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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
An in-depth look at the rise of Tucker Carlson, who led Fox's Trump-era transformation by stoking white fear, becoming the network's most influential employee — Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump's Heir
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Today, @nytimes is publishing “American Nationalist,” our 3-part investigation into the fall and rise of Tucker Carlson and the transformation of American conservatism. Part 1 will appear in Sunday's paper. A 🧵on our story and findings: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Tucker Carlson has constructed what is, by some measures, the most successful show in the history of cable news. It may also be the most racist. The New York Times examined how he positioned himself to inherit the movement that grew around Donald Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@hannahgais: peter brimelow, founder of the white nationalist site VDARE who fancies himself to be a member of the “dissident right,” at one point reported directly to rupert murdoch, per @nytimes. (what's so “dissident right” about murdoch, i wonder?) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Perfect example of how corporate media's partisanship has made it irrelevant. NYT writes for liberals/Dems. Liberals believe (or assert) anyone opposing liberalism is racist. Conservatives know liberal outlets accuse everyone opposing liberalism of being racist. Just a game: https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: In earlier years, Carlson regularly interviewed guests who debated him on issues, but he has recently devoted far less airtime to opposing views. Of nearly 7,000 guest appearances since 2016, about 1,000 of them contradicted him. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: What to Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise
Kathryn Bertoni / Demodexio: I couldn't care less about Tucker Carlson's past
@erikwemple: Outstanding @nickconfessore investigation of @TuckerCarlson: https://www.nytimes.com/... Among the many takeaways is Carlson's corrosive impact on his Fox News co-workers. 1/
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: what this paragraph describes is essentially the creation of infowars https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amy Spitalnick / @amyspitalnick: The NYT feature by @nickconfessore & co puts concrete numbers behind Tucker Carlson's normalization of white supremacist Replacement Theory. Over *a third* of his shows include references: https://www.nytimes.com/... And neo-Nazis like our Charlottesville defendants love it. 🧵⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: Your occasional reminder that former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan sits on the Fox Corp board of directors. https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: No matter how low an opinion you have of Murdoch & Fox, it's not low enough. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Saltzstein / @dansaltzstein: Extraordinary piece. (And it's only part 1!) “Mr. Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful.” https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Huertas / @aaronhuertas: This is really impressive. Nice illustration of how conservative media is the real echo chamber / bubble. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “Last May, after promoting the white supremacist ‘replacement’ theory, Mr. Carlson had half as many advertisers as in December 2018 but brought in almost twice as much money.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@picardonhealth: American Nationalist, part III: Inside the apocalyptic world of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ — an analysis of 1,150 episodes, by @nickconfessore https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism
@thejanasanchez: It's very depressing to know this open racist is the number one cable news show. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: The New York Times analyzed more than 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Our investigation reveals how Carlson, using monologues and on-screen messaging, pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Klasfeld / @klasfeldreports: This data analysis is cogently done and thoroughly worth your time. 🔽 https://twitter.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “From the beginning, Carlson's on-air provocations have been part of a painstaking, data-driven campaign to build and hold Fox's audience - an experiment that has succeeded wildly in bolstering Murdoch's profit machine” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Well worth reading, for a look at the pure poison the Murdoch family's Fox “News” relentlessly injects, in large part via this disgusting person, into our civic bloodstream. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: this is a really good breakdown of how tucker operates, how he uses fear and racism to frighten viewers into watching https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: These are amazing graphics. (Also: I worry about the journalist doing all this work.) https://twitter.com/...
@philthatremains: The reason is because the left refuses to talk to the right. The left thinks the right are Nazis. When your narrative is that your political rival are the literal worst people in history you don't have to talk to them. The stupid New York Times is part of that problem. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: For the last three years, nearly every advertiser has left Tucker Carlson Tonight because of his brand of racism is toxic to their brands. That Fox is modeling their entire network around him shows that the advertisers remaining on the Fox network are just fine with it. https://twitter.com/...
Leslie Mac / @lesliemac: Liberals let Bill Maher walk so Tucker could fly. 🤷🏽♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: There's more in Part 3, an interactive dive into more than 1,000 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” We show exactly how he appropriated the rhetorical tropes & exotic fixations of white nationalists, weaving it all into something uniquely his own. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rschooley: This is impressive but I just can't imagine the mental toll on the people who had to watch this much Tucker Carlson. https://twitter.com/...
Bill McKibben / @billmckibben: One night at a time Tucker Carlson may seem like a joke. But as this important @nytimes series makes clear, he is reshaping discourse in America, and in the ugliest and most dangerous possible ways. Limbaugh damaged our country, and it grows steadily worse https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lawrence Glickman / @larryglickman: Fantastic and disturbing reporting by @nickconfessore and the @nytimes on Tucker Carlson. Just a few thoughts about what I take to be the implied discontinuity between past (represented by Reaganism and his former “puckish libertarianism") and present. /1 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: This was a side detail in the Carlson story that is a bombshell in its own right and something I would love to see more reporting on https://twitter.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: Fox executives wanted to focus on “the grievance, the stuff that would get people boiled up,” said one current Fox employee. “They're coming for you, the Blacks are coming for you, the Mexicans are coming for you.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The blunt language about his racism. The clear descriptions: “gleefully courting blowback, then fashioning himself as his aggrieved viewers' partner in victimhood.” The completeness of the scrutiny: 1,150 episodes viewed. No attempt to both sides it. Outstanding work, @nytimes. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: An incredibly important, well-reported and meticulously researched piece >> https://twitter.com/...
@schwabrealhuman: Their end goal is to label everyone that watches Tucker Carlson an extremist, everyone that shares an opinion with him, everyone that has liked one of his tweets. They want to put half of America in a gulag and this is one of the clearest steps in that direction since 1/6. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: To channel white fear into ratings, @TuckerCarlson uses the tropes & fixations of white nationalists, mainstreaming anti-Semitism & racism. As @DanRather says, this isn't conservatism: https://steady.substack.com/ ... It's far-right nationalism. American fascism: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hanania / @richardhanania: One employee at Fox complained about Tucker's show to HR. Nothing was done because he's too successful, but demonstrates how civil rights law and HR bureaucracy crush dissent. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Tucker Carlson is the champion of the most ardent Donald Trump followers. After 2016, his show focused on the emotional core of Trump's allure: white panic over an increasingly diverse U.S. The shift powered Carlson's rise — and reshaped Fox News. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Kanew / @kanew: What @TuckerCarlson's racist ass & Fox News are doing to this country is unforgivable and likely irreparable. Nothing in here is surprising, but it's still infuriating. And sad. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Lavoie / @djlavoie: I'm really not a fan of these sweeping news-feature stories that stash away extremely important news deep in a story headlined about something else. Rupert Murdoch, the world's most important media figure, hired the founder of VDare as his personal....something! https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Torday / @danieltorday: I've been thinking a lot about the performance of hate. When I was a junior magazine editor I was assigned to work on a story with Tucker Carlson. His public persona was already acerbic. But 1-on-1 he was kind, even thoughtful at times. Then I see his persona now, his hate. /1 https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Today, you can read Part 2 of our new @nytimes series “American Nationalist.” This installment takes you inside how “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was built, how Carlson shaped and reshaped the show — and how he made war on critics & rivals at Fox. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Lippman / @lauramlippman: So the NYT is clearly abandoning on the one hand/on the other hand “fairness” here and it's wonderful. “[w]hat may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Such a fantastic 3 part report on Carlson from the NYT. I hope this reporting prompts newsroom leaders at NYT and across the industry to think about what they can do to protect their staff who become the subjects of his coordinated attacks. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Don't hate or debate me on the reporting and politics here. The Part III of this report is incredible curation, visualization and conveying of intense research and journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “Last year, according to The Times's analysis, nearly half of Carlson's shows — more than 100 episodes — included segments playing down the Capitol riot, lurching into ever more fantastical terrain.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: Though Carlson frequently declares himself an enemy of prejudice, his show teaches loathing and fear. He has adopted rhetorical tropes and fixations of white nationalists, who have watched gleefully as he popularizes their ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rutger Bregman / @rcbregman: Ah, the memories.. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Confessore / The Indian Express: How Tucker Carlson reshaped Fox news — and became Trump's heir
David Frum / @davidfrum: The most racist show in the history of television. Quite an accomplishment https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Another example of how “being fired by William F. Buckley and not allowed to write for National Review” is not the same as “losing influence on the right” https://twitter.com/...
Tara Parker-Pope / @taraparkerpope: This Tucker Carlson story is amazing (in all kinds of horrible ways.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Lamont Hill / @marclamonthill: Important read https://twitter.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: “Mr. Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news..... He teaches loathing and fear.” And Rupert & Lachlan Murdoch keep this toxic and dishonest hatemonger on the air because it makes them even richer. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Whitehouse / @existentialfish: Lachlan Murdoch knows what trash he's putting on air, but is desperate to keep Fox's aging audience https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michele Norris / @michele_norris: “the most racist show in the history of cable news” is also “by some measures, the most successful.” This is where we are in America. Even if you abhor the show, worth reading this 👇🏾How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable - New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: NYT: “Most of Murdoch's subordinates were unsurprising, according to several people who viewed the [organization] chart. But one came as a shock: Peter Brimelow, founder of the [white nationalist] website VDare.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@newsbusters: Now do how many Rachel Maddow guests contradicted her. (Of course, she talks for about a half-hour without any guests. She never tires of herself.) https://twitter.com/...
@deportablediz: What's funny about this graphic is that Tucker fans in the replies are disagreeing with each other over whether or not Jews are eradicating white people, which just proves that his rhetoric is deliberately vague enough to appeal to both viewpoints at once. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Gabriel Simonson / @sayssimonson: My opinions are also informed by analysis https://twitter.com/...
Lindy Li / @lindyli: According to the NYT, Tucker Carlson's show is the most bigoted AND the most successful Hatred is their currency, bigotry is their revenue https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Snook / @hoopersnook: Gosh. The 20ish or so minutes it takes to go through this analysis is worth it. It paints a pictures of how so many being discipled by Fox News prime time entertainment (as I once was) have been led into really dangerous waters. Cable news generally is yikes. But. YIKES. https://twitter.com/...
Juliette Kayyem / @juliettekayyem: This is groundbreaking work. With 1150 episodes watched, @nytimes provides new details about Tucker Carlson's mastery of racism, white victimization and incitement. “His show may be the most racist program in the history of cable news,” from @nickconfessore. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Jentleson / @ajentleson: A hugely important story and a gut check on takes that center social media as the cause of our problems. IMO the medium matters less than what people put into it. Carlson shows that if you simply do old-school racism, a clunky, 90s-era medium like cable news will do just fine. https://twitter.com/...
Cassandra / @chriswarcraft: One wonders if Tucker Carlson would have found such amounts of racist success if long-established news organizations had accurately reported on him being racist at the beginning of his career when he was super racist and not just waiting until now to call him racist. https://twitter.com/...
@picardonhealth: American Nationalist, part II: How @TuckerCarlson Reshaped @FoxNews — and Became Trump's Heir https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism /2
@benborges_: America, doing journalism on its own diseases, too late, too little, after the metastasis have spread across the entire democratic body. This feels like late stage diagnosis when it's already useless to diagnose the situation because it's only going to fuel the coup swarm. https://twitter.com/...
David Cay Johnston / @davidcayj: One of the best reporters I've ever known is out w/ Part 1 of his masterful examination of @TuckerCarlson and his @FoxNews enablers. From the lede, with an unexpected twist, to the last word, @nickconfessore gives one damning insight after another damning anecdote after... https://twitter.com/...
@dellcam: My imagination is not that limited. I don't think people at Fox News are drawing inspiration from the Daily Storm*r. I think they're posting it there first. https://twitter.com/...
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Tucker Carlson Reportedly Mocked Trump In Private And Even Once Declined One Of His Calls
Nikki Usher / @nikkiusher: This is astounding journalism - but also an incredibly meticulous content analysis any scholar could be proud of. But it wouldn't pass peer review because it's just about Tucker. So - I guess we know our place? Seriously watch every bit (best on mobile) https://twitter.com/...
@harrisonjaime: Read/watch this piece by the NYT & think about Trevor Noah's words at the dinner: “If Russian journalists had the freedom to write any story, use any words, to have the freedoms you do — would they be using that freedom the way you are? “Ask yourself that question every day.” https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Carlson's segments often end up in the same place: the destruction of society (600 episodes). He devoted five times as many hours to this narrative of fear in 2021 as he did in 2017, the first full year of the show. See our full analysis. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peg / @pegobry: People refuse to come on Tucker because he systematically destroys them. Anyone who watches the show knows he regularly extends invitations to people he disagrees with to come on the show and debate. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan. By @nickconfessore https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blackamazon: Not a single word or mention of decades of targeting Black women Multiple versions of this story and always the same And no examination of how that helps him win https://twitter.com/...
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider: A Fox employee said executives at the network said they wanted to purposely air ‘grievance’ to ‘get people boiled up’: NYT
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Absolutely fantastic piece here by @nickconfessore https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: Very well done. Tucker is The GOP's Goebbels. He creates the news for the right-wing and feeds them hate and conspiracies. White supremacists see him as their biggest ally. Tells you everything. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: “More successfully than almost anyone else, Carlson has taken a set of themes and conspiracy theories, formerly caged on the fringe of American politics, and brought them to a mainstream audience. His show may be the most racist program in the history of cable news.” https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: This is absolutely essential. It reveals, in clear terms, how millions of people tune in every night to racist agitprop. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's how Fox defends/justifies Tucker Carlson programming: Carlson “embraces diversity of thought and presents various points of view in an industry where contrarian thought and the search for truth are often ignored...” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: This isn't an opinion or a take. It's a fact — supported by our content analysis of 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” by @karenyourish @dawncai624 @larrybuch and their colleagues @nytgraphics. That's Part 3 of our series. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Shorrock / @timothys: Strange that the authors of this mammoth New York Times series on Tucker Carlson didn't seek comment from Mr. Greenwald, Tucker's biggest champion and one of his most frequent guests. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@lolgop: One big thing that gets lost in the ponderous whining about wokeness is that the most popular cable talk show in the nation is increasingly a nightly for-profit Klan rally. https://twitter.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Madeline Peltz / @peltzmadeline: Haven't finished reading this massive series on Tucker Carlson yet, but so far my main takeaway is that Fox under Lachlan Murdoch is significantly more destructive than it was under Ailes. https://twitter.com/...
John Whitehouse / @existentialfish: fox news: somehow even worse you than you imagined https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: What sticks out the most in this series (read the whole thing) is how many times the Murdochs have chosen Carlson over anyone else at the network who pointed out what he was doing and how dangerous it was. As I've written many times, this is what they want. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: This is a massive piece of explanatory/analytical journalism that is well worth the time it takes to read. If you don't have that time, jump to part 3, a stunningly produced explication of Carlson's method and his madness. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: You can watch an interactive analysis of how Carson has mainstreamed fascistic and white nationalist practices here https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Fox News is proud of Tucker Carlson's show, which mainstreams white nationalism and dissuades views from getting vaccinated. He is doing exactly what the Murdochs want him to do. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Szep / @jasonszep: Excellent @nytimes analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households, five nights a week. “His show teaches loathing and fear.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: “At a moment when white backlash is the jet fuel of a Republican Party striving to return to power in Washington, he has become the pre-eminent champion of Americans who feel most threatened by the rising power of Black and brown citizens.” https://twitter.com/...
@esqueer_: Nice to see the New York Times accurately call Tucker Carlson's show for what it is, white supremacy. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: “He regularly disparages Black women as stupid or undeserving of their positions.... Seemingly every social ill is laid at the feet of immigrants and refugees...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Madrid / @madrid_mike: “He can get millions and millions of boomers to nod along with talking points that would have only been seen on VDare or American Renaissance a few years ago.” FoxNews & Tucker Carlson are fueling Baby Boomers white rage https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: WATCH: Tucker Carlson Lashed Out at New York Times Report and ‘Brownnoser’ Reporter Before It Was Published
Harper Lambert / The Wrap: Tucker Carlson Is the ‘Most Racist Show in the History of Cable News,’ NY Times Reports
Myah Ward / Politico:
At the WHCD, President Biden reaffirmed the role of the free press, thanked reporters for covering Russia's war in Ukraine, and memorialized fallen journalists — President Joe Biden used Saturday night's return of the White House Correspondents' Dinner to reaffirm the role of the free press …
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@nowthisnews: Trevor Noah gets serious at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, remarking on what a ‘blessing’ it is in the U.S. to be able to ‘seek the truth and speak the truth,’ in comparison to other countries around the world https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: Trevor Noah with an amazingly powerful close reminding journalists in the United States, some of whom seem to take for granted what they have, of how lucky they are to have the freedom to speak truth to power. https://twitter.com/...
@cspan: .@Trevornoah: “I stood here tonight and I made fun of the President of the United State and I'm going to be fine.” #WHCD #WHCD2022 #nerdprom https://twitter.com/...
The Wrap: White House Correspondents Dinner: Watch Trevor Noah Skewer President Biden and Just About Everybody at Fox News (Video)
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Biden Zaps Trump At White House Correspondents Dinner
Charu Sinha / Vulture: Trevor Noah Brings Clapter, Impressions to White House Correspondents' Dinner
C-SPAN - YouTube: President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)
Natalie Oganesyan / The Wrap: Brian Stelter Scrutinizes the Media: Are We Guilty of Making Democracy Seem Like a Reality Show?
Mike Birbiglia / @birbigs: I've always respected @Trevornoah so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents' dinner is particularly spectacular. https://twitter.com/...
Dominic Patten / Deadline: Trevor Noah's WHCD Routine Takes Swipe At Will Smith's Oscar Slap, Name-Checks Joe Rogan, Resurrects Fox News' Roger Ailes & Mocks Paramount+
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “...good journalism, good satire about our leaders, about our society is quintessentially an American thing. It [shows] the power of our example”—@POTUS @JoeBiden https://www.whitehouse.gov/... “The free press is not the enemy of the people. At your best, you're guardians of the truth” https://twitter.com/...
@mediabusters6: Our Democracy is at stake. The American media take “freedom of the press” for granted. They put profits and ratings first while their counterparts in Russia are literally dying or being jailed in order to silence them. #Media #DoBetter #Boehlerting https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Vindman / @natsechobbyist: “Because this is America...and here, RIGHT MATTERS.” https://twitter.com/...
Norman Ornstein / @normornstein: And a powerful reminder that too many of ours fall back on bothsidesism instead of speaking truth to power! https://twitter.com/...
Nitin Pai / @acorn: After roasting @POTUS & a lot of grandees to their face, Trevor Noah makes an excellent point. If you are a journalist in a free country, how you use that freedom makes all the difference. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Schlichter / @kurtschlichter: This was written on purpose people https://twitter.com/...
@sites4congress: American journalists, take heed of what @Trevornoah says! Accurate, truthful journalism is essential for our democracy. One cannot survive without the other. https://twitter.com/...
@politico: President Joe Biden used Saturday night's return of the White House Correspondents' Dinner to reaffirm the role of the free press — a stark contrast to his predecessor's toxic relationship with the media https://www.politico.com/...
Peter Baker / New York Times: Jokes, Glamour and a Try for Normalcy as Correspondents' Dinner Returns
Maria Shriver / @mariashriver: For sure. Good, honest media has such a powerful role to play. As he says, in this country we are blessed to be able to seek the truth and then say it out loud, which is why the truth is so important. @NicolleDWallace https://twitter.com/...
Martin Plaut / @martinplaut: A great South African comedian speaks truth to power. Thanks Trevor. If only journalists across Africa had the rights every American journalist has. The USA isn't perfect. Far from it. But it gets to hear about its failures from its own media. 👌 https://twitter.com/...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: Powerful stuff from @Trevornoah - and he's right. We should never take our freedoms for granted, especially free speech. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Man, this is something to think about https://twitter.com/...
Ashok Swain / @ashoswai: Something for Indian media to listen and if possible, introspect! If Russian journalists can report against Putin what stops Indian media to ask questions to their Dear Leader? https://twitter.com/...
Nicolle Wallace / @nicolledwallace: This is so powerful https://twitter.com/...
David Smith / The Guardian: ‘A horrible plague, then Covid’: Biden and correspondents joke in post-Trump return to normality
@anele: Trevor Noah COMPLETE REMARKS at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner ... https://www.youtube.com/... via @YouTube Hayi myekeni ubhuti
Myah Ward / Politico: Trevor Noah's best jokes at the WHCD
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: I wish Russians could watch this. https://twitter.com/...
Hilary Niles / Center for Public Integrity:
A look at efforts by Native American journalists to report on tribal affairs given the absence of FOIA and the ubiquity of tribal government ownership of media — Lori Edmo just wanted to find out how her tribe was spending federal COVID-19 relief money. As a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes …
Discussion:
@shmohawk_ca: This is something Indigenous journalists need across Canada — Access to Information regulations, policies at band councils and political organizations. | Indigenous journalists make way for sunshine - Center for Public Integrity https://publicintegrity.org/ ...
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Q&A with David Skok, founder of Canadian tech and business outlet The Logic, which launched in 2018 and now has 18 journalists, on growth plans and more — David Skok, a former newspaper and broadcast journalist, founded subscription news startup The Logic in 2018 with CA$300,000 (£186,000) of investment and three employees.
Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Despite blocking Russian state-funded media from ad revenue, Google continued to serve ads alongside stories from those same publishers on Russia's Mail.ru — Google has blocked state-owned Russian media from monetizing via ads. But articles from those publishers have been appearing on Mail.ru, a popular Russian media platform.
Discussion:
Ryan Barwick / @ryanbarwick: Despite Google blocking RT, TASS, and other Russian media, a loop hole was still monetizing their propaganda https://www.marketingbrew.com/ ...
@ryanbarwick: United's comment: “ https://mail.ru/ is an outlet we specified in set-up should not host United ads. We are working with our vendors to confirm - and resolve - this.” 👀👀👀👀 https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Aw these cute little brands thought that ad blacklists would stop google from loading their ads on sanctioned Russian websites https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / Politico:
Some White House correspondents complain that Biden Administration storylines, while important and substantive, are “boring” and don't create star journalists — Washington reporters have long considered the role of White House correspondent to be the crown jewel of American political journalism.
Discussion:
@jerrydunleavy, @hc_richardson, Breaking the News, @noondlyt, @ascienthusiast, @sam_d_1995, Insider, @glcarlstrom, Hollywood Reporter, @maxabrahms, @mgerrydoyle, @alexandermccoy4, @donnabrazile, @reedfrich, @tanzinavega, @ktumulty, @adamblickstein, @corb_the_lesser, @nancylevine, @connieschultz, @mathewi, @jackshafer, @davidlarter, @karlbode, @elianayjohnson, @ericmgarcia, @curtishouck, @robertmaguire_, @mattdizwhitlock, @dankennedy_nu, @joelockhart, @lisatozzi, @bencjacobs, @heather_muse, @soledadobrien, @andrewpdyer, @brianmackey, @melaniesill, @adamblickstein, @uticaeric, @jerrydunleavy, @elainejgodfrey, @benlabolt, @brianschatz, @froomkin and Breitbart
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Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: This is the most pathetic thing I have ever read. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Heather Cox Richardson / @hc_richardson: @froomkin This is infuriating. We finally have smart, well-informed officials who are producing reams of information. Reporters have the access to engage in serious discussions about huge questions, and instead they say they want cartoon drama?
James Fallows / Breaking the News: What People Might Remember from Nerd Prom 2022
@noondlyt: On the politico piece about bored White House Reporters. Not sure what is worse here, but HCR nails it. https://twitter.com/...
@ascienthusiast: I can't stop thinking about this paragraph https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sam / @sam_d_1995: this perfectly encapsulates everything that's wrong with the modern political media ecosystem: a focus on juicy palace intrigue, gossip, and celebrity over serious policy analysis and the tangible impacts they would have on people https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Getahun / Insider: Biden cites threats to democracy after roasting Trump at White House correspondents' dinner
Gregg Carlstrom / @glcarlstrom: If your job is to cover the most powerful office in the world and you find it “a bore” because you don't get to do televised Kabuki theatre with the press secretary anymore, dunno, maybe find a new job? Captures so much of what is infuriating about DC https://www.politico.com/...
Max Abrahms / @maxabrahms: Of course this is because Biden gives no access and when he does says nothing. https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Doyle / @mgerrydoyle: this seems like a media problem not a white house problem https://twitter.com/...
Alexander McCoy / @alexandermccoy4: This is everything that has been wrong about the White House Press Corps https://twitter.com/...
Donna Brazile / @donnabrazile: Amazing. This is what the #WHCD has come to — reliving the past and unconcerned about the future. Today's Journalists are on the front lines reporting on the border between democracy vs autocracy. Do your job reporting the news. Leave the punditry to opinionated partisans. https://twitter.com/...
Reed F. Richardson / @reedfrich: This Politico piece about how White House correspondents aren't cashing in anymore during the Biden era is truly execrable. And the anonymous quotes...oof...they speak to a whole other level of pathology about careerism undermining journalism's true purpose. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tanzina Vega / @tanzinavega: I can't...journalism isn't supposed to be a cosplay fantasy. Its real life work with real life implications. This is why the industry is struggling. https://twitter.com/...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: This story makes a lot of interesting points, but one it leaves out (I'm saying this as a former WH reporter, albeit one from another century) is that the most valuable WH reporting takes place OUTSIDE the briefing room. Thread to come. https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
Adam Blickstein / @adamblickstein: But seriously, if you're a DC based reporter and lamenting that after Trump you are no longer a central character in the political story then maybe you should rethink being a journalist in the first place
@corb_the_lesser: @HC_Richardson @froomkin Cartoon drama is way easier than those serious discussions. Also very likely what their editors are assigning. Says a great deal about what so much of corporate media seems to think about the people who watch and read their stuff.
Nancy Levine🇺🇦 / @nancylevine: Of course White House reporters are bored and frustrated. Drug withdrawal will do that to you. WH reporters were mainlining dopamine in Trump's pathological wake. Amirite @duty2warn? https://twitter.com/...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: @HC_Richardson @froomkin This piece is an embarrassment.
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I've seen a lot of pieces that make journalists look bad, but this one takes it to a new level. “I liked Trump better because covering the White House is boring now.” You should be ashamed of yourselves https://www.politico.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: “There's no Maggie [Haberman]. Who's the Maggie of the Biden administration? It doesn't exist.” @maxwelltani on the journalistic vacancies at the White House. https://www.politico.com/...
David B. Larter / @davidlarter: I disagree with this conceit. The White House reporter job didn't die in the Biden Administration. It has been on life support for years and if all you plan to do is ask questions and get spin from the Press Secretary it's a worthless role. https://www.politico.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: the very broken U.S. political press (and the ad-based engagement economy that props up the whole mess) hates substance, nuance, and a lack of controversy. like, say, significant benefits coming from an historic infrastructure investment package. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eliana Johnson / @elianayjohnson: .@maxwelltani please unmask the identity of the idiot who told you this!-"And the work is a lot less rewarding, because you're no longer saving democracy from Sean Spicer and his Men's Wearhouse suit. Jawing with Jen just makes you look like an asshole" - https://www.politico.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: “You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you.”-@michelleisawolf https://twitter.com/...
Curtis Houck / @curtishouck: The level of arrogance and self-centeredness in this piece about how “boring” it is to be a White House correspondent under Biden is almost too much. Yes, it's because their friends are in power and thus it's one massive circle jerk https://www.politico.com/...
Robert Maguire / @robertmaguire_: DC reporters are sad that covering the White House no longer feels like refereeing a cage match in an abandoned Waffle House https://www.politico.com/...
Matt Whitlock / @mattdizwhitlock: Washington news isn't boring .. the media is just less enthusiastic about the villains. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: Peak Politico. One damaging quote. One mildly embarrassing quote. Both unattributed. https://www.politico.com/...
Joe Lockhart / @joelockhart: This is a must read story for anyone who wants to understand the broken culture of America's media. Substance, truth and integrity is “boring”. Give us Trump back so we can be the stars againThe Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter https://www.politico.com/... via @politico
Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi: (I'm old, so I think the Clinton years really gave rise to this — and the most extra celebrity/politics/journalists thing I ever went to was a party during the 2000 Democratic National Convention)
Ben Jacobs / @bencjacobs: So many of the issues in this piece are because people seem to be conflating the profession of journalism with doing performance art https://www.politico.com/...
Heather Muse / @heather_muse: This should be required reading in intro journalism classes for what *not* to do. If “star” reporters can't find an interesting story in DC, they should question their “calling.” First-year reporters covering municipal meetings do this work every day. https://www.politico.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: This drives a lot of the coverage we see and read: https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Dyer / @andrewpdyer: I'm sorry it was so exciting covering Trump and now you're bored but who is supposed to care?
Brian Mackey / @brianmackey: Reminded of a line from Val Kilmer's character in “Spartan” (2004): “That's not a cost, it's benefit.” https://www.politico.com/... by @maxwelltani/@politico:
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: If there ever was a piece that illustrates how broken the Washington press is, this is it. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Blickstein / @adamblickstein: Some reporters spent the four Trump years developing main character syndrome & now are sad normalcy has returned https://twitter.com/...
Eric L. Robinson / @uticaeric: The TL;DR is a Kinsley gaffe: “Our ad revenue is directly correlated to chaos, therefore we choose chaos.” https://twitter.com/...
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: BTW what possible good reason could there be for Politico to grant this reporter anonymity? also, it is Men's ***Wearhouse***, not Warehouse. excellent mix of snobbery & lack of attention to basic detail. https://twitter.com/...
Elaine Godfrey / @elainejgodfrey: Last tweet on this but: If you're complaining about how boring it is to cover Biden, who is the most powerful man in the world and whose first year has been...eventful, you should probably not do this job. https://www.politico.com/...
Ben LaBolt / @benlabolt: +1. There's a bit of PTSD from reporters that only covered Trump about communications needing to be an epic, contentious struggle at every turn. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Schatz / @brianschatz: This quote makes me nauseated. “Jen [Psaki] is very good at her job, which is unfortunate,” one reporter who has covered the past two administrations from the room said." https://www.politico.com/...
Laura Bradley / The Daily Beast:
Former Netflix Tudum staffers describe a chaotic workplace with few metrics to measure their success and no planning around the site's goals and brand identity — TU-DUMPED — Netflix recruited a small army of journalists—mostly women and people of color—to run Tudum.
Discussion:
@thedailybeast, @thedailybeast, @thedailybeast, @peaksandpages, @gerrickkennedy, @gretchen_smail, @biscuitkitten, @chrishayner, @ayeshaasiddiqi, @nonstoppop, @kikutowne, @elieraine, @kikutowne, @thetinavasquez, @natemcdermott, @blackamazon, @karnythia, @kendrajames_, @gncordova, @danielletbd, @theheroofthyme and @thedailybeast
Discussion:
@thedailybeast: Whenever Tudum's crew asked questions about holes and inconsistencies in Netflix's strategy, however, they say the ‘Severance’ vibes kicked in. There were reassuring smiles and a promise that there was totally a plan in the works. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@thedailybeast: “It's just like, this was all a f-king lie,” one former Tudum staffer said. “Why do all this? Did they just have money that they had to burn for tax purposes or something, and so they just hired us? They could have at least waited a year.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@thedailybeast: Tudum launched as part of Netflix's marketing division with the goal of promoting the company's titles and writers were promised editorial freedom. Given everything they know now, however, former staffers feel like Netflix set them up to fail with a smile. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Amanda Mullen / @peaksandpages: The more I read about this entire situation, the angrier I get. https://twitter.com/...
Gerrick Kennedy / @gerrickkennedy: Glad to see pressure is being applied. https://twitter.com/...
Gretchen / @gretchen_smail: There's a lot of great reporting here but this in particular is making me lose my mind a bit??? At that point....use Wordpress?! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jill Blake / @biscuitkitten: I didn't even know Tudum existed until this week. Shady shit going down. I feel for all of these staffers/freelancers. https://twitter.com/...
Chris E. Hayner / @chrishayner: A really interesting piece. But any journalist looking down on those who chose to accept potential life-changing money from Netflix needs to take their nose out of the air and get back in line. The media landscape is a hellish nightmare. We are all just trying to survive. https://twitter.com/...
Ayesha A. Siddiqi / @ayeshaasiddiqi: corporations will always do what they can get away with, i don't see how else to prevent this from continuing to occur without robust unions that protect workers like these. no one deserves to be treated so disrespectfully https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Will Harris / @nonstoppop: I'm just spitballing here, but I feel like the fact that the first time I'd ever heard of Tudum was when I saw an article about the site's layoffs is at least one pretty solid reason for why it wasn't a resounding success. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Elie / @elieraine: “This was one of the most diverse teams that I have worked on in media, and I feel like this is a textbook thing where they put a Black woman in charge of something that they know they're not going to support—that they know they're going to sabotage—and then just let it fail.” https://twitter.com/...
@kikutowne: Exact same vibe in other departments that I'm more familiar with, unfortunately. https://twitter.com/...
Tina Vasquez / @thetinavasquez: I thought my layoff and newsroom closure was weird... https://twitter.com/...
Nathan McDermott / @natemcdermott: Literally just found out Tudum existed because the closing credits of Russian Doll recommended I go there. It's nuts how the various Netflix social accounts I follow never promotes it! https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I am a systems and competence person so this ?!? “It didn't seem great, for instance, that no one at the top apparently thought to have a Twitter account for Tudum ready at launch—or, really, to promote Tudum and its content at” I am aghast https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kendra / @kendrajames_: “Writers were also discouraged from writing critically about Netflix series and subjects, or even to quote critiques from the productions themselves, multiple sources said.” I feel this frustration in my bones. https://twitter.com/...
@gncordova: I keep seeing tweets from writers who were laid off. This is fucked up. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Turchiano / @danielletbd: This makes me sweat. Lack of support is the No. 1 issue I have encountered in this business. It doesn't matter how strong your ideas are or clean your copy is if you don't have the tools to do the rest of the job and to be competitive in an increasingly noisy market. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Wheaton / @theheroofthyme: Cruel bait and switch: “But the unimaginable pay was an opportunity that was simply too good to pass up. The hourly pay ranges offered annualized to $124,800 to $176,800, according to an Insider report” https://twitter.com/...
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Natalie Oganesyan / The Wrap:
Source: Netflix lays off writers and editors from fan site Tudum, launched in December 2021, in a marketing reorganization that globally laid off 25 out of 500+
Source: Netflix lays off writers and editors from fan site Tudum, launched in December 2021, in a marketing reorganization that globally laid off 25 out of 500+
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, @saraqdavid, @k80way, The A.V. Club, Insider, @lisatozzi, @maryamshahlive, @marlownyc, @juwanthewriter, @judyberman, @dreid63, @violentlyepic, @karnythia, @stitchmediamix, @juwanthewriter, @automaticzen, @lpbradley, @tnwhiskeywoman, @esqueer_, @soledadobrien, @thetinavasquez, @eleven8, @elainelow and @elainelow
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Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times: Not even Duchess Meghan is safe from Netflix cutbacks: Streamer drops her TV series
Sara David / @saraqdavid: still processing that netflix recruited me from my union job of SIX YEARS (which had 18 weeks severance) with the promise of new opportunities and a diverse team, only to lay me off months later with TWO WEEKS severance. some people moved to CA for this gig! i'm devastated
Katie Way / @k80way: Intriguing Netflix editorial strategy to hire some of the best entertainment/culture minds in the biz, very specifically court a ton of non-white women with the offer of a truly life-changing amount of money, only to shitcan everyone mere months later... god damn
Hannah Towey / Insider: Netflix is in crisis. Hollywood insiders say it could turn into a huge opportunity or leave executives ‘more scared and paralyzed than they already were.’
Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi: “If you start a publication and at four months after launch you have to start firing people, I think that's a pretty good indicator that you don't know what you're doing.” So much talent involved in this project. Everyone deserved better. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Maryam Shah / @maryamshahlive: ‘"How are we the assholes?" they asked. “Fucking capitalism is the asshole. These companies are the assholes.”’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Marlow Stern / @marlownyc: Tudum writers cruelly laid off by Netflix speak out: “I felt like Adam Scott in ‘Severance’” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@juwanthewriter: “They all described feeling skeptical of the opportunity at first... But the unimaginable pay was an opportunity that was simply too good to pass up. The hourly pay ranges offered annualized to $124,800 to $176,800, according to an Insider report.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Judy Berman / @judyberman: You have got to be kidding me https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Reid / @dreid63: “This was one of the most diverse teams that I have worked on in media...and...they put a Black woman in charge of something that they know they're not going to support—that they know they're going to sabotage—and then just let it fail.” @netflix https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@violentlyepic: genuinely one of the nastiest things i've ever heard of. i've been at companies that offered six months of severance with layoffs. two weeks is an insult and so cruel. i rly hate the state of media. netflix can afford it, too. they're ensuring this is a dying industry tbh https://twitter.com/...
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: I absolutely do not understand where Netflix thinks this ends well. https://twitter.com/...
@stitchmediamix: literally a nightmare like they didn't even give tudum and its writers a chance to thrive (again, no official handles?? really??) and took people from relatively stable positions only to drop them without notice and without significant severance? disgusting of them actually https://twitter.com/...
@juwanthewriter: “Three former Tudum staffers... described a chaotic work environment in which they had few metrics by which to measure their success... The higher-higher ups, one source said, are “PR people” who have no real clue how to build a newsroom.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
M.H. Williams / @automaticzen: Ohhhhh, Netflix had no plan whatsoever. Just FLYING BLIND. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Bradley / @lpbradley: Netflix hired a staff of journalists to create its fan site Tudum and axed at least 10 of them months later. Now they're fighting for better severance pay. Former staffers described a chaotic environment where metrics for success were very hard to pin down https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@tnwhiskeywoman: I don't have too much more to say right now other than I am definitely not talking to anyone from BF about what it means to have your team of mostly WOC laid off after dealing with poor transparency re: goals, a lack of support & marketing, and internal executive sabotage.
Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_: This thread collects all the stories of people being screwed by Netflix. Please support these content creators in any way you can. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: @SaraQDavid @karenkho Ugh. I am so sorry.
Tina Vasquez / @thetinavasquez: @SaraQDavid You really, really do not fuck with people's livelihoods like this. I'm sorry.
@eleven8: To those affected by the Netflix Layoffs: Blavity brands are hiring in editorial. We obviously don't have Netflix money but it's some good/impactful part time work and it'll keep some income coming in. Inquire in my DMs. #netflix #tudum
Elaine Low / @elainelow: Of the writers who spoke with me, none saw the layoffs coming. Netflix had restructured the Tudum team just weeks ago, with staffers assured that the brand new site would not be impacted by any changes. Tudum was one of $NFLX's “big strategic bets.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Elaine Low / @elainelow: NEW: Layoffs are a grim reality in journalism. But for the writers who joined a Hollywood studio flush with tech money, stability finally seemed in reach. “We were sold this false fantasy,” said one staffer who was laid off from Netflix. “We got scammed.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: Amazon values MGM's film and TV content library at $3.4B, and its “goodwill” value, referring to intangible assets like brand reputation, at $4.9B — Amazon had pegged its deal for MGM, which it closed last month, as worth around $8.5 billion.
Discussion:
@bradybrendan1, @xpangler, Hollywood Reporter, @alexweprin, Deadline and We Got This Covered
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Brendan Brady / @bradybrendan1: MGM content = $3.4B MGM reputation = $4.9B Interesting https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Again, for @amazon, the deal for @mgmstudios was chump change — Amazon said acquisition-related costs “were not significant” https://variety.com/... via @Variety
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: How Much Is MGM's Movie and TV Library Worth? Amazon Discloses New Details
Ax Sharma / Wired:
Hollywood's fight against VPN providers like ExpressVPN now goes beyond piracy, as a recent lawsuit alleges VPNs enable crimes like hacking, murder, and more — Beyond accusations of encouraging copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of illegal activity.
Discussion:
@ax_sharma, @dez_blanchfield, The Desk, @ax_sharma, @ax_sharma, @ax_sharma, @kkomaitis, @charlesmok and @eff
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Ax Sharma / @ax_sharma: 'Child porn, bomb threats, hate speech—some of Hollywood's most bizarre arguments for forcing VPNs offline. Recently, TorGuard ‘settled’ with over 26 film studios by agreeing to block BitTorrent. And, VPN[.]ht additionally agreed to start keeping logs. https://www.wired.com/...
Dez Blanchfield / @dez_blanchfield: Hollywood's Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly ( film makers should go back to focusing on making and selling films for the love of god, and not ripping consumers off at every turn IMHO ) https://www.wired.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Hollywood's charges against VPNs go beyond piracy
Ax Sharma / @ax_sharma: In the lawsuit docs, moviemakers call out personal political views and activities of those employed by these VPN companies—something that the lawyers representing the VPNs have asked the court to strike down. @EFF says Hollywood's demands are “extreme and not supported by law.”
Ax Sharma / @ax_sharma: And now, film studios have accused Kape companies ExpressVPN and Private Internet Access (PIA) of enabling online crooks that engage in all sorts of criminal activities via VPNs: illicit porn, hacking, and even encouraging violence and murder.
Ax Sharma / @ax_sharma: EFF's Senior Staff Attorney @MitchStoltz sheds light on what's legal here and what isn't, where each side falls, and what legal protections VPNs have in these matters.
Konstantinos Komaitis / @kkomaitis: 10 years ago, I met with policy folks from a bunch of Hollywood studios. At the meeting was myself and an engineer. To the question: “how do you feel about the internet”? The response always was: if we could, we'd kill it. Glad to see this hasn't changed https://www.wired.com/...
Reuters:
Sources: Elon Musk has a new Twitter CEO lined up and offered monetizing ideas, like charging websites for quoting or embedding tweets from verified accounts — Elon Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) that he could crack down on executive …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, @caseynewton, @atrupar, @reckless, Platformer, @ryan_knutson, @markmilian, @carnage4life, @juwanthewriter, @elizondogabriel, @tycardon, @jamesrbuk, @kurtwagner8, @joshtpm, @mattnavarra, @rcvgenderfucked, @mehdirhasan, @lisamarieboothe, @lisamarieboothe, @kimmasters, @mattyglesias, @clarajeffery, @scout_finch, @caseynewton, @ashtonpittman, @nastyoldwomyn, @grandmoffjoseph, @danlesac, @edmundlee, @chrismaddern, @pkafka, @somebadideas, @anthony, @toliro, @electrotriple11, @rxh_716, @kt_so_it_goes, @jonrosenberg, @fakeericverrone, @joshraclaw, @gaetaamy, @upulie, @libshipwreck, @chx, @ovtrvn, @carriecnh12, @parismarx, @mat, @digiphile, @craigcalcaterra, @bgrueskin, @cmpriest, @vogon, @nkulw, @sharkhand, @robmanuel, @chris_levesque_, @xoxogossipgita, @terrortola, @jefflabrecque, @themaxburns, @pbump, @stitchmediamix, @nycsouthpaw, @gregotto, @gorthan_sir, @paultassi, @eriqgardner, @kinsellawarren, @th1rt3en_tm, @cfidd, @ioonaevis, @icehockeystick, @hkesvani, The Register, The Verge and @reckless, more at Techmeme »
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: I listened in on Twitter's Friday all-hands with employees. Lots of new stuff in here, including Parag Agrawal's regrets Yes, he said. This deal could have been avoided. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: Elon Musk reportedly wants to restore the Twitter accounts of Trump and Holocaust denier Charles Johnson and make transphobia okay on the platform https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / Platformer: Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands
Ryan Knutson / @ryan_knutson: The WSJ's reporting on Musk's bid to buy Twitter is far and away the best. So many interesting details in here. Just the latest in a long string of scoops https://twitter.com/...
Mark Milian / @markmilian: Recognizing that Twitter is a serial underachiever is a laudable bit of self-reflection. The rest makes him sound like a CEO automaton https://twitter.com/...
@carnage4life: This is a good bit of introspection by Parag who was a technical leader at Twitter before becoming CEO for 4 months. If Twitter had executed better on monetization or product velocity, it wouldn't be in a place where Elon Musk could buy it on a whim. I'd love a retrospective. https://twitter.com/...
@juwanthewriter: Twitter has officially abandoned marginalized people: “Another employee asked why employees from marginalized communities should remain at the company... “'Same reason I've said for everyone else,' Agrawal said.” (Per @platformer) https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Gabriel Elizondo / @elizondogabriel: If you're wondering what Elon Musk plans to do to Twitter, don't ask the folks who currently work at Twitter. Even the Twitter execs don't know Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. By @CaseyNewton 👇🏽 https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Tyler Carditis / @tycardon: This piece by WSJ, clearly intended to damage @elonmusk and @jack, has the opposite effect. It completely redeems Jack and makes Elon seem even more based. Nice work, team! https://www.wsj.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This is true: Twitter the service has always been better than the company. Patreon, substack, gofundme and more owe a lot to Twitter, and it never worked out how to replicate the service or share the cash. It was always doable. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: This Twitter meeting today was fascinating. Including this: One employee asked if they could have a Q&A with @jack - the founder who ran this company for 6 years - and the answer was it wouldn't be “productive”... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: lol only the CEO/owner ever brings ideas as raw, silly and unstresstested as these to banks when trying to line up money. dear lord. https://www.reuters.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Inside Twitter's all-hands meeting today: Twitter's board did *not* consider Musk's plans for the product in making its decision. “It was not material to the decision in front of the board,” Twitter CEO @paraga said. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
@rcvgenderfucked: I don't think a lot of people who weren't around for livejournal/tumblr/etc understand how easy it is to totally obliterate a social media site It's not a question of “are you moving if musk takes over”, the question is “how long will twitter *last* if he takes over” https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: A related issue: how on earth is an accused Holocaust denier able to text directly with Musk's chief of staff? What should that tell us? https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Boothe / @lisamarieboothe: Ha 🤣 “Mr. Dorsey asked Mr. Musk to choose a single tweet to represent himself. ‘I put the art in fart,’ replied Mr. Musk, then 48 years old.'” https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Boothe / @lisamarieboothe: “To a public-relations consultant who urged him to keep a lower profile on the platform, Mr. Musk in 2018 wrote in an email subsequently made public in litigation, ‘Will tweet as I wish and suffer the consequences...so it goes.’” 🤣 https://www.wsj.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: This doesn't bode well. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Wait did Jack Dorsey incept Elon Musk into paying a huge premium for his Twitter shares in order to reverse content moderation policies he created? https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: 1/ so much utterly gross and mutually reinforcing/aggrandizing behavior on display. Tl;dr: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men https://www.wsj.com/...
Jennifer Hayden / @scout_finch: Far more sinister than I thought https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: It really is a shame Jack Dorsey never had any influence over Twitter's direction https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Of course he does. As I've said, Elon Musk's vision of a “free speech Twitter” is a place where disinformation runs rampant, rich politicians can incite violence and hateful people are given a free base to bully, harass and abuse marginalized people (such as trans people). https://twitter.com/...
@nastyoldwomyn: “Musk had to convince the banks that Twitter produced enough cash flow to service the debt he sought. In the end, he clinched $13 billion in loans secured against Twitter and a $12.5 billion margin loan tied to his Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) stock.” https://twitter.com/...
@grandmoffjoseph: @cmpriest @mediagazer My wife: Dear, why are you rooting around in the storage racks in the garage? Me: Looking for my box of webrings and the floppy disk set with my old Geocities page. Might need it again here soon.
Danlesac.Oof / @danlesac: You don't become a billionaire by fixing things, you become a billionaire by exploiting the faults in systems. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: When Johnson (who was banned from Twitter for saying he was going to “take out” BLM activist @deray) saw @elonmusk would buy Twitter, he texted Musk's No. 2 (Jared Birchall) and asked: “When do I get my Twitter account back?” The reply: “Hopefully soon” https://www.wsj.com/...
Chris Maddern / @chrismaddern: spoiler: I'm @elonmusk's pick for twitter ceo https://www.reuters.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: “One former Twitter executive said Mr. Dorsey would sometimes appear to space out in meetings because he was messaging Mr. Musk during the workday.” https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Stewart-Ahn / @somebadideas: Musk's big plan to monetize twitter that got his absurd loan: charging a fee for quote / embedding tweets?? That's easier to defeat than right click saving an NFT? From https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Friends of Elon Musk who disliked Twitter's direction—including Peter Thiel—secretly pushed him to launch a bid for the platform. Twitter executives say they became aware of his budding friendship with then-CEO Mr. Dorsey https://www.wsj.com/...
Victor Hernandez / @toliro: @mediagazer Charging a fee for quoting? Nobody will use Twitter anymore. That's the worst possible way for monetizing Twitter. Or... People will simply make screenshots and no money will be generated.
Samantha / @electrotriple11: tumblr if you got rid of that stupid ban then a quarter of the people on here would willingly leave https://twitter.com/...
@kt_so_it_goes: this is one of the faster ways I can think of to kill twitter's cross-media dominance https://twitter.com/...
Jon Rosenberg / @jonrosenberg: Free speech is going to cost money https://twitter.com/...
@fakeericverrone: Burying to lead to me: he allegedly pitched cutting jobs. That aside, why would websites pay in embed Tweets when they could just copy the text and paste it with quotes? In that case, they wouldn't even link back to Twitter, which feels like it would just limit traffic? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Raclaw / @joshraclaw: Can't wait for Elsevier to steal this idea and charge authors for citations https://twitter.com/...
Amy Gaeta / @gaetaamy: anyone who pays to quote tweet will be, rightfully, bullied off of this app https://twitter.com/...
@libshipwreck: Making people pay for this site really would be a great way to stop people from using it... https://twitter.com/...
@chx: This Musk idea reminds me of something... The screenshot (which of course would be totes doable with tweets too) is from @doctorow 's seminal DRM speech at Microsoft. https://craphound.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@ovtrvn: [paying $3 to QT dunk on a NYT Opinion columnist resulting in an overdraft fee of $35] lol look at this dummy https://twitter.com/...
Carolyn Hinds / @carriecnh12: I already have sites like @BuzzFeedNews taking my tweets and making monetized content from them, for which I never get a red cent, and now that clown wants to do the same thing?! 😒 https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: If Musk turns Twitter into one of those web3 social media concepts where you pay every time you do anything, it'll die immediately. But he won't do that because he needs Twitter to feed the cult, keep the headlines flowing, and manipulate the stock market. https://www.reuters.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: Remember when tweets weren't embed-able and so nobody ever took screenshots of them and put them in their stories https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Musk may plan to grow @Twitter revenue by monetizing viral tweets or those with key info, perhaps by charging to embed tweets by @verified users: https://www.reuters.com/... Paying influencers to tweet unlikely to change UX: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 🔒@TwitterBlue subscriptions could. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Calcaterra / @craigcalcaterra: On the one hand this is stupid. On the other hand it will put an end to the practice of media companies publishing articles that are nothing but people's tweets and headlines like “Twitter reacts to [whatever event]” https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Twitter revenue idea: Charge $5 to delete a tweet https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cherie Priest / @cmpriest: @mediagazer oh ffs ::dusts off blog::
@vogon: every article that's just “here's 20 tweets about a topic” would dry up overnight if he did this, and those articles are in practice 100% lead generation for twitter because they get people onto the service and posting about topics du jour in the hope of becoming microfamous https://twitter.com/...
@sharkhand: @mediagazer Asking why do people use this thing, and then putting a toll in front of it is the only idea Silicon Valley techbros ever had. Expensive middlemen.
Rob Manuel / @robmanuel: He's talking about news publications paying to quote tweets in articles but almost every take dunking on this is taking it to mean “users paying to retweet”. Not saying I agree with the idea either but please at least argue about the right thing. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Levesque / @chris_levesque_: Just another example of how he fundamentally doesn't understand social media. Even if you could get people to pay for Twitter use, they won't pay for these features. https://twitter.com/...
Italian Elon Musk / @xoxogossipgita: what's a screenshot https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Tarantola / @terrortola: it's adorable that he thinks we'll pay to embed tweets instead of simply not embedding tweets anymore https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Labrecque / @jefflabrecque: I am rooting for Twitter to charge fees! It's the only solution to make me quit. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Free speech — but, hear me out, what if speech cost money? https://twitter.com/...
@stitchmediamix: “Ideas he brought up included charging a fee when a third-party website wants to quote or embed a tweet from verified individuals or organizations.” He also supposedly wants to reduce dependence on ads so uh... I can imagine the tradeoff in content... https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: The genius plan is you will write the tweet and then Elon Musk will charge Jeff Bezos $0.08 to embed it on the Washington Post's website. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Otto / @gregotto: This is how you know he absolutely has Online Brain™️. He has read every shitposter that has tweeted “This website is free” and made that his business plan. https://twitter.com/...
@gorthan_sir: So this is how Twitter will turn into Tumblr, gone and forgotten 😭😭😭😭 https://twitter.com/...
Paul Tassi / @paultassi: this is, no exaggeration, one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard as someone who embeds tweets in articles now, to get around this you'd just...screenshot the tweet, or quote the text with a link to the tweet https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Maybe they should have ran Musk's acquisition of Twitter past a copyright lawyer. I'm skeptical of this idea, though as I said on @MattBelloni podcast, there may be other revenue-generating schemes like using the platform to serve legal papers on someone. https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Warren Kinsella / @kinsellawarren: He can't. The copyright over the content belongs to the author. All he owns is the presentation. https://twitter.com/...
@th1rt3en_tm: Huh, so he's gonna make money off of content created by the users? Any revenue sharing planned? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@cfidd: Is it weird that I actually feel a sense of relief, knowing that these changes would absolutely be the end of Twitter? We all know we'd be better off without it https://www.reuters.com/...
@ioonaevis: we'll all have ads that play right before u start reading a tweet https://twitter.com/...
Jashvina Shah / @icehockeystick: This is dumb and if anyone gets money from their tweets being embedded, IT SHOULD BE THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THEM https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@hkesvani: lol wouldn't this effectively tank the Daily Wire and other right wing news sites who love getting mad at tweets https://twitter.com/...
Katyanna Quach / The Register: Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Every ridiculous thing we learned today about Elon Musk's plan to take over Twitter
Nilay Patel / @reckless: There isn't a celebrity in the world that's going to post *more* on Twitter, which is already toxic, if there's looser content moderation. They are all too smart and too savvy now, and want absolute control. Especially Taylor lol https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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