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Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise in Gaza City that housed offices of AP and Al-Jazeera, after the military warned people to evacuate the building — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home …
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post: Israel showed US ‘smoking gun’ on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say
Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source: AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau
@linahalsaafin: 🚨 BREAKING🚨 : Al Jalaa building, which has A Jazeera offices and other international media agencies, has been targeted by Israeli warplanes with four missiles https://twitter.com/...
@idf: After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets. The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields. https://twitter.com/...
Virginia Pietromarchi / Al Jazeera: Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Extraordinary story filed by the AP's Gaza bureau chief just a day before his office was flattened by an F-16 https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: ⭕ LIVE footage of the moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City ⬇️ 🔴 LIVE updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: AP Exec Editor Calls for ‘Independent Investigation’ Into Israeli Strike, Says AP Wasn't Told Before Yesterday Hamas May Have Been in Building
Eylon Levy / @eylonalevy: UPDATE: @AP now says it had “no indication” Hamas was in the building, says this is something it “actively checked”, and it would never knowingly put its journalists at risk. https://blog.ap.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jen Psaki / @presssec: We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.
Tom Jones / Poynter: Proximity and possible deception complicate media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Full statement of @AP president. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Pace / @jpacedc: So stunned. Our @AP bureau in Gaza has been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. https://apnews.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Yesterday: the AP is one of the only outlets that doesn't uncritically report Israeli military spin/misinformation. Today: the AP's office in Gaza is destroyed by an Israeli air strike https://twitter.com/...
Spencer Kaplan / News of the Jews: News from May 10 to May 16 — Hey everyone. I know this past week was emotional, scary, and confusing for many of you.
The Daily Beast: ‘Shocked and Horrified’: Israeli Airstrike Destroys AP, Al Jazeera Offices on Live TV
Associated Press: Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise in Gaza City that housed offices of AP and Al-Jazeera, after the military warned people to evacuate the building
Manori Ravindran / Variety: Israel Airstrikes Destroy Associated Press and Al Jazeera Bureaus in Gaza
Raf / @rafaelshimunov: Reuters editors won't name Israel in headline, and won't even say they intended to blow up press offices of their own press colleagues at AP and AJ, so imagine what some of these editors do to stories with Palestinians. https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Will the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Derail Biden's Progressive Cred?
Ben Rhodes / @brhodes: @TVietor08 What does hitting that building achieve? What degradation of Hamas relative to the civilian harm and targeting of the most prominent news outlets in Gaza? It's hard not to conclude that the collective punishment of all people in Gaza is the point.
Anna K Nelson / @annaknelson_rsf: Having spent time in #Gaza as a journalist for Swiss Radio Int'l over a decade ago, it is infuriating to learn that the media were intentionally targeted. As is so often the case in modern warfare, tragically, it is civilians who are bearing the brunt of the escalating violence. https://twitter.com/...
Wilson Dizard / @willdizard: According to a recent Jerusalem Post report, the bombing of the @AP/@AJEnglish offices happened with Biden's specific blessing after Netanyahu presented him “smoking gun” evidence Hamas was using the building somehow. But what would it have mattered if Biden had said no? https://twitter.com/...
Imtiaz Tyab / @imtiaztyab: It wasn't just a building. It was repository of writing and images of Gaza's past and present. Years of accumulated journalistic archives, so carefully tended to, eviscerated in a moment. And, almost as painfully, a place of work, of ideas, and of camaraderie now just gone. https://twitter.com/...
Isobel Roe / @isobelroe: AP, whose office in Gaza was destroyed by Israeli military strike, says it has been there 15 years and has no evidence that Hamas is hiding assets in the building. “We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk.” https://twitter.com/...
Matti Friedman / @mattifriedman: A lot of AP-related material has come my way since yesterday's airstrike. I have no direct knowledge of the incident and am relieved that no one was hurt. I hope the organization's Gaza staffers, and everyone else in Gaza and here in Israel, see this violence end quickly.
APOLLO NETWORK Newsletter: Associated Press neagă că orice clădire de birouri din Gaza ar fi fost împărtăș ită cu Hamas după atacul aerian israelian
Maithreyi Seetharaman / The Chief Brief: Muzzles and attacks — Welcome to The Chief Brief - Curating news from around the world …
The Indian Express: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 26, flatten three buildings; OIC leaders hold emergency meet
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: Last thought on this...I'm sure Hamas offices were in that building & that they purposefully co-locate operations with civilians. But that is not a new problem. And if the IDF wants to claim that the military effort is targeted, precise, etc...then you shouldn't hit that building
@ap: “We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life.” An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building that housed The Associated Press office in the Gaza Strip, despite repeated urgent calls from the news agency to the military to halt the impending attack. https://apne.ws/GT4Zz61
Cortney O'Brien / Fox News: Netanyahu calls out the AP after claiming they weren't warned about Israeli airstrike: 'You weren't lucky'
Maria Abi-Habib / @abihabib: This “Hamas uses human shields” accusation comes days after a senior Israeli government spokesman was caught falsely claiming a video from Syria in 2018 showed Palestinians launching rockets from civilian areas. He used it to justify Israeli aggression & didnt correct when caught https://twitter.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: After Israel destroys offices of *more than a dozen* press outlets in Gaza, CPJ issues statement expressing concern “that the Israel Defense Forces are deliberately targeting media facilities in order to disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza.” https://cpj.org/...
@ap: @AP From a distance, Akram watched as Israeli drones targeted the building, followed by three powerful airstrikes from F-16s. “The building that was home to some people, an office to others and both to me disappeared in a shroud of dust.” https://apne.ws/dLRfNlB
Shaheryar Mirza / @mirza9: I understand people are appalled that AP's office has been attacked in Gaza, which is entirely justified. Can we not forget that 18-21 Arab language media houses were decimated in the two days preceding the attack on AP's building? Radio silence when that happened.
Shaheryar Mirza / @mirza9: Some of them: Natl Information Agency, Palestine Newspaper, Al Arabi Channel, Al Ittijah TV, Al Nujaba TV, Syrian TV, Al Kufiya Channel, Al Mamalaka channel, APA Agency, Sabq Agency 24, Bawaba 24, the Palestinian Media Forum, the Palestinian Forum for Democratic Dialogue and Dvt.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: AP correspondent @faresakram: “I wish I could say I am safe here, but I can't. In Gaza, there is no safe place.” https://apnews.com/...
Julie Pace / @jpacedc: Incredible first-person account from @faresakram on today's strike on @AP's Gaza bureau. https://apnews.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: “AP's bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building. This is something we actively check to the best of our ability” https://blog.ap.org/...
Adam Kredo / @kredo0: Unintentionally, this tweet raises troubling questions about AP's reporting prowess https://twitter.com/...
Zoé / @ztsamudzi: Nothing says champion of a free press like reporting on the destruction of your colleagues' offices and not even daring to say the name of the entity responsible for said destruction “Collapses after missile strike,” the exonerative tense https://twitter.com/...
Eylon Levy / @eylonalevy: To clarify: This doesn't mean the IDF lied! It means it made an allegation the AP was unaware of (happens, it doesn't know everything) and has yet to produce hard evidence.
Karen Attiah / @karenattiah: This is a war crime. https://twitter.com/...
Imtiaz Tyab / @imtiaztyab: I'm in shock. That building was my office for years. Now gone in an Israeli air attack. The BBC and AP also had offices there, but most of the floors were residential. So many more families are homeless in Gaza tonight. https://twitter.com/...
James LaPorta / @jimlaporta: I definitely would like to see @IDF produce some sort of evidence to support this claim. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Bradley / @mattmcbradley: Now would be a great time to present the evidence backing up this claim. Until then, there's absolutely no reason to believe @IDF and every reason to believe they were simply suppressing the media and the truth. https://twitter.com/...
James LaPorta / @jimlaporta: “The Israeli govt says the building contained Hamas military intelligence assets. We have called on the Israeli govt to put forward the evidence. AP's bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building.” https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This tweet is a joke. https://twitter.com/...
@cbsnews: Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says 2,800 rockets have been fired toward Israel, 430 of which “fell short inside the Gaza Strip and caused damage and casualties.” More than 20 people have been killed or injured by those rockets, he says https://www.cbsnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Darby / @brandondarby: Imagine if you didn't try to manipulate people by leaving out the allegation that Hamas was utilizing the building and using the press orgs as cover. Come on, man. Stay honest. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah El Deeb / @seldeeb: We've heard it many times before: no place is safe in #gaza. @ap reporter @faresakram, a resident of Gaza, lost father, land and family to previous #israel strikes. Today he lost the last place he felt safe. The office. READ hère https://apnews.com/...
Linda Sarsour / @lsarsour: What about the killing of entire Palestinian families, including babies? Is that not important to you? https://twitter.com/...
Adam H. Johnson / @adamjohnsonnyc: Seems like this'd be a good opportunity for western journalists to absolutely not center themselves & their clique but instead use this moment to note the real victims are the millions of dispossessed Palestinians & spare us another round of Threats to Free Speech navel-gazing https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Mitchell / @mitchellreports: The US is responding to Israel bombing a media. Yoking housing AP, Al Jazeera and other international outlets. The IDF says it headquartered Hamas military intelligence using media as Homan shields. Administration officials are expressing concern. More to come https://twitter.com/...
John M. Donnelly / @johnmdonnelly: NEW: Our @PressClubDC and @NPCInstitute joint statement calling for a halt to a pattern of Israeli military strikes on buildings in Gaza that house news organizations such as @AP and @AlJazeera https://www.press.org/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Israel just intentionally destroyed press offices in Gaza, giving only one hour's warning. Associated Press President “horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy news organizations in Gaza.” Imagine this was your home: https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gautam Chikermane / @gchikermane: How to destroy a building without hurting the people — give an hour's evacuation notice https://twitter.com/...
Alastair McAlpine / @alastairmca30: Just a reminder: attacking journalists is a war crime. (Yes, they were warned, so no one died, but this was clearly an assault on the press). https://twitter.com/...
Stephen L. Miller / @redsteeze: Find office space that isn't also rented by Hamas. Pretty simple. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Brennan / @margbrennan: “They have long known the location of our bureau & knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit.....This is an incredibly disturbing development.... The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” -AP https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: We're all shocked and horrified that they would have offices in a building with Hamas. https://twitter.com/...
@jongambrellap: From latest @AP story: “For 15 years, the AP's top-floor office and roof terrace were a prime location for covering Israel's conflicts with #Gaza's Hamas rulers, including wars in 2009 and 2014.”
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: The IDF says that the building housing the AP and other outlets also “contained Hamas military intelligence assets.” Is the IDF right or wrong about this? Seems relevant. https://twitter.com/...
Rana Ayyub / @ranaayyub: Hello @JoeBiden , this must be Israel's right to defend itself by bombing media houses ? https://twitter.com/...
Mike Glenn / @mrglenn: Did the AP know that Hamas reportedly had an intelligence office in their building? https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists + freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time. The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.<< (IDF gave hour's notice.) https://twitter.com/...
Tess Owen / @misstessowen: “We are shocked... that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP's bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit. ” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Crawford / @alexcrawfordsky: ‘The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today’ - AP Definitive Source | AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau #Gaza #bombing https://blog.ap.org/...
Ian Phillips / @phillipsian: The building housing the AP office in Gaza — an unbeatable, high-rise vantage point to cover conflict — has been intentionally destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Read the reaction of our CEO and President: https://apnews.com/...
Dillon Rosenblatt / @dillonreedrose: “They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. ... The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” https://twitter.com/...
@jasonrantz: AP can be shocked all they want. The building was said to house military equipment. They were all warned ahead of time of the strike. If you're upset the military apparatus won't be used to murder Jews, that's on you. https://twitter.com/...
Yarden golan / @golan_yarden: @jpaceDC @AP @jpaceDC Julie, you must know better than this. Your colleagues there know exactly who operated from this building, and why they decided to work from there, using AP as human shield. Ignoring it doesn't serve you.
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: This is absolutely appalling. 👇👇 https://twitter.com/...
Rania Khalek / @raniakhalek: Surprised the NYT didn't find a way to add an Israeli justification in this headline, like Israeli missile “clashes” with media outlets. https://twitter.com/...
Arsen Ostrovsky / @ostrov_a: Of course @KenRoth @hrw omit that this building housed Hamas terrorists and weapons, from which they were used as launching pads to fire rockets at #Israel. That makes it legitimate military target under international law. Even still, Israel gave ample notice in advance. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Breaking News: Israel destroyed a high-rise tower in Gaza City that housed media outlets including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Here's the latest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Today “an Israeli airstrike destroyed a prominent high-rise building in Gaza City that housed media outlets including” @AP & @AlJazeera. “It followed an Israeli airstrike overnight that killed at least 10 members of single family in a refugee camp in Gaza” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Smith / @harryslaststand: If you want to commit war crimes, you remove or hobble the news media that might try to report on it. #AlJazeera #Gaza_Under_Attack https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: Latest updates: May 15 Israel's bombardment in #Gaza continued for a fifth consecutive day, with Israeli air raids hitting a refugee camp where several Palestinians, including children, were killed. Follow this thread for the latest https://www.aljazeera.com/... ⤵ https://twitter.com/...
Liam Allen-Miller / @rssliam: Absolutely fucking deranged. Literally silencing the press with lethal violence. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: AP: “We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time. The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today” https://apnews.com/...
@ap: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt says he's “shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP's bureau and other news organizations in Gaza.” Pruitt says AP is seeking information from the Israeli government. https://apne.ws/Li8Hj4Q
Be A King / @berniceking: “The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” https://apnews.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: The @AP pays rent to the anonymous owner of the high rise that housed terrorists. Why is @jpaceDC and the AP hiding the name of the owner of a front company for Hamas? Release the name. It's a crime to give money to Hamas linked individuals. https://home.treasury.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben de Pear / @bendepear: This is a building I & many other journalists have used in order to gather & report in Gaza- targeting it if deliberate is an attack on the press & media freedom & the ability to try & report the truth. We stand with colleagues from @AP & @AlJazeera & all journalists on all sides https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: “I have been working here for 11 years. I have been covering many events from this building ... now everything, in two seconds, just vanished.” - Al Jazeera's Safwat al-Kahlout. Israel bombs offices of Al Jazeera and AP news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: BREAKING: Israeli air raid flattens building that houses Al Jazeera and other international media outlets in Gaza City. Follow our LIVE coverage: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Naveed Jamali / @naveedajamali: The @idf claims the building was being used by Hamas and therefore a legitimate military target. They have not expanded on who from Hamas was using it, what they were doing with it, and where in the building they were. https://twitter.com/...
@ase: They don't want the world to see their dehumanization of Palestinians, their terrorizing attacks. Israel blocks journalists on the ground as Palestinians are silenced online too. https://twitter.com/...
Umer Ali / @iamumer1: This is the third building housing local and international media organizations destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. @pressfreedom earlier condemned the “utterly unacceptable” bombing of buildings that housed several media outlets: https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
John Johnson / Newser: Israeli Airstrikes Hit Building Housing Associated Press
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: May 15, 2021
Ian Johnston / The Independent: Israel strike destroys AP and Al-Jazeera building offices in the Gaza Strip
Agence France-Presse: Man killed by rocket in Ramat Gan; PM to Biden: Doing best not to harm civilians
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal: Israeli Airstrike Demolishes Gaza Tower Housing Associated Press, Al Jazeera Offices
Connor Perrett / Insider: The Associated Press president says agency ‘narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life’ in Israeli bombing of Gaza media building
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Building housing AP, Al Jazeera flattened in Israeli strike
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
IDF spokesman is suspected of misleading the international press on a ground invasion in Gaza to dupe Hamas, which was mistakenly reported by NYT and others — A spokesman led the international media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza. They hadn't. But the army wanted Hamas to think they had.
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Emily Birnbaum / Politico: Facebook meets with Israeli and Palestinian officials to discuss online hate speech, threats as violence escalates
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Misinformation often comes from the top, exhibit no ∞ By Friday “several leading Israeli news outlets were reporting that the incorrect announcement [of the Gaza invasion that wasn't] was no accident, but had actually been part of an elaborate deception” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: “Israel shared intelligence with the US showing how Hamas operated inside the same building with the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera in Gaza, officials in Jerusalem said on Sunday.” https://www.jpost.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: The minimal impact this will have on these same outlets treating Israeli state sources as authorities should raise serious questions https://twitter.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: I just asked Biden admin if they could confirm Israel's claim that it shared intelligence showing Hamas operated in the same building as Associated Press and AJ. Their response: “no comment” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Milstein / @adammilstein: Israel provided the US with intelligence how Hamas operated military intelligence offices inside the same building housing the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera, probably with the News Agency full knowledge. The bldg. occupants were given a an hour warning. https://www.jpost.com/...
@hotweatherisbad: I honesty don't believe this. As if Hamas doesn't have the intelligence to see ground operationslike that coming from miles away https://twitter.com/...
Melanie Phillips: A murderous co-operation — Journalists and the Biden administration have been clutching …
Amy Spiro / @amyspiro: @LTCJonathan @brianstelter Stelter asked Conricus if he could confirm @LahavHarkov's report that Israel showed U.S. intelligence officials the information it has on Hamas operating in the AP building. Conricus said he can't confirm it. https://www.jpost.com/...
Prof Gerald M Steinberg / @geraldngom: Ouch! Feel the outrage in @nytimes over how, like Hamas terrorists in Gaza, they bought @IDF deception that may have saved countless lives. Compare outrage (sarcasm alert) re deception by “Gaza victims of blockade” that omitted terror tunnels, missiles https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike / @doranimated: “We showed [the Americans] the smoking gun proving Hamas worked out of that building,” a source close to Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said. “I understand they found the explanation satisfactory.” https://www.jpost.com/...
Lauren Wolfe / @wolfe321: To all the people who thought I was nuts to say that the media building was targeted to silence and punish the press (& not to target Hamas intelligence), here you go. Controlling the media is a dirty tactic of war https://twitter.com/...
Huw Lemmey / @huwlemmey: Is the problem here not that ... you print IDF press releases as news without basic corroboration? And given that the IDF is now targeting news organisations who *do* corroborate, by destroying their ability to do so, maybe you should stop? @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@octavianasr: Not the first time and won't be the last >> An Israeli army spokesman deceived the press into believing that the IDF had entered Gaza. They hadn't. But the army used the media to trick Hamas to think they had. Then they flattened media-housing building. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mohammad Taqi / @mazdaki: Hiding behind civilian media? You used Twitter for deceiving journalists in your heinous war https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: International press is not only subject to bombings, also of deceptive messages from the IDF: Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn't ↘️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
@leahmcelrath: The IDF lies. You need to assume they're lying unless there is evidence to the contrary. Fwiw, this isn't unique to Israel. Militaries well understand public communication as a tool of war, in a way many journalists and the public prefer to remain in denial about. https://twitter.com/...
Edward H. Carpenter / @e_h_carpenter: Dear media - please do not trust the military, ever. Deception is literally a core concept in military strategy, and it is used in all aspects of the military's interaction with the world, from budget submissions to military operations. https://twitter.com/...
Sebastian Usher / @sebusher: #Israel #Gaza : Deception is in the eye of the beholder - claim that Israeli ground forces had gone into #Gaza didn't ring true - based on one line tweet by IDF - no other supporting evidence Took 5 mins to decide this & refrain from filing for BBC https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: Two days ago, the American press was like, wait the IDF uses misinformation in warfare? Now, it's like, okay well they tweeted something. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alistair Coleman / @alistaircoleman: There's so much disinformation around the Israel-Gaza conflict, and it's important to note that it's coming from both sides. This one's pretty grim, coming as it does from Iranian state-run media. https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “Several international news organizations ... alerted readers worldwide that a Gaza incursion or invasion was underway, a major escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. Within hours, those reports were all corrected: No invasion had taken place.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jvplive: “The incorrect announcement had actually been part of an elaborate deception. The intent was to dupe Hamas fighters into thinking that an invasion had begun and to respond in ways that would expose far greater numbers of them to...a devastatingly lethal Israeli attack.” https://twitter.com/...
@sasapetricic: ‘No accident but part of an elaborate deception’: Israeli military misleads foreign media in English to draw out Gaza enemy, then brags about the strategy in Hebrew. Not the best way to get the foreign media to trust anything you say https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elias Muhanna / @qifanabki: Between yesterday's misinformation campaign and today's bombing campaign, most journalists in the region must be livid. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: It could very well have been a ruse and deliberate, but one would expect the ultra paranoid Hamas not to take their battle field info from WSJ and AFP—many right away doubted there were ground troops and reported that.
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: As @EgyptDefReview points out, Qassam sources kept denying an incursion in real time to several media outlets. So presumably they had their own line of information aside from what a spox told English language media
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: The funny thing is Hamas is much more likely to following Israeli press than Western press for information, and every other Israeli journo and outlet was running denials right away.
Janine di Giovanni / @janinedigi: So now the #IDF turns journalists into accessories of war. Then they bomb the @AP HQ in #Gaza. Is the int'l community going to stand up for anything? @CPJMENA @pressfreedom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Naveed Jamali / @naveedajamali: I'm disappointed that the @idf was telling press (including us) things they knew to be untrue as part of a military disinformation operation. The @idf has a long way to go in repairing that trust with me and other journalists and outlets. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lizard / @pseudocia: wait so their tweet was just a straight up lie? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: And they now expect us to believe them about the building that was just destroyed by their missiles? - A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn't https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: The Israeli military disinformed international news outlets so they'd deceive fighters in Gaza: https://www.nytimes.com/... “Israeli officials insisted that the call be held off the record, but a @NYTimes reporter who did not join the call obtained a recording...from another news org” https://twitter.com/...
@lukeisamazing: if I were a journalist with the NYT, I would simply quit so as to not have my name associated with an org that's clearly aiding and abetting war crimes https://twitter.com/...
Mohammad Taqi / @mazdaki: .@nytimes report on #IDF using @Twitter as a deception tool in its war on #Palestine: “The intent was to dupe #Hamas fighters into thinking that an invasion had begun and to respond in ways that would expose far greater numbers of them” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jonathancohn: IDF to the English-speaking press: “Whoops, what we told you was a mistake. Our bad!” IDF to the Hebrew-speaking press: “We intentionally lied to them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lisa Goldman / @lisang: Absolutely outrageous. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: Numerous int'l media outlets asked the spokesman “whether they had been turned into accessories to the military, why it had taken hours for the invasion report to be reversed, and how they would be able to trust the military's statements going forward” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Detrow / @scottdetrow: “If they used us, it's unacceptable. And if not, then what's the story — and why is the Israeli media widely reporting that we were duped?” - @DanielEstrin https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sally Davidow / The NewsGuild - CWA: NewsGuild statement on Israeli government bombing of media organizations offices
Bob Cronin / Newser: Israel Plays Media By Announcing Invasion
Evan A. Laksmana / @evanlaksmana: “Disinformation experts worry that in such a charged atmosphere, the effect of all that false information — some of it purposeful, some accidental — is potentially deadly, worsening tensions between Israelis and Palestinians at a critical time.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: It's being widely reported in the Israeli press that the Israeli army intentionally lied to international news outlets, saying a ground invasion of Gaza was imminent as part of a disinformation campaign to trick Hamas into exposing its fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hicham Yezza / @hichamyezza: So Israel lied to international media & used them to gain military advantage. This may be a significant moment in the history of I/P media coverage. Whatever their politics, journalists *really* hate being publicly treated, and made to look, like idiots. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Schulman / @multied: @davidgura @lrozen @NPR @DanielEstrin I can say with absolute certainty it was deliberate obfuscation, the reporters should have been more careful they jumped to conclusions that they should not have. https://twitter.com/...
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: This is all possible of course. A counter argument, and plausible too, is it was a screw up by a spokesman that some are now presenting as a brilliant ruse. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Arraf / @janearraf: How Israel used US and other foreign press in its psyops/information ops campaign re Gaza: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eylon Levy / @eylonalevy: “The target audience are hopefully the dead terrorists that are now lying inside the tunnel. What the I.D.F. wanted to create was a situation where they went down into the tunnels so that we could attack them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Saima Mohsin / @saimamohsin: More on that purported ground invasion I was tweeting about Turns out Israel & the IDF used the media & lied to the press Extraordinary breach of trust for all - spox, media & public https://twitter.com/...
Jon Sopel / @bbcjonsopel: Fascinating and deeply troubling. War reporting is dangerous enough without one side thinking we are the tool of the other @IDF https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: Netanyahu's Arabic language spokesman @ofirgendelman has been adding to his long record of posting fake videos to justify targeting civilians in Gaza. Funny how the disinformation warriors at @DFRLab have nothing to say about this. https://electronicintifada.net/ ... via @TamaraINassar
Dana Afana / @danaafana: One of the most sophisticated military forces “accidentally” misled some of the most reputable news organizations. Source range is important. https://twitter.com/...
Yousef Munayyer / @yousefmunayyer: The joke is on you. The Israeli Military lies to the press all the time. Start from the presumption that they are lying and indepently verify. If you can't, don't report it.That's your job as reporters. https://twitter.com/...
Dalia / @theblahdalia: tl;dr israel purposefully lied that they invaded Gaza by land so that Hamas fighters would congregate underground by border & be wiped out. that's why 160 fighter jets indiscriminately dropped 450 missiles in less than 1 hour yesterday. media manipulation to commit war crimes. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Israel's military said it accidentally led the global media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza early Friday. But hours later, local media reported that the incorrect announcement was no accident — the army was trying to dupe Hamas fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Halbfinger / @halbfinger: “It's a very dangerous place for the I.D.F. to be, suspected of misleading the international press,” said Amos Harel of Haaretz. “Foreign journalists are on both sides of the fence, and it could be dangerous for them if they're suspected of being used.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: This is ... quite a story: https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: What other state lies have we printed, is the question you should be asking https://twitter.com/...
@therealestspoon: Lying to the free and independent press jeopardizes the lives of millions of people in Gaza. They live in an open-air prison, occupied by Israel, and the threat of invasion only adds to the terror of the airstrikes, destroyed homes. and dead children. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: uncritically reporting information provided by the government without independent confirmation is not journalism — this was one of the specific issues Lippman's independent “objectivity” was supposed to address https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris / @chrstphr_woody: I can't believe the Israeli military would tell a lie https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: So any statement from the Israeli military should henceforth be considered presumptively untrue until proven to be true. Y'all are with me, right? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julian Kossoff / Insider: Israel accused of tricking major news outlets into reporting a fake Gaza invasion to lure Hamas fighters into tunnels that were targeted for massive airstrikes
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: Israeli Media Says Military Planted False Story About Gaza Invasion
Committee to Protect Journalists:
IDF destroyed two buildings in Gaza City housing 12+ media outlets; IDF says the buildings were targeted as sites of Hamas' intelligence and military offices
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@anealla: Days before bombing the Gaza building housing international networks such as Al Jazeera, AP, Israel bombed two other Gaza towers with more than a dozen Arab media outlets' offices. #PRESSFREEDOM https://cpj.org/...
Derek Davison / Foreign Exchanges: World roundup: May 15-16 2021 — This is the web version of Foreign Exchanges …
E. James Walther / Dispatch from the San Juans: Why does Israel target media outlets in Gaza?
Emily G / @emilygorcenski: This action has no legitimacy under any possible framing. https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: Fact: Attacking journalists constitutes a war crime, as defined by the Geneva Conventions and additional Protocol I. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Winter / @winter: A heartbreaking act of cruelty and silencing of the press. I hope the global journalism community condemns this act. https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Press advocates condemn Israeli missile strike on media building
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Do any of the US pundits who had paroxysms every time Trump tweeted something mean about Jim Acosta or Don Lemon have concern that the Israeli military, underwritten by US taxpayers, flattened an entire building that houses international media outlets? https://cpj.org/...
Greg Pinelo / @gregpinelo: Targeting journalists prevents reporting of what Netanyahu is doing. Do any U.S. and European news outlets have reporters actually on the ground in Gaza? Or are they all in Israel? https://cpj.org/... via @CPJMENA
Brian Stelter / CNN:
AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery in a $43B deal; the new company will be run by Discovery CEO David Zaslav — New York (CNN Business)The streaming TV race is about to get even more competitive. — On Monday morning AT&T (T) and Discovery, Inc. (DISCA) …
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Variety, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, AT&T, Bloomberg, @sherman4949, Mediaite, The Streamable, Insider, New York Times, CNBC, @mbgelman, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @loudmouthjulia, @kerrymflynn, @sherman4949, @brianstelter, @richlightshed, @sherman4949, Hollywood Reporter, @loudmouthjulia and @brianstelter, more at Techmeme »
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: David Zaslav to Lead Combined WarnerMedia-Discovery
Los Angeles Times: AT&T to spin off HBO, other WarnerMedia assets in a huge deal with Discovery. What went wrong?
AT&T: AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. Creating Standalone Company by Combining Operations to Form New Global Leader in Entertainment
Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: Sources: AT&T and Discovery in talks to combine their content assets to better compete with Netflix and Disney; a deal could be announced as soon as this week
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: David Zaslav officially will run the combined company. AT&T will nominate 7 members of the board including a chairperson TBD. Discovery will nominate 6, one of which will be Zaslav.
Colby Hall / Mediaite: BREAKING: AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia—Including CNN—and Combine with Discovery
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: OFFICIAL: Discovery to Merge with WarnerMedia, with Discovery's Zaslav as CEO
Claire Atkinson / Insider: AT&T is in deal talks to create a new streaming giant with Discovery
Sam Meredith / CNBC: AT&T announces deal to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery
Micah Gelman / @mbgelman: Zaslav FTW. A big deal. When Zaslav came to Discovery it was a provincial private company owned by John Hendricks and headquartered in Silver Spring, Md. He took it public, moved to NY, eased out Hendricks, bought Scripps, Eurosport, SBS and more. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Also — Zaslav says his number one priority will be relationship building, which he's known for and which Jason Kilar struggled with re: HBO Max's decision to put all 2021 films straight to HBO Max.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Stankey: Expect the transaction to close in 2022. Plans for AT&T include focusing on mobile and broadband. More than double current fiber footprint. Tighter focus on the greater demand for connectivity. It's almost like AT&T realized it's a telecom company, not a media giant.
@kerrymflynn: Nothing says “broadly appealing content” better than DDD and GGG https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: HUGE irony in Zaslav stressing building a creative culture — this was Richard Plepler's calling card, and yet, Plepler left HBO because he felt John Stankey was never on the same page with him.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: AT&T CEO John Stankey's note to staff: “We are now in a world where relevance and future success will be tied to greater scale and growth globally,” he says, explaining the decision to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: “Secretly architecting this deal for several months from my brownstone in NYC” says $DISCA David Zaslav to $T's John Stankey makes us think this deal has been in process since before Discovery launched @discoveryplus — very telling about the need for scale in the #streamingwars https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: A quick note here: what a win for David Zaslav, who goes from running an after-thought media company to one of the biggest media companies.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: “AT&T would receive $43 billion (subject to adjustment) in a combination of cash, debt securities, and WarnerMedia's retention of certain debt, and AT&T's shareholders would receive stock representing 71% of the new company.” AT&T paid $85 billion for Time Warner in 2018.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Jason Kilar says he expects no long-term negative effects of releasing 2021 movies on HBO Max; sources: Warner Bros. paid $200M+ to appease talent — WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar fired the streaming service's top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. He says it's a recipe for success.
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Vox, CNN, Hollywood Reporter, Digital TV Europe, C21Media, The Desk, Bloomberg, Digiday, @drewfitzgerald, @brooksbarnesnyt, @wsj, @jbflint and The Information
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Peter Kafka / Vox: It never made sense for AT&T to buy WarnerMedia. Now it's undoing its $100 billion deal.
Brian Stelter / CNN: AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery are in talks about combining
Jonathan Easton / Digital TV Europe: AT&T in talks to spin off media assets including HBO Max to standalone business with Discovery
Nico Franks / C21Media: Warner, Discovery in shock merger talks
Matthew Keys / The Desk: AT&T looks to merge media assets with Discovery
Tara Lachapelle / Bloomberg: Is AT&T Giving Up on HBO Max?
Michael Bürgi / Digiday: Media Buying Briefing: Omnicom launches a retro-style panel to codify post-pandemic consumer types
Drew FitzGerald / @drewfitzgerald: This @JBFlint piece on @jasonkilar covers pretty much everything about the past year at WarnerMedia, from the early purge of top executives to the payoff from Project Popcorn. Read it. https://www.wsj.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Warners paid $200M to miffed talent/agents after its infamous abrupt shift of movies to HBO Max @jbflint reports in a Kilar profile https://www.wsj.com/...
@wsj: In his first year running WarnerMedia, Jason Kilar fired HBO Max's top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. It's been a crash course in entertainment-industry politics. https://www.wsj.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Thanks @brianstelter for nice plug in Reliable Sources newsletter: — This, by Joe Flint, is the deepest profile of WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar anyone has done. To borrow Kilar's phrase: “Sounds juicy...” (WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/...
Martin Peers / The Information: The Real Cost of Amazon Prime
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
How Netflix uses both personalization and objective rankings in its lists of popular shows, and how it continues to test rankings to encourage more viewing — This story is the second in a two-part series about the inner workings of Netflix's homepage. Read the first story here.
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Kale Howell / Streamfunc: Netflix knows you better than you
@tvmojoe: Last month, I did a deep dive into the creation of Netflix's Play Something feature for @vulture. Today, the sequel: I dig into how the company decided to get into the top 10 business—and why objective data is now supplementing the Almighty Algorithm. https://www.vulture.com/...
@vulture: “Some people, what they really want to see is, what is everyone watching? They want to be in the conversation” https://www.vulture.com/...
Paul Volpe / Politico:
Why WaPo likely looked outside its own ranks to hire a female EIC, including a shrinking newsroom before Bezos' takeover, plus structural and cultural issues — When the Washington Post on Tuesday named Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press as its next executive editor—the first woman to have the role …
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Washington Post, @jonnelle, The Guardian, @isabelberwick, @jonfortt, @pamaples, @lizseymour, @mitrakalita, @emilyingram, @lizsly, @katchow, @alyssarosenberg, @everdeenmason, @sominisengupta, @brigidschulte, @jayrosen_nyu, @blackamazon, @laura_nelson, @neenareports, @sarahkaplan48, @kemettler, @dlippman, @alexlaughs, @s_m_i, @erinbanco, @emmacarew, @mimapamundi, @miriamelder, @neenareports, @pvolpe and @oliverdarcy
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: The Washington Post will soon have a woman as its top editor. And yes, that matters.
Jonnelle Marte / @jonnelle: “Women I spoke to also mentioned the paper's gender pay disparity. This was not just anecdotal, but systemic, according to a 2019 study released by The Post Guild.” https://twitter.com/...
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian: Sally Buzbee, first woman to edit Washington Post, to focus on diversity
Isabel Berwick / @isabelberwick: Fascinating about WaPo specifically but reflects generally the sorts of blocks on women in newsrooms- until very recently. Lack of pipeline over the past decades is key. https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
Jon Fortt / @jonfortt: This isn't just a WaPo issue. Media orgs talk a big game about diversity. But look at who gets elevated and consulted in their core strategic areas. https://www.politico.com/...
Pam Maples / @pamaples: And the “missing generation” also went missing from a lot of other newsrooms not as high profile as the Post. https://www.politico.com/...
Liz Seymour / @lizseymour: “The editor of Features is a woman” is me and I was not contacted or asked to comment. I am very proud of my career at The Washington Post and the many great women editors I've worked with and mentored consistently over the years. https://www.politico.com/...
S. Mitra Kalita / @mitrakalita: Perhaps you look back on photos like this now and realize ... the very thing we been seeing, living and fighting our whole careers. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Ingram / @emilyingram: Very true of my experience as well. While at the Post, I can point to 4 particular women who were integral in teaching me key skills or making space for me to tackle new projects. All 4 went onto leadership roles at other newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Sly / @lizsly: On the lack of opportunities for women for career advancement past a certain point at the Washington Post, which explains why the newspaper had to look outside the paper to hire the first woman editor. By @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Kat Chow / @katchow: “Every one of us wanted to move up, but there was no chance.” https://twitter.com/...
Alyssa Rosenberg / @alyssarosenberg: Interesting that this piece on women at the @washingtonpost says barely a word about @PostOpinions, which is chock-full of amazing women, many of whom have been hired and promoted during my seven years there. https://www.politico.com/...
EverQueen Mason / @everdeenmason: I asked questions about how we define and implement objectivity and how my objective truth didn't match a white man's and they told me I should consider if journalism is for me 🤷🏾♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Somini Sengupta / @sominisengupta: “Many of the paper's star women reporters and editors over the past 20 years simply lacked a path forward.” (This is true in other news organizations...) https://www.politico.com/...
Brigid Schulte / @brigidschulte: THIS is a must read @SallyBuzbee - Blazing Stars ... Just Disappeared': The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post https://www.politico.com/... via @politico @pvolpe. Imperative to create pathways for opportunity beyond what we saw as “the white male escalator to success”
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “A reporter writing a story about Donald Trump's White House would often be running it up a chain of five white men.” The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post. https://www.politico.com/...
@blackamazon: Again the person most likely to have left journalism was a Black woman 25-44 https://twitter.com/...
Laura J. Nelson / @laura_nelson: “When I was thinking of leaving I imagined what the next two to five years would look like ... and there was a limited set of possibilities.” Phew, this piece: https://www.politico.com/...
Neena Satija / @neenareports: “Virtually every major coverage area for which the Post is known has a man at its helm, including national, politics, foreign, local, investigations, national security, sports, Outlook, and health and science.” https://www.politico.com/...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: This is bleak, and makes me so grateful for my band of women friends and mentors. “Several editors made the same point: The sense was that very few women were going to rise into the upper ranks, so women felt pitted against each other for top jobs.” https://www.politico.com/...
Daniel Lippman / @dlippman: “Former Post editor Susan Glasser recounted an interaction with Bradlee ... 'Ben Bradlee, the legendary former editor of the Post, came up to me at a party. I hear you're going to get the national job, he said to me. “Do you have the balls for it?"' https://www.politico.com/...
Alex Sujong Laughlin / @alexlaughs: This rings so true. Nearly all the women I admired or worked with at the Post have moved on to leadership roles at other organizations. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: There's a quote in this story that there are women who aren't as “supportive” as other male editors and https://www.politico.com/...
Erin Banco / @erinbanco: “This isn't just a recent issue: business, politics, national, local and Outlook haven't had a woman in charge in more than a decade. The foreign desk and editorial page haven't been led by a woman for more than 20 years.” via @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: This is an important read, not because of the details from inside WaPo, but for the entire industry to consider how we groom and develop succession plans and candidates—and do so with diversity and belonging in mind. https://www.politico.com/...
Mara Snchez Dez / @mimapamundi: “The Post's executive leadership pipeline has long been so male-dominated that, according to interviews with staffers and other press accounts, there were no women internally who were considered leading candidates to be the next executive editor” https://www.politico.com/...
Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: whew https://www.politico.com/...
Neena Satija / @neenareports: “The excuse that there is no pipeline is no excuse. You have to create the pipeline.” Great piece from @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Paul Volpe / @pvolpe: The pipeline problem for women at the Post is cultural and goes back 20+ years: the product of a newsroom dominated by men, where women lacked mentors, support, encouragement to go after top jobs. https://www.politico.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “The Post's executive leadership pipeline has long been so male dominated that, according to interviews with staffers and other press accounts, there were no women internally who were considered leading candidates to be the next executive editor.” https://www.politico.com/...
The Daily Beast:
Unlike many in the media, MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan and Ayman Mohyeldin are granting airtime to Palestinians instead of heavily relying on Israeli government accounts — NEW VIEW — Much of the American television news coverage of the ongoing violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip has followed a familiar …
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Source: former Hollywood Reporter editor Matthew Belloni has become a founding member of a new media company that has raised $7M and aims to launch this summer — Matthew Belloni, former Editorial Director at The Hollywood Reporter, has joined as a founding partner for a new media company …
Variety:
Investors and analysts including Warren Buffett weigh in on “stupid” stock swings affecting ViacomCBS, Discovery, and AMC Entertainment, plus problematic SPACs — There's no better moment to take the pulse of the investment landscape than during the annual shareholders meeting …
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
A look at the Ambies, Podcast Academy's annual podcast awards whose nominees across 23 categories were chosen by 100+ members, ahead of its inaugural show — Podcasts: Where can you listen to them? Anywhere podcasts are available! — But how do you know the best podcasts to try?
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@stephenwilson, @davewiner, @mattdpearce, @laura_nelson, @neddonovan, @teddwoods, @mattdpearce and @latimes
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Steve Wilson / @stephenwilson: I spoke with the @latimes about ‘The Ambies’ — the Podcasts Academy's award show. Thanks, @mattdpearce https://www.latimes.com/...
Dave Winer / @davewiner: Can the new Podcast Academy break the awards show curse? https://www.latimes.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: also one of the things I need to figure out as a new culture reporter is reconciling my below-industry-average interest in celebrities and my absurdly-above-industry-average interest in bylaws and governance https://twitter.com/...
Laura J. Nelson / @laura_nelson: Podcasts: Where can you listen to them? Anywhere podcasts are available! But how do you know the best podcasts to try? Asdfjasdjfkasdkfdfasdfasdf. Another iconic @mattdpearce lede, here: https://www.latimes.com/...
Ned Donovan / @neddonovan: Last week I had a call with @mattdpearce from the @latimes about The Ambies and my thoughts that led to the article I wrote (threaded) with reservations about the nominations list. Thanks Matt for letting me add voice to this conversation! https://www.latimes.com/... #podcast
Ted Woods / @teddwoods: Excited to be a part of this weekend's inaugural show! Come hang with the best-of-the-best of the podcasting universe...shout out to @NatGeoTV team and @MarianaVZ for #BestInterviewShow nomination! https://www.latimes.com/...
The Intercept:
The Intercept stands by its reporting on Gab and “Riot Squad”, after it was accused of doxxing conservative journalists, says its reporters have been harassed — Over the past several days, wild and unfounded accusations have been hurled at The Intercept.
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Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: Fox News devoted its programming last night to spreading malicious lies about @TheIntercept & its journalists. It is part of a coordinated, lie-filled smear campaign that has sparked a doxxing & harassment attack on our journalists & their families. https://theintercept.com/...
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: The fact that @ggreenwald has been one of the most prominent promoters of these smears against @TheIntercept disturbs me deeply. I have a long, complex relationship with Glenn, but he has gone too far in these attacks. It is unjust and wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: “It is particularly sad and infuriating that much of the impulsion for this campaign has been generated by the unbalanced tweets of a founder of The Intercept who resigned and falsely accused The Intercept of censoring him” https://theintercept.com/...
@natsecgeek: The doxing campaign that targeted #DDoSecrets over #GabLeaks has moved on to @theintercept. We stand with The Intercept for their reporting on Gab and other DDoSecrets datasets and all their other great reporting like Riot Squad https://theintercept.com/...
@ijbailey: @ggreenwald @Julio_Rosas11 @VenturaReport Who is saying it is immoral to criticize journalists at the NYT or The Intercept? Sounds like a straight up straw man argument to me.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: At some point, journalists are going to need consistent, universally applicable standards that answer this: Why is it OK to use a billionaire's money to produce a video attacking reporters @Julio_Rosas11 & @VenturaReport, but it's immoral to criticize NYT & Intercept writers?
@richiemcginniss: Your outlet comes out with a hit piece that doxxes me and my team while implying that I deleted evidence in a nationally prominent homicide—a felony So we go on Fox to defend our reporting by citing specific instances where your reporter got facts wrong Am I missing something? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jasonrantz: The gaslighting is strong here. Wow. The Intercept smeared journalists — my friends — for being conservatives, putting them in danger. Now Jeremy pretends it's the Intercept folks who are victims. Riiiight. https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Nance / @malcolmnance: Damn Jeremy. What took you so long? https://twitter.com/...
@shoq: When those chickens come home to roost, just pretend the chicken is going too damn far this time. https://twitter.com/...
Elijah Schaffer / @elijahschaffer: Far left blogger & political activist @RobertMackey created one of the lamest hit pieces on the Riot Squad for the @theintercept The backlash was so strong they even disabled comments on one of their posts Now they are doing damage control, but we are just laughing at them https://twitter.com/...
Geoffrey Ingersoll / @gpingersoll: If you “stand” by it, why did you never contact me with a comprehensive list of the accusations you intended to publish about our brand and the people working for it? Very simple question, can you answer it? Before you accused us of obstruction of justice with ZERO EVIDENCE. https://twitter.com/...
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Jack Crosbie / Discourse Blog:
In internal meeting, CEO Meredith Levien defended NYT's refusal to voluntarily recognize The NYT Tech Guild, saying its members are tech people, not journalists — In a meeting with staffers, Meredith Levien had several reasons for why she's fighting her paper's newest organizing effort.
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Jack Crosbie / @jscros: Here's direct quotes from NYT CEO Meredith Levien at an all-hands meeting yesterday explaining why her tech employees don't deserve union recognition: because they're not journalists, and because some of them still “need more information.” https://discourseblog.com/...
John Emerson / @backspace: 2014 NYT Innovation Report: Tech workers are 2nd class citizens at NYT 2021 NYT Tech Workers: We're tired of being 2nd class citizens at the NYT. Recognize our union? NYT CEO: Well, unions are ok for journalists, but tech workers... https://discourseblog.com/...
@mcallguild: Hey there Meredith. Unions are for everyone. Even “non” journalists. And the whole “need more information” is some pretty tired union busting https://twitter.com/...
Katie Gillespie / @k_gillespie: Amazing how the argument that journalists don't need unions because it isn't a job like longshoremen or railroad worker has come so far it's looped itself. https://twitter.com/...
Ali Winston / @awinston: Reprehensible but unsurprising given the Sulzbergers' decades long opposition to unionization within the Times https://discourseblog.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: I will never understand this. Here in Denmark, anyone is free to unionize for any reason, and no company can object ... by law! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Zagata / @zagatam: Since when do you have to be a journalist to have a union? The auto workers would like a word. Would also like to know what does and doesn't count as a journalism job in the company's eyes https://twitter.com/...
nyguild.org: NewsGuild of New York to Host In-Person May Day Rally for Media Workers on 5/1; Will Picket Condé Nast and Call Out The New York Times
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: This is not going to go well, and the Times would be smart to reverse course now and recognize the union. The “you aren't journalists” line is simply bizarre. When I was there, ad sales people were union. Maybe still are. This is not smart. https://twitter.com/...
@kathyvsinternet: Some replies/QTs here asking who counts as a journalist—good thought exercise but mostly not relevant to @NYTGuildTech campaign. My colleagues + I aren't unionizing bc we want to be re-categorized as journalists. We're unionizing bc we're *workers* and all workers need a union. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: personally i don't understand why the specific labor someone performs would change their right to collective bargaining but then again i'm not the CEO of the new york times https://discourseblog.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Simon / @sarambsimon: true story: meredith's assistant once reached out bc she wanted to tell me just how impressed meredith had been with a piece of journalism that i, then working as a nyt software engineer, had produced. said it had helped meredith prepare for a panel she was moderating. neat! https://twitter.com/...
@wolfewylie: As a unionized tech worker at a news organization, I can say without hesitation or reservation: we are journalists. https://twitter.com/...
@dansinker: I've worked with technologists at the New York Times across multiple departments at many levels for *years* and I can say that they absolutely are journalists. Go on strike. https://twitter.com/...
@demarko: Say it with me: the reason all the anti-union points sound familiar is because there are no new anti-union points. The @NYTGuildTech has a majority, they're prepared to show it https://discourseblog.com/...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: Fun fact: during most of my time at the NYT I was technically a business-side employee. https://twitter.com/...
Casey / @ckolderup: *sweating* tech workers shouldn't unionize because... uh... *looks around room, sees a journalist* they're not journalists https://twitter.com/...
Marybeth Seitz-Brown / @marybeth_sb: fun fact: you do not need to be a journalist to deserve a union! https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Bloch-Wehba / @hbwhbwhbw: I thought the NYT was a tech company? https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Cooper Lund / @cooperlund: The biggest indicator that you need a union will always be your boss saying you don't need one https://twitter.com/...
Soo Youn / @lalasoo: For absolutely no reason, I am reminded of the Friends' episode when Joey insulted the soap opera writers. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Vanasco / @jonathanvanasco: At multiple round-tables and conferences, I cringed when the NYT's CTO/VP Engineering/etc gloated and boasted about how they did not have recruiting issues and were able to underpay their tech workers because of the prestige factor in working at their organization. It is rotten. https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: nyt's decision to not recognize the tech union is very corny. solidarity!! https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i am curious how she thinks Times journalism finds it's way to and stays up on the internet? honestly outrageous given how much the paper has benefitted from (and how much nyt journalists' work benefits) from the paper's excellent technical infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: PMseething over here https://twitter.com/...
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