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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies …
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Lloyd Grove / @thelloydgrove: These media companies and the people who run them should be ashamed of themselves. Jeff Bezos? Jamal Kashoggi worked for you! https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Subtext of this piece might be that Icarus and The Great Hack book-end Netflix's fleeting global “truth-to-power” moment. (Significant producer overlap on these two films btw.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Shibley Telhami / @shibleytelhami: “These global media companies are no longer just thinking, 'How is this going to play for US audiences? They are asking: ‘What if I put this film out in Egypt? What happens if I release it in China, Russia, Pakistan, India?’ All these factors are coming into play” https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: Let's reward the festivals and independent cinemas that have the courage to show #TheDissident ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: “What I observed was that the desire for corporate profits have left the integrity of America's film culture weakened,” said Thor Halvorssen, the founder and chief executive of the nonprofit Human Rights Foundation, who financed the film and served as a producer. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Nordlinger / @jaynordlinger: This is a damn interesting story. Bryan Fogel (@bryanfogel) is an extraordinary, invaluable filmmaker. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul Nemitz / @paulnemitz: #Netflix is dumming down the audience, shunning political films and documentaries. #Democracy #Media https://www.nytimes.com/...
@weddady: Hollywood's moral posturing is often fake: An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn't Want It. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David A Banks / @da_banks: Love to be in a liberal democracy with no censorship https://twitter.com/...
@hikikomorphism: probably a significantly more important front in the war for free speech than whatever old-man-yelling-at-pronouns shit the IDW is on now https://twitter.com/...
Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi: “We're not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We're trying to entertain” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: If a spokeswoman gives you a comment about how the service has produced politically valent documentaries, how is that a “declined to comment”? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: “The desire for corporate profits have left the integrity of America's film culture weakened,” says Oscar-winning filmmaker Brian Fogel. The big streamers weren't interested in his doc about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@weddady: Or rather: Hollywood is ideologically very progressive & liberal EXCEPT when it comes to money https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I have been watching a lot of documentaries lately, streaming them late at night when the house is asleep. So when a new doc about Khashoggi's killing by an Oscar-winning director cannot find a streaming service willing to carry it, that article gets read. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hakan / @hatr: When Reed Hastings said: „We're not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We're trying to entertain.", he meant it https://www.nytimes.com/...
Umar Lee / @umarleeiii: As a reminder Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Nike, the NBA, etc are woke until it threatens their profits. An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn't Want It. https://www.nytimes.com/...
J-L Cauvin / @jlcauvin: Netflix took Chappelle's Show off the air but couldn't find room for this: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: “Mr. Fogel said he believed it was also a sign of how these platforms — increasingly powerful in the world of documentary film — were in the business of expanding their subscriber bases, not necessarily turning a spotlight on the excesses of the powerful.” https://twitter.com/...
@howardfineman: via @NYTimes — Another example of why you can't rely on global entertainment companies to support tough journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tariq Krim / @tariqkrim: The gentrification of streaming media means also a lack of editorial courage. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Gladstein / @gladstein: “What I observed was that the desire for corporate profits have left the integrity of America's film culture weakened” -@ThorHalvorssen on how Amazon and Netflix wouldn't carry @TheDissidentMov https://twitter.com/...
Josh Fox GreenNewDeal / @joshfoxfilm: I'm telling you. Distribution platforms are getting more and more timid. This is bad news for gutsy documentaries An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn't Want It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mcbyrne: Didn't services get mad when @hasanminhaj did an episode on KSA and MSB? https://twitter.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Why wouldn't Amazon or Netflix touch a pedigreed doc about the murder of WaPo columnist Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate? “The desire for corporate profits has left the integrity of America's film culture weakened.” Interesting story by @nicsperling https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR:
In the corrective episode of Caliphate, The Daily's Michael Barbaro failed to reveal that two of The Daily's producers also worked on Caliphate — Late last week, The New York Times issued one of its biggest mea culpas in years. The nation's leading newspaper returned a Peabody award …
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Noel King / @noelking: Interesting details in this @DavidFolkenflik piece. After @lourdesgnavarro tweeted about Caliphate, NYT's Barbaro admonished her to demonstrate “restraint” and warned she was hurting the feelings of people at the newspaper. | https://www.npr.org/...
Sarah Rose / @thesarahrose: The circled wagons brigade at NYT is an institutional cancer https://twitter.com/...
Sindhuri / Podspotting: My podcast predictions for 2021 — I hope you're having a relaxing and hope-inspiring holiday season after the year we've had.
Bartleby / @elderbartleby: Amazing, these people really think “news” and “journalism” just means stories they write about things and people they don't like. I wonder what would happen if Trump asked journos to stop reporting on the Russia Hoax because it was “hurting the feelings of people in his admin”. https://twitter.com/...
Ina Jaffe / @inajaffenpr: In which NY Times leader undercuts his entire audio operation. “Baquet told NPR that newsroom leaders did not subject the series to sufficient scrutiny because they were not accustomed to editing audio with the same rigor they apply to print reporting” https://www.npr.org/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: Thought it was odd NYT didn't push the retraction interview to the main “Daily” podcast feed https://www.npr.org/...
Juliette Kayyem / @juliettekayyem: .@gaylelemmon makes an important point that we (women in field) have been having offline. The story should have been about ISIS and horrors it inflicted. It instead became a star vehicle, silencing skepticism. You should pre-order her book instead. https://www.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Bishop / @niubi: Didn't realize “hurting the feelings of the New York Times people” was also a thing https://twitter.com/...
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / @gaylelemmon: It is about those who suffered under the Islamic State. This makes terror sound like a star vehicle. ""She was regarded at that moment as,you know, as big a deal ISIS reporter as there was in the world.And there's no question that that was one of the driving forces of the story." https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: When NYT retracted Caliphate, it reassigned Rukmini Callimachi. But her cocreator Andy Mills, who also faces many serious accusations of harassment/sexist treatment of coworkers, got to host The Daily on Monday. @mikiebarb has been blocking women asking for an explanation https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Holy shit. This @davidfolkenflik story. https://www.npr.org/...
Aditya Mukerjee / @chimeracoder: I can't help but wonder if this whole scandal might be playing out differently if the @nytimes hadn't abolished the Public Editor position three years ago - ie, the person explicitly responsible for holding the paper accountable to ethical standards in journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Julio Ricardo Varela / @julito77: If I acted like this as a host and journalist, I would be fired. https://www.npr.org/...
Scott Simon / @nprscottsimon: I've been off and held back from commenting on Caliphate. But I wonder if NYT tells pub stations they want to run their programs their top editors consider audio a lesser form? https://www.npr.org/...
@npr: Michael Barbaro privately pressed at least 4 journalists to temper how they framed the “Caliphate” scandal — including NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, whom he admonished to demonstrate restraint and warned was hurting the feelings of people at the newspaper. https://www.npr.org/...
Chuck Ross / @chuckrossdc: Yeah but he did it in a soft, halting tone, with random instruments playing in the background https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: This on @mikiebarb is a good indication of the flawed mess of @nytimes I mean—disclosure is basic journalism “Yet those listening to Barbaro press Baquet would not have known that the host is engaged to the executive producer of the very series whose flaws he was dissecting. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: YEP.We have to talk about the fact that one of the producers is a WHOLE predator.this was openly racist and again this is in a white dudes talk to white dudes podcast landscape https://twitter.com/...
Lulu / @lourdesgnavarro: I have a pretty prominent position. But the NYT has a lot of power. Not great to silence your fellow journalists, especially when they are trying to speak for others, like Arab journalists, who felt too scared to say what they thought (because the NYT has so much power). https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Harris / @bigmeaninternet: “Baquet told NPR that newsroom leaders did not subject the series to sufficient scrutiny because they were not accustomed to editing audio with the same rigor they apply to print reporting.” seems like the key line here https://www.npr.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Within the craft, one of the powers the Times has is to make other journalists stop and think, “do I really want to kiss off any chance I may have to one day work at the Times by writing this?” Whether they are wrong or right to think it, just that little hesitation is power. https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: NPR Exposes Michael Barbaro's Efforts to Pressure Reporters to Soften Criticism of Caliphate Podcast
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: God give me the confidence of this absolute weenie chastising people for saying his fiancee's show, which was retracted, was retracted https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: “The Daily” host Michael Barbaro interviewed NYT executive editor Dean Baquet as part of paper's push to restore trust after “Caliphate” collapsed. Barbaro's undisclosed ties to “Caliphate” crew and actions off the air muddied the waters. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
@jason: the @nytimes really needs to have a public editor... what a mess of lying and deceitfulness with this #Caliphate series https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
David Grossman / @davidgross_man: See also Greenwald/Intercept and Yglesias/Vox. What would the Times do if Barbaro started his own, independent podcast?
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: This by @davidfolkenflik is excellent but doesn't touch on the many harassment accusations against Mills https://www.npr.org/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: I once recieved an email at my job from a well-known NPR radio and podcast host after I tweeted something he didn't like. It was an authoritative email. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Manley / @jamespmanley: This is not ok ny times https://twitter.com/...
Tuck Woodstock / @tuckwoodstock: “On his corrective podcast in which he questioned Baquet about that collapse, however, Barbaro did not disclose several key facts about his own connection to those who created the discredited Caliphate series” ... like the fact that he's engaged to the executive producer. Oops! https://twitter.com/...
David Grossman / @davidgross_man: A huge problem emerges when Barbaro is described as “the voice of The Times.” Allowing any single journalist to define your publication will eventually lead to conflict between the two https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Tcholakian / @danielleiat: interesting choice not to give any context about Andy Mills—gotta wonder if someone who wasn't a dude would've done the same. https://twitter.com/...
David Brauer / @dbrauer: I implore you not to trust graying, wavy-haired white male podcasters who wear glasses. https://www.mprnews.org/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: Some not great handling here https://twitter.com/...
Leah Sottile / @leah_sottile: You know what hurts my feelings: people who create a podcast filled with bad reporting, and who get to keep their jobs because the system is rotten. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Simon / @sarambsimon: personally, one small hope for the new year is that people might stop being so absolutely aghast when they learn i did not enjoy my time at the nyt https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: Michael babar is the luckiest man in the history of the New York Times and he is intent on squandering that good fortune lol
Ilya Marritz / @ilyamarritz: “those listening to Barbaro press Baquet would not have known that the host is engaged to the executive producer of the very series whose flaws he was dissecting” @davidfolkenflik is a must-read/listen on the reckoning at The Daily https://www.npr.org/...
Eric Rauchway / @rauchway: “Privately, Barbaro repeatedly pressed at least four journalists Friday to temper their critiques of The Times and how they framed what happened. I know, because I was one of them.” https://www.npr.org/...
Alex Zielinski / @alex_zee: After a NYT podcast produced by @mikiebarb's fiancé & friends was found to rooted in lies, he pushed outside reporters to “demonstrate restraint” in their criticisms bc they were hurting the feelings of people at the newspaper." https://www.npr.org/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: One of the many reasons I write so much about the Times is that many other journalists aren't willing to: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: By the way, this policing of women journalists' tweets *by their male colleagues* is exceedingly common at major media organizations. https://twitter.com/...
Rafia Zakaria / @rafiazakaria: Michael Barbero narrates the audio correction to the bogus Caliphate podcast which he also narrated.This is like asking a murderer to give the eulogy. Shameful and belies the lack of contrition with the NYT over recognizing their own mistakes. https://www.npr.org/...
Dan Murphy / @bungdan: “Was regarded.” Ah, the passive voice. No. Baquet fashioned her into a star, he and the paper wrongly promoted her as an “expert,” and the reason they did this because she reliably confirmed their priors. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: If you, a powerful media gatekeeper, ever find yourself using that power to tell people with less clout that their entirely legitimate critiques of *bad work* are hurting people's feelings well then you are a powerful media gatekeeper having a normal one.
Trey Graham / @treygraham: @nicktheandersen Right? The absolute nerve. I hope she served him his own liver with a side of fava beans.
Nick Andersen / @nicktheandersen: then there's whatever the hell this is, which https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: This sets of all sorts of alarm bells about who Baquet likes to have in power and the message of “we can't be criticized” that has prevailed under Baquet. The first — FIRST — job of a good journalist is aligning with the truth, not a brand. https://www.npr.org/...
Nick Andersen / @nicktheandersen: there's what the times did, and then there's what npr discloses. it's important to respect your readers / listeners / audience! https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: ok ease up people, the New York Times is a small plucky operation. They have just one guy who can do the hard-hitting interviews, and he just happens to be the guy engaged to the subject and obligated to defend her honor. What can you do?🤷♂️ https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: If you like insidery media drama this is incredible https://www.npr.org/...
@aliamalek: More deets on the incest that explains the strange rollout of the findings of the investigation and bolsters the idea that in many ways she was too big to fail - ie a lot of folks implicated in the enabling https://www.npr.org/...
Anna Kusmer / @askusmer: It is so strange to see top editors say they couldn't scrutinize a piece of journalism because it was audio. Print out the script, look at it! you can use your red pen! Baffling... https://www.npr.org/...
Alan Yu / @alan_yu039: This is not a good explanation. I learned to fact check print magazines and I do the same with audio. There is no special, audio specific fact checking process https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Sloppy undermining of trust in @nytimes brand https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Glazer / @andrewglazer: Not sure what I find more distasteful: smug self-regarding NY Times or theatrically self-flagellating NY Times.
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: lmaooo https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@zackkopplin: Everyone is shocked, but the New York Times won't publish freelancers if they find out they've criticized the newspaper https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hall / @_richardhall: Looks like there are some more institutional lessons to be learned. https://www.npr.org/...
Adam Rawnsley / @arawnsley: In case you were wondering whether the New York Times learned its lesson, they're still trying to suppress any criticism of the reporting they were forced to admit is bogus. Lather, rinse, repeat. https://twitter.com/...
Allyssa Pollard / @allyssapollard: cool to be told over and over again that hurting the feelings of people who work at the NYT matters more to the paper than the fact that it put out fraudulent, anti-Muslim reporting or keeps a sexual predator on staff. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: Michael barbados has a more hostile attitude to homeless people in his local subway stop than to fabulists in his workplace https://www.npr.org/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: everything about NYT podcasts is a gigantic mess of conflicts of interest and worse. https://www.npr.org/...
James Risen / The Intercept:
Snowden and Assange deserve presidential pardons, but so do the eight government officials charged by the Trump Administration in leak cases — In 2007, the Bush administration's Justice Department sent me a letter saying it was conducting a criminal investigation into …
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Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Normalizing extradition for political offenses would create new risks for journalists, publishers, and human rights advocates. Another reason the US case against Assange is so troubling, via @rcfp and @cjr. https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@theintercept: Press freedom advocates must be careful not to indulge Trump's conspiracy theories while they lobby for whistleblower pardons, writes James Risen. https://theintercept.com/...
@cjr: Julian Assange's prosecution is about much more than him, @rcfp director Bruce D. Brown writes. https://www.cjr.org/...
John Ruddick / @johnruddick2: “That is why the U.S. indictment of Julian Assange is so dangerous to liberty in America, and why the case against Assange should be dropped and he should be pardoned.” https://theintercept.com/... by James Risen
Jordan / @jordanuhl: ‘Trump & his administration have arrested and charged eight government officials in leak cases. That is almost equal to the record nine (or 10, depending on how you count) leak prosecutions conducted by the Obama administration over eight years.’ https://theintercept.com/...
Michiko Kakutani / @michikokakutani: George Mason said during 1788 ratifying convention: “Now, I conceive that the President ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself...” 1/2 https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: “Assange is a self-made lightning rod, and the journalism world is divided about his case, but his prosecution is about much more than him.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Umberto Gonzalez / The Wrap:
Variety apologizes to Carey Mulligan for its “insensitive language and insinuation” after she says its review was “basically saying that I wasn't hot enough” — Variety has apologized for using “insensitive language” about Carey Mulligan in its review of her new film “Promising Young Woman.”
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Kyle Buchanan / New York Times: Carey Mulligan Won't Let Hollywood Off the Hook
Kyle Buchanan / @kylebuchanan: Carey Mulligan doesn't usually read reviews, but there's one PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN take that really bothered her: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cinemark Theatres / @cinemark: “I knew that if anybody else played the part I would be really annoyed and upset, and that's usually a great indicator that I should just immediately jump in.” Carey Mulligan is Cassie in Promising Young Woman. In theatres TODAY! https://twitter.com/...
@variety: So you just watched #PromisingYoungWoman. This is how Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan made the most audacious and feminist movie of the year https://variety.com/...
@variety: Carey Mulligan discusses her character in #PromisingYoungWoman, and the monologue in the script that made her heart race https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Buchanan / @kylebuchanan: “We don't allow women to look normal anymore, or like a real person. Why does every woman who's ever onscreen have to look like a supermodel? The expectation of beauty and perfection onscreen has gotten completely out of control.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@vulture: Promising Young Woman is a vibrant, stylistically precise piece of work, but the sentiments it conveys don't feel examined https://www.vulture.com/...
@mashable: ‘Promising Young Woman’ is a female-driven revenge story, but there's no woman in a grey cardigan sobbing as she stares out the window. Star Carey Mulligan and writer/director Emerald Fennell are deconstructing the nice guy trope. https://twitter.com/...
Alamo Drafthouse / @alamodrafthouse: Just a reminder - PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN opened today and it's bold damn filmmaking and Carey Mulligan will win an Oscar. See it as soon as you can, however you can. Merry Christmas.
Candice Frederick / @reeltalker: Carey Mulligan Is a Vigilante With a Mission in ‘Promising Young Woman’ https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... via @RollingStone
Tom Beasley / Yahoo Entertainment: Carey Mulligan slams Hollywood beauty pressure and wants women ‘to look normal’ on screen
Oliver Vandervoort / CBR: Promising Young Woman Star Slams Sexist, Shallow Review
Jen Juneau / People.com: Carey Mulligan ‘Took Issue’ with Promising Young Woman Review Mentioning Her Appearance
Corey Atad / Top Celebrity News, Hollywood Headlines: ‘Variety’ Apologizes For ‘Insensitive Language’ In ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review After Being Called Out By Carey Mulligan
Melissa Silverstein / @melsil: You know you've got a problem when you have to do this. Maybe hire some female critics? “Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review of “Promising Young Woman” that minimized her daring performance.”
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: “Not hot enough to rape,” is an astonishing thing for a man to say in a movie review. https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Crucchiola / @jorcru: Variety has apparently issued an apology for a critic's insinuation in his PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN review that Carey Mulligan basically isn't QUITE fuckable enough to believably play her role — which is one of the mightiest performances of THE YEAR. Good. What a douche. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Not only this, but the standard “perfect” faces for women have somehow become either wolves or foxes? It's bizarre. https://twitter.com/...
Courtney Enlow / @courtenlow: They basically called her ugly and unfuckable (in this movie read: unrapeable) but cool thx. https://twitter.com/...
Claire Cain Miller / @clairecm: “Maybe that's the lesson of Promising Young Woman: that you'd better stay on your toes, and that you'll have to push back even when people would rather you just drop it. ... The more we idealize women, she told me, the more we rob them of what actually makes them interesting.” https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Buchanan / @kylebuchanan: I profiled Carey Mulligan, who did not hold back. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Labonte / ScreenRant: Carey Mulligan Responds To Promising Young Woman Review Critiquing Her Looks
Adam White / The Independent: Carey Mulligan says review implied she 'wasn't hot enough' for Promising Young Woman role
Mathew Buck / @fb_bmb: This, incidentally, was from Variety's review, who have now sheepishly added an apology to the review. As opposed to, I don't know, taking it down and writing a new review? Although really this should have been called out when it was published back in January. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kay Taylor Rea / @kaytaylorrea: It took Variety 11 months & the award winning lead actress calling them out in the paper of record to pretend they cared their review was misogynistic nonsense. Major trades have needed to shake up their review staff for years & stuff like this will keep happening until it does. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Simon / Simon Says: Did I Tell You About... (12/24/20) — It's finally here! By that I mean Christmas …
K. Austin Collins / Rolling Stone: Carey Mulligan Is a Vigilante With a Mission in ‘Promising Young Woman’
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
A look at MyBundle.TV, a recommendation engine that helps people pick streaming services from dozens on the market and offers a white-label version for ISPs — Jason and Daniel Cohen built MyBundle.TV to help customers move away from expensive cable TV packages.
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Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Last year, Jason and Daniel Cohen launched @mybundletv, a tool that helps TV lovers move away from expensive cable packages for cheaper streaming services. They were surprised when cable TV companies started asking for their help. https://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/ ...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: “They said, look, our cable bills are insane, we feel terrible for our customers and we're losing money. We can't continue to pass on these high programming costs every year, and, frankly, we just want to give customers Internet.” https://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/ ...
Laurie L. Dove / HowStuffWorks: What is TV Everywhere? … It's your favorite TV lineup of the week, but instead of feeling happy, you're faced with a dilemma.
Thanks:@matthewkeyslive
New York Times:
Profile of veteran radio host Delilah, whose daily call-in show lets listeners open up on air and has the largest audience among radio shows hosted by women — With snippets of love, loss and struggle soothed by music, she has become one of American radio's most popular — and trusted — voices.
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Al Bedazzle / @_youngbaby_: If u listen to my pod (and u should) Delilah is required listening https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dennis Crowley / @dens: Btw, “The Daily” podcast from earlier this week on Delilah & her radio show empire was great (closet Delilah fan here, btw). The nuggets in here about her having the idea for the show and everyone telling her it was a bad idea/would never work are A+. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Vivian Wang / @vwang3: I loved this 😭😭so much nostalgia https://twitter.com/...
@maureenhalushak: Yesterday's Daily episode on on Delilah (De-li-lah!) is a true and utter delight https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fulya Ozerkan / Agence France-Presse:
A private Turkish TV station that aired pro-Kurdish opposition views has shut down less than a month after launch, the editor claims due to government pressure — A private Turkish TV station that aired pro-Kurdish opposition views has shut down less than a month after launch …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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@samfbiddle, @jaypinho, @charlesarthur, @robinberjon, @hypervisible, @theintercept, @swodinsky, @rlare_, @mandelaface, @can, @mblumenthal, @ddayen, @tidalmotion, @steveolson, @jasross, @samfbiddle, The Mix Tape and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
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Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle: in the midst of Facebook's “small businesses need targeted ads!” PR offensive against Apple, an unsealed lawsuit against FB shows company managers trashed the accuracy of their own targeted ad capabilities https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Pinho / @jaypinho: I feel vindicated: https://theintercept.com/.... Btw, this shouldn't be construed as a defense of data targeting, but simply an acknowledgment that ad tech can violate your privacy and be laughably inaccurate simultaneously.
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: I'd love to know what the context that's missing is. Couldn't Facebook help out by filling it in? https://twitter.com/...
Robin Berjon / @robinberjon: I suspect that the reason Facebook likes small businesses is because they buy (more expensive) targeted ads but often lack the means to verify their effectiveness. I wouldn't be surprised if most sophisticated marketers bought broad on Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
@hypervisible: In private communications, “Facebook managers described important targeting data as ‘crap’ and admitted accuracy was ‘abysmal.’” FB says messages are taken out of context. 🙄 https://theintercept.com/...
@theintercept: Documents feature internal Facebook communications in which managers appear to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities, including that data behind a targeting criterion was “all crap.” https://theintercept.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: there's not enough 👀 emojis to express this @samfbiddle piece https://theintercept.com/...
Ryan / @rlare_: “Facebook has been selling ad targeting that is unreliable to the point of being fraudulent.” https://twitter.com/...
@mandelaface: what's your least targeted ad? i keep getting ads for a municipal bus service on the opposite side of the continent https://twitter.com/...
@can: I'm always always always amazed what kind of stuff people will put in writing. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Blumenthal / @mblumenthal: Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting in Unsealed Remarks https://theintercept.com/... “More than half the time we're showing ads to someone other than the advertisers' intended audience.”
David Dayen / @ddayen: The thing about targeted ads is they suck. Advertisers should want then banned. They're purely extractive and privacy-destroying. #BanTargetedAds https://theintercept.com/...
@tidalmotion: @ddayen Targeted ads suck for the people purchasing the ads, and the people seeing them. They don't suck for the sellers of the ads who now have a treasure trove of personal data on the population! Stores and customers both pay Facebook to build a secret database about us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Steve Olson / @steveolson: Baby, meet bathwater. We want them better — not banned. They (generally, depending on product) perform better, and I don't have any interest (or upside) in invading customers privacy (in fact, we can't see individual data). https://twitter.com/...
Jim Ross / @jasross: We've been adding other advertising to our on-line. Facebook engagement rates have dropped off a cliff and we get much better results buying other sites. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle: Facebook argued in court that these quoted materials, obtained via discovery, are all presented out of context, but they also fought to have them all suppressed from the public record, which the judge denied
Matt Tillotson / The Mix Tape: The Mix Tape, Vol. 71
New York Times:
Bollywood is also starting to shift to streaming with 28 major films skipping theaters this year, though they represent only a fraction of the films made yearly — India's film industry, which relied on theatrical releases, is experimenting with going straight to streaming services such as Amazon, Netflix and Disney's Hotstar.
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@thepriyaarora, @thepriyaarora, @thepriyaarora, @nytimesbusiness, @justinyost, @snackfight, @thepriyaarora, @thepriyaarora and @thepriyaarora
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Priya / @thepriyaarora: In the end, Dhawan, #CoolieNo1's director, said he believes there is still an appetite for big, colorful, melodramatic love stories on streaming platforms and he hopes this film brings some joy in a bleak year. “If I've made people happy, then I've won.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Priya / @thepriyaarora: Even more, the content is changing too: Instead of usual romantic or action films, more shows and movies are now centered on women, war, etc. And Netflix said more than half the films it released in India this year were from a female producer or director. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Priya / @thepriyaarora: Bypassing theaters is a huge departure for Bollywood — the industry has long relied almost exclusively on theatrical releases for revenue. But when the pandemic sent movie theaters into lockdown, revenues fell as much as 75%, according to estimates. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: India's film industry, which relied on theatrical releases, is experimenting with going straight to streaming services such as Amazon, Netflix and Disney's Hotstar. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Justin Yost / @justinyost: “28 big-star-led Bollywood features that were headed to theaters went straight to streaming instead, compared with none last year, according to the research firm Forrester.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Calore / @snackfight: India's shift from theaters to streaming is eroding the “lowest common denominator, one-size-fits-all content strategy” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Priya / @thepriyaarora: This didn't make the story, but the star of the film, @Varun_dvn, reminisced about going to the theater as a kid to see his dad's movies. “The whole whistling, dancing and clapping in the cinema hall is a completely different vibe altogether,” he told me. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Priya / @thepriyaarora: The film's director, David Dhawan, told me in an interview how hard it was to make the call to bypass theaters: “I make films for the theaters,” he told me, but he also recognized the unique challenges of this year. “At least my film is releasing.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Priya / @thepriyaarora: The Hindi film #CoolieNo1 is releasing today, directly on @PrimeVideoIN instead of in theaters. While Hollywood grappled with Mulan & #WonderWoman1984, Bollywood released 28 big-star-led films on streaming this year. A thread on my latest w/ @Karan_Singhs https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caitlin Dewey / Slate:
How cooking sites navigate tedious SEO techniques and moderate reviews to get their recipes on Google's featured carousel or on the first page of search results — Meathead Goldwyn has some long-standing beef with Google. — For the past nine years, the pitmaster and publisher of AmazingRibs.com …
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@evolutionarypsy, @alexhcranz, @meathead, @kenjilopezalt, @shitshowdotinfo, @_peter_cook, @caitlindewey and @meathead
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Emily Deans MD / @evolutionarypsy: Interesting. Short recipes are upvoted by the algorithm. https://twitter.com/...
@alexhcranz: I don't trust search results when looking for gadgets because so many sites affect quality to game the system. So many industries have been warped by Google and its imperfect search algorithm. https://twitter.com/...
@meathead: In case you are wondering what this thread is all about it started with this article in Slate about Google and recipes. https://slate.com/... Then @kenjilopezalt offered some good feedback.
@kenjilopezalt: Why Google's recipe results are meaningless. Interesting article with some good quotes from @meathead, whom I have been sharing stories about online recipe writing with for at least a decade. A few things I'd add@to the discussion: google... https://slate.com/...
Alex / @shitshowdotinfo: This is a really good example (albeit a light topic) of how google search being the internet's system of transportation has decimated independent websites. It's basically a protection racket that most can't pay https://twitter.com/...
Peter Cook / @_peter_cook: YES: “But recipe ratings, like much of the “structured data” that Google privileges in its search results, often say less about the caliber of a recipe than they do about who published it.” https://slate.com/...
Molly Blackall / The Guardian:
Experts say UK Channel 4's deepfake video of the Queen, meant as a “warning” about fake news, makes it seem like deepfakes are more widespread than they are — Broadcaster says video, showing digitally-altered monarch reflecting on Prince Harry, intended as warning about fake news
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CNN, @spirosmargaris, HuffPost, Daily Mail, @markborkowski, @russellbrandom, @roxannevarza, Gizmodo, INSIDER, Business Insider, New York Post, @hkanji, @areeqchowdhury, @mollyblackall and Engadget
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Zamira Rahim / CNN: ‘Deepfake’ Queen delivers alternative Christmas speech, in warning about misinformation
Spiros Margaris / @spirosmargaris: British TV network faces #criticism for airing a #deepfake version of #Queen's #ChristmasSpeech, where she mocks #HarryAndMeghan for moving to #Canada https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... #fintech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning @TFGolden @businessinsider https://twitter.com/...
Carly Ledbetter / HuffPost: Deepfake Queen Elizabeth Delivers Message About Harry And Meghan To Prove A Point
Lydia Catling / Daily Mail: ‘Deepfake’ Queen's Christmas message
Mark Borkowski / @markborkowski: Congratulations @Channel4 -doing what it does best. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom: Warnings about deepfakes continue to be a more urgent threat than actual deepfakes https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Roxanne Varza / @roxannevarza: Excellent and intriguing debate on use of deepfakes, personally I think spreading the awareness can only be beneficial https://twitter.com/...
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: First Deepfake Address from the Queen of England Makes Its Debut on British TV
Darcy Schild / INSIDER: The Queen said in her Christmas Day broadcast that 2020 has ‘brought us closer’ but ‘we need life to go on’
Theo Golden / Business Insider: A British TV network is facing criticism for airing a deepfake version of the Queen's Christmas speech, where she mocks Harry and Meghan for moving to Canada
Elizabeth Elizalde / New York Post: ‘Deepfake’ Queen Elizabeth II warns about misinformation
Hussein Kanji / @hkanji: Channel 4 said the broadcast was intended to give a “stark warning” about the threat of fake news in the digital era https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Areeq Chowdhury / @areeqchowdhury: Deepfake technology risks undermining trust in genuine video content and has already been widely used to create non-consensual pornography. I shared some thoughts on Channel 4's deepfake of the Queen with @mollyblackall @guardian. Read her piece here: https://theguardian.com/....
Sean Illing / Vox:
A critique of complaints that “cancel culture” is a growing problem in the US — Our fights over free speech have gotten more heated precisely because speech has never been freer. — SHARE All sharing options — 2020 was an especially rancorous year, and among the many things …
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Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: The fact that conservatives AGREE that Cancel Culture is a problem should not bother anyone. Indeed I believe that MORE people should be concerned about it, which I argue here: https://reason.com/... (64/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: That's a tiny snapshot of the global picture. Closer to home, “A record number of journalists were arrested this year in the United States,” according to @FreedomofPress: https://www.forbes.com/... (30/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: I care about Cancel Culture & still like the name because it's a name for a phenomenon I noticed way back in 2014, when few others were paying attention. https://www.amazon.com/... (60/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: .@theFIREorg we've seen a dramatic increase in submissions from students and faculty seeking help. By early Sept, we'd already broken our all-time record. At 1,461 submissions for the year and counting, it's been our busiest year: https://www.thefire.org/... (35/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: More than two dozen states have passed anti-BDS laws. While some have been struck down following #1A challenges, the legislative willingness to infringe on #freespeech is striking. https://www.thefire.org/... (31/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: But @theFIREorg focuses on American higher education, & we can tell you, this is far from the freest year for speech that we've seen. (34/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: BUT if Cancel Culture is not your cup of tea, can journos/academics at least help out the cause of free speech, in ANY of these trends? There is great harm in diminishing free speech in 2020 when threats abound. We & the cause of #freespeech could really use your help! (65/65)
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: This year, FIRE conducted the largest survey of free speech attitudes of college students ever performed, reaching about 20,0000 students. We didn't find a golden era of free speech on campus. https://www.thefire.org/... (50/65)
Jeffrey Sachs / @jeffreyasachs: This was a thoughtful piece that didn't deserve the firehouse that Greg directed at it. I think Sean gets it largely right, at least for democracies. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Illing / @seanilling: @glukianoff @vox This is a pretty uncharitable reading of my piece, which is about the US and you're pointing to trends in lots of non-democracies. I'm very clear that threats to speech here are real and worth fighting. Not even sure we disagree about anything. https://www.vox.com/...
Cathy Young / @cathyyoung63: I think Sean's point (which applies to the US & the West, not places like Russia, China or Turkey) is that those threats, paradoxically, often stem from expanded access to media platforms. Here's the piece, judge for yourselves. https://www.vox.com/...
Sean Illing / @seanilling: Here's what I wrote. There's a lot nuance that Greg's tweet ignores. https://www.vox.com/...
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: THREAD: So @vox writer @seanilling just said that ppl like me worry too much about #freespeech b/c “speech has never been freer.” Bizarre assertion in 2020. Speech was probably freer in 2005 before the “democratic recession” began, but it was certainly freer in, say, 2015. (1/65)
Sean Illing / @seanilling: @CathyYoung63 Weird thing is I'm probably in agreement with Greg on most of this stuff. All I did was try to put the fight in a historical context. But I do disagree with him in thinking this is the freest info system in history. https://www.vox.com/...
Sean Illing / @seanilling: I literally say in the piece that people are right to worry about attacks on free speech. A weirdly uncharitable reading imo.
Sean Illing / @seanilling: My point is that two seemingly contradictory things are true: 1) This is the most open/free communicative environment in human history and 2) That openness has unleashed forces that threaten to undermine/disrupt it. It's a problem as old as democracy. That's all I tried to note. https://twitter.com/...
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