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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NY judge upholds order blocking NYT from publishing Project Veritas docs, orders NYT to turn over physical copies and destroy electronic ones; NYT will appeal — The New York State judge also ordered The Times to turn over any physical copies and destroy any electronic versions of documents a lawyer prepared for the group.
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Today's ruling in the Project Veritas v. NYT case is a monster lump of First Amendment coal. It not only stops the paper from publishing memos it obtained via reporting but also orders it to return and destroy physical and digital copies, respectively: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Yet the passage highlighted below takes the cake. It cites Project Veritas' argument that NYT “knew [it] was not authorized to disclose” the memos. WHAT? *PROJECT VERITAS*-which trades in sting operations steeped in deception-is scolding NYT for not having “authorization”? https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Just in: Judge in Westchester County, NY, rules in favor of Project Veritas in its effort to keep NY Times from publishing or using Veritas' atty-client memos. Justice Wood says this will ‘protect integrity of judicial process’ and ‘is no defeat for the First Amendment.’ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Judge says Veritas ‘met its burden of showing that the subject memoranda were obtained by irregular means.’ He also finds no basis for Veritas' contention that NYT attorneys violated rules of professional conduct. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ...
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner: Victory for Project Veritas: Judge orders New York Times to get rid of memos
Daniel A. Horwitz / @danielahorwitz: The attorney-client privilege is principally an evidentiary rule and secondarily an ethics rule. It has other functions as well, but none of them—zero—comes anywhere close to justifying a prior restraint against reporting material that a journalist obtained lawfully. https://twitter.com/...
Armando / @armandondk: Let's be clear this is a million times more a threat to journalism than the Assange prosecution. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: For Project Veritas, of all places, to complain about informants... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Scher / @billscher: The judge in this case is a Republican elected official who won one judicial election for a 14-year term with less than 10 percent of vote https://ballotpedia.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jered Ede / @jtaylorede: I wonder if @BGrueskin has made it to page 27 yet. Hello Bill. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@calaesthetic: A.G. Sulzberger says NYT will appeal immediately: “In defiance of law settled in the Pentagon Papers case, this judge has barred The Times from publishing information about a prominent and influential organization that was obtained legally in the ordinary course of reporting.” https://twitter.com/...
Jered Ede / @jtaylorede: The Times/corp. media argued prior restraint. Wrong. “The Times is perfectly free to investigate, ... publish, opine, expose or ignore whatever aspects of Project Veritas its editors in their sole discretion deem newsworthy, without utilizing [PV's a/c] privileged memoranda.”
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The ruling is the latest salvo in a defamation case brought by Project Veritas in 2020 relating to NYT coverage of one of its videos. https://lawandcrime.com/... 2/
Dilan Esper / @dilanesper: This Court got something fundamentally wrong. It's a complicated issue. I will walk you through it. Courts have a lot of power over parties to a lawsuit, including to restrict how information obtained within the lawsuit (i.e., in discovery) is used. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: A reminder that yes, this ruling is from a judge on the New York Supreme Court. But here in New York, a “Supreme Court” is a trial court whose justices hear cases on a county level—in this case, Westchester County, a New York City suburb where Veritas's office is located. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: This should be reversed. The court starts by noting that PV has the burden of showing that the memos were obtained “improperly or irregularly.” Okay so, what's the evidence of improper or irregular behavior? The order doesn't cite any. Instead, it points to a lack of evidence. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: For those of you wondering about the judge: He was elected, as a Republican, in 2009. Two other judges on this court were assigned the case, but they recused themselves. That's when it went to Justice Wood. https://ballotpedia.org/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The right wing's relentless attack on the First Amendment — for everyone who isn't a right-winger, that is — is bearing poisonous fruit. They find a compliant judge, and wham. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: This is an outrageous attack on freedom of the press. I expect the @nytimes to win this easily on appeal. https://twitter.com/...
Ian Millhiser / @imillhiser: It is astounding how many judges do not know the first thing about the Constitution. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: Here, in a couple of paragraphs, is why everyone who says you can fix an unconstitutional prior restraint with “newsworthiness” is an idiot. That's subjective as hell, and judges might not find bad stuff about people they like newsworthy. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I have deep concerns for the First amendment and no sympathy for journalism at this point They were publishing full out screeds about protesters and immigrants Meanwhile humoring these fools til they hit back https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: PV is using discovery rules—in a case in which no discovery has taken place!—to force NYTimes to return documents that are unrelated to the litigation. Seems sketchy to me. NYTimes has already said it will appeal. Rightly so.
@nytopinion: “No court should be able to tell The New York Times or any other news organization — or, for that matter, Project Veritas — how to conduct its reporting,” writes the editorial board. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Today's opinion in the Project Veritas v. NYT case is incredibly myopic, and, I think, highly unlikely to be ultimately sustained on appeal. 1/
Ari Cohn / @aricohn: Imagine, the same judge who issued a prior restraint thought “NYT didn't reveal its source and there's nothing on the record showing it *didn't* obtain the documents improperly so Project Veritas satisfied its burden” was a smart, logical conclusion. He's not very...impressive. https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: There's so much about this that makes little sense including what the judge means by “irregular.” https://twitter.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: This decision flagrantly violates the First Amendment and should be appealed instantly and reversed promptly. https://www.reuters.com/...
Jan Wolfe / @jannwolfe: New: A judge has ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to Project Veritas, and to destroy any electronic versions. The judge said he's more concerned with Project Veritas's “basic right of privacy” than NYT's freedom of the press claims. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: That's it. That's the entirety of the evidence the court relies on to decide that PV has met its burden to show that the documents were obtained “improperly or irregularly.” But no evidence is no evidence. You ordinarily cannot meet a burden by pointing to a *lack* of evidence.
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: From the order: PV has the burden. Then: “There is nothing in the record to show how the Times obtained the privileged memoranda that belong to Project Veritas.” And then the court notes that NYT only states that it was obtained through “newsgathering efforts.”
Brandon Rittiman / @brandonrittiman: You know what's not a good idea? The government telling reporters not to publish information they lawfully obtained, that's what. #FreePress https://twitter.com/...
Daniel A. Horwitz / @danielahorwitz: A ludicrous ruling, and plainly wrong. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Good *grief*. This could reverberate for some time. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Owens / @ericowensdc: America's trial courts are a disaster. Elected judges are the worst. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Mair / @lizmair: This strikes me as very much a wrong ruling though I firmly believe a lot of (governmental) going after Veritas, as much as I disagree with their ideological underpinnings, is also anti-First Amendment. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: On Nov. 11, the Times published a story based on legal memos drafted by attorneys retained by Project Veritas—an enlightening story for showing the lengths to which PV went to ensure that its video stings stayed within the four corners of the law. 3/ https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Cohen / Politico: Judge blocks New York Times on Project Veritas coverage
Mitch Pugh / @scmitchp: A sign a judge knows he's 100 percent right: dropping the opinion on Christmas Eve. This is getting overturned but this judge has no business on the bench. https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: BREAKING: New York judge doubles down on censorship order against New York Times and demands the paper destroy documents. Shocking ruling that goes against a century of precedent. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: Yeesh. This reasoning conflates “matter of public concern,” a concept of defamation law, and the purposes of the attorney-client privilege. Neither of them alone would justify this extreme result, so the court just mixed parts of each together to end up here. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Oh, ffs https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Statement from New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on judge's decision to uphold prior restraint on the newspaper as it relates to coverage of Project Veritas — and to order the return of internal documents obtained through reporting: https://twitter.com/...
Sindhu Sundar / Insider: Judge rules The New York Times must destroy documents and not publish reporting on conservative group
Gautam Hans / @dispositive: I teach Legal Ethics (including attorney-client privilege) and litigate First Amendment cases. This is a wrong and bad ruling. https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: If this decision was any dumber you'd have to water it once a week. And yes, I do have a law degree. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: It essentially holds that NO attorney advice to a client can ever be a matter of public concern, and that there is a blanket exception protecting such advice to the rule against prior restraints. 2/
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: This is the same judge who ruled against the NY Times' effort to dismiss a defamation suit, filed by Veritas last year. I wrote about the case in May, via @CJR https://www.cjr.org/...
Mark Lukasiewicz / @deanluk: A judge ordering journalist to destroy documents = a judge attempting to destroy the 1st Amendment. Let's hope neither act of destruction occurs. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill: Judge upholds prior ruling against New York Times on Project Veritas
Jeremy Turk / @jturk125: All I want for Christmas is document links with legal reporting /tweeting. You have them. Voila: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Noah Goldberg / New York Daily News: New York Times ordered to return legal documents, take down story on Project Veritas
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Opinion here: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ...
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Only if you think that the attorney-client privilege is the single most important bedrock of our constitutional system (trumping, for instance, press freedom or free speech) does this even begin to make sense. Some lawyers, but precious few other citizens would agree, I think./3
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: Project Veritas went from claiming coverage of Hunter Biden was being censored to demanding its secrets be protected. https://twitter.com/...
Professor Garrett Epps / @profepps: The conservative legal movement will not let the holidays dampen for a second its unwinking hostility to democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lavoie / @djlavoie: This is breathtakingly unconstitutional and every Cancel Culture twerp who's not up in arms right now can shut up forever. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: But it triggered a motion from Project Veritas lawyers seeking to stop NYT from further disseminating those memos. It has succeeded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 4/
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: “In addition to imposing this unconstitutional prior restraint, the judge has gone even further...ordered we return this material, a ruling with no apparent precedent and one that could present obvious risks to exposing sources (if) allowed to stand.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Jacob Remes / @jacremes: Sounds like maybe someone should steal the documents from the Times and publish them before anyone has a chance to tell them to stop. If the Times accidentally left the doors unlocked, oh well. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “This ruling should raise alarms not just for advocates of press freedoms but for anyone concerned about the dangers of government overreach into what the public can and cannot know,” says NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Denney / LAW.com: Judge Orders NYT to Surrender Project Veritas Legal Memos
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Nic Dawes, executive director of NYC-based The City, on the publication's Open Newsroom program partnering with local libraries and community centers — In 2019, New York City saw the launch of The City, a local nonprofit news platform built with considerable foundation and donor funding …
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@nicdawes, @terryparrisjr, @vaniaandre_, @jeffjarvis, @cjr and American Press Institute
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Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: I spoke with @LHarrisWrites about @THECITYNY's approach to responsive journalism, and the need to integrate community listening deeply with newsroom and product processes. We'll be hiring in several roles to support this work in the new year, stay tuned. https://www.cjr.org/...
Terry Parris Jr / @terryparrisjr: Cool to see The Open Newsroom in @CJR. A great group of students and interns built this “core” function of @THECITYNY. Credit to @MekdelaMaskal @misscostantino @Al_Dikanovic @Djlaplaza @michaelaroman_ @MaxResnik @allieginwala for making everything Nic is talking about possible. https://twitter.com/...
@vaniaandre_: Great insight from our executive director @NicDawes on @THECITYNY Open Newsroom initiative and its impact on our coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Lotsa brilliant @newmarkjschool grads namechecked here. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House rejects the WHCA's proposal to hold press briefings over Zoom but says it's “open to considering a request to go back to smaller-sized briefings” — With a fierce new variant of the coronavirus on the loose, White House reporters are urging press secretary Jen Psaki …
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@sulliview, @jeffschogol, @andrewfeinberg, @alexnazaryan, @washingtonpost, @ericboehlert, @dil_maz, @stevennelson10, @w7voa, @jason_kint, @brianstelter and NPR
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@sulliview: White House reporters ask for virtual press briefings during the latest covid surge. So far, it's a no go. ...From @farhip https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Schogol / @jeffschogol: The Pentagon allows reporters to ask questions via Zoom. It's much better than having reporters call in. Who can forget the heavy breather briefing? https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: I have nothing but respect for my colleagues in general and for those serving on the @whca board, but this is getting ridiculous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alexander Nazaryan / @alexnazaryan: Glad to see @PressSec is standing firm on in-person briefings. We need to figure out how to live with this virus responsibly instead of fleeting to Zoom with every new surge—of which there will be many. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: The White House Correspondents' Association has proposed holding the daily briefings online. Press secretary Jen Psaki argued closing the briefing room would send the wrong message. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: I'm puzzled by this bc even when there was no vaccine WH briefings were never done by zoom; https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@dil_maz: And this is the WH's problem in a nutshell. They're so worried about the optics that they refuse to take simple measures that would keep people safe. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Nelson / @stevennelson10: Virtual WH briefings would allow for much tighter control of questions, as seen in this year's virtual COVID task force briefings with Fauci/CDC Reduced-capacity WH briefings, by contrast, would diversify Qs by reducing share of time given to TV/wire reporters in front row https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: With the #OmicronVariant on the loose, @whca urges @PressSec to move her daily briefings online, reports @farhip. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Even optics dictate going virtual here. “White House officials have told WHCA the administration's covid protocols — which include mask requirements, and vaccine and booster checks or tests for those entering the White House premises — are sufficient protection against omicron.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “With a fierce new variant of the coronavirus on the loose, White House reporters are urging press secretary Jen Psaki to move her daily briefings online — but it's an idea Psaki has been cool to so far,” @farhip reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alana Wise / NPR: Kamala Harris tests negative after a COVID-19 exposure
Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Joan Didion, whose career spanned traditional reporting, screenwriting, cultural criticism, and fiction, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 87 — Joan Didion, the celebrated prose stylist, novelist and screenwriter who chronicled American culture and consciousness with cool detachment …
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Megan Garber / The Atlantic: Joan Didion Was Our Bard of Disenchantment
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: The brilliance of this blew my mind when I was 17, and it continues to. But the most Joan Didion-esque sentence might be the one that immediately follows it: “Or at least we do for a while.” RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carpenter / @juliaccarpenter: Joan, on “writing as a hostile act” https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@parisreview: “I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day.” —Joan Didion https://www.theparisreview.org/ ...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: “Novels by women tended to be described, even by their publishers, as sensitive...and I didn't much like it. I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously.” - Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
Parul Sehgal / New York Times: Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style
William Grimes / New York Times: Joan Didion, whose career spanned traditional reporting, screenwriting, cultural criticism, and fiction, dies of Parkinson's disease at 87
Harrison Smith / Washington Post: Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87
Ellen Barry / @ellenbarrynyt: One of the things I liked about Joan Didion is the way she could write from inside the culture (she is so American) and simultaneously from an unsparing clinical distance, just as she could write about her own psychological state as if she were observing it in a laboratory.
Emily Henderson / I'm Really Very Literary: Anticipation of a Thing — One more sleep until Santa comes and the anticipation is just as exciting as the day itself.
Abby Gardner / We Have Notes with Abby Gardner: Goodbye to All That — “I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: “She was a storyteller who rejected mythology. She had no patience for the pablum sold in the hectic American marketplace: bootstraps, merits, salvations.” — @megangarber on Joan Didion. Read the whole thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Kerstin Thompson / @thompsonkerstin: On Self-Respect. By Didion. This finest of essays worth a re-read every year ‘It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.’ https://www.vogue.com/...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied / @yassmin_a: I had never taken the time to read Didion before, it is w mixed feelings I begin now only after her passing. These seemed like as good a place to start as any (on @mrbenjaminlaw's suggestion) will say I was rather surprised to see Khartoum get a mention! https://www.vogue.com/...
Joyce Carol Oates / @joycecaroloates: who was it said, “The writer is always selling someone out”—? I don't think it's always, or usually, true; but it is true for some writers, possibly Didion or Janet Malcolm, who wielded their pens like surgical instruments, for the delectation of their enthralled readers. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee: Much of Didion's best work is here, much of it still uncollected, and the paywall, it seems, is down in her honor. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Joan Didion on political journalism in 1988. One of the pieces that made me want to do press criticism. https://www.nybooks.com/... “Insider Baseball” it is called. https://twitter.com/...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: Thank goodness for @megangarber on Joan Didion. Beautiful: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ross Andersen / @andersen: “When she talked about the stories we tell ourselves in order to live, she wasn't offering a gauzy pronouncement. She was issuing an indictment.” - @megangarber on Didion is one gorgeous sentence after another, each of which her subject would have loved https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: Acutely insightful, must-read elegy for Joan Didion, RIP, by @megangarber. Like a slap in the face in the best way. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Monica Lewinsky / @monicalewinsky: ... sigh...she will be missed. https://twitter.com/...
Col. Gustavo Arellano / @gustavoarellano: But I also put Didion in her time/place as someone from the New Journalism school, who wrote mostly for herself, at the ignorance of a LOT of California. It's not a new critique, but the best one BY FAR is what @lesbrains wrote last year, which I mention https://electricliterature.com/ ...
Connor Sheets / @connorasheets: I've loved Joan Didon's work for years but I listened to her final two books on the drive to LA (where I now live a short drive from her one-time South Bay home) and her writing on grief may have been her best. One of our most gifted writers, what a loss. https://www.latimes.com/...
Meaghan Oppenheimer / @moppyopps: The greatest of our time. No one else comes close. 💔 https://twitter.com/...
Chica Marx / @mckenziewark: One little thing I learned from Joan Didion: you don't always have to be asking a ton of questions. Just hang out, quietly, observe, and ppl will open up when they're ready, and more than if you'd pressed them with a barrage of questions.
@margaretsimons: Hard to say how much her work meant. When I discovered it in the 1990s, it opened windows and doors. Journalism had become stale to me. I read Didion, my work took a turn, and never turned back. Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@rrrrnessa: Wow. Just deeply saddened to hear about Joan Didion's passing. Her writing, especially “The Year of Magical Thinking” was the closest I felt seen in my own grief. She was a masterful writer and incredible in her understanding of grief. May she rest in peace. https://twitter.com/...
@4thestatebooks: A statement from 4th Estate about Joan Didion. Nicholas Pearson, Publishing Director: ‘No one wrote like Joan: she was out there hunting down the truth in a style that was all her own. We will miss that voice that was fierce, curious, elegiac.’ https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Heller / New Yorker: What Joan Didion Saw
Muska Dastageer / @dastageermuska: “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” The great Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Donadio / @racheldonadio: 🔥 1978 Paris Review interview with Joan Didion: https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: “Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs” This quote basically yanked me through my messy 20s 🖤 RIP Joan Didion https://www.vogue.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything...” —Joan Didion https://www.vogue.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Yasin / @sarayasin: feels very corny to say that didion's writing had a huge impact on me (especially as a writer girl type in brooklyn) but this is the essay that i've revisited the most https://www.vogue.com/...
@the_60s_at_60: September 23, 1967: Joan Didion's “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” first appears in The Saturday Evening Post (@SatEvePost). Text: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@parisreview: “The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.” Rest in peace, Joan Didion (1934-2021). Read more from the Art of Fiction No. 71: https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aditya Mukerjee / @chimeracoder: “[Writers] are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” - Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: Former President Obama called her “one of our sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture.” Joan Didion, masterful novelist, memoirist and social critic, dies at 87 https://www.latimes.com/...
Lindsey Boylan / @lindseyboylan: “She preferred to cultivate sources on the periphery...'picking up vibrations' as she circled toward the center & back out again. But in her search for truth & meaning in a world where, as she frequently declared, the center does not hold, she told stories with icy clarity. https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: “Nobody writes better English prose than Joan Didion,” critic John Leonard once wrote. “Try to rearrange one of her sentences, and you've realized that the sentence was inevitable, a hologram.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Patt Morrison / @pattmlatimes: A seismic shock only in that #JoanDidion seemed to be an eternal part of the #California landscape, like El Capitan, or the ceaseless sea. I'd interviewed her several times, and she kindly wrote a jacket blurb for one of my books. A titan. A genius. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Janssen / @kimjnews: Joan Didion's writing is one of the reasons I wanted to live in California. RIP https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Wiley / @hannahcwiley: Thank you for your words, Joan Didion. They are among my favorite ever to be printed. https://twitter.com/...
@paperhaus: What has now become part of Joan Didion lore is something she told me in an interview in 2013: Harrison Ford built her kitchen in Malibu. https://www.latimes.com/...
Jack McLoone / @jfmclooney: Joan Didion taught me that you can be afraid of calling people even if you're Joan fucking Didion so she'll go down as an honorary millennial too
Condé Nast Library / @condelibrary: We're honoring and remembering Joan Didion. She worked at @voguemagazine from 1956 to 1964. Read her 1961 essay on self-respect: https://www.vogue.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: For half a century, Joan Didion, who died on Thursday, was the grand diagnostician of American disorder in essays of strong, unmistakable cadence. She wrote her first story at age 5, after her mother told her to stop whining and to write down her thoughts.https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Joan Didion, Iconic Author and New Journalism Writer, Dies at 87
Courtney Hurtt / INNsights:
INN Index survey: foundation funding for nonprofit outlets fell from 57% of revenue in 2017 to 47% in 2020, indicating funding sources are becoming more diverse — The end of a year always lends itself to reflection. And the beginning of the new year comes with resolutions.
Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
A close look at the media scene at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, including how framing has made it an entertainment story by often focusing on graphic details — At 3:55am in downtown Manhattan, on the tenth day of the United States of America v. Ghislaine Maxwell trial, a man lay diagonally …
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@cjr: “There's a cascading effect, where if one person writes the day's story about diamonds in Epstein's safe, and Prince Andrew, and four-bedroom mansions, then everyone else feels like they have to write that story to get the clicks.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Two Georgia election workers sue OANN and a network correspondent for defamation over false claims they manipulated ballots; they earlier sued Gateway Pundit — Rudy Freeman and Wandrea Moss claim pro-Trump media outfit and Trump lawyer defamed them and “bear responsibility for ... partisan character assassination”
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Callie Patteson / New York Post: Georgia election workers sue OAN, Giuliani claiming defamation
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press: Georgia election workers file second suit over fraud claims
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
The Coalition for App Fairness loses its most effective advocate as Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify's chief legal officer, leaves for The Walt Disney Company — Yesterday I saw on LinkedIn that Horacio Gutierrez is leaving Spotify. He served as Spotify's Head of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer …
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Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Huh. Back when he was at Microsoft, he invited me to his office where we debated whether intellectual property was good (him) or bad (me). I never quite understood the point of that meeting and whether he was open to other ideas, or thought he'd convince me of his view... https://twitter.com/...
The Walt Disney Company: The Walt Disney Company Names Horacio Gutierrez as General Counsel and Secretary
Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
A look at TikTok's biggest stars, including Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Noah Beck, and Addison Rae, expanding to other platforms, often with mixed results — This year, the app's biggest stars — Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Noah Beck, Addison Rae and others — leapt from the phone screen …
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Jon Caramanica / @joncaramanica: wrote about the year in which the tiktok A-team — charli, dixie, noah, addison, huddy, etc. — tried to puzzle out what might come next 😢 “the d'amelio show” 🤩 “he's all that” 🤪 user4350486101671 🧟♂️ “teenage heartbreak” 🆘 “noah beck tries things” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap:
[Thread] For media and advertising, Web3's focus on decentralization and tokenization solves few, if any, problems and is the last thing ad tech needs — This web3 shit is starting to annoy me, so here's a thread with my opinions on the relevance to media and advertising. 1/21 🧵
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George Hadjia / @ghadjia: I've been doing a lot of reading on web3 to educate myself on the topic. By no means an expert but struggling to reconcile the unbridled optimism with the vagueness of web3's promises. This thread is fantastic and makes clear that decentralisation probably isn't a panacea. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Levie / @levie: One of *many* reasons why we don't just “decentralize all the things”. Worth a minute or two of your time.👇 https://twitter.com/...
Randall Rothenberg / @r2rothenberg: On Web3, predictions are angel's breath, not worth a comment. But @aripap nails the reasons scale is literal coin-of-the-realm in media & advertising. An especially important, overlooked point: The scaled DISCOVERY that platforms enable benefits both big fish AND small fry. https://twitter.com/...
Terence Kawaja / @tkawaja: Excellent thread debunking the near term hoopla about the intersection of web3 and media. https://twitter.com/...
Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes: Thoughtful thread below: - how does one solve distribution problem without creating alternative big tech companies that just happen to be web3 - not sure consumers are looking for adhoc shitty ads, lots of paywalls, or toll booths/ subscriptions required across the internet. https://twitter.com/...
Mat Velloso / @matvelloso: Good, unbiased overview of the hard problems in this space. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Blake / @hisamblake: @aripap @PermissionIO You're missing the creator perspective, and the possibility that advertising in web3 media could be far less predominant as a business model.
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @hisamblake @PermissionIO This is a good point.
@tswirly: @aripap @PermissionIO All of this is true, and yet there's even more important point that web3 is pathologically expensive to build and run. https://www.usenix.org/... “Put bluntly, the Ethereum “world computer” has roughly 1/5,000 of the compute power of a Raspberry Pi 4!”
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @hakosam @jack https://twitter.com/...
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO But in general: -The problem of concentration in media is caused by consumer choice. -Paying consumers to change their behavior is IMHO not going to happen at scale. -Decentralization is literally the last thing ad tech needs. 21/21.
Sam Jacobson / @hakosam: @aripap Please update when Marc Andreesen blocks you and @jack follows you. Thank you!
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO Let's move on to the ads themselves. For a media company, like a newspaper or local broadcaster, the advertising ecosystem is already hugely decentralized - and that's a big part of the problem. 14/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO There may be very specific areas where web3 projects intersect with the media/advertising landscape and add value. Single sign-on using NFTs. Verification of advertising transaction counter-parties. I'll wait and see. 20/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO Any rational person looking at the experiences of consumers on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and other “centralized” web2 sites will notice that the ads are actually really good. They don't overwhelm the consumer, are often relevant, and don't mess up the content. 17/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO In contrast, when you visit a newspaper website you are bombarded with poorly targeted garbage that makes the content hard to read, revs your CPU, and disrespects the user. That's the decentralized, ad hoc ad tech stack. 18/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO And even if you wanted to execute a scheme where you pay for user data, just do that in a SQL database (AllAdvantage anyone?). Why have a token with high gas prices, fluctuating value, complexity, etc. 12/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO 3) This concept appeals to the least valuable consumers; 4) specific data points ("I'm ready to buy a car") are vastly more valuable than generic data, and you can get that data more efficiently through lead-gen tactics. 11/21 cont.
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO Zooming out, why would you expect anything else out of the religion of decentralization? Having many competing services that are mashed together however any party chooses will naturally be messy and difficult, across all web3 initiatives. 19/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO web3 proponents will say things like “web3 will clean up the mess that Google and others have created in advertising”. No. 16/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO And again if you really want to execute a scheme to pay for user data, it makes sense to do it at the browser level (Brave) rather than at the execution level in a new social network or media company that will only have part of the consumer's overall attention. 13/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO Have you seen the Lumascape? Does that look centralized? 15/21 https://twitter.com/...
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: Media creation is already decentralized, that was the great innovation of web2. With a couple of clicks you can create a blog, storefront, or whatever media you want. 5/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: @PermissionIO Problems with “pay for your data”: 1) It isn't worth very much; 2) It is worth the most to the big web2 companies that already have it; 11/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: The web3 promise to decentralize media distribution ignores the need to attract hundreds of millions of consumers based around a vague promise of freedom. The only benefit to a web3 media distribution is for content that is banned or restricted on the current platforms. 8/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: “But what if you're paid for your data” - anonymous Greek philosopher, circa 350 B.C. 9/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: That's already pretty vague. Clearly there's an enemy in mind, the centralized winners of web2: Google, Facebook, etc. 3/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: The reason Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others control distribution of media is because consumers LOVE these services. They are hard to build, expensive to maintain, and have strong network effects. 7/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: Discussions of web3 always head towards the idea that consumers will adopt new ways of consuming media that will compensate them for their data. There are some companies trying to do this (@PermissionIO). It's got a lot of problems, and doesn't require web3. 10/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: To start, a lot of the posturing around the impact of web3 is frustratingly vague, and so therefore hard to refute. The central premise is that using the economic incentives of tokens, you can bootstrap and maintain decentralized services. 2/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: So let's walk through the various components of media, and see how decentralization or tokenization might or might not apply. 4/21
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap: The problem is that very few people will ever see your media unless you also distribute it, and that's where the tech giants have a huge role and take their vig. 6/21
@rafat: Great thread from Ari on the relevance — or for now non-relevance — of web3 to media companies. Agree, the promise for now is kinda meh... https://twitter.com/...
Modest Proposal / @modestproposal1: without ads, things start to look like MLMs, and recruiting downlines becomes the new growth hacking https://twitter.com/...
Myles Younger / @myles_younger: Good bear case on some aspects of “web3.” I think you could put together a bull case on other aspects of digital marketing beyond advertising, but like @aripap I would agree it's not going to magically turn out to be utopian in nature. https://twitter.com/...
Zach Coelius / @zachcoelius: A good thread from one of the smartest guys in the ad business @aripap https://twitter.com/...
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
The European Commission grants antitrust clearance for Discovery's proposed acquisition of AT&T's WarnerMedia; Discovery expects the deal to close in mid-2022 — Discovery, announced today that the European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust clearance of the company's proposed acquisition …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety: European Commission Clears Discovery, WarnerMedia Merger
Chris Dziadul / Broadband TV News: EC approves Discovery WarnerMedia acquisition
BBC:
Jon Snow, who led the UK's Channel 4 News for 32 years, signs off as lead presenter; the channel says he'll front longer-form projects and focus on charities — Jon Snow has presented his final edition of Channel 4 News after 32 years at the helm of the programme.
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M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: I mean, I get not using “...and now his watch has ended” in the headline, but come on, you have to reference it in the story. I'm sorry, you just have to. https://twitter.com/...
Eamonn Mallie / @eamonnmallie: I am so sorry to see you go John. You were a loyal friend to me who fought my corner whatever the economic constraints on news-gathering. Ádh mór ort John. Eamonn Mallie. Belfast. Jon Snow bows out of Channel 4 News after 32 years - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/...
Ghanem Nuseibeh / @gnuseibeh: A giant in the world of journalism. I had the pleasure of being a guest of his in the 1990s when I was a student (I have a pic somewhere!). Wishing @jonsnowC4 all the best https://twitter.com/...
Michael Dunlap / @dunlapsports: um I was told Jon Snow never leaves his post https://twitter.com/...
Faisal Islam / @faisalislam: When I joined C4N team in 2004, astonishing to find that #JonSnow was in fact entirely & exactly the same person off screen as he appeared on... like a buzzing energy ball, infecting everybody with enthusiasm to go that little bit further, & endlessly interested in all around him
Grainne Harrington / @giharrington: Goodnight @jonsnowC4 on your last night on air. Thank you for the inspiration, and my favourite shot with our #GazaGirls team, when we managed a smile after a long few weeks. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Faisal Islam / @faisalislam: Watching #JonSnow on C4N was compulsory in my household as we had our dinner in 90s Manchester...so when I met him at Granada TV conf of young people, and he wrote back to a letter asking for a job encouragingly but politely saying it wasnt “in his gift”...I pinned it by my desk...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: Farewell Snowy @jonsnowC4 after 32 years at Channel 4 News. You've been a consistently brilliant news broadcaster, and aside from the ludicrous ties, and dodgy helmets, a lot of fun too. Congrats on a great run - I'll miss you! 👏👏 https://twitter.com/...
Lyse Doucet / @bbclysedoucet: .@jonsnowC4 stopped us - “an all-women team!” He asked for a photo .. or was it us asking him? #JonSnow https://twitter.com/...
Cathy Newman / @cathynewman: Dear @jonsnowC4 as you present your final @Channel4News tonight please know you have inspired so many in every corner of the world. I first started tuning in as a student, never dreaming I'd one day co-present with you. It has been the privilege of my life. Thank you! https://twitter.com/...
Faisal Islam / @faisalislam: ... @jonsnowC4 simply superb colleague, fearless & relentless interrogator of truth, infectious enthusiasm for news in every corner of the world & for the development of younger colleagues. Honour to have worked with & learnt from you. gutted not to be able send you off.. https://twitter.com/...
@channel4news: Today marks the end of an era at Channel 4 News, as @jonsnowC4 will present his final edition of the programme tonight at 7pm. Here's a look back at his remarkable 32-year career presenting the show from around the world. https://twitter.com/...
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