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William Easton / About Facebook:
Ahead of proposed media law, Facebook says it's banning Australians from sharing/viewing news and all users from sharing from and viewing Australian news Pages — In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing …
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Facebook breaks from Google in Australia policy: “In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.” https://about.fb.com/...
Amanda Meade / The Guardian: Prime minister Scott Morrison attacks Facebook for ‘arrogant’ move to ‘unfriend Australia’
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette: Regulation: How the world's leading economies are planning to tame Facebook and Google
Josh Frydenberg / @joshfrydenberg: This morning, I had a constructive discussion with Mark Zuckerberg from #Facebook. He raised a few remaining issues with the Government's news media bargaining code and we agreed to continue our conversation to try to find a pathway forward.
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Facebook has also banned the ENTIRE WORLD from getting Australian news content. Holy shit. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Peterson / Digiday: Media Briefing: Publishers' and platforms' businesses settle into the new normal
Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider: Why Facebook blocked all news content in Australia - and why Google didn't
Rat King / @mikeisaac: Big news: Hours after Google cut a deal with News Corp, Facebook pulls the trigger and restricts publishers and people from sharing news links in Australia https://about.fb.com/...
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
Matt Burgess / @mattburgess1: Wow. Facebook is blocking news publishers in Australia over plans to make tech firms pay for news content. Publishers: can't share or post on their Pages People in Australia: cannot view or share Australian or international news content on Facebook https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Suprio Guha Thakurta / Slice of Bread: A quick slice: Facebook blocks all news in Australia. Google doesn't. Why?
Nick Statt / The Verge: Facebook will block Australian users and publishers from sharing news links in response to new bill
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter: Facebook Blocks News Viewing, Sharing In Australia, Faces Backlash From Emergency Services
Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: Facebook makes good on its threat to ban news in Australia
Rat King / @mikeisaac: Facebook putting thumbscrews to Australian pubs, which i imagine will be immediately felt in audience/revenue measurement https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: What a backdrop for our @EJNetwork debate tomorrow night at 6:30pm - Who controls the messengers? Regulating journalism and social media while protecting free speech Feat: @jilliancyork, @arusbridger and @carolecadwalla, chair: @MeeraSelva1 https://www.eventbrite.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: “Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.” Who hurts more from this, Facebook or news orgs? It's going to be one hell of an experiment —> https://about.fb.com/...
Jordan L. Perkins / @jordanlperkins: Quants I found u a natural experiment Go nuts https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Announcement from @Facebook that it'll restrict publishers and people in #Australia “from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content” in response to new legislation there. https://twitter.com/...
Colin Peacock / RNZ: Facebook backs away from news across the Tasman
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: Imagine America w/testicles 🇳🇿 https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: !Holy moly! — Facebook has seen enough and will block people from sharing and viewing news articles in Australia. https://about.fb.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Facebook unleashes the nuclear option in Australia: The company just announced it will block Australian news publishers and Australian users of Facebook from posting, viewing or sharing any news content whatsoever
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David Mattin / New World Same Humans: New Week Same Humans #23
Damian Francis / Mumbrella: Facebook to restrict news sharing in Australia, will prioritise investments in other countries
@caitoz: Apparently this includes links to Substack articles from crowdfunded bloggers. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This is indisputably true — news is a tiny, tiny fraction of Facebook's business. A rounding error. Likely to hurt news orgs much more than it does Zuckerberg https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Welsh / Mashable: Facebook's Australian news ban also blocked links to weather, government services, poetry, and Facebook itself
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨🚨🚨 Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in response to Aussie news media code. https://about.fb.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “Unfortunately, this means people and news organisations in Australia are now restricted from posting news links and sharing or viewing Australian and international news content on Facebook.” https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: Facebook Blocks News Posting, Sharing in Australia Ahead of Media Bargaining Law
Kate Crawford / @katecrawford: It happened: Facebook just went off the deep end in Australia. They are blocking *all* news content to Australians, and *no* Australian media can post news. This is what showdowns between states and platforms look like. It's deplatforming at scale. https://about.fb.com/...
@deniseshrivell: Well - this is big 😳 & what happens when people who've little expertise - & a lot of agenda - make major decisions. Awful for all the smaller & indie publishers who will be negatively impacted by this #auspol https://twitter.com/...
Jon Keegan / @jonkeegan: Wow. This means: - No news from Australian news publishers on Facebook - No news views or shares from international publishers for Australians on Facebook https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Lawton / @andrewlawton: News publishers need Facebook more than Facebook needs news publishers. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Here is where the rubber hits the road for @facebook and it's civic intentions. (Forget the Oversight Board for one minute). It won't comply with a democratic government law which it doesn't agree with which costs it money - and removes all accredited publishers including PSBs https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Whoa. So Google caved to Rupert Murdoch, and Facebook didn't. Stakes were higher for Google, though: it would have had to shut down in Australia. FB can just switch off link sharing. https://twitter.com/...
Walter Hickey / @walthickey: news publishers need facebook because they actively chose a business model that requires facebook, there are other business models https://twitter.com/...
Bernard Hickey / The Kākā: Dawn chorus: ASB backs down
Julian Sanchez / @normative: The government decided to impose a cost on X; a company decided X wasn't worth that cost, so they've stopped doing it. This is not necessarily extortion; maybe the product just isn't that valuable to them. https://twitter.com/...
A D Morgan / @a_d_morgan: This is weird to say out loud: “For Facebook, the business gain from news is minimal. News makes up less than 4% of the content people see in their News Feed. Journalism is important to a democratic society,” FB newsfeed is less than 4% news. Explains a lot https://twitter.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: quit Facebook https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: I think my favorite thing about this is the imperious tone, like people in one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world not being able to get links to certain kinds of stuff on an archaic app will isolate them from the rest of humanity https://about.fb.com/...
The Western Journal: Big Tech's Latest Power Trip Leaves Entire Country Cut Off from News on Facebook
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: Imagine America w/testicles 🇦🇺 https://twitter.com/...
Parker / @pt: Are we really using “deplatforming” to describe businesses reacting to bad legislation by adjusting their business to discontinue now-unprofitable lines of business? Can we please just continue calling that Capitalism? https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kopack / @stevekopack: Facebook announces it will “restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content” in response to the law that would require Facebook to pay for such content https://about.fb.com/...
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: “You call that a knife? *This* is a knife!” - Facebook https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: It literally has the tone of the UN regretfully announcing it's cut off oxygen shipments to the Martian colonies and it's like ... you realize you're just an app old people use not a world-bestriding power, don't you
Twenty Twenty One / @juhasaarinen: @ErrataRob No... it's a bill. Law not passed yet. Facebook is blocking Australian news for everyone, and international news for Australians. Not sure yet how far the block goes, but sharing links is certainly gone.
Amy Remeikis / @amyremeikis: Facebook has banned THE WORLD from seeing/sharing Australian news https://twitter.com/...
@belindajones68: Well, that went well 'eh @JoshFrydenberg? Your ‘constructive’ discussions are about as successful as your mathematics. 🐝 #auspol #qt https://twitter.com/...
Coalition Tea Lady / @itsbouquet: That worked well ... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / The Week: Facebook's Australia power play
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Campbell Brown / Facebook:
Facebook News Partnerships VP: Australia's planned law “fails to recognize ... the fundamental nature of the relationship between our platform and publishers” — Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to restrict the availability of news on Facebook in Australia.
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Campbell Brown / @campbell_brown: We've reluctantly made the decision to restrict the availability of news on Facebook in Australia. Our goal was to find resolution that strengthened collaboration with publishers, but the legislation fails to recognize fundamental relationship between us & news organizations
Kerry Flynn / CNN: Facebook won't let users in Australia share news
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Wow. Let's see what happens next. https://twitter.com/...
Campbell Brown / @campbell_brown: I hope in the future, we can include news for people in Australia once again. For now, we continue to be focused on bringing Facebook News and other new products to more countries. We will continue to invest heavily in news around the world. More here: https://www.facebook.com/...
David Adams / Insider: ‘We will be proceeding with the Code’: As Facebook bans Australian news, the government says it won't back down on new media laws
Wayne Niddery / Opinions of a Capitalist: Are Facebook and Google Stealing Content and Revenue from News Sites?
Dan McGarry / The Village Explainer: BLOCK THIS — The underside of the world woke up today to find their world turned upside down.
@matt_hopcraft: Strange decision to say that the Bureau of Meteorology is a publisher? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: Wow. Here we go... https://twitter.com/...
@peterbale: @rasmus_kleis It's regrettable that there'll be no journalistic counterweight to misinformation. Publishers deliberately rejected FB news tab, hoping they'd get more from ACC. Just tried to post an SMH story on misinformation. Can't. https://twitter.com/...
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: Facebook Bans News in Australia and I Feel Fine
Campbell Brown / @campbell_brown: Publishers choose to share their stories on Facebook because they get value from doing so, from finding new readers to getting new subscribers. We provide free tools, products and programs to support their goals.
Mark Hennessy / @markhennessy: This is the kind of thing that would make one favour anti-trust laws, isn't it? Too much power, too much money, and no sense of responsibility #facebook #journalismmatters https://twitter.com/...
@cameronwilson: Ironically Facebook's sudden change to its algorithm probably makes the case for forcing them to give warning about changes as per the media bargaining code
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Just a note my colleague reminded me of. The law Facebook is ‘reacting to’ by wiping all news-like links off its platform, including weather and health services, college papers, community news- has not been enacted yet.....
Bobby Allyn / NPR: Facebook Blocks News In Australia Over Government Plan To Force Payment To Publishers
Dan McGarry / @dailypostdan: You didn't ‘restrict the availability of news in Australia’. You blocked Australian news globally. You also blocked govt public health and safety, and weather sites. You blocked literary sites. You blocked Pacific islands news. But you left the anti-vax stuff. Stay classy. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Facebook does damage to the free press and public sphere in undemocratic countries - regretfully - because it is the law they have to follow. Facebook now does active damage to the operation of the public sphere in DEMOCRATIC countries ...because of the laws it won't follow.
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: old enough to remember when Brown threatened me for trying to (nicely) get Facebook to do a call to explain its policy to treat political news reporting the same as PACs and political advertising because Sheryl Sandberg wouldn't budge. This is all spin to protect profits. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: @KMBAussie Fact check. Facebook toured newsrooms incentivizing news organisations to publish on their platforms
Emily Bell / @emilybell: .so.....Facebook has erased all manner of links - way beyond just news - including its own page. In a pandemic . https://twitter.com/...
Rvb / @ryanvailbrown: if news is only 4% of the content that populates newsfeed, why take all your toys and go home? https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon: From now on, Australians will only get news via status updates from their uncle Carl who is ‘just asking questions’ about MSM https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Warren / Crikey: We are not alone. Why Facebook wants to get out of the news game everywhere
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Banning Australian news makes sense for Facebook and may prompt people to visit news sites directly; Google's payoffs, though, will invite global shakedowns — Yesterday, I wrote that Australia's News Media Bargaining Code threatened to splinter the internet.
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Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Facebook's Australia news ban: what is the social media giant up to and how will you be affected?
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: By request, I've also taken yesterday's members-only piece about Australia's bargaining code and made it free for all to read: https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: The thing about Australia's deal with Google — and one it might still reach with Facebook — is that it's bad for *journalism*. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is exactly right. Murdoch, as always, is the satanic villain here, though FB looks bad due to its execution of this and also the distrust it has engendered over the years. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: ... @jeffjarvis isn't having any. https://galley.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Eva Dienel / @evadienel: Ok, so this deeper dive is interesting and gets into political cronyism that's happening behind the scenes in Oz. Also offers some good alternatives on how to ensure money from any regulation would actually go into journalism: https://www.platformer.news/ .... https://twitter.com/...
@joshelman: Gosh I remember in 2009 when I first met @AndreaBreannaNY and we dreamed of what HuffingtonPost could do with Facebook to share more news and content. There was almost no news then. It has come a long way.... and now this whoa https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Scott Westerman / @swesterman: @CaseyNewton on how Facebook and Google are taking very different approaches as Australia tries to make them pay publishers for the right to share links to news content. Feels a lot like my Cable days when the sports networks held us hostage. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Lauren Weinstein / @laurenweinstein: @gaberivera This is the key point. Once you start down the road of pay-to-link, the entire underpinning of the Web collapses. Competition reduces vastly, and small players are frozen out. Users by and large don't have a clue of how much they have to lose in this battle.
Claire Connelly / @_claireconnelly: 'I wish Australia would take Facebook's rejection as a sign to rethink its approach to media regulation entirely. It could just tax companies based on their revenues, for example. And earmark those revenues to support journalism — nonprofit public media.' https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Reuters and Associated Press:
Facebook says it generated ~5.1B free referrals to Australian publishers worth ~AU$407M last year, as Australia's Media Bargaining law passes the House — - Facebook will no longer allow people in Australia to read or share news — The move is a response to the country's proposed Media Bargaining law
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Andrew Brown / @andrewbrownau: Facebook has banned Facebook's own Facebook page https://twitter.com/...
Calla Wahlquist / The Guardian: ‘Time to reactivate MySpace’: the day Australia woke up to a Facebook news blackout
Rachel Clun / Sydney Morning Herald: Facebook ban hits health pages days before COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Treasurer says Facebook has ‘damaged its reputation’ with Australian news ban
Kenneth Garger / New York Post: Facebook's Australian news ban wreaks havoc on government pages
Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla: This is too too good https://twitter.com/...
Casey Briggs / @caseybriggs: But NSW Health and Victoria's health department are both still up https://twitter.com/...
Josh Taylor / @joshgnosis: Facebook's news ban hammer having a lot of collateral damage. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Oliveri / 9News: Facebook bans Australian publishers and people from sharing or viewing news content
Emily Bell / @emilybell: This hurts publishers - sure. But it also hurts Australian Facebook users in terms of their quick access to news information . There is NO ‘connecting people for a better world’ in this behaviour or hesitancy over possible harms. Just a ‘fuck you and your legislation’ . Okay.
@slpng_giants: .@Facebook would rather ban themselves than ban Steve Bannon. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Taylor / @joshgnosis: Facebook statement just now. They're trying to undo it. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas McElroy / ABC:
Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban
Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban
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Sally McManus / @sallymcmanus: So @Facebook has blocked access to our website. We are not a news organisation. Australian workers can not now find out about their rights at work via @Facebook. This is disgraceful & needs to be reversed immediately https://twitter.com/...
Darren Wells / Mumbrella: Small business is the collateral damage in Facebook's decision to ban news content
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Facebook's Australian news ban took down government Pages
Ellen Ransley / news.com.au: ‘Sort it out today’: Annastacia Palaszczuk blasts Scott Morrison over Facebook news ban
Charlotte Karp / Daily Mail: Facebook in another embarrassing blunder as it bans its OWN PAGE from social media during war on Australian news
Charlotte Karp / Daily Mail: Australians can't read or share news on Facebook - but the social media site is still a platform for some of the world's worst dictators, scammers and extremists
Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages
Rae Cooper / @raecooper1: From what I can see here today #facebook has blocked access not only to Oz news sites but to domestic and family violence organisations, bushfire information, trade unions, weather reports. All critical services protecting the community. Facebook 🗑, Yours #australia
Anet McClintock / @anetmcc: Well clearly #Facebook hasn't banned all Australian news media... Pretty nervous about the fact that disinformation pages are now truly the only source of ‘news’ left on the website & the effect on growing right-wing populism in Australia https://twitter.com/...
Leesa Watego / @leesawatego: Looking at First Nations media pages on Facebook. Can't see any NITV posts this morning. Alot of Indigenous communities rely on Facebook for information & news. Let's see how this plays out. 🤔
Sarah Collard / @sarah_collard_: It's not just big news orgs bearing the brunt of the News ban by @Facebook. Smaller Indigenous and community media orgs are too. Vital for getting info out about COVID, telecommunications outages and emergencies to communities. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Facebook's team is smart. Don't think this was entirely unexpected or accidental. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Whiting / @nat_whiting: #PNG and pacific news watchers, Australian news currently can't be shared on Facebook, including on ABC's @radioaustralia page. With how popular Facebook is for sharing news here, please spread the word that the stories are still available on news websites https://www.abc.net.au/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: you can't check the weather in australia but you can still spread racist propaganda based on a white nationalist conspiracy theory bc that's the facebook we know and love https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@abcnews: Facebook is restricting access to news content in Australia - but don't worry, we're still bringing you the latest. Download our news app here: https://www.abc.net.au/app/ https://twitter.com/...
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Australia's concentrated media industry, dominated by News Corp, is aligned with the prime minister and has sought compensation from tech companies for years — Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend. But the United States seems unlikely to follow.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette: Facebook blocks news content in Australia to dodge News Media Bargaining Code
Alfons Lpez Tena / @alfonslopeztena: Google bends to government and is paying for news in Australia. What about everywhere else? A few weeks after Google threatened to leave Australia if forced to pay for news, it is striking deals with media companies worth tens of millions of dollars a year https://www.nytimes.com/...
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News Corp:
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google” — Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase; — Will Yield Substantial Benefits For Journalism And Society
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Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Google just announced a deal with News Corp. I hate this. It means that media blackmail works. It sets a terrible precedent for the net. It gives Google yet more power over news. It is a win for the devil, Murdoch. I really hate that.
Kate Kaye / Digiday: 'I'm afraid of repercussions': Publishing industry members question Google's motives in paying off News Corp
Joe Mandese / MediaPost: News Corp. Strikes Global News Payment Deal With Google, Emphasizes Australia
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: What angers me most is that *journalism* organizations had *no* shame and *no* transparency about their conflict of interest, cashing in their political capital to buy political favor and conspiracy to blackmail the tech companies. Journalism *never* reported its conflict.
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: STOP exploring the Ocean
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: If you're interested in the question of whether Google should pay publishers for using their news content, tune in while I play devil's advocate with @benedictevans on this question, re Australia etc. https://galley.cjr.org/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Bet Google will hold this up as evidence Australia doesn't need a new law forcing it to share revenues with publishers. https://newscorp.com/...
@kerrymflynn: INBOX: News Corp announced today that it has agreed to an historic multi-year partnership with Google to provide trusted journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google. https://newscorp.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Google & FB won't change; they will maintain unread news features as loss makers to pay off the publishers. The publishers won't change because they got a little more money. Startups will suffer. News will suffer. Society will suffer. Well done, everyone.
Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express: Explained: The real impact of Facebook switching off news in Australia
Elizabeth Knight / Sydney Morning Herald: Payday: How Australia tamed the Google gorilla
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I will bet you that Google News Showcase traffic will be minimal. That's not the point. It's just an envelope stuffed with cash. Politicians were the bagmen.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And Australia? You're fucked. Murdoch is more powerful than ever and your politicians are more in his pocket than ever. And now he has brought a Fox News in the form of Sky News to your shores; it's just as bad. Buy fences around Parliament now.
Mark Scott / Politico: Australia reruns Europe's Big Tech copyright battle
Max Boot / @maxboot: Fox “News” is peddling vicious lies that threaten our democracy. But @Google is entering into a partnership with its parent company. 🤯 https://twitter.com/...
Aubrey Belford / @aubreybelford: The absolute worst of both worlds https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Murdoch has spent the last decade trying to force Google to just give him money, and has (ridiculously) convinced a bunch of politicians to agree with him (and some useful idiots elsewhere). Seems like it worked. https://twitter.com/...
Kylie Edmondson / @kylieedo: @mjrowland68 Check out @jeffjarvis work in this area Michael. He explains it really well & why this will be a good thing with FB & why Google paying Newscorp is not right! https://twitter.com/...
@cp24: Google is striking deals in Australia to pay for journalism but Facebook is vowing to restrict news sharing. https://www.cp24.com/...
Lauren Weinstein / @laurenweinstein: This is indeed a slippery slope that could destroy the fundamental principles of the Web, wreck competition, and leave only the “big boys” standing. And it could make misinformation/disinformation problems worse as well. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: News Corp said today that it has agreed to a multi-year deal with Google to provide what it called its “trusted journalism” in return for significant payments by Google. Jeff Jarvis is not thrilled with this development. His thread: https://twitter.com/...
Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u: And so it begins... “News Corp and Google Agree To Global Partnership On News...Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase” https://newscorp.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Schultz / @presseschauer: This is the most awful point! https://twitter.com/...
Laura Kayali / @laukaya: Incredible, yet true: Google and Rupert Murdoch have made peace (at least for three years). https://newscorp.com/...
Brad Hill / @hillbrad: Does this partnership give any editorial control to Google? Is this just a self-aggrandizing exaggeration by News Corp? If Google can push Fox et al. (or at least its online audience) in a less toxic direction, great. If not... https://twitter.com/...
David Mack / @davidmackau: sooooo Google threatening to pull out of Oz was crap? https://twitter.com/...
Julia Reda / @senficon: Australia (competition approach, not #copyright), France (competition & copyright) & Germany (neither copyright nor competition) all had the same outcome for Google & big publishers. Great, can we stop wrecking the Internet for everyone else, now? https://newscorp.com/... #linktax
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Also, good luck trying to convince Google and Facebook not to include disinformation from Fox News in its feeds when they are paying for said disinformation.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And by the way, Australia is not dropping its awful Code. And other countries are threatening to copy it. This was in no way a victory for the net. It was a capitulation because journalism doesn't much matter to any of the parties involved. https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ ...
Deadline Hollywood / @deadline: Facebook will restrict publishers and users in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content as the Parliament there debates a law that would force tech and social media platforms to pay more for journalism on their sites https://deadline.com/...
@slpng_giants: Horrible. Years of complaints that @google and @facebook refusing to pay news organizations for their content and the first (and likely the only) deal they strike is with the Murdochs of Fox News, allowing them further reach and more money to spread disinformation and racism. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: Apple, too. Sources described to me the big Apple News / WSJ deal from a few years back as a “payoff to Rupert,” plain and simple. https://twitter.com/...
Mohamed Nanabhay / @mohamed: Jeff's take is absolutely right. This deal is bad for the open web and bad for new media entrants. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Reminder, the Murdoch's own roughly 70% of newspaper print circulation in Australia. The fact that this deal was brokered in the very final days leading up to the Australia media code passing says a lot about how the power pendulum has swung in the past few weeks/months. https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: 2009: “We are in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content” (R. Murdoch) 2021: “News Corp [has] signed a three-year partnership with Alphabet Inc's Google to sell its news products for Google's curated news platform, Google News Showcase.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Kate O'Neill / @kateo: The word “trusted” is performing a whole lot of unpaid emotional labor in that announcement. https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: News Corp publications participating in Google's News Showcase product: - WSJ, Barron's, MarketWatch, New York Post - UK: The Times and The Sunday Times, The Sun - Australia: The Australian, https://t.co/..., Sky News and more
@tiffanydcross: “Media companies have complained for years that they are not fairly compensated for articles & other content that generate ad revenue...Google's rush to pay up in Australia shows how regulation...can dramatically alter the behavior...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@lee__drake: How to disable Google as the default search engine on iPhones https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: England? You're fucked, too. Murdoch is bringing his Fox News to you and Ofcom is about to be taken over by the worst of the news industry.
@kimbere640: @mediagazer OKAY help me out here. I REFUSE to do business with News Corp. period. What are my options? Guess I will check out Bing right now.
@kerrymflynn: Statement from Don Harrison, president of global partnerships at Google, re deal with News Corp https://twitter.com/...
David Wessel / @davidmwessel: News Corp signs deal with Google to provide content from @WSJ and other publications for three years — and get paid for it. https://www.reuters.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: Sorry, couldn't hear you over concerns that the platforms and media are drowning out conservative voices. https://newscorp.com/...
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: Important to remember that when Google “partners” with journalism, it's always a hostage situation. https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: “News Corp launched a site called https://knewz.com/ last year... It was meant to help publishers get back some of the ad dollars lost to Google and Facebook. But some social media users mocked its name and complained about its popping yellow design” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
David Cay Johnston / @davidcayj: Smart thread that goes well beyond what's below https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hughes / @markhughesfilms: .@Google is teaming w/FOX to provide rightwing racist sedition content. After a cult commits a terrorist attack & coup attempt incited by FOX & the GOP, #Google teams w/them?? Time to deinstall @GoogleChrome & use other search engines. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: tip. If you think Sean Hannity works at News Corp or haven't read ACCC's multi year antitrust report, I suggest holding off on your hot take on Australia's new law making news. Probably better to just link your users to great local reporting like this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Phew / @djjasong: @mediagazer I don't believe this for a minute, since Google censored Fox. Otherwise this is great news for America!
Callum Uwunderwood / @devrelcallum: Google really trying to be the bad guys on every front 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: and there it is - the global News Corp - Google deal as expected. Now...the AU law that drove this needs to pass next week and every nation (ahem EU, United States) where Google has abused competition needs to recognize what finally brought them to table. https://newscorp.com/...
Mcc / @mcclure111: When I woke up this morning and looked at Google News the Texas power outages were the top story and this was the top article, and I was just looking at this and thinking maybe Google should stop classifying news corp as “News” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@sammonford: I cant believe @Google gave I to @rupertmurdoch bullying! At least @Facebook hasnt caved! https://twitter.com/...
Bryson / @bryson_m: can't wait till Canada makes its deal for american tech companies to directly fund Bell and Rogers Media https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Google paying $$$ >>> https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The net was supposed to be our means to break the hold of mass media. Mass media & old pols—the white men still in charge—beat down the net's current proprietors. But there'll be new ones. I take a very long view. In Gutenberg years, it's 1475. The Reformation is yet to begin.
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Wow - here. A really, really great report on Google and Australia. Even corrects much of Google's misleading lobbying. These are the benefits of having a bureau in Australia. AU is just ahead of US. as it rightly notes multi-year antitrust investigation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer — Limbaugh's death, following Stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, announced by family — Fox News Flash top headlines for February 17 — Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio …
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Nicole Hemmer / @pastpunditry: Rush Limbaugh radically transformed the Republican Party. He elevated conservative media into a coequal branch of party politics, and pioneered a style of rhetoric, argument, and entertainment that would come to define conservative politics.
Rich Lowry / @richlowry: Liberals who didn't listen to Rush, and just read the Media Matters accounts, never understood how *funny* he was. What set him off from his many imitators was how wildly entertaining he was, and the absolutely unbreakable bond he formed with his listeners.
Marc Fisher / Washington Post: Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural phenomenon, dies at 70
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
Jess Bravin / @jessbravin: “Mr. Limbaugh's break came shortly after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, which had required radio and television stations to devote airtime to matters of public interest and to broadcast contrasting views on controversial issues.” Obituary by @AnneMarieSteele https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Weaponizing Radio Commentary
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Radio Host, Dies at 70
David Folkenflik / NPR: Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh, A Conservative Lodestar, Dies At 70
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Kimmel Is Amused at How Selfish Trump's Limbaugh Tribute Was: 'There's No ‘I’ in Eulogy' (Video)
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey P Jones / @drjeffreypjones: @davidfolkenflik What Rush Limbaugh did to us: 1. Made opponents into true enemies 2. Revived overt and dog whistle racism 3. Stifled attempts to revive the Fairness Doctrine 4. Showed Roger Ailes the formula for right-wing broadcast success 5. Offered ignorance as “common sense” thinking
Michael J. Socolow / Slate: Rush Limbaugh Was Trapped in the '80s
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America: Rush Limbaugh's bigotry set the stage for Trump's takeover of the Republican Party
Kadia Goba / Axios: Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 after battle with lung cancer
Brian Rosenwald / @brianros1: Obviously I will have much more to say as the day and week moves on, but Rush Limbaugh just might be the most important figure in late 20th and early 21st century politics. He reshaped the media and the Republican Party.
John Cook / @johnjcook: a) everybody used to consume media through publicly owned airwaves. b) those airwaves were regulated for content. c) the shift from regulated media over publicly owned channels to unregulated media over privately owned channels coincided with the decline of basically everything https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: i imagine many people did not find the bombast to be comical https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Rush Limbaugh had a segment called “AIDS update” set to music where he mocked dying gay people so I don't really want hear about ‘speaking ill of the dead’ today
Kayleigh McEnany / @kayleighmcenany: 1/3 Rush Limbaugh had unrelenting boldness to proclaim the truth. Watching his wit, passion, and willingness to hold the media accountable informed my entire career. Growing up in Plant City, Florida, my dad would always play the Rush Limbaugh program in his pick-up truck...
Glenn Beck / @glennbeck: No words ... I just got news the Rush Limbaugh has passed away. thanks Rush for all you taught, gave and were. A hero to many. An icon. A patriot. A revolutionary that saved radio. Heavens gain, our loss.
B-Boy Bouiebaisse / @jbouie: the most i'll say about rush limbaugh is that he used his talents to make the world a worse place
Matt Oswalt / @mattoswaltva: RIP Rush Limbaugh. Born in 1951 and remained there the rest of his life
Tom Cotton / @sentomcotton: Rush Limbaugh was a giant. With his straightforward, simple articulation of conservatism, he inspired millions. He was one-of-a-kind and he will be missed.
Joel Pollak / @joelpollak: Farewell to Rush Limbaugh. A giant of American broadcasting, a man who inspired millions, and infuriated millions (and then inspired some of those, too). He saw through the media lies to bring out the greatness of this country. He fought to the end like the American that he was.
Marty Steinberg / CNBC: Rush Limbaugh, the incendiary radio talk show host, dies at age 70
Governor Kristi Noem / @govkristinoem: Rush Limbaugh often said “I have talent on loan from God.” He understood that our gifts on this earth are not our own — they're a blessing. He shared his gifts with all of us. And we'll miss him dearly.
Bess Kalb / @bessbell: I know it's tempting to lash out, but try to treat Rush Limbaugh with the same dignity, respect, and humanity as he showed to rape victims, Michael J. Fox, Sandra Fluke, Iraq War veterans, refugees, and the victims of mosque shootings.
Joshua Klein / Breitbart: Leftist Blue Checks Mock Rush Limbaugh, Celebrate Passing with ‘#RestInPiss’ Hashtag
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: “Rush thought we won, and so do I. I think we won substantially” — Trump is using Rush Limbaugh's death to push long-debunked lies about the election https://twitter.com/...
Steven Nelson / New York Post: Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70
Debbie White / The Sun: Rush Limbaugh's cancer death CELEBRATED online by left-wing trolls who say they're ‘euphoric’ and hope he's ‘in hell’
NowThis / @nowthisnews: BREAKING: Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 from complications related to lung cancer. During his decades-long media career, he used his platform to promote racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/...
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Today's a great day to send a donation to an LGBTQ/Black/Feminist/Immigrant org. In his “honor”, to be “funny”. https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Grasso / Discourse Blog: The Best Reactions to Rush Limbaugh's Death
Brit Hume / @brithume: RIP. More than any single person, Rush Limbaugh helped break the left's monopoly in the media. The left is still dominant, but not to the extent it was before he came along. He waged a brave struggle against deafness and later, the cancer that killed him. He was a giant. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: It is the tradition in the US to not speak ill of the dead, especially in obits. But please, news organizations, keep perspective. Rush Limbaugh killed democracy before cancer killed him. He and Murdoch are the devils responsible for the state of our state.https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: I obviously disagreed with the political project of Rush Limbaugh's life and career but he and I were able, together, to introduce his listeners to Frankfurt counterexamples, hard determinism, and luck egalitarianism, and for that I am eternally grateful https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Franklin Graham / @franklin_graham: My heartfelt condolences and prayers for the family of Rush Limbaugh, who passed away today after a battle with lung cancer. He was a conservative voice of reason for so many years and will be greatly missed. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Jeff Greenfield / @greenfield64: Years ago I, interviewed Rush at the 92st Y. What struck me was how tentative he was when faced with questions; (not “gotchas"). He was (malevolently) brilliant with monologues delivered to worshipful audiences...but it is unimaginable he'd ever do a show like “Firing LIne.”
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Fox News devotes hours to Rush Limbaugh tributes.
@byyourlogic: I guess you could call Rush a moderately talented broadcaster if that even means anything (it doesn't, fake skill like writing). but as a speaker, Louis Farrakhan is 10000 times more gifted, and also soundly outliving him
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: Jesus Christ, do these people have any dignity? How much money would you have to be paid before being willing to type out that Rush Limbaugh was “a humble man?” Limbaugh, if he could see this, would laugh at it. Lowry edits an actual magazine, and has no self respect. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Limbaugh's death will be a good test of whether mainstream news orgs that are finally calling out Trump still normalize the rest of the right's overt racism and lying. It's not like they didn't know this was coming. So far.. signs are not so good.
Paul Elliott Johnson / @rhetoricpj: Rush Limbaugh had a regular radio segment where he would read off the names of gay people who died of AIDS and celebrate it and play horns and bells and stuff.
Jeanine Pirro / @judgejeanine: An icon of conservative thinking and a master of communication. We have lost a great American. Rest in peace, Rush Limbaugh. 🙏🏼 https://www.foxnews.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Kurtzleben / @titonka: TIL from this excellent @davidfolkenflik obituary that Rush Limbaugh...briefly did football commentary? (And then was fired after being racist toward a black QB.) https://twitter.com/...
Maureen Johnson / @maureenjohnson: Every day, when Rush Limbaugh got out of bed, he had pretty much one job: make the world a worse place. He made himself into a vortex. He caused tremendous amounts of suffering and poisoned people against their fellow humans. His life story is a cautionary tale.
Matt Walsh / @mattwalshblog: Rest in peace to Rush Limbaugh. Prayers for his family. A true legend. Irreplaceable.
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: don't bother tweeting you can't top this https://twitter.com/...
@diamondandsilk: A true American Legend and Patriot who will be greatly missed. Rest In Heaven Rush Limbaugh. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: someone check on henry kissinger please
Akilah Hughes / @akilahobviously: No one is dumber than white people expecting Black people to be kind about Rush Limbaugh's racist drug addled piece of fucking shit ass rotting in hell.
Fernando Espuelas / Power Daily: Trump murdered the Truth
Melania Trump / @melaniatrump: Rush was a fearless American patriot. He made countless contributions to society & leaves behind an unforgettable legacy. Praying for Kathryn & the entire Limbaugh family. https://twitter.com/...
@capeannsky: @RichLowry I was a nurse working with AIDS patients in the 80s. There was nothing funny, generous or kind about the way he addressed the epidemic and their early, difficult death. These comments make me sick.
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: Rush Limbaugh was the first person I ever recognized existed largely as a Rorschach test.
Gwen Pearson / @bug_gwen: As a new teacher in Texas, I routinely had “Feminazi” written on my classroom chalkboards, plus encountering it in student evaluations as an adjective modifying **** or *****. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Lowry / @richlowry: We've lost a giant, who mastered and re-made his medium and left a deep imprint on our politics and media. RIP
Senator Rand Paul / @randpaul: RIP to a legend and a patriot, Rush Limbaugh. Not many people can say they revolutionized and stayed at the top of an industry the way he did. My condolences to his family.
Mara Gay / @maragay: Like so many others before him, Rush Limbaugh sold the cheap thrills of hatred in exchange for my humanity and yours. He is gone, but the hustle lives on. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Donald Trump is on Fox News now remembering Rush Limbaugh: “He was a fantastic man, a fantastic talent. ... People really respected him.”
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Dramatic rewrite of NYT Limbaugh obit by @grynbaum. Improved but STILL not enough. No more “darling”; now he's “the right-wing radio megastar whose slashing, divisive style of mockery and grievance reshaped American conservatism... while presaging the rise of Donald J. Trump.” https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Jaffe / @sarahljaffe: The idea that no one who opposed Rush Limbaugh had ever heard him is some utterly pernicious garbage. I *grew up hearing that shit*. Anyway, do what Tressie said here: https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Rush Limbaugh has died. https://www.huffpost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: Rush Limbaugh is dead. Remember his legacy: conspiracy theories, broken families, poisoned minds, unhinged racism, a million hateful imitators, unchecked grift, and finally, the Capitol insurrection. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Namako / @tomnamako: This is how you write this obit. The news outlets calling him “bombastic,” a “provocateur,” “provocative,” “scathing” in push alerts are committing journalistic malfeasance. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: Every marginalized group bore the brunt of Limbaugh's bigotry. Once, while speaking abt the genocide of America's indigenous peoples, Limbaugh said, “Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only 4 million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?” https://www.huffpost.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: How about something like this: He singlehandedly pushed the national political discourse far to the right, giving voice to racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories that became central to the rise of Trump and the radicalization of the Republican Party. https://twitter.com/...
@the_law_boy: Rush Limbaugh standing anxiously at the pearly gates, waiting to find out where God stands on the “dedicating your life to fostering human suffering” issue
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Hannity: “There is no talk radio as we know it without Rush Limbaugh. It just doesn't exist. I would even make the argument in many ways there is no Fox News or even some of these other opinionated cable networks.”
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: That was quick. Trump now back to falsely claiming that he won the election and complaining he got a raw deal: “Rush thought we won, and so did I, by the way. I thought we won substantially.”
Nigel Farage / @nigel_farage: So sad to see the death of Rush Limbaugh, he was a conservative radio phenomenon for decades and gave the silent majority a voice.
David Klion / @davidklion: The virgin New York Times vs the chad HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe: @KevinMKruse @RichLowry Oh, what about calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” for taking birth control? Because that was truly a side-splitter. https://abcnews.go.com/...
William Turton / @williamturton: My introduction to Rush Limbaugh was in middle school, whenever the school bus driver would play Rush over the bus PA system. I was never sure if the driver's goal was to indoctrinate the youth or if it was just easier for him to hear
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Former President Trump has called into Fox News to pay tribute to Rush. He says they last spoke three or four days ago. “His fight was very very courageous... He was fighting til the very end.”
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Hemmer is the author of a very fine book on right-wing media, so particularly worth attending to about this. Someone should ask her to write an article on Limbaugh's legacy. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Using his sizable platform, Limbaugh advanced conservative ideas, though he often waded into conspiratorial waters and generated controversy for hateful commentary on gender and race. https://www.cnn.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “A caller once confronted him on a TV show, saying, 'You're a manipulator, you're devious and you're evil.' 'I'm a harmless little fuzzball,' Mr. Limbaugh replied. ‘Nobody makes you listen to me... The show is about having fun.’” https://twitter.com/...
Richard Sharpe / @sharpe222: Confederate flags are being lowered to half staff throughout the fruited plain. https://twitter.com/...
Allison Burnett / @allison_burnett: Not to play the race card or anything, but do you really believe a famous drug addict of color could die and be arrested for prescription fraud (or even a white lefty, come to think of it), and it would never be mentioned in the entire article? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this website is gonna be sooo bad today!
Paul Gosar / @drpaulgosar: My prayers are to the family of Rush Limbaugh today. Rush was a giant and pioneer in talk radio. He will be greatly missed.
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: It still amazes me that a U.S. conservative movement that claims to be about Christian values, moral values, family values, character, has deified the likes of Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh.
Dan O'Sullivan / @bro_pair: Interesting to note that we are all alive and Rush Limbaugh is dead. That's gotta get in his craw.
Janice Dean / @janicedean: Sending love strength and prayers to his family. 💔🙏🏻 https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Rush Limbaugh died. Rightwingers on Twitter are heaping praise on him. I challenge you to read the things he said about minorities, black people, gay people, women, sexual consent, torture, climate, even the Jan 6th attack, and find things to praise in there. I challenge you.
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: “He liked my rather controversial speech” — Trump called in to Fox News and is eulogizing Rush Limbaugh by commending him for supporting him early during the 2016 campaign https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: NEW on Press Watch: Limbaugh obituaries show the mainstream media still fawning over the people who poisoned politics https://presswatchers.org/...
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream society.” - Rush Limbaugh
Cam / @cameron_kasky: Just read what Rush Limbaugh had to say about consent. Genuinely terrifying that people listened to this. https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Hemmer / @pastpunditry: He often bent the GOP to his will: his immense popularity when he arrived on the national scene in 1988 confounded GOP politicians, who chose to court him for fear of crossing him.
Steven Crowder / @scrowder: No conservative would have a voice on ANY platform today if not for Rush Limbaugh. The world is a sadder place with him not in it.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Rush Limbaugh, the conservative media icon who for decades used his perch as the king of talk-radio to shape the politics of both the Republican Party and nation, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. https://www.cnn.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Someone at the NYT decided that “divisive darling of the right” needed a teeny tiny bit more context. Hint: It's still not enough. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: karma will not allow me to say anything about Rush Limbaugh's death other than this: may he get the afterlife he earned
Rick Scott / @senrickscott: Rest In Peace, Rush Limbaugh. His legacy as a monumental figure in radio, iconic voice for conservatives and devoted advocate for the First Amendment will live on. My prayers are with his family during this difficult time. https://twitter.com/...
John R Parkinson / @jparkabc: Breaking: American radio personality Rush Limbaugh, 70, died this morning at his home in Palm Beach, Florida - his wife Kathryn Adams Limbaugh announces on his show.
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Former Pres Trump on Fox News now talking about the death of Rush Limbaugh. Anchor just asked him about Limbaugh looking very surprised when he was awarded the presidential medal of honor. Trump says Limbaugh, despite acting very surprised, knew ahead of time of the award.
Christian Nightmares / @christnnitemare: “He was a conservative voice of reason for so many years and will be greatly missed.” This tells you everything you need to know about Franklin Graham... https://twitter.com/...
@the_law_boy: if you're under ~30 you probably don't know a lot about Rush Limbaugh, but you have to understand that in the 90s, instead of the massive conservative media ecosystem you see now, there was basically just one extremely racist dude on the radio with tens of millions of listeners
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Alden's audacious lie that it ensures “sustainability of robust local journalism” is evidence of its unsuitability as a newspaper owner — When Alden Global Capital announced Tuesday that it was positioned to buy the Chicago Tribune and several other major newspapers, its statement might have sounded promising.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: “Someone Who Does Not Care About the Journalism”: Gloomy Tribune Newsrooms Brace for the Hedge Fund Squeeze
@larryryckman: But I'm an irrepressible optimist. Yes, these are dark times, but there are rays of hope (sorry for the Sun pun). Look at @BlockClubCHI, @SJSpotlight, @LookoutSCruz and others popping up in now-Alden towns. We're all seeking a better way. Further thoughts: https://mailchi.mp/... https://twitter.com/...
@sulliview: Metro newspapers, weakened as they are, are still at the heart of local journalism in many regions. Alden Global's purchase of Tribune's papers is tragic & their pretty words about their intentions are infuriating. My column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: I was lucky enough to spend the first decade of my career in the newsroom of the @chicagotribune, mentored by wonderful journalists when the Trib was a truly great newspaper. I owe so much to them and that experience. Sad to see if fall into the hands of these scavengers. RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The Post's @Sulliview explains why a rapacious financial engineer's takeover of Tribune is the latest — and maybe the grimmest yet — bad news for local news in America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ross Maghielse / @maghielse: I still believe newspapers can be good businesses. They don't have to be charity projects. A good newspaper can have a better profit margin than a good restaurant. But they can't make money the way hedge funds want them to long term. So this bad. All bad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elyssa Cherney / @elyssacherney: I mean, you could use your influence and power to help the journalists who remain. We continue to be a “truly great newspaper” with far fewer resources and far more challenges. https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Dodd / @dennisdoddcbs: This is not good news when “hedge fund” “purchase” and “major metro newspaper” appear in the same sentence. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: I suggested to @Sulliview that the hedge fund's claim of a well established commitment to local journalism was an audacious lie. Please, Alden—prove me wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: “When Alden comes in, it's slash-and-burn time ... Decisions are made not for long-term sustainability, not for service to the community but for next quarter's profit-and-loss” @Sulliview on the coming of the reaper at some crucial metro outlets https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@briokc: “Decisions are made not for long-term sustainability, not for service to the community, not for humane treatment of skilled and dedicated staff, but for next quarter's profit-and-loss statement.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@larryryckman: Glad to see @Sulliview is not pulling any punches today. “Those who know anything about local journalism in America are in general agreement: Being bought by Alden is the worst possible fate for the newspapers and the communities involved.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: This is horrifying. This is the opposite direction in which we need to go. Dear @SenWarren - whatever happened to anti-trust - which if not applicable anywhere else, MUST be used too save independent media. https://twitter.com/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: “The worst is yet to come.” https://twitter.com/...
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: RIP? Seriously, David? This is not the time for self-serving, nostalgic “back in the day” nonsense. The Chicago Tribune is still a great newspaper where journalists do outstanding work under tremendous pressure and we will continue to fight for our newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Profile of Stewart Bainum, who set up a nonprofit to buy The Baltimore Sun; filing shows price of $65M for The Sun and other papers under nonbinding term sheet — Stewart Bainum, a hotel magnate and former politician, has swooped in with a plan to run it and other papers in Maryland as part of a nonprofit.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @peterfranchot, Washington Post, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @ckrewson, @marcatracy and @jayrosen_nyu
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: On top of that, and as someone will no doubt say in a few minutes, there is nothing magic about turning non-profit. The phrase you will soon hear: non-profit is a tax status, not a business model. Meaning: you still need revenue greater than expenses. Big challenges ahead.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Simple example: when foundations give you money, they want to know that it was effectively spent. Tracking the impact of your work becomes far more important. That changes your journalism— possibly in a good way. You are more accountable for making a difference in the community.
Comptroller Peter Franchot / @peterfranchot: I'm thrilled to see @baltimoresun returning to local ownership. The work of journalists is vital to our Democracy, and enriches our lives far beyond the political arena. Thank you to the @baltsunguild for its role in advocating for our paper and its readers! https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post: The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Can This Man Save The Baltimore Sun?” With more information about Stewart Bainum, a hotel magnate and former politician, who has a plan to run the Sun and other papers in Maryland as part of a nonprofit. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This part is my own view. I don't think many people agree with it. In my opinion: conversion to a non-profit puts an organization like the Sun on the road to a changed relationship to the community. You have to explain yourself in a different way. Operate like a community asset.
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: As glad as I am that The Sun is leaving Tribune, it's unclear to me how a decoupled chain newspaper - after the incredibly epic series of downsizing and cuts Trib subjected its papers to - can survive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: New: I wrote about Stewart Bainum Jr., who has agreed to start a nonprofit to purchase The Baltimore Sun from Alden. “Journalism's role in democracy is incredibly important to Stewart,” says a friend. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: While we await details on the Sun's conversion to non-profit, keep in mind: There is no funding model for local journalism without risk. Advertisers can throw their weight around. Foundations can be too cautious. Billionaries think they know it all. Boosters want “positive” news.
Christopher Dinsmore / Baltimore Sun:
A nonprofit formed by Stewart Bainum Jr., Sunlight for All Institute, is set to acquire The Baltimore Sun, The Capital Gazette, and several other area outlets
A nonprofit formed by Stewart Bainum Jr., Sunlight for All Institute, is set to acquire The Baltimore Sun, The Capital Gazette, and several other area outlets
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Columbia Journalism Review, Axios, @chicagotribune, @amlwhere, @aodespair and The NewsGuild - CWA
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The vultures come for Tribune, as the Baltimore Sun looks to escape
Sara Fischer / Axios: Hedge funds gobble local news
@chicagotribune: As part of the deal, Alden signed a non-binding term sheet to sell the Baltimore Sun to Sunlight for All Institute, a public charity formed by Stewart Bainum Jr. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: Many are mourning the inevitable losses for journalists, and I do too. But the greatest price will be paid by the communities that are home to these Tribune Publishing newspapers. That cost is incalculable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
ProPublica:
ProPublica says Richard Tofel, its founding general manager and president since 2013, will retire from the company when a successor is found — ProPublica announced today that Richard Tofel, its founding general manager and president since 2013, will retire from the company when a successor is in place …
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@dicktofel, @dancow, @kenwardjr, @michaelluo, @sulliview, @jeffjarvis, @kleinmatic, @davidfolkenflik, @agolis, @craignewmark, @emmacarew, @carolineylchen, @celrae, @ericuman, @jonathanalter, @nsbarsky, @dlind and @ibarguen
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Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Some news: After 14 years, I will retire as president of ProPublica once a successor is in place. It has been an amazing experience, by far the best of my working life, and a profound honor to work with such talented and committed colleagues. https://www.propublica.org/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: to this day, many years later, my internal moral and legal litmus test before doing just about anything (including but not limited to: tweeting, emailing, emailing about a tweet) is: “Will this make @dicktofel mad at me?” https://twitter.com/...
@kenwardjr: So many things about my relationship with @propublica have enriched my life and career. Getting to know @dicktofel a little bit has been a highlight. Thanks to him for all his support of me, @mtnstspotlight and local journalism across the country. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: Breathtaking what @propublica has become. Congrats @dicktofel on a job well done. https://www.propublica.org/...
@sulliview: Dick (@dicktofel) has been an exemplary leader who has had tremendous impact at @propublica and beyond. Take a a bow. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: .@dicktofel is brilliant, dedicated, tough, principled and built ProPublica with love and grit. We should all be grateful to him. Richard Tofel to Retire as ProPublica President; Board Launches Search for Successor https://www.propublica.org/...
Scott Klein / @kleinmatic: Dick is the sine qua non of ProPublica's success. I hit the career jackpot getting to work with him for 13 years. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: An extraordinary second act from former top WSJ executive turned ProPublica president @DickTofel — congrats! American journalism & the public are the better for it. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Golis / @agolis: ProPublica is one of the most important success stories in journalism of the last 20 years. Dick Tofel is a huge reason it turned out that way. What a run! https://twitter.com/...
Craig Newmark / @craignewmark: Sad to see you go! https://twitter.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: Add ProPublica to the list of prestige news orgs with a top job to fill. Like @nytimes, @latimes, @washingtonpost and others, this is a great opportunity to diversify what top leadership looks like. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Chen / @carolineylchen: 1+ yr ago, when @dicktofel told me he was planning his eventual retirement, I blurted out, “No you can't!!” He just smiled calmly & explained why it was good for @propublica. I'm so grateful for the strong newsroom Dick has built & for the chance to have worked w/ him. https://twitter.com/...
Celeste LeCompte / @celrae: Dick's leadership has been so important, not only to ProPublica, but also to many of us personally (incl. me!) and to our industry as a whole. I'm esp. grateful for the clarity of purpose, frank communication, and love of great stories that he's brought to our work each day. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Umansky / @ericuman: ProPublica's *amazing* president, @dicktofel is gonna be stepping down — 14 years after being Employee # 1. Dick has been a helluva leader not just for us, but for the cause of investigative journalism and the critical role it plays in our world. 🙏🏼 https://www.propublica.org/...
Jonathan Alter / @jonathanalter: .@dicktofel is the first true visionary of non-profit investigative journalism—and a great guy. PS: Happy Birthday, Dick! https://twitter.com/...
Neil Barsky / @nsbarsky: Dick Tofel built Pro Publica into a sustainable journalism behemoth. He singlehandedly created the argument for philanthropic engagement in our industry. And he generously helped others, like @MarshallProj, when we got started. One of journalism's true giants. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN nullified its rule that prevented Chris Cuomo from covering Andrew Cuomo when the Gov. was flying high, only to invoke it during the nursing home scandal — On his Monday night CNN program, host Chris Cuomo provided an update on the biggest story of the past year.
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CNN: Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal
Jesse McKinley / New York Times: Cuomo Attacks a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism
Unfettered Conversation-haver / @jgrantaddison: Wait are they just now realizing this https://twitter.com/...
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Apple and Skydance Animation cut a deal for feature films and TV series for Apple TV+, starting with Luck and Spellbound movies and The Search for WondLa series — Their overall deal includes animated TV shows like ‘The Search for WondLa,’ which gets a series order.
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: Apple & Skydance Animation Set Multi-Year Feature Film & TV Deal
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
YouTube says it will expand Shorts, its TikTok rival in beta in India, to the US in coming weeks, announces plans for 2021 including expanding in-video shopping — YouTube has a host of big product updates coming this year, and it just detailed a lot of them in a blog post from Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan.
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YouTube Official Blog, Gizmodo, @mattnavarra, Android Police, @fwiz and @vidiq, more at Techmeme »
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Catie Keck / Gizmodo: YouTube TV Is Adding 4K Streaming and Offline Viewing
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: THREAD YouTube announce NEW features launching in 2021 COMING SOON - YouTube Shorts launching in beta in the U.S in March - YouTube will auto-add chapters feature - Redesign of YouTube for tablets - Redesign of the YouTube VR app homepage Full details: https://blog.youtube/...
Prasham Parikh / Android Police: YouTube TV set to offer new package with 4K streaming, offline downloads, and unlimited streams
Ryan Wyatt / @fwiz: Our Chief Product Officer at @YouTube, @nealmohan, announced a variety of product updates coming. 🛍 Shopping on YouTube directly from a video 💵 Expansion of Applause tipping features 🎬 YouTube Shorts launching in the U.S. And more! https://blog.youtube/...
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Bloomberg:
YouTube says YouTube Kids app now has 35M weekly users and launches new tools for creators to make money from their fans, including an applause feature
YouTube says YouTube Kids app now has 35M weekly users and launches new tools for creators to make money from their fans, including an applause feature