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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: last week, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the January 6 riot — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News' Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage …
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Mike Allen / @mikeallen: 🚨NEW in @axios AM: @SpeakerMcCarthy has given @TuckerCarlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6 Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove 📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks https://www.axios.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: McCarthy gives Fox News's Tucker Carlson access to Jan. 6 Capitol surveillance footage
Lara Logan / @laralogan: Finally. Tucker Carlson has a great team who understand the fate of many innocent Americans lies in their hands. The whole truth is the only thing that can save them & us. Kevin McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to massive trove of Jan. 6 riot tape https://www.axios.com/...
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: It's like with the house swinging the main and only thing the midterm's may have accomplished for republicans was to thwart the prosecutions and investigations of trump and any possible accountability for 1/6-which is probably what the trump war chest was used for and why that is https://twitter.com/...
Collin Rugg / Trending Politics Conservative: BREAKING: McCarthy Hands Over 41,000 Hours of Jan 6 Footage to Tucker Carlson
Geoffrey M. Young / @geoffyoung4ky: Kevin McCarthy, good move. Now, this is even more important: Hold a hearing with Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken & Victoria Nuland on the stand and demand that they tell us all about the destruction of the Nordstream 2 pipeline. Under oath. Do this ASAP. https://www.axios.com/...
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart: Report: McCarthy Grants Tucker Carlson Access to 41,000 Hours of January 6 Video
Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer: The extent to which House Republicans will try to cover up for the people that tried to murder them should be more surprising. https://twitter.com/...
Definitely Danny / @semperwry: Prepare for Fox cherry-picking footage of relatively calm scenes and people. The Capitol complex is huge and it wasn't a bloodbath on every square inch of it every second of that day; it didn't have to be. Pretending otherwise just belies your malice. https://www.axios.com/...
Susan J. Demas / @sjdemas: This is pro-insurrection propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: JUST IN: Kevin McCarthy Releases Jan. 6 Riot Tapes — All 41,000 Hours — to Tucker Carlson
@GreenFire@climatejustice.social: @Mediagazer — Rupert Murdoch is a traitor to democracy and Fox News should lose its corporate charter and not be allowed to operate anymore.
Donald Trump Jr / @donaldjtrumpjr: Awesome! Incidentally, when I did my Triggered podcast interview with @SpeakerMcCarthy he had mentioned, as we chatted afterwards, that he was trying to get all the footage to make sure it got out. This has been in the works, but great that it's happening! https://www.axios.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This reveals as much about Kevin McCarthy as it does about Tucker Carlson. https://www.axios.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: What do they expect to find? Insurgents planting daisies? https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene / @repmtg: For all of you that doubted we would release the tapes. Here you go! I'm very happy to be right again in my support for Kevin McCarthy as our Speaker. Americans deserve to see the truth, not a one sided narrative and unfair two tiered justice system. https://www.axios.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: How does this square w/the Founding Fathers' vision of the 1st Am & free press? Of an open gov't w/checks & balances? & what does McCarthy hope to do by anointing state run media? Why not make this available to everyone in the media-it's the people's property, not the Speaker's. https://twitter.com/...
Hal Sparks / @halsparks: Tucker Carlson is now the official editor of History for the @HouseGOP. https://twitter.com/...
David Frum / @davidfrum: Public property for partisan propaganda and private profit. https://twitter.com/...
Evan Hurst / Wonkette: Kevin McCarthy Gives Tucker Carlson J6 Tapes, Because Nothing Matters Anymore
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: The only reason to give the footage exclusively to Tucker is McCarthy knows the footage will only reinforce the GOP's preferred narrative if it is selectively released by an unrepentant manipulator and liar. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Loomer / @lauraloomer: No. He didn't keep his promise. He said he would release it to the PUBLIC. Tucker Carlson shouldn't get to decide what we see and don't see. Basically Rupert Murdoch (owner) & Paul Ryan (Fox News board member) get to decide how much footage we see. Absolute McCarthy deception. https://twitter.com/...
Scott MacFarlane / @macfarlanenews: If they watch the video from start to finish. Without taking a break to sleep, use the restroom ....... or blink...... they can finish by mid-June https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: wow i wonder if tucker will use this opportunity to lie to his audience about 1/6 to trick them into watching and help juice fox news' stock price or if he'll give an honest and thorough account of what he finds https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Boothe / @lisamarieboothe: This is smart. If you release all the footage immediately, people will move on too quickly. Tucker is brilliant, & so is his team. They will handle this correctly. Exclusive: Kevin McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to massive trove of Jan. 6 riot tape https://www.axios.com/...
Pamela Williams / @my_babyanme: Is that even legal? What gives Kevin the authority? The evidence is still there regardless of the edits. https://twitter.com/...
@ablurbablurb@mastodon.social: @Mediagazer @couts that was awfully quick, you think they'd want to take their time and not jump to conclusions. Unless, they already knew what conclusions they wanted to make.
@emptywheel: Axio's @mikeallen apparently couldn't find space in his 12-bullet report that this will make the Capitol more prone to attack. https://twitter.com/...
@nycsouthpaw: Giving publicly owned records *exclusively* to a white nationalist agitator who was just exposed once again this week for his complete lack of integrity and willingness to mislead viewers for profit. That's exactly the kind of man Speaker McCarthy likes and the kind of man he is. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: The GOP is an institution purpose-built to abuse power to generate propaganda, in order to accumulate more power to generate more propaganda, and then to repeat the cycle until enough power has been accumulated to legally strip rights from their political enemies and cut taxes. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Polk Awards: The New York Times wins three, CoinDesk wins for its FTX report, The Stanford Daily's Theo Baker becomes the youngest recipient yet at 18, and more — The Times was honored for its coverage of the war in Ukraine and a photo of war victims, as well as for its reporting on private schools for Hasidic Jews in New York.
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Tracy Wang / @0x_tracy: wow, a Polk award! it's been an honor to work with @ianallison123 (the most humble guy and a silent killer!), @inkbacker (my superstar editor), and the rest of the amazing team at @coindesk dear crypto: y'all are batshit crazy and the greatest beat i could hope for 😘 https://twitter.com/...
Terrence McCoy / @terrence_mccoy: Last year, I set out to tell the story of how the Amazon — a crucial defense against catastrophic global warming — had been brought to the brink of collapse, and who was to blame. Today, I'm beyond honored to have won the George Polk award for that effort. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lou Carlozzo / Talking Biz News: New York Times wins three Polk Awards
Roger Cohen / @nytimescohen: via @nytimes Very happy to report a Polk award! For long piece on Putin's evolution as part of remarkable NYT Ukraine coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Benjamin Dictor / @benjamindictor: Remarkable number of @newsguild publications and journalists are among this years' awardees https://twitter.com/...
Clarissa Ward / @clarissaward: Richly deserved honour for my great friend @lynseyaddario !!!! https://twitter.com/...
Indira Lakshmanan / @indira_l: Huge congratulations to my @AP colleagues @mstyslav9 @EMaloletka @vikakorehok and @lhinnant who have won the @PolkAwards for War Reporting for extraordinary narratives and images during the siege of Mariupol #Ukraine https://twitter.com/...
John Woodrow Cox / @johnwoodrowcox: So thrilled for my pal @terrence_mccoy, whose courageous coverage of the Amazon disaster has been honored with a Polk award. https://liu.edu/...
Lynsey Addario / @lynseyaddario: what an incredible honor to win a @PolkAwards in #photojournalism for the @nytimes New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shimon Prokupecz / @shimonpro: I can't believe it. Literally crying. This is an amazing honor @PolkAwards. Never in my life did I think. To the Uvalde families...as I always say the work continues. Thank you for trusting me. See you this week. Forever indebted to the team @press_friedman @CNNRachel https://twitter.com/...
John Archibald / @johnarchibald: Pretty proud of this one. #polk https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Wow. Theo Baker (@tab_delete), the reporter on this story (and other stories about the Stanford president) is 1) 18 years old and 2) is now the youngest person ever to win a Polk award. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chaskel Bennett / @chaskelbennett: Much like your articles, only sycophants or agenda driven affirmations are welcome to reply or comment. Demonizing a beleaguered marginalized community used to be contemptible. Sad that this passes for award winning journalism today. https://twitter.com/...
Erica L. Green / @ericalg: “The Times also won the education reporting award for work by Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal that exposed how private schools in New York's Hasidic Jewish community were failing to provide students with an adequate education...” Bravo, sis. Bravo. 🙌🏾 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael LaForgia / @laforgia_: Huge congrats to @elizashapiro and @brianmrosenthal for this well deserved recognition. https://twitter.com/...
@nixonron: Extremely proud of @mstyslav9, @VasilisaUKR, @EMaloletka, @lhinnant, and editor @maryrajkumar for winning @PolkAwards for their coverage of the Russian siege of Mariupol. https://liu.edu/...
Susan Chira / @susanchira: So proud: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Ambinder / @marcambinder: And has some pretty nifty journalism genes in his DNA... (read the whole story - fascinating to see how some colleges and companies try to obscure hard truths through equal amounts of communications obfuscation) https://twitter.com/...
Michael Bolden / @michaelbolden: So much worthy work is honored here today, but I feel especially grateful to those journalists uncovering abuses and holding the powerful to account in my home state of Alabama, especially @reckonnews @aldotcom. Congratulations, all! https://twitter.com/...
Stu / @stuloeser: And huge huge congratulations to @elizashapiro & @brianmrosenthal - the other two NYC political veterans winning Polk Awards for hard-hitting investigative work today. https://twitter.com/...
@polkawards: We are pleased to announce with Long Island University the 2022 George Polk Awards in Journalism, honoring reporters in 15 categories for their revelatory news coverage and investigations. https://liu.edu/...
Stephen Merelman / @smerelman: Highest congrats to the Birmingham News crew, maybe the first father-son combination in Polk Award history! https://liu.edu/....
Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw: Congratulations to @joshgerstein @alexbward @PeterCanellos and @politico for winning the National Reporting award for Supreme Court coverage https://twitter.com/...
Julie Pace / @juliepace: Thank you to the @PolkAwards for honoring the incredible reporting from Ukraine of @mstyslav9 @EMaloletka @VasilisaUKR and @lhinnant. So proud of this team. https://liu.edu/...
Eliza Shapiro / @elizashapiro: “The New York Times won three George Polk Awards, two for its coverage of the war in Ukraine and one for an investigation into Hasidic Jewish schools in New York that denied students a basic education.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: In which @brianmrosenthal wins his 3rd Polk Award in six years https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ginger Thompson / @gingerthomp1: Congrats to this amazing slate of @PolkAwards winners, especially my terrifically talented colleague @BrettMmurphy @propublica! https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Congratulations, Alabama officials. Your retrograde policies on child labor and criminal justice are responsible for *two* Polk Awards this year https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: An incredibly impressive accomplishment for a great reporter and person. https://twitter.com/...
@cnnpr: Congratulations to CNN's @ShimonPro and team for winning a George Polk Award for their groundbreaking and relentless effort to uncover the truth behind the failed law enforcement response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, TX. Thank you, @PolkAwards. https://liu.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Project Veritas removes James O'Keefe as its leader, after he clashed for weeks with its board, following staff complaints alleging “outright cruel” conduct — The founder of the right-wing nonprofit resigned without striking a severance deal, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe Ousted Following Reports of Toxic Workplace Behavior
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: James O'Keefe Confirms He's Out at Project Veritas Amid Accusations of ‘Cruel’ Behavior Toward Employees
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Founder James O'Keefe out at Project Veritas
Ivana Saric / Axios: James O'Keefe ousted at Project Veritas
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Breaking: Right-wing activist James O'Keefe resigned from Project Veritas this morning, under pressure from the board of the nonprofit he founded. O'Keefe faces an FBI investigation and employee complaints of “outright cruel” behavior. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@nycsouthpaw: This dumb falsehood is still in the paper of record. Not a word about Andrew Breitbart in the whole piece. https://twitter.com/...
Schooley / @rschooley: I really feel like this story must now be told on stage in a musical to bring this full circle. Perhaps the Book of Mormon team. https://twitter.com/...
Michael S. Schmidt / @nytmike: BREAKING: O'Keefe has been ousted by PV's board. He had risen to prominence during Trump era as Trump and his followers embraced his controversial tactics. Project Veritas is under federal investigation by SDNY for purchasing Ashley Biden's stolen diary. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@deggans: Given all the unethical stuff Project Veritas has been involved with in the past, I think I'm genuinely surprised that questions about James O'Keefe's oversight of the group is what got him sidelined there. https://twitter.com/...
@profblacktruth: James O'Keefe has been dumped by his own cesspit, the cynically named “Project Veritas.” He did the same lying and race-baiting that incompetents like @realchrisrufo would imitate. Just like with the alt-right they all turn on each other. The lesson here: no honor among sleaze. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: Now O'Keefe can spend more time refining his off-off-off-off Broadway musical ambitions. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Brannan / @justinbrannan: These grifters tried me once when I worked at Tweed. It was during the Common Core hoopla. They sent some shapeshifter to stalk me. She was SO bad at it and it was so obvious after 10 minutes. I reported her to DOE SCI. Detectives interviewed me. Never heard from her again. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: Weirdest part of this is that a significant reason for his ouster seems to have been his inappropriately using the propaganda organization to launch a new career in musical theater. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dinesh D'Souza / @dineshdsouza: BREAKING: James O'Keefe Departs Project Veritas, Was It Voluntary Or Was He Forced Out? https://dcenquirer.com/...
Tom Mckay / @thetomzone: oh shit my official project veritas certificate of fake news is now a collectors item https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot: ‘I feel the same as Steve Jobs’: James O'Keefe resigns from Project Veritas after board suspends him
Charles Johnson / @green_footballs: James O'Keefe got the boot apparently because he's a gigantic asshole to everybody, which NOBODY could have ever predicted. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine: Project Veritas Has Forced James O'Keefe Out
Olivia Olander / Politico: Project Veritas leader removed
Liz Dye / @5dollarfeminist: What are the odds this malevolent dweeb goes on to found some conservative Broadway type grift where they serve up musical numbers about Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, free from any icky woke stuff? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Terrence Simpson / @terrencebeback: This is more proof that those who expose the Truth are silenced, and that the 1st amendment is on “life support” (if not dead) in Biden's “fundamentally transformed” (bastardized) version of “America”. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brigitte Gabriel / @actbrigitte: Without James O'Keefe, Project Veritas does not exist! https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/ ...
Kaz Weida / @kazweida: Excellent news. Project Veritas is a central player in the disinformation world that seeks to undermine democracy for political and monetary gain. https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: James O'Keefe is out at Project Veritas after internal power struggle
@blackhannity: This is not accurate. James was removed from his position as CEO by the Project Veritas board. They are in charge now https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Hart / @realaxelfoley: As good as James is at editing footage misleadingly, he's an even better colleague. HIRE HIM https://www.nytimes.com/...
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Update: James O'Keefe posted a 45-minute video denouncing Project Veritas's board as he's ousted from the group. O'Keefe released board minutes that purport to show him put on unpaid leave and offered “mental wellness care.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: Always important to note at times like these: O'Keefe, an irredeemable trash person, is a figure of high esteem among rightwing elites. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Karsh / @jkarsh: This dude tried to get a CNN reporter onto a boat with dildos, handcuffs, and a camcorder in 2010. How long do you think Trump was in office, my guy? https://twitter.com/...
Emerson Collins / @actuallyemerson: Imagine how truly awful you have to be to get ousted from the organization created and gleefully funded to support your grift of gotcha bad edit videos. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: This is like saying that Hell fired the Devil. It's still hell. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Legum / @garylegum: So this went well. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: The same week Tucker Carlson gets exclusive access to 41,000 hours of January 6th security tapes? It's a match made in grifter heaven! https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Hawken / @jessehawken: Elon brought this guy back on Twitter personally https://twitter.com/...
Arieh Kovler / @ariehkovler: Wait until O'Keefe's new organisation tries to infiltrate Project Veritas. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Monahan / @pattymo: Project Veritas has gone Woke! https://twitter.com/...
Will Sommer / @willsommer: In a lengthy video exit video for his staff, James O'Keefe quoted Ayn Rand, claimed the board investigated him over black-car use and a nearly $13,000 Christmas party, and wiped away tears as he announced that he was packing up his personal belongings. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Robert Evans / @iwriteok: lmao fudge off you fuck https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Busse / @ryandbusse: When you are too creepy and crooked even for Project Veritas ... the only place to go is the Trump campaign. James O'Keefe Is Removed as Project Veritas' Leader - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Garcia / Nieman Lab:
A look at the close collaboration between Ron DeSantis' administration and The Florida Standard as he cultivates a network of sympathetic conservative outlets — Last summer, six days after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Tampa prosecutor Andrew Warren, one of the governor's top aides drafted …
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@deggans: Amid reports Fox News Channel broadcast Trump-friendly claims about election fraud its own anchors criticized off air, Nieman Reports has story on how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has “weaponized” conservative-oriented media outlets to boost his own efforts. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: I spend a lot of time talking with international journalists working under regimes that attack and delegitimize independent media. What Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida is straight out of those playbooks. “This is what state-run media looks like.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alexander Russo / @alexanderrusso: DeSantis is doing everything he can to destabilize the independent media, as you can read here, but the media is also destabilizing itself the way it is so readily trolled for outrage. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@spj_tweets: “Just this week, the governor...attacked ‘legacy media’ that engages in ‘partisan activism’ and suggested that he might lobby the Florida Legislature to pass a law...making it easier for people to sue news organizations on claims of libel or defamation.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A simple way to describe the kind of 2024 coverage we need is this: Not the odds, but the stakes. Meaning: less that tries to handicap the race, more that shows what is at stake in that race. “DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media.” From @NiemanLab. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories:
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims — Leaked documents obtained by Forbidden Stories reveal the inner world of Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management company.
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Washington Post, @brooklynmarie, @washingtonpost, @sandra_cuffe, @rawtraveltv, @phineasjfr and @phineasjfr
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Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: “It's hugely significant that this stuff is happening,” Adam Holland, a project manager at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society, said after being told of The Post's findings. “This is information warfare.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: Eliminalia's methods are laid in documents leaked to Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit organization that shared the records with The Post and other media partners. The records are the most comprehensive account of its tactics to date. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sandra Cuffe / @sandra_cuffe: “The files show how Eliminalia worked for scammers, spyware companies, torturers, convicted criminals, corrupt politicians and others in the global underworld to hide public-interest information.” Great ‘Story Killers’ investigative piece by @PhineasJFR: https://forbiddenstories.org/ ...
@rawtraveltv: Good article from @FbdnStories Journalists worldwide R under attack, some dying 2 tell truth, literally. Companies like @digitalocean kowtowing 2 shady “reputational firms” like #Eliminalia pour salt in wounds & inhibit public's right to know the truth. https://forbiddenstories.org/ ...
Phineas James / @phineasjfr: Around the world journalists are being imprisoned, hacked, even killed. So why should we care about copyright law? #Thread about the “subtle censorship” of a reputation management firm that uses manipulative methods bury the truth. #StoryKillers 1/14 https://forbiddenstories.org/ ...
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Don Lemon did not appear on February 20's CNN This Morning; sources say executives are discussing Lemon's future after his offensive women and aging remarks — CNN sources told Confider that the network changed its Monday lineup to proceed without Lemon while “conversations about Don's future” are ongoing.
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Sara Nathan / New York Post: Don Lemon has ‘zero defenders’ left at CNN: source
Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter: CNN's Don Lemon Taking Monday Off Following Nikki Haley Remarks and Apology
Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Will Use Don Lemon Substitute on Monday Amid ‘CNN This Morning’ Controversy
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: NEW: CNN Denies Report Don Lemon ‘Benched’ Over Sexist Comments, But He Won't Be On Air Monday
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Don Lemon Won't Appear On Monday's ‘CNN This Morning’ Following Controversy Over Comments
David Rothkopf / @djrothkopf: If true, it's the right decision. https://twitter.com/...
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie
Amee Vanderpool / @girlsreallyrule: CNN has benched Don Lemmon in the wake of his sexist comments and it needs to stay that way. A lot of people are also pointing to the damage Chris Licht has done with the network. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: It really has now reached the point where @cnn has two choices: A) fire Chris Licht because every move he's made not only hasn't worked but damaged the network beyond measure, or... B) essentially confirm fascist John Malone hired Licht to destroy CNN https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Aside from everything else wrong with Lemon's comments, he was talking about someone five years younger than him and 29 years younger than the current president. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: An apology was definitely in order. But it does seem like Chris Lichts basic brief at this point is basically to destroy cnn. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Evan Rosen / New York Daily News: Don Lemon pulled from ‘CNN This Morning’ amid sexist remark scandal: report
Fox News: Don Lemon taking a ‘holiday,’ will return on air depending on ‘where his head is at:’ CNN insider
Joel Pollak / @joelpollak: He's past his prime. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / The Nation:
The New York Times' anti-trans coverage parallels its notorious failings over gay rights and AIDS under Abe Rosenthal, who led the newspaper from 1969 to 1986 — The paper's anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.
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Tabatha Southey / @tabathasouthey: The @nytimes seems to have learned nothing from what it acknowledges is a low point in its history: its dreadful coverage of queer people and AIDS. An absolutely must read from @jackmirkinson via @thenation: https://www.thenation.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: As this excellent piece makes clear, it's impossible to understand current arguments at NY Times trans issues without context of paper's long history of homophobia. https://twitter.com/...
Petra / @kutheks: As the gay rights movement gained steam, the Times reacted with alarm. Homosexuality was seemingly a big concern everywhere: It was “troubling Britons” in 1953, causing panic in Cuba in 1965, and infusing West Berlin with a “loose morality” in 1967 https://www.thenation.com/...
@froomkin: “Cooler heads might have warned Kahn that, in his rush to defend the paper's antagonism toward an LGBTQ civil rights movement, he risked the kind of infamy that now haunts one of his most prominent predecessors, Abe Rosenthal.” https://www.thenation.com/...
@ericthurm: “The parallels between its current anti-trans coverage and its past coverage of gay rights are obvious. But the Times appears blind to them—and blind to the fact that... it is once again placing itself in a situation that it will later regret.” https://www.thenation.com/...
A.V. Marraccini / @saintsoftness: This excellent piece aligns the NYT's current anti-trans rhetoric with the paper's bad history during the AIDS epidemic and earlier. If we learned anything from SILENCE = DEATH, we must never be silent on this issue. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: My first piece in @thenation is up! It is all about how, with its anti-trans crusade, the New York Times is refusing to learn from what it has long admitted is a low point in its history: its dreadful coverage of queer people and AIDS https://www.thenation.com/...
@brownsvillain: “Once again, people inside and outside the paper are pleading with management to change. And once again, the Times is putting its barriers up. It is as though it has learned nothing from its own history.” @jackmirkinson https://www.thenation.com/...
Amy Jo Cousins / @_ajcousins: “The Times faced intense backlash from the LGBTQ community for its indifferent coverage [of the AIDS crisis]. But the response from the paper was hostile and unchanging.” The more things change... 😒 https://twitter.com/...
Jo Livingstone / @jo_livingstone: Donna Cartwright, whom the Nation identifies as the first person at the Times to come out as transgender, speaking on her three decades at the paper. https://www.thenation.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sean T. Collins / @theseantcollins: This is the best piece on our letter to the Times and all the reasons we wrote it that I've read so far. Thank you so much, @jackmirkinson https://www.thenation.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: “Cooler heads might have warned Kahn that, in his rush to defend the paper's antagonism toward an LGBTQ civil rights movement, he risked the kind of infamy that now haunts one of his most prominent predecessors, Abe Rosenthal.” https://www.thenation.com/...
Samantha Schuyler / @sdschuyler: “There is also a good chance that the Times will attempt to explain its behavior by saying that anti-trans panic was just in the air back then, part of the intrinsic way of things. But just as with its coverage of queer life and AIDS in the past, people will know better.” https://twitter.com/...
Carolyn Petit / @carolynmichelle: A great and important piece that makes an argument I've long been wanting to see someone make, and makes it very well. https://twitter.com/...
@six6jiang: “[The New York Times] is still so instinctively appalled at the notion that its critics might be right that it is choosing the path of aristocratic contempt.” https://twitter.com/...
Ludwig Hurtado / @ludwighurtado: New York Times article on how to tell if a play is gay: “Be suspicious of the compulsive slut...” https://www.thenation.com/... h/t @jackmirkinson https://twitter.com/...
Muna / @muna_mire: The first openly trans staffer at the New York Times, Donna Cartwright, is disappointed in their coverage of trans issues. Read why in this piece from @jackmirkinson in @thenation on how the Times risks repeating its homophobic past: https://www.thenation.com/...
Steven Porter / @reporterporter: “We'll never know how things would have been different if the Times had chosen to use its hugely influential platform to sound the alarm about AIDS in a concerted way. We only know what happened when it didn't.” https://www.thenation.com/...
Anthony Girardi / @anthony_girardi: “At the time, plenty of people warned the paper that it was on the wrong side of history. But the Times ignored them. ” - https://www.thenation.com/...
@willmenaker: The ectoplasmic residue of Abe Rosenthal still coats every surface in the NY Times building. Full demolition is the only way to be sure. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports:
The New York Times' response to criticism of its trans coverage reduced serious journalists to radical activists, a route too many outlets take when challenged
The New York Times' response to criticism of its trans coverage reduced serious journalists to radical activists, a route too many outlets take when challenged
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Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian: The New York Times' trans coverage is under fire. The paper needs to listen
Julie Bindel / @bindelj: This makes me think of those men that say, “I'm not a wifebeater, I just give her a slap when she deserves it”. In that, “We only mutilate a few girls, and we only wreck sports for some women, why you making a fuss?” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sarah Ditum / @sarahditum: This is an embarrassing piece for any journalist to publish, never mind (as noted in the copy) to publish in the Guardian, which has its own known issue with writers using letter writing campaigns to divert coverage https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@roseschmits: UK Guardian reading the US Guardian like https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gustavo Turner / @gustavoturnerx: The👏🏼@guardian👏 🏼does👏🏼 the👏🏼exact👏 🏼same👏🏼 thing👏🏼about👏 🏼coverage👏🏼 of👏🏼sex👏 🏼worker👏🏼 and👏🏼porn👏 🏼issues. Ahem. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: 'You don't need to @ me on Twitter, I'm fully aware that I'm writing this in the Guardian, which has received its own open letter from staff about the paper's willingness to publish “anti-trans views” and “transphobic content”.' https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jesse Stommel / @jessifer: “The bias has been glaring...” ~ @rgay https://twitter.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @maria@thelife.boats: Just a relief and gratifying in every way to see journalists I most respect, like Arwa Mahdawi, weighing in on @tomscocca 's recent work on the Times's coverage of trans care — https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Diana Goetsch / @dianagoetsch: Smart piece by @ijbailey • “Times editors and reporters can't be so naïve as to believe their work hasn't contributed to what feels like a moral panic about trans people. I've felt a similar frustration with crime coverage.” https://nieman.harvard.edu/... via @Niemanfdn
@autostraddle: “What is missing in the pages of the great gray lady is not just important and necessary context, but competent and unbiased reporting.” https://www.autostraddle.com/ ...
Nancy Rommelmann / @nancyromm: Earlier this week, 200 New York Times contributors sent an open letter to the paper, excoriating its coverage on trans issues. GLAAD followed suit and made demands. The Times responded with a cool head. The end, right? @sarahhepola discuss on today's Smoke https://open.substack.com/...
Hayden Vernon / The Guardian:
Puffin hired sensitivity readers to rewrite language the book publisher deems offensive, removing words like “fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl's children's books — Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral
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Suzanne Nossel / @suzannenossel: At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of “hundreds of changes” to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort to scrub the books of that which might offend someone. 1/13 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post: Salman Rushdie calls revisions to Roald Dahl books ‘absurd censorship’
Salman Rushdie / @salmanrushdie: Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed. https://twitter.com/...
Razmig Bedirian / The National: Authors criticise Roald Dahl works being rewritten for sensitivity
Judson Berger / National Review: Roald Dahl Rewrites: When Surrendering Discretion to DEI Consultants Goes Wrong
Mic Wright / Conquest of the Useless: The twats — Inevitably the press frames the story of posthumous edits to Roald Dahl's work as …
Christina Warren / @film_girl: The Roald Dahl thing is to me, absurd. And I'll admit learning he was a terrible man was my first “art versus artist” moment as a teenager. But this editing is so dumb. Very good op-ed here https://www.spectator.co.uk/ ...
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times: Roald Dahl's Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Right, Left, and Media Reject What Salman Rushdie Calls ‘Absurd Censorship’ of Roald Dahl's Children's Books
@jason: So future generations are so fragile they can't read books with an understanding of the period in which they were written? Just to be extra safe, should we burn the old books? 🤦🏻♂️ https://twitter.com/...
Eric Owens / @ericowensdc: The same people who are furious about banning books from libraries want to censor and revise Roald Dahl books for political correctness. Do I have this right? Yes. I have this right. You're all insane. https://twitter.com/...
@penamerica: .@SalmanRushdie calls revisions to Roald Dahl books ‘absurd censorship’ @SuzanneNossel wrote “literature is meant to be surprising and provocative” & that efforts to erase words that might cause offense only “dilute the power of storytelling.” Read free: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jenna Moon / Semafor: Three major edits to Roald Dahl's books
Carl Anka / @ankaman616: The disclaimer Warner Bros runs before old Looney Tunes cartoons is a good starting point. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: This is very stupid, aside from altering the meaning and nature of the work in question, part of learning is understanding context of the piece and when it was written https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ And More
Luke Turner / @luketurneresq: Part of what makes Dahl's books so powerful is that they're at times cruel and nasty, they act as literature that guides children into the adult world. I was aware of that at the time, they were quite daunting in their way - this editing is ludicrous https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk: Why does the drunken misogynist big game hunter get a pass? Yeah, this is a terrible way to handle it https://twitter.com/...
@mrlukowski: do you expect Netflix to fiercely stand by the integrity of Dahl's work no matter what, or do you expect them to try and make as much money out of it as they can
Jon Ostrower / @jonostrower: “If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing readers to receive and react to books as written, we risk distorting the work of great authors and clouding the essential lens that literature offers on society.” https://twitter.com/...
Ian Dunt / @iandunt: The Dahl thing sounds like culture war nonsense - and it is - but it's also po-faced and philistine. Really quite dreadful to just pop into a dead author's book and fuck with it to suit your newfound sensibilities.
Suzanne Nossel / @suzannenossel: Those who might cheer specific edits to Dahl's work should consider how the power to rewrite books might be used in the hands of those who do not share their values and sensibilities. 3/13
Matt Walsh / @mattwalshblog: Changing books to bring them in line with modern left wing sensibilities is far more insidious than simply banning them outright. I'd rather they ban Dahl's books (as insane as that would be) instead of posthumously baptizing him into the religion of wokeness. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Milstein / @adammilstein: The sanitising of literature has officially reached absurd levels with the censorship of Roald Dahl books. Grateful for voices of sanity like Salman Rushdie speaking out against such nonsense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: This reminds me of film colorization. What is art? Who can change it? And so on. We should be more concerned about a process like this applied to history, events, accounts, and people. Context matters. https://twitter.com/...
Armando Tinoco / Deadline: Roald Dahl's Books Get Edited For Language Deemed Offensive; Words Like “Fat” & “Crazy” Removed
Suzanne Nossel / @suzannenossel: Amidst fierce battles against book bans and strictures on what can be taught and read, selective editing to make works of literature conform to particular sensibilities could represent a dangerous new weapon. 2/13
@mrlukowski: like I assume they probably haven't had time to be responsible for a root and branch overhaul of his work, but clearly bad shit is going to happen when you flog the copyright to problematic grandad's books to a streaming giant, maybe PEN need to worry about that sort of thing
Kitty Donaldson / Bloomberg: Roald Dahl Book Edits Branded ‘Gobblefunk’ by UK PM Rishi Sunak
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: The good news is that people on the left and right alike seem nearly universally appalled at this. The bad news is that it's being talked about as a left “woke” attack and not a self-interested corporation abusing their power. https://twitter.com/...
Yashee / The Indian Express: Roald Dahl's books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ bits: The outrage, the debate, and other similar attempts
@mrlukowski: my last last comment on Dahl is that it's extraordinary how little the fact that ‘his estate’ is now ‘Netflix’ seems to have concerned/registered with most of the people complaining about the changes to his books https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Brooker / @mbrookerhk: If anyone has a right to speak on the importance of free expression and artistic integrity in literature, it's this guy https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: 1. If the Dahl thing bothers you, then you should probably support radical reform of copyright and intellectual property. One possible solution is “moral rights” law saying original itntegrity of work supercedes rights of copyright holder. Or shorten posthumous period.
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: Maybe Roald Dahl would have approved of the changes? Languages, meaning, and understanding change over time. Dahl approved of some changes while he was alive. Maybe he wouldn't have written those sentences the same way today — and would be embarrassed by and sorry about them. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lee / @daveleedwnundr: Roald Dahl wrote in extremities about extreme characters. He created a heightened reality where the truly bizarre were given life by exaggerated, grotesque words. A macabre world for the young. That's the point. These never harmed or offended anyone — this is no longer his art. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Roginsky / @julieroginsky: Can we please just leave books alone? They are meant to provoke, offend, comfort and provide a glimpse into all kinds of human nature. Stop altering them, banning them, messing with them. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@incunabula: Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition. https://telegraph.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
Annette Gordon-Reed / @agordonreed: 1) When I was a kid, I used to love reading Dr. Dolittle books. I winced at some of the racist parts. Some years ago, the author's grandson authorized removing those parts, saying he knew his grandfather would think differently if he knew he was hurting people. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: “and some passages not written by Dahl have been added.” What on earth? https://twitter.com/...
Summer Anne Burton / @summeranne: Haven't seen a single person of any political leaning say the Roald Dahl edits are good. No one seems to have asked for this and it was executed abysmally. Genuinely baffled as to how they get through presumably a large number of reasonable people at Penguin?! https://twitter.com/...
@beebabs: regardless of thoughts on the author himself, this is terrible for literature and defeats its purpose. https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Weissmann / @jhweissmann: I don't know — sanitizing books written by a proud, vocal antisemite who talked about his dislike of Jews into the 1990s just seems like a funny exercise to me https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Stephen Maher / @stphnmaher: The impulse to tinker with these books is hard to understand. Will the world finally be perfect when children have been spared harsh words about wig wearing? https://twitter.com/...
Paul Joseph Watson / @prisonplanet: They're literally going back and sanitizing every Roald Dahl book ever written. Removing words, changing entire meanings. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
Andrew Doyle / @andrewdoyle_com: Roald Dahl's books have been censored in new editions by Puffin. These aren't Dahl's books. Buy the old versions. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gerald Posner / Just the Facts with Gerald Posner: “Ugly” and “Fat” no Longer
Richard Hanania / @richardhanania: “In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: ‘There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.’” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@lbc: Roald Dahl's children's books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher Puffin. @AliMirajUK asks: Has the rooting out of potentially offensive language gone too far? https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Stacey / Insider: Words including ‘fat,’ ‘ugly’ and ‘crazy’ have been removed from Roald Dahl's books, but the publisher said the ‘sharp-edged spirit’ of the original text has been maintained
Telegraph: Roald Dahl goes PC in a world where no one is ‘fat’ and the Oompa-Loompas are gender neutral
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Roald Dahl Publisher Edits ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to Cut the Word ‘Fat’ for ‘Inclusion and Accessibility’
@mattdpearce: Roald Dahl's books have been edited to stop calling people fat so much, plus other offensive things. This is being described as “woke.” I would reply that hardly anyone on here has read unfiltered Dahl, who has periodically needed, um, revision. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paul A. Kirschner / @p_a_kirschner: WTF? Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive Has @PuffinBooks gone off the deep end? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Where do I send in the letters Roald Dahl wrote me to get them sanitized for my protection? 🤦🏼♂️ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jonn Elledge / @jonnelledge: I've been going back and forward on the Roald Dahl thing, and have eventually settled on “it matters less whether it's good or bad than whether it's actually important, and, luckily, it isn't”. Basically, it's this, about how the “thin end of the wedge” is a stupid heuristic. https://twitter.com/...
William Gerrard / @bill_gerrard: “The BFG” no longer stands for the Big Fucking Giant, now it's the Big *Friendly* Giant...🤯 https://twitter.com/...
Adrian Hilton / @adrian_hilton: Just wait until these ‘sensitivity readers’ get to AA Milne, Beatrix Potter, CS Lewis, @jk_rowling, @DavidWalliams, Enid Blyton, JRR Tolkien, JM Barrie, Lewis Carroll... ‘Let me have men about me that are fat..’ (Julius Caesar Iii). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: Trying to imagine sensitivity readers having a go at the Uncle Oswald stories, good luck to you all https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Max Weiss / @maxthegirl: Not a fan of this AT ALL. I always say, when it comes to works of art, put in a disclaimer, put in a series of “book club” questions about how language has evolved, but for God's sake, DON'T change the writing. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Not on board. Not at all. This borders on sacrilege to me. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Dr Ethan Hein / @ethanhein: This is a tough one. My kids love Roald Dahl, warts and all, but I skip the racist jokes when I read them because little kids are impressionable and they repeat stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Seerut K. Chawla / @seerutkchawla: Did it ever occur to them that the offended can choose not to read the books, instead of taking the authoritarian step to alter the text of classic works of fiction? We have crossed over into full blown insanity. https://twitter.com/...
Zach Weissmueller / @theabridgedzach: Excuse my French, but, what the fuck is this shit? They are not only erasing and rewriting but even ADDING whole passages to an author's work in the name of “sensitivity.” https://twitter.com/...
@millihill: As a writer I don't feel great about the precedent set here - that my words are not my own. Clear boundaries needed - probably something that writers now need in their contracts. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...?
Jack Holmes / @jackholmes0: this is a bizarro corollary to DeSantis's book banning. both are predicated on the idea that children and teens will be Damaged if they are exposed to the wrong words. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Philip Clark / @musicclerk: Let's take the tritone out of Petrushka and ‘reimagine’ how Stravinsky's masterwork can speak to people's truths today #thepuppetlives https://twitter.com/...
William Friedkin Truths / @lazlosghost: Now that the Guardian has covered it, it's clear: these books exist in censored versions, and it's fucking terrible. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Stephen Bush / @stephenkb: Shameful. Roald Dahl should be rewritten by parents on the fly, like CS Lewis, not clumsily rewritten by the publisher like Enid Blyton: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Paul Graham / @paulg: “Matilda reads Jane Austen rather than Rudyard Kipling, and a witch posing as ‘a cashier in a supermarket’ now works as ‘a top scientist’.” “The Big Friendly Giant in The BFG cannot wear a black cloak.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
Ben Stanley / @bdstanley: Christ. It's fine to discuss Dahl's work in light of his antisemitism and misogyny. This sort of stuff is - aside from being a tin-eared assault on literature - just an absolute gift to those who don't even want us to discuss that. https://twitter.com/...
Anita Singh / @anitathetweeter: The thing that annoys me about the Roald Dahl changes is how stupid they are. A ban on the word “fat” yet keeping in the rest of the description in which Augustus Gloop is clearly fat https://twitter.com/...
Kat Rosenfield / @katrosenfield: This should be illegal https://twitter.com/...
Stig Abell / @stigabell: This change to Roald Dahl is so preposterously, laughably pointless it makes you wonder whether the publisher is aware that fiction is an act of creatively making things up. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Deibert / @amandadeibert: This is a terrible precedent. Dahl was not a good guy. However, changing context and re-writing history is a terrible idea you can read about in Orwell... unless we re-write it. Don't read offensive books, or, if you must, add in footnotes to explain things that are wrong or bad https://twitter.com/...
@donaldclarke63: On that Dahl thing. You have to be fudging kidding? [Expletive bowdlerised in 2022] I *honestly* did think this one was a joke before checking. Oh we can't have the kids looking up the dodgy bits in Heart of Darkness. Utterly pathetic. https://twitter.com/...
@mrlukowski: strongly suspect this is a case of the Dahl estate watering him down in order to make themselves more money for longer rather than sensitivity readers leaping out of the trees and defacing his books https://twitter.com/...
@niall_gooch: Genuinely laughing out loud at some of these awful purse-lipped tin-eared changes to Roald Dahl. Hilariously terrible. https://twitter.com/...
Willard Foxton Todd / @willardfoxton: A ton of these Dahl changes are nothing to do with racism etc and everything to do with a classic bowdlerisation. You can very much argue Dahl with out all the grisly horror is deeply inauthentic; it's one the reasons they are so popular! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dánae Vílchez / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Q&A with Nicaragua's La Prensa publisher Juan Lorenzo Holmann, incarcerated in August 2021 and unexpectedly released and deported to the US on February 9, 2023 — Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro was on the verge of sleep in his Nicaraguan jail cell when he was issued civilian clothes …
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@gypsystrategy: “Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro was on the verge of sleep in his Nicaraguan jail cell when he was issued civilian clothes, taken to the airport, and told to sign a handwritten document agreeing to be deported to the United States,” writes @DanaeVilchez https://cpj.org/...
@cpjamericas: “I don't feel totally free,” Nicaraguan @laprensa journalist Juan Lorenzo Holmann told @pressfreedom's @DanaeVilchez. “Because free would be if I could be in #Nicaragua, that's the real freedom.” Read the full interview: https://cpj.org/...
@pressfreedom: “No one can take away my Nicaraguan nationality. I am going to die, & I am going to continue being Nicaraguan.” @laprensa's Juan Lorenzo Holmann speaks with @CPJAmericas' @DanaeVilchez about the Nicaraguan government saying they took away his nationality. https://cpj.org/...
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes:
New Mexico prosecutors drop firearm enhancement charges against Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez, removing the possibility of a five year sentence — Prosecutors who charged Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set …
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill: Felony charges against Alec Baldwin, ‘Rust’ armorer downgraded
Erin Brady / SlashFilm: A Key Charge Against Alec Baldwin In The Rust Shooting Case Has Been Dropped
Lukas Shayo / Screen Rant: Alec Baldwin Wins Major Victory In Rust Shooting Case
Meg James / Los Angeles Times: New Mexico downgrades manslaughter penalty against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: ‘Rust’ Shooting Charges Downgraded for Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — 5-Year Sentence Now Off the Table
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian: Alec Baldwin: Rust shooting charges downgraded by US prosecutors
Vanessa Romo / NPR: New Mexico prosecutors downgrade charges against Alec Baldwin in the ‘Rust’ shooting
Danny Cevallos / @cevalloslaw: [1] I think this prosecution is not going to end well for the state. This story—and the prosecutor's office's own quotes—do not make them look good...here's why.... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Harry Litman / @harrylitman: DA ofc said they dropped the firearm enhancement to “avoid further litigious distractions by Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys.” uh-huh. This case was overcharged, and still is, tho much better ‘Rust’ Prosecutors Downgrade Alec Baldwin's Manslaughter Charges https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: You can't charge someone with a crime if it wasn't on the books at the time they committed it, but the DA charged Baldwin under a statute that was passed after the shooting occurred. A sloppy mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lauren Tomasi / @laurentomasi: Big development for Alec Baldwin in the “Rust” shooting case. The 'Gun Enhancement" charge has been removed - it carried a mandatory five year prison term if convicted of. @9NewsAUS https://twitter.com/...
Julia Teti / SheKnows: Alec Baldwin's Facing a Much Shorter Potential Prison Sentence Due To Downgraded Charges
Chris / Trending Politics Conservative: BREAKING: Alec Baldwin Scores Massive Legal Victory After District Attorney Lets Him Off The Hook
Tamantha Ryan / Page Six: Alec Baldwin gets gun enhancement charge dropped in ‘Rust’ case
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Alec Baldwin Scores Key Legal Win in ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Case
Deadline: Alec Baldwin No Longer Facing 5 Years In Prison For Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting; Big Win For Actor In Battle With Santa Fe D.A.
Emma James / Daily Mail: Victory for Alec Baldwin as Santa Fe prosecutors DROP key ‘gun enhancement’ charge in ‘Rust’ shooting death of Halyna Hutchins: Embarrassment for DA for belatedly spotting ‘basic legal error’
Lee Brown / New York Post: Halyna Hitchins' widower set to testify in Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case
Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ firearm enhancement dropped, eliminating 5-year minimum sentence
Quinn Yeargain / Guaranteed Republics: Alec Baldwin's manslaughter prosecution and separation of powers under the New Mexico Constitution
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
A preview of Gonzalez v. Google SCOTUS case and a look at the Israeli nonprofit Shurat HaDin that is arguing the case against Google at the February 21 hearing — Are tech companies liable when their algorithms recommend terrorist content? The Court's answer could upend the way the internet works.
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Google faces Supreme Court in case that could decide future of Section 230
Mark Sherman / Associated Press: A lawsuit claiming YouTube helped ISIS recruit a mass shooter is the crux of the pivotal Supreme Court case on the internet's future
David McCabe / New York Times: Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants
Issie Lapowsky / Fast Company: The internet's Supreme Court showdown is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher
@tnatw: Gonzalez v. Google will be argued Tuesday and centers on whether internet companies are liable for the content their algorithms recommend to users, testing the Section 230 legal shield. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Google's $168 Billion in Ad Revenue at Risk in Supreme Court Case
@washingtonpost: Are tech companies liable when their algorithms recommend terrorist content? The Court's answer could upend the way the internet works. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet
Ian Millhiser / Vox: The Supreme Court hears two cases that could ruin the internet
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Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21
Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court for first time casts doubt on Section 230, the legal shield for Big Tech
Queenie Wong / CNET: How the Supreme Court Could Reshape Online Speech
Ayelet Sheffey / Insider: Student-loan borrowers are gearing up to camp overnight outside the Supreme Court ahead of arguments on Biden's debt relief to ‘make sure that the justices look into the eyes of borrowers’
@eff: “The rhetoric is that these are bad powerful tech companies that are harming ordinary people & causing a lot of ... injustice,” EFF's @heylockthatdoor told @NBCNews. But if Section 230 is weakened, “you are going to end up harming those ordinary people.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: The Supreme Court case on Section 230 shows the dysfunction of US politics. Democrats want it removed so social media companies can be sued into censoring more. Republicans want it removed so they can be sued into censoring less. Either way, users lose. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches a revamped Creativity Program creator fund in beta and says the program will generate higher revenue and unlock more opportunities for creators — TikTok announced today that it's launching the beta version of a revamped creator fund called the “Creativity Program.”
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Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: TikTok Launches Beta Mode Of New Creator Fund In U.S.
Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
New York AG's November 2022 report details how former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves' trusted lieutenants worked to quash sexual misconduct claims to protect their boss — A recent investigation reveals the lengths to which the ex-CBS chief's cadre of C-suite insiders — some of whom remain with the company …
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Caroline Williams / @willicaroline: How Les Moonves and His CBS Loyalists Worked to Discredit Accuser: “It Was Sort of a Mafia Culture” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... via @thr; Term limits shouldn't just be for government. . . .
Nina Metz / @nina_metz: Btw: This is all based on a report from the NY Attorney General released FOUR MONTHS AGO I'm really glad THR did this. I remember outlets reporting on the settlement but not the ~details~ of the report. Why? That seems to be where we are with MeToo reporting these days https://twitter.com/...