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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from the network in protest of Tucker Carlson's streaming special on the January 6 Capitol mob — Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, stars of a brand of conservatism that has fallen out of fashion, decide they've had enough.
Discussion:
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Ben Smith / @benyt: New: Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Special https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: You've heard of being paid with prestige? Working at Fox News is the opposite of that. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite: Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes Quit Fox News in Protest of Tucker Carlson's ‘Revisionist History’ Jan. 6 Special
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Two Fox News contributors quit over Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary
Morgan Keith / Insider: 2 Fox News employees resigned over Tucker Carlson's January 6 documentary, citing concerns it may incite violence
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Two longtime Fox commentators, @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes, say “they've had enough.” They tell @benNYT that they have resigned from Fox. The final straw: Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Fox makes its choice, con't https://twitter.com/...
It Guy / @itguy1959: Meanwhile there was good news today. Two of the most irrelevant trucon pundits in history left @FoxNews in protest. I can almost hear Tucker's signature laugh in the comment below. https://twitter.com/...
@oliviatroye: The Tucker Carlson conspiracy touting special on Kyle Rittenhouse will indeed lead to the promotion of more violence. Thank you Jonah Goldberg & Stephen Hayes for taking a stand for the truth against an ongoing dangerous enterprise. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Fox insiders and outsiders who bemoan its fate in the Trump era are endorsing its pre-Trump existence. When it was run by Roger Ailes. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Wehner / @peter_wehner: A principled stand by principled men. I wish there had been more of their kind during the last few years. In any event, Steve and Jonah did the right thing and have (further) shown the world what Fox News stands for the days. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: These resignations, while welcome, are somewhat hollow gestures. Fox “News” has been relentlessly injecting poison into our civic bloodstream for years, and Carlson's vile show only slightly upped the toxicity. These men bolstered an evil enterprise. Surely they knew that. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Roginsky / @julieroginsky: Lots to unpack here but quite interesting to me is Tucker taking shots publicly at the two contributors on the way out, even FNC officially has no comment. Never would have been allowed back in the day. Who's in charge of the network, exactly? https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “The voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,” @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes write. “With the release of ‘Patriot Purge,’ we felt we could no longer ‘do right as we see it’ and remain at Fox News. So we resigned.” https://thedispatch.com/...
@rpsagainsttrump: Why we are leaving Fox News. “In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: 🤣🤣🤣 <Their departures also mark the end of a lingering hope among some at Fox News — strange as this is for outsiders to understand — that the channel would at some point return to a pre-Trump reality > https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: Lol they were fine with the last 25 years of Fox News racism, misogyny and lying but this was a bridge too far? Yeah. Okay. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: Just as admirable as the officers who quit the Nazi party in late 1945. https://twitter.com/...
Cameron Joseph / @cam_joseph: Heck, five years ago it would've been shocking https://twitter.com/...
Joe Walsh / @walshfreedom: Thank you @stephenfhayes. Thank you @JonahDispatch. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Here's @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes in their own words. https://thedispatch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachael Larimore / @rachaelbl: News from the bosses: https://thedispatch.com/...
Sam Stein / @samstein: Ten years ago it would have been utterly unfathomable to see @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes leave Fox News in protest of the network's coverage. But here we are https://thedispatch.com/...
Jonathan Karl / @jonkarl: .@stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch are two of the smartest conservative writers and thinkers in America. Both are (or were) longtime Fox News contributors. Tonight they resigned. Here's why. https://thedispatch.com/...
@yesnicksearcy: They are leaving because they suck. We didn't need an article about it. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: I'm proud to work with @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes. They made a hard, good call. Jonah: “Whether it's ‘Patriot Purge’ or anti-vax stuff, I don't want it in my name, and I want to call it out and criticize it.” https://twitter.com/...
Arthur Schwartz / @arthurschwartz: “Carlson called Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's resignations ‘great news’ in a telephone interview on Sunday. ‘Our viewers will be grateful.’” Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Special https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: “Resignations like Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's remain rare at Fox. Cable contributor jobs are lucrative — often six figures or more — and open doors to book deals and speaking engagements."https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: We should ALL quit Fox Noise. And reality-based journalists should work to wean America off it. https://presswatchers.org/...
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: Kyle Rittenhouse, Far-Right Darling, Tells Tucker Carlson He ‘Supports the BLM Movement’
Marc E. Elias / @marceelias: Hey Siri, define “the very least they could do.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: what were they still doing there?? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: Mr. Goldberg said that he and Mr. Hayes stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump's defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, “right the ship.” ... WUT??
Jordan Michael Smith / @writerjms: To put this in perspective, one of these guys wrote a ridiculous book concocting an absurd Saddam Hussein/bin Laden connection. The other guy wrote a ridiculous book concocting an absurd liberal/Nazi connection. THESE guys thinks Fox is off the rails. https://twitter.com/...
@thehowie: A few more principled men and women and we wouldn't have to worry about the country's demise. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Thank you to @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes for knowing when to hold and knowing when to fold. Fox has gone too far, and it's increasingly difficult to see how to bring it back from the brink. https://twitter.com/...
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Special Leads Two Fox News Contributors to Quit - The New York Times. Good for @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: This also highlights Paul Ryan's failure as a Fox Corp board member. If your operation is too toxic for mainstream conservatives like Goldberg and Hayes, you're no longer doing any good; you're window dressing.
Tripp Grebe / @tripper_grebe: I'm damn proud to have worked for Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg. Think about supporting @thedispatch. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Brooks / @nytdavidbrooks: Steve and Jonah have been two of the bravest journalists during this whole mess. They've taken positions that carry real costs. Think about supporting @thedispatch. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@curtmills: “Mr. Carlson called Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's resignations ‘great news’ in a telephone interview on Sunday. ‘Our viewers will be grateful.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ned Ryun / @nedryun: Fox just got better. I mean I'm sure Bret Baier will be sad half his regular guests are leaving. . . https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Meierhans / BBC:
Spotify removes the shuffle button from all album pages for premium users, so that tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
Discussion:
@adele, @spotify, @popcrave, Washington Post, CNET, Gizmodo, @kulipeter, @fuckedup, @snazzyq, @joshuatopolsky, @lesliemac, @tlums, @maxmeatsix, @llstenlng_party, @ericrennerbrown, @rolandi_teeji, @mrjohnmacleod, @eddierobson, @banquetrecords, @minnniemou, Rolling Stone, @taraslone, @s_m_i, @gregbradyto, @drewberinger, Engadget, @rac, @freeyourmindkid, @tianamajor9, NPR, @roureynolds, The Verge and TMZ.com, more at Techmeme »
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@adele: This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don't create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Pop Crave / @popcrave: Following the release of ‘30’ by @Adele, Spotify removed the shuffle button as the default option when playing albums. Now, listeners have to listen to every album's tracklist in order. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post: Adele asked Spotify not to shuffle her carefully-curated album by default. The streaming service listened.
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Spotify Removes Shuffle as a Default at the Request of Adele, But Don't Hate, It's Still There
Peter / @kulipeter: let's remove only getting $0.003 per stream while we're at it https://twitter.com/...
@fuckedup: when our entire industry is upended by thieves and our sense of incremental progress is one of the best selling artists of all time begging them to take down a fucking button https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky: CD players in the 90s had shuffle buttons and also you can lift the needle whenever you want on a record. Adele could push for higher earnings for artists or help smaller performers break through or whatever but this is her big power move with Spotify lmao https://twitter.com/...
Leslie Mac / @lesliemac: This is so interesting. One of Spotify's “pay us” pain points is that they shuffle everything if you don't pay for the service. Adele got them to remove that selling point for all albums, not just her own. Incredible use of power and privilege. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lumley / @tlums: Pay artists fairly, you monopolistic pieces of shit. https://twitter.com/...
Max Helyer / @maxmeatsix: Amen to this, couldn't of said it better myself. When will the big artists help everyone out and make it fair again #BrokenRecord https://twitter.com/...
@llstenlng_party: Long live the album format @Adele asked for the shuffle option to be removed from albums, retaining the original running order. @Spotify replied “anything for you” - if so, maybe ask them to pay artists fairly. #BrokenRecord https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Renner Brown / @ericrennerbrown: Tell them to fairly pay artists next https://twitter.com/...
@rolandi_teeji: Impeccable! Coz I really wonder how people listen to albums on shuffle. It's such a horrific way to listen to music. An album is like a plot. The artiste has reasons for arranging the songs in that chronology. Shuffling defeats that essence. You shouldn't shuffle albums. https://twitter.com/...
Eddie Robson / @eddierobson: “all album pages”... for premium users. The free version still only plays albums on shuffle. (Also, bit weird they're heralding this as an amazing new feature when it's actually just doing the obvious) https://www.bbc.com/...
Banquet Records / @banquetrecords: we've had shuffle disabled on our LPs for years. https://twitter.com/...
Min / @minnniemou: of all the things she could've had spotify do... like pay their artists properly ...? https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Adele Single-Handedly Made Spotify Change How Albums Are Played on the Streaming Service
Tara Slone / @taraslone: I love this. Artists and bands take painstaking care to craft the arc of their albums. Much of that listening experience has been diminished by digital formats. Long live the album! https://www.bbc.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: The album generation rejoices 💫 https://twitter.com/...
Greg Brady / @gregbradyto: If you're playing an album, the shuffle feature should never, ever be used. You want to skip a track, fine, but don't be a maniac & do this. “Appetite For Destruction” shouldn't start with “It's So Easy”. “Purple Rain” shouldn't start with, ummm, “Purple Rain”. https://twitter.com/...
Drew Beringer / @drewberinger: probably should have asked for Spotify to pay artists fairly instead https://twitter.com/...
@rac: there's a special place in hell for people that listen to albums on shuffle lol https://twitter.com/...
Hazel Cills / NPR: Adele asked Spotify to remove the default shuffle button for albums, and they obliged
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
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@_karenhao, @brandyzadrozny, @_karenhao, @jolyonbt, @emilymbender, @nanjala1, @malteengeler, @deblebrown, @riovictoire, @lauraedelson2, @blackamazon, @ruchowdh, @niallfirth, @marietjeschaake, @_karenhao, @craigsilverman, @katestarbird, @clairlemon, @cagoldberglaw, @emilybell, @mat, @profcarroll, @joshtpm, @jason_kint and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »
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Karen Hao / @_karenhao: Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world. But there's a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn't just amplifying misinfo. The company is also funding it. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: This new piece from @_KarenHao shows why you should care about the spammy crap filling up your Facebook feed and the feeds of users in countries Facebook doesn't care about. Seems harmless? It's absolutely not. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Hao / @_karenhao: A @techreview investigation has found that Facebook & Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors, fueling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. Many of these actors *would not exist* without these payments from both platforms.
@emilymbender: This is a long, difficult and important read. Excellent reporting by @_KarenHao https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... The upshot: without well-crafted regulation, ads-driven platforms create terrible externalities.
Nanjala Nyabola / @nanjala1: “An MIT Technology Review investigation, based on expert interviews, data analyses, and documents that were not included in the Facebook Papers, has found that Facebook and Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors...” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Malte Engeler / @malteengeler: “Facebook's algorithmic amplification of inflammatory content [...] has fueled the spread of hate speech and misinformation, [...] destabilizing countries around the world. But [...] Facebook isn't just amplifying misinformation. It is also funding it.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Deborah Brown / @deblebrown: Learned more from this must read piece by @_KarenHao than from anything published based on the Facebook Papers tbh. Exemplary reporting that brings together rich expertise, collaboration across disciplines & open sourcing the code used. More of this please👌🏼 https://twitter.com/...
Victoire Rio / @riovictoire: Re-upping this thread - looking in more details at the ‘platform-sponsored’ aspect of the disinformation ecosystem, and the security risks financially motivated actors - often portrayed as ‘benign’ by platforms - actually carry. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2: This is such an important article. We're finally starting to learn how Facebook has been financing harmful content on its platform. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I really want this analyzed in connection with their “investments in pipeline” and black creators People dance over one BILLION but the spent 300 BILLION on folks trying to kill us While people “fighting” them give 175k and act like it's a boon https://twitter.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: Disappointed and angry, but not surprised. https://twitter.com/...
Niall Firth / @niallfirth: Just to say: you wouldn't believe how thorough Karen is when she does these stories. Watertight doesn't even do it justice. That's why they're so powerful. https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: ‘Facebook and Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors, fueling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world’ @_KarenHao on how money trumps trust & safety online, especially in vulnerable communities ↘️ https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Karen Hao / @_karenhao: I also worked with former FB data scientist @jeff4llen to identify possible clickbait actors on Facebook, using public data from CrowdTangle and Facebook's publisher lists, which record which publishers are registered in the platform's monetization programs.
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: An important point. I used to have a slide where I asked people to identify which content came from Macedonian spammers, which came from the Russian IRA, and which was from US hyperpartisan publishers. The challenge was that it all looked exactly the same. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Starbird / @katestarbird: Facebook isn't just hosting and amplifying harmful misinformation, but they're also funding it. They've both facilitated and incentivized the deterioration of our information ecosystem. https://twitter.com/...
Claire Lehmann / @clairlemon: “They claimed that Muslims were armed, that they were gathering in mobs 1,000 strong, that they were around the corner coming to kill you.” How the Myanmar government used digital tools to catalyse a genocide against the the Rohingya https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Carrie Goldberg / @cagoldberglaw: No 230 immunity if you're bankrolling the content https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Such an important piece. And 🧵...whilst we knew or suspected much of what was disclosed by the Facebook Papers, this reporting reveals a new unchecked systemic issue. And @_KarenHao is one of the best in the business https://twitter.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: Great, scoopy story from @_KarenHao laying out how Facebook and Google effectively fund misinformation by paying millions of ad dollars to clickbait farms all around the world, often hosted on their own platforms https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: greatest minds put to the task of targeting ads and so they built a garbage monster clickbait machine that prefers hate and lies https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: l read this with questions abt how “clickbait” is defined. The phrase can have a very elastic meaning. That said, these are fascinating and very valuable findings that definitely merit the attn of anyone interested in this issue. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This nuance is super important. Nearly $300B of advertising is funding the duopoly and they're funding toxic sludge, “The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.” /1 https://twitter.com/...
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: MIT, Facebook, and Google: Estimable Outfits Indeed
Moiz Syed / Source:
Interview with Moiz Syed, formerly of The Intercept and ProPublica, on the lack of empathy among newsroom managers, the “straitjacket of objectivity”, and more — “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.”
Discussion:
@source, @josephjaafari, @lakeidrachavis, @wolfewylie, @niemanlab, @keaux_, @lakeidrachavis, @tenuous, @audiosand, @kemettler, @shaynenuesca, @alexanderrusso, @katiepark, @lilyalta, @sisiwei, @moizsyed, @editorialiste, @riogringa, @chrismoranuk, @rasmus_kleis, @marissaaevans and @marissaaevans
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@source: ⚡️ Our next Exit Interview is with @moizsyed. On the magic of being in dialogue with the world, the bargains we make to do this work, a “journalism-awards-industrial complex” that competes for resources, and “objectivity” that competes with moral clarity. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Joseph Darius Jaafari / @josephjaafari: I literally was just saying this. We hold people to account in our work and recognize — to the point of doing entire investigations — of how systems harm people. But when we say that the moral lesson is we shouldn't harm people, it's somehow no longer journalistic. Bonkers. https://twitter.com/...
Lakeidra Chavis / @lakeidrachavis: I'll go one step further and add that in some newsrooms the money and recognition don't even trickle down. I won both for my previous employer. Left as the lowest paid reporter there. https://twitter.com/...
@wolfewylie: I've followed @moizsyed's career and his amazing work. His reasons for stepping back from the newsroom are very similar to my own. This series from @source remains so good. https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “I wonder what was it about a T-shirt that said ‘Abolish ICE’ that almost everyone in the newsroom other than me knew would not be tolerated.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
@keaux_: so many gems in here, including this anecdote @moizsyed shared about a t-shirt he wore to work: “the topic of objectivity comes up, including the idea that publicly proclaiming “Abolish ICE” makes you unfit for journalism. I think that's bullshit.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Lakeidra Chavis / @lakeidrachavis: Sooo many good points made in this Exit Interview. “In journalism, money and recognition are so tied to awards that it sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” https://twitter.com/...
Maddy Varner / @tenuous: “American journalism has a long tradition of upholding the status quo, whether that's supporting slavery or the so-called war on terror or the police—which is not objectivity, but simply a different subjectivity.” https://twitter.com/...
Sandhya Dirks / @audiosand: This so hard. so much legacy journalism is doing advocacy for the status quo and is biased on the side of power, and that the work is actually to make it less biased, closer to truthful. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: “In journalism, money and recognition are so tied to awards that it sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Shayne / @shaynenuesca: “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.” via @source https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: “American journalism has a long tradition of upholding the status quo, whether that's supporting slavery or the so-called war on terror or the police...” - Moiz Syed. Also true when it comes to upholding inequitable public school systems. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
@katiepark: As always, @moizsyed is insightful and unafraid to ask the questions we should all be asking ourselves as journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Lily Altavena / @lilyalta: “It sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” YES. This is a major problem we all feed into. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Sisi Wei / @sisiwei: This is literally the subhead, but it's so good I have to share: “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.” Read @moizsyed's exit interview, conducted by @ryanpitts: https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Moiz Syed / @moizsyed: Getting to write about how it was for me to work in journalism was very therapeutic. I get into why I decided to leave journalism, and what I saw places like The Intercept and Propublica get wrong. Cannot thank @ryanpitts enough for shepherding me through the writing of this! https://twitter.com/...
@editorialiste: “When you work in journalism ... you make a bargain with yourself. You take a pay cut in return for feeling good about the work you're doing ... I think many of us ask ourselves whether this burden has become too heavy.” https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Glickhouse / @riogringa: So many good nuggets in @moizsyed's exit interview that I couldn't decide which one to quote. Don't miss this one! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Moran / @chrismoranuk: A really thoughtful point in here on awards vs journalism. Particularly significant since most awards are given with no insight into how specific pieces actually were read https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Pouring funding, research, data, design, and development resources into projects that cater to prestige ceremonies takes those resources away from other stories that may be less flashy” @moizsyed says. https://twitter.com/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: I wonder how often newsroom leaders actually read these interviews and make change or get upset in the background about the candidness of them. Regardless, I read these whenever they come out because it's illuminating and confirms the worst. https://twitter.com/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: “...journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work. Also, I was just wearing a T-shirt—it's not going to take down journalism.” This is a must read from @moizsyed. 🔥 https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
A look at the product box programs offered by InStyle, The Cut, Eater, and Group Nine, as more publishers launch them as worthwhile revenue streams — InStyle and The Cut created their first product boxes for sale this month, as this line of business at Eater and Group Nine reaches their one-year anniversaries.
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6% — Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms …
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Alex Barredo / @somospostpc: There's a whole generation of ad people that doesn't know how to do their jobs besides sinking money in Google & FB I have no sympathy for them They're going to have a crash course on real advertising,which is actually a harder job than exporting CSV files & mail them to client https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Political campaigns slowly realizing that Apple making targeted ads less relevant hurts political ads including voter registration drives. One group has seen ads costs go up 3x and is now reaching fewer users on iOS since the ATT changes rolled out. https://www.protocol.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: The report was put out by Voter Formation Project, a group founded by former Facebook employee @TatendaCheryl who knows the company's ad platform inside and out. “This is bad. I didn't think it would be this bad,” she said. https://www.protocol.com/...
Jeff Atwood / @codinghorror: oh no, refusing to track people through advertisements is bad for Facebook. Especially since Apple users generate a ton more revenue. 🎻 https://www.protocol.com/...
@protocol: In the run-up to Election Day this year there was a big decline in the percentage of conversion ads Facebook was serving to iOS users. https://www.protocol.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: NEW: Political campaigns rely heavily on Facebook conversion ads to get people to donate and commit to vote. But a new report from one voter turnout group finds after Apple's iOS update, Facebook *dramatically* curbed delivery of these ads to iOS users. https://www.protocol.com/...
@voterformation: in all seriousness, @issielapowsky does a great job of laying out *just why* this issue is so important to groups like VFP - and why it needs to be addressed, and fast. https://twitter.com/...
Tatenda Musapatike / @tatendacheryl: We've ~been~ saying that diverse media plans are required, but now we have to think that much smarter about *how* we run conversion campaigns to ensure that 1) we measure efficacy and 2) messages actually get delivered to ppl who need to see them. https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: @TatendaCheryl This is very nerdy but important so stick with me. Before the iOS update, over 60% of the group's conversion ads were being delivered to iOS users. After? 37%. In @TatendaCheryl's case, these ads were asking people fill out a form to make a plan to vote. https://www.protocol.com/...
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: is the problem that Apple did a mean thing to Facebook's business model, or is it that these campaigns put all of their advertising eggs in Facebook's basket and became so dependent on it? https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: And that's a BFD to a group like Voter Formation Project, given that iOS devices are, well, the majority of the devices in America. This is something campaigns and Facebook need to address going into 2022. https://www.protocol.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: Why the steep decline? Facebook needs device data to see who actually converts on these ads (who fills out the form in this case). Facebook now can't see that info for iOS users who opt out of tracking, so its system appears to be overlooking them. https://www.protocol.com/...
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation will help 18 Australian small news publishers negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's philanthropic organisation will help 18 small news publishers in the country collectively negotiate …
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
The US DOJ says Iranian hackers breached a media company in fall 2020 and tested how to create false news content; sources say Lee Enterprises was targeted — Computer systems of Lee Enterprises, which owns dozens of daily papers, were targeted in disinformation campaign
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@dnvolz, @dnvolz, @dkiesow, @rossacrosswi, @dnvolz, @airspaceiowa, @roncharles, @justinhendrix, @andreasharsono, @justinhendrix, @dnvolz and @dnvolz
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Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: Scoop: Iranian hackers last year infiltrated the computer systems of Lee Enterprises, a major media company that publishes dozens of daily newspapers across the U.S., as part of a broader effort to spread disinfo about the 2020 presidential election. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: On Thursday, DoJ said the alleged hackers compromised an unnamed media company and tested how to create false news content. People familiar with the matter identified the company as Lee Enterprises, a publicly traded company and one of the largest newspaper chains in the U.S.
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow: Would love a clarification if the vulnerability was individual news sites or in their CMS used by hundreds of other outlets. https://www.wsj.com/...
Scot Ross / @rossacrosswi: I knew something had to explain @WiStateJournal's editorials claiming the were Assembly Republicans supporting fair maps. https://twitter.com/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: ICYMI from yesterday: Lee Enterprises has still not responded to requests for comment. https://twitter.com/...
Iowa Airspace / @airspaceiowa: Wow, Lee is headquartered in Davenport and owns 10 Iowa papers—mostly medium size town dailies but also some major properties like the Omaha World Herald https://twitter.com/...
Ron Charles / @roncharles: “US intelligence determined that the leaders of Russia & Iran ordered their governments to attempt to influence US voters' choices in the 2020 presidential election and undermine the public's faith in American democracy.” Mission accomplished. https://www.wsj.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Here's the indictment with new details of the campaign: https://techpolicy.press/...
Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono: U.S. authorities charged two Iranian nationals, Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian, of cyber-related crimes, allegedly carried out to engage in voter intimidation and election interference in the 2020 presidential election https://www.wsj.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Now we know the media company CMS that the Iranian hackers allegedly hacked before the 2020 election- they may have e sought to publish disinfo directly in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Omaha World-Herald, the Buffalo News, the Arizona Daily Star, etc. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: This operation is interesting for several reasons. Local news is more trusted than national news. Did the Iranians deliberately target a company that publishes lots of local papers, knowing voters might want to turn to them as definitive sources on election night? https://twitter.com/...
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Judge orders the NYT not to publish any Project Veritas “privileged materials”, despite precedent against prior restraint; the NYT seeks an immediate review — WASHINGTON — A judge in New York on Thursday took the rare step of temporarily blocking the New York Times …
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@joshgerstein, @jesselynradack, @michellemanafy, @eriqgardner, @mathewi, @ell_en, @ggreenwald, @erikwemple, @janemayernyer, @maxkennerly, @mmasnick, @pnjaban, @pressfreedom, @kylenabecker, @asfleischman, @ronwyden, @rcfp, @mlcalderone, @erikwemple, @freedomofpress, @katie_rcfp, @jason_kint, Reason, @digby56, @emilybazelon, @jadler1969, @alfonslopeztena, Vanity Fair, @nycjim, @lisatozzi, @adamgoldmannyt, @cliffordlevy, @tristansnell, @aricohn, @matthewschafer, @keitholbermann, @trevortimm, @freedomofpress, @pnjaban, @markmazzettinyt, @adamliptak, @seth_hettena, @freedomofpress, @jswatz, @karolcummins, @rcfp, @ggreenwald, @pnjaban, @edmundlee, The Hill, @davidfolkenflik, @bradmossesq, @mr_berman, @kenbensinger, @janemayernyer, @ejeancarroll, Committee to Protect …, Reuters, @jonathanwpeters, @erikwemple, Media Nation, @erikwemple, @trevortimm and Columbia Journalism Review
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Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: JUST IN: NY appeals judge denies New York Times' request for relief from order forbidding publishing of, and requiring return of, Project Veritas attorney-client documents. Doc (endorsed at bottom): https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... Earlier: https://www.politico.com/...
@jesselynradack: Curious what @DanielEllsberg thinks abt Project Veritas getting the first prior restraint against NYT since the #PentagonPapers... #1stAmend. https://www.rcfp.org/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: A Judge Temporarily Blocked The New York Times From Publishing Project Veritas Documents | The Times planned to immediately challenge the order from Westchester Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood, arguing “prior restraint” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @zoetillman @BuzzFeedNews
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Seems like prior restraint to me. I'm no fan of Nov. 11 story in the NYT about Project Veritas legal memos (a separate discussion), but the order seems to go beyond the typical protective order. Best I can tell the order doesn't just apply to materials produced in discovery. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: The order specifically enjoins the Times from “further disseminating or publishing” the materials described, so it very clearly is prior restraint https://twitter.com/...
@ell_en: 👇if it walks like a prior restraint, and talks like a prior restraint...👇 https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @LitThom ... This statement vaguely implies, without really stating, that the question I have is applicable: that the NYT obtained these docs as part of the litigation with PV and its publication violated the judges' order. That's the question I (still) have: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Elizabeth Locke, who represents Project Veritas in this defamation suit against the New York Times, says the judge's order is NOT prior restraint. Her statement: https://twitter.com/...
Jane Mayer / @janemayernyer: The NY Supreme Court in Westchester has just granted Project Veritas's demand stopping the @NYTimes from disseminating information - a troubling and rare prior restraint on publishing.
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: That's... odd. Attorney-client privilege is extremely important *for attorneys.* They are rightly protected from being compelled to disclose and rightly punished for disclosing. But that in no way justifies a prior restraint on journalists who somehow obtain the information. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Wow. This surprises me https://twitter.com/...
Harmeet K. Dhillon / @pnjaban: Context: @nytimes lost anti-SLAPP motion. NYT appeals, seeks, gets stay of discovery. NYT then gets & publishes privileged legal memos relevant to lawsuit. PV files discovery motion. Court orders NYT to stop it and answer. NYT runs to appeal, loses. Project Veritas 3, NYT 0. OK? https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: CPJ today expressed grave concern over a New York Supreme Court order restricting the New York Times' coverage of Project Veritas. https://cpj.org/...
Kyle Becker / @kylenabecker: “Imagine if the Trump Administration raided New York Times editors' homes after the publication of the President's tax records—or even for an investigation into documents they did not ultimately publish.” This is spot on.🔻 https://www.wsj.com/...
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: This story is a convenient way to sift between people who believe in free speech generally and those who believe in it for those who agree with them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: This is an extremely concerning ruling. As Chief Justice Burger wrote, prior restraints on speech and publication are the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment Rights. https://twitter.com/...
@rcfp: Today, a state court in New York entered a #priorrestraint against @nytimes ordering it to restrain from “further disseminating or publishing any of Project Veritas' ‘privileged materials’” in its possession, pending a court hearing next week. Full statement from Bruce Brown: https://twitter.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: “The Supreme Court has said even the most modest, minute-by-minute deprivations of these First Amendment rights cannot be tolerated,” says @BoutrousTed. “To go further and suggest a limit on news gathering, I've never heard of such a thing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Another development in the Project Veritas v. New York Times case in Westchester Co., NY: Judge has issued a show-cause order that considers a prior-restraint measure against the Times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: This prior restraint order against the New York Times is shocking and troubling. And the irony of it coming at the request of Project Veritas, itself at the center of a press freedom imbroglio, is palpable. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Townsend / @katie_rcfp: This is nonsense. Project Veritas' counsel asked for (& obtained) an order prohibiting the Times from “further disseminating or publishing” info it has & from engaging in “further efforts to solicit or acquire” info (i.e., newsgathering). That's called a prior restraint. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: “When a court silences journalism, it fails its citizens and undermines their right to know.” - @deanbaquet on a clearly unconstitutional ruling that should be overturned. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jacob Sullum / Reason: The New York Times Is Protected by Freedom of the Press. So Is James O'Keefe.
Digby / @digby56: I cannot believe that PV is considered by anyone to be legit news media. It's a right wing dirty tricks operation. I thought everyone knew that. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bazelon / @emilybazelon: Uh yes it is https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan H. Adler / @jadler1969: This is problematic. https://twitter.com/...
@alfonslopeztena: Censorship in US: A trial court judge forbids The New York Times to publish or seek out certain documents related to the Trumpist group Project Veritas — Without freedom of speech, dumb and silent Americans may be led, like sheep to the slaughter https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair: Press Freedom Advocates Alarmed That Project Veritas Just Muzzled the New York Times
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: The Times published excerpts from memos prepared by a lawyer for Project Veritas, which elucidated ways for the group to engage in deceptive reporting practices, like creating fake identities, while avoiding any breach of federal law. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: “This ruling is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent,” said Dean Baquet, the NYT's executive editor. “When a court silences journalism, it fails its citizens and undermines their right to know.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tristan Snell / @tristansnell: Troubling indeed - but the good news is that the “Supreme Court” here in NY is the Superior Court or District Court equivalent elsewhere. Local trial court. This can and presumably will be appealed. Let's keep an eye on this one. https://twitter.com/...
Ari Cohn / @aricohn: Lol I wonder what Libby thinks “refrain from further disseminating or publishing” means. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Schafer / @matthewschafer: Narrator: But what she didn't know, is that it was a prior restraint. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Publish anyway. We are nearing the point when the majority will have to ignore courts poisoned by politics. Might as well step on the gas and start now https://twitter.com/...
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: Here's our post at @FreedomofPress on the blatantly unconstitutional censorship order against @nytimes, which was hypocritically sought by Project Veritas and disturbingly approved by a judge. I'd be shocked if this isn't overturned by Monday. https://freedom.press/...
@freedomofpress: “This is the first prior restraint entered against the New York Times since the Pentagon Papers, and it is an outrageous affront to the First Amendment” —@RCFP https://twitter.com/...
Harmeet K. Dhillon / @pnjaban: The NYT is suddenly concerned about the First Amendment — but publishing your litigation opponents' legally privileged memos isn't exactly the Pentagon Papers, guys. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Mazzetti / @markmazzettinyt: “This ruling is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, wrote in a statement on Thursday. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Seth Hettena / @seth_hettena: Project Veritas, which is suing the @nytimes for defamation, argued that, by obtaining legally privileged internal PV memos, the newspaper was using its reporters to circumvent the discovery in that lawsuit. https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: NEW: Prior restraint order against New York Times in Project Veritas defamation case is unconstitutional and offends press freedom principles https://freedom.press/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: This judge doesn't seem to understand the First Amendment. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @zoetillman
Karol Cummins / @karolcummins: A Judge Temporarily Blocked The Times From Publishing Project Veritas Documents “This ruling is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent. When a court silences journalism, it fails its citizens and undermines their right to know. ...” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@rcfp: @nytimes The order also bars @nytimes from “further efforts to solicit or acquire” Project Veritas' “attorney-client privileged materials.” Read our full statement and the order here: https://www.rcfp.org/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Right as the FBI was executing extremely dubious search warrants against James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, the NYT somehow got its hands on their confidential lawyer/client memos. What public interest was served by publishing those? Would they have done that to the WPost or NBC? https://twitter.com/...
Harmeet K. Dhillon / @pnjaban: !!! Judge in Project Veritas/NYT case orders @nytimes to defend its online publication of the privileged legal memos of our client, which occurred AFTER the FBI seized James O'Keefe's phones and which contain extensive privileged communications with dozens of attorneys: https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Do you want the courts reviewing what the press is allowed print? Project Veritas, which claims to be a journalistic organization, just won an order of prior restraint against the New York Times. Can't make it up: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caroline Vakil / The Hill: NY Times denounces ruling temporarily blocking publication of Project Veritas memos
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Right now, Project Veritas is presenting itself as the unlawful target of DOJ's searches as a righteous journalistic outfit - and winning (for now) prior restraint against one of the world's top news outlets. Hell of a combo. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: I'm sorry, what now? https://twitter.com/...
Matt Berman / @mr_berman: A pretty eye-opening development in media law today, even if it's only temporary https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Ken Bensinger / @kenbensinger: Prior Restraint is a rare and (from where I sit) unattractive bird; it's even rarer for it to stand on appeal @ZoeTillman https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jane Mayer / @janemayernyer: @lawindsor @nytimes Project Veritas claims the Times had privileged attorney-client information. Quite a turn-around from defending the unfettered free press just days before.
E. Jean Carroll / @ejeancarroll: @JaneMayerNYer ... Not good. NOT good at all!
Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ extremely concerned by court order restricting New York Times coverage
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: This is nonsense. It is, literally, a prior restraint. The relevant language: “The New York Times shall immediately ... refrain from further disseminating or publishing ...” And it restrains the NYT's newsgathering, too. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The New York Times is seeking “immediate review” of the decision in the Project Veritas lawsuit instituting prior restraint on the paper's activities. Here is the statement from Executive Editor Dean Baquet: https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Project Veritas is at the vortex of two cases that threaten the First Amendment
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: So in the course of a week, Project Veritas has asked a federal court to demand a leak investigation regarding a NYT story, and has asked a state court to exercise prior restraint against the NYT. These folks, too, claim First Amendment purism.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York appeals court judge rejects the NYT's request to unblock it from publishing or seeking Project Veritas documents; the next hearing is on November 23
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@williamturton, @iwanttotalk_now, @gaberusk, @mmasnick, @pnjaban, @mathewi, Associated Press and Washington Post
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William Turton / @williamturton: I feel that a lot of the conversation about the investigation into Project Veritas has missed an important point. People have been semantically focused on if PV is a “real” journalism, but what's more interesting is the unique legal protections they receive as journalists. https://twitter.com/...
@iwanttotalk_now: Translation: “He's very effective, his methods have been used by many journalists and are not only legal, but common practice in investigative journalism. We are trying to attack a journalist who's work is harming us and we can't Assange or Snowden him... yet.” https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Rusk / @gaberusk: To Mike's point on this imagine a different set of facts where the DOJ under a former or future Trumpish Presidency is determining what qualifies as journalism under this definition. Again I am uncertain to what extent PV is exposed here but we should be careful to condone. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: If it's true that PV had a hand in stealing the diary, then the FBI raid may be more justifiable, but, uh... allowing the DOJ to say who is and who is not a journalist is... dangerous. https://twitter.com/...
Harmeet K. Dhillon / @pnjaban: 🚨🚨🚨Do we really want the DOJ effectively licensing journalists, unilaterally? @columbiajourn's Ingram says NO! DOJ cannot escape guidelines governing the treatment of journalists by simply defining them out of the statute and regulations. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Project Veritas may be a garbage fire, but having the Department of Justice decide who is and is not a journalist is a very bad idea https://twitter.com/...
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press: Feds confirm Project Veritas raids were part of theft probe
Aubrey Allegretti / The Guardian:
Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre pulls out of the race to chair media regulator Ofcom, despite UK ministers rerunning the process to give him a second chance — Former Daily Mail editor announces decision not to proceed with second bid and takes swipe at civil service
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@unlockdemocracy, The Times, @davidleighx, @andrewprlevi, @samfr, @jimwaterson, @siobhanbenita, New York Times, @kevin_maguire, @mrjohnnicolson, @steven_swinford, @profchalmers, @snellarthur, @peterjukes, @willblackwriter, @ian_fraser, @sturdyalex, @jeffjarvis, @twitmericks, @richardgcorbett, @nomadbakerdavid, @thattimwalker, @jolyonmaugham, @pressgazette, @mrjohnnicolson, @sunapology, @stopfundinghate, @mrjamesob, @peterkgeoghegan, @cononeilluk, @peterwalker99, @lionelbarber, @pickardje, @goodlawproject, Press Gazette and The Independent
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Unlock Democracy / @unlockdemocracy: We wanted to share some good news for a change! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Oliver Wright / The Times: Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre quits Ofcom race with blast at ‘the Blob’
David Leigh / @davidleighx: The full text of Dacre's letter is certainly a remarkable read https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Levi / @andrewprlevi: MY BRILLIANCE & ME, BY PAUL DACRE Sir, I'm brilliant. Unlike “brilliant” civil servants, I have the wherewithal to deal with super difficult things. I don't feel at all humiliated or angry about being rejected. So I'm complaining to the world by writing to The Times. P Dacre https://twitter.com/...
Sam Freedman / @samfr: Cannot get over that Dacre letter. A man with a £2m salary, a Mayfair house, Highlands estate + Carribean holiday home, who's had decades of privileged access to multiple Prime Ministers + for whom the govt literally rigged a job, complaining the establishment are out to get him
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Paul Dacre and Ofcom chair: -Government insists it was Dacre's decision to pull out and they'd have backed him -But was getting a bit sleaze-adjacent -Scottish and Welsh govts demanding a say on new hire -Ten days left to get your job application in! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Siobhan Benita / @siobhanbenita: When Dacre calls his application experience an “infelicitous dalliance with the blob” I honestly thought he was referring to Boris Johnson 🤡 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Kevin Maguire / @kevin_maguire: Will Dacre still get his knighthood? Johnson backtracks on sleaze, derailed by the great train robbery and now too weak to parachute his man into Ofcom. The times they are a-changin' https://twitter.com/...
John Nicolson M.P. / @mrjohnnicolson: Recent BBC appointments contradict Paul Dacre's claim that “senior Whitehall figures are determined to exclude anyone with right-of-centre “convictions” from senior public sector roles.” They just don't think he's qualified. They're right. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Steven Swinford / @steven_swinford: Breaking: Paul Dacre has pulled out of the race to become the next head of Ofcom In a letter to The Times he describes his ‘infelicitous dalliance with the Blob’ & says senior Whitehall figures are determined to exclude anyone with right-of-centre views https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
James Chalmers / @profchalmers: A quick scroll through the comments on this is interesting: Times readers are not, I think, bleeding-heart liberals on average yet the responses are dripping with contempt for Dacre. https://twitter.com/...
Arthur Snell / @snellarthur: Unqualified candidate who tried to rig selection has to pull out. Boo fucking hoo. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Jukes / @peterjukes: Poor old Paul Dacre “The former Daily Mail editor had taken the decision not to proceed after not enjoying the original interview process” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Will Black / @willblackwriter: Rabid Tory Paul Dacre has pulled out - after Boris Johnson's mob spent ages trying to anything they could to squeeze him into OFCOM https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Ian Fraser / @ian_fraser: as he threw in the towel, Paul Dacre said he was taking up a job in the private sector which he said was what “creates the wealth to pay for home-working civil servants to exercise on their Peloton bikes and polish their political correctness”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Alex Andreou / @sturdyalex: “The gov't spent more than a year trying to ease Dacre's application for the job. After he failed the first interview the gov't spent the summer trying to find people willing to sit on a fresh interview panel. The job description was also rewritten.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Well, there's this. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mick Twister / @twitmericks: A right-wing Conservative knob Was groomed for the top Ofcom job, But couldn't pass muster, And so with great bluster He blamed his defeat on ‘the blob’. #PaulDacre #ofcom https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Richard Corbett / @richardgcorbett: Strange: I though interview panel had already decided he was unsuitable. Next time I fail an interview or exam, I'll also announce a year later that I'm pulling out! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@nomadbakerdavid: It's scary to think where this country would be without the @GoodLawProject https://twitter.com/...
Jo Maugham / @jolyonmaugham: Well done us. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
@pressgazette: Paul Dacre announces decision not to re-run as Ofcom chair despite being urged “by many senior members of the government” in letter to The Times. He is instead taking an “exciting new job in the private sector” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
John Nicolson M.P. / @mrjohnnicolson: A sign of Boris Johnson's increasing political weakness in the aftermath of these turbulent, chaotic weeks. He doesn't feel he can impose his unqualified chum on @Ofcom https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@sunapology: Happy Friday everyone! And well done to @JolyonMaugham and @GoodLawProject for giving the Tories something to mull over in their attempts to get their man the job https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@stopfundinghate: The ex-Mail editor has withdrawn from the Ofcom race & lashed out at UK civil servants who he says “really run this country”, while “working from home so they can spend more time exercising on their Peloton bikes and polishing their political correctness”: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
James Oh Brien / @mrjamesob: Every bit as illustrative as the Owen Paterson scandal. These people are so utterly convinced of their own epic entitlement that any obstacle, any caution, any curtailment of their privilege *must* be persecution. (And they call other people ‘snowflakes’!) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Peter Geoghegan / @peterkgeoghegan: There's a fascinating book to be written about the Brexiter British elite's victim complex And its parallels with it's US equivalent https://twitter.com/...
Peter Walker / @peterwalker99: Are you right wing and abrasive, with a 1970s-level knowledge of the digital world? A tailor-made job opportunity with a sympathetic interview process has just opened up. https://twitter.com/...
Lionel Barber / @lionelbarber: Wow - Big Boris Johnson retreat after a terrible week https://twitter.com/...
Jim Pickard / @pickardje: “if you are possessed of an independent mind and are unassociated with the liberal/left, you will have more chance of winning the lottery than getting the job” says Dacre, for whom the rules were re-written for one reason alone - to help him get the job https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
@goodlawproject: Last Friday, we warned Government if they appointed Dacre to Ofcom through a rigged recruitment process we'd take legal action.....This Friday 👇👇 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Peter Kafka / Vox:
James Andrew Miller's new book reveals that some HBO execs pushed for selling subscriptions directly to consumers in 2005, and some wanted to buy Netflix — An alternative media history, brought to us by a new oral history of HBO. — “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”
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@jasonhirschhorn, @ritholtz, @gadyepstein, @pkafka, @carlquintanilla, @kbandersen, @tsuvik, @jkosner and Baraja de oro
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Jason Hirschhorn / @jasonhirschhorn: HBOGo was ready then. I saw it many times. When Albrecht was pushed out it effectively got killed for years. HBO discussed buying Netflix in 2006 - Vox https://www.vox.com/...
Barry Ritholtz / @ritholtz: “The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” https://www.vox.com/...
Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein: Not *quite* as bad as Blockbuster not buying Netflix for $50m in 2000. Though Netflix certainly wasn't destined, or maybe even likely, to succeed like this at either point https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: In 2006, some HBO execs wanted to buy Netflix, which was worth $1 billion at the time. Netflix is worth $300 billion today. https://twitter.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “Both of those stories about HBO's non-decisions, which I've never seen reported before, appear in Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, a new oral history book by journalist @JimMiller ..” $NFLX https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: Expected this piece to offer up Time Warner CEO (and former HBO CEO) Jeff Bewkes' 2010 quote disparaging Netflix as a conpetitor: “It's a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don't think so.” https://twitter.com/...
Vikas SN / @tsuvik: In 2006, some of HBO executives wanted HBO to buy Netflix, which was then a DVD rent-by-mail business worth around $1B. Netflix is now worth some $300B & HBO is under pressure to keep up with not only Netflix but a host of streaming competitors https://www.vox.com/...
John Kosner / @jkosner: People always talk about these things @pkafka but there is zero assurance that had @HBO bought @Netflix that @netflix would be what it is today. @SInow could have bought @ESPN too. It's woulda, coulda, shoulda stuff ... https://twitter.com/...
Adan Chalino / Baraja de oro: TLDR de artículos interesantes de la semana
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while becoming the app for consuming all audio — This story is part of a group of stories called — Last week, Spotify announced plans to spend an undisclosed amount of money to acquire Findaway …
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Evan Greer / @evan_greer: i spend a lot of time thinking about the way that copyright maximalism pushed by institutions that claim to advocate for artists and creators is what has laid the foundation for Spotify's growing monopoly power https://twitter.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: A good explainer on how Spotify's acquisition of an audiobook platform fits within its larger strategy. https://www.theverge.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: I went long on Spotify's plans to acquire an audiobook company and learned a lot! The real question for publishers and authors is gonna be whether Spotify advocates for a more open system or becomes audible number 2 and locks people down in exclusive deals https://www.theverge.com/...
Arielle Duhaime-Ross / @adrs: I cannot stress this enough: Get a library card and listen to audiobooks for free on Libby. Spotify's latest purchase is about becoming the place you listen to everything https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
@joshhunt: It's crazy how there's like zero consideration for the user in this article. https://twitter.com/...
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