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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Politico publishing a draft SCOTUS opinion on Roe v. Wade is unprecedented in modern times; Politico's EIC says it is “plainly news of great public interest” — A draft Supreme Court opinion has never been disclosed publicly. Media observers were quick to question whether Politico should have run with it.
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Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: It's remarkable, the leak of what appears to be an initial draft majority opinion. SCOTUS generally has kept its secrets and has kept confidential its internal processes and deliberations. But the Court does occasionally leak, and it has leaked before about Roe v. Wade. 1/x
@scotusblog: It's impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin.
@politico: The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes. https://www.politico.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: POLITICO exec editor @DafnaLinzer has sent this note out to staff about the Roe v. Wade story. “After an extensive review process, we are confident of the authenticity of the draft ... We take our responsibilities to our readers and our publication with the greatest seriousness.” https://twitter.com/...
Orin Kerr / @orinkerr: As far as I can tell, there is no federal criminal law that directly prohibits disclosure of a draft legal opinion. Maybe there should be, but right now there isn't, as far as I can tell.
Nick Martin / @nickmartin: Just checking in on some of our free speech absolutists https://twitter.com/...
@cbsmornings: Chief Justice Roberts is likely to order a full investigation involving the FBI into the reported leak of a draft majority opinion, reports @JanCBS — as some question if it will throw the Supreme Court's legitimacy into question. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg: Don't Jump to Conclusions About the Politics of Ending Roe
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: Video of Susan Collins Repeatedly Insisting Justice Kavanaugh Won't Vote to Overturn Roe v. Wade Goes Viral
Raphael Satter / @razhael: The document's metadata provides no solid hints as to its provenance. The copy that's currently linked in the story appears to have been created seven minutes before the Politico story hit the website. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Megyn Kelly / @megynkelly: The pathetic spineless leak of a draft SCOTUS opinion has the feel of something a sad little woke 20-something-year-old would do. The kind of person who thinks their personal agenda is “more important.” Whoever did it should lose their law license.
Neal Katyal / @neal_katyal: THREAD My Thoughts on @politico story saying the Court voted to say Roe v. Wade is fully overruled. I've quickly scanned the draft opinion and it appears legitimate. This means there was a preliminary vote to fully overrule Roe V Wade and that a majority of the Court agreed.
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: Blockbuster leak and helluva scoop because, “No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending.” https://www.politico.com/...
Julia Moser / @juliamoserrrr: i no longer work for a news organization so i can say without fear of penalty for my job that news organizations' reluctance to touch abortion and to cover it honestly (very popular! not that controversial!) for fear of seeming too liberal is a big part of why we are here
Zoë Richards / NBC News: Draft opinion indicates Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico reports in extraordinary leak
Brian Floyd / @brianmfloyd: always scrub your metadata and launder the original source material to make it real hard to trace. good job protecting whoever gave this to them https://twitter.com/...
Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe: The focus on the fact of the leak—rather than the dismantling of women's reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy—is so very Washington. Process over substance. Horse race over issues. It's one of the many ways we got to this exact moment.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The implications of the draft Roe opinion leaking to the press
Elie Mystal / @elienyc: Like... this is literally the most important Supreme Court decision since Bush v. Gore, we are literally turning the clock BACKWARDS on women's rights... and people are talking about A FUCKING LEAK??
Tierney Sneed / CNN: Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade published by Politico
@jamilsmith: For what it's worth, there is no chance that Samuel Alito wanted that opinion released to the public or to the press right now. We'll see what it changes, if not the eventual ruling itself.
Harmeet K. Dhillon / @pnjaban: This act of leaking an important opinion is terrorism against the Court and against our nation. It is far more destructive than any suicide bomber would be. These people behind this vile act, are attacking the very foundations of the US. We must not let the terrorists win. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ben Shapiro / @benshapiro: There is little question that this leak is designed to create threat to the life and limb of any justice who signs onto the majority opinion. Prosecution to the full extent of the law.
@nkulw: Right: Abortion is the sin! Left: Forced pregnancy is the sin! DC: This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin. https://twitter.com/...
Carissa Byrne Hessick / @cbhessick: One of the best contributions that academics can make to public discourse is to share research that pre-dates the big issue of the day. I'm glad Jonathan took the time to share his research on SCOTUS leaks. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Sanders / @samsanders: One thing I'll say about @politico: they don't hold vital reporting hostage until a book release
@scotusblog: (cont'd) 2. Those interested in who leaked the draft should wonder why Alexander Ward — a national security reporter — shares the byline. The leaker would insist that their identity be incredibly tightly held. Politico would not assign someone who didn't have to be on the story.
Tara Palmeri / @tarapalmeri: This is a panel on abortion https://twitter.com/...
Michael Jones / Supercreator: We're officially in the final days of Roe v. Wade
Jason Zengerle / @zengerle: Not downplaying the Politico SCOTUS/abortion scoop, but it's not totally unprecedented. In 1973, a young Time reporter named David Beckwith (who'd later serve as Dan Quayle's veep spokesman) scooped SCOTUS's forthcoming Roe decision. From David Garrow's “Liberty and Sexuality”: https://twitter.com/...
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost: ‘Nightmare Scenario’: Lawmakers, Organizers React To SCOTUS Leaked Draft To Overturn Roe
Gene Park / @genepark: This tweet is emblematic of how DC works and operates. Breaking decorum and protocol is just magnified to literal holy levels of gravity and import over how policies actually effect people. For anyone outside here, it's shocking to see. It should always be shocking. https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: A memo to @politico's staff, from @DafnaLinzer, its executive editor, and @KaminskiMK, its editor-in-chief, obtained by @CNN's @oliverdarcy: https://twitter.com/...
@scotusblog: Two final thoughts. 1. Politico reports that the 5 original votes to overturn Roe are “unchanged *as of this week*,” but does not report (and the leaker would know) that they have all said they will join the Alito opinion. At least 1 is apparently uncommitted. Hence the leak?
@taniel: A majority of SCOTUS has voted to overrule Roe vs. Wade, Politico reports. I can't think of a any court decision that has leaked in recent memory, and it's happening for one of the most important in decades. https://www.politico.com/...
@chadstanton: Very wild to see people immediately turn to gaming out how leaking a draft opinion can be spun into a criminal prosecution. Especially so soon after we saw the Sheriff Villanueva deploy the exact same tactic in response to the LA Times reporting on his coverup. https://twitter.com/...
@arabellesicardi: not the politico scotus leak dropping during the met red carpet.....both sides of my brain are collapsing
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The POLITICO bombshell had more than 100,000 concurrent readers Monday night, per source. More in the @ReliableSources newsletter: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ...
Luke Jones / @lukejones03: Interesting on how US Supreme Court leaks are rare but not unprecedented... https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: Experts say that the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion is a major breach of confidentiality that has heightened the stakes in an already politically-charged case, reports @andrew_chung_ https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: A POLITICO spokesperson tells me that “the group of people working on this story” was “an extremely small group.”
Orin Kerr / @orinkerr: Some are asking, is it a crime to leak a draft Supreme Court opinion? A few thoughts. (Thread.)
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Politico Obtains Draft Opinion Showing Supreme Court Poised To Overturn Roe v. Wade
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Interesting thread outlining historical context on how and when SCOTUS leaks happen. Other opinions have leaked before release. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Prater / Fortune: Draft of Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade leaked, Politico reports
@fmanjoo: why shouldn't Supreme Court draft decisions be public documents? what's the argument in favor secrecy? not just in this case, in all cases. But especially in this case: what harm is there for the public to be privy to deliberations on such a momentous change in the law?
Ilya Shapiro / @ishapiro: The leak is inexcusable and threatens the Court's functioning. The most plausible explanation is that it's someone on the left engaged in civil disobedience—so yet again it's those who bemoan the “loss of norms” who break them. Cf. court-packing, attacking legitimacy, etc.
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: Seems like Politico did a good job protecting their source. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Vladeck / @steve_vladeck: The leak is *a* story. What it portends is *the* story.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Don't let Twitter skew you: Major news outlets are focusing less on the circumstances of the leak and more on the potential overturning of Roe, specifically on who would be affected. (1/2)
Neal Katyal / @neal_katyal: There is an amazing story in @politico right now. If it is right it is the first major leak from the Supreme Court ever. It's the pentagon papers equivalent for S Ct. Says they have a copy of the draft opinion in Mississippi abortion case and roe v wade is fully overruled.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Facebook plans to stop letting users add podcasts to the service this week, start removing them on June 3, and discontinue Soundbites and its central audio hub — Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social-media service starting June 3.
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@ashleyrcarman, Mashable, Insider, The Verge, @scottjohnson, @clairevtran, @bridgetmarie, @mikker, AdExchanger, Mediaite, @phil_lewis_, @chrismessina, @oliviasolon, Adweek, Social Media Today, @arithisandthat, @stanikulechov, @imyke, Matt on Audio, @amahnke, 9to5Mac, Protocol, Engadget, @stephenrobles, @andrewmartonik, @drnerdlove, @loudmouthjulia, iMore, @gamespite, AppleInsider, Input, @pkafka and @broderick, more at Techmeme »
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Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: SCOOP: facebook is removing all podcasts from the platform on june 3rd. it'll stop allowing people to add their podcasts starting this week https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider: Facebook is giving up on podcasts after just 1 year
Scott Johnson / @scottjohnson: In other news, a 20 year veteran of podcasting had no idea Facebook had a podcast platform/directory. https://twitter.com/...
@clairevtran: social media editors got those weekly “Add your podcasts to Facebook now!” emails for no reason https://twitter.com/...
Bridget Todd / @bridgetmarie: plenty of people told me I was making a big mistake by not putting my podcast on Facebook because Facebook was going to ‘revolutionize’ audio. other than get called out for inflating listener numbers, did Facebook's few months long foray into audio accomplish anything? https://twitter.com/...
@mikker: If you ever wanted an argument for keeping podcasts independent and based on open standards, here's the perfect one: https://twitter.com/...
@chrismessina: The new mantra: ship fast and cancel faster! Facebook exiting podcasts cost less than a CNN+ and executed faster than a Quibbi. https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon: I... did not know Facebook was in the podcast business https://twitter.com/...
David Cohen / Adweek: Facebook Podcasts to Go Silent June 3
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: Facebook's Removing Support for Podcasts, Just 10 Months After Launching New Podcast Features
Arielle Nissenblatt / @arithisandthat: If you had “Facebook makes a half-assed effort on podcasts and then drops it” on your podcast bingo card, congrats https://twitter.com/...
@stanikulechov: Podcasters on Facebook (the few of them) just got rugged hard. This is why creators should own their relationships with their audience. When an app disappears, your audience and content would continue to live and earn for you https://twitter.com/...
Myke Hurley / @imyke: well they were nothing if not persistent... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Deegan / Matt on Audio: TalkTV's First Week — I'm intrigued by the Talk TV launch. News UK have taken the output …
Aaron Mahnke / @amahnke: Facebook was in the podcast game? I must have been too busy making podcasts to notice. https://twitter.com/...
Nat Rubio-Licht / Protocol: Facebook's pivot to audio was short-lived
Stephen Robles / @stephenrobles: What disappeared faster: Twitter Fleets or Facebook Podcasting? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Andrew Martonik / @andrewmartonik: TIL Facebook had a podcast feature https://twitter.com/...
Dr. NerdLove / @drnerdlove: ... I got emails telling me to start putting my podcast on Facebook as recently as LAST WEEK. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Facebook's podcast business never really became a business. Wonder how the newsletter initiative is faring. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Wituschek / iMore: Facebook is bowing out of the podcast business
Jeremy Parish / @gamespite: We stopped promoting Retronauts on Facebook YEARS ago and trashed the constant stream of emails begging us to upload the show directly to the platform, so the joke's on them https://twitter.com/...
Annie Rauwerda / Input: Facebook's pivot to podcasts is going up in flames
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Pivot to video! https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
In a presentation to advertisers, NBCUniversal says it will release three Universal movies straight to Peacock; Universal has 25+ movies set for a 2022 release — The move is not only an attempt to attract subscribers but an acknowledgment that releasing some films theatrically has become more of a gamble.
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Los Angeles Times, The Streamable, @nytimesbusiness, @michellemanafy, @tiffkhsu, @benmullin, @nytimes, The Wrap and SlashFilm
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Peacock Announces First Exclusive Films from LeBron James, Chloe Bailey, John Woo
@nytimesbusiness: In a bid to boost Peacock, Universal is sending three movies straight to streaming. The move is not only an attempt to attract subscribers but an acknowledgment that releasing some films theatrically has become more of a gamble. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Like every studio executive, Donna Langley, the head of Universal's Motion Picture Entertainment Group, is involved in the complicated calculus of determining what movies fit where given that theatrical box office is down 45% from what it was in 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: “I think everybody sort of woke up and smelled the coffee during the pandemic and recognized that not all movies are created equal,” Donna Langley of Universal told @nicsperling ahead of the Peacock newfront https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Scoop from @nicsperling: @peacockTV is going day-and-date with three movies on streaming next year. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Universal is sending three movies, including a biopic about LeBron James, straight to streaming. It's an attempt to attract subscribers to Peacock, its streaming service, and an acknowledgment that releasing films in theaters has become a gamble. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: Peacock Sets First 3 Original Films for 2023 From LeBron James, John Woo and Will Packer
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate signs a multiyear deal giving Peacock and NBCUniversal networks exclusive rights to its movies for their Pay 2 window, starting in 2024 — The deal will send ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ and John Wick: Chapter 4' to the NBCUniversal streaming platform in 2024.
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Variety, Deadline, The Streamable, Digiday, Collider, Media Play News, Variety, The Wrap and Next TV
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Peacock Will Get Bravo Shows Next-Day, NBCU Streamer Inks Lionsgate Movie Output Deal
Peter White / Deadline: Bravo Series Including ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Make Streaming Move From Hulu To Peacock; NBCU Streamer Closes Lionsgate Film Deal
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Bravo Shows Move from Hulu to Peacock, Including ‘Housewives,’ ‘Below Deck,’ ‘Watch What Happens Live’
Sara Guaglione / Digiday: The Rundown: CTV platforms and ad-supported streamers kick off NewFronts Day 1
Britta DeVore / Collider: Peacock to Stream Lionsgate Films Beginning in 2024
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Peacock, Lionsgate Ink Movie Distribution Deal Beginning in 2024
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBCU Plans to Frame Some Peacock Shows With Occasional Ads
Brian Welk / The Wrap: Peacock to Stream Lionsgate Theatrical Films in 2024, Starting With ‘Massive Talent’
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: NBCU Makes Peacock Streaming Home for Bravo Cable Network
NBC News:
An NBC News review finds 11 articles by reporter Teaganne Finn has plagiarized passages; NBC added an editor's note to each article and removed the passages — To our readers: — A review by NBC News has found 11 articles written by a reporter over the last year that did not meet our standards for original material.
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@davelevitan, @nycsouthpaw, Popular Information, Mediaite, @erikwemple, @oliverdarcy, @abbyvesoulis, @cahnemily, @readdanwrite, @rachelmetz, @katierosman, @rvawonk, The Wrap, @thewrap, Fox News, Washington Post, @mikeisaac, @waltisfrozen, @derekwillis, New York Post, Deadline, New York Times and Barrett Media
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Dave Levitan / @davelevitan: “Maintaining trust is the most important thing, which is why we are doing this in the most opaque and mysterious way imaginable.” https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nycsouthpaw: It seems really weird to identify neither the reporter nor the articles in question. Are we supposed to search through the thousands of articles NBC has published in the last year? https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: NBC News Reveals Plagiarism Scandal; Discloses 11 Articles Were Improperly Sourced
@erikwemple: Whoa: NBC News issues an editor's note about a rash of plagiarism. Though the note talks about the importance of trust, the note lacks the sorts of details that would help build it. https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: I'm told that NBC discovered this during a routine editing process and launched a review where other instances were discovered. The reporter, Teaganne Finn, is no longer with the network.
Abby Vesoulis / @abbyvesoulis: Plagiarism is never okay, full stop. However, I also wonder whether the reporter was under immense pressure to publish at a rapid clip without sufficient resources/support. That's *still* not a worthy excuse to plagiarize 11+ times, but it's worth the industry discussing. https://twitter.com/...
Emily C. Singer / @cahnemily: The vagueness of this statement is utterly bizarre. I get they probably want to protect the reporter, but if a politician tried to hide details of something like this NBC would rightfully shred them. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Daniel Roberts / @readdanwrite: plagiarists always get caught eventually. always blows my mind they think they'll get away with it. who was it? https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz: i don't understand the point of this kind of note to readers that contains no information about what the stories were, who wrote them, etc. (@oliverdarcy notes they were by a reporter named Teaganne Finn who doesn't work for NBC anymore). https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: As attempts to be transparent with readers go, this one kinda lacks transparency https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: NBC News says it found 11 articles written by a reporter over the last year “that did not meet our standards for original material” b/c they used passages from other news orgs without attribution. ...but no info on which articles they're talking about. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Jeremy Bailey / The Wrap: NBC News Political Reporter Teaganne Finn Out After 11 Stories Corrected for Plagiarism
@thewrap: NBC News political reporter Teaganne Finn is not longer with the network after an internal review discovered plagiarism in 11 articles she wrote. https://www.thewrap.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: NBC News says unattributed material in 11 articles was ‘supplemental’ reporting
Greg / @waltisfrozen: “Maintaining the trust of our readers and viewers is essential” say NBC News in announcing a string of plagiarized stories without mentioning when it happened, which reporter did it, and which stories were affected. Saving those details for the book? https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: This isn't good enough. https://www.nbcnews.com/... “We're sorry.” “For what?” “Things.” “What things?” “If you look hard enough, you might find out.”
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: NBC News says 11 articles written by politics reporter contained plagiarism
Erik Pedersen / Deadline: NBC News Says Nearly A Dozen Articles By One Writer Had “Plagiarized” Passages
Katie Robertson / New York Times: NBC News says parts of 11 articles were plagiarized.
Ryan Hedrick / Barrett Media: NBC News Addressing Multiple Instances of Plagiarism
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Sources detail how Tucker Carlson and his show's producers decided to embrace Trumpism, unlike Hannity's embrace of Donald Trump, reshaping Fox News itself — Tucker Carlson had a problem. — After years in the cable wilderness, he had made a triumphant return to prime time.
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New York Magazine, @hannahgais, Media Matters for America, The Week, @ericowensdc, @blackamazon, @mattgertz, @jonathanchait, @tdverstynen, @pinkbirdgirl, @tenuredradical, Poynter, @bostonjoan, Mediaite, @bernstein, @chrispolpsych, @id4ro, @johnjharwood, @richardhanania, @nytimes, @nickconfessore, @existentialfish, @maxboot, @urbanachievr, Raw Story, @erikwemple, UPROXX, Insider, @lauramlippman, @dansaltzstein, @taylorlorenz, @brianstelter and @timothys
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Tucker Carlson Is a White Nationalist, and Conservatives Are Okay With It
@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/...
John Knefel / Media Matters for America: J.D. Vance parrots a Tucker Carlson conspiracy theory that Biden is intentionally allowing fentanyl to cross the border to kill Trump voters
Jason Fields / The Week: How a Canadian-born Irishman paved the path of hatred that leads to Tucker Carlson
Eric Owens / @ericowensdc: Conservative media once operated along an understanding that white nationalism was a distinct and unacceptable faction from which its movement had to be cordoned off. No longer. https://nymag.com/...
@blackamazon: White people and pundits still won't even reliably quote non white people about it so why are we pretending it's a shock Chait led the charge against safe spaces and y'all won't even call him ON THAT https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Oh hey another tidbit from the @nickconfessore series on Tucker Carlson: After Trump lost his reelection bid and Fox's ratings faltered, Rupert Murdoch ordered network head Suzanne Scott to “clean house,” and then she purged the Fox “news side” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Fox News is employing somebody Ben Shapiro — Ben Shapiro! — called a white supremacist. And nobody on the right, including Shapiro, thinks it's a problem https://nymag.com/...
@tdverstynen: I find it interesting that major news outlets will spend enormous amount of time & effort documenting the racist lies of a media personality, but explicitly avoid referring to him as a racist or a liar. https://twitter.com/...
Liberal Baby Boomer / @pinkbirdgirl: After reading this article I hate Tucker Carlson even more. He is a danger to society. https://twitter.com/...
Claire Potter / @tenuredradical: “In some respects, Mr. Carlson has taken Trumpism away from Mr. Trump.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Trevor Noah's speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was funny yet inspiring
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: There is a lot to unpack in this series. As someone who has watched TC several nights a week for years, I saw so many of the same patterns reported in this series. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: ‘Way More Dangerous Than... Anybody Realizes:’ New York Times Editor Explains What It's Like to Watch Tucker Carlson Every Night
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: The media context here is interesting. The ascendant force at the time (2016-17) was Breitbart, which was way closer to the GOP base than Fox. Carlson subsumed all of that energy. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Federico / @chrispolpsych: I've always had the sense that this stuff is more widely read and/or quietly believed on the ‘respectable’ right than they will publicly admit. Every few years some right-leaning writer will break kayfabe and say as much, too. https://twitter.com/...
Ishmael N. Daro / @id4ro: so Tucker Carlson is *actually* turning a big dial taht says “Racism” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right https://www.nytimes.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Tucker Carlson Reportedly Mocked Trump In Private And Even Once Declined One Of His Calls
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider: A Fox employee said executives at the network said they wanted to purposely air ‘grievance’ to ‘get people boiled up’: NYT
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/...
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/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Absolutely fantastic piece here by @nickconfessore https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.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/...
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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
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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/...
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots: Tucker and the Dangers of Crying Wolf
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Tucker Carlson and Fox closely study what their audience responds to, and so keep doubling down on white nationalism 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: 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/...
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America: If you are in business with Fox News, you are on the hook for its white nationalism
Claire Potter / Political Junkie: Raging Bull(sh*t) — Today's post is a form I want to experiment with a little more in the future: meta-commentary.
Gene Park / @genepark: Agree with folks this is one of the best NYT projects in a while. An excellent use of the papers tech knowledge to display a compelling, clear and important storyline. Bravo to all producers on this project. https://twitter.com/...
Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett: This is a tremendously insightful piece...long, but worth the time. https://twitter.com/...
@sturgeons_law: Much of this thread is true, & yet the NYT is still correct that Tucker is a racist. I think that's a fair characterization of anyone who calls Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” & says that Afghans will never be civilized people. Some of the revelations about Fox were also https://twitter.com/...
Decoding's Newsletter: Fox News: Elon Musk is a superhero while President Biden is Goebbels, Stalin and Hitler.
Thom Hartmann / Raw Story: A third of America is lost to hate: Is it time to move on?
Cary Littlejohn / Critical Linking: Switched Up — I had an opportunity (possibly my last one) to write a story for my former newspaper.
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Almost got through this screed. If the NYT spent the same amount of time understanding why TC is popular as they do calling him a racist, they'd learn something. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Pell / Substack: They Might Be Giants — “They don't care what you think. They want to control your mind.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: ‘No Embarrassment, No Shame’: Charlie Sykes Explains Why He Thinks Tucker Carlson Delights in the New York Times Calling Him Racist
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch: Opening the next front in the battle against Fox News
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Interesting reaction to deeply reported series showing *Fox employees* consider the program Greenwald appears on regularly to be disturbingly racist https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: OK - but Tucker is racist. 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/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Late to this but will say: @nytimes / @nickconfessore giant take-out on Tucker C is investig and explanatory journalism of very high order. Zero equivocation; vast evidence behind conclusions. ("May be most racist show in the history of cable news") https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Alter / @jonathanalter: Both parts of this huge Tucker package were good but I especially liked the cold-eyed take of @nickconfessore . He got past the armchair psychoanalysis of Carlson with real reporting. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kareem_carr: Data science matters. The times could have just given us the same information in words but plotting the actual data is so much more powerful. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Sheffield / @mattsheffield: Excellent research. For more day-to-day examples of how Fox uses omission and commission to mislead viewers, be sure to follow @DecodingFoxNews https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: FYI Peter Brimelow is one of the most influential white supremacists in the world. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: Omg this nugget is crazier than anything about Tucker in this story “An organizational chart loaded into the company's portal showed a controversial figure named Peter Brimelow — founder of nativist website VDare — reporting directly to Rupert Murdoch https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Gleick / @jamesgleick: This is tremendous work and an invaluable contribution to the public record. Everyone should read it. 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/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “Brian Jones, the highest-ranking Black man in Fox leadership, explained that almost everything Carlson was saying on air was wrong “Jones told fellow executives Carlson's coverage had been ripped from far-right sites including the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer” https://www.nytimes.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Marc Lamont Hill / @marclamonthill: Important read 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
@picardonhealth: American Nationalist, part II: How @TuckerCarlson Reshaped @FoxNews — and Became Trump's Heir https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism /2
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/...
@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/...
@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
@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/...
Tara Parker-Pope / @taraparkerpope: This Tucker Carlson story is amazing (in all kinds of horrible ways.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: No matter how low an opinion you have of Murdoch & Fox, it's not low enough. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Rutger Bregman / @rcbregman: Ah, the memories.. https://twitter.com/...
@thejanasanchez: It's very depressing to know this open racist is the number one cable news show. https://www.nytimes.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/...
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/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: These are amazing graphics. (Also: I worry about the journalist doing all this work.) https://twitter.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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Joe Gabriel Simonson / @sayssimonson: My opinions are also informed by analysis 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/...
Leslie Mac / @lesliemac: Liberals let Bill Maher walk so Tucker could fly. 🤷🏽♀ ️ 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Kathryn Bertoni / Demodexio: I couldn't care less about Tucker Carlson's past
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: what this paragraph describes is essentially the creation of infowars https://www.nytimes.com/... 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/...
David Frum / @davidfrum: The most racist show in the history of television. Quite an accomplishment https://twitter.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/...
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/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: An incredibly important, well-reported and meticulously researched piece >> 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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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 Klasfeld / @klasfeldreports: This data analysis is cogently done and thoroughly worth your time. 🔽 https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
Nicholas Confessore / The Indian Express: How Tucker Carlson reshaped Fox news — and became Trump's heir
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount is launching Paramount+ in the UK and South Korea in June 2022 and in India in 2023 — The streamer's India debut will come in connection with a recently unveiled capital infusion in joint venture Viacom 18 from James Murdoch and Uday Shankar.
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Paramount+ Sets U.K., Korea, Europe, India Launch Dates
Max Goldbart / Deadline: Paramount+ Sets UK Launch Date; Reveals India 2023 Plans
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q1 revenue of $7.3B, down 1% YoY, and net earnings of $433M, down from $911M a year ago; revenue from streaming grew 82% YoY to $1.1B
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 62M global streaming subscribers in Q1, up 6.3M over Q4; Paramount+ added 6.8M subscribers for a total of ~40M; Pluto TV has ~68M MAUs
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Jennifer Maas / Variety: Paramount+, Showtime Top 62 Million Combined Subscribers
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Paramount+ Adds Strong 6.8M Subs Last Quarter But Higher Streaming Costs Squeeze Profits At Parent
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Paramount+ Adds 6.8M Subscribers in Q1 2022 to Reach Almost 40 Million Global Subscribers
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter: New ‘Jackass’ TV Series Headed to Paramount+
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Vice Media has hired financial advisers to help find a buyer, either for the entire company or for parts of the business to pay back ~$1B in debt — - Vice Media has hired financial advisors to seek a sale, either for the entire company or for parts of the business.
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@sherman4949, @sherman4949, @anthony, @rasmussen_poll, @ahess247, @loudmouthjulia, @athertonkd, @sherman4949, @ashkan, @ashkan, @pkafka, @pkafka and Axios
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Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: As star media reporter @jtoonkel reported Friday, Vice is considering selling its content studio biz. It's also open to an outright sale, and several buyers have expressed early interest. The decision, of course, will come down to price/valuation: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: One buyer that will not acquire Vice: TPG. It wants out/some of its money back.
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: .@jtoonkel reported Friday that Vice Media was looking to sell part of their company, today @sherman4949 reports they may be looking to sell it all https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rasmussen_poll: “Vice was an early darling of the digital media industry, peaking in 2017 with a $450 million investment from private equity firm TPG that valued the company at nearly $6 billion.” It was a cash bonfire from the jump and a hard pass. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Arik Hesseldahl / @ahess247: And there goes the evening for the media reporter corps. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Every media story is consolidation somehow. Facebook doesn't want to compete on podcasting, so Spotify and Apple benefit even more. (Not that Facebook ever hurt Spotify, but reinforces Spotify's dominance.) And now Vice is possibly being sold for parts. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: reacting to media news the normal way, by checking my old stories at the sites in question and saving clips just in case https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Any sale of Vice, including debt, will likely come at a number significantly under the $3b valuation it sought via SPAC last year. https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 1/ Challenge for Vice isn't even valuation (that's a major one), but fit. Incredibly, when Disney sought to buy it, traditional media wasn't going all-in online in their own IP, building DTC biz models. They were still protecting their traditional IP... https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 8/ In all seriousness, I think there will be a lot of interest given the brand's high profile, but it will likely come far below the $5.7B valuation at its zenith. The end. https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Ps there is an alternate timeline where Disney owns BuzzFeed, Vice and... Twitter.
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Anchor co-founder and Spotify's podcasting tech chief Michael Mignano resigned last week, the third high-profile exit from Spotify's podcast division in a month — The head of Spotify's podcasting tech stack is out — Michael Mignano, co-founder of Anchor and Spotify's podcasting tech chief …
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Paul Rainford / Light Reading: Eurobites: CityFibre signs up Giganet across UK footprint
Ariel Shapiro / @arshapiro90: A little Monday scoop for @verge — Spotify confirmed that Anchor co-founder @mignano will be leaving the company at the end of June. More to come in tomorrow's ~Hot Pod~ https://www.theverge.com/...
@evoterra: I'm less likely to attribute this to rats leaving a sinking ship (Spotify isn't sinking) and more about the end of a podcast acquisition agreement and moving on to other things, like swimming in a pool of cash. https://twitter.com/...
Elias Leight / Billboard: Anchor Co-Founder Michael Mignano Resigns From Spotify
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: John Battelle and John Heilemann's video news site The Recount plans to have layoffs in the coming weeks, and Chief Content Officer Ryan Kadro has left — The Recount is planning to restructure its business, sources tell Axios. Staff cuts are expected in the next few weeks.
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
IAB: connected TV ad spend grew 57% YoY to $15.2B in 2021, as total digital video ad spend hit $39B; CTV ad spend is expected to grow 39% to $21.2B in 2022 — As NewFronts begin, an IAB report explains why more dollars should shift to the space
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Beet.TV, MediaPost, IAB, insideradio.com, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Ad Age, Next TV and Deadline
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Robert Andrews / Beet.TV: Stream On: IAB NewFronts Goes Hybrid In CTV Boom
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: CTV Will Command 36% Of Total Video Time Spent In 2022,18% Of Video Ad Dollars: IAB
Katie Campione / The Wrap: Streaming Ad Spending Increases 57% to $15.2 Billion in 2021
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
A+E, Univision, Fox, AMC Networks, and others are leaning into linear TV to stand out amid a streaming boom, hoping a diversified approach is more lucrative — Betting that they can't compete with Netflix and hoping a diversified approach is more lucrative, A+E, Fox Corp. and AMC Networks …
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/...
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson Star in the White House Correspondents' Dinner: The Reality Show
Daniel Bennett / Uneasy Citizenship: The Overview (Tuesday, May 3) — Greetings from finals week at John Brown University.
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: ‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts Drag Joe Biden for Saying Network Employees All Vaccinated by Boasting They're Not
Josh / @joshc0301: Trevor Noah believes this because he's such a bootlicker for US imperialism, it would never even occur to him to think/say anything subversive enough to be censored or messed with. A dog doesn't notice its leash as long as it never moves https://twitter.com/...
@asadabukhalil: Not sure why Americans love to think that the US is the only place on earth where you can safely make fun of the president. I grew up in little Lebanon and we also were able to make fun of the president. Relax. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mat / @aaronjmate: .@Trevornoah: “In America you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable.” Unless your name is Julian Assange, in which case you face a gulag for the rest of your life. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Man, this is something to think about https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Rachel Vindman / @natsechobbyist: “Because this is America...and here, RIGHT MATTERS.” 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/...
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/...
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/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: I wish Russians could watch this. 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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
Kurt Schlichter / @kurtschlichter: This was written on purpose people https://twitter.com/...
C-SPAN - YouTube: President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)
@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/...
Charu Sinha / Vulture: Trevor Noah Brings Clapter, Impressions to White House Correspondents' Dinner
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