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Ben Smith / New York Times:
NYT says it will not restart its reporter-led trips after the McNeil controversy, as its personnel dramas attract broad attention, like public morality plays — Other news organizations have their own personnel dramas. But none attract the spotlight like The Times.
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Clyde Bruckman / Latest: The Busiest Man In Journalism
Steadman&trade / @asteadwesley: still, journalists advocating for a workplace and a product that is free of racism aren't driven by left leaning ideology but by the ideals of the profession. It is asking the report to live up to its own stated values of truth and accountability, not run from it.
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: It's amazing to me how normal everyone seems to think it is that students paid $5,000 or whatever to travel to Peru with some bitter old Times journo with no relevant reporting experience. The whole thing seems bizarre
Michelle Goldberg / @michelleinbklyn: Wait is calling nepotism “affirmative action for white people” considered offensive now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: I'm a Ben Smith fan and appreciate details on NYTimes Don McNeil scandal here. But this piece's casual diminishment of how McNeil shrugged off existence of racism reminds me how he once tiptoed around Andrew Sullivan's racist acts. Huge blind spot. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Not sure I would make the argument, but there is certainly an argument to be made that someone who believes racism against black Americans is “over” shows too much contempt for factual reality to be a reporter for the New York Times
@davewiner: Funny thing I just realized. Donald McNeil is the Jeremy Lin of the NYT. The right person in the right place at the right time. The NYT is the Knicks. And they did the same thing! And I bet it was the same reason, after all is said and done.
Robert Hutton / @robdothutton: This is marvellous. In the UK, the equivalent is BBC News, which is called BBC News for a reason. https://www.the-fence.com/...
Celisa Calacal / Press Pass: What's going on at The New York Times?
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: NY Times Media Columnist Ben Smith: Don McNeil Told Student ‘Racism is Over’
Robert Smith / @bondhack: @MattGarrahan @naomi_rovnick This was a fine parody I thought https://www.the-fence.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Lots more reporting on the Don McNeil resignation from @benyt • a student on Peru trip recalled him saying “racism is over” • he prepared an apology note days after story broke • union played a role in his defense 2 yes ago • also...it's complicated https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: It's so great the NYT has a correspondent who can write about the mad stuff that goes on at the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steadman / @asteadwesley: genuinely appreciate the reporting after weeks of hackery https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: the nyt killing off the relatively niche public editor position and then hiring ben smith who now writes much more high-profile and damaging columns about the nyt for like 50 percent of his job is some kind of weird self-own
@goldietaylor: .@nytimes doesn't have to be “Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden,” as @benyt suggests. It is a work environment that can and should be held to standards of fairness and decorum. Moreover, McNeil's reporting suffered from his myopic view of the world. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: A couple of people asked about one detail, and I wanted to clarify: the reference to James Bennet was to the suggestion his firing was about process and communications management of the Cotton column, rather than its substance; not that there was some other looming issue.
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: So sick of hearing people at the NYT say that “left-leaning subscribers” want to “push it into a narrower and more left-wing political lane”. My sense is they want it to advocate more forcefully for the truth. Is that the same thing? I don't think so. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lionel Barber / @lionelbarber: Very, ahem, brave: @benyt on managing the most high profile newsroom in America in the middle of the culture wars. It's a damned good read https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Student Says NY Times Reporter Donald McNeil Jr. Told Her on Peru Trip: ‘Racism Is Over’
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: Much of the outrage people are feeling about the NYT (inside and outside the paper) has to do with chasm between what it says it is (the paper of record) and what it actually is (print MSNBC). I suspect the noise will die down as this becomes undeniable. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kerrymflynn: “Is The Times the leading newspaper for like-minded, left-leaning Americans? Or is it trying to hold what seems to be a disappearing center in a deeply divided country? Is it Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden?” - @benyt's column on Donald McNeil's exit https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: Very interesting piece. But to @benyt is the Times beholdeness to subs really different today than it has been at other points in its history? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Lots of new reporting here: the NYT guild saved McNeil's job after he declares to a high school student that “racism is over,” after openly saying he'd take the next available buy out McNeil resigned rather than be moved to a less prestigious beat https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I have to say the @benyt pulled off a nearly impossible task here, with a tough but fair column that you should read: Postcards From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won't Stop https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nyttypos: This is a good and newsy piece on the McNeil contretemps from Ben Smith, but I don't get why the Times published this but killed the Bret Stephens column, supposedly on the grounds that they have a really high bar for publishing anything critical of a colleague. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Those immersed in the chronology will want to note @benyt's reporting that Donald McNeil began composing an apology within a couple days of the eruption, not on his way out the door, as it might have seemed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@emilyctamkin: The way you treat and view people out in life shapes the way in which you cover people out in the world https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Have been waiting for someone to talk to the students who spent time with Don McNeil, as well as context about his history at the paper. Important context here; still a mess. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: I would note, this has happened at least twice at the Post, and once at the Journal, but at the Journal they do it like a family of Connecticut WASPs. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lee Fang / @lhfang: The white student who falsely accused famed science reporter Don McNeill of racism, effectively ending his storied career at the Times, was not only on a $5k field trip, but had just graduated from a boarding school that costs $58k a year. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Given that the kids were privileged white teens, they probably found McNeil's anti-nepotism comments highly offensive! https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Once more, we have a quote that can't possibly be the full account. What tradition did he denigrate? Was it a scientifically validated tradition? These kids are so whiny! Also, nepotism in many institutions IS affirmative action for white people. https://twitter.com/...
Yascha Mounk / @yascha_mounk: .@benyt gets to the heart of the matter: Does the New York Times want to turn itself into The Guardian? On the current trajectory, the answer is yes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: The description by @benyt of the NYT's current model & future trajectory — “beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers” that “may yet push it into a narrower and more left-wing political lane”: a US version of the Guardian — seems true & important. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Virginia Hughes / @virginiahughes: “The union, a person involved in the conversations said, was ready to take The Times to arbitration if the company attempted to terminate Mr. McNeil for his conduct on the trip.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@yashar: Lots of new reporting on the Don McNeil situation from @benyt in his latest column https://www.nytimes.com/...
Virginia Hughes / @virginiahughes: There are many good lines in @benyt's latest, but this has to be the best: “The Times may contain multitudes, but running a travel agency that drops ornery 65-year-old journalists into the literal jungle with a pack of sharp teens is a bridge too far.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The most important news in @benyt's scoop-rich take on his employer is that the NYT has widely decided that having journalists double as tour guides for rich teenagers is a bad idea and they're killing the program. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Postcard From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won't Stop https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nancy Rommelmann / Make More Pie: Journalism AMA on Clubhouse Today!
@nytimesguild: “We needed transparency. Particularly for journalists who write about racism, racial inequality, for the New York Times, our own colleague is being accused of this and we don't have information...And we're just supposed to just trust you. That's not what journalists do.” https://twitter.com/...
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Jill Abramson / New York Post:
Jill Abramson responds to unrest at NYT, saying “the constant harping and carping of media reporters” has made the “environment more poisonous” — I have been called by many reporters about the controversial departure of reporter Donald McNeil from The New York Times.
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Aymann Ismail / Slate: An Exhausting Week at the New York Times
David Gura / @davidgura: “I know what it feels like to be pushed out of an important job at The Times in a public manner, as was the case when I was fired as executive editor in 2014.” In a @nypost op-ed (https://nypost.com/...), @JillAbramson addresses Don McNeil's and James Bennet's departures: https://twitter.com/...
Byron York / @byronyork: A former executive editor of the New York Times takes to the pages of the New York Post to criticize current Times management. https://nypost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: @JillAbramson writes a piece about NYT's divided newsroom, lashing out at media reporters for the “the constant harping and carping” that has “only made the environment more poisonous.” https://nypost.com/...
@howardfineman: With utmost diplomacy and expressions of love and respect for the @nytimes, the paper's former editor, @JillAbramson, suggests that #DonaldMcNeil should not have been fired. https://nypost.com/...
Eliana Johnson / @elianayjohnson: .@nhannahjones with the non-apology apology: “I will say that tweeting the work cell phone of a journalist who gave it to you is not doxing. I did not dox him.” Nonetheless “I regret that” - https://slate.com/...
@davewiner: Brilliant: “Have readers been adversely affected by what's happened inside the NYT or by Mr. McNeil's behavior? Given what I know, and there is still information I don't know, I think not.” https://nypost.com/...
Joshua Holland / @joshuahol: Does @JillAbramson really not understand the degree to which whining about the NYT in Murdoch's NYPost undermines her credibility? We all assume that CJR wouldn't publish it. https://nypost.com/...
Matt Karnitschnig / @mkarnitschnig: Former NYT editor asks “Is there any news report that equals the Times in excellence?” I can actually think of several. But might it be that this attitude is at the core of the endless string of scandals at the paper? https://nypost.com/... via @nypost
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: “Stop caring so much about drama at the New York Times” is an interesting argument coming from a person who recently wrote a book partially about drama at the New York Times https://twitter.com/...
Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino: Great stuff by @JillAbramson — Ex-New York Times boss Jill Abramson responds to unrest at the paper https://nypost.com/... via @nypost
@caro: .@JillAbramson got screwed over by a sexist takedown that I thought was justified at the time, but the more I have learned about her and seen what she's had to say, the more I realize the NYT stupidly rid itself of someone incredible https://nypost.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Former executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, gives her view of recent controversies. https://nypost.com/... The only question that really matters, she says: “Have readers been adversely affected by what's happened inside the NYT or by Mr. McNeil's behavior?”
Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
New York Times's recent article on Slate Star Codex was flawed and dishonest, and an attempt to punish the blog's author for embarrassing them last summer — There was recently a negative article about me and my blog in the New York Times. Most of you already know the history behind this …
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Cade Metz / New York Times: Silicon Valley's Safe Space
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Having read this NYT piece, the Astral Codex response, and all of the related posts, including from Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith, I've come to the conclusion that the Times piece should never have been published in its current form https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Noah Smith / Noahpinion: Silicon Valley isn't full of fascists
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Deep cut here from @mattyglesias https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andi Zeisler / @andizeisler: Weird that so many groups devoted to an ideal of “rational” and “objective” dialogue mostly comprise white tech dudes chapped that they can't be more publicly racist and sexist https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Venture capitalist suggested getting far-right audiences to harass “vulnerable” journalists
Robby Soave / Reason: What The New York Times' Hit Piece on Slate Star Codex Says About Media Gatekeeping
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Please don't overlook this. The people who suffer the worst effects of these attack campaigns, the ppl who are most “vulnerable,” are women and POC. As you can see from this leaked Balaji email, this is intentional. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elijah William Eby / Finer Grains: Scott Alexander Vs. The New York Times
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: This is a remarkable level of dishonesty from the Times. Scott Alexander once expressed agreement with Charles Murray on a topic unrelated to race and IQ. The Times wrote a paragraph strongly implying Alexander endorsed Murray's views on race and IQ. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Anders Sandberg / @anderssandberg: The NYT article on @slatestarcodex seemed to have real trouble with the idea of broad intellectual discourse and interests, and that a wide range of people with different views could actually care. I think @mattyglesias got it roughly right in https://www.slowboring.com/...
@hdxacademy: “the way you learn things and get smarter is to read strong writers and try to understand what they're saying. Not try to pick it apart for clout or find ways to caricature and snark about it.” @mattyglesias https://www.slowboring.com/...
Julia Galef / @juliagalef: This is a great discussion of @slatestarcodex, the rationalist community, and norms of discourse I don't agree with 100% of it, but it's a lot more well-informed & perceptive than average, and even the criticisms of the rationalists are pretty fair IMO https://www.slowboring.com/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: I'm enjoying post-Vox Matt Yglesias. https://www.slowboring.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Caplan / @bryan_caplan: “I believe they [@nytimes] misrepresented me [@slatestarcodex] as retaliation for my publicly objecting to their policy of doxxing bloggers in a way that threatens their livelihood and safety.” https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Robin Hanson / @robinhanson: “Predictably, the NYT piece came out soon after, and predictably, it was very negative. I want to respond to four main negative claims in the article - there are more, but these should give a general sketch of why I feel it was unfair” https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I agree with some of what he writes in the post, but here, Matt might be projecting a bit. https://twitter.com/...
Geoffrey Miller / @primalpoly: You guys really need to read this, to understand how shamelessly vengeful & creepily unprincipled the @nytimes has become. https://twitter.com/...
@blakehounshell: Am I the only one who finds this guy Scott Alexander's blog really boring and desperately in need of editing, setting aside the controversy over this article and his views? https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Askell / @amandaaskell: I decided to go for a walk to the beach rather than engage in the New York Times kerfuffle this time around. Matt Yglesias has a pretty nice piece on it though. https://twitter.com/...
Gerald Butts / @gmbutts: I often disagree with @mattyglesias, but this is a strong piece. Worth your time. In defense of interesting writing on controversial topics - Slow Boring https://www.slowboring.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: The important takeaway from @mattyglesias is that there's too much pressure for ideological conformity and not enough value on learning from writers with whom we disagree https://www.slowboring.com/...
Jacob Grier / @jacobgrier: It's debatable whether I qualify as a west coast nerd, and I'm not particular immersed in rationalist discourse or SCC, but this is a good post (especially the last section, which gets at how Twitter encourages users to unproductively engage with writers they disagree with). https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Some thoughts on the NYT @slatestarcodex article, but more broadly on the need for antidotes to conformism and mediocrity enforced via Twitter dunk. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Don't normally post articles at 11:15 PM on a Saturday night, but I figure most of the people interested in this topic are west coast nerds so.... https://www.slowboring.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Scott Alexander responds to what he says was a bad faith attack by the New York Times, which cherry-picked blog posts to make him look bad https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Stephen Maher / @stphnmaher: Hard to avoid the conclusion the Times sought to create a false impression here https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: “It is the one place I know of online where you can have civil conversations among people with a wide range of views.” For a while, it vanished. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Richard Florida / @richard_florida: Until yesterday I had no idea who these people were. I find the whole thing so very interesting ... https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Julia Galef / @juliagalef: For no particular reason, today seems like a good day to remind people about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect Nice explainer by @heyitsnoah: https://www.noahbrier.com/...
Sam Bowman / @s8mb: Here's Scott's response, which highlights a few examples of distortions the piece makes to make him sound like a racist and misogynist. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
@jonst0kes: No, Scott, they misrepresented you because you are in the enemy camp and they are at war. They are not playin' with you, man. They're out for scalps. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Chivers / @tomchivers: Given that 1) the @nytimes has published its long-awaited story about @slatestarcodex and the rationalist community, and 2) it's kind of weak and uninformative and mean-spirited, perhaps now is the time to read my book on the subject! https://twitter.com/...
@erratarob: This hit piece by the NYTimes against the “Slate Star Codex” is strangely self-unaware, exactly the demonstration why people don't trust mainstream media outlets like the NYTimes. https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Cavaliere / Insider: Venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan reportedly suggested doxxing a journalist who reported on narratives he didn't like
Mike Pesca / @pescami: That's it? That's the story? Did I miss a page? its a bunch of guilt-by association charges and then...the consequences of reporting the actual name of the blogger who used a pseudonym. Oof. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eliezer Yudkowsky / @esyudkowsky: This is an unremarkable level of dishonesty from the NYT and must be expected from their other articles too. This article was a Big Deal, and it represents the best work the NYT can put forth when their remaining editors are paying lots of attention. https://twitter.com/...
Peg / @pegobry: “I have 1,557 other posts worth of material he could have used, and the sentence he chose to go with was the one that was crossed out and included a plea for people to stop taking it out of context.” https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
@jason: Interesting to see so many @nytimes reporters come out this strongly in support of one story 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: Ok, this post is a more effective and measured response than relying on the old sic-dark-enlightenment-on-vulnerable- reporter-and-dox move: https://twitter.com/...
Talia Ringer / @taliaringer: So I disagree with Scott Alexander on most things (though he writes well), and I think Rationalism is a bizarre hypermasculine cult aspiring for an impossible and undesirable goal, progressing poorly at this goal. But the NYT article is hilariously bad. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Austen Pompliano / @austen: In which Scott Alexander is a better writer and clearer thinker than the folks who wrote about him and far, far too nice to those people who are blatantly lying about him in a sad attempt to destroy him https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: This is good. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Mike Solana / @micsolana: slate star codex thoroughly dismantles the nyt hit, though expresses justifiable concern that on account of the times' power and reach far more people will read the distortion than will read his response. let's make sure that doesn't happen: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
@noahpinion: My response to the Times article about Slate Star Codex: 1. There's no evidence it was very popular or influential in the tech world 2. Techies (including founders) are OVERWHELMINGLY liberals 3. Rationalists care mostly about esoterica, not politics https://noahpinion.substack.com/ ...
David French / @davidafrench: Please read. The NYT has some explaining to do. Again. https://twitter.com/...
@noahpinion: I read the NYT article about Slate Star Codex, and I don't like it. It traffics in a certain inaccurate, worn-out stereotype of Silicon Valley and the tech industry, and doesn't do a good job of describing the Rationalist subculture. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Pinker / @sapinker: National treasure Scott Alexander on the uncomprehending New York Times article about him. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Molson Hart / @molson_hart: It apparently has become fashionable to criticize and discredit big media (NY Times, WSJ, etc.). I'm not a journalism expert, but in my experience it makes more sense to criticize particular journalists than their employers. There are good and bad journalists at every paper. https://twitter.com/...
Niall Ferguson / @nfergus: The @nytimes has become wholly unscrupulous in its efforts to police the public sphere on behalf of the “Blue Tribe.” Scott Alexander destroys their hit piece here. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis: “I don't want to accuse NYT of lying, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in same way as Wizard of Oz review: ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Tim Miller / @timodc: The Times letting these types of smears get through fact checking in a piece they've been working on for ages is just crazy. https://twitter.com/...
Megan McArdle / @asymmetricinfo: I assume it wasn't deliberate, but that paragraph is extremely misleading, and should be corrected. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Kan / @justinkan: NYT's coverage on Slate Star Codex is depressing. This HN comment articulates it better than I can. https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Scott Alexander's response to the New York Times hit piece against him just went live: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
Alex Kaschuta / Alex Kaschuta's Garden …: The Pot-O-Gold #5 - The SSCeaquel — The most riveting conversations this week happened …
Felix Holtwell / The Anti-Apocalyptus Newsletter: Issue 25: the rationalist row
Daniel D'Addario / Variety:
Claudia Conway's American Idol appearance, the worst sort of exploitation of a minor, should prompt deep reflection among ABC executives — Claudia Conway faces challenges that evoke real and powerful sympathy, and not just because of her tender age. First, this 16-year-old emerged onto …
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American Idol / @americanidol: Claudia gets a surprise from her mother, @KellyannePolls! “Remember, honey. Winners are people who are willing to lose.” @claudiamconwayy | #AmericanIdol https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Good work by American Idol in their efforts to rehab the reputation of horrible human @KellyannePolls https://twitter.com/...
Daniel D'Addario / @dpd_: Claudia Conway's appearance on “American Idol” — the worst sort of exploitation of a minor that reality TV has done in memory — ought to prompt real soul-searching among ABC executives. My column: https://variety.com/...
Erin Biba / @erinbiba: You know how we've been having a reckoning w/media treatment of Britney and countless other young women in the 90s? And we've been reliving horrific interviews, sick to our stomach? Now remember that Claudia Conway is currently 16 years old and think before you comment about her
Ayman Mohyeldin / @aymanm: America's ability to rehabilitate the image of its leaders who lie, mislead, destroy, steal and cheat the public is uncanny. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Maglio / The Wrap: ABC's ‘American Idol’ Season 4 Premiere Ratings Drop From Last Year Despite Claudia Conway Audition
Kimberly Ricci / UPROXX: ‘American Idol’ Is Being Dragged For Giving Kellyanne Conway A Chance To Portray Herself As A Doting Mother In The Wake Of Abuse Allegations
@cmclymer: Claudia Conway is 16 years-old and at the center of an abusive family situation playing out very publicly. Let's not pretend ABC and American Idol aren't exploiting this. They're commodifying the unresolved trauma of a child. It's really gross. That's all there is to it.
Alex Burns / @alexburnsnyt: is this real life https://variety.com/...
BrooklynDad_Defiant / @mmpadellan: American Idol is gross for allowing an abusive creature like Kellyanne Conway to rehab her image on the show, and using Claudia Conway's pain to make a quick buck. Disgusting.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Y'all gave me hell on here when I said keep your eyes on the ball with this whole situation https://twitter.com/...
Richard Deitsch / @richarddeitsch: The Sean Spicer and Dancing with the Stars playbook. You'll see this again. The guiding principle: “It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.” https://twitter.com/...
Erin Keane / @eekshecried: Cruelty, carelessness, malpractice, wrong. Solid analysis from @DPD_ https://variety.com/...
@mattnegrin: Now that they've helped rehab mendacious behemoths like Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer it's only a matter of time before ABC casts the QAnon shaman as the next Bachelor https://twitter.com/...
Gretchen Peters / @gretchenpeters: When you see shit like this, it's hard to argue that as a culture we don't deserve everything we get. https://twitter.com/...
Tay / @tayylmao: can we please stop making teenage girls have therapy on national television PLEASE https://twitter.com/...
Anne Wheaton / @annewheaton: I'd forgotten that in addition to the videos she posted of her mom being verbally abusive, that her mom also posted a topless pic of her teenage daughter. Shame on @americanidol for doing this to a child. How ‘American Idol’ Used Claudia Conway - Variety https://variety.com/...
Brittany Packnett Cunningham / @mspackyetti: This. This is what you get when you don't hold seditionists, insurrectionists and white supremacists accountable: They remake their image and re-enter polite society through singing competitions on prime-time network TV. https://twitter.com/...
Doha Madani / @dohamadani: The situation around Claudia Conway has been so troubling, and I am by no means an expert in child welfare, but we really need to consider takes like this one. Especially as we revisit the media abuse of Britney Spears. Interesting read by @DPD_ https://variety.com/...
@variety: With Claudia Conway's appearance on #AmericanIdol, a series whose long-term mission has been making ordinary people into celebrities now seeks to convert a celebrity into an ordinary person https://variety.com/...
@mariemyungoklee: parents doing the opposite of protecting their children was pretty blergh to see so soon after the Britney doc https://twitter.com/...
Chad Lowe / @ichadlowe: This is unconscionable. Never mind the endless lying Mrs Conway did to the American people on a daily basis. What's truly shocking is that this young girl has posted videos alleging abuse at the hands Mrs. Conway, her own mom. https://twitter.com/...
@variety: “With the problem of Claudia Conway's parents seemingly beyond anyone's ability to solve for now, television took up the case of redefining her in the public eye, on the new season of #AmericanIdol,” writes @DPD_ https://variety.com/...
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: Kellyanne Conway enabled a monster for years—and in doing so almost caused the collapse of our democracy. She doesn't get to whitewash her complicity in that treachery against America by appearing on American Idol with a daughter who's accused her of abuse. RETWEET if you agree. https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: ABC Draws Heat for Putting Claudia Conway, Daughter of Kellyanne and George, on American Idol: ‘The Worst Sort of Exploitation of a Minor’
Post and Courier:
South Carolina's Post and Courier launches Uncovered, a collaboration with community newspapers to expose corruption by local officials as news deserts expand — 1. LIGHT — Corruption festers when people aren't looking, when the spotlight doesn't shine.
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@scmitchp: Corruption has flourished in South Carolina as newspapers close and shrink, creating news deserts and ghost papers across the Palmetto State. @postandcourier and its local news partners hope “Uncovered,” will fill some of that void. Read more here: https://www.postandcourier.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: I like this approach connecting state and community level journalism and expertise for public service / accountability reporting in South Carolina, from @postandcourier https://twitter.com/...
@spj_tweets: “That's why @postandcourier has launched ‘Uncovered,’ a project to cast new light on questionable government conduct, especially in smaller towns.” The outlet will work with community newspapers and reporters who know their towns inside and out. https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Bobby Magill / @bobbymagill: Great work from @postandcourier. The collapse of local news has fueled widespread corruption in SC. https://twitter.com/...
David Wren / @david_wren_: It's damn near impossible for the public to find anything about local officials on the S.C. “ethics” commission's convoluted database. Almost like it's designed that way. Now the @postandcourier is shining a light on abuses of public trust and making those abuses easier to search https://twitter.com/...
Eric Geller / @ericgeller: Dog-whistle warnings about “urban corruption” have always been terrible, but they're especially dumb when you consider that the most corrupt places in America seem to be small rural communities. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Barilla / @barilladanielle: We've watched P&C really invest in GOOD journalists when they were already (by far) the best org in the state. It's paid off. Here's to hoping others take note. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Connor / @cericconnor: Deep within this, a former county treasurer spoke a truth: “I just want to be forgotten.” And that's kind of the mentality, isn't it? This project will prove to be an impactful one. https://twitter.com/...
@postandcourier: $1,545 for a zipline adventure. $357 for glass blowing lessons. $2,600 for a wine tasting party. These are just a few expenses the gas utilities in York and Lancaster counties chalked up at a conference in Vermont. https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Kaitlin Stansell / @kaitlinstansell: Incredible journalism coming out of @postandcourier right now with their new series looking into public corruption and how the news industry's decline has hindered accountability over these entities. Proud to call these journalists colleagues. You've got to read this! https://twitter.com/...
@emilykdaily: Since I started at @postandcourier last summer, I think this has been one of the most important investigative projects they've launched. It's eye-opening and cleverly written - not surprising given this team of journalists. It's also free to read, so share away! https://twitter.com/...
@timmcguire: This is sensational. This is what Newspapering must be about in 2021. Somebody has to fill in the holes. I hope every other substantial news organization follows your lead. This makes the old editor proud. Congrats https://twitter.com/...
@pcgreenville: Roughly half of all journalism jobs disappeared during the past 15 years, and most ethics cases are virtually hidden from the public. When no one's watching, corruption soars. Read our latest investigation into the crisis in South Carolina: https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Aj Lenar / @ajasonlenar: The @postandcourier is a national treasure. If you live in SC (and even if you don't) this is worth your time. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Rutecki / @jaredrutecki: South Carolina has all but abandoned its ethical oversight of local officials, and year after year they quietly help themselves to questionable or illegal perks of holding public office https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
@mudkevin: This is about corruption in South Carolina government, but more broadly it is about the circumstances that are allowing corruption to flourish across the country, i in n small towns and state agencies everywhere. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Markovich / @deftlyinane: if you live in south carolina, this story quite literally has something for everybody https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Avery Wilks / @averygwilks: NEW: At @postandcourier, we have spent months investigating government corruption and misconduct by local officials, especially in news deserts where no one else is looking. The early findings are staggering. Our first installment of UNCOVERED: https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Jenn Budd / @buddjenn: Wow. This is also what is going on federally. Corrupt politicians want you to think it's a right vs left or Republican vs Democrat fight, but it's not. It's corruption plain and simple. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: This is a stellar idea from the @postandcourier: Alongside community newspapers, it will dig into questionable govt conduct, particularly in small towns. Among early findings: News deserts make it easier for public officials to get away with corruption https://www.postandcourier.com/ ...
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video — To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company:
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New York Times, MUSIC x, Dozen Worthy Reads, @davidcbaker, @cnyari and The Monday Memo, more at Techmeme »
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Bas Grasmayer / MUSIC x: ✖ How SoundCloud should tackle fan-artist payments and reconquer lost ground from Bandcamp, Instagram & TikTok
Promeet Mansata / Dozen Worthy Reads: Clubhouse : The newest (audio) unicorn kid on the block
David C. Baker / @davidcbaker: The audio infrastructure for ClubHouse is hosted in the PRC. That's going to have to change if this takes off. https://stratechery.com/...
Cristian Nyari / @cnyari: I've been trying to put my finger on the Clubhouse phenomenon for weeks now but @benthompson nailed it in his analysis. Analogy w Stories/Video is apt “combined the customized nature of the feed with the ephemerality inherent in digital's abundance” https://stratechery.com/...
Meredith Shiner / New Republic:
The Capitol riot should end “both sides” reporting by Beltway journalists, which was devised as a way to avoid specious accusations of bias by Republicans — On January 6, terrorists—encouraged by former President Donald Trump and enabled by his Republican supporters in Congress—attacked the United States Capitol.
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Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: In @newrepublic, I ask, if an attempted mass execution at the Capitol—where reporters could have died and Republicans were both accomplices to the crime and rejected for history that their lives mattered—doesn't end both sides journalism, what will? https://newrepublic.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: What I would really like to read is @meredithshiner describing (with names) the internal and external pressures she experienced at Politico, etc., that led her to feel “constrained by the orthodoxy of separating morality from regular coverage of Congress.” https://twitter.com/...
S.V. Dte / @svdate: A veteran political reporter told me years ago that one side says one thing, the other side says the opposite and the truth is almost always in the middle. Which was stupid then and is still stupid now. The truth is where it is. Your job is to find it. https://newrepublic.com/...
@newrepublic: If reporters have to contort themselves into a sanitized, “objective” view of what happened on January 6, either because that has become their comfort zone or because newsroom leaders coerce them to do so, we all lose. https://newrepublic.com/...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: This is such an important point by ex-Politico writer @meredithshiner. The deadly Capitol riot—that could've killed reporters—is definite proof the banality of “both sides” journalism needs to end. https://newrepublic.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “After years of the... ‘view from nowhere’—in which ‘objectivity’ is performed by reporters as a ‘he said, she said’ dance without regard to either news value or truth—they have had their once-comfortable performance space invaded by the rioters.” https://newrepublic.com/...
Christina Bellantoni / @cbellantoni: It is both a damning of the worst journalistic habit and a somber call to action for change. Read this important @meredithshiner piece I'll be teaching my students this week. https://newrepublic.com/...
Omri Ceren / @omriceren: For all the sharpness of their political and philosophical sensibilities, and even as they drew upon a 1700 year conversation on this specific issue running from Livy through Machiavelli, the Founders still fell short of sketching how stone cold dumb the Late Republic would get. https://twitter.com/...
@newrepublic: The media's powerbrokers should confront the way their decisions in the Trump Era brought us here, and the signal it sends to the reporters they employ if they continue to stay this broken course. https://newrepublic.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “If reporters have to contort themselves into a sanitized, “objective” view of what happened on January 6, either because that has become their comfort zone or because they have been coerced by newsroom leaders... we all lose.” https://newrepublic.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “The Capitol Riot Killed “Both Sides” Journalism,” @meredithshiner writes: “Trump's acquittal notwithstanding, these violent events have forever changed the way Beltway reporters should do their jobs.” https://newrepublic.com/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: Editors and outlets have an obligation to protect their reporters. This used to mean from bullying sources who were unhappy with stories. We are now asking Capitol Hill journalists to divorce their humanity from their reporting, which is dangerous both for them and for the public
David Meyer / Fortune:
TikTok has been hit with a volley of complaints from Europe's consumer protection watchdogs over “misleading” privacy practices and “ambiguous” terms — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
ViacomCBS aims to prioritize streaming with Paramount+, but its launch has been hampered after the company sold off top movies and TV shows to competitors — The new Paramount+ has some holes after ViacomCBS pursued an ‘arms dealer’ strategy, hampering its effort to play catch-up with Netflix and Disney
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Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Paramount offered all the movies on its slate to All Access/P+, but the service turned all but of them down. So now Amazon will release Coming 2 America the same month P+ launches. https://www.google.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: ViacomCBS is rebooting or reinventing almost every major project in its library. That includes The Real World, Behind the Music, Spongebob, Grease, Flashdance, The Godfather. https://www.google.com/...
Nikkei Asia:
Netflix will financially support young Japanese animators, with tuition for an anime academy and a monthly stipend, to counterbalance a shortage of animators — US streaming company to pay tuition and living costs to expand original content — TOKYO — Netflix will financially support young animators …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
T.J. Ducklo announces his resignation on his personal Twitter account, saying he “embarrassed and disappointed” his White House colleagues and President Biden — White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned after his controversial harassment of a Politico reporter came to light.
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@tducklo, Digital Digest, Ian's Newsletter, Dynamics of Writing, @grace_panetta, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, @jerseydeanne, @firstpost, The Daily Beast, @tangentsafari, @weijia, @jaketapper, @jdiamond1, @kurtbardella, New York Times, The Independent, Fox News, New York Post, Deadline, CBS News, The Wrap, Bloomberg and ABC News
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Ian Bamford / Ian's Newsletter: Monday Newsletter — Happy Monday! — For the first time since the election …
Vffilak / Dynamics of Writing: Reporter/source dating, on-the-record/off-the-record and Filak's First Rule of Holes: A look at “The Biden White House's First Media Scandal”
Grace Panetta / @grace_panetta: .@PressSec: “We accepted the resignation of TJ Ducklo after a discussion with him this evening. This conversation occurred with the support of the White House Chief of Staff.” https://twitter.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Balancing procedure and politics in coverage of Trump's impeachment
@jerseydeanne: Biden's deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo resigns for threatening to ‘destroy’ reporter if she revealed details of his secret relationship with an Axios journalist - after White House only suspended him for a week https://jerseydeanne.com/...
@firstpost: In a statement, #TJDucklo said he was “devastated to have embarrassed and disappointed my White House colleagues and President Biden.” https://www.firstpost.com/...
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast: Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo Resigns After Threatening Politico Reporter: ‘I Will Destroy You’
Amy Hayes / @tangentsafari: Thank goodness! I was going to muster some phone calls from folks into the WH public comment line about this on Monday. @tarapalmeri should not have been treated like that. https://twitter.com/...
Weijia Jiang / @weijia: NEW: @PressSec announces @TDucklo has resigned after using sexist and threatening language with a female reporter. The President had said he would fire someone on the spot for being disrespectful, and that he wanted to restore decency to the White House. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Diamond / @jdiamond1: TJ Ducklo has resigned from the White House, 1 day after he was suspended without pay for a week for comments he made to a reporter. Here is his statement on the incident & his resignation: https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Bardella / @kurtbardella: No one believes in second chances more than I do. @TDucklo is a fighter, a surviver, supremely talented. He made a mistake. It happens. He's accepting responsibility for it and I believe will bounce back and be better than ever. Lord knows I've been there and then some. https://twitter.com/...
Michael D. Shear / New York Times: White House Press Aide Resigns Over Call to Reporter
Alex Woodward / The Independent: White House aide resigns after suspension for sexist comments to reporter
Bradford Betz / Fox News: WH aide resigns after demeaning reporter despite Biden's warning of firing
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post: WH spokesman TJ Ducklo resigns after allegedly threatening reporter: Psaki
Ted Johnson / Deadline: White House Deputy Press Secretary Resigns After Report He Threatened Politico Journalist
Li Cohen / CBS News: “Abhorrent, disrespectful, and unacceptable”: White House aide TJ Ducklo resigns after reports he threatened reporter
Umberto Gonzalez / The Wrap: White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo Resigns After Threatening Reporter
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg: Biden Aide Ducklo Resigns Over Report He Threatened Reporter
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea — When former White House adviser-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray, the tech platforms reacted.
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Lucia Moses / Insider: Private equity buyers are circling ad agencies
Mark Ames / @markamesexiled: Stories like these are signaling the long, slow rollout of clampdown on podcasts. It starts by announcing there's an urgent problem that threatens us all—and then, surprise! The solution turns out to be the same state+oligarch-funded disinfo warrior NGOs. https://www.theverge.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: is podcast moderation possible? i wrote about what it would take to moderate and whether doing so is feasible with podcasting's open ecosystem. i also dont know if moderation is something people want, especially if it means crowning one platform king https://www.theverge.com/...
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