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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Memo: Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning US talk radio hosts, tells personalities to stop suggesting the election was stolen — After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.
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Matthew Keys / The Desk: Cumulus threatens to fire talk show hosts who promote election conspiracies
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Cumulus Orders Radio Hosts — Which Include Dan Bongino and Mark Levin — to Stop Pushing Election Conspiracies
Rodney Ho / Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Cumulus Media tells its conservative talk show hosts to stop talking about a stolen election
The Right Scoop: Cumulus Media sends out memo to stop saying election was stolen, but Mark Levin says he didn't get it...
Will Doran / @will_doran: I tuned in to Raleigh conservative talk radio last week, just before the Capitol attack The first caller I heard was saying Biden's win was a hoax, and therefore Republicans should start cheating in elections—and they'd get away with it if only they could “get rid of the media” https://twitter.com/...
Marissa R. Moss / @marissarmoss: noteworthy, but also like trying to close Pandora's box after taking the entire box and throwing it into the fire 30 years ago and then being like,"but um how do we close this box?" https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Clark / @kyleclark: Cumulus doesn't have a Denver presence but if Salem or iHeartRadio told Denver's AM talk radio hosts to stop stoking election rigging conspiracies that would impact a lot of programs. #copolitics https://twitter.com/...
Paulette Feeney / @pauletteparis1: Toothpaste! Get back in that tube now, or else. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Brewster / Forbes: Stop Disputing Biden's Election Win Or Be Terminated, Radio Chain Tells Conservative Talk-Show Hosts
Zachary Petrizzo / @ztpetrizzo: Cumulus Media, which employs Dan Bongino and Mark Levin, “has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump - or else face termination.” https://www.thetelegraph.com/ ...
Tommy McFLY / @tommymcfly: 📻 @CumulusMedia operated huge conservative talk stations WLS-AM Chicago KABC LA WMAL DC KFSO SanFran and many in small cities across the country. Big question though how do they enforce with shows like Rush, Bongino and Shapiro they don't own, but broadcast? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: On Wednesday, right around the time DC erupted, radio giant Cumulus Media “told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination,” @farhip reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately. There will be no dog-whistle talk about ‘stolen elections,’ ‘civil wars’ or any other language that infers violent public disobedience is warranted, ever.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: The talk radio company that airs right-wing figures like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin warned its hosts: “The election has resolved, there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths.’ Please inform your staffs that we have ZERO TOLERANCE for any suggestion otherwise."https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Zachary Evans / National Review: Talk-Radio Owner Threatens to Fire Hosts Who Dispute Election Results
Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis: It's too bad they didn't feel obliged to avoid trafficking in lies, a disservice to their listeners, before the attack on the US Capitol. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: As I've been saying, we've had a million takes about social media companies but the real issue is Trump's seemingly frayed relationship with right-wing broadcast media. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Jordan / @numbersmuncher: Why is big tech silencing conservative talk radio? Oh. https://twitter.com/...
Zack Budryk / The Hill: Talk radio company orders hosts to stop suggesting election was stolen from Trump
Natasha Dailey / Business Insider: A company that owns hundreds of talk radio stations has threatened to terminate hosts for suggesting the 2020 election was stolen
Joe Warmington / @joe_warmington: There's no free speech if you are not free to speak https://twitter.com/...
Kate Seamons / Newser: Radio Hosts Warned They'll Be Fired Over Election-Fraud Talk
John Rogers / @jonrog1: Yeah yeah, everyone's a capitalist until the free market bites them in the ass. https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Dupree / @jamiedupree: If you told your radio or TV station newsrooms *not* to use the phrase “President-Elect Joe Biden” during the news in November - because it might offend your talk radio / conservative viewers or listeners - you made a very bad choice. https://twitter.com/...
AllAccess.com: Cumulus Corporate Policy Telling Talk Hosts To Stop Denying Legitimacy Of Election Draws Attention
@slpng_giants: This is where the anger-for-ad-dollars business model finally crashes. When you cross from coded racism to full-blown insurrection-stoking, these media companies know it limits business Unfortunately, for people like Ben Shapiro, if you don't keep people angry, they leave. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Last Thursday Limbaugh fully embraced violence and Hannity continues to claim election was stole. Will @iHeartRadio draw a similar line as cumulus has? https://twitter.com/...
Sohrab Ahmari / @sohrabahmari: Huh? @benshapiro has never been an election truther to begin with. https://twitter.com/...
Jonah Goldberg / @jonahdispatch: Will Bongino and Levin cave to their corporate paymasters? https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Exum / @exumam: Less a case of “you can't yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater” than “you might face legal liability if you employ people who suggest lighting crowded theaters on fire is a reasonable thing to do.” https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: This was always going to happen. You cannot have corporations pouring millions into racist and disinformation laden content without it eventually reflecting poorly on their brand when it finally ends in tragedy. https://twitter.com/...
Felonious Munk / @felonious_munk: They will all be quitting instead of being censored, right? Or do they all of a sudden understand capitalism... https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: They always knew what it wasn't they always knew the keywords. They workshopped and fine tuned them https://twitter.com/...
Emma Kinery / @emmakinery: Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino's employer, Cumulus Media, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or face termination “immediately” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Pete Dominick / @petedominick: This is unprecedented. These guys have NEVER had to edit themselves. I'm blown away https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: NEW from @farhip: “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.” Cumulus Media orders conservative radio hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric. But will Dan Bongino and Mark Levin listen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: THIS is good news! Their radio distributor has threatened to fire @marklevinshow @benshapiro and other Trump Whores if they keep selling the “stolen election” lie on-air. Can't wait to hear Levin's high-pitched whine about this just before midshow firing https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Britni de la Cretaz / @britnidlc: don't we love that it took a violent riot and an attempt at perhaps murdering members of congress for people to finally try to get white nationalist rhetoric under control? it's too fucking late, there's blood on so many people's hands. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Walsh / @walshfreedom: I come from and am still in the conservative talk radio world. Hannity, Levin and all the rest will move on from the “stolen” election lie and move on to the next divisive grievance. That's what they do. Foster anger & resentment. It's what I used to do every now & then. https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Talk Radio, like television, is a massive source of misinformation & division in the U.S. that is under also examined. Young people may be radicalized on YouTube & Q but their parents & grandparents are being radicalized by Tucker & Rush. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump - or else face termination.” @farhip https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Premiere Networks — which distributes the shows of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and others — hasn't appeared to take such action. In fact, when I asked Premiere last week for comment on Limbaugh seemingly endorsing political violence, the company said nothing.
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: Cumulus Media Has Finally Had Enough
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of an ex-BuzzFeed employee who livestreamed the Capitol riot; hooked on going viral, he ran BuzzFeed's Vine and Twitter before joining Milo Yiannopoulos — At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media. A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill.
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Nieman Lab, @nytimes, @jeffjarvis, @cameronwilson, @oliverdarcy, @rmac18, @doctor_eon, @the_rewm, @mathewi, @hotlinejosh, @helenlewis, @ekp, @pdougherty, @dougjballoon, @emilynussbaum, @emilyctamkin, @kellyvhalen, @jennycohn1, @nickmartin, @bernstein, @willcarless, @poniewozik, @conz, @isaacfitzgerald, @lexim, @gitagovinda, @jeremypgordon, @elongreen, @hshaban, @jaketapper, @anneapplebaum, @goldman, @hannahgais, @walterisaacson, @cwarzel, @azi, @jessienyc, @nicdawes, @athertonkd, @the_rewm, @rmac18, @asteadwesley, @katienotopoulos, @heidilegg, @moneyries, @ericmgarcia, @williams_paige, @thebradking, @profcarroll, @amyspitalnick, @meredithdclark, @anildash, @tomwarren, @briannawu, @benyt, @huwlemmey, Context is King, @daveyalba, @maxwelljosh, @raneyaronson, @hollyblomberg, @richardgarriott, @nytimesbusiness, @nytmedia, @kattenbarge, @samstrake, @varunvira_, @michaelsderby, @nytimes, @franklinleonard and @taylorlorenz
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: After the Capitol riots, platforms, archivists, conspiracists, and investigators collide
@nytimes: At Buzzfeed in 2015, he helped make groundbreaking, viral content. In 2021, he went live from inside the trashed office of a senator. @benyt on a man who went from making mostly harmless Vines to streaming violence: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Years ago, colleagues of mine in the media blathering class scolded me for not getting BuzzFeed as “the first data-driven newsroom.” I said then there were skills BuzzFeed was honing I did not want to enter newsrooms; they would corrupt. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cameronwilson: This really hits the cross-section of my interests: online right ecosystem x media x platform incentives https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “His politics have been guided by platform metrics,” @AndrewGauthier tells @benyt. Gauthier was speaking about the MAGA troll Baked Alaska, but the quote can be applied to so many others as well. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rmac18: Live streaming may not be as valuable for a national outlet. But for individuals, it's invaluable, constant connection. It's why these idiots broadcast themselves doing crimes last week. They can't help themselves.
Dean Haddix / @doctor_eon: Who could have seen this coming? Who, I wonder. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “If you haven't had the experience of posting something that goes truly viral, you may not understand its emotional attraction. The rush of affirmation can be giddy, and addictive. And if you have little else to hold on to, you can lose yourself to it” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: A disturbing look at the perverse incentives in corners of social media — and the dangerous implications. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Helen Lewis / @helenlewis: Reading the accounts of those involved in social media optimisation in the late 00s and early 10s is increasingly like reading the memoirs of scientists on Manhattan Project: the awakening realisation of wielding terrible power. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: @soledadobrien The subject of this article is not as different from the mainstream press as they would like to believe; the desire for online engagement has been toxic for the press, for the platforms, and for the individuals who create content for them https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pdougherty: Small world. This guy's father is building a subdivision 300 feet from my house. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Nussbaum / @emilynussbaum: “You always think that evil is going to come from movie villain evil, and then you're like — oh no, evil can just start with bad jokes and nihilistic behavior that is fueled by positive reinforcement on various platforms.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@emilyctamkin: “I was slow to realize that his interests weren't journalistic, or even ideological, as much as they were aesthetic, thrilled by the imagery of raw power.” A very good, and very sad, @benyt column https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kelly / @kellyvhalen: we've been telling you for fucking years you nerd and you know it https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Cohn / @jennycohn1: “It's the story of a man being rewarded for being a violent white nationalist, and getting the attention and affirmation [via social media] that he's apparently desperate for.” https://twitter.com/...
Nick Martin / @nickmartin: Ben Smith reckons with the fact that BuzzFeed used to employ Tim Gionet (aka “Baked Alaska"), who went on to become a neo-Nazi and was part of the group that stormed the US Capitol. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: Baked Alaska, who I've written about in the context of Milo Yiannopoulos, is a type - unmoored, not too bright, highly neurotic, vaguely aggrieved, obsessed with virality - who I think we'll associate with the 2010s https://twitter.com/...
Will Carless / @willcarless: This, by @benyt is a thoughtful and intelligent look at a bizarre moment in our history. Of the melange of ideologies present on Wednesday, the cult of ego was perhaps the most pervasive. https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: This @benyt column is fascinating and horrifying and just makes me sad for the world, though not for the guy involved https://www.nytimes.com/...
Conz Preti / @conz: Loved reading this. LOVED. Also loved reporting Baked Alaska to the police as I saw his livestream. https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Fitzgerald / @isaacfitzgerald: Ain't gonna pretend that I ain't mad that I *still* have to think about who ~Baked Alaska~ is in this, the Year of Our Lord, 2021. https://twitter.com/...
Lexi Mainland / @lexim: Great column, @benyt. (And would add: there will never be another @carr2n but your pieces really help fill that void in these intense/confusing media times.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patricia Sauthoff / @gitagovinda: Imagine getting a job for this. “Once, he poured a gallon of milk on his face and a clip of it drew millions of views, back when mostly harmless stunts amused millions of American viewers on the platform.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Gordon / @jeremypgordon: I know the answer is probably very simple but I still wonder about what happened to BuzzFeed Benny to transform him from online, “fun” conservative to blood and soil MAGA lifer. Could've read another column on that alone https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: But his interest was indeed journalism. The problem is that most conservative journalism is indistinguishable from propaganda https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: “Gionet's story isn't quite the familiar one of a lonely young man in his bedroom...It's the story of a man being rewarded for being a violent white nationalist, and getting the attention and affirmation that he's apparently desperate for.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Powerful and troubling column by @benyt: “We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: fascinating - on how a master of viral social media posts and clickbait journalism became a far-right propagandist https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Goldman / @goldman: Great column, great quote. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Gais / @hannahgais: among other things, I think this hits the nail on the head with regards to what made Gionet's stream in the Capitol so surreal. he seemed more gleeful he was going viral; meanwhile, the people in the superchats were shouting odes to The Turner Diaries. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Walter Isaacson / @walterisaacson: Wow. @benyt is very good. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this is an important piece of the bigger story. there is not 1 way to make an extremist. 1 thing the violent mob on weds showed is that there are a # of different types of people motivated to storm that building. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@azi: “He first put a Bernie Sanders portrait on his desk, two former colleagues said. Then, he moved on to wearing MAGA hats...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jessienyc: Bit of an understatement here @benyt + not for lack of warning from lots of us: “While we were refining the new practice of social media at BuzzFeed, we were slow to realize that the far right was watching closely and eventually imitating us.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: “His politics have been guided by platform metrics” https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: Not sure this whole “at my old job, we hired two fascists to do webby spectacle and they used those skills to do webby fascism instead of webby journalism” story is as thoughtful and detached as it aims to be. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@the_rewm: Sure, most did not turn out to be white nationalists, but *many* people in both news and entertainment followed signals on social media without any scruple, fully exhausting a lot of good, thoughtful editors in the process and causing harm in a lot of different ways
@rmac18: Something worth re-examining in @benyt's latest piece is the role of live streaming. BuzzFeed News moved away from it as the platforms slashed incentives but the white nationalists that learned that here continued to do so as a brand exercise. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steadman&trade / @asteadwesley: assumption can be that these ppl are ideologically rigid and destitute. often times they're middle class white men seeking camaraderie thru the oldest of playbooks: exclusion and violence https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: Not mentioned here is one of the only true acts of journalism B*ked Al*ska did was screenshotting and leaking BuzzFeed Slack chats showing employees expressing disappointment in election night 2016 to iirc Daily Caller? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Heidi Legg / @heidilegg: “To me, this story is about something different, a sort of social media power that we helped sharpen at BuzzFeed that can exert an almost irresistible gravitational pull.” @benyt. Former colleague at Buzzfeed storms the Capitol. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Ries / @moneyries: Just realized @BuzzFeed was the original hype house https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: If Dr. Frankenstein were to ever reflect on what he had wrought, I imagine it would read a lot like @benyt's column on Baked Alaska. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@williams_paige: “It seemed an apt conclusion to a recent career arc that some might see as trolling or internet pranks, but is probably best described as performative violence.” https://twitter.com/...
Brad King / @thebradking: There's a really interesting theme about “going viral.” I have not enjoyed the three times it happened to me. But, I can understand the drug of it. We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Remembering how the attention merchandising machine of “viral media” created the monster we now know as the (still at-large?) seditionist Baked Alaska. The audience for viral fascism was unleashed because people will do anything for attention. https://www.nytimes.com/... by @benyt
Amy Spitalnick / @amyspitalnick: “The only through line was his desire to build an audience.” Without necessarily intending to, @benyt makes a pretty effective case for why deplatforming extremists works. https://twitter.com/...
@meredithdclark: We warned y'all about giving prominence to everyday racists. And yet, here we are, @benyt. Despite the disclaimers, this is STILL a profile of a white nationalist. It's one that models the very problem media has right now. https://twitter.com/...
Anil Dash / @anildash: This story didn't go like I expected. That's an improvement over the kind of coverage we're used to getting on these things. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: @RMac18 it's also a big source of revenue as people tip along while they watch
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: This is my favorite @benyt column ever. He hired a kid at Buzzfeed to do viral videos. He had a desperate need to get validation through vitality. Last week, he stormed the Capital. This is a story of two alt-right figures to come from Buzzfeed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Huw Lemmey / @huwlemmey: Thought this was very interesting - founding editor of Buzzfeed talking about the relationship between the site, some of the people he employed (B*ked Al*ska) and its complicity in US fascist tactics online via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: Insecurities: The Real 20th Hijacker
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: OK, Dlive. but your platform is also one of THE primary ways that insurrectionists organized and celebrated themselves, so https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Maxwell / @maxwelljosh: Fairly shocking headline in my hometown newspaper. For this to be true, you'd have to ignore what they chanted, what they posted on social media, what flags they carried, and what words were on their clothes. https://www.pbs.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Raney Aronson / @raneyaronson: A @frontlinepbs-@propublica team that has been tracking far-right movements for the past 3 years reviewed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. https://www.pbs.org/...
Holly / @hollyblomberg: Now I've seen it all: The miscreant formerly known as ‘Baked Alaska’ successfully monetized his foray through the Capitol building https://www.nytimes.com/...
Richard Garriott / @richardgarriott: Money made during illegal behavior should be seized! https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytmedia: Dlive's increasing popularity shows how an online exodus of far-right figures on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube since the November election has now moved beyond alternative social-networking, news and video sites like Rumble, Gab and Parler. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kat Tenbarge / @kattenbarge: Great piece by @TaylorLorenz and @Kellen_Browning about Dlive, the platform white nationalist Baked Alaska used to livestream and monetize himself from inside the Capitol https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sam Strake / @samstrake: Wait you mean the exclusive home to PewDiePie's streaming presence ISN'T a wholesome inclusive community tolerant of other people's views??? https://twitter.com/...
Varun Vira / @varunvira_: The leading far right live-streaming platform is beneficially owned by a Chinese investor https://twitter.com/...
Michael S. Derby / @michaelsderby: Late stage capitalism: Monetizing your attack on the seat of democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: One white nationalist used a livestreaming site called Dlive to broadcast his actions during the riot at the Capitol on Wednesday — and made more than $2,000 doing it, according to some estimates. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: These guys monetizing their streams of storming the Capitol in an attempt to steal a President election for Donald Trump is just exceptional writing. Multiple layers of theme and character development all working together in ways that emphasize the core of the story. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Far-right-affiliated Dlive channels streamed to tens of thousands on Wedss, as did “Murder the Media” a Dlive account affiliated w/ the Proud Boys, a far-right, neofascist organization. The words “Murder the Media” were scrawled on a Capitol doorway https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Since 2016, Trump moved from giving a large number of TV interviews to relying more on an “I type, you listen” Twitter presence, a stage he tightly controlled — Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is …
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@maggienyt, @lpdonovan, @sarahnemerson, Business Insider, @benjysarlin, Gizmodo, @bwjones, @kyleorl, @mattyglesias, @maggienyt, @chrismegerian, @maggienyt, @tylerdinucci, Politico, @shannimcg, @dfrlab, @bendreyfuss and @davidaxelrod
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Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Trump's conversion from an all-TV media diet to an “I type, you listen” Twitter presence came over 5 years as TV interviewers got tougher on him and his WH briefing room appearances were seen as calamaties. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Liam Donovan / @lpdonovan: Late to this observation since @maggieNYT wrote it up what feels like a month ago, but it's pretty incredible how the President—he of the bully pulpit, whose chief superpower as a candidate was commanding cable news—has essentially deplatformed himself. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson: Of course Jack Dorsey is on an island right now https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: Jack Dorsey reportedly banned Trump's Twitter account while he was on vacation in French Polynesia
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: There is, in fact, an obvious solution to the problem of having no idea how to answer questions about the policy issues you're being asked about, but it takes some work https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / Gizmodo: San Francisco Prepares For Potential Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ on Monday
Bryan William Jones / @bwjones: Can you imagine, what the withdrawal from the instant gratification of seeing the impact of his Tweets is like for Trump now that he has no mechanism for that dopamine hit? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: He could have @PressSec livestream him talking! The social media bans have become a cover story for a withdrawal from public communication that has nothing to do with them. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “One Trump adviser was blunt, saying that the president did not like most aspects of his job, and that included being asked questions for which he did not know the answers.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: The issue isn't getting attention — it's getting attention on his own terms https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Trump has said he was “silenced” by Twitter. But unlike millions of people, he has a WH briefing room, an East Room, an Oval Office and the print pool nearby he could speak to. In some ways, he's muzzled himself https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tyler Dinucci / @tylerdinucci: just and absolutely brutal paragraph here. and it's all true. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg: “Twitter's permanent suspension of Trump's Twitter account is long overdue,” said lil' ol' me, of @UNCHussman @unc_citap “This is the key de-platforming for Trump. The inability to tweet cuts off his direct access to the press — and, by extension, the public.” https://twitter.com/...
@dfrlab: “Removing Trump from Twitter does not fix our politics or bring millions of Americans back to reality... But it does make it significantly harder for disinformation to enter the mainstream. ” -@etbrooking in @nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: Praying for the Resistance grifters who tweet replies to Trump https://www.nytimes.com/...
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As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
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Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: Trump wants to strike back at Big Tech. There's not much he can do.
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: Good @jdawsey1 and @TonyRomm here. Trump can't just build and scale a new social network or media company from scratch. It's always been a fantasy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate: Reports: United States Essentially Leaderless as President Feuds With Twitter, Professional Golfers' Association
Crispin Sartwell / SPLICETODAY.com: Impeach Trump, But Don't Try to Silence Him
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: Trump loved to brag of retweets and likes. He'd say “bing, bing,” hit send, and tell aides to watch it appear on TV. He liked firings, shock and awe, and to taunt and mislead. A waning presidency without a favored weapon, and what he can do w/@TonyRomm: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Isaac Saul / Tangle: Trump banned from Twitter.
Alana Mastrangelo / Breitbart: Social Media Exodus: Prominent Conservatives Abandon Twitter
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Trump Crossed the Line: Why Social Media Giants Finally Took Action, The Washington Post's Nitasha Tiku explains
Jeremy Diamond / CNN: Trump expected to fight with big tech during final days in office
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter “permanently suspends” Trump after Capitol siege
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: The deplatforming of President Trump
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The informal image on Vogue's print cover of VP-elect Kamala Harris draws criticism for lacking respect, authority, and grandeur — The nation's first female vice president elect has been photographed for the cover of February's Vogue magazine and a vocal chorus on social media is displeased with the images.
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@voguemagazine: Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris is our February cover star! Making history was the first step. Now Harris has an even more monumental task: to help heal a fractured America—and lead it out of crisis. Read the full profile: https://vogue.cm/MHifmQS https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: Some fashion magazine news.... 1. The February Vogue cover featuring VP-elect Kamala Harris has been widely criticized on social media this evening But according to a source familiar with the publication plans, this is not the cover that the Vice President-elect's team expected https://twitter.com/...
Alexis Okeowo / Vogue: Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris on the Road Ahead
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: How a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris
David Gura / @davidgura: “There's nothing inherently wrong with this picture,” @RobinGivhan writes. “The problem is that it's on the cover.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Darlene Superville / Associated Press: Harris team says it was blindsided by VP-elect's Vogue cover
Timothy Perry / CBS News: Controversy surrounds Kamala Harris' first Vogue cover
Ronnie Koenig / NBC4 Washington: Kamala Harris' Vogue Cover Prompts Backlash and Outrage: ‘Disrespectful’
Kim Willis / USA Today: ‘Washed out mess’: Vogue puts Kamala Harris on the cover, but Twitter users aren't happy
Holly Bailey / @hollybdc: “Her history making rise is not telegraphed by a formal setting, a business suit or a confrontational stance. The only thing that announces the importance of the picture is the woman in it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rachel Kiley / The Daily Dot: Vogue cover featuring Kamala Harris is so ‘bad’ that people assumed it was fake
Jennifer Epstein / @jeneps: When there's a story about race, gender and style, @RobinGivhan is the voice I want to read. Here explaining why Kamala Harris's Vogue cover didn't meet the moment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Josh Kurp / UPROXX: Vogue Is Being Criticized For Using A ‘Disrespectful’ Image Of Kamala Harris On The Cover
Danielle Prescod / @danielleprescod: BIG RT https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Paton / @lizziepaton: Female politicians currently appear damned if they do/ damned if they don't with fashion mag covers. Too fashion forward or fantastical then critics say they look elitist and out of touch. Stick to their day-to-day uniform and many are disappointed boundaries weren't tested. 1/4 https://twitter.com/...
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: “The cover did not give Kamala D. Harris due respect. It was overly familiar. It was a cover image that, in effect, called Harris by her first name without invitation ... Vogue overstepped. It got too chummy too fast,” @RobinGivhan https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rob Williams / MediaPost: ‘Vogue’ Cover Of VP-Elect Harris Spurs ‘Essence’ Critique
Robin Givhan / @robingivhan: “The cover did not give Kamala D. Harris due respect. It was overly familiar. It was a cover image that, in effect, called Harris by her first name without invitation.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Erika Stallings / @quidditch424: Was waiting for this and I think it's spot on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@voguemagazine: “I always say this: I may be the first to do many things—make sure I'm not the last,” says Vice President-elect @kamalaharris. Read the full February cover story: https://vogue.cm/7HwkGgt https://twitter.com/...
Cindy Gallop / @cindygallop: Excellent from @RobinGivhan on @CondeNast @voguemagazine's treatment of @KamalaHarris: 'Nothing about the cover said, “Wow.” And sometimes, that's all Black women want, an admiring and celebratory “wow” over what they have accomplished.' @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Norkin / @inlauraswords: Unsurprisingly @RobinGivhan put a fine point on exactly why this cover was so unsettling. And before you say so OF COURSE I am jealous that that magazine got the VP on its cover. But the criticism is absolutely fair. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: I feel like this is exactly the kind of low stakes media drama we need to soothe our troubled timelines. https://twitter.com/...
Karen Finney / @finneyk: Its a shameful, racist failure by @voguemagazine, we will no doubt see more like it as a mostly white mainstream media learn how to respectfully cover and report on our first Black woman Vice President. But she's our #MVP in part because it won't and can't stop her brilliance. https://twitter.com/...
@junesummer1: Not even a black writer and photographer could stop Vogue from its usual racism. They did America's first BW, first WOC, first daughter of immigrants VP dirty. An unapproved photo for its cover and a biased neg article. Does Anna Wintour respect black women? I don't think so. https://twitter.com/...
Alexis Okeowo / @alexis_ok: it's here! i interviewed and wrote about vp-elect kamala harris for the cover of vogue: https://vogue.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine: People Are Up in Arms Over VP-Elect Kamala Harris's Too-Familiar February Vogue Cover
Emily Rekstis / Us Weekly: Why People Are Upset With Kamala Harris' American ‘Vogue’ Cover
Elizabeth Thorp / @elizabethethorp: As a former editor in chief of a magazine who strategized and agonized over covers, this historic cover seems haphazard and DIY. What's up with the random sheets? They had an amazing creative opportunity and they blew it. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren N. Williams / @laurnwilliams: “The cover did not give Kamala D. Harris due respect. It was overly familiar. It was a cover image that, in effect, called Harris by her first name without invitation.” Givhan told not one lie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian: Vogue's Kamala Harris cover photos spark controversy: ‘Washed out mess’
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox News will replace one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage with a right-wing opinion show, signifying a further shift toward incendiary programming — New York (CNN Business)Fox News Channel is removing one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage and replacing …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Fox News to Add Another Hour of Right-Wing Talk as Biden Takes Office
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox News Channel Shakes Up Daytime Schedule
The Daily Beast: Fox News Swears It's Not ‘Demoting’ This ‘Straight News’ Anchor After Newsmax Ratings Loss
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Fox News Overhauls Daytime Programming; John Roberts Named Anchor
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Fox News Channel is removing one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage and replacing it with a right-wing opinion show, signifying a further shift toward the incendiary programming that Fox viewers overwhelmingly prefer.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I was quoting from CNN's report, but the conventional terms used here — “news” vs. “opinion” shows — are misleading and inadequate, thoughtless and inane. There might be a difference between these two genres of Fox programming, but news vs. opinion is not a good name for it. https://twitter.com/...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Jeanine Pirro's Unexpected New Show: Exploring American Royalty in ‘Castles USA’ (Video)
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Fox News is shaking up its daytime lineup, moving anchors and correspondents to new hours. But there is another big change too: It will add another opinion show at 7 PM: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: .@kilmeade will be the first in a rotation of anchors to lead Fox News' new 7 pm opinion hour
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: Fox News Changes Up Daytime Lineup, Adds New Opinion Show at 7 p.m.
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox News Channel is revamping a significant chunk of its daytime lineup and adding an opinion program to its 7 p.m. hour, which was previously devoted to news-side content https://variety.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: BIG changes at Fox News: @MarthaMacCallum has lost her 7pm hour. Fox is putting in an opinion show instead, with a rotation of hosts for now. MacCallum is moving to 3pm, in what will surely be seen as a demotion https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erick Fernandez / @erickfernandez: Martha MacCullum is an opinion host. She may act like she's a “news” anchor but it's clear as day she isn't. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Fox News is responding to ratings pressure from fringe-right competitors by cannibalizing its “news” hours in favor of additional “opinion” programming. https://variety.com/...
Colby Hall / Mediaite: Fox News Announces Major Revamp of Daytime Lineup
Jon Allsop / @jon_allsop: I've long said that what Fox needs is more opinion programming. https://twitter.com/...
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
News orgs may be forced to turn over their unpublished images and videos of the Capitol siege since federal crimes are not protected by a federal shield law — News organizations may have an unpopular fight ahead as federal law enforcement agencies seek out their unpublished images from the Capitol siege.
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Washington Post, New Republic, @davidphinney, @coreyhutchins, @fheinderyckx, @pressfreedom, @katharinelarsen, @joshroe, @poynter, @esmcintyre, @atompkins, @froomkin and NPPA
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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post: Journalists were attacked, threatened and detained during the Capitol siege
Jacob Silverman / New Republic: Why Are Journalists and Surveillance Researchers Helping the FBI to Catch Capitol Rioters?
David Phinney / @davidphinney: “I had three different people threaten to shoot me over the course of the day. They weren't armed as far as I could tell. I saw people with knives and pepper spray.” https://twitter.com/...
Corey Hutchins / @coreyhutchins: “Since these actions involve federal crimes, journalists will quickly realize that we have no federal shield law,” he said: https://www.poynter.org/...
Francois Heinderyckx / @fheinderyckx: “Journalists were attacked, threatened and detained during the Capitol siege.” And not just by rioters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Violence and intimidation towards journalists by Trump supporters isn't headlines anymore, showing it is normalised. @ASCmediarisk @uspresstracker
@pressfreedom: Journalists covering mob violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday were harassed, threatened, and arrested. CPJ's @kajtweets and @lvzwestcott spoke to @Moxie_Manda, @_RichardHall, @FahlOutBerg, and @ZoeannMurphy about the situation on the ground. https://cpj.org/...
Katharine Larsen / @katharinelarsen: Q: Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters **for law enforcement**? A. Absolutely not. https://www.poynter.org/... h/t @nppalawyer
@joshroe: Very interesting read from @atompkins And again thanks to the incredible journalists on the ground in D.C. on Wednesday. They put themselves in harm's way to show all of us what was happening. Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters? https://www.poynter.org/...
@poynter: Federal law enforcement agencies may ask or demand that news organizations and individual journalists who documented the siege of the U.S. Capitol turn over their unpublished images and videos. https://www.poynter.org/...
Erin Siegal McIntyre / @esmcintyre: “Since these actions involve federal crimes, journalists will quickly realize that we have no federal shield law,” said National Press Photographers Association General Counsel Mickey Osterreicher. Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters? https://www.poynter.org/...
Al Tompkins / @atompkins: During the lawful protests of 2020, journalists came under pressure not to identify protestors who feared police retribution. Now, law enforcement is circulating the images of rioters, promising arrests and vigorous prosecutions. https://www.poynter.org/...
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
After laying off half its staff in Feb. 2020, Protocol's president says it had 7M unique visitors last year and is planning an international expansion — Protocol, like most media companies in the spring of 2020, took a hit — and one that was especially acute just months past launching in February.
South China Morning Post:
A website dedicated to documenting Hong Kong's anti-government protests has been blocked; sources say HK police invoked new national security law to censor it — Sources say the force has started asking internet providers to halt access to HKChronicles citing Article 43 of the law …
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@crtejada, Bloomberg, @ilariamariasala, New York Times, @geopol2020, @jessedamiani, @puiwingtam, Radio Free Asia and Bloomberg
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Carlos Tejada / @crtejada: “Today it's HKChronicles — would it be foreign media or local media tomorrow? Would Telegram and Signal be the next ones?” How Hong Kong could fall behind China's Great Firewall of censorship. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Site Slams Internet Providers Over Blocked Access
Ilaria Maria Sala / @ilariamariasala: It starts by censoring the indefensible - doxxing police officers and pro- Beijing supporters- and it breaches the taboo of an indefensible censorship practice. If it is illegal it should be taken down through the courts, not police censorship https://www.nytimes.com/...
@geopol2020: China blocks a “website that listed the personal information of [Hong Kong] police officers.” And NY Times is perturbed by this “censorship” https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Damiani / @jessedamiani: Hong Kong Website Doxxing Police Gets Blocked, Raising Censorship Fears. Users of major mobile carriers can no longer access a service that detailed the personal information of police officers, a possible sign that the city is turning to tactics used... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAP, the TV network ad group, launches a supply-side platform that lets advertisers see the commercial slots available from its members, including NBCU, Fox — Ad giant Omnicom is testing new technology that shows commercials available to purchase from large TV networks
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: OpenAP Launches SSP, Omnicom First To Begin Trading
NBCU Together / @nbcutogether: .@OpenAPTV announces new technology for advertisers to see available commercial time from members, showcasing the value of strong industry partnerships. Learn about NBCU's commitment through OpenAP to further advance the ad buying process. Read from @WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/...
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek: OpenAP Debuts New Platform in Expanded TV Advertising Push
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV: Omnicom Media Group First To Test OpenAP's New TV Ad Data
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu rolls out a reduced-rate plan for US college students for $1.99 per month — Disney's Hulu is courting the collegiate crowd with a new offer: The streamer has rolled out a special reduced-rate plan for U.S. college students, priced at $1.99 per month.
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XDA Developers, Decider, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Streamable, Mashable and Cord Cutters News
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Brandon Russell / XDA Developers: College students can get an ad-supported Hulu subscription for $2/month
Tobey Grumet Segal / Decider: Hulu's New Student Plan is Just $1.99/Month
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Ad-supported Hulu is only $2 for college students
The Guardian:
UK TV streaming customers can no longer stream live sports, like the Premier League, when visiting the rest of Europe as the Brexit transition period ends — UK customers of TV streaming services can no longer watch live sport, including Premier League football, when visiting the rest of Europe …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN announces new assignments: Kaitlan Collins will be chief WH correspondent and Jim Acosta will be chief domestic correspondent and have a weekend anchor role — New York (CNN Business)Some of the most respected faces of CNN's marathon election coverage are being promoted to more prominent roles …
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The Hill, Fox News, The Wrap, The Hill, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, TVNewser, Variety and @froomkin
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: CNN's Acosta moving away from White House
Brian Flood / Fox News: CNN pulls combative questioner Jim Acosta from White House beat with Biden set to take office
Justine Coleman / The Hill: CNN expanding Jake Tapper's show to two hours, shortening Wolf Blitzer's show
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Resuming this thread about CNN's DC moves! My full story just posted. Lead: Some of the most respected faces of CNN's marathon election coverage are being promoted to more prominent roles https://www.cnn.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: New weekend anchors: @abbydphillip, @DanaBashCNN, @PamelaBrownCNN and @Acosta. New chief correspondents: @kaitlancollins at the WH, @mkraju on Capitol Hill, @jeffzeleny on national affairs https://www.cnn.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Jake Tapper Named CNN's Lead Washington Anchor; Abby Phillip Named Anchor of Inside Politics Sunday
Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Expands Jake Tapper's Duties and Weekday Show
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