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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Sources: Felicia Sonmez criticized WaPo editors during a staff town hall, revealing that she is barred from writing anything about sexual misconduct or #MeToo — DRIVING THE DAY — It was supposed to be an upbeat town hall to rally the newsroom, as Washington Post leaders highlighted …
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: “I'm Afraid to Open Twitter”: Next-Level Harassment of Female Journalists Is Putting News Outlets to the Test
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I'm not planning on going anywhere. The Washington Post needs to do better. I just want to do my job, @stevenjay @cameronbarr @loriamontgomery @peterwallsten. https://www.politico.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / My New Band Is: My New Band Is: Someone You Know — [I'm afraid this newsletter is not at all funny …
Oliver Willis / @owillis: The fact the Washington Post believes being an advocate for assault victims means you can't report on the topic says a lot about modern mainstream journalism and the inability to include empathy https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Hours before the 3/16 Washington Post town hall that @politico reported on, I had a session with a therapist I hadn't seen for more than a year (I had changed insurance). I caught him up on the events of the past year, including all the threats, my doxxing and suspension. 1/x
Zachary D. Carter / @zachdcarter: It is hard to describe what @washingtonpost is doing to @feliciasonmez as anything other than discrimination against a sexual assault survivor. Breathtakingly bad judgement from top editors. https://www.politico.com/...
James Gleick / @jamesgleick: What is the “bias” these WaPo editors are afraid the reporter might have? A bias that sexual assault is bad? A bias in favor of the victims of sexual assault? https://twitter.com/...
Eva Holland / @evaholland: In which three male editors agree that a female reporter should be banned from any reporting related to sexual assault or MeToo - because she's been assaulted herself. So the ideal here is, what, reporters who are *open-minded* about rape? 🙃https://www.politico.com/ ...
Jonathan Martin / New York Times: In Washington, Policy Revolves Around Joe Manchin. He Likes It That Way.
@juliedicaro: Far, far too many outlets leave their reporters twisting in the wind in the face of horrific harassment. Do better. @washingtonpost. https://twitter.com/...
Grace Segers / @grace_segers: It seems to me that barring a survivor of sexual assault from writing about that topic not only harms the reporter, but the paper. Empathy makes for better reporting. And it's extremely telling to see who is allowed to tell certain stories, and what is considered to be “bias.” https://twitter.com/...
Bailey Loosemore / @bloosemore: “It is humiliating to again and again have to tell my colleagues and editors that I am not allowed to do my job fully because I was assaulted.” If this rule was place on all female reporters, how many would be left to cover sexual assault? https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I managed to work through Thursday, operating at maybe 30 percent. And then my sick leave began. I planned to stay off Twitter/email and focus on recovering. The Vanity Fair piece was published that day, and a colleague sent around a link. I read it that night. 8/x
Benjamin Goggin / @benjamingoggin: The only way these important stories get told is through impassioned reporters who care about their beat. A blanket ban on stories pertaining to sexual assault seems stifling. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Gartner / @lisagartner: If you banned every female journalist who had been sexually assaulted from covering assault, you pretty much wouldn't have a workforce, fwiw https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: If you have experience with it, you cannot report on it. That reasoning does not have a lot of intuitive appeal. https://www.politico.com/...
Del. Danica Roem / @pwcdanica: “One said Sonmez has become something of an advocate for sexual assault victims, making management uncomfortable with her writing on this topic.” That is astonishingly asinine. They're telling survivors who speak up they couldn't possibly be professional enough to do their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Listen, as long as your pov is that of white and male, you should be just fine. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen McLaughlin / @kemc: Felicia is banned from writing about sexual assault and harassment because she spoke out on her own assault. Think about the chilling message that sends to survivors about going public. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Want to clarify that I fully support the decisions of other colleagues who ultimately left for elsewhere because the Post was not doing right by them. No one should be forced to choose between their job and their own well-being/fair treatment. No one. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: Stunningly poor management at the Washington Post. I support Felicia Sonmez. As do so many others. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: At one point, he asked me whether I feel supported by the Post's current management, now that the editor who oversaw my suspension had retired. And I just burst into tears. 2/x
@ourobororoboruo: I am awed by @feliciasonmez's courage and resolve to be so candid and vocal about these fucked yo things happening at @washingtonpost. Please read this. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I faced no ban my first three months on the job. I wrote #MeToo-related stories with no problem. It was only once the Kavanaugh story broke in Sept. 2018 that the editors enacted one. It was lifted several months later, then reinstated in late 2019 when I was being attacked.. 4/x
@spj_tweets: “But what female journalists described to me goes beyond legitimate scrutiny of a headline or story framing and into their sex lives, their families, and other topics unrelated to their work...” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Shefali Luthra / @shefalil: barring Felicia from covering sexual assault is such a poor choice, both from a management perspective and an editorial one https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: Having survived sexual assault, or racism, or other forms of discrimination is no more a “bias” than being white, male & privileged. Speaking out about these experiences is courageous and honest — two things news orgs should value. Felicia deserves better. All workers do. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post: Trump helped the GOP raise $2 billion. Now former aides and allies are jockeying to tap into his fundraising power.
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: It was the directness of his question that I think really caught me off guard. I've tried to keep my head down and just do my job the best I can, despite having to take myself off sexual assault-related stories at least once every week or two, sometimes even more often. 3/x
Scott Lemieux / @lemieuxlgm: The idea that Sonmez shouldn't be permitted to work on stories involving sexual misconduct is literally Trumpian logic. There's not an iota of difference between this policy and saying that Mexcian-American judges shouldn't hear immigration cases. https://twitter.com/...
Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: “once you become a target, there's an extent to which you're looked at as drama” — this point really stood out in this great @charlottetklein story https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Mikki Halpin / @mikkipedia: I'm horrified to learn that after suspending her for talking about her assault, the Washington Post continues to punish Felicia Sonmez for being a survivor by prohibiting her from covering any stories that involve sexual assault. Wtf. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I was stunned to see that the same editor who has silenced me from defending myself online, said nothing when I had to leave my home amid threats and continues to bar me from fully doing my job was being quoted as an authority on protecting female journalists. 9/x
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: ... forced me to acknowledge to myself that I do not feel supported by my employer. Then, the town hall happened. My editor asked me that evening to write on the Violence Against Women Act the next day. I had to tell her I couldn't. 6/x
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: ... online after the publication of a story about the man who assaulted me. The ban has been in place ever since, for more than a year now. I've pleaded with the editors to lift it, to no avail. So I've just kept trying to do my job. But that question from my therapist ... 5/x
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: My symptoms worsened — a whole lot of vacant staring, which I've been doing a fair amount of this weekend. Things got a bit better by Monday, and I went back to work. But then I had to take myself off the Greitens story that night. My trauma response kicked into overdrive. 7/x
@cmclymer: I fully support @feliciasonmez. If every woman in journalism who was raped, sexually assaulted, and sexually harassed were barred from covering these topics due to concerns over “bias”, no woman would ever cover these topics. It's incredibly insulting, @washingtonpost. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: This really seems like @feliciasonmez is getting a raw deal https://www.politico.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: I'm shocked and frankly kind of disgusted by the wildly sexist way that the Washington Post has treated @feliciasonmez—a reporter who has been banned from covering stories with a sexual abuse component after disclosing her own experience of sexual assault. https://www.politico.com/...
Zack Budryk / @budrykzack: The only way it makes sense to bar someone from reporting on subjects they've been personally affected by is if you confuse empathy with a conflict of interest https://twitter.com/...
Coleen Christie / @coleenchristie: It's a complex issue because Twitter is a source of so much information for journalists. We can't just drop it. My company has said there is no need to engage but for some, too often women and racialized women, that doesn't solve the problem. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Barnett / @jenzerb: I wonder how many reporters would be left if they were all banned from reporting after being sexually assaulted. Must women hide abuse? Should reporters who have been threatened and harassed be banned from covering stories about harassment? Should all women stop working? https://twitter.com/...
Kristen Hanley Cardozo / @khandozo: It's always a tell what people in power view as bias and what they see as neutral. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: How is this anything other than victim shaming? WaPo won't let its stellar reporter @feliciasonmez, who also happens to be an incredibly nice person, cover anything about sexual assault bc she's a victim of sexual assault (+ not afraid to talk about it). https://www.politico.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: It would be nice if there were more women in management here, then maybe they'd understand why criticizing Felicia for being “something of an advocate for sexual assault victims” (and considering it a conflict) sounds appalling. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Fishbein / @bfishbfish: Man, Marty Baron couldn't be gone faster. https://www.politico.com/...
@atrios: nothing stops comfortable white reporters from doing stories on the most important issue of our time (well, 2 years ago maybe): the SALT deduction https://twitter.com/...
Allison / @allisongeroi: Barring @feliciasonmez from reporting on any story that involves sexual misconduct is heinous. Are all reporters assigned based on whether they have been assaulted, or is the Post just taking job responsibilities away from women who speak publicly about their lives? https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss joins Stewart Bainum in Tribune bid, with plans to own Chicago Tribune; source: each plans to put up $100M towards the $650M bid — The philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has teamed with the Maryland hotel executive Stewart Bainum in a bid …
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@ssdance, @dabeard, @brianstelter, @marcatracy, @sulliview, @jimfriedlich, @jmartnyt, Financial Times, @capitolwatch, @margotroosevelt, @missryley, @nytimesbusiness, @davidaxelrod, @nahmias, @pklinkne, @sammy_roth, @jonathanalter, @degarciaknight, @tysonbrody, @highkin, @cathylewistalks, @pattmlatimes, @philgrogers, @juliea712, @cabridges, @jimfriedlich, @raju, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, @heidistevens13, @phil_rosenthal, @phillipstribune, @jmetr22b, @chrismegerian, @charliemagne, @marcatracy, @royalpratt, @samthielman, @crepeau, @mattyglesias, @briancassella, @royalpratt and @maryschmich
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@ssdance: An octogenarian Swiss billionaire who makes his home in Wyoming has joined Stewart Bainum in a bid for Tribune Publishing, the newspaper chain that until recently seemed destined to end up in the hands of a New York hedge fund. Via @marcatracy: https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: The Swiss billionaire bidding to save the @chicagotribune from a newsroom-cutting hedge fund says he was inspired by an op-ed plea by two Tribune reporters. He says he wants more Americans to have access to fact-based news—not misinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “An octogenarian Swiss billionaire who makes his home in Wyoming and has donated hundreds of millions to environmental causes is a surprise new player in the bidding for Tribune Publishing...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: NEW: Meet Hansjörg Wyss, a Switzerland-born billionaire. He has offered at least $100 million toward a bid for Tribune Publishing instead of Alden Global Capital. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: “I have an opportunity to do 500 times more than what I'm doing now,” Hansjorg Wyss tells @marcatracy @nytimes explaining his philanthropic interest in #localnews, joining Stewart Bainum's bid for @tribunepub, a commitment to local news as civic duty & public trust @lenfestinst https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Mr. Wyss, 85, said he was partly inspired to join Mr. Bainum by a New York Times opinion essay last year in which two Chi Tribune reporters, David Jackson and Gary Marx, warned that an Alden purchase would lead to “a ghost version of The Chicago Tribune https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniela Altimari / @capitolwatch: With all due respect, Professor Rosen has this is exactly backwards. We are all still newspapers - and pretty damn fine ones at that - but what some Tribune papers lack is a newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
Margot Roosevelt / @margotroosevelt: << Medical entrepreneur @DrPatSoonShiong, who owns the LA Times with his wife, Michele B. Chan, has enough Tribune shares to squash the Alden deal by himself>>—and put Tribune in philanthropic hands. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Ryley / @missryley: If this deal goes through for the whole lot I'm going to start cheering in the street and nobody's going to know why unless another journalist happens to be standing near me https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: The Swiss billionaire philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has joined the bidding for Tribune Publishing. “I don't want to see another newspaper that has a chance to increase the amount of truth being told to the American people going down the drain,” he said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: I don't know Hansjorg Wyss. But to me, as a Chicagoan & proud veteran of the @chicagotribune newsroom, his intervention to try & save the Trib from the clutches of hedge fund scavengers is an unexpected ray of hope and good news for our town & journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Nahmias / @nahmias: Mr. Wyss, who has given away some of his fortune to help preserve wildlife habitats in Wyoming, Montana and Maine, said he was motivated to join the Tribune bid by his belief in the need for a robust press. “I have an opportunity to do 500 times more than what I'm doing now.” https://twitter.com/...
Philip Klinkner / @pklinkne: Quite a few decent newspapers began as semi-philanthropy projects by wealthy individuals. https://twitter.com/...
Sammy Roth / @sammy_roth: This lede, wow. “An octogenarian Swiss billionaire who makes his home in Wyoming and has donated hundreds of millions to environmental causes is a surprise new player in the bidding for Tribune Publishing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Alter / @jonathanalter: This is (potentially) terrific news! Alden Capital represents the worst of private equity and ruins every newspaper it touches. Let's wish Wyss well. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dawn Garcia / @degarciaknight: One of the @chicagotribune reporters whose op-ed inspired Wyss was @garyjmarx, @JSKstanford fellowship alum. He & @poolcar4 warned an Alden purchase would lead to “a ghost version of The Chicago Tribune — a newspaper that can no longer carry out its essential watchdog mission.” https://twitter.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: Oh wait someone is finally trying out “why doesn't democracy alliance just buy a newspaper” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cathy Lewis / @cathylewistalks: Tribune Publishing owns the deeply under-resourced @virginianpilot and @Daily_Press. I'm encouraged by investors willing to fight for local journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Patt Morrison / @pattmlatimes: Soon to be another true-life journalism dramatic film. Wow. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Rogers / @philgrogers: Who said the calvary wasn't coming? This is exciting. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Anderson / @juliea712: The @nytimes is reporting that a Swiss billionaire who lives in Wyoming has joined in the bidding for @tribpub, owner of my papers @sunsentinel and @orlandosentinel. He joins the hotel exec Stewart Bainum to rival Alden Capital's bid. https://www.nytimes.com/...
C. A. Bridges / @cabridges: The Trib papers are competitors to my own company so I'm probably not supposed to wish them well. But honestly I want them bought by anyone committed to honest, in-depth, reality-based journalism. We all benefit when that happens. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: A hopeful development in the sale of @chicagotribune @baltimoresun to long-term, civic minded investors dedicated to independent journalism more so than pure profit.@lenfestinst https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Octogenarian Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who makes his home in Wyoming and has donated hundreds of millions to environmental causes, teams with the Maryland hotel executive Stewart Bainum to keep Tribune newspapers from Alden Capital https://www.nytimes.com/...? via @nytimes
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Wowzer. Could change the equation for Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, and other newsrooms formerly known as newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi Stevens / @heidistevens13: Mr. Wyss, who has given away some of his fortune to help preserve wildlife habitats, said he was motivated to join the Tribune bid by his belief in the need for a robust press. “I have an opportunity to do 500 times more than what I'm doing now.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Phil Rosenthal / @phil_rosenthal: “Maybe I'm naïve,” Mr. Wyss said, “but the combination of giving enough money to a professional staff to do the right things and putting quite a bit of money into digital will eventually make (the Chicago Tribune) a very profitable newspaper.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Phillips / @phillipstribune: He's a billionaire environmentalist. And a potential dream owner for Tribune Publishing. Let's go, Hansjorg Wyss! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Meisner / @jmetr22b: “Mr. Wyss, 85, said he was partly inspired to join Mr. Bainum by a New York Times opinion essay last year in which Chicago Tribune reporters David Jackson and Gary Marx warned that an Alden purchase would lead to ‘ghost version of The Chicago Tribune.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: There have been a lot of twists and turns here! https://twitter.com/...
Charlie J. Johnson / @charliemagne: “He made that bid because he wants The Baltimore Sun. I said, 'Yeah, that's fine. And I have to make The Tribune even better than what it is now.'” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: If he and Stewart Bainum succeed — far, far from certain — then Wyss would *keep* The Chicago Tribune, Bainum's nonprofit would get The Sun, and they would search for benefactors for other papers.
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: The philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss wants to own @chicagotribune, inspired by @poolcar4 and @garyjmarx's commentary in the New York Times last year https://twitter.com/...
Megan Crepeau / @crepeau: “The combination of giving enough money to a professional staff to do the right things and putting quite a bit of money into digital will eventually make it a very profitable newspaper.” What a concept! https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I actually did meet this guy once. Seemed nice. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Cassella / @briancassella: “Mr. Wyss said he would be a civic-minded custodian of The Chicago Tribune. “I don't want to see another newspaper that has a chance to increase the amount of truth being told to the American people going down the drain,” he said.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: News Corp nears a deal to purchase the consumer arm of educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to bolster its HarperCollins Publishers division — After shedding noncore assets, Wall Street Journal publisher is looking to expand in strategic growth areas
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New York Times:
Indian digital news pubs, which pursue aggressive journalism in a compliant media landscape, fear Modi's government is empowering trolls with its new media laws — Online portals have practiced aggressive journalism in a mostly compliant media landscape. But trolls and the government could now be empowered to stop them.
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@nilanjanaroy, @sushantsin, @mujmash, @tunkuv, @rafat, @deepbagchee, @milanv, @svaradarajan, @celiadugger, @pbhushan1 and @seemay
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Nilanjana Roy / @nilanjanaroy: What's the word for “government that cracks down on all forms of independent media and ruthlessly suppresses criticism”? (Hint: not a democracy.) https://twitter.com/...
Sushant Singh / @sushantsin: .@svaradarajan calls the new rules “a weaponization of the reader complaints.” He sees them as yet another effort by the government to keep him quiet. Over the past couple of years, he said, his journalists have been slapped with nearly a dozen police complaints and defamation... https://twitter.com/...
Mujib Mashal / @mujmash: As India's PM Modi cultivated & cowed much of the mainstream media, these scrappy online outlets remained untamed — a thorn on his side. The outlets say new, restrictive gov rules are intended to rein them in, or burden them into silence. With @HariNYT. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tunku Varadarajan / @tunkuv: “They call us purveyors of fake news, et cetera. But the fact is that they are threatened by the inability to control the digital media narrative,” says @svaradarajan, to @MujMash & @HariNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rafat: How Indian digital media startups focused on critical coverage of Modi and govt are being threatened and silenced, the new rules are very problematic. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Deep Bagchee / @deepbagchee: It's been a silver lining in Indian journalism - online startups like @thewire_in and @ThePrintIndia led by eminent journalists like @svaradarajan & @ShekharGupta. They've produced great journalism but now face curbs https://www.nytimes.com/...
Milan Vaishnav / @milanv: “Online portals [in India] have practiced aggressive journalism in a mostly compliant media landscape. But trolls and the government could now be empowered to stop them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Siddharth / @svaradarajan: The New York Times has a nice piece by @MujMash and @HariNYT on the work @thewire_in and other digital media sites have been doing in India - and the attempts being made by the @narendramodi government to stop us in our tracks. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Celia W. Dugger / @celiadugger: Modi takes new steps to crush the free press, this time digital media, the upstarts say. Important reporting by @MujMash @HariNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Prashant Bhushan / @pbhushan1: “Modi has cultivated & cowed large parts of the country's news media in recent years as part of a broader campaign against dissent. One group remains untamed: A relatively new generation of scrappy, online news outlets. Now Modi is working to rein them in” https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Finn / VTDigger:
A Vermont reporter's resignation, allegedly due to pressure from board members over her coverage, signals need for ethics standards for nonprofit outlets — CHARLOTTE — Since a widely respected reporter quit her job at Charlotte's local nonprofit newspaper two weeks ago …
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Corey Hutchins / @coreyhutchins: “nothing new about a newspaper publisher exerting pressure on a reporter to protect friends, family members and advertisers. What is new, as nonprofit newsrooms proliferate in small communities, is the volunteer board member seeking to influence coverage” https://vtdigger.org/...
@niemanlab: A resignation at the Charlotte News — and the rise of nonprofit newsrooms, generally — raises new sets of ethical questions. https://vtdigger.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Hemal Jhaveri / Medium:
Hemal Jhaveri, a columnist and inclusion editor, says USA Today fired her after she tweeted in error on Boulder shooting that it is “always an angry white man” — I am no longer employed at USA TODAY, a company that was my work home for almost eight years.
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@mattnegrin, CNN, Defector, @hemjhaveri, @laurahazardowen, @gregjkrieg, @nachristakis, @aravosis, @kerrymflynn, @ryangrim, Awful Announcing, @japersrink, @kainazamaria, @alanisnking, @alanisnking, @christianjbdev, @thehat2, @juliedicaro, @sarahspain, @zacharyfaria, @kottke, @cdcarter13, @wattylerrising, @jeremylittau, @palafo, @mhodler, @ijjacobs2, @karenkho, @karenkho, @nkalamb, @nkalamb, @nkalamb, @katefresephoto, @genepark, @laurenthehough, @danjfriedman, @vermontgmg, @c_stroop, @alibreland, @daveweigel, @juliacarriew and @sopandeb
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@mattnegrin: Newsrooms refuse to call Republicans' voter suppression bills “voter suppression” for roughly the same reason @USATODAY fired @hemjhaveri — they don't view identifying the vast-reaching tentacles of white supremacy as an objective pursuit; they see it as a threat https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / CNN: USA Today editor accuses company of being ‘subservient to white authority’ after she was fired for a tweet
Hemal Jhaveri / @hemjhaveri: Hi friends. Some news. I am no longer working at For The Win and USA TODAY. Here's what happened. https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 4/20/20: “Gannett newsrooms, whiter than the communities they serve, pledge broad change by 2025” https://www.niemanlab.org/... 3/26/21: “By the end of the day, USA TODAY had relieved me of my position as a Race and Inclusion editor.” https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Greg Krieg / @gregjkrieg: what happens when people who spend 87% of their waking hours whinging about “cancel culture” see a tweet they don't like: https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Nicholas A. Christakis / @nachristakis: Based on facts reported here, I don't think a reporter @hemjhaveri should be fired over one factually incorrect tweet with potentially racial overtones. We should stop moving immediately to the sanction of people losing their jobs for mis-steps. https://www.cnn.com/...
@aravosis: Read this article from CNN, and let me know what you think. I think USA Today was left with no choice, and the editor is naïve to think what she did while on the job was equal to making a mistake in high school. /7 https://www.cnn.com/...
@kerrymflynn: “I had always hoped that when that moment inevitably came, USA TODAY would stand by me and my track record of speaking the truth about systemic racism. That, obviously, did not happen.” - @hemjhaveri wrote about being fired Here's my writeup: https://www.cnn.com/...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: .@hemjhaveri made a mistake. People make mistakes. Not every mistake should be a firing just cuz a mob is demanding it. Half the media would need to be fired last week if this was the standard https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing: USA Today race & inclusion editor says she was fired over tweet about Boulder shooting
@japersrink: Just seeing this, and I'm despondent about it. Fortunately Hemal is so talented that this will only be a temporary setback, but this is pretty shocking (or at least should be). https://twitter.com/...
@kainazamaria: “So many newsrooms claim to value diverse voices, yet when it comes to backing them up, or looking deeper into how white supremacy permeates their own newsrooms, they quickly retreat.” - @hemjhaveri https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Alanis King / @alanisnking: This a particularly awful concern for those who come from underrepresented backgrounds and speak out against oppressive power structures, as Hemal writes: https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alanis King / @alanisnking: The fear of a large, mobilized group of bad-faith Twitter users successfully pressuring a newsroom to fire a writer for a small mistake or act that angers them is common. The people firing often don't acknowledge that those groups hop from person to person with insincere outrage. https://twitter.com/...
@christianjbdev: I don't normally think people should lose their jobs over a tweet, but jeez, if you're a ‘race and inclusion editor’, and you fire off a tweet claiming 'it's always angry white men' before all the facts are known, then maybe you're not great at your job. https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
@thehat2: When someone they hate is being fired, it's accountability, and “cancel culture is fake.” When someone they like is being fired, it's Gamergate-style tactics that need to be called out because it wasn't talked about enough by the entire mainstream press for the last 6.5 years. https://twitter.com/...
@juliedicaro: Outlets want ‘diverse voices,’ then get upset when those voices draw the ire of the very well-organized right wing outrage machine. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Spain / @sarahspain: THIS IS INFURIATING!!!! How is this real, @hemjhaveri? We will never, ever make progress if we have to both-sides even the issues that are very clearly wrong v. right. True DEI requires getting uncomfortable, challenging the status quo & actually doing the work, which you were. https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Faria / @zacharyfaria: It doesn't make sense for USA Today to fire Hemal Jhaveri considering she's just pushing the same politics that they want in their sports coverage My latest: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ...
@kottke: “Like many places, USA TODAY values ‘equality and inclusion,’ but only as long as it knows its rightful place, which is subservient to white authority.” https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
C.D. Carter / @cdcarter13: love to see major publications pathetically cave to feigned far-right outage https://twitter.com/...
Jane Ball / @wattylerrising: I really want someone to @ Chait about this until he's forced to reconsider where the most dangerous illiberalism is. He's said nothing about this, nothing about Collin College, nothing about the anti-trans healthcare laws. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: Read this: “This is not about bias, or keeping personal opinions off of Twitter. It's about challenging whiteness and being punished for it. As a columnist and Race and Inclusion editor ... it was my job to push for anti-racism and inclusion in our stories and with our staff.” https://twitter.com/...
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: An editor is out over a tweet at @USATODAY newsroom. “This is not about bias, or keeping personal opinions off of Twitter. It's about challenging whiteness and being punished for it.” https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Matt Hodler / @mhodler: The firing of Hemal Jhaveri is a huge blow to sport media. @USATODAY really dropped the ball in failing to back her up. Her work is invaluable and I look forward to reading and assigning her work in the future. https://twitter.com/...
I.J. Jacobs / @ijjacobs2: @daveweigel I may be in the rare group that thinks Alexis McCammond's treatment regarding her tweets was unfair, but Hemal Jhaveri's is. If you have a job title devoted to diversity and inclusion you shouldn't be making assumptions and sweeping claims about people of a certain race.
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: I single out non-white women because the odds are already low for their hiring, promotion, and retention in the media industry; along with their greater awareness of how race and gender intersect on their beats and in their careers.
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: I worry about the situation between Hemal Jhaveri and USA Today happening to myself or my other non-white female journalist-friends all the time
Nathan Kalman-Lamb / @nkalamb: Dan Dakich was allowed to use sexist language. Greg McDermott was allowed to say that players belong on “the plantation.” Meyers Leonard was allowed to use an anti-Semitic slur. But Hemal Jhaveri—not a white man—was just relieved of her job for critiquing white supremacy. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Kalman-Lamb / @nkalamb: Every single member of management at @Gannett/@USATODAY should feel nothing but shame for their complicity in bowing to a completely bad faith alt-right mob by firing the most important critical voice at @usatodaysports and one of the only redeeming people in this toxic industry.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb / @nkalamb: I pledge that I will never work with @USATODAY unless they return Hemal Jhaveri to her previous position. Further, I hope that everyone in this industry understands that if they step into that evidently morally bankrupt post, they are complicit in this injustice.
Kate Frese / @katefresephoto: I know most of my followers are sports fans. I encourage you to read this. Just because inclusivity columns, committees, etc exist, does not mean that they uphold the values they project. Keep learning. Keep questioning. Keep working on your own biases. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: USA Today fired Hemal for a wrong tweet, but defended @susanpage after this https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Hough / @laurenthehough: Good job @USATODAY. You helped some Nazis take down a woman of color. Just, excellent work, bros. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Friedman / @danjfriedman: Hemal made a mistake and tweeted out something she shouldn't have, which she owned up to. Cancel culture is becoming a major, major problem no matter what side of the political aisle you're on. She should not have been fired. I stand with her. https://twitter.com/...
Garrett M. Graff / @vermontgmg: USA TODAY should be ashamed of its treatment of @hemjhaveri. It's astounding that media orgs are *STILL* getting played by bad-faith alt-right trolls. How hard is it to stand by talented staff in the face of obvious racist or sexist attacks? https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Chrissy Stroop / @c_stroop: “There is always the threat that tweets which challenge white supremacy will be weaponized by bad faith actors.” Shame on @USATODAY for caving to the demands of white supremacists! @hemjhaveri deserves better https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Ali Breland / @alibreland: we're now 6 years out from gamergate and management at some media organizations are still falling for gamergate-esque harassment campaigns https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: The pile-on here and the pile-on that got Lauren Wolfe laid off were basically the same: Lots of call-the-manager tweets at somebody's employer, urging them to fire somebody for a bad tweet. But DON'T call it cancel culture https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: This is utterly disgraceful behavior by @USATODAY. Journalists make mistakes. Publications must stand up to the bad faith rightwing machine that weaponizes those mistakes to target journalists with harassment campaigns. All solidarity to @hemjhaveri https://hemjhaveri.medium.com/ ...
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Bidders for the NFT of Kevin Roose's NYT column, which sold for ~$560K, share their motivations, including fun, self-promotion, and a signal of support for NFTs — Bidders say they had many different motivations, including fun, self-promotion and a signal of support for the NFT market.
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Dominion Voting Systems files a $1.6B defamation suit against Fox News for alleging it rigged the 2020 election — WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant, in an effort to boost faltering ratings …
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Jazmin Goodwin / CNN: Dominion lawyer alleges Fox News ‘recklessly disregarded the truth’ on 2020 election claims
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: CNN Legal Analyst Tells Don Lemon That Dominion Lawsuit ‘Is A Real Threat To Fox News’
K_Conner / @kvconner: @DavidCornDC Dominion Voting Sys $1.6B defamation lawsuit against Fox News, is the second legal proceeding made against Fox News for its coverage of the aftermath of the 2020 race for the White House. Smartmatic, has filed a massive $2.7B suit agnst #FoxNews @variety https://variety.com/...
@andyintoont: Any settlement should require FOX to air on each show for 5 minutes per show that the election was legitimate and that there was no voter fraud and no votes were tampered with... for the next year. https://twitter.com/...
George Croner / @georgecroner: An interesting case because, contrary to common belief fostered by the media, the First Amendment is not impenetrable. However, proving subjective knowledge of falsity (by ‘clear and convincing evidence’ std. of proof) against a corporate deft. like Fox may be a bridge too far. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Walton / Insider: It's time that Fox News is considered a political organization, not a news network
@vtheesquire: Remember when FoxNews made fun of the Washington Post for settling that lawsuit with MAGA hat kid? The Washington Post does. 😈 https://twitter.com/...
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Security News This Week: Prolific Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 3/27/21 — “Voting rights groups vowed Friday to fight against a new election law …
@nytimesbusiness: A lawyer for Dominion Voting Systems said the Fox lawsuit was unlikely to be its last legal action. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Dominion Voting Systems files $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News for ‘orchestrated defamatory campaign’
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Dominion signals it could sue Fox News hosts after seeking $1.6 billion in damages from channel
Yevgeny / @yvindman: This could be the most consequential free speech/ defamation case in decades. A needed rebalancing for the infotainment industry is in the offing. Malign media including those that defamed my twin, @AVindman understand the language of $ and cents. https://apnews.com/...
Jesse Lee / @jessecharleslee: I would be absolutely shocked if there is not an ample paper trail of memos and emails directing and advising Fox employees to slander Dominion. https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: Discovery is going to be lit if this gets that far. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Through 10 AM, Fox News mentioned Biden snubbing Peter Doocy 24 times on 11 different programs. There were 19 other reporters in that room that didn't get called, including from NPR and NYT. For some reason, those outlets aren't nearly as aggrieved. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: If you tuned into Fox during the 2 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM, 6 PM, 7 PM,, 9 PM,, or 10 PM, hours on Thursday, or the 5 AM, 6 AM, 8 AM, or 9 AM, hours on Friday, you heard complaints about the network not getting called on during Biden's press conference https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
@axios: “Fox, one of the most powerful media companies in the United States, gave life to a manufactured storyline about election fraud that cast a then-little-known voting machine company called Dominion as the villain.” Read the full lawsuit here. https://www.axios.com/...
Jon Cryer / @mrjoncryer: Flash forward to Fox News' reply brief: “No reasonable person could believe Fox News actually presents facts...” https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: Latest on the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion filed against Fox News. A Dominion lawyers said “What Fox did here was not reporting. It was not a political debate... 1st Amendment guarantees a free press, not a consequence free press.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lisa Bloom / @lisabloom: Fox News has been sued a zillion times by women in sexual harassment cases, including our current active case for @BrittMcHenry. How a company treats women is a bellwether for its character. Truth and integrity starts inside the office. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: “They are already back on top,” noted a Fox News insider. “They'll settle for like $200 million—about two months profit. They know they can now weather this too. The evil empire.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Dominion Voting is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion over its promotion of the “Big Lie,” a strand of programming that often included references to Dominion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Key graf: https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Fox News reply to $1.6B Dominion lawsuit over false election claims: “FOX News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios: Dominion files $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News
Chris Vickery / @vickerysec: While it's great to spank Fox News for their over-the-line and unsupported claims, it's likely that *all* elections machine makers will later try to twist this into a weapon against actual, good-faith, legitimate concerns about the unacceptable risks inherent in their products. https://twitter.com/...
John Leguizamo / @johnleguizamo: Lies have consequences y'all! https://twitter.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: Dominion will have to prove Fox defamed then with “actual malice,” that Fox knew that the reporting was false or acted with reckless disregard to its truth. Should be interesting since Sidney Powell says everyone should have known her stories weren' true. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: Fox News will no doubt claim the 1st Amendment gives it an impenetrable shield against liability for defaming Dominion with claims it had to know were fake. But that shield isn't as absolute as Fox might wish. This will be an important case to watch. . . https://www.axios.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: And scene. Here is my Sway podcast with the Dominion Voting CEO talking about his plans to do just this: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Wagner / Defector:
Sources: Michael Tomasky, The New Republic's new editor, told staffers he wants to shift the magazine's focus to politician interviews and process reporting — In a meeting with staffers yesterday, the newly announced editor of The New Republic, current Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky, laid out his vision for the magazine.
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Ali Gharib / @ali_gharib: As Laura Wagner pointed out, many other liberal outlets have failed to adapt to today's political world, where “TNR stood out as an example of a legacy publication that got noticeably better over the last four years.” https://defector.com/...
Molly Taft / @mollytaft: one of the many many frustrating and depressing things about this tnr news is that i bet the market for the way the magazine is now is actually much more profitable than the sad warren democrat axios-lite thing they seem to want to make to become https://twitter.com/...
Ali Gharib / @ali_gharib: Whatever one thinks of future moves, ideologically or geographically, it's especially galling in today's climate that there would be so little attention paid to giving the workers at the magazine their due respect, considering what they've accomplished. https://twitter.com/...
Eris / @bellicapax: As a subscriber, support your union and workers, The New Republic https://twitter.com/...
@snilttroll: TNR used to be a weekly (now it's 10/year). Before Twitter, Politico, etc it was pretty much the only source for political news junkies. It can't go back to being that now. https://twitter.com/...
Lori Kearns / @lori_kearns: what if you're a congressional aide who likes TNR the way it is now? https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: As if this week in journalism could not get any worse.... @laurawags reports that the incoming editor of TNR held a meeting with staff where he outlined a vision for the magazine that a staffer described as “depressing.” This paragraph is brutal: https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Klion / @davidklion: As a frequent TNR contributor, and as a friend to, and admirer of, the incredibly talented staff Chris Lehmann has put together over the past few years, I find this news deeply unsettling. The team deserves better; so do TNR readers. https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Krotov / @markkrotov: Making a great magazine is really fucking hard, and keeping it great is even harder. Everyone at TNR should be celebrated for their work instead of being made to feel anxious and threatened and uncertain about their future. https://twitter.com/...
@edburmila: Oh my god “What we want is a magazine for people who think Axios is a little too spicy” https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: As a media reporter, I can't stress enough that companies need to stop prioritizing coverage and make sure that they give their people the news internally first https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: this is nuts. sounds like they're just flushing like 4 years of built up brand equity and reader loyalty down the toilet https://defector.com/...
Nathan Bernhardt / @jonbernhardt: it's very obvious and depressing where this all is going, and the knowledge that when the talented writers being targeted resurface at another outlet, they'll be on borrowed time before they get whack-a-moled again https://twitter.com/...
@thetomzone: The most insane part of this is like... This doesn't make you influential, this makes you a press release chop shop! Influence is not getting statements! https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Michael Tomasky is easily one of the most dogmatic and blind partisan loyalists to the Democratic Party in all of mainstream journalism — barely distinguishable from a DNC spokesman — so the worries of these TNR staffers are valid. https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: '"I think implicitly, the idea is we're gonna bring back TNR the way it used to be, minus the racism," one staffer said' What a quote (!) https://defector.com/...
Mark Krotov / @markkrotov: Reading this I can't help but feel that TNR's editors and writers are being punished for their success—if only the political writing hadn't been so effective, if only the criticism hadn't been so ambitious, if only the reporting hadn't been so bold. https://defector.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: @ArmandoNDK Manchin's chief influence is trimming stuff around the edges. Sanders is actually shaping policy. Read the news without ideological blinkers.
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Bernie Sanders is one of the top 3 or 4 most influential Democratic Senators on domestic policy right now, so a magazine seeking to be part of that conversation should pay attention to his staff. https://twitter.com/...
Negative Space Cowboy / @brendanowicz: lol jesus christ this has been a brutal couple of weeks for what's left of the media https://defector.com/...
Armando / @armandondk: Where's that Joe Manchin magazine? He's the most influential Democratic Senator. What a dumb tweet. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: .@laurawags on what has made the New Republic so good these past 4 years and how their writers distinguished themselves in the Trump era. She also explains why doing an insidery, DC-centric, Democrat-brain news magazine doesn't make sense in 2021 https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gavin Jacobson / @gavjacobson: “Tomasky proposed what amounts to a restoration of a previous iteration of the 107-year-old magazine, when, during the Clinton years, it was known as the inflight magazine of Air Force 1.” https://defector.com/...
Brad Johnson / @climatebrad: jeez I just subscribed. @mtomasky please don't ruin this https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Cooke / @kyleacooke: The New Republic has published consistently outstanding reportage and analysis the past few years and I really hope this change doesn't put an end to that. https://defector.com/...
Lori Kearns / @lori_kearns: what if you're a congressional aide who likes TNR the way it is now? https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stefanie Iris Weiss / @ecosexuality: Wow this is upsetting. @newrepublic has been doing incredibly good, important work in the last few years. What a shitty week for journalism and the left https://twitter.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: Whenever you've been actively reading and enjoying a website, an alarm goes off somewhere and a sentient Geocities property in a dandruff crusted suit mutters “I'll fix that, you son of a bitch” https://defector.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Defector reports on troubling signs at TNR, suggesting a familiar pattern in journalism: — Media bosses show a lack of knowledge about their own publication — Impose a vision without learning WHY audiences like their site — Treat staff as disposable https://defector.com/...
Chase Madar / @chasemadar: Does anyone aside from the magazine's owner expect this to actually work, and for the Tomasky-Beltway TNR to become influential, widely read, in a word, successful? Because I don't see it https://defector.com/...
Kim O'Connor / @shallowbrigade: Whatever his intentions, and even if no one were to ultimately lose their job, this is a way to instantly kill TNR's workplace culture and drive off its best talent. Why would anyone want to start off this way https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Siegel / @zachwritesstuff: I love the new TNR. In past versions of the magazine, I highly doubt writing like mine (and that of many others) would be in it. https://twitter.com/...
Logan Bayroff / @bayroff: This is a travesty. TNR is better now that it's ever been. What an absolutely ridiculous industry. https://twitter.com/...
Alli DeJong / @allison_dejong: TNR has been so, so good and this is both boneheaded and cruel to what is one of the best teams of writers in the biz https://twitter.com/...
Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout: Something seems off about this vision... “For example, Tomasky offered as an idea that instead of having law professor Zephyr Teachout write about monopolies and anti-trust enforcement, a TNR staffer could interview Democratic representatives about it.” https://defector.com/...
Washington Post:
At Biden's first press conference, no reporters asked about the pandemic; he was asked at least 10 times about the surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border — President Biden began his first White House news conference by practically inviting reporters to ask him about the major story of the past year.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker: The Presidential Press Conference in the Biden Era Is as Awful as Ever
Michael Schneider / @franklinavenue: I've said it before, the DC media is broken. What an embarrassment. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Timmons / @heathat: The Biden White House made a calculation early on that they didn't need to put him in front of the DC press corps to reach voters. That press conference just proved them right https://twitter.com/...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: Another set of questions that yesterday could have included: https://twitter.com/...
Jim Clancy / @clancyreports: The Presidential Press Conference in the Biden Era Is as Awful as Ever. Susan Glasser @sbg1 has a smack down for White House journalists...and she's, as usual, right on the mark. https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
@cjr: Given the anticipation of Biden's first press conference, one might have expected White House reporters to use their time with the president wisely. And some did. On the whole, though, the questions were a flop. https://www.cjr.org/...
Jess Coleman / @jesskcoleman: A day later, it's still baffling that the media—after spending weeks pummeling Biden for not holding a press conference—did not ask a single question about the pandemic. They chose to probe right-wing talking points instead. https://twitter.com/...
Methuselah / @billbillyb02: Not a single reporter at Biden's first presidential news conference asked about the pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... What defines a good reporter? Is it all just show biz now? Controversy? Sensationalism? Or what people want to know?
@aprildryan: President @JoeBiden's first @WhiteHouse press conference continues to make news. Another topic not addressed/nor asked to @POTUS by called upon journalists was the rise in hate crimes & white supremacy. Details in my #WhiteHouse report for @TheGrio. https://thegrio.com/...
Ben Chang / @whoisbenchang: “I am all for asking Biden hard, tough, and pointed questions...but Thursday's press conference...taught me nothing about Joe Biden, his Presidency, or his priorities. The problem was not that it was boring. It was that it was bad.” @sbg1 https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: @froomkin I have been influenced by your call to replace political reporters at press conferences with journalists who have subject matter expertise. But it may have to go further. The politics beat breeds analysts of the game. It's unavoidable— and increasingly unaffordable.
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: I couldn't believe it at first, but yep, it's true. The White House Press corps did not ask a *single* question about the pandemic for Biden's first press conference. Here's ten questions they could have, should have asked. https://zeynep.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gregg Carlstrom / @glcarlstrom: This is funny. The White House press corps whined for weeks that Biden must hold a news conference so they could hold him accountable on his policies. When he finally did, they asked zero questions about the most important policy issue in America today. https://zeynep.substack.com/ ...
@newyorker: .@sbg1 writes about the first Presidential press conference of the Biden Administration and asks whether the longtime ritual may be past its prime. https://nyer.cm/ginCPmE
Dan Froomkin / Salon: At Joe Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch
Rahul B / @rahulbot: That first Biden press conference seems to have been a spectacular failure of the entire White House press corps... in so many ways but this one is the most egregious to me. https://twitter.com/...
@salon: “After four years of the media desperately needing to fact-check the president (and often failed), now we've reached the point when the president has to fact-check the media,” @froomkin writes. https://www.salon.com/...
Ray Suarez / @raysuareznews: @jayrosen_nyu @froomkin Yesterday was a thorough endorsement of your suggestion, Jay. If one reporter there covered public health we would have gotten more COVID recovery and less nonsense about 2024.
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: In the New Yorker, @sbg1 also notices .... WHCA dinner may well have entered dustbin of history. WH press conferences next? The press needs more robust defense than ever, especially local. But its most “prominent” face is its least defensible. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jane Mayer / @janemayernyer: Now that we don't have to worry about whether the president will declare war on Michigan because it's governor isn't fawning enough, @SBG1 calls it quits on The Presidential Press Conference https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: @jayrosen_nyu The problem is that in the current newsroom culture, the political reporters are the stars, the ones on TV, who everyone wants to be. And their prior behavior is what got them there and keeps them there so change is seen as threatening to their careers. Much would have to change.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: @froomkin Not entirely, no, but a vast reduction in that category in order to re-distribute talent to the public problems with which politics must deal. These become the new “politics” reporters, with a skeleton crew to handle the game, and the both sides sensibilty that is native to it.
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: @jayrosen_nyu Thanks! Did you know that even at the WH Covid task force briefings, it's the political reporters asking the questions? That's nuts. https://www.rev.com/... But tell me more. You mean get rid of the political reporters entirely because they subtract real value?
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “We had no choice but to pay attention” to Trump's press conferences, writes @sbg1, who found herself “tuning out” on Thursday. And she's the serious one. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: Note that these are NOT softball questions. Nor are they minor topics better addressed by others. These are thorny topics and tough challenges. The ask isn't for the press to go easy on Biden. The opposite. Ask tough questions! Just relevant ones, please. https://zeynep.substack.com/ ...
Gregg Gonsalves / @gregggonsalves: Many of @zeynep's questions are mine too and relate to who is getting vaccinated and who is not and why. #COVID19 #vaccinequity https://zeynep.substack.com/ ...
Susan Glasser / @sbg1: The failure to ask a single question about COVID is remarkable. By any standards, a fail.
Abraar Karan / @abraarkaran: These questions by @zeynep were right on point. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Goldstone / @brian_goldstone: Roughly 10 million renters, a third of them Black, are at immediate risk of being forced out of their homes when the federal eviction moratorium expires in *five days.* Perhaps someone could have asked Biden about that as well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Why no COVID questions? * That's what Biden wants to talk about; we're not his comms team. * Americans care about it, sure, but we need to advertise our independence. * Current lines of conflict with GOP are border and filibuster, not this. * It's kind of old news, isn't it? https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: Terrific questions. I would love some answers. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Many political reporters dismiss media criticism as partisan ("If both sides are attacking us, we're doing something right!") These are good, tough questions for Biden about the public's #1 concern. No one came close to asking them. Pathetic. https://zeynep.substack.com/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Please read these questions and then ask yourself one: Why did the WH press corps not give a shit about any of this? The answer is because they are clueless, petty, vain, out-of-touch political zombies who have are failing the American public. https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Yes! See the video: https://www.youtube.com/... and transcript: https://www.msnbc.com/... Excellent observations by @michelleinbklyn and @mehdirhasan https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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AP memo instructs reporters not to use the term “crisis” to describe the current situation at the border, asking to “avoid hyperbole” in general
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FIRM Action / @firm_action: Media outlets must pay close attention to this powerful op-ed by @julito77 on the need to do better and cover the situation at the border w/ humanity and dignity. We have a moral obligation w/ families seeking refuge to do and be better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rob Ingram / @robingram: The AP gets it right. Let's hope other news organizations take their lead. https://twitter.com/...
Edgar / @eram631: Progress is progress, though. Heartened to see journalists like @julito77 changing the way organizations think about words. We still have a long way to go, but we're getting there https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nikki / @nikki_miumiu: @AP agrees with the White House that the situation along the southern border is not a “crisis,” and it instructed staffers not to use the dreaded c-word when reporting thousands of unaccompanied children have attempted to enter the country. https://www.foxnews.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sawyer Hackett / @sawyerhackett: The gulf between the news and opinion sections on how to characterize immigration issues is so wide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Julio Ricardo Varela / @julito77: Those who falsely claim my latest @PostOpinions piece promotes “censorship” miss a basic fact: everything journalists and editors write are all word choices they make all the time. Real journalism is all about word choice and that is always changing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sonja Sharp / @sic_sonja: people who have not worked ongoing national/ regional stories don't realize, there's a strong incentive to standardize language for the subject, because it makes writing & reading faster and easier. ensuring that language is fair & accurate is critically important https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Ortz / @tusk81: If you haven't already read @julito77's piece on the harmful dehumanization of people at the border, fix that now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher / @tommyxtopher: Great, and almost exactly what I wrote 2 weeks ago https://www.mediaite.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julio Ricardo Varela / @julito77: In that piece, I found out that the @AP was addressing some of the words used in certain stories. They went on the record with me and also shared an internal memo about their recent decisions regarding immigration stories.
@soniashah: New AP guidance on writing about migration: “Avoid emotive words like onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak and stealth.” https://twitter.com/...
Natalia Jaramillo / @latinaglasses: Reporters and media outlets have a huge responsibility on how a situation is perceived by the public. Thankful for @julito77 for always going above and beyond on the issues @latinorebels reports on and for calling in/out his colleagues https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Style matters. It is often the unacknowledged legislator of the newsroom. This piece, and nuanced guidance from @ap around language choices in covering immigration offer some really useful examples. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Yi Dionne / @dadakim: This. Stop calling it a surge. https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Hegarty / @stephhegarty: Why language is so important in migration reporting 👇🏻 https://twitter.com/...
Cristian Farias / @cristianafarias: The one and only @julito77 called out the @AP for using dehumanizing, ‘American Dirt’-type language to refer to migrants ... and he got the wire service to own up to its errors. Then he wrote about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: Opinion: Words like “surge” and “wave” dehumanize what's happening at the border https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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