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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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Financial Times: Sources: AT&T board is meeting on Sunday to approve a deal to combine WarnerMedia with rival Discovery, creating a media giant with an enterprise value of $150B
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
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Discovery CEO David Zaslav Commits to CNN After WarnerMedia Merger, Vows to ‘Lean Into’ News
Brian Steinberg / Variety: David Zaslav to Lead Combined WarnerMedia-Discovery as Landmark Deal is Confirmed
Charles Riley / CNN: The next phase of the streaming wars is all about scale
Washington Post: AT&T to merge media and entertainment division with Discovery Inc., forming streaming behemoth that includes HBO and CNN
Alex Sherman / CNBC: AT&T in advanced talks to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery, deal expected as soon as Monday
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
Colby Hall / Mediaite: BREAKING: AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia—Including CNN—and Combine with Discovery
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: WarnerMedia-Discovery Merger Analysis: Streaming ls Crucial, Linear TV Counts Too
Ian Casselberry / Awful Announcing: AT&T to combine WarnerMedia assets with Discovery in blockbuster merger
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: OFFICIAL: Discovery to Merge with AT&T's WarnerMedia, with Discovery's Zaslav as CEO
Hoai-Tran Bui / /Film: AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia, Including HBO Max, in $43 Billion Deal with Discovery
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: Zaslav says of CNN that “not only are we going to keep it” but now the new mission is “to take everything we have in news, combine it with CNN, and be a world leader in news.”
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.
Claire Atkinson / @claireatki: AT&T CEO John Stankey has the demeanor of a man who just had a great weight lifted off his shoulders.
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: What's happening with AT&T and Discovery?
Claire Atkinson / Insider: AT&T is in deal talks to create a new streaming giant with Discovery
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: AT&T confirms deal to combine its WarnerMedia subsidiary with Discovery Inc in ‘pure play’ $43B deal
Irina Slav / Talking Biz News: AT&T talks media merger with Discovery
Christopher Mims / @mims: The eternal cycle of media acquisitions by “tech” companies: 1. Company that makes money in unrelated way notices media companies growing 2. Buys them, messes them up or realizes not a fit 3. Spins them out, they die or start growing again Repeat. https://www.wsj.com/...
Mike Shields / I have some questions: Is Hulu the biggest media lost opportunity of all time? Or was it destined to be what it is?
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: scoop: the new company would be valued at $150bn. AT&T's board is meeting today at noon to approve the deal. AT&T is expected to control most of the combined entity. w/ @JFK_America https://www.ft.com/...
@cnbc: Discovery CEO David Zaslav tells @davidfaber he thinks the combined Discovery, WarnerMedia company can reach up to 400 million streaming subscribers across the world, up from the 100 million subscribers the 2 separate companies have today. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Joyella / Forbes: Will Jeff Zucker Stay At CNN After AT&T Spins Off WarnerMedia?
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Considering all that is going on now, is Hulu the biggest lost media opportunity of all time? https://mikeshields.substack.com/ ...
Erik Davis / @erikdavis: Big entertainment news to start the week! For anyone who's ever wanted to see the Justice League compete against one another on an episode of Guy's Grocery Games, we're getting closer to that becoming reality! https://twitter.com/...
Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster: Let's have Disney buy CenturyLink now. Bankers, sign painters and business card printers need to get paid!
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Yes John Stankey is as bad as we all knew at media strategery via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dave Itzkoff / @ditzkoff: A unified mega-library of content dedicated to a single objective: cast Jean Smart in everything https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: Just three years after AT&T acquired Time Warner, it's now spinning off Warner Media to create a new company with Discovery. The new company will be bigger than Netflix or NBCUniversal and become the second-largest media company in the US, behind Disney. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino: Its amazing that Zaslav will run the combined biz given the economic involved. Reminds me of Chase buying the smaller Bank One to get its CEO, Jamie Dimon, to run the whole thing—AT&T, in Abrupt Turn, Will Shed Media Business in Deal With Discovery https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: The deal came together very quickly. In February, Mr. Zaslav sent an email to Mr. Stankey to discuss a possible deal. He added some emoji flair to his signoff with several 🏌🏻and one 😎. $t $disca https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zack Sharf / IndieWire: AT&T Spins Off WarnerMedia and Merges It with Discovery: First Reactions to the Megadeal
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: NYT: “The new company would create a new kind of media behemoth, one that is still living off the fat profits of old-school cable, while spending those profits (and more) on streaming.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: i'm shocked, simply shocked https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: .@brianstelter asks Zaslav if CNN will be spun off. Zaslav says “We love CNN... We think one of the true differentiators of the future is live news, live sports.”
Andrew Wallenstein / @awallenstein: No better new name for WarnerMedia-Discovery than: WMD Now there's an acronym with some oomph to it, no? 😉 https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: As WSJ reported in last night's story, Discovery CEO David Zaslav met with John Stankey and WarnerMedia execs two years about a joint-venture but talks didn't go anywhere. https://www.wsj.com/...
Scott Porch / @scottporch: “Now sources believe NBCU will turn its sights on ViacomCBS.” — @kimmasters https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Here's what we're expecting this morning: An announcement AT&T has merged WarnerMedia into Discovery. https://www.cnbc.com/... Things to look for upon announcement: *Leadership/executive departures (expect Zaslav to run co) *Name of newco *What eventually happens to Discovery+
Zaki Hasan / @zakiscorner: No idea what this means in the long term, but I do feel comfortable saying the folks who think this is because of WB's handling of certain superhero properties should probably get out more. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jake Cole / @thatjakepc: No one knows anything but the same 60 idiots will just keep absorbing fired employees' salaries into their own as they trade the country's dwindling content reservoirs back and forth for tax reasons https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: AT&T combining HBO, CNN, and more with Discovery to create ‘formidable’ rival to Netflix, Disney
Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino: One issue that hasn't been discussed is the future of Jeff Zucker at @CNN. Before the deal talks, he was on the way out but he and David Zaslav are close so dont be surprised if he stays https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Grace Randolph / @gracerandolph: It's official. AT&T is going to spin-off Warner Media into a new company with Discovery. Discovery lead David Zaslov will run things, looks like Jason Kilar might be out after one year. I have a very busy day today with outside appts so might have to break this down tomorrow. https://twitter.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: Well, the entire “AT&T decides to be a media company for awhile” saga was a very expensive nothingburger that turned out to be a big waste of everbody's time. ...just like most of the new shows it had planned for HBO Max heyoooooo https://www.theverge.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Reminder that @Caseybloys was the guy who made all the HBO shows you liked before AT&T showed up, and he's still there. For now.
David Pierce / Protocol: Bill Gates under the microscope
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: of mentions of WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar in the Discovery WarnerMedia press release $DISCA $T https://twitter.com/...
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: AT&T's WarnerMedia merging with Discovery in $43B deal to form new streaming service
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.
@kerrymflynn: Nothing says “broadly appealing content” better than DDD and GGG https://twitter.com/...
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.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: It's official: AT&T and Discovery, Inc. have announced a deal under which AT&T's WarnerMedia will be spun off and combined with Discovery in a new standalone media company. Here's my full story... https://www.cnn.com/...
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.
Brian Winter / @brazilbrian: I still think we're headed for a world with just 3-6 subscription mega-content services, with everything (TV, newspapers, premium delivery, etc) bundled together https://www.google.com/...
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.
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Verizon spins out Yahoo/AOL and now AT&T spins out WarnerMedia. These mergers never made sense since only synergy they brought was anti-competitive (i.e charging users less for HBO traffic vs Netflix) Highlights the importance of having an actual strategy https://www.cnn.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: In a press conference, David Zaslav confirms a detail in this story from @kimmasters and I last night: He approached John Stankey about an HBO merger a few years ago: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: If you follow the long story of media ownership over the past 40 years you see a constant churn of consolidation and spinning off, debt and more debt, with no discernible pattern and general failure all around. No model works better than any other. 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/...
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/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: No sale of @CNN, according to Zaslav who vows to make it “a world leader in news.”
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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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Ken Meyer / Mediaite: CNN's John Berman Calls AT&T Spinning Off Media Assets — Including CNN — a ‘Stunning Retreat’
Ed Hammond / @edhammondny: This aged well https://www.wsj.com/...
Nicholas Carlson / @nichcarlson: The weekend started very differently for Jason Kilar (with this fancy WSJ profile) than it ended (with a new boss and king of WarnerMedia, David Zaslav). https://www.wsj.com/...
Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club: 3 years after buying Time Warner, AT&T wants to dump its media business and merge with Discovery
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: AT&T and Discovery Are Reportedly in Talks to Combine Content to Take on Disney and Netflix
Jon Lafayette / nexttv.com: AT&T and Discovery In Talks To Combine Media Assets: Report
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Report: AT&T Readies WarnerMedia-Discovery Inc. Merger
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: FWIW AT&T never clearly articulated a reason for buying Time Warner. No media reporter or executive ever thought it made a lot of sense. And yet... HBO Max is a great product.
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/...
Hollywood Reporter:
John Stankey and David Zaslav discuss their vision for the WarnerMedia deal, saying the company will have a content spend that exceeds most competitors at $20B — AT&T chief John Stankey and Zaslav, who will lead the new venture, also addressed the status of WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar and the future of CNN.
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Joe Flint / @jbflint: Discovery CEO David Zaslav on need to combine with WarnerMedia during investor call: “You gotta have content people love so much they would run home and pay for it before they pay for dinner or a roof over their head.”
Charles Barfield / The Playlist: WarnerMedia Is Merging With Discovery But The Big Questions Still Don't Have Answers
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: 🤔 “We had the right strategy, we just didn't have the right shareholders” https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: David Zaslav tells CNBC he wants his new company to reach 400 million streaming subsribers https://www.cnbc.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Zaslov: “By 2023, we'll be generating over $14 billion in EBITA and over $12 billion in cash. This company is going to be a cash generating machine [I think he said.]...We're going to execute on that synergy, and we're going to spend more [more than $20b] on content.”
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Zaslov: “Netflix is a great company, Disney is a great company....we think we can be in 400 million homes.” CNBC: “You think you can hit 400 million homes?” Zaslov: “There's billions of people in the world!”
Adam Chitwood / Collider: WarnerMedia to Merge With Discovery, Creating a New Company
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Zaslov: “We're probably the greatest entertainment company in the world.” Notes very specific IP: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Sex and the City, Entourage. This is how poorly Harry Potter was handled. When you think WarnerMedia IP you think Entourage before Harry Potter.
John Johnson / Newser: AT&T Joins With Discovery to Create New Media Titan
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: What will a Discovery-WarnerMedia streaming service look like? What will happen to Jason Kilar? What about CNN? The CEOs of AT&T and Discovery convened reporters on Zoom this morning to discuss: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Stankey reiterating it became clear they were hitting an escape velocity. Again, Stankey orchestrated a massive $150 billion purchase of DirecTV and Time Warner, only to sell both for a fraction of the cost and lean back into being a broadband and mobile company.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Zaslav says they plan to invest heavily in CNN's DTC offering, which is something that Kilar spoke to in the past. So looks like CNN+ (CNN Go?) is absolutely going to happen.
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 — 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
John Haltiwanger / Insider: Blinken says he hasn't seen evidence to back up Israel's justification for bombing Gaza building that housed AP and Al Jazeera offices
@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/...
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: John Oliver Accuses Israel of Committing ‘War Crimes’ Against Palestinians and Practicing ‘Apartheid’
@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/...
Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source: AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau
@ap: BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas operating in a Gaza office building that Israel destroyed in an airstrike. The building housed The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media. https://apne.ws/6Jv2zv8
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/...
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/...
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/...
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.
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes: Blinken Says He's Seen No Evidence To Justify Bombing Of Media Building In Gaza
Steve Berman / The Racket News: AP, ABC repeat lies about Israel, oblivious that they are spoon-fed by Hamas
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: Blinken says he hasn't seen evidence Hamas was using destroyed AP building in Gaza
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post: Associated Press slammed for claim it was unaware of Hamas in building
T. Becket Adams / And another thing: The Associated Press better hope the Israeli army screwed up
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/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Proximity and possible deception complicate media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Shira Rubin / Washington Post: Israeli airstrikes kill 42 in Gaza as Biden, regional partners push for cease-fire
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast: John Oliver Accuses Israel of ‘War Crimes’ and ‘Apartheid’ Against Palestinians
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/...
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.
Lotte Leicht / @lotteleicht1: The “attack on a building long known by #Israel to house international media raises the specter that the Israel Defense Forces is deliberately targeting media facilities in order to disrupt coverage of the human suffering in #Gaza” @JoelCPJ @PressFreedom https://cpj.org/...
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
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/...
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/...
Cortney O'Brien / Fox News: Netanyahu calls out the AP after claiming they weren't warned about Israeli airstrike: 'You weren't lucky'
The Indian Express: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 26, flatten three buildings; OIC leaders hold emergency meet
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/...
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
@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
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/...
Manori Ravindran / Variety: Israel Airstrikes Destroy Associated Press and Al Jazeera Bureaus in Gaza
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/...
Emily G / @emilygorcenski: This action has no legitimacy under any possible framing. 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/...
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/...
@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/...
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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.
Discussion:
@rasmus_kleis, @hotlinejosh, @dellcam, @kenklippenstein, @adammilstein, @hotweatherisbad, News of the Jews, @amyspiro, @geraldngom, @doranimated, @wolfe321, @huwlemmey, @octavianasr, Melanie Phillips, @mazdaki, @marietjeschaake, @leahmcelrath, @e_h_carpenter, @sebusher, @zaidjilani, @alistaircoleman, @jvplive, @sasapetricic, The NewsGuild - CWA, @davidgura, @qifanabki, @sameralatrush, @sameralatrush, @sameralatrush, @janinedigi, @naveedajamali, @pseudocia, @eliothiggins, @digiphile, @lukeisamazing, @mazdaki, @jonathancohn, @lisang, @markberman, @scottdetrow, @evanlaksmana, @aaschapiro, @hichamyezza, @multied, @sameralatrush, @janearraf and @eylonalevy
Discussion:
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/...
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.
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/...
Melanie Phillips: A murderous co-operation — Journalists and the Biden administration have been clutching …
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/...
@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/...
Sally Davidow / The NewsGuild - CWA: NewsGuild statement on Israeli government bombing of media organizations offices
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/...
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/...
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/...
Apple:
Apple says it will bring lossless audio to all Apple Music subscribers for free and will support Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos, available from June — The next generation of sound on Apple Music is coming to subscribers June 2021 at no additional cost — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today …
Discussion:
ScreenRant, TechCrunch, Variety, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Engadget, @talkaboutdesign, @rayredacted, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, @caseynewton, @hugorifkind, @bzamayo, @rsgnl, @reckless, @bzamayo, @chriswelch, @reneritchie, @tomwarren, @alexhern, @reneritchie, The Verge, @richontech, @wongmjane, @journeydan, @viticci, @maxbalzer_, @brandonbutch, 9to5Mac, @stijndv and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Jem Aswad / Variety: Apple Music Unveils High-Quality Audio Option; Amazon Expands Its High-Def Plan
Victoria Song / Gizmodo: It's Official—Apple Music's Getting Hifi Streaming
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: How to listen to Apple Music Lossless Audio and what you need
Billy Steele / Engadget: Apple Music will offer Dolby Atmos and lossless streaming starting next month
Maksim Petriv / @talkaboutdesign: “At no additional cost...” is the best part of this announcement. https://twitter.com/...
@rayredacted: This is going to sell ALOT of airpods and airpods Max, but audiophiles will be quick to report that it isn't truly lossless if it is running on apple's implementation of BlueTooth. https://twitter.com/...
José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Apple Music Lossless tidbits: iOS 14.6, HomePod support, compatible headphones, more
Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Apple Music Dolby Atmos Compatible With All AirPods Models and Other Headphones
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Apple and Amazon using their unlimited cash flow to subsidize ‘free’ lossless audio to music customers has big ‘Google offering free photo storage just long enough to starve its independent competitors to death before starting to charge’ energy
Hugo Rifkind / @hugorifkind: Quite proud to have just caught London's summer. It lasted from 13.15 to 13.42 and I went out in the garden and ate a sandwich. Thunder now. Hope next year is nice.
Benjamin Mayo / @bzamayo: Apple press release says they will send Dolby Atmos music to any W1 / H1 headphones, so we'll have to see how good the ‘spatial audio’ effect is. Currently, “Spatial Audio” is only supported on AirPods Pro and AirPods Max.
Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl: Apple Music with Spatial Audio + Lossless Audio is available in iOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.6, macOS 11.4, or tvOS 14.6 or later, according to Apple.
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Very cool of Apple for offering three tiers - including a higher quality tier than its devices can even support - instead of pretending the CD was the pinnacle of audio quality https://www.theverge.com/...
Benjamin Mayo / @bzamayo: “Lossless” and “Hi Res Lossless” coming to Apple Music https://9to5mac.com/...
Chris Welch / @chriswelch: Apple just confirmed to me that lossless audio is *exclusive to Apple Music.* Subscription required. There won't be an option to purchase tracks or albums in that quality, nor will it be offered with iTunes Match. https://www.theverge.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: Apple has officially announced lossless audio for Apple Music. It's arriving in June, and it tops out at 24-bit/192kHz https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: my most basic opinion is that I simply do not understand the point of any audio better than a 128kbps spotify stream https://www.apple.com/...
Rene Ritchie / @reneritchie: Apple Music Lossless: 🍎ALAC format 💿 Starts at CD-quality 16 bit 44.1 kHz 📡 Goes to 24 bit 48 kHz 📱 Plays natively on Apple devices Hi-Res Lossless: 🤯 Up to 24 bit 192 kHz 🎛 Requires external USB DAC, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Rich DeMuro / @richontech: Now Apple Music announces spatial audio, coming in June for free to subscribers will make music sound like it's coming from various directions... https://www.apple.com/...
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: Here it is — Apple introduces Lossless Audio in Apple Music https://www.apple.com/...
Daniel Bader / @journeydan: Wow, Apple isn't fucking around, will start offering up to 24-bit/48 kHz lossless for its entire Apple Music catalog starting next month without raising the $9.99 price https://www.apple.com/...
Federico Viticci / @viticci: Apple Music with Spatial Audio and lossless quality is official: - Spatial Audio powered by Dolby Atmos on all headphones with W1/H1 chip - Growing catalog of Spatial Audio music - Lossless quality (at 16 bit 44.1 kHz or 24 bit at 48 kHz) https://www.apple.com/...
Max Balzer / @maxbalzer_: “Apple Music announces Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos; will bring Lossless Audio to entire catalog.” Also coming at no additional cost to subscribers. https://www.apple.com/...
Brandon Butch / @brandonbutch: Apple just announced lossless & spatial audio! Coming next month at no additional cost. 🎵 https://www.apple.com/...
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple Music adding lossless streaming to entire catalog at no extra cost, Spatial Audio support with Dolby Atmos
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Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Amazon Music HD is now available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers for free, effectively cutting the Hi-Fi service's price from $14.99 to $9.99 per month
Discussion:
Engadget, @amazonmusic, @kintan, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, @c_davies, The Verge, @richontech, @richontech, @richontech, @micahsingleton and musically.com, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
@amazonmusic: Our highest quality audio. Now at no extra cost. Discover over 70 million songs in HD. Tag the artist you're most excited to listen to in HD 👇 https://www.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kintan Brahmbhatt / @kintan: Starting today, all Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers will get access to HD at no additional cost. That's BIG news! https://twitter.com/...
José Adorno / 9to5Mac: On the same day as Apple Music HiFi launch, Amazon drops price of its HD streaming service
Chris Davies / @c_davies: Meanwhile, Amazon is also adding lossless audio to its Music Unlimited package. Previously you'd have had to pay $5/mo extra for Music HD. Amazon also includes both Dolby Atmos (like Apple will) and Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound https://www.slashgear.com/...
Rich DeMuro / @richontech: I like how the Amazon Music App shows you the features offered on each song https://twitter.com/...
Rich DeMuro / @richontech: OK, so if you subscribe to Amazon Music (as in, pay a monthly fee each month to listen), you can tap the button on this page to upgrade your streaming to HD quality for free (I subscribed over the weekend, so I'll be testing this out soon) https://www.amazon.com/...
Rich DeMuro / @richontech: Oh wow. And Amazon Music HD plays nicely with Sonos. Will have to listen to this later this morning to see if I can discern a difference in audio quality! https://twitter.com/...
Micah Singleton / @micahsingleton: NEW: Amazon Music HD is now available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers for free, the company tells @billboard. Amazon is the first streaming service to make high-fidelity music streaming available at $9.99 a month ($7.99 a month for Prime members) https://www.billboard.com/...
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 …
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: Former Hollywood Reporter Editor Matthew Belloni Named Partner of Digital Media Startup
Jim Maiella / @jimmaiella: One of the first things I did after moving from cable to content 8 years ago was fly across the country to have a introductory drink with @MattBelloni. Excited to see what he builds here. Velvet rope email newsletter is very smart, very Studio 54. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Reuters:
Axel Springer and Facebook strike a global deal, allowing content from Bild, Welt, Insider, and others to be distributed in Facebook News at its German launch — Axel Springer and Facebook said on Monday that they had agreed on a global cooperation deal under which content from the German publisher …
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Gabe Brotman / @gbrotman: Other media/tech news this AM: @axelspringer & @facebook sign a global content deal. Content from @bild @welt @COMPUTERBILD @thisisinsider (national + UK eds) to launch on FB News; @autobild will follow. https://www.axelspringer.com/ ...
Mark Scott / @markscott82: Funny what a period of 5 months can do https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... & https://www.axelspringer.com/ ...
Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
After publishing and removing an article listing Palestinian charities, IGN says it didn't mean to make it seem “we were politically aligned with one side” — Following the most recent set of violent military strikes by the Israel Defense Forces that have leveled entire buildings …
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Virginia Pietromarchi / Al Jazeera: Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera
Rami Ismail / @tha_rami: This is heartbreaking. Not a single fiber of me believes that anyone in editorial at @IGN supports this text. I believe this is a corporate statement in IGN's voice by corporate @ziffdavis or @j2global. I can't see any alternative sequence of events leading to this statement. https://twitter.com/...
Rami Ismail / @tha_rami: “IGN Israel upset to learn IGN tries to raise money for Palestinian children harmed by Israeli bombs” is so cartoonesquely evil that I don't even know what to say https://twitter.com/...
Chris Scullion / @scully1888: Despite IGN management (because I can't see the editorial staff doing this) seemingly bottling it with a “we support both sides” argument, the IGN Israel Facebook post saying “we support the Israel state and the IDF soldiers keeping us safe” is still up. Draw your own conclusions https://twitter.com/...
Maku / @tropicalmaku: If it wasn't transparent enough how evil and cruel the world can be. This is IGN Israel's response to the main IGN acknowledging Palestinian people's suffering and doing what they can to help support those people. https://twitter.com/...
Danny O'Dwyer / @dannyodwyer: [update from IGN quoted] My thoughts; The false equivalence surrounding The Question of Palestine is what enables the right-wing government of Israel to get away with apartheid and state-sanctioned terrorism. Thanks to posts like this, it will continue. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Robinson / @andyplaytonic: IGN's Israel edition here, condemning IGN's support for charities aiding Palestinian civilians (source: Instagram) https://twitter.com/...
Austin Walker / @austin_walker: Would really love to know who the “we” is that's speaking here, because my bet is that it isn't the people who fought to make the post in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
James Bartholomeou / @iyagovos: IGN's Support Palestine page is down, but GameSpot also have an incredibly helpful page with important links. Please do not harass IGN editorial staff for this. They risked their livelihoods making that page, and need support now too. #FreePalestine https://www.gamespot.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: i have no idea what happened here as i have nothing to do with IGN, but i am employed by the same parent company. Israel is an apartheid state. the Netanyahu government is a fascist regime. stand with the people of Palestine. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Person / @papapishu: I'm just gonna say that I really don't think that whoever made them do this is going to accomplish what they sought out to accomplish. https://twitter.com/...
Alanah Pearce / @charalanahzard: IGN didn't take this down. Their parent companies, @j2global and/or @ziffdavis did. Note that they also haven't removed any of IGN's other articles supporting international humanitarian aid. Just this one. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Totilo / Axios: U.S. gaming outlets remove posts supporting Palestinians
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
@blackamazon: I'm still struck by how none of these platforms are even small batch demoing .. asking as a content strategy https://twitter.com/...
@tvmojoe: The “New and Popular” tab on @netflix may be getting a refresh. The company is likely a month or two away from testing a new design, one which might look a lot different than it does now. There could even be sound effects. More in my @vulture report: https://www.vulture.com/...
Sarah Krouse / The Information:
Sources: Google's plans to match Apple's ATT changes have been delayed by internal concerns that such moves will diminish mobile ad revenues — Pressured by Apple's recent iPhone privacy initiative, Google is accelerating work to limit how app developers can track the 2.5 billion people who use phones powered by its Android software.
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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 …
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