max Strikes Distribution Deal With 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
Pressroom: “Alexa, open HBO Max” WarnerMedia announces HBO Max is coming to Amazon Fire TV and Fire tablets
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
Brendan Morrow / The Week: HBO Max finally comes to Amazon Fire TV, but not yet Roku
Shannon Miller / The A.V. Club: HBO Max will finally launch on Amazon Fire TV, Roku users still left in the dust
Jessica Wang / Bustle: How To Watch HBO Max On Your Amazon Fire Stick
Mat Elfring / GameSpot: HBO Max Finally Coming To Amazon Fire TV Devices
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/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Put another way: Amazon, Google and Apple don't need the $$ from their dongles as much as Roku does. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: For now, HBO Max still remains unavailable on @Roku, which has 46M active accounts https://variety.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Our long cold, winter is over: Amazon makes a deal for HBO Max. https://twitter.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/...
Ben Munson / FierceVideo: HBO Max finally arrives on Amazon Fire TV devices
Kate Storey / Esquire:
Over a dozen CNN insiders, including Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash, and Abby Phillip, on how CNN covered the longest and most dramatic Election Week in recent memory — As Election Night 2020 bled into Election Week, the talking heads on CNN became something like members of our families.
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@rafat: This is great, BUT history it isn't, it is from three weeks ago. It will have a different read when real history is written, in bigger picture context. https://www.esquire.com/...
Kevin ‘Purge’ Godec / @purgegamers: Sharing this so the literally dozens of esports talent that follow me can relate. Also wolf blitzer's comments made me lol irl. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Viser / @mviser: The @wolfblitzer beard trimmer. @JohnKingCNN's kind bar stash behind the magic wall. @DanaBashCNN comparing election results to an evolving mural. @jaketapper playing Motownphilly. @VanJones68 on The Moment Really illuminating election week oral history: https://www.esquire.com/...
Kaitlan Collins / @kaitlancollins: This was a lot of fun and is worth reading alone for @wolfblitzer's comments about coffee. The Oral History of CNN's Election Week, via @esquire https://www.esquire.com/...
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.”
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The Guardian, @laurenzcollins, TheBlaze, @tvietor08, @joey_shea, @lailalalami, @jonmontpetit, @jameskmcauley, @benyt, @yair_rosenberg, @holland_tom, Al Jazeera, @curtmills, @nytimes, @jaketapper, @nkulw, @yasserlouati, @obrien and Persuasion
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: Macron accuses English-language media of ‘legitimising’ violence in France
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/...
Chris Pandolfo / TheBlaze: French President Macron accuses American media of ‘legitimizing’ Islamist violence
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: Some highfalutin media bashing here by Macron. Sure wish I had played the “heir to the Enlightenment” card back in the day. via @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/... 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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: Muslims or people of Arab descent constitute <10 percent of France and roughly half of its prison population https://twitter.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/...
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
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: I certainly empathize with the artists, https://www.mediagazer.com/... The aggregator who wins win big even if its own model isn't sustainable (but it scales!). But, $0.01 per stream means a $10 cpm. Not impossible... but not really sustainable given volumes. https://www.vice.com/...
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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A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Savannah Guthrie Recalls Tense Town Hall With Trump: ‘I Believe That the Viewers Expect Us to Ask the Questions’
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/...
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/...
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!!!
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Michelle Jaconi / @jaconi: “'I'm always so fundamentally aware of not being the center of the universe,' she continued. ‘Having a faith really helps you know your place in the world. And I really value that. And I find it endlessly fascinating.’” @SavannahGuthrie https://www.nytimes.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/...
Mike Barnicle / @mikebarnicle: Simple description of @SavannahGuthrie? Simply the best! https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
@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.
Discussion:
Episodes, @timcrimmins, @pmatzko, @yascha_mounk, @raju, @conordougherty, @progrockfarmer, @libertyrpf, @alanrmacleod, @britnidlc, Slow Boring, @saletan, @daveweigel, @benyt, @nikhil_palsingh, @benthompson, @andrewfeinberg, @a_centrism, @alexkotch, @zaidjilani, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @drvox, @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, MediaPost, Fox News, Table For One and One Man & His Blog
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Emily VanDerWerff / Episodes: The phantom — On July 7, I posted the following to Twitter, expecting nothing …
Timothy Crimmins / @timcrimmins: Substack: unironically where you go in 2020 to reclaim the freedom and heterodoxy of your 2010 ThinkProgress blog. 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/...
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/...
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/...
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: Welcome to Slow Boring
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/...
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/...
Sara Guaglione / MediaPost: ‘Vox’ Cofounder Matthew Yglesias Headed To Substack
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
Discussion:
What Really Matters, @hdxacademy, @conor64, @conor64, @rottenindenmark, @donutshorts, @sophie_e_hill, @andyguess, @soashworth, @mypalsammy, @c_kavanagh, @jamiljivani, @glcarlstrom, @bungdan, @carloslozadawp, @cshea4, @radiofreetom, Fisted by Foucault, @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
@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: 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.)
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/ ...
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/...
Niccolo Soldo / Fisted by Foucault: Weekend Reading 2020 11-14 — “The buck stops here”, said President Harry S. Truman …
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/ ...