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Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle left last week, citing the outlet's “over-dependence on Chevron advertising” — Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has exited the publication after several months after saying his tenure was “marred by an over-dependence …
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Bill Spindle / @billspindle: Here's a thread 🧵 explaining what I meant in saying my tenure @Semafor was “marred by an over-dependence on Chevron advertising.” 1/
@rachelmetz: a weird thing i'm guessing most people outside of Richmond, CA don't know is there is an *entire newspaper* focused on Richmond that is paid for by Chevron (which is a big local employer). it's called The Richmond Standard. i can't read it w/out cringing. https://richmondstandard.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Ketan Joshi / @ketanj0: Wow. The story behind those Chevron ads on @Semafor - turns out Chevron is still an advertiser, they just removed the glaring ad from the emailed newsletter. Good on Bill for taking a stand - subscribe to his newsletter at the bottom of this thread —>>> https://twitter.com/...
Robin Meszoly / @rmeszoly: Brilliant journalist, worth following to see his work. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Semafor's climate journalist says he left the startup because fossil fuel ads ran next to his coverage. https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: Important thread on the corrupt media business model of having content “presented by” the corporations that benefit from tilted content https://twitter.com/...
Justin Guay / @guay_jg: Oil major marketing is plastered over nearly every climate and energy newsletter I read You have to respect @BillSpindle for saying what we're all thinking - this has to stop https://twitter.com/...
@jason: @BillSpindle @semafor these corporates sponsorships/underwritings of specific verticals seem very challenging to me.
Bill Spindle / @billspindle: What concerned me was my belief that it was not appropriate to have Chevron advertising on the same page as stories on climate coverage, particularly as the dominant advertiser. 4/
Bill Spindle / @billspindle: Yet the Chevron ads never left my stories, where they often appeared as the sole advertiser. Despite my expressed discomfort and concerns, the ads remained. 7/
Jamie Henn / @jamieclimate: Real appreciation for @BillSpindle for his stand here. Climate journalists are put in a tough position when their outlets accept fossil fuel ads — far better to draw a clear line against this form of greenwashing. https://twitter.com/...
Monica Byrne / @monicabyrne13: @BillSpindle I'd be really interested in the overdependence you mention. I'm wondering how much of Semafor coverage is pay-to-play (see: Sunday's “column” on Junot Diaz).
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Justin B. Smith / @justin_b_smith:
Memo: Justin Smith says Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't hold shares of Semafor, but if his interest converts to equity, he'll have a single-digit minority stake
Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
New Zealand plans to introduce legislation requiring companies like Meta and Google to pay local publishers for news, modeled after laws in Australia and Canada — The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc's …
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Tom Pullar-Strecker / Stuff.co.nz: Government to force Google and Facebook to pay for using NZ news
Christina Maas / Reclaim The Net: New Zealand wants to force Big Tech to hand over cash to mainstream media
Oliver Mathenge / @olivermathenge: We need this too. New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news https://www.reuters.com/...
@nzstuff: Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson says the Government will introduce legislation to act as a “backstop” when big internet platforms did not voluntarily strike deals with media outlets. https://www.stuff.co.nz/...
Mark Goldberg / @mark_goldberg: New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news | @Lucy_Craymer @Reuters https://www.reuters.com/... “modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada” “A review released by the Australian government last week found it largely worked.” #CHPC #C18 #CRTC
@nzstuff: Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson says it should mean $30m to $50m coming back into the local market each year. https://www.stuff.co.nz/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Brilliant. New Zealand is now introducing legislation modeled after what has worked well in Australia and is moving quickly through Canadian Parliament. 🙏🏽 a model for protecting newsrooms and journalism from the imbalance in bargaining power abused by Google and Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
John Arlidge / The Sunday Times:
An interview with BBC chairman Richard Sharp on the license fee, new forms of funding, moving business teams to Manchester, maintaining “impartiality”, and more — Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour …
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@marcusryder: An incredibly important interview, in which the 'new-ish" BBC Chair, Richard Sharp, lays out his vision for the BBC: “more guts and no more liberal bias”. If you are interested in the future of the BBC this is a must read. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Annmarie Hordern / @annmarie: 👀What the boss of the BBC watches: Bloomberg BBC Chairman Richard Sharp: “I've got Bloomberg TV on in here for a reason,” he says, pointing to the screen. “It's excellent. We have to raise our game.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Jane Martinson / @janemartinson: Trying to stay off of here but @emilybell right on the madness of comments on impartiality and comparing BBC to Bloomberg when their audience so different. The days of chairman being Champion no more https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
John Williams / @worldoftelly: The age-old thing. I AM NEUTRAL be more like me. You are partial, mend your ways. https://twitter.com/...
@timesculture: In his first interview as BBC chairman, Richard Sharp, the prime minister's former boss at Goldman Sachs, says the broadcaster needs more money, more guts — and less liberal bias ✍️ | @johnarlidge https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: I shouldn't be even slightly surprised that Richard Sharp gave his first interview to The Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media owner whose tactics have long sought to destroy theBBC in the UK , and recently sought to destroy democracy itself in the US https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
@alanjstedman: This man is in the process of killing the BBC, no doubt cheered on by people like Murdoch Oh hang on, he gave his first interview to a Murdoch paper? Surprise, surprise. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Brolly / @joebrolly1993: Richard Sharp: the Brexit voting, Goldman Sachs banker who was Rishi Sunak's hedge fund boss. Oh and he donated £400k to the Tories. Appointed by the Tory government, Richard is now in control of the BBC... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
@davidaltonhl: Refreshingly candid interview with BBC Chair Richard Sharp. Says he will approach government about funding challenge for BBC World. Discusses London-centric bias,duty to run China/Uyghur stories, why BBC needs “guts and no more liberal bias"| Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Tim Gatt / @timgatt: BBC Chairman wants news explainers on TikTok (when Sky and ITV are excelling on there by clipping parts of the show, than highly-produced videos) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: The appointment of Tim Davie as Director General of the BBC is proving a catastrophic mistake. Crucially - he is unequipped to stand up for the independence of BBC journalists in the face of meddling from an inappropriately hands-on right wing chair.
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Richard Sharp as hands-on chair at the BBC. This - sadly - feels like a Musk moment for the BBC. Wealthy men imposing ideology on the operation of the public sphere...I would be happy to be wrong about this https://twitter.com/...
Sathnam Sanghera / @sathnam: Funny how “political bias” only ever works in one direction nowadays https://twitter.com/...
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell says Peacock has 18M+ paid subscribers, up from 15M in September, driven by sports, content migrated from Hulu, and Universal movies — NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock has more than 18 million paid subscribers as of today, a nice bump from the 15 million …
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Expects Disney to Write ‘Big Check’ for Comcast's Hulu Stake
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Peacock Reaches 18 Million Paid Subscribers; Doubling Customer Base This Year Alone
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBCU Sees New Gains At Peacock, But Ad Market Worsens
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Hulu's Likely Outcome Is Disney Writing Comcast a “Big Check,” NBCUniversal CEO Says
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: NBCUniversal CEO Says Peacock Hit 18M Subscribers
Tyler Falk / Current:
A survey of 2,310 US radio stations: white employees made up 75.4% of noncommercial newsrooms in Q4 2021, down from 78.8% YoY, vs. 92.1% of commercial newsrooms — A survey tracking workforce diversity in radio and television found that racial diversity has grown among the news staffs of noncommercial radio stations.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: ABC News President told staff that GMA anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes will be off air as ABC investigates the disclosure of a romantic relationship — Godwin told ABC News employees during an editorial call Monday that Robach and Holmes had not violated any company policy …
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Howard Stern rips coverage of Amy Robach-T.J. Holmes affair: 'I'm not seeing the problem'
Oliver Darcy / CNN: ‘GMA3’ anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes taken off the air following report of romantic relationship
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: ABC News Takes ‘GMA3’ Hosts Amy Robach And T.J. Holmes Amid Alleged Affair
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: T. J. Holmes and Amy Robach on hiatus from ‘GMA3’ amid relationship news
Aarohi Sheth / The Wrap: ‘GMA’ Anchors Amy Robach and TJ Holmes Temporarily Relieved of On-Air Duties Following Romantic Relationship Reveal
Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS - EXCLUSIVE: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are taken off air INDEFINITELY with new anchors stepping in to host GMA3 today as ABC execs take a hard line
Jess Cohen / E! Online: GMA's Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes Temporarily Taken Off Air After Relationship Revelation
Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News: Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes not appearing on ‘GMA’ after relationship revelation: report
Emily Smith / Page Six: Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes taken off air by ABC News chiefs during affair scandal
Ted Johnson / Deadline: ABC News Pulls Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes From ‘GMA3’ As Network Mulls What To Do Next
Ryan Naumann / RADAR: ‘Good Morning America’ Hosts Amy Robach & TJ Holmes Taken Off The Air After Staffers Demand Network Take Action Over 6-Month Affair
Kady Ruth Ashcraft / Jezebel: ‘Good Morning America’ Says Goodnight to Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, a Too-Sexy ‘Distraction’
Rebecca Carroll / @rebel19: A Hallmark movie waiting to happen—every plot point just builds onto the next, the entire script is already written. ABC News Benches Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes After Romance Disclosure https://variety.com/... via @variety
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Godwin also asked ABC News staffers to stop gossiping about Robach and Holmes: “We can't operate with gossip, and speculation and rumors,” she said. “We need to stay focused on the work.” More in my story here: https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “I want to say that while that relationship is not a violation of company policy, I have really taken the last few days to think about and work through what I think is best for the ABC News organization,” Godwin said in announcing the move.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast: ‘GMA’ Hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach Benched ‘Indefinitely’ Amid Affair Scandal
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Kim Godwin, the head of ABC News, said the relationship does not violate company policy, since they don't report to one another, but called it “an internal and external distraction.” “These decisions are not easy. They're not knee-jerk,” she said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Holmes and Robach were on TV together last Thursday and Friday after the stories came out. Now they're off til TBD. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: ABC News boss Kim Godwin has taken Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes off the air after reports about their romantic relationship. Decision was announced on the morning editorial call. Godwin called it a “distraction” and said the two hosts will be off air while ABC figures things out.
Wilson Chapman / IndieWire: Anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach Suspended from ‘GMA3’ Following Affair Rumors
Kimberly Roots / TVLine: Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes to Sit Out GMA3 While ABC Reportedly Mulls Fallout From Their Alleged Affair
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: MORE: GMA3 has been a bright spot in daytime for the network. In 2021, the program generated nearly $43.4 million in advertising, according to ad-tracker Kantar, a jump of 26.1% from the nearly $34.4 million it captured in the previous year. https://variety.com/...
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Amy Robach and TJ Holmes Temporarily Pulled From ‘GMA3’ as ABC Figures Out Next Steps
Joe Flint / @jbflint: ABC News President Kim Godwin tells staffers GMA anchors Amy Robach and TJ Holmes will be off air while network figures out how to best handle situation. Calls it a distraction but not a violation of policies.
Elsbeth Tashioni / @thisislule: Lol @ “disclosure ” https://twitter.com/...
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Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery executives are close to formalizing “Max” as the name of the upcoming combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming service — - Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services in the spring.
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Todd Spangler / Variety: ‘Max’ Could Be the Name of Merged HBO Max/Discovery+ Service
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Close to Finalizing ‘Max’ as Combined Streaming Service Name
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: “What if we ditched the brand awareness of both HBO and Discovery and instead used a name that made people think of Cinemax?” https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: New WBD streamer will likely drop HBO from name
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I would go with “Max Max Plus +” to really drive it home but what do I know. https://twitter.com/...
@thepoptingz: Warner Bros. Discovery might go for the the name “Max” to merge the streaming services “HBO Max” and “Discovery +” In addition, the streaming service will begin to have a much larger catalog, with new and old series, movies, etc. https://twitter.com/...
@voltefaceinvest: this idea is Sooooooo bad that I would guess a minimum of 20 million dollars was spent on consultants to determine how to do the most brand damage. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carter / @ashleylcarter1: Warner Bros. Discovery is working on a name for its combined HBO Max/Discovery+ streaming service, and “Max,” is one of the names being considered, per @CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jackson McHenry / @mchenryjd: does Max lean in or lean back https://twitter.com/...
Bill Brasky / @billbrasky2620: This is dumb. People know the brand name HBO. They know this is the place to go to see Game of Thrones or whatever. Why would you keep the *confusing* part of the name https://twitter.com/...
@richlightshed: HBO has a very high-end / premium content brand “Max” branding would signal that @wbd continues to believe they have to lean into a broad array of content to build a streaming service, but without altering the “HBO” brand Could this be the new slogan: “Content to the Max” $WBD https://twitter.com/...
@ryneismean: the way this brand is going to be completely degraded in no time https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Interesting choice to go with the service known for softcore movies late at night vs the one known for Game of Thrones and Sopranos https://twitter.com/...
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: Warner Bros. Discovery has chosen ‘Max’ as the likely new name of the streaming service that will combine HBO Max and Discovery+ https://www.cnbc.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: great choice https://twitter.com/...
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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@rmac18: Asked about Kanye's suspension, Musk says he did it because the swastika image was an incitement of violence, and suggests that it was a violation of US law. Swastikas are obviously problematic symbols, but I'm not aware that sharing them is a violation of any US law.
Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord: Twitter is currently recommending I follow neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin. Incredible stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: New: A week ago, Elon Musk announced a great unbanning—Twitter would reverse thousands of suspensions, including Donald Trump. But also, scraped data shows, he freed an emboldened group of trolls, white nationalists, QAnoners, and extreme right-wingers. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: After suspending Kanye West for antisemitism, @ElonMusk has restored the account of Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, the internet's largest neo-Nazi website. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job: As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job
@deanobeidallah: As you read about Neo Nazi Andrew Anglin that Elon Musk just reinstated on Twitter here's what Anglin did to me and why I sued him and won $4.1 million dollars (on paper.) Maybe Musk wants to pay up for the deadbeat Nazi?! Musk is helping normalize a Nazi https://www.cnn.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: “Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has been reinstated to Twitter under Elon Musk's new policies for the platform. The founder of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer had been banned from Twitter since 2013.” https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: As a spokesperson, I've been looking for something to say about Twitter recommending people to follow neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin but it's challenging. It's like if you walked into a CVS and a uniformed employee suggested you purchase some crystal meth. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Y. Zelin / @azelin: Old enough to remember in 2014 when you could follow one jihadi account, the algorithm would recommend more and in a few mins you'd have a full starter pack. Fundamentally, the algorithm hasn't changed even if for a period extremists were taken down. https://twitter.com/...
@iansherr: What happened to “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” @elonmusk ? https://twitter.com/...
@mattmcneilshow: Amazing how the Far Right has convinced themselves (wrongly in an epic manner) that Hitler and Nazis are just different political opinions, like disagreeing on school funding or spending on senior healthcare. They're intentionally trying to validate hate. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Maybe the new policy is that Twitter needs to have a certain number of explicit Nazi sympathizers so getting rid of Kanye let anglin back in.
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: How is this ok? https://twitter.com/...
Karolin Schwarz / @raeuberhose: Andrew Anglin is still online. https://twitter.com/...
Emmanuel Macron / @emmanuelmacron: Elon Musk confirmed the Twitter's participation to the Christchurch Call. There is no place for terrorist and violent extremist content anywhere.
Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets: NEW: Elon Musk has just restored the Twitter account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the infamous website Stormfront and said women should be “raped and locked in cages.” Good luck getting back those advertisers, Elon.
@anandypaul: you let Andrew Anglin — a literal neo-Nazi who founded the notorious neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer — back on Twitter yesterday he was banned since 2015, but i guess he doesn't fall into that 10% of “far right extremists” shut the absolute fuck up https://twitter.com/...
Joel Birch / @joeldtd: You're the man @elonmusk thanks so much for bringing free speech back to the platform. Nothing like a little neo-Nazi recommended content AM I RIGHT!? https://twitter.com/...
Amy Spitalnick / @amyspitalnick: Anglin in a full-fledged Nazi who runs the Daily Stormer and, among many other things, was found liable for the Charlottesville violence in our lawsuit. A perfect example of the vile, violent extremists Musk is welcoming with open arms. https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: Anglin is currently a wanted man with a warrant out for his arrest. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Anglin / @worldwarwang: Dear everyone that is talking about me, I was not personally reinstated by Elon Musk. It was some kind of bulk un-ban. I'm following all the rules and will continue doing so. If I stop following the rules, I'm sure I'll be banned quickly. Chillax.
Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan: Nazi Andrew Anglin allowed back on Twitter. His first order of business is defending Kanye West. https://www.huffpost.com/...
@rmac18: Musk: “I definitely wanted to punch Kanye, so it was definitely inciting me for violence.” He then mentions Alex Jones and suggests that if Jones was chastising Kanye for his views, then he has clearly gone too far. (Not sure how you enshrine that in a social media policy.)
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: Nazi Andrew Anglin is trending because Musk has reinstated his account on Twitter. Let me remind everyone that Anglin said Tucker Carlson's show is “basically ‘Daily Stormer: The Show’” — a reference to Anglin's website. He has called Carlson “literally our greatest ally.”
@fka_tabs: Starting to think Elon should have tried moderating like, one subreddit first? Just to get a feel for where the challenges are?
Rick Wilson / @therickwilson: “Allowing notorious Nazi and anti-Semite Andrew Anglin back on Twitter certainly means we want our brand associated with the platform. Please take our money,” said no advertiser, ever.
Joyce Karam / @joyce_karam: Andrew Anglin, Editor of neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, is reinstated on Twitter after 9 yrs. Adulation to Kanye & defending Hitler are his first tweets https://twitter.com/...
@deanobeidallah: As I stated on MSNBC: Elon MUSK is intentionally normalizing Nazis and HATE by allowing self-professed NAZI Andrew Anglin back on Twitter. I added: Elon Musk is NO friend of the United States. His goal is to amplify the divisions in our nation (like Russia did in 2016 campaign.) https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky: Wow it turns out that Elon Musk owning twitter and allowing all the nazis and shitheads back on has... driven a huge rise in hate speech! Couldn't have seen this one coming. https://www.theverge.com/...
@manicpixiehack: anglin personally targeted me on stormfront when i was in college. fucking fantastic https://twitter.com/...
@deanobeidallah: The Neo Nazi Andrew Anglin who Elon Musk has welcomed back to Twitter has literally stated that his operating principle is “What would Hitler Do.” I'm 100% serious. This is the vileness that Musk is amplifying. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: Elon has reinstated thousands of QAnon accounts, influential neo-Nazis, etc. while also banning journalists who track extremism without explanation https://www.nbcnews.com/...
David Ingram / @david_ingram: “I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be allowed back on Twitter and yet here we are.” — Patrick Casey, a white nationalist https://www.nbcnews.com/... by @BrandyZadrozny
Mike Elgan / @MikeElgan@mastodon.social: Nazi Andrew Anglin allowed back on Twitter. His first order of business is defending Kanye West. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Elon Brings One of America's Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Examining the reasoning of journalists who remain on Twitter, like WaPo's Taylor Lorenz and NBC News' Ben Collins, and of those who have left, like Jelani Cobb — Under Elon Musk's leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
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Joerg Scheller / @joergscheller1: “The jokey mood around Twitter's failure...may be a way to...push aside the breathtaking awareness of this complementary truth. Twitter has enabled phenomenal reporting, including by people who never would have been heard in the old publishing system.” https://www.wired.com/...
Delila Nakaidinae / NewsLab: Rethinking social media for journalists
@smlabto: “Elon Musk's platform may be hell, but it's also where huge amounts of reputational and social wealth are invested. All of that is in peril.” https://www.wired.com/...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / @ibjiyongi: “Without some software or user intervention, platforms that eschew an open-to-all public square design that came to define Twitter make it harder for diverse ideas to traverse weak-tie connections.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Eve Fairbanks / Wired: We're in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
@techwontsaveus: “The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses is astounding. Twitter currently functions as perhaps the world's biggest status bank, and the investments stored in it are terrifyingly unsecured.” https://www.wired.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: From my piece in the LA Times today on a Twitter migration that serves healthy civic exchange: “After joining, we should then use our weak ties to amplify diverse voices. In a digital democracy, our weak ties effectively make us newsstands for ideas.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@picardonhealth: Thinking of leaving #Twitter? Twitter feeds information exchange among people who might not otherwise interact, an experience hard to replicate, by @JeremyLittau https://www.latimes.com/... via @latimesopinion
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: True: “Twitter's design allows diverse voices who have been shut out of traditional media structures to build influence via networks. That capacity, and its implications for wider democratic discourse, are at risk in a mass migration.” https://www.latimes.com/... By @JeremyLittau
Arianna Ciccone / @_arianna: “Twitter is still this place sometimes where you can address powerful people or powerful people can address the public. Especially now that Musk is as addicted to the platform as anyone — in a very pathetic way — sometimes it does feel mildly cathartic to make a crack at him.” https://twitter.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary: Elon Musk has given journalists plenty of reasons to quit Twitter. I talked to fellow journos about why that's hard to do, and why some are quietly pulling back instead. Thx to @TaylorLorenz @SilvermanJacob @laurahazardowen @oneunderscore__ + more https://www.vox.com/...
@taylorlorenz: “Journalists provide value to the platform by tweeting reliable new information in real time... if they gradually start trickling away from the platform or holding back their juiciest scoops, Musk could suffer another setback” https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: Journalists looking for an alternative to Elon Musk's Twitter who @Recode spoke with have largely fled to two new apps — Mastodon and Post — but both have so far struggled to gain the same reach as Twitter. https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: Now that Twitter isn't exactly courting journalists, why aren't they leaving? For starters, the platform is still an efficient news-gathering source. https://www.vox.com/...
Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
Diamond Sports Group votes to block parent company Sinclair Broadcasting from having any further input into the day-to-day operations of its Bally Sports unit — Just days after taking a $1 billion impairment loss on its troubled Bally Sports unit, the board of Diamond Sports Group has voted …
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV: David Preschlack Named CEO At Diamond Sports Group
Eben Novy-Williams / @novy_williams: Whoah. Big news from @crupicrupicrupi. The Diamond Sports Group board, which oversees the 20+ RSN network, has voted to block parent Sinclair Broadcasting from day-to-day operations. Will impact dozens of @MLB, @NBA and @NHL teams. $SBGI https://www.sportico.com/...
@richlightshed: The Regional Sports Network financial mess created by Sinclair's Chris Ripley continues... https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: Diamond Sports Group just announced David Preschlack, former president of NBC Sports' RSN division, as CEO: https://www.businesswire.com/ ... Confirms @crupicrupicrupi's scoop for @Sportico last night: https://www.sportico.com/...
Jessica Welman / @jesswelman: Given that Bally's has a strategic partnership with Sinclair and not Diamond, this could be interesting for Bally Bet. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @hodgetwins @micsolana Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Set Off Debate Over Release of Twitter Files
Tim Miller / The Bulwark: No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter
Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: 1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
Benjamin Svetkey / The Wrap: Elon Musk's ‘Twitter Files’ Are Turning Hunter Biden's Penis Into a Constitutional Crisis. No Joke.
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he “had to agree to certain conditions” to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: “The New York Times requested copies of the documents from Mr. Musk, but did not receive a response” Musk et al complain about journalism but want media to repeat their claims w/o verification or context. So much for transparency. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: Okay then. That's the big story. Taibbi says, seemingly with access to all internal docs, the earlier big claim that the government had directly intervened ("stepping in") to suppress a story before the election has no evidence. Also seems some nonconsensual nudity was removed. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: The one thing you can never do as a journalist is deceive your readers. Among all the other nonsense that went on tonight we have a great example of it here. Taibbi portentously announced that the Biden Team had sent an order to Twitter to delete Tweets and it had been “handled.” https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: People who go on Tucker Carlson and praise Donald Trump and make excuses for bigots are right wingers. It doesn't matter if they weren't 20 years ago. Ideology is not static. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: “Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi said the ‘Twitter Files’ would show a political scandal, but the information itself did the opposite.” https://grossman.arcdigital.media/ ...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: What might seem damning from Taibbi's thread—Twitter comms frantically asking how to justify the policy—actually flows from the firewall Twitter kept between policy and comms. The comms folks weren't part of the decision, but they have to defend it, so this is them pushing back.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Journalists will tackle the facts and meaning of it all. I just want to add how much this statement looks and sounds like classic conspiracy rhetoric. The appeal to trust. The secrecy. The sacred texts (emails and hidden tweets). It's right wing scriptural inference up & down. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: It's just true whether with the original laptop or with the meta-story of files about the laptop that if you want major mainstream outlets to cover your stuff, you're going to need to make the stuff available to them. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: The “Twitter files” showed that 1) like all good companies that care about their products, Twitter had vigorous, good-faith, internal debates about judgement calls, and 2) people and organizations try to influence media companies. Yep! https://twitter.com/...
William Sanchez / FOX News Radio: Was the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Purposefully Suppressed? New Evidence Says Yes.
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi: I didn't know the Washington Post handed over all the data and sources from its scoops to other newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: Is @elonmusk going to share the emails from GOP officials demanding content be taken down? The party whose leader was president during this time? Because transparency is the key to trust? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: This is also a major reason why other outlets didn't match the NY Post's original laptop story: they weren't given access to the laptop data! https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: The NYT article on @mtaibbi's story is not great. Still, if you put it next to the CNN rant, you'll see immediately how CNN (like NBC) has a horde of “reporters” who are identical to DNC operatives and #Resistance fanatics and “report” like them: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Fun new journalistic standard - only share information if you have seen the specific underlying data yourself, otherwise you must not talk about it. Cable news would shut down, and Philip Bump would be out of a job... https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Vlamis / Insider: You may think Twitter was wrong to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story but it wasn't a violation of the First Amendment
Matt Bivens / The 100 Days: Twitter is Fun Again!
Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss: Why won't the mainstream media report on the thing we won't give them? “The New York Times requested copies of the documents from Mr. Musk, but did not receive a response.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Speaking of transparency... what kind of deal to @mtaibbi cut to get this nothingburger of a story, beyond having to tweet it out as if it was something “explosive”: https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Not for nothing, but so far, everything revealed is... basically exactly what has been known for nearly two years, and is basically... how these kinds of decisions always work? I mean... why the buildup to reveal... this?
Fox News: Elon Musk says ‘more smoking guns’ are on the way from Twitter after Hunter Biden laptop exposé
Ramishah Maruf / CNN: Elon Musk speaks out on ‘Twitter Files’ release detailing platform's inner workings
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: “The communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Nathan J Robinson / @nathanjrobinson: Wait, was the “condition” that Taibbi agreed to that it had to be posted exclusively here on Musk's own product for a period of time, in order to boost Musk's revenue? Is that why Taibbi hasn't yet written it into an article? https://twitter.com/...
Blake Montgomery / Gizmodo: The Twitter Files, Explained
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: “Substack Man.” The level of just casual cattiness and condescension among this set is so off the charts — if trust in mainstream media is slipping, they have no one to blame but themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Idrees Ahmad / @im_pulse: I had been warning about Taibbi for years. A few years back I even organised a letter to @RollingStone, signed by leading Middle East scholars and human rights campaigners, asking the mag to withdraw its support from his podcast, which had turned into a reactionary sewer. https://twitter.com/...
New York Post: Elon Musk vows ‘more smoking guns’ to be revealed by Twitter after Hunter Biden bombshell
Julian Sanchez / @normative: “Break[ing] a real story about real power centers” is not how I'd characterize “The richest man on earth fed me some documents, and I spun them like he wanted.” https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Imagine volunteering to do online PR work for the world's richest man on a Friday night, in service of nakedly and cynically right-wing narratives, and then pretending you're speaking truth to power.
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Good point. Has @mtaibbi replied to this criticism? Has he explained the “conditions” he agreed to in order to gain access to the Twitter files? Wouldn't a fierce critic of access journalism do so? What was the deal? https://twitter.com/...
Michael Brendan Dougherty / @michaelbd: I thought the story was that Twitter labeled a true news story from America's oldest newspaper “potentially harmful” and restricted its distribution with the same tools it uses against child pornography, contrary to its own rules. But this is how the Bulwark sees it. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: What a lede here from @Timodc https://www.thebulwark.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi: This piece is a masterpiece in dishonest strawman-ing. There's no reason for anyone to who supposedly believes in “democracy” to defend suppressing news. So they have to pretend it wasn't. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: “While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, MAGA activists...were getting riled up about leaked emails revealing that troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos on a company's platform...” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Jennifer Taub / @jentaub: Non-consensual nudity is what got Gawker sued for $100 million, broke, and shut down. Remember the video of Hulk Hogan. Peter Thiel bankrolled that lawsuit. Twitter is treated differently under the law for now. But it seems like Elon wants to fuck around and find out. https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Elon Musk Confirms Bari Weiss to Join Matt Taibbi in Releasing ‘Twitter Files’ Info
Harper Lambert / The Wrap: Elon Musk Says He's ‘Hardly Read Any’ of the Twitter Files, Has Given Bari Weiss Access to Work on Rollout
Max Burns / @themaxburns: As Matt Taibbi reminds is, the role of journalism is to comfort the comfortable and give the billionaire's handpicked talking points an air of legitimacy.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Imagine anyone thinking Matt Taibbi was credible on any of this. Holy fuck.
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: How can Matt Taibbi ever call himself a journalist again after collabing w the wealthiest guy on Earth, doing PR work that could otherwise spur legal issues at Twitter. It'll be how a lot of people remember him going forward. A lackey to the ruling class, cosplaying otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: My Friday Night Dispatch: “No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Brian Tyler Cohen / @briantylercohen: Just a reminder that Joe Biden was not the president in 2020 so Twitter was not “acting under orders from the government.” https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Musk is referring here to Biden team requests to remove pornographic pictures of Hunter. Biden was not president in 2020, and therefore there was no government involvement in his campaign's requests. The First Amendment is not implicated when only private actors are involved. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: To it's credit, places like @semafor (which took SBF money) have shown what it means to be transparent, even if its embarrassing. Disclosure is important and Matt wouldn't explain what's going on. That's a red flag if there ever was one. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Evans / @iwriteok: from “speak truth to power” to “write exactly what the world's richest man tells you to write” https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote about this structural separation between policy and comms earlier that year, when they decided to fact-check a Trump tweet. As @jason_kint notes, it contrasts w/ FB's approach which lets PR concerns influence policy. https://twitter.com/...
Max Berger / @maxberger: I'm old enough to remember when this guy considered himself the scourge of billionaires. He met with us at Occupy Wall Street to discuss digging up dirt on elite bankers. Now, he's helping the richest man in the world spread right-wing talking points. Sad! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: @mattyglesias ... If we're going to play the “first amendment was violated by a government employee asking a private enterprise to consider taking steps to moderate speech” game then I think it's the trump team that is first against the wall https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: congress will investigate a private company's editorial decisions to make sure that private companies' editorial decisions aren't being influenced by politics https://twitter.com/...
@acyn: Comer: We're going to have every single people at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: In this situation your choices are (a) specify the conditions for your readers (b) refuse to do the story (c) congrats you work for Elon Musk now https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: Yet again, Elon Musk turned Twitter into a spectacle, promising to air the company's dirty laundry about “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression.” However, the leak turned out not to be quite the bombshell Musk had hyped. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@capitolhunters: People now marveling over Matt Taibbi's fall from his noble days covering Occupy Wall Street - remember that Tim Pool, who just hosted Kanye West and Nick Fuentes on his show, also got his start at Occupy. The alt-right is full of those slides from journalism to propaganda. 1/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: The Daily Beast spreads anonymous gutter-level gossip every single day based on “conditions” that I guarantee are 100% sleazier than whatever conditions Taibbi accepted to publish primary source material that anyone can simply read for themselves https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: release the emails https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: In any “big reveal” of this kind, the content or lack thereof doesn't matter nearly so much as the rhetoric, the gestures, and the optical illusion to an audience that demands it be fooled https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Simps gonna simp. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: jeez, i log off twitter for a few hours and come back to find that i missed *reads entire thread* uh not that much actually? https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: so musk is just making him do this on twitter over multiple days to get numbers to try to convince advertisers with right https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: The juxtaposition of the two screenshots produces real hilarity. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The big story seems to be that the owner of twitter used the site and it's resources to promote a partisan nothingburger https://twitter.com/...
Rand Paul / @randpaul: This is better than a Friday night movie. Everyone should read this and everyone should thank @elonmusk for bringing this public. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: I know Twitter doesn't have a comms team anymore, and while “we will let journalists search our email archives to find evidence that supports their preconceived notions” will be fun to watch I don't think it is a great long-term strategy.
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: basically from start to finish the only person coming through any of this looking even half way decent in yoel roth
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: @micsolana wow someone reporting a tweet. Holy shit. Lol
@josenotajay: I can't imagine how exhausting it must be to pretend that the “Twitter Files” are a real news story. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Delgado / @ajdelgado13: @mtaibbi Uhhh. The Trump Campaign in 2016 used to also send in requests to Twitter to have it remove tweets that had inaccurate information. Just FYI. I was there.
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: This thread confirms what I knew! Excellent! Twitter's reaction to 2016 included policies for both on-platform trolling and hack-and-leak. The latter lead to a big overreach that had nothing to do with the deep state or @EI_Partnership. A bunch of execs, of course, argued. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: To leap to political contributions as the reason the right was more often reported for rule breaking is just bad reasoning and really bad reporting. Good thing this guy doesn't have an editor. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: It's absolutely true that every political actor on the planet is working the refs continuously. What's important is whether the final decisions are being made consistent with already-decided policy and in a neutral way. Clearly, Twitter's over-pivot on 2016 lead to a big mistake.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: So far, we've... confirmed a bunch of things that Twitter said publicly, debunked the idea that the gov't demanded the story be removed, highlighted the challenges of content moderation... and revealed the personal email addresses of Jack and Ro Khanna (violating Twitter policy).
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: But this is the most important tweet in the thread, and it contradicts the conspiracy theories promoted by a variety of biased media outlets and political actors, as well as a statement of a new Senator made just today. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover: Ok Ben beat me to the conclusion. But to be fair, I keep waiting for @mtaibbi to add more tweets. I'm open to there being a there there. But I don't see any. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Someone told me about this OpenAI ChatGPT thing and I didn't believe it at first but this is pretty amazing https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Seems right so far. Otherwise... nothing new. Another Musk failure to launch... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions. He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster. https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / Reason: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Reveal Why Twitter Censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Ian Hanchett / Breitbart: Comer: Every Twitter Employee Involved in Squelching Hunter Laptop Story Will Testify Before Congress
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter's Hunter Biden laptop drama
Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires: The Twitter Files Thread, In A Way More Readable Format
Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News: Elon Musk claims Twitter muzzled Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 without reason
Ben Schreckinger / Politico: ‘This will be awesome’: Musk leaks Twitter's Hunter Biden files
Kylie Robison / Fortune: Elon Musk attacks Twitter's previous leaders by trying to refocus attention on the GOP's favorite target: Hunter Biden and his laptop
RADAR: Twitter CEO Elon Musk Vows To Release Details About ‘What REALLY Happened’ With Hunter Biden Laptop Story Censorship
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” detail Twitter staff nefariously helping Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision
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Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: Elon Musk says Twitter's team was ‘too intense’ with suspending false accounts and is ‘moving to chill mode’
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: It's possible to believe Twitter made the wrong call on limiting a news article and the right call on deleting stolen pictures of genitalia while also noting the right of an owner to decide what it allows to be published on its site. First Amendment only limits the government. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Chovanec / @prchovanec: 1. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded.
Hella Hueck / @hellahueck: Elon Musk's promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people. The documents don't show what Musk thinks they show, and a US Representative is going to have to change his email address. https://www.theverge.com/...
Teddy Locsin Jr / @teddyboylocsin: All for the best. It is good intellectual discipline. What we tweet impulsively is never useful or creditable. https://twitter.com/...
@davidrlurie: Musk didn't expose a scandal, but he exposed a lot of former Twitter personnel to serious danger. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: It was not a difficult moderation decision unless you were weighing responsibility vs desire to protect the presidential frontrunner from scrutiny. https://twitter.com/...
Variety:
Netflix plans to release the first three episodes of its six-part Harry and Meghan docuseries on December 8 and the next three on December 15 — Netflix revealed on Monday that the six-part documentary series will premiere in two instalments ahead of Christmas.
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Connor Surmonte / RADAR: Meghan & Harry Called Out For Using ‘Fake’ Photo In Netflix Doc To Make It Appear They Were Being ‘Hounded’ By Press
Delilah Gray / SheKnows: Prince William Reportedly Has an Intense Game Plan Ready Ahead of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Documentary
Robert Jobson / @theroyaleditor: This photograph used by @Netflix and Harry and Meghan to suggest intrusion by the press is a complete travesty. It was taken from a accredited pool at Archbishop Tutu's residence in Cape Town. Only 3 people were in the accredited position. H & M agreed the position. I was there. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Blair / Page Six: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle take ‘full lead’ of Archewell after president quits
Mikhaila Friel / Insider: Prince Harry spoke about the ‘pain and suffering’ faced by women who marry royalty in the second trailer for his and Meghan Markle's docuseries
Jack Hobbs / New York Post: 'It's about race': Prince Harry says there's a ‘war against Meghan’ with ‘planted’ stories
Max Goldbart / Deadline: Netflix Unveils ‘Harry & Meghan’ Launch Date & New Trailer
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix Drops First Trailer for ‘Harry & Meghan’ Doc Series
Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News: ‘Harry & Meghan’ docuseries reveals release date, new trailer: ‘No one knows the full truth’
Jenna Moon / Semafor: Prince Harry addresses Royal “planting of stories” in ‘Harry & Meghan’ Netflix trailer
Jess Cohen / E! Online: Prince Harry Recalls Being “Terrified” for Meghan Markle in New Docuseries Trailer
Shrishty Mishra / Collider: Harry & Meghan Trailer Highlights the Royals' High Profile Love Story
Kate Dwyer / New York Times:
Astra Magazine plans to shut down after two sell-out issues, showing that creative freedom and financial security are not enough to save US literary journals — The literary journal attracted great names. Its issues sold out. And then it was over — a fate that offers insight …
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Jen Benka / @jenbenka: “The infrastructure supporting national literary magazines is crumbling...fewer newsstands, fewer bookstores that stock niche magazines, fewer advertisers willing to spend on print...” —@KateDwyer on the importance of lit mags in culture and their challenges https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Astra Magazine attracted great names. It sold well. And then it was over before the third issue. Its short existence offers insight into what is possible for a literary magazine, and into the tenuous place those publications occupy in U.S. publishing. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brad Johnson / @ahablives: Astra tweeted this story, and referred to it as the full story. IMO, no. The fact that this “full story,” told within days of the news breaking at all, bends over backwards to not ask any follow-up questions about the money, is just straight-up bizarre. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@paperhaus: I still don't understand. If Astra wasn't supposed to make money and it was selling well, why was it the victim of its parent company's bad year? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Troy Onyango / @troyonyango: following this astra mag story and i just wanna say that waiting for a litmag to announce it's folding before asking “what can we do/can we donate” is not helpful to anyone. just support litmags while they're still operational so they don't shut down. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Hahn / @_andrewhahn: A mag that sold out its print runs of 9,000 and 8,000 closes..? “A literary project”? Lit mags should be investments in our communities, not taking writers' (even “famous” ones) hard work and disappearing after a year. Seems like a case of bad management here. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt / @mechanicalkurt: Weird article. It says upfront the mag was a corporate prestige project, and then the corp just changed its mind after 2 issues. The problem isn't lit mags, the real problem is the arts neither being expected to, nor even getting the opportunity to succeed https://www.nytimes.com/...
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