Top News:
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: The Washington Post suspended reporter David Weigel for one month without pay for retweeting a sexist joke from YouTuber Cam Harless on Friday — New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.
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Discussion:
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New: WaPo has suspended @daveweigel without pay for his retweet of a sexist joke. When emailed for comment, an out-of-office message said that he will return on July 5th. https://www.cnn.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: A Washington Post reporter is suspended after his sexist retweet blows up
American Press Institute: Need to Know: June 7, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: The Jan. 6 hearings start this week.
Jim Treacher / Who the Heck Is Jim Treacher?: WaPo's Dave Weigel Learns How Much His Loyalty to the Democrats Is Worth
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: 1/ If you are a woman on Twitter dot com, please remember if you express any opinion on Dave Weigel and sexism, you will get screamed at. If you critique him, you get screamed at. If you defend him, you will get screamed at. If you take a middle position you will get screamed at
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: I'm sad that all of us who subscribe to the Washington Post for their journalism won't get to read @daveweigel's coverage of the primaries taking place this month because the paper has put optics and politics before ethics and fairness. It's a disservice to readers.
Tim Miller / @timodc: Putting the debate over the original tweet aside, shouldn't we be incentivizing a forgiveness culture where people delete tweets & apologize, as @daveweigel did? Doesn't piling a gratuitous punishment on top just incentivize the next person to double down & go to substack? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: One month suspension without pay for Weigel. I'll just say I don't think the Post's handling of this retweet and related issues has built a healthier workplace environment that sets everyone up to succeed. https://www.cnn.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Is it OK for police to pose as journalists?
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Taylor Lorenz just got caught repeatedly lying in her article such that WP had to revise it 3 times as an “Editor's Note,” and it still contains a lie: nothing happened. Dave Weigel immediately apologized for RT'ing a joke and is suspended without pay: https://cnn.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: I'm sure this not-at-all-overreaction to a single retweet of a joke you could see any night on Comedy Central will calm things down and make the world more just. Congrats to all involved! Biggest congrats to me for never again having to work for an employer like this. https://twitter.com/...
Cenk Uygur / @cenkuygur: I hope the people that were out for blood after he already retracted and apologized are happy. But there's no chance of that. No apology is ever good enough, no redemption is ever offered. Now people will talk about this forever as if it defines even 1% of @daveweigel's career. https://twitter.com/...
Murtaza Hussain / @mazmhussain: Genuinely wasn't aware that you could be held accountable for your retweets but also what's the point of publicly shaming and punishing someone after they already apologized? This is a very unforgiving culture. https://twitter.com/...
@_celia_bedelia_: Wow shocking that Glenn is defending Dave Weigel and misogyny. SHOCKING https://twitter.com/...
@undeadfoia: One retweet and the guy loses pay for a month? Cancel culture wins again. Meanwhile, look at the rest of the cesspool that is @washingtonpost - from @SallyBuzbee on down, https://twitter.com/...
@golikehellmachi: also weigel's a multiple repeat offender who'd been asking for trouble for a long time and got it, and i don't think a suspension is an unfair punishment given his track record
Derek Hunter / @derekahunter: I know Dave and like her personally. He's lots of things, but none of them is a misogynist. https://twitter.com/...
Will Wilkinson / @willwilkinson: This is outrageous. For a dumb effing RT? Come on. Dave's the best in the biz and an incredibly kind person. I can't help feeling that he's somehow paying for the Post's earlier grievous mishandling of his indignant colleague's tweets. Not right. https://twitter.com/...
@angrybklynmom: I thought his retweet of the joke showed a lack of professionalism & I can understand why colleagues were bothered. But when a person is being suspended, & possibly fired for RT a joke, maybe it's gone too far? What happened to the old days of talking to someone privately? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Nora Munro / @noramunro: The number of people in the replies suggesting that the real problem is that women just won't lighten up about sexist jokes ... 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Janet Johnson / @jjohnsonlaw: It's incredible. This is what Trumpism has reaped: misogyny is funny, women who object to it are fair game for harassment, even mild consequences for men who promote the misogyny that leads to a hostile work environment for a coworker are “not in anyone's best interest.” https://twitter.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: Looking forward to the Supreme Court hearing the inevitable landmark argument about whether or not hitting a button on a website constitutes free speech. https://twitter.com/...
David Propper / New York Post: Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel suspended following retweet of sexist joke: report
@kt_so_it_goes: dumb retweet and wapo gets to do what they like with their workplace culture, including making it the wild wild west because they're just making up policies on the fly about what's ok and what'a not. when you don't have a policy this is the shit you're asking for https://twitter.com/...
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Sexist Joke Leads to Staff Turmoil at Washington Post
@golikehellmachi: when you have a professional culture that encourages people to get chippy with their peers, colleagues, followers and adversaries on social media every day, getting chippy is what people are going to do
Kipp Jones / Mediaite: Washington Post Suspends Reporter Dave Weigel Without Pay Amid Fallout Over Sexist Tweet
@golikehellmachi: reporters, journalists and columnists all have *wildly* different expectations about what they should and should not tweet under their own names with their employers namechecked in their bios than almost any other professional field
@blackamazon: LOL . That's less than half the shit I've heard about him that people have been ignoring https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: I mean, come on. This is such a massive overreaction. https://twitter.com/...
@rudepundit: This is dumb. It was dumb when the Post did it before to @feliciasonmez. It's dumb now when it's @daveweigel. Weigel apologized and deleted the RT. Living in fear that a goddamn retweet will get you suspended or fired is a shitty thing to do to your employees. https://twitter.com/...
Donald Trump Jr / @donaldjtrumpjr: It's fun to watch the MSM eat their own, but also here's some unsolicited advice: Get a sense of humor, you schmucks. That being said, we need a full audit of WaPo's oppressive practices! Toxic workplace? Gender pay gap? Independent investigation! https://www.cnn.com/...
IncognegroNeville / @formerlycbm: Not a fan of Weigel, but this is a ridiculous suspension. WaPo is a joke of a news organization. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Simply objecting to a retweet of a sexist joke — and a colleague's false accusation of “bullying” — leads to ... this. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@profjeffjarviss: The Washington Post should send a strong message: tomorrow morning, fire at least 50% of the newsroom, ranked in order of Worst Retweets. This will create such a powerful culture reset.
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: Genuinely repulsed at Bezos for not standing up to any of this at HIS paper. What is the point of having F U Money if you never say F U? Buying yachts, thirst posting about his GF, delaying lunar project for his vanity rocket company are apparently more important Just gross https://twitter.com/...
John Ganz / @lionel_trolling: weigel retweeted a “woman be shoppin” level joke and got suspended without pay. do they have a union there?
@katewillett: This is ridiculous. The joke retweeted is word play, absolutely not worth suspending a good journalist over. https://twitter.com/...
Maya Contreras / @mayatcontreras: Weigel's colleague at WaPo was attacked online for days because of that tweet, it wasn't just a “retweet”. WaPo needs to have policies in place that discourage their reporters' from “casually” platforming bigotry — as there is no such thing as casual bigotry. https://twitter.com/...
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: The Washington Post Dumpster Fire Is Still Raging
@dprk_news: Washington Post suspends correspondent Pablo Escobar for sexist retweet. https://www.cnn.com/...
Rachael Larimore / @rachaelbl: Yeah, a retweet of a dumb joke is absolutely the biggest credibility problem facing the @washingtonpost right now. 🙄https://www.cnn.com/ ...
David French / @davidafrench: I would say “remarkable.” But really it's predictable. What a graceless workplace. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Bitecofer / @rachelbitecofer: I stand with The Stache #FreeDaveWeigel #7DirtyWords #WhatAWorld https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: The shock here after years of Dave Weigel tweeting sexist crap is that WaPo finally thought something he said was over the top. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Malice / @michaelmalice: Repeating what someone else says is not endorsing it, especially as a reporter “Weigel on Friday retweeted YouTuber @hamcarless who joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual."" https://twitter.com/...
@popehat: I'm a fan of @daveweigel, and have been for a while, and will remain one. I think it's good that he decided to apologize for retweeting a sexist joke that offended colleagues, but also think that a month suspension without pay is a substantially excessive punishment.
Kat Rosenfield / @katrosenfield: very interested in the practical limits of whatever policy resulted in this if one were a WaPo employee who, say, pursues stand-up comedy as a hobby, or is overheard by some sniffy coworker telling a bawdy story to friends at a bar. what constitutes a suspense-worthy offense? https://twitter.com/...
Mollie / @mzhemingway: It's not just the hostile work environment and the hypocrisy of rewarding repeated fabulists and punishing people for jokes, but the STUPIDITY of the hostile work environment that I would find intolerable. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Shure / @nataliesurely: This is a massive, disproportionate penalty for a retweet! just idiotic https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: This is just amazing. The Washington Post is being held hostage by emotional-blackmail psychos https://cnn.com/...
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The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee asks staff to treat each other with respect and kindness after two reporters argued on Twitter over a sexist joke — Felicia Sonmez and Jose Del Real traded bitter barbs on Twitter about a third reporter, Dave Weigel.
Discussion:
@feliciasonmez, @daveweigel, @benmullin, Breitbart, Gawker, @oliverdarcy, Poynter, @jdelreal, The Racket News, @mattsideashop, @sirgametime, @jessesingal, @tomwatson, @greta, @rmac18, @blackamazon, @jdelreal, @erinoverbey, @juwanthewriter, @jaycaruso, @jayohday, @goldietaylor, @moiradonegan, @moiradonegan, @timnitgebru, @tarahaelle, @jefflowell, @jessesingal, @iowahawkblog, @jbarro, @theageofshoddy, @scarylawyerguy, @corbinbolies, @feliciasonmez, @feliciasonmez, @laurenthehough, New York Post, @feliciasonmez, @mzhemingway, @feliciasonmez, @jdelreal, @froomkin, @ggreenwald, @froomkin, New York Post, Fox News and @soledadobrien
Discussion:
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed! https://twitter.com/...
David Weigel / @daveweigel: I just removed a retweet of an offensive joke. I apologize and did not mean to cause any harm.
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: In the wake of the recent social media dustups involving WaPo journalists, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee sends a memo to journalists admonishing them to treat each other with respect and kindness: https://twitter.com/...
John Nolte / Breitbart: Washington Post Reporter Felicia Sonmez Aims Reign of Terror at Second Male Colleague
Leah Finnegan / Gawker: The Washington Post Needs to Get It Together
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: WaPo chief spox @kriscoratti issues statement on @daveweigel's retweet of a sexist joke, which he has since apologized for: “Editors have made clear to the staff that the tweet was reprehensible and demeaning language or actions like that will not be tolerated.”
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: Last night I came under an unrelenting series of attacks intended to tarnish my professional and personal reputation. The cause? Some tweets I sent calling for compassion within our workplace. Those attacks continued this morning. 1/6
Steve Berman / The Racket News: Dave Weigel should quit today
@mattsideashop: saying sorry for something not worthy of an apology is a surefire way to get progressives to come after you https://twitter.com/...
@sirgametime: More people should call out their misogynistic coworkers like Felicia did here. And screw everyone yelling at her for having an opinion on Weigel's very public retweet. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: We're many days out from Dave Weigel retweeting an offensive joke and quickly undoing it when he saw people were offended, and debate still rages in the WaPo newsroom. Everyone is resurfacing offenses they endured months/years ago to insert themselves into the shitstorm. Healthy! https://twitter.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: Pretty hard to both sides this situation. But damn, @SallyBuzbee succeeded. And thus blew it up bigger. Circle the wagons - “keep disputes secret from our know nothing readers” - is also a close cousin of let's get more conservative voices in the paper. https://twitter.com/...
Greta Van Susteren / @greta: Not everything we tweet or retweet should bring the ‘death penalty’ and frankly, I think 99% of women have heard worse (and many have said worse about men...)...he apologized so everyone should just let this go https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: My main takeaway from this is that the font she emails with is enormous https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Nothing was published when they were found to be so racist they called parts of the building the plantation , when they did not follow through on diversity pledges, when one of their reporters fudged contact details , and multiple instances of racism and sexism https://twitter.com/...
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: I reject your attempt to make a specific critique of your regular public bullying into a sweeping opera about principles. As I said, Weigel's retweet was offensive and *should* be called out. It was strongly condemned internally. So I'm confused about your implication otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Overbey / @erinoverbey: I'd really like men in media to think hard about what it takes for women to continue to speak up/call out industry sexism & lack of diversity while receiving private texts/DMs from their male colleagues about how brave they are even as the men avoid joining the fight publicly... https://twitter.com/...
@juwanthewriter: Weigel's “joke” is activating the likes of alleged sexual harasser/far-right pundit Greg Kelly to make further harmful remarks to his colleagues in his defense. Meanwhile, he's tweeting like all is normal. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: Seriously? The Washington Post had to issue a statement about a retweet of a dumb joke? Nearly a dozen journalists in Mexico have been murdered since the start of the year and here we have people freaking out because Dave Weigel retweeted something. Goddamned babies. https://twitter.com/...
Janelle O'Dea / @jayohday: Every woman knows how this goes: “Sexism should be called out! None of that is allowed!!!” *calls out sexism* “No, no, not like that” https://twitter.com/...
@goldietaylor: I count @daveweigel as a friend. What he did was wrong. @feliciasonmez rightly called him out and Dave apologized. To accuse Felicia of being a clout chasing bully is abhorrent. https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: @feliciasonmez In seriousness, having a principle means standing up for it even when it is unpopular, and even when it is inconvenient, and even when it means challenging our friends. I'm grateful to have Felicia as a model—she has shown bone-deep integrity on this point.
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: @feliciasonmez Strange that he seems to feel it's ridiculous that you would frame your own opposition to public sexism by representatives of your institution as “about principles.” Perhaps more accurate to say that opposition to sexism is simply not a principle that he respects.
Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru: So this is what the @washingtonpost workplace is like? Men harassing women and calling them bullies and accusing them of creating a toxic work place for *checks notes* objecting to sexist tweets? Is he gonna have his name on an article about harassment then? https://twitter.com/...
Tara Haelle / @tarahaelle: Not a great way to lead a newsroom. If your employee retweets something sexist, and another employee calls them out publicly, *as they should*, you stand by them and discipline the offender. You don't call for being fucking polite. https://twitter.com/...
@jefflowell: Unbelievable, gross mis-characterization of what happened. I can't believe the grace @feliciasonmez is showing in dealing with this crap. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Noteworthy brushback pitch. It's weird to me how controversial it is among some journalists that it is better to handle your differences with your colleagues internally than it is to blast them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
David Burge / @iowahawkblog: They should settle these toxic workplace disputes the way that roofers do: rooftop fistfights Also, please film this for a Netflix reality series https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: Fairly insane culture has developed at WaPo where employees just air their grievances about each other in public. Of course, it's a choice for management to allow that. https://twitter.com/...
@theageofshoddy: Everyone inside the paper will and should read this as a public endorsement and backing of both Lorenz and Sonmez. If you want to know why this happens, this is why. https://twitter.com/...
@scarylawyerguy: I don't know of other “dust ups” at WaPo but when a male reporter retweets something sexist and is called out for it by a female reporter who then suffers through a weekend of online attacks (including by a different male colleague!) I don't think “dust up” is the right term. https://twitter.com/...
Corbin Bolies / @corbinbolies: The public feud between reporters @feliciasonmez and Jose Del Real over @daveweigel's Friday retweet culminated in a newsroom-wide email from @SallyBuzbee. w/@ZTPetrizzo on this weekend saga: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I've reached out to @SallyBuzbee and @mateagold for help on this but haven't heard back so far. Retaliation against a colleague for speaking out against sexism is never okay. I hope Washington Post leaders treat this as the serious issue that it is. 8/8
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Update: For those who, like me, are blocked from reading my colleague's tweets, here is his thread from this afternoon. No apology, but a whole boatload of more false accusations and mischaracterizations. To be clear: - There was no “unrelenting series of attacks.” 1/x https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Hough / @laurenthehough: the person who points out the problem isn't the problem. you don't solve the problem by silencing the person who pointed to it. why are we still fucking playing this game https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Washington Post editor scolds reporters after ‘sexist’ tweet ignites Twitter brawl
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: So far I've received no apology from my colleague for baselessly accusing me of engaging in “bullying,” “harassment” and “cruelty” — just for objecting to a sexist tweet. I did, however, receive an email from him accusing me of fostering a “toxic workplace.” And now this! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mollie / @mzhemingway: I'm not saying you have to find the original joke laugh-out-loud funny but wow would it be awful to work at such a humorless and angry place. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Example 5 billion and then some. Especially great when a statement from your newspaper's executive editor provides fodder for *more* harassment. https://twitter.com/...
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: @feliciasonmez Fighting sexism and misogyny matters deeply to me. I will always admire your bravery in sharing your story. And I support your fight against retribution for doing so. Entirely separately, I hope you reconsider the cruelty you regularly unleash against colleagues.
@froomkin: WaPo's top editor tells everyone to shut up already, instead of making a statement about sexism and sanctimonious men. Shame. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: How many times does the same NYT/WPost reporter have to be caught lying before her frightened colleagues cease defending her or remain silent? Again, media employees love lamenting that they lost the trust of the public, but *never* look in the mirror to ask why this happened. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: It's been a year since @SallyBuzbee took over the Washington Post newsroom. What kind of leader has she turned out to be? https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez blasts colleague David Weigel for retweeting sexist joke
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Kara Swisher is leaving the NYT to go back to Vox Media, where she will host a new interview podcast, saying, “I want to make whatever I want to make” — Kara Swisher, the prominent tech reporter, commentator and Recode co-founder, is leaving her role as columnist and podcaster at the New York Times to return to Vox Media.
Discussion:
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Kara Swisher to Leave The New York Times, Will Rejoin Vox Media for New Podcast
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: To who wonder why, here's my reason for all I do via, obvi, Sondheim: There's a part of you always standing by Mapping out the sky, finishing a hat Starting on a hat, finishing a hat Look, I made a hat Where there never was a hat https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@voxmedia: We'll be expanding our partnership with @karaswisher, who will be working with Vox Media to develop and host a new twice-weekly podcast featuring spirited, agenda setting conversations. Read more here: https://www.voxmedia.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: Same experience here. @karaswisher shows up for other journalists, in person, on the phone, with constant energy, encouragement and ideas. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I think the @nytimes has been an amazing platform for me over the past years for writing and pods and I cannot say enough about the quality and integrity of what they make. Far too many thank in edit and biz, so kudos to all of its amazing crew. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tara Palmeri / @tarapalmeri: “Swisher said she's become ‘very interested’ in owning intellectual property and sharing in the benefits of building a business alongside a partner. That interest, along with wanting to try new formats and create new things, spurred her move.” Same, girl. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed stock dropped 41%+ on Monday, after the lockup for executives and institutional investors expired on June 1 — Move marks worst one-day percentage drop in digital-media upstart's short trading history — BuzzFeed Inc.'s stock plummeted 41% on Monday, shortly after a ban preventing executives …
Discussion:
@keithrhernandez, Insider, Breitbart, @kerrymflynn, @alex, @loudmouthjulia and @alexeheath
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Keith Hernandez / @keithrhernandez: BuzzFeed stock is down 37.90% today, the day employees and executives lock up expires. The market cap is now less than their yearly revenue. That's what we call “zero faith” in their business: https://twitter.com/...
Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider: BuzzFeed's stock plunged Monday, putting the company's market cap below the $315 million that AOL paid for HuffPost in 2011
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton / Breitbart: BuzzFeed Stock Tanks 41 Percent After Initial Investors Allowed to Sell
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: Shares in BuzzFeed Inc. fell to $2.23 yesterday, an all-time low since going public in December via a SPAC. This comes after a six-month lock-up provision that restricted some Class A shareholders expired last week. How does BuzzFeed bounce back? $BZFD https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times:
A look at Chris Licht's first moves as CNN chairman: reducing partisanship and, sources say, making morning TV more inviting and revamping Sunday night's lineup — Chris Licht, the new CNN chairman, is encouraging a more nuanced approach to coverage. Some at the network are skeptical.
Discussion:
Axios, The Wrap, Mediaite, RADAR, The Guardian, New York Post, @mikeallen, Abernathy Road, @nytimestech, @scottadamssays, @reedgalen, The Desk, @melissajpeltier, Junghoon's Direct Media …, @afarray, Sean Hannity, @zaleskiluke, @wajahatali, @daddywarpig, @hshaban, @thetowncrier, @katrinanation, @mehdirhasan, @aridrennen, @leahmcelrath, @jeffsharlet, @gpollowitz, @parkermolloy, @oakmorr, @rolandsmartin, @nytimes, @shayeganam, @dougrussell, @chrisloesch, @ajamubaraka, @jayrosen_nyu, @nycsouthpaw and Forbes
Discussion:
Sara Fischer / Axios: Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: CNN's Chris Licht Set to ‘Oust’ Partisan Talent Who Won't Fall in Line: Report
Connor Surmonte / RADAR: CNN's New Boss Places Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta & Don Lemon On Notice, Tells Them To Become ‘Less Partisan’ Or They'll Be FIRED
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: CNN boss Chris Licht could force out anchors who are too partisan: report
Mike Allen / @mikeallen: 🚨 SCOOP @sarafischer @axios: CNN's Chris Licht scrutinizes talent for partisan tone ... monitoring anchors including Jim @Acosta, @brianstelter to see if they can comport w new style — no interviews that look like stunts Those who can't may get canned https://www.axios.com/...
Gary Abernathy / Abernathy Road: A new rash of gun violence? Only if you ignore 2020 and 2021. Plus, CNN ‘fair and balanced?’
@nytimestech: “It was so loud,” the former correspondent Peter Hamby said of the Zucker-era CNN. “They found a new outrage every single day.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Adams / @scottadamssays: Less “making up the news” would go a long way. Let's call it what it is. It isn't a lack of nuance problem. https://twitter.com/...
Reed Galen / @reedgalen: Does Mr. Licht care about “viewpoints” or the truth? Because most Republicans aren't bringing anything that resembles reality to a political discussion. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: CNN boss to producers: Pump the brakes on “Breaking News”
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: And we thought Zucker was bad. Ditch cable news. https://twitter.com/...
Junghoon Han / Junghoon's Direct Media for Audience: [저널리즘 ]CNN ‘속보(Breaking News)’와 결별 선언. ‘신뢰’ 시대 개막 선언
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: We're living through an endless cycle of republican abuse of power and obstruction of justice that has seen two impeachments and an ongoing insurrection so far. There is no end, no bottom, they simply will not comply with the imperatives of government or institutions of justice https://twitter.com/...
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: So CNN is, of course, going to have on more conservatives and Republicans, the same ones whose base considers CNN to be an “enemy of the people.” Somehow this will help truth, news and democracy... https://www.nytimes.com/...
@daddywarpig: He keeps talking about doing real things to make CNN a respectable news network. After all, with their ratings what they are, there's no place to go but up. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: A month into Chris Licht's tenure as the new leader of CNN: “Political shows are trying to book more conservative voices, and producers have been urged to ignore Twitter backlash from the far right and the far left.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Whittaker / @thetowncrier: “According to a new entry in the @CNN standards guide, obtained by The @nytimes, a story must qualify as “'stop what you are doing and watch' news” to secure the “Breaking News” label. ” A worthy definition. Let's apply here, yeah? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@katrinanation: If @CNN Chris Licht's idea of more nuance is, as he told advertisers, wanting to book more Republicans and conservatives on political shows, he might valuably research what led Ted Turner to found the dang thing. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “Political shows are trying to book more conservative voices, and producers have been urged to ignore Twitter backlash from the far right and the far left.” Argh. Which conservative voices? Election deniers? (Btw: far right wants GRT; far left wants M4A!) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ari Drennen / @aridrennen: We live in a country where the right wing media is obsessed with stoking rage at marginalized groups and the corporate alternatives are obsessed with making that sound reasonable https://twitter.com/...
Leah McElrath / @leahmcelrath: And into the fire we go. We were so silly to think that being in the frying pan was bad... https://twitter.com/...
Greg Pollowitz / @gpollowitz: this will last until there's another photogenic missing white woman https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: “...dialing back partisanship on the air.” “Mr. Licht said he wanted to book more Republicans and conservatives on political shows to offer a wider range of viewpoints.” JFC, WTF. 😖 https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Morris / @oakmorr: I have no real knowledge or opinion on CNN's direction right now, but I appreciate this effort to make “breaking news” meaningful again. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rolandsmartin: I tried to tell y'all what Chris Licht's strategy is. He's trying to ascertain which execs, producers and anchors have strong editorial chops. Don't be surprised if he makes big moves after his first 90 days. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Bye-bye, “breaking news” banners. A month into his tenure as the new leader of CNN, Chris Licht is changing the news network from the Jeff Zucker days, encouraging less hype and more nuance. Some at the network are skeptical. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shaye Ganam / @shayeganam: Thank God. CNN definitely overdid the breaking news thing. A lot https://twitter.com/...
Doug Russell / @dougrussell: Good move. If everything is “Breaking News” than nothing is. The little boy who cried wolf syndrome. After a while it loses all effectiveness and more importantly - credibility. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Loesch / @chrisloesch: Some outside the network are even more skeptical. https://twitter.com/...
Ajamu Baraka / @ajamubaraka: If Chris could alter CNN's character as the liberal partisan counter to FOX, it would be a significant contribution toward restoring a semblance of credibility to CNN & U.S. journalism. But the profit orientation & ideological biases of capitalist journalism makes this unlikely. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The hard part is not finding conservative voices, so-called. It's finding those that don't blitz @ddale8's inbox with more claims that have to be fact checked. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: This is an odd beat. CNN has always tried to “book more conservative voices” afaik. It was Zucker who made booking Lorde, Miller and McEnany for shouty shows and taking repetitive Trump rallies and empty podiums live a big part of CNN's political coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Unlike ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, Fox News will not carry Thursday's primetime January 6 Committee hearing, choosing to air it on Fox Business instead — UPDATED, 4:57 PM: When the January 6th Committee holds its first primetime hearing on Thursday, Fox News Channel will stay …
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Fox News makes it official: It will NOT show Thursday's 1/6 hearing like all the other major networks. Tucker Carlson's show will air as usual. Carlson promotes conspiracy theories about the riot, calls the committee “illegitimate,” and ridicules the committee members.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: US networks to air January 6 hearings - but Fox News sticks with Tucker Carlson
Catherine Watters / Fox News: FOX NEWS MEDIA TO PRESENT LIVE COVERAGE OF THE PRIMETIME JANUARY 6TH HEARING ON THURSDAY, JUNE 9TH ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Fox News Channel won't carry coverage of prime-time Jan. 6 hearing live
Adam Kinzinger / @adamkinzinger: If you work for @FoxNews and want to maintain your credibility as a journalist, now is a good time to speak out, or quit. Enough is enough. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * Another way to put it: By not carrying Thursday's hearing Fox is standing up for the rights of its viewers— more specifically, the right not to know. Not to see. * There is a kind of perverse public service standard there. Fox is protecting its public from the news. 5/
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * I assure you that CBS is not expecting Thursday's prime-time hearing to be a ratings winner. They are carrying it to maintain legitimacy as a private business that occasionally recognizes a duty to the public sphere. And not to do so would be a blow to their news division. 3/
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Try Not To Be Shocked: Fox News Will Not Be Airing The First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing, At Least Not On Its Main Channel
@accountablegop: Getting your Jan. 6 news from Fox News is like getting your Ukraine news from Russian state TV. https://twitter.com/...
Asha Rangappa / @asharangappa_: Imagine if a news (air quotes) network had decided not to air the Watergate hearings https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will all air Thursday's primetime hearing of the bipartisan January 6th Committee. So it looks like Fox News is the only major “news” network that won't air it. They gotta keep their viewers ignorant and angry. https://deadline.com/...
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The family of Ehud Yonay, whose 1983 article inspired the 1986 movie Top Gun, sues Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick — The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” on Monday sued Paramount Pictures …
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Eriq Gardner / Puck: Could Paramount Lose ‘Top Gun’?
Joe Hernandez / NPR: Paramount Pictures faces copyright lawsuit over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Breaking: Paramount Pictures hit with a blockbuster lawsuit claiming that it lacks rights to “Top Gun.” The sequel is an infringement, claims plaintiffs, who say studio ignored a copyright termination notice from family of original author. https://puck.news/...
Larry Zerner / @zernerlaw: This lawsuit is going to get a lot of press because of the incredible success of Top Gun 2. But after reviewing the complaint, this is probably an extremely weak case. The complaint alleges that the original film was based on a California magazine article called “Top Guns” 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Top Gun filmmakers sued over sequel
Chris Lindahl / IndieWire: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Lawsuit: You Can't Copyright Ideas, but Is There a Sequel Without That Article?
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Top Gun author's heirs sue Paramount over hit sequel
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Big time lawyers on the plaintiff's side (including former chief 9th circuit judge kozinski) so wouldn't take this lightly... but also, this seems like a very weak sauce case. Touches on a lot of issues from “movie rights” to derivative works to termination... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Zogbi / CBR: Paramount Sued by Top Gun Heirs Over Maverick
Michael McGowan / The Guardian:
An Australian federal judge orders Google to pay a former politician $715K for doing “nothing to prevent” YouTuber Friendlyjordies' “abusive” videos about him — Tech giant and comedian Jordan Shanks may face contempt of court charges over videos published during trial
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Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Australian media law continues to be a nightmare. A comedian posts YouTube vids making fun of a major elected official. The videos make the politician sad. So he sues...Google? For not taking down the videos that made him sad? And he wins $715,000? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Imogen Champagne / Journalism news …: John Barilaro to be paid $715,000 by Google over friendlyjordies YouTube videos
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Wait a second .., am I reading this right? So the person who actually committed the offense, the one creating and uploading the videos, is not charged with anything? ... But Google is? That's nuts. https://twitter.com/...
Carrick Ryan / @realcarrickryan: Our defamation laws provide a mechanism for our rich and powerful to silence criticism. You can not purport to be a free speech advocate while tolerating our laws as they currently exist. They are a direct threat to our democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: Google Must Pay Politician Over ‘Defamatory’ Videos Uploaded by User in Australia
Shane Bazzi / @shanebazzi: It is possible to agree that our defamation laws are deeply broken, to be worried about the trend of politicians suing for defamation, and to agree that Friendlyjordies' videos and views more broadly are awful and extremely problematic
@sarkysage: The federal court has ordered Google pay Barilaro $715,000 because he was “traumatised” by YouTube videos by @friendlyjordies & Google didn't remove them when he asked. This is the man that allegedly had the the fixated persons unit *actually* traumatise & arrest Kristo Langker.
@michaelwestbiz: Taxpayers have just funded a rich man getting richer, John Barilaro. Cash from Google in @friendlyjordies matter, despite not one bit of evidence being tested in court. Then there's the terror police ignored. Not good for social media. https://michaelwest.com.au/...
@friendlyjordies: Pretty poor behaviour from Channel 7. They went to Kristo's Grandmother's house to ask for comment about Barilaro's defo case. Kristo wasn't sued, let alone his family. Even more ironic considering he faced stalking charges cos he bumped into Barilaro. FPU gonna do anything?
David Estcourt / @davidestcourt: Additionally, Justice Steven Rares says he will “refer the conduct of Mr Shanks and Google to the Principal Registrar of the Court to consider whether to institute proceedings against each for what appear to be serious contempts of court...
David Estcourt / @davidestcourt: The Federal Court has awarded former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro $715,000 in his defamation claim against Google over Friendlyjordies YouTube videos @theage
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: One push (eg law proposed in Brazil to exempt them from content moderation) is to create special protections for politicians' speech online, another is to make it easier for those with money and/or power to disincentivize criticism online. Neither is great for individual citizens https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: This federal privacy bill is a huge deal
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Without a Sectino 230, this is what will happen and hosts will kill speech. Friendlyjordies: John Barilaro to be paid $715,000 by Google over YouTube videos https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: “Google was part and parcel of this disgusting behaviour because it facilitated, published and kept up on YouTube this and similar videos,” the judge said. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Cindy Harper / Reclaim The Net: YouTube ordered to pay Australian politician John Barilaro $715,000 for hosting “defamatory” content
Fortune: Google ordered to pay $515,000 for hosting anti-Italian ‘relentless, racist, and abusive’ videos about Australian politician
Jamie McKinnell / ABC: Google ordered to pay John Barilaro $715,000 over ‘vulgar’ YouTube videos
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: “Barilaro made no secret of his anger at the tech company for refusing to apologise for the videos, despite having dropped the majority of its defences days before the trial was due to begin. “I hate Google,” he told the court.” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Google ordered by Australian court to pay $500k to a conservative politician who was defamed by a leftist YouTuber https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Georgina Mitchell / The Age: Barilaro awarded $715,000 in defamation case, Shanks and Google referred for contempt
Matthew Loh / Insider: Google must pay a politician $515,000 for not taking down ‘cyberbullying’ and ‘vulgar’ videos about him, judge rules
Axios:
Religion of Sports, a media production startup founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra in 2017, raises a $50M Series B led by Shamrock Capital — Religion of Sports, the sports media production company co-founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and filmmaker and entrepreneur Gotham Chopra …
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PR Newswire: RELIGION OF SPORTS RAISES $50M TO BECOME A STUDIO OF THE FUTURE WITH ACCELERATED LEADERSHIP IN STORYTELLING AND INVESTMENT IN NEW IP AND CONTENT EXPANSION
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: Religion of Sports has received $50 million in Series B funding, plans to expand beyond sports
@religionofsport: We are thrilled to announce that we have raised $50M in our Series B funding round from Shamrock Capital, @ElysianParkVC and @CerroCapital. Here's what comes next — telling more stories and making more believers. https://www.axios.com/...
R. Thomas Umstead / Next TV: Religion of Sports Takes Big Swings in Sports Documentary Genre
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: Religion of Sports “will use its new capital to grow its unscripted content business, invest more in audio, produce more scripted series and build out side projects, like creating NFTs for athletes.” - @sarafischer + @tim_bays https://www.axios.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku launches Espacio Latino, a hub for US-based Spanish-speaking audiences with hundreds of hours of free programming, in partnership with Telemundo and others — Atención, teleadictos! — Roku has unwrapped Espacio Latino, a new destination for U.S. Spanish-speaking audiences …
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET: Roku Channel Launches Free Spanish-Language Streaming Section
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: The Roku Channel Launches Spanish-Language Format
Claire Atkinson / Insider:
Sources: Netflix is in talks for US Formula 1 rights, which would mark its first foray into live sports; ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Amazon are also interested — - Netflix is chasing Formula 1 rights in the US, sources told Insider, in its first foray into live sports.
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The Streamable, TechCrunch, Axios, @ashkan, Digital TV Europe, Insider, MediaPost, @lmoses, @timhauraney, @a_s12, Next TV and Awful Announcing
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Stephen Silver / The Streamable: Report: Netflix Bidding on Formula 1 Rights; Would Be First Sports Rights for Streamer
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Netflix, ESPN, and NBCUniversal compete for U.S. Formula 1 rights, report says
Tim Baysinger / Axios: Netflix revs up Formula 1 bid in first live sports push
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Nice to see @netflix seriously considering a run at live sports. Given massive 250M sub base but facing so much competition, they can't be dogmatic about ads, live sports, anything anymore. F1 is a GLOBAL beast & could be tonic company needs. https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Jonathan Easton / Digital TV Europe: Netflix reportedly considering F1 rights for US
Cork Gaines / Insider: McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown wants IndyCar races in more countries, but doesn't want to go global like F1
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: ESPN Up Against Netflix, NBCU, Amazon For Formula 1 Rights
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: After advertising, could live sports be Netflix's next huge pivot? https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... via @claireatki
Tim Hauraney / @timhauraney: It will be interesting to see who walks away with this deal. ESPN bid $70mill for #F1 rights If Netflix were to snap up these rights for U.S. that would mark their first venture into live sports...something they may really need to start taking a look at https://twitter.com/...
Adam Stern / @a_s12: .@ESPN bid around $70 million for @F1 media rights (more than 10 times the current rate), and @Netflix is also in the mix, per @ClaireAtki. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Daniel Frankel / Next TV: Netflix Reportedly Enters Bidding for F1 Rights
Astrid Galván / Axios:
Congressmembers ask State Department and USAID for a review of a US-funded program meant to protect Mexican journalists, after 11 have been murdered this year — A group of Democratic members of Congress wants the Biden administration to review a U.S.-funded program meant …
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Joaquin Castro / @joaquincastrotx: In Mexico, journalists are risking their lives to report the truth, too often without the protections they need. I'm leading a letter w/@RepRaulGrijalva & @RepChuyGarcia asking the Biden admin. to work with our Mexican partners to protect the free press https://www.axios.com/...
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