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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: What to Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise
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/...
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America: If you are in business with Fox News, you are on the hook for its white nationalism
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots: Tucker and the Dangers of Crying Wolf
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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: “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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
@slpng_giants: FYI Peter Brimelow is one of the most influential white supremacists in the world. https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: OK - but Tucker is racist. https://twitter.com/...
James Gleick / @jamesgleick: This is tremendous work and an invaluable contribution to the public record. Everyone should read it. 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
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Kathryn Bertoni / Demodexio: I couldn't care less about Tucker Carlson's past
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/...
@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/...
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider: Tucker Carlson privately mocked Trump and declined a phone call from the former president to his Fox News show: report
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Sources detail how Tucker Carlson's embrace of Trumpism as the foundation of his show, unlike Hannity's embrace of Trump himself, would reshape Fox News — Tucker Carlson had a problem. — After years in the cable wilderness, he had made a triumphant return to prime time.
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@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/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Trevor Noah's speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner was funny yet inspiring
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Liberal Baby Boomer / @pinkbirdgirl: After reading this article I hate Tucker Carlson even more. He is a danger to society. 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/...
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/...
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/...
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Tucker Carlson Reportedly Mocked Trump In Private And Even Once Declined One Of His Calls
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/...
Claire Potter / @tenuredradical: “In some respects, Mr. Carlson has taken Trumpism away from Mr. Trump.” https://www.nytimes.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/
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider: A Fox employee said executives at the network said they wanted to purposely air ‘grievance’ to ‘get people boiled up’: NYT
Nicholas Confessore / The Indian Express: How Tucker Carlson reshaped Fox news — and became Trump's heir
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/...
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/...
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
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
The Wrap: White House Correspondents Dinner: Watch Trevor Noah Skewer President Biden and Just About Everybody at Fox News (Video)
C-SPAN - YouTube: President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Biden Zaps Trump At White House Correspondents Dinner
Charu Sinha / Vulture: Trevor Noah Brings Clapter, Impressions to White House Correspondents' Dinner
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: I wish Russians could watch this. https://twitter.com/...
@anele: Trevor Noah COMPLETE REMARKS at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner ... https://www.youtube.com/... via @YouTube Hayi myekeni ubhuti
Terry Moseley / Vanity Fair: “The Nation's Most Distinguished Superspreader Event”: The White House Correspondents' Dinner Returns
Peter Baker / New York Times: Jokes, Glamour and a Try for Normalcy as Correspondents' Dinner Returns
Myah Ward / Politico: Trevor Noah's best jokes at the WHCD
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
In a presentation to advertisers, NBCU says it will release three new Universal movies straight to Peacock; Universal has 25 movies set to release in 2022 — 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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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Peacock Announces First Exclusive Films from LeBron James, Chloe Bailey, John Woo
Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: Peacock Sets First 3 Original Films for 2023 From LeBron James, John Woo and Will Packer
Jeremy Mathai / SlashFilm: John Woo To Remake The Killer For Peacock's Original Film Slate In Collaboration With Universal
@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/...
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
IAB: connected TV ad spending rose 57% YoY to $15.2B in 2021, as total digital video ad spend hit $39B; CTV ad spending will rise to $21.2B in 2022 — As NewFronts begin, an IAB report explains why more dollars should shift to the space
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Katie Campione / The Wrap: Streaming Ad Spending Increases 57% to $15.2 Billion in 2021
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV: Stream On: IAB NewFronts Goes Hybrid In CTV Boom
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Streaming ad spend grew 57% in 2021 reaching $15.2B, market to more than double from 2020 to 2022
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Q&A with David Skok, founder of Canadian tech and business news site The Logic, which launched in 2018 and will soon employ 23 staff, 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 …
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@pressgazette: The Logic wanted “to create a space where journalists themselves could have a career and have stability... where they are treated not as the first thing to get cut... but treated as the core engine of any success that any publication can have” https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
@pressgazette: “I'd watched @theinformation, which @Jessicalessin had built, with great admiration. I'd watched @TheAthletic... And I thought, okay, there's a window here where people will be willing to pay for in-depth, deep reporting” https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
@pressgazette: “The other smart decision we made is we charged CA$300, and we didn't really discount it at that time. Our point was we're going to prove our value to you and we aren't going to give it away” https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: Proud to be an investor in @the_logic! https://twitter.com/...
William Turvill / @wturvill: Meet @the_logic, an unashamedly “wonkish” Canadian news startup led by @dskok. Founded in 2018, its staff has grown from three to 23, including 18 journalists. The Logic publishes one or two impactful stories a day, giving reporters freedom to dig deep. https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Lionsgate signs multiyear deal with Peacock and NBCU networks, which will have exclusive runs of the studio's films 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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Peter White / Deadline: Bravo Series Including ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Make Streaming Move From Hulu To Peacock; NBCU Streamer Closes Lionsgate Film Deal
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBCU Plans to Frame Some Peacock Shows With Occasional Ads
Todd Spangler / Variety: Peacock Will Get Bravo Shows Next-Day, NBCU Streamer Inks Lionsgate Movie Output Deal
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
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Peacock, Lionsgate Ink Movie Distribution Deal Beginning in 2024
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The Wikimedia Foundation decides to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations following community feedback, citing Mozilla's similar move in January 2022 — The announcement follows a vote by the Wikimedia community in which 71.2% voted in favor of a proposal to stop accepting cryptocurrency.
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Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: Wikipedia Will No Longer Accept Cryptocurrency Donations
Raphaël Pinson / @raphink: I just donated to Wikimedia as a token of gratitude for removing their support of cryptocurrencies (and years of helpful services). I wish many organizations would follow their example and stop using hurtful, highly speculative assets as a means of payment. https://twitter.com/...
@arlogilbert: The grift & negative environmental impacts have become so blatant that @Wikimedia doesn't want their brand sullied by association. Up next @mozilla ? https://twitter.com/...
Sriram Krishnan / @sriramk: This is so disappointing from Wikimedia. Wikipedia is probably the community + project I think of as most crypto community-like from the previous generation. hopefully gets changed sometime in the future. https://www.coindesk.com/...
Sarah Roach / Protocol: Wikipedia doesn't want your crypto donations anymore
Fortune: ‘Extremely risky’ and ‘inherently predatory’: Wikipedia organization decides to stop accepting crypto donations
Molly White / Web3 is going just great: Wikimedia Foundation stops accepting cryptocurrency donations
Molly White / @molly0xfff: The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations. The decision was made based on a community request that the WMF no longer accept crypto donations, which came out of a three-month-long discussion that wrapped up earlier this month. https://twitter.com/...
Brent Lang / Variety:
A look at the 2021 compensation for the top paid execs at AT&T, Netflix, Disney, ViacomCBS, Fox, Comcast, Discovery, and Endeavor, as lavish pay packages return — It was a year of plague, mergers and mega-paydays for the moguls who run some of the largest media companies in the world.
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@variety: DISNEY Bob Chapek, CEO:$32.5M /+128.9% Bob Iger, Executive Chairman: $45.9M/+118.6% Median Employee Compensation: $50,430 Chapek Pay Ratio to Median Employee: 644 2021 Total Shareholder Return: +44% https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@variety: In 2021, with theaters reopened, production back on track, and new streaming services in full swing, the lavish pay packages of yore returned. @BrentALang breaks down the compensation for Hollywood's biggest media moguls in 2021: https://variety.com/...
@variety: AT&T Randall Stephenson, Former Executive Chairman: $16.4M/-44% John Stankey, CEO, President: $24.8M/+18% Median Employee Compensation: $107,570 Stephenson/Stankey Pay Ratio to Media Employee: 152/231 2021 Total Shareholder Return: -8.1% https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@variety: DISCOVERY David Zaslav, CEO: $246.6M/+ 554.1% Median Employee Compensation: $82,964 David Zaslav Pay Ratio to Median Employee: 2,972 2021 Total Shareholder Return: -20.2% https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@variety: NETFLIX Reed Hastings, Co-CEO: $40.8M /-5.6% Ted Sarandos, Co-CEO: $38.2M/-2.8% Median Employee Compensation: $201,743 Hastings/Sarandos Pay Ratio to Median Employee: 202 /190 2021 Total Shareholder Return: +11% https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@variety: COMCAST Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO: $34.0M/+3.9% Jeff Shell, CEO — NBCUniversal: $21.6M/+30.3% Median Employee Compensation: $83,840 Roberts/Shell Pay Ratio to Median Employee: 405/257 2021 Total Shareholder Return: -2.2% https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brent Lang / @brentalang: Media Mogul Paydays: From David Zaslav ($246.6 million) to Bob Iger ($45.9 million), with a quick detour to check in on Ari Emanuel and his $308.2 million haul, here's what Hollywood CEOs pulled in last year. https://variety.com/...
@variety: ENDEAVOR Ari Emanuel, CEO: $308.2 M/+2,040.3% Median Employee Compensation: N/A Ari Emanuel Pay Ratio to Median Employee: N/A 2021 Total Shareholder Return: +45.4%* *Endeavor went public on 4/28/22, so this is not a full calendar year result. https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku adds Apple Music support to its devices; Roku users can sign up for Apple Music through the Roku Channel Store and get a one-month free trial — The Apple Music premium music subscription service is now available globally on the Roku platform. — Apple Music subscribers can access …
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple Music Available on Roku Starting Today
Hilary Niles / Center for Public Integrity:
A look at how Native American journalists report on tribal affairs despite the absence of press freedom 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 …
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@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/ ...
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.
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Vicki Davis / @coolcatteacher: Hollywood hates VPN's because it says they promote piracy - but I use my VPN for PRIVACY. - Reading “Hollywoods Fights Against VPN's turns ugly.” What do you think? 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/...
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/...
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/...
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