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New York Times:
CNN says it has fired Chris Cuomo after “additional information has come to light” about the help he gave his brother Andrew Cuomo — The network said it had “terminated him, effective immediately,” a move that came days after a lawyer for a former colleague accused the host of sexual misconduct.
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Christopher C. Cuomo / @chriscuomo: https://twitter.com/...
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Marc E. Elias / @marceelias: This is an opportunity for CNN to replace this show with a full hour, every night, examining the challenges of democracy. Not the news of the day, but the news of the day as it relates to voting rights, free and fair elections, and democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: Chris Cuomo fired by CNN after aiding governor brother and other ‘new allegations’
Hannah Grossman / Fox News: Jeff Zucker protected Chris Cuomo, ‘his man,’ until the new details proved too damaging: Howard Kurtz
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: You gonna report on @laralogan, Howie, or nah? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Regarding the producers and staffers of “Cuomo Prime Time:” They will remain in place, working on CNN's 9pm ET hour https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: CNN fires Chris Cuomo after law firm probes involvement in brother's harassment scandal
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for helping brother Andrew fight sexual misconduct charges
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NEW: CNN was informed this week of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Chris Cuomo made by a former junior colleague at another network. Story w @jodikantor @koblin: https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR: Chris Cuomo, newly fired from CNN, faces an allegation of sexual misconduct
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: Sexual misconduct claim against Chris Cuomo was the last straw for CNN
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Chris Cuomo has retained PR vet Ronn Torossian, who is close with Mayor-elect Eric Adams. https://twitter.com/...
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Chris Cuomo denies allegation of sexual misconduct after being fired from CNN
Batya Ungar-Sargon / New York Post: Chris Cuomo, like Andrew, was fired for the wrong misdeeds
Senator Rand Paul / @randpaul: Long overdue, and a small step toward CNN regaining any kind of credibility... https://twitter.com/...
Bob Cronin / Newser: Accusation Surfaced Before Cuomo's Firing
Ben Smith / @benyt: Chris Cuomo is out https://twitter.com/...
John Koblin / @koblin: JUST IN: Spokesman for Chris Cuomo responds to the allegation tonite: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: @jodikantor @koblin Debra Katz, a lawyer for Chris Cuomo's former colleague, told the NYT that the allegation was “unrelated to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo matter.”
@maddoxrules: I think CNN is garbage and has been for years, but I'll take them 24/7 over 99% of alternate news outfits because of this one thing: they fire journalists. Cuomo did some shady shit and he's gone. Some semblance of accountability still exists within “mainstream news.” https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Battaglio / @stevebattaglio: The emergence of a sexual misconduct complaint by a former ABC News colleague - rumored for months - may have been the final straw for a Cuomo-weary CNN. https://www.latimes.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: .@FoxNews “media critic” may want to sit this one out. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Heidecker / @timheidecker: “Let's get after it” is mine now. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: I guess, in the end, it was *exactly* what it looked like six months ago https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: CNN, in brief: “We looked into Chris Cuomo's actions, and what he did was bad enough that we fired him while we were still in the middle of investigating. The investigation continues.” https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Wackrow / @jdwackrow: This may be difficult for some to accept but it the right decision. @cnn's credibility is paramount and supersedes any other considerations. https://twitter.com/...
Meg James / @megjameslat: Michael Smerconish will fill Chris Cuomo's primetime hour on CNN next week. Network has no immediate plans for a permanent replacement following its decision Saturday to fire Cuomo for an apparent ethics breach. @SteveBattaglio https://www.latimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: >@ErikWemple on CNN firing Chris Cuomo: “He joined a political pushback effort run by Cuomo's aides, and that's a major crossing of the line for a journalist into political advocacy.” My interview with Wemple from this evening's All Things Considered: https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@shoq: .@marceelias Sadly, given that John Malone will soon be driving the bus, I'd put the chances of that at just about zero. https://www.mediaite.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: Debra Katz, the alleged victim's attorney, said her client “came forward because she was disgusted by Chris Cuomo's on-air statements in response to the allegations made against his brother, Governor Andrew Cuomo.”
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Chris Cuomo spox responds: “These apparently anonymous allegations are not true...If the goal in making these false and unvetted accusations was to see Mr. Cuomo punished by CNN, that may explain his unwarranted termination.” https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Smith / @mrbeaks: Should've been fired immediately. But it was illuminating to see awful media types like @ClydeHaberman and @mattyglesias suggesting they'd violate their journalistic integrity if a family member became enmeshed in scandal. https://twitter.com/...
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: Chris Cuomo's firing leaves a big hole: here's 7 people who people think could fill it, via @claireatki https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @CNN In earlier statements, @CNN referred to a “review” and “evaluation.” Meanwhile they signed a law firm to look into the matter. Law firms conduct “investigations,” and, indeed, today's statement says that CNN will continue to “investigate as appropriate.” 2/
Maya Contreras / @mayatcontreras: Plenty of talent at @CNN to choose from for a nightly primetime gig. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite: Chris Cuomo Fired Days After CNN Reportedly Learned of a Sexual Misconduct Allegation ‘Unrelated to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo Matter’
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: A lot of tenses how now been changed in my piece from this morning demanding that Chris Cuomo be fired immediately. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Nora Benavidez / @attorneynora: This would, indeed, be the news we need. It would be a public service for @CNN to put front & center news coverage about critical elements of our lives often overlooked — voting, speech, equity, civil rights. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: CNN says it is now firing Cuomo because “additional information has come to light.” What additional information? CNN does not say. Seems like now is the time for transparency. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan H. Adler / @jadler1969: Note the lack of an apology to his colleagues, the network, his viewers, or anyone else. https://twitter.com/...
Michele McLellan / @michelemclellan: Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for crossing way over an ethical line -acting as a political operative and then trying to cover it up. There, fixed that summary. https://twitter.com/...
Richard M. Nixon / @dick_nixon: Imagine this is a police chief who got caught trying to make his brother's drunk driving charges go away. He might wish to work as police again, and therefore apologize. Even if he didn't mean it. https://twitter.com/...
Nathaniel Rakich / @baseballot: The year is 2026. Andrew Cuomo has a cable-news show, and Chris Cuomo is running for #NYgov. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: OF COURSE, @JodiKantor broke this story. And if Jodi broke it, then you know it's airtight. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Beck / @glennbeck: Wow, what could be worse than when he broke quarantine while ‘in his basement’, used his power to find dirt on women; slapped the ass of a producer &lied to his audience. Did he put a horse head in Brian Stelters bed? Or did that horse just think Brian's head was a huge Apple? https://twitter.com/...
Elise Stefanik / @elisestefanik: Better late than never @CNN This is the correct decision. https://twitter.com/...
@cernovich: At least your brother is alive - unlike all those people he killed in nursing homes. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Hardy / @matthardybrand: I commend @CNN for this. The blatant abuse of his position & power was extremely hypocritical & unethical. https://twitter.com/...
@shoq: Yep. And which @johnAvlon has already been laying groundwork for, and he's already on the payroll. https://twitter.com/...
@adriennelaw: TRANSLATION: We terminated Chris Cuomo for cause after finding out about more misconduct in which he's engaged that you'll likely find out about soon. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: New: The law firm hired to investigate Chris Cuomo found gaps between his conversations with CNN employees and records from the A.G.'s office. Jeff Zucker fired Chris on a phone call earlier today https://www.wsj.com/...
Stephen L. Miller / @redsteeze: “I helped smear sexual harassment victims but at least I had good ratings” https://twitter.com/...
Brent Bozell / @brentbozell: CNN should've fired Chris Cuomo months ago! Their handling of this scandal was appalling.
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: It's great that CNN finally did the right thing. It shouldn't have taken an investigation by the Attorney General of New York to force the network to do so. https://twitter.com/...
Rany Jazayerli / @jazayerli: About freaking time. I'd be thrilled if we never hear the name of either Cuomo brother ever again, but I doubt we will be so lucky. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @CNN But the celerity with which @cnn reached this firing decision reaffirms what we've known for some time: That the company failed to properly investigate months ago, when there were signs that something investigatable was amiss: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 4/
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Interestingly, the New York Times reported on Wednesday that “CNN has no immediate plans to retain an outside law firm or forensic investigators for the review.” That must have changed.
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Imagine if fox did stuff like this. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: Chris is leaving to spend more time lying about his family. https://twitter.com/...
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / @josephwulfsohn: CNN's Brian Stelter on Chris Cuomo firing: He caused ‘so many headaches’ for CNN, staffers were ‘very unhappy’ https://www.foxnews.com/...
Jeff Yang / @originalspin: Right thing to do, but worth noting Sean Hannity is still at Fox despite stumping for/advising Trump and getting tangled up in his scandals as the only other client of jailed consigliere Michael Cohen. What other channel would accept this much overlap with a key news subject? https://twitter.com/...
A Newsman / @a_newsman: You don't get credit for doing what you're supposed to do. Everyone will remember how CNN handled this from the beginning and it will never recover. Mark my words. https://twitter.com/...
Janice Dean / @janicedean: You should've started with an apology to the women you tried to smear. https://twitter.com/...
Jasmine Styles / @jasminestylestv: Definitely the right move when it comes to journalism integrity. https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: I've been puzzling over this paragraph in the NYT write-up of Cuomo's firing. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: Cuomo had already been suspended. “Based on the report we received regarding Chris's conduct with his brother's defense, we had cause to terminate,” CNN said. “When new allegations came to us this week, we took them seriously, and saw no reason to delay taking immediate action.”
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: The lawyer cited a March 1 broadcast in which Chris Cuomo said, “I have always cared very deeply about these issues, and profoundly so. I just wanted to tell you that.”
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: One of the points I made on @CNN TV tonight: This may have been a case of death-by-a-thousand-cuts. Chris Cuomo was continually causing headaches for management. And the headaches were likely to continue. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: One odd thing about the CNN statement on Chris Cuomo's firing—they don't actually say that the “new information” they're going to continue to investigate is directly related to the scandal involving his brother.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The @nytimes reported last night that @CNN on Wednesday received an allegation of sexual misconduct against Chris Cuomo—who was already suspended for assisting Andrew Cuomo's political pushback operation earlier this year. https://www.nytimes.com/... 1/
Jordan / @jordanchariton: Chris Cuomo should have been fired by @cnn when he started palling around with his Governor brother on national TV while his brother was actively killing thousands of seniors and then covering it up https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Here's our latest cut on Chris Cuomo's firing, the timing of which caught many CNNers off-guard. https://www.nytimes.com/... via me & @koblin
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: 2/ This never happens on @FoxNews. Never. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: Imagine getting fired after defending a predator politician and instead of an apology just bragging about ratings. Psycho shit https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Chris Cuomo is the highest rated show on CNN but given the numbers that's akin to being the best player on the Jets.
Chris Loesch / @chrisloesch: “Additional Information” that I'm sure is damaging to @CNN or they wouldn't have fired him and made this statement. I'd bet more people will be fired. https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: Late last night we reported: Chris Cuomo was fired 3 days after CNN heard an accusation of sexual misconduct from a former jr colleague at another network. *Both* Cuomo brothers were unseated in the wake of #metoo allegations from younger coworkers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: A reported show, not talking heads. Crews reporting from state houses and door-to-door organizing campaigns — and following the money. https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: Y'all know good and well Zucker's not gonna do this. He was perfectly fine sticking with Cuomo until it became untenable—to hell with basic journalism ethics. He doesn't care about democracy. He doesn't care about journalism. He cares about ratings. https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: No comment from Cuomo yet. More detail from @grynbaum @koblin and me https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brittany Bernstein / National Review: CNN Learned of Sexual-Misconduct Allegation against Chris Cuomo before Firing: Report
Sophia A. Nelson / @iamsophianelson: Now do Jeffrey Toobin and give Laura Coates her own show! CNN needs a black woman in prime-time—it is long over due—LONG!!! #JeffreyToobin https://twitter.com/...
Juliette Kayyem / @juliettekayyem: I'm really glad to hear this. So many young, talented staffers who were hit by the news and did nothing wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Marc's is also my reaction to the news that Chris Cuomo was fired today. https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: NEW: Chris Cuomo was fired three days after the network received a new accusation of sexual misconduct from a former junior colleague. This means that both Cuomo brothers have lost their positions in the wake of #metoo accusations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: @jodikantor @koblin CNN statement: “Based on the report we received regarding Chris's conduct with his brother's defense, we had cause to terminate. When new allegations came to us this week, we took them seriously, and saw no reason to delay taking immediate action.”
Ron T. Kim / @rontkim: You enabled and empowered your brother to lie about deadly policies that killed thousands of older adults. That is not brotherly love and family loyalty. That is just one criminal helping another criminal. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: “Chris Cuomo, while working as one of CNN's top anchors, was also effectively working as an unpaid aide to the governor.” https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: As it happens, I interviewed WashPost's @ErikWemple about CNN's moves to fire Chris Cuomo - and what it means for the network. Wemple has pursued this question doggedly. Will tweet out a link once posted.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: This is a stunning thing for @CNN to announce at 5:09 pm on a Saturday afternoon. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: April 5, 2020 https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: “additional information has come to light” -The Dude https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Jeff Zucker memo to employees: “Today, I let Chris Cuomo know that we are ending his employment at CNN. It goes without saying that these decisions are not easy, and there are a lot of complex factors involved. But as always it was important to me to be upfront with each of you.”
Ben Smith / @benyt: .@grynbaum story includes something Zucker told me in 2020: “You get trust from authenticity and relatability and vulnerability....That's what the brothers Cuomo are giving us right now. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Bulletin: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has been “terminated” by the network, “effective immediately.” Here is my initial story for @CNNbusiness https://www.cnn.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Breaking now: CHRIS CUOMO has been fired by CNN https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Cuomo's firing from CNN came amid allegation of sexual misconduct: report
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: CNN Fires Chris Cuomo Days After Suspension
Morgan Keith / Insider: Meet Michael Smerconish, a radio host and political commentator who will take over Chris Cuomo's primetime hour on CNN
Alyssa Morin / E! Online: CNN Fires Chris Cuomo Over Involvement With Brother Andrew Cuomo's Sexual Misconduct Scandal
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: CNN's Brian Stelter on Chris Cuomo firing: He caused ‘so many headaches’ for CNN, staffers were ‘very unhappy’
Sara Fischer / Axios: CNN fires Chris Cuomo
Tom Jones / Poynter: CNN fires Chris Cuomo
Deadline: Chris Cuomo's Firing Came After Sexual Misconduct Claim; Anchor's Spokesperson Denies Allegations And Calls Termination “Unwarranted” — Update
Dave Nemetz / TVLine: Chris Cuomo Fired at CNN, Effective Immediately: ‘This Is Not How I Want My Time to End’ — Read Statements
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: CNN Fires Chris Cuomo ‘Effective Immediately’
Cassie Gill / Hollywood Life: Chris Cuomo Fired From ‘CNN’ After Investigation Over Help He Provided Brother Andrew
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: CNN Fires Chris Cuomo
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Interview with Anna Wintour and Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch as they transform its biggest publications into global brands while streamlining content sharing — Anna Wintour is the embodiment of the glory days of the magazine dynasty. Now she is pitching its global, digital future.
Discussion:
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: “Unless we want to look like a museum, we had to change and change pretty radically.” At Condé Nast, execs are trying to shrug off the past to survive in the future. I spoke to Anna Wintour and CEO Roger Lynch about their plans: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Whither Conde? Anna W. has some thoughts to share w @katie_robertson https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dmitry Shishkin / @dmitryshishkin: Precisely. Exactly how we did it with 41 different language newsrooms for @bbcworldservice. Creative scale in action. 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono: Can Condé Nast take real steps to address both a culture that many employees described as a difficult place for people of color to succeed and content that has in the past elevated a Eurocentric standard of beauty? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sean Gallagher / @thepacketrat: I have to wonder if Condé will ever really “get” digital, given how they've treated Ars Technica and Wired and Pitchfork and...yes, Reddit. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Magazines had a helluva heyday—a century as arbiter of culture—but it's over. In the late 1800s, with cheap print, they unseated the old arbiters in books, papers, pulpits. Now they made the mistake of not making way for new insurgents, new community. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: Can an institution that thrived on paying great attention to the superficial make a deeper-than-surface-level change? Anna Wintour is set on doing just that with Condé Nast. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Some great details here: Condé Nast is on pace to generate more than $1 billion in revenue this year; Newhouse says no plans to sell; >50% of revenue is ads, about 25% consumer https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: Condé Nast's Roger Lynch said the company, after years of losses, would break even this year and is on track to be profitable by 2023. The cost-cutting, however, has seen a number of top editors depart https://www.nytimes.com/...
Saeed Jones / @theferocity: So... they didn't change? https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Analysis of 200K+ articles from 65 news sites: coverage of Biden for the past four months has been as bad as, or worse than, Trump in the same period of 2020 — A sampling of headlines atop the influential Politico Playbook newsletter over the past month: — “Let the Democratic freakout begin.”
Discussion:
@froomkin, @whcos, @joshtpm, @milbank, @edbott, @dkthomp, @tysonbrody, @soledadobrien, @milbank, @milbank, @milbank, @ryanlizza, @milbank, @ryanlizza, @milbank, @milbank, @ryanlizza, @retiredorrin, @gopchairwoman, @cathyndavidson, Fox News, @wajahatali, @adrienneelrod, @jesselee46, @leablackmiami, @ewerickson, @tysonbrody, @atrupar, @elilake, @bobcesca_go, @joyannreid, @marmel, @davidharsanyi, @maggienyt, @realdrothschild, @blueboxdave, @alfonslopeztena, @ericschultz, @josh_moon, @bennettjohnt, @amy_siskind, @donmoyn, @margotroosevelt, @mollyjongfast, @mollyjongfast, @tvietor08, @greenhousenyt, @alexthomp, @mikegehrke, @mikegehrke, @froomkin, @soledadobrien, @protecttruth_, @fred_guttenberg, @jayrosen_nyu, @fpwellman, @natsechobbyist, @mlcalderone, @sulliview, @ericboehlert and New York Post
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Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy...Too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs, between fact and fiction. It's time to take a stand.” Amen, @Milbank! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: Interesting AI analysis of Biden press coverage - basically confirms what's been obvious from monitoring the insider newsletters in real time. Basically relentlessly negative, worse than under Trump even w all the crazy things that happened under Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: Not sure why @ryanlizza is bragging about Politico being “neutral” between democracy and authoritarianism, between truth and lies. (1) https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: Man oh man, @RyanLizza and Dana @Milbank are in a knock-down drag-out, right now, right here on this website.
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: 2 things happening here 1. there's a v successful GOP propaganda machine with no full equivalent on the left, which sets a floor of positive coverage for GOP presidents 2. the non-conservative news media has a negativity bias and overreacts to bad news https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: Some people are such amazingly easy marks for “data science” hoodoo. “Painstakingly assembled” no less, like it was hard to slap made up numbers on a bunch of text https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: As I keep telling ya'll... Politico is trash. https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: And I thought we were friends! I've known and liked and admired @RyanLizza since we worked together 23 years ago. I said in my column that “it's not just Politico.” Nobody is free of blame— not the Post, not Politico. https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: Here's what's meaningful: This study shows that the media overall over the last four months has been as negative on Biden or more so than it was on Trump in the same period last year when Trump was actively undermining our democracy. Do you dispute this? https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: Biden is attempting to salvage democratic norms. The people opposing him are using fascist tools of deception and voter disenfranchisement. Neutrality in this struggle is not a virtue. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Lizza / @ryanlizza: This is dumb and beneath you, Dana. The same kind of tinfoil hat thinking could be used to connect Bezos' ownership of the WP with the WP's sharply negative turn against Biden since August. Maybe, just maybe, there were other factors at play? https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: Ryan Lizza claims “the raw data undermine his point.” Does he have evidence for this or is it more unfounded negativity? (3/3)
Ryan Lizza / @ryanlizza: That metric has nothing to do with “being ‘neutral’ between democracy and authoritarianism.” You invented that phrase as a metric. That number is about 2021 Biden coverage. Same metric you cited when you wrote—bragged?—that “[t]he Post was the closest to neutral, at 0.0006.” https://twitter.com/...
Dana Milbank / @milbank: It's interesting that Germany's Axel Springer completed its takeover of Politico on Oct. 18, and that's exactly when Politico took its sharply negative turn against Biden. Maybe this explains the pushback from @RyanLizza
Dana Milbank / @milbank: As I wrote in the column, “it's not just Politico.” That said, Politico took a sharply negative turn against Biden in November, from which I drew the headlines. It was -.0545 on Biden. Media average was -.0347. (2)
Ryan Lizza / @ryanlizza: I don't know why Dana is so obsessed with Politico, but here's the sentiment data for Biden coverage in Politico and the WP since July. By Dana's logic the WP was unusually pro-authoritarianism and pro-lies in August, September, and November. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@retiredorrin: Quite striking to see the Biden team argue that coverage of his Afghanistan withdrawal has been unfair. https://twitter.com/...
Ronna McDaniel / @gopchairwoman: Ridiculous. If Biden wants better media coverage, maybe he shouldn't have left behind thousands of Americans in Afghanistan, raised prices with Bidenflation, attacked American energy, and created his record-breaking border crisis. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Creitz / Fox News: Trump: Biden could bring US 'to a point where we can't come back'
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: Absolutely spot on. Aiding and abetting the death of democracy for sake of access, ratings and the absurd promotion of an objective view from nowhere. https://twitter.com/...
@adrienneelrod: “Trump presided over a worst-in-world pandemic response that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths held a superspreader event at the White House.. praised QAnon adherents...And yet Trump got press coverage as favorable as, or better than, Biden is getting today.” https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lee / @jesselee46: Unemployment is 4.2%, an unprecedented 2% drop. Real disposable income (with inflation) is ⬆️2%. We helped get shelves stocked despite global supply chain disruptions. Folks feel 20% better about their personal finances than when Biden came in. You wouldn't know it from coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Lea Black / @leablackmiami: Because the anti- democracy minority thugs have louder voices and the press takes the bait : EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. https://twitter.com/...
Erick Erickson / @ewerickson: Apparently the media was supposed to be praising Biden for his surrender in Afghanistan. The numbers reflect Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: Even if this wasn't a garbage in/garbage out scenario, why would you compare these two years and not say Biden first year to Trump first year??? https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: Biden isn't just getting worse press than Trump — he's getting harsher coverage than Trump did when compared to *fall 2020,* when the country was falling apart and Trump was laying the groundwork to try to end democracy https://twitter.com/...
Eli Lake / @elilake: The upshot of this column is that Trump got better mainstream media coverage than Biden. Sure, Jan. https://twitter.com/...
Bob Cesca / @bobcesca_go: It's not merely negative, it's misleading. Eg: reporting all Summer about allegedly sluggish jobs numbers while not reporting sizable upward revisions, published every month via the BLS, until after the election. Not all press, but the big ones did this for sure. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Marmel / @marmel: No. But objectivity over stenography, both sides-ism, hoarding facts for a future book and a need for access would be nice. https://twitter.com/...
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi: Media is harder on Biden than Trump is the new “this bill costs zero” https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: What is the definition of “positive” coverage and “negative” coverage here? Is this a seen as a metric journalists are supposed to be using? https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @realdrothschild: Where's journalistic integrity? Where the truth over lies? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Marcus / @blueboxdave: Of course this has nothing to do with inflation, the border crisis, Covid failures, the Afghanistan debacle, or supply chains. It's all the fault of the Trump loving mainstream media... https://twitter.com/...
Alfons López Tena / @alfonslopeztena: We need a skeptical, independent press. But how about being partisans for democracy? US is in an existential struggle against an authoritarian alternative, and the news media give equal, if not slightly more favorable, treatment to the authoritarians https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” @Milbank joins serious journalists like @APAndrewTaylor @perrybaconjr @jackiekcalmes @MarkJacob16 calling for wholesale rethinking of how reporters cover politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@josh_moon: You should read this. I don't want to hear another damn word about the “liberal media.” We're currently in the 2nd greatest economic recovery in US history, and the national media, desperate for controversy, would have you believe there are bread lines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John T. Bennett / @bennettjohnt: What are we supposed to do exactly? What does “take a stand” look like? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@amy_siskind: No you weren't imagining it. Shame on you media! “Biden's press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Analysis of news coverage: after a honeymoon period, press coverage of Biden has become as negative as the chaotic last six months of the Trump era. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Margot Roosevelt / @margotroosevelt: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” Biden's media coverage is egregious & unfair, writes @Milbank https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: The liberal media strikes again https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: If you read one thing today make it @Milbank's piece about how the main stream media is actually covering biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: This is worth reading, especially since it comes from @Milbank who has written more than his fair share of scathing, brutal takedowns of elected officials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt: The news media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy Biden's recent press coverage has BEEN AS BAD AS & AT TIMES WORSE THAN the coverage Trump received for the same period in 2020—when Trump presided over a worst-in-world pandemic response https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: From the article shared by Klain: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Gehrke / @mikegehrke: 2 - Even when you take out the big bumps on the Biden graph, it looks like the mean scores are about the same. Isn't what I'm looking at a really big data set and a much smaller one trending to the mean?
Mike Gehrke / @mikegehrke: Ok, I generally agree with the point, but can't see how this graph helps...so somebody explain what I am missing here. 1 - Sentiment analysis is notoriously bad at categorizing political speech (AI tells you its all negative if you analyze enough of it.) https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: The blasé, even bored, tone of this NYT piece chronicling the GOP dismantling of our democracy is a perfect example of what @milbank calls “accessory to murder” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Yep this. And some people have been saying it from the get go. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Blair / @protecttruth_: Its great to see data from @Milbank showing what's been obvious for years: the US press is biased against Dems. Yes, NYT Politics is effectively rightwing-biased. No question. But why? US journalism's structure. And because journalists have been taught they must be neutral. https://twitter.com/...
Fred Guttenberg / @fred_guttenberg: This is so true? Why is @POTUS treated this way? The economy is on fire. He is actually dealing with the reality of COVID. He is doing so with decency & honesty. He is doing so with a @gop that has stopped working as part of Democracy. Go after them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Here and there — and far more slowly than is needed — this view is catching on among journalists: that they have to become more actively pro-democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... “Too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs...” https://twitter.com/...
Fred Wellman / @fpwellman: Data backs it up. The media, like so many of our institutions, is completely failing us at this dangerous moment. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Vindman / @natsechobbyist: You can't “both sides” something when one side constantly lies. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: “The country is in an existential struggle between self-governance and an authoritarian alternative,” writes @Milbank. “And we in the news media, collectively, have given equal, if not slightly more favorable, treatment to the authoritarians.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@sulliview: It's not just @Milbank's *opinion* ... He's got the numbers https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Twitter says it mistakenly suspended 12 accounts after “coordinated and malicious reports” targeted researchers and journalists, and will review its new policy — Far-right activists had urged their followers to use a new company rule to target anti-extremism researchers and journalists
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John Panzer / @jpanzer: Who could have predicted this, except everyone? “Far-right activists had urged their followers to use a new company rule to target anti-extremism researchers and journalists.” Of course they did, they've been abusing reporting systems for years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Extremily Gorcenski / @emilygorcenski: In Twitter's defense, there are hardly any prior examples of coordinated malicious right-wing campaigns on this site for them to have learned from in the past few years. How could they have seen this coming. There's been only like three or four thousand. https://www.cnn.com/...
@igd_news: “It's really important to view the current mass-reporting actions by the far right as just the latest concerted effort to memory-hole evidence of their crimes,” said @chadloder, an anti-fascist activist who document[s the] far-right + police misconduct." https://www.cnn.com/...
Charles Johnson / @green_footballs: Twitter admitted that their new “private media” policy is being abused by right wing extremists. They say they were caught flat-footed. Maybe they should have first asked, uh, anyone who uses Twitter, to see if it was a good idea. https://www.cnn.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow: Anyone who works in product can guess how this went: 1) A well-intentioned effort to reduce harassment is hatched 2) The tech is easy, the human factors complicated 3) Staff writes cautionary memos 4) Execs force a premature launch for PR bump. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Samuel Braslow / @sambraslow: Update: While Twitter did not respond to me, they responded to CNN's @b_fung, who I spoke to about the situation. Twitter acknowledged making “several errors” in enforcement due to “a significant amount of coordinated and malicious” activity. https://www.cnn.com/...
@madbastard_v2: Gosh, it's almost like this was completely predictable, and could have been avoided if anyone in Twitter's upper echelon had thought about it for more than half a minute AND not completely automated the goddamn process. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Twitter is acknowledging a wave of “coordinated” and “malicious” activity on its platform as right-wing activists say they've been “weaponizing” the site's new private media policy: https://www.cnn.com/...
@ericajoy: next @twitter will “pause” the program as they “re-evaluate” to “learn more.” come on y'all. why is this script so predictable? https://twitter.com/...
Linda K-Advent Calendar / @bubblenoma: Again I ask does anyone who works in Twitter actually use it?? https://cnn.com/...
Ragnarok Lobster / @eclecticbrotha: Well, it was exactly what we expected. On the other hand, I never knew twitter had actual humans working as enforcement teams. https://twitter.com/...
@offcolourorg: A reminder that @twitter suspended our Editor-in-Chief, @MxKantEven, back in Sept and has refused to respond to her appeals. For weeks before her suspension, she was harassed & got death threats for calling out the harassment of Asian women online. @TwitterSupport did nothing. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The Twitter saga is a good example of the problems of enforcement according to statues vs. judgment according to principles. The latter is hard & expensive (that is, doesn't scale — which is why tech companies resist it) but necessary. Principles are adaptable, statutes not. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Kelly / @heatherkelly: EVERYONE: This will be weaponized by the far-right. TWITTER: Nah, it's for women who are harassed. ... TWITTER: “our enforcement teams made several errors” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jon Fingas / Engadget: Twitter mistakenly suspended users after extremists abused its private image policy
Alastair Thompson / @althecat: This was an extremely obvious consequence of a hasty decision taken by the @Twitter board which coincided with @jack announcing his resignation. @washingtonpost has not tracked the reasons for this, and they are looking in the wrong place. #NoMore https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Emma Roth / The Verge: Twitter reportedly suspended accounts by mistake after extremists abused new private media policy
Brandon Hardin / @hardin: twitter hire me and pay me $200,000 a year to tell you, every time you introduce a new feature, that the far right is going to exploit it, because you never seem to learn this https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Pearce / @jeffpropulsion: “It was unclear whether all of the erroneous suspensions had been resolved.” NO. It's very clear they haven't been resolved. 😠Bring back @Stesfa, @hornofafricahub, and other Ethiopian accounts. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: “Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy said that the company had been overwhelmed with a ‘significant amount’ of malicious reports and that its ‘enforcement teams made several errors’ in the aftermath.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@kt_so_it_goes: this is crazy talk but what if the biggest problem twitter has is not with its rules but with its enforcement team that weirdly and wildly always seems to err on the side of the nazis https://twitter.com/...
Kristofer Goldsmith / @krisgoldsmith85: It looks like @Twitter's official statement is “oops.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
A Weisburd / @webradius: Nobody doubts that the people at Twitter who design these policies are smart. That's it. That's the tweet. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Rose / @adjoro: This impacted two journalists in Los Angeles that I know of. One had access restored. Not sure about other (hasn't posted yet), who works for a local newspaper. As press rights chair for @LAPressClub I reached out to @TwitterComms on Wednesday asking for dialogue. No response. https://twitter.com/...
Katelyn Bowden / @medus4_cdc: This was me, arguing that perhaps this was a good faith move. I consistently underestimate how absolutely awful most people are. https://twitter.com/...
@supernova_style: Dang, even I said how this would be used. @TwitterSupport you don't have a single woman on your team that came up with this idea, do you? https://twitter.com/...
Jen / @jenelaina: We TOLD YOU Nazis would exploit your ridiculous (retroactive!) policy, @Twitter. https://www.vice.com/... Smdh https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Queenie Wong / @qwongsj: Brings back memories of that time Twitter mistakenly verified fake accounts or mislabeled tweets. How do these errors even happen? https://twitter.com/...
Skullsinthestars / @drskyskull: Shocked, shocked I am that nazis would abuse twitter's stupid rules that's never happened before https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hoeg / @hoeglaw: Correction: I offered that it would weaponized...by everyone. Obvious out of the gate. https://twitter.com/...
Decapod December / @sarcasmorator: as someone who caught a weeklong ban recently for paraphrasing the prologue of Coppola's Dracula, I am deeply unsurprised https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Perkins / @dennisperkins5: Yeah, @TwitterSafety, we told you that's exactly what white supremacist chuds were going to do—it took them less than a day to prove us right. Either you are woefully out of touch, or you're sympathetic to the goon squad. https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: Twitter says it suspended accounts in error following flood of “coordinated and malicious” reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: @chadloder ... Our latest on Twitter's acknowledgement today that a flood of “coordinated and malicious” reports under its new rule led the company to mistakenly suspend accounts. The far right started targeting researchers and journalists soon after it took effect https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
White supremacists urge supporters to use Twitter's updated Private Information Policy against journalists and activists who identify them in photos of rallies
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Tina Carmillia / The Starting Block: The 83rd Block: Swapping horses midstream
@gwensnyderphl: This is a big victory for all the folks who spent the past few days calling attention to this dystopic Nazi hug of a policy, but @TwitterSafety needs to 1) restore maliciously reported accounts/tweets 2) wipe strikes from our accounts 3) actually talk to impacted folks https://twitter.com/...
Chad Loder / @chadloder: URGENT: As we feared, @TwitterSafety is already locking and suspending the accounts of extremism researchers under its new “Private Media” policy. The video is from September (predating the policy) and shows two right-wing extremists IN PUBLIC, planning violent assaults. https://twitter.com/...
@antihateca: This sort of research is absolutely critical right now, and we appreciate @JaneQCitizen for putting this out there. @TwitterSafety has been forcing researchers to remove their work exposing the extreme right. This needs to stop. /3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anti-Fascist Abolitionist Awk / @awkwordrap: Told you https://twitter.com/...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: We knew immediately that the far-right would try to weaponize this policy, which was purportedly meant to help harassment victims, not the harassers themselves. But I didn't expect them to be this successful this quickly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: @chadloder ... New: Twitter says “a significant amount of coordinated and malicious reports” have flooded in re: new rule and its “enforcement teams made several errors.” Says it's fixed errors and launched an internal review to ensure rule is “used as intended” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Fishman / @brianfishman: If there is a hero use case, there is a villain use case. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Fishman / @brianfishman: This is an interesting case study of well-intentioned policy updates being abused. It also illustrates that coverage is driven by platforms rather than harms. Hence stories abt nazis et al sneakily abusing Twitter policy rather than the same folks coordinating openly on Telegram. https://twitter.com/...
Birgitta / @birgittaj: Hey @TwitterSafety - this new rule is counter productive unless you actually invest more clarity and manpower to it. Perhaps just stop implementing until you have figured out what you are trying to do. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Tech companies love “iteration” & minimum viable products. That should apply to @policy, too. @davidakaye says @Twitter's “new ‘privacy policy’ is a failure, well-intentioned (perhaps) but abused & played”-> https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Please revert, @vijaya https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Lyttle / @melissalyttle: Well that went south quickly, like we all knew it would. Good job @Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@gwensnyderphl: I strongly suspect they still aren't going to restore that important documentation of Philly GOP officials' collaboration with Proud Boys or remove the strikes against me, though. Twitter certainly hasn't reached out or apologized to me, much less tried to make things right. https://twitter.com/...
Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen: “Researchers fear the new ban on posts sharing people's private information will be ‘emboldening to the fascists’ eager to keep their identities concealed. ‘Things now unexpectedly work more in our favor,’ one Nazi sympathizer wrote.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Reuters:
Analysis: at least 25 US election workers were targeted by 100+ violent threats or hostile messages citing the Gateway Pundit since the 2020 election — The Gateway Pundit, which started as a tiny opinion blog, saw readership surge to nearly 50 million views a month as it amplified Donald Trump's false stolen-election claims.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Some Amazon sellers are backdating books to fool Amazon's algorithms into changing where they appear, often allowing the sellers to charge exorbitant prices — A 2011 thriller was supposed to cost $15. One merchant listed it at $987, with a 17th-century publication date.
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@runwithskizzers, @stacyfmitchell, @mattzollerseitz, @kyweise, @jake_bernstein, @thenuminous1, @william_m_clark, @nytimes, @mattsclancy, @ddayen and @frankpasquale
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Preeti Chhibber / @runwithskizzers: a whole new facet of how bad amzn sucks https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stacy Mitchell / @stacyfmitchell: There's a ton of brilliance in this piece. “And so the story comes full circle. Amazon's gift to readers in 1999 was to make every book available... Now the site is a maze of debris....The bad is driving out the good, but Amazon pushes ahead with the automation.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Zoller Seitz / @mattzollerseitz: Fascinating article on how users can scam Amazon. I've noticed this myself — sometimes booksellers will list a book as “collectible” or deliberately mis-describe or mistitle what they are selling, so that they get their own page/entry. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karen Weise / @kyweise: Great @DavidStreitfeld look at Amazon's “paradox of plenty: The more things there are to buy, the more difficult it is to find the right thing among the plethora of ads and competition, new material and secondhand, quality and garbage.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jake Bernstein / @jake_bernstein: What happens in a marketplace where third-party sellers run wild. An excellent piece of journalism, balanced and critical. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Livia Llewellyn / @thenuminous1: Come for the smack talk about Amazon's mishandling of just about every aspect of bookselling, stay for the paragraphs on how they royally fucked over Valancourt Books to the point where they actually changed their publishing strategy to avoid said fuckery. https://www.nytimes.com/...
William Clark / @william_m_clark: “Should we care as a society that a single firm controls half of our most precious cultural commodity and its automation isn't working right?” asked Christopher Sagers, the author of “Antitrust: Examples & Explanations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: On Amazon, third-party sellers run wild, listing $15 books for $987. One author is asking: “Should we care as a society that a single firm controls half of our most precious cultural commodity and its automation isn't working right?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Clancy / @mattsclancy: Hard agree with this article. Amazon is not a classic monopolist that charges a price above marginal cost. Instead, it uses its monopoly position to underinvest in the quality of the service it provides (among other things). https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Dayen / @ddayen: The Amazon marketplace is “like a neighborhood left by the authorities to fend for itself,” says David Streitfeld. In Monopolized I called it “Digital Somalia” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frank Pasquale / @frankpasquale: Amazon “doesn't want to do curation or offer human interaction, two of the essential qualities of retail. Offering tens of millions of items to hundreds of millions of customers opens up a lot of space for advertising, confusion, & duplicity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
HBO CCO Casey Bloys says 50% of HBO viewership comes from linear, down from 90% in 2011, with the rest from HBO Max, and he's not “rushing” to share ratings — For most of 2020, things were not looking particularly great for HBO Max. Subscriber sign-ups were slower than expected …
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
Some top YouTube channels are spending millions on production; Mr. Beast says he spent $3.5M on his Squid Game video, a budget reminiscent of prestige TV — The top echelons of YouTubers are now spending upwards of $3.5 million per video. — Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter.
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Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Very interesting short piece on that remarkable MrBeast Squid Game replica https://simonowens.substack.com/ ...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: This is normal evolution of new media platforms. On cable ESPN started off covering 4th division Connecticut lacrosse matches; MTV hosts did their own makeup. Over time quality/budgets go up. So many experts missed on @youtube opportunity not getting that. https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Randy Cassingham / @thisistrue: This is a REALLY interesting item by @SimonOwens of a guy I hadn't even heard of who spent $3.5 MILLION(!!) making ...a Youtube video? Yep: and he's gonna make that money back and more. (Plus, note his internal plug for “My latest” piece!) https://simonowens.substack.com/ ...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: MrBeast is changing the economics of YouTube https://simonowens.substack.com/ ...
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler Steinkamp, including the loneliness and rage that comes with streaming game battles and real-world moments for 50 hours a week — NEW LONDON, Mo. — Just before midnight, six hours into his 10-hour Twitch live stream, Tyler Steinkamp's rage begins to erupt.
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@jadedcreative, @wplyndarobinson, Protocol, @micahloewinger, @pkedrosky, @dmac1, @willoremus, @brianstelter, @heatherkelly, @drvolts and @brandyzadrozny, more at Techmeme »
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Jay Arnold / @jadedcreative: So much pressure for kids. “Twitch officials acknowledge that some streamers suffer from burnout and harassment: The company recently hosted a “Creator Burnout” workshop and offers mental health guides for concerns about addiction and self-harm.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lynda Robinson / @wplyndarobinson: As his online world has grown, his real one has shrunk dramatically. Tyler has millions of fans but no friends; before spending a day with @drewharwell, no one besides his girlfriend and family had visited his house in several years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Pierce / Protocol: New jobs for everybody — Your five-minute guide to the best of Protocol (and the internet) …
Micah Loewinger / @micahloewinger: Just re-read this @drewharwell piece because it's just so vivid and tender and ... sad. Bravo! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky: Shocking. People in non-scalable businesses with easy entry and many substitutes burn out. https://twitter.com/...
Doug MacMillan / @dmac1: “Tyler has millions of fans but no friends.” Terrific reporting from @drewharwell on why the the creator economy is not sustainable: its biggest stars are burning out. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: Getting paid millions to play video games all day on Twitch sounds amazing, what a scam, what a life *reads this article* yikes ok wow actually it sounds awful lol https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: I want to tweet almost every line of @drewharwell's story about Tyler Steinkamp, Twitch streaming, “creators,” burnout, isolation, addiction... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Heather Kelly / @heatherkelly: Come for the miserable millionaire, stay for the mom paid $70k to make him dinner every night and the girlfriend who's harassed non-stop for her own streaming gig. https://twitter.com/...
David Roberts / @drvolts: Every form of internet fame sounds like an unholy nightmare to me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Damn @drewharwell is good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants — A push for royalty payments on comedic material sidelines work of Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and hundreds of others
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The Wrap, Gizmodo, TMZ.com, Rolling Stone, The Verge, Insider, Engadget and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Spotify Pulls Comedy Acts Like John Mulaney and Tiffany Haddish Over Royalty Dispute
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Spotify Pulls Content of Hundreds of Comedians Fighting to Get Royalties for Their Written Work
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Comedy Albums by John Mulaney, Patton Oswalt Removed From Spotify Amid Royalties Battle
Francis Agustin / Insider: Spotify removes John Mulaney, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, and other comedians from service over a royalties dispute
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Architectural Digest shifts to a global strategy where all 10 editions around the world coordinate content, helping increase traffic and amortize costs — After experimenting with rolling out feature stories and videos globally this year, Architectural Digest will publish its first global magazine issue …
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Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: I have always found it really strange that they weren't doing this from the start. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Shafer / Politico:
With a tiny audience, the cable news industry has devolved from a useful headline service to a 24/7 eldercare operation; few would notice if it disappeared — How did the cable news networks become our main stage? — Nary a day goes by without somebody saying something stupid somewhere …
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Eric McDaniel / @ericmcdanieldc: The 3 major cable networks attract an average audience of only 4.2 million viewers during primetime. In a nation of 330 million, that's just a little over 1 percent of the population. Meanwhile, the 3 nightly news broadcasts together reliably pull in 21.5 million viewers a night https://twitter.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: Reminder: Chris Cuomo's audience was tiny, and more than 99% of the U.S. population did not watch his cable news program on @CNN regularly. Despite the @twitter excitement, the news of his firing will be largely meaningless to most Americans. https://www.politico.com/...
Dan Vock / @danvock: “How did the cable news networks become our main stage?” I never understood this. I never understood why newsrooms play cable news (especially with the volume on). If you want good reporting, turn off cable “news.” https://twitter.com/...
Joan Esposito / @joanespositochi: Wow. This is shockingly bad take. Fox is 24/7 propaganda so lumping it in with @CNN & @MSNBC is ridiculous. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: I really cannot impress upon people enough how much your life improves after you quit receiving news from television; everything gets better, you mind more agile, your soul more stable, once you banish it from your life https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “Can we agree that cable news has devolved over time from a useful headline service (Ted Turner's original vision at CNN) to a day-to-night eldercare operation?” I hope @jackshafer gets invited on some cable news show to discuss this piece: https://www.politico.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: The vast wasteland of the 2020s is cable news, and @jackshafer is on it, in a very good way. https://www.politico.com/...
David Uberti / @daviduberti: Shorter @jackshafer: Read the fucking newspaper. https://www.politico.com/...
Dave Levinthal / @davelevinthal: Big ouch, from @jackshafer: “... but can we agree that cable news has devolved over time from a useful headline service (Ted Turner's original vision at CNN) to a day-to-night eldercare operation?” https://www.politico.com/...
John Saltas / @johnsaltas: Do this and the side benefit includes cutting the nuts off @jasoninthehouse @BurgessOwens and @RepChrisStewart who profit from bullshit spew on cable news. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: “For reasons that are personal, nobody has more reverence for the aged than I, but can we agree that cable news has devolved over time from a useful headline service (Ted Turner's original vision at CNN) to a day-to-night eldercare operation?” @jackshafer https://www.politico.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: A few years ago I wrote: Don't watch cable news, or at least not the prime-time talk shows. (2/2) https://www.wgbh.org/...
Steven Shepard / @politico_steve: This from @jackshafer is generally true. Although, the last time I was in the office (Nov. 2, the night of the Va. election), I changed some of the TVs to @FOXTV so I could watch Game 6 of the World Series. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Stein / @spytalker: Turn off cable news. It's bad for you. And you won't miss it, trust me. https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
Blake Hounshell / @blakehounshell: “If country music vanished in a rapture, you'd have to deal with some pretty ornery people. But if cable news disappeared tomorrow, who would notice?” https://www.politico.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: Cable news is a tiny medium that doesn't deserve the attention it gets, says @jackshafer. He's right. (1/2) https://www.politico.com/...
Walter Shapiro / @mrwaltershapiro: Kudos for reminding the world that cable ratings are minuscule and its influence (even Fox) wildly over-hyped. Personally, I refuse to watch it because I envision brain cell flaking off like dandruff. If it's truly important, there will be a transcript. https://twitter.com/...
Chase Madar / @chasemadar: A-grade Shafer. https://www.politico.com/...
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