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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Don Lemon will not appear on today's CNN This Morning; sources say executives are discussing Lemon's future after his offensive remarks about women and aging — 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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Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter: CNN's Don Lemon Taking Monday Off Following Nikki Haley Remarks and Apology
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/...
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/ ...
Miranda Devine / New York Post: Bitter Don Lemon isn't sorry for sexist remarks and clearly doesn't like women
Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Will Use Don Lemon Substitute on Monday Amid ‘CNN This Morning’ Controversy
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/ ...
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/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: To the way of Lemon's thinking, I should have been put out to pasture instead of investigating Jeffrey Epstein, or writing countless stories that led to better treatment of inmates in Florida prisons...https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost: Don Lemon Taking Monday Off At CNN Following Nikki Haley ‘Prime’ Comment: Report
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Don Lemon apologizes to CNN colleagues for sexist remarks: 'I'm sorry that I said it'
Kristyn Burtt / SheKnows: CNN's Don Lemon Finds Himself in Hot Water After Making Awkward Sexist & Ageist Comments in Front of His Two Female Co-Anchors
Jenn Gidman / Newser: CNN CEO Slams Lemon: Remarks on Haley ‘Unacceptable’
Mark Mwachiro / TVNewser: CNN's Don Lemon Apologizes for Sexist Remark
Kylie Michael / FOX News Radio: Don Lemon Goes Full SEXIST
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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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/...
@froomkin: The governor's efforts to prop up supplicant sources of news—while trying to destabilize and delegitimize independent ones—make for a dangerous combination, @mbar62 tells @Jason_Garcia. That's the journalistic dichotomy: “supplicant” vs. “independent”. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Mark Maxwell / @markmaxwelltv: “This is what state-run media looks like,” Barfield said. “Russia, China, and Venezuela use it as a tool to control the message. The strategy has far-reaching and negative implications for freedom of the press and democracy.” https://twitter.com/...
Mark Strauss / @markdstrauss: This is a deeply disturbing read. But, it points to another potential weakness of DeSantis as a presidential candidate—he doesn't have much experience dealing with journalists outside his state-controlled media barony in Florida.
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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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/ ...
Phineas James / @phineasjfr: Yesterday, dozens of news outlets published their investigations into Eliminalia, including @OCCRP, @IrpiMedia, @ArmandoInfo and @elespectador, as part of the #StoryKillers project. You can read our investigation here: https://forbiddenstories.org/ ... 14/14
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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: last week, 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/...
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/...
@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.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporters' work to train its AI; source: CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content — Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
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Sarhan / @sarhan_: Articles are written to be read, either by humans, search engines, or AI.. What's wrong with that? https://twitter.com/...
@sub8u: Then: Google is making money by crawling through our website. Now: Large language models are making money by using our articles to train the AI systems Forever: Everybody is making money off us. We deserve to be be paid. https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: If you think the media were mad at Facebook and Google News for replacing them as a source of news, this will be nothing compared to how much they're going to go after OpenAI for “stealing” their content. This is Stable Diffusion versus artists all over. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarasvati NT / MediaNama: After artists and coders, news outlets up against OpenAI for using their articles to train ChatGPT
Francesco Marconi / @fpmarconi: News organizations have a new audience consuming more content than anyone else: machines. It seems fair for publishers to be compensated if their content is used to train someone else's AI. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Newley Purnell / @newley: “Anyone who wants to use the work of Wall Street Journal journalists to train artificial intelligence should be properly licensing the rights to do so from Dow Jones...Dow Jones does not have such a deal with OpenAI.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: In this thread offer a view on how this issue arises in the current context. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cory Bergman / @corybe: News content has helped train a million AIs over the years, which should not come as a surprise. But ChatGPT is growing into a monster business, and it seemingly has divulged its actual training sources... https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: WSJ and CNN are concerned that OpenAI is using their stories to train its artificial intelligence technology without paying them. “We take the misuse of our journalists' work seriously, and are reviewing this situation.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Chris Tolles / @tolles: @fpmarconi Their Robots.txt spell out the crawling policies. You don't need an agreement to crawl a site. Seems like a speculative accusation without understanding of the way the web works unless you have something more solid
Francesco Marconi / @fpmarconi: Here's the prompt I used: “Which specific news sources was chatGPT trained on? Provide a list of the top news sources in your database.”
Francesco Marconi / @fpmarconi: @tolles The legal debate between AI generators and content rights-holders will depend on the interpretation of US Fair Use doctrine and “transformative use” — and whether systems like GPT store this data in their databases.
Francesco Marconi / @fpmarconi: @tolles https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Tolles / @tolles: @fpmarconi That may be, but “Scraping data without permission would break the publishers' terms of service” is an allegation not backed the TOS's in place currently, and one that libels the AI companies.
Chris Tolles / @tolles: @fpmarconi Ok. I will concede this is a greyer area from a pure tos standpoint (and withdraw my accusation of libel) but when there is a discrepancy between posted TOS and robots.txt, in practice, a crawler is engaging in a protected action. https://law.stackexchange.com/ ...
Jabari Young / Forbes:
Sources: the NBA, MLB, and other leagues are making contingency plans, including local TV station deals, to avoid blackouts amid Diamond Sports' financial woes — ‘Linear’ broadcast TV combined with streaming games offer the best alternatives to reach the most fans, insiders say.
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John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: The NBA re-ups its digital deal with Diamond Sports, even as the RSN owner heads towards bankruptcy, SBJ's story: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
@tvanswerman: This and the FuboTV deal tells you that the predictions of doom for Diamond could be premature. Companies are still working with them. It's not all Dead Company Walking. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Frankel / Next TV: Bankruptcy Be Damned: NBA Renews Bally Sports Plus Digital Deal
Aaron McDade / Insider: MLB Commissioner says league is prepared to step in to broadcast games — and maybe even end blackouts — as Bally Sports heads toward bankruptcy
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’
Kitty Donaldson / Bloomberg: Roald Dahl Book Edits Branded ‘Gobblefunk’ by UK PM Rishi Sunak
Razmig Bedirian / The National: Authors criticise Roald Dahl works being rewritten for sensitivity
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/...
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/ ...
Judson Berger / National Review: Roald Dahl Rewrites: When Surrendering Discretion to DEI Consultants Goes Wrong
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.
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/...
Piers Morgan / New York Post: Censorship of Roald Dahl is more akin to China's cultural revolution than supposed democracies
@incunabula: Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition. https://telegraph.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
Yashee / The Indian Express: Roald Dahl's books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ bits: The outrage, the debate, and other similar attempts
Telegraph: Roald Dahl goes PC in a world where no one is ‘fat’ and the Oompa-Loompas are gender neutral
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: “and some passages not written by Dahl have been added.” What on earth? 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/ ...
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/ ...
Gerald Posner / Just the Facts with Gerald Posner: “Ugly” and “Fat” no Longer
@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/...
@beebabs: regardless of thoughts on the author himself, this is terrible for literature and defeats its purpose. 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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Roald Dahl Publisher Edits ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to Cut the Word ‘Fat’ for ‘Inclusion and Accessibility’
@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/...
@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/...
Ed Cumming / @edcumming: Roald Dahl is being edited for modern sensitivities. Where do you draw the line? Glad to work on this with @genevieve_holl and @bsmithjourno and a great team across the paper https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
Sarah D / @sarahinchis: Yes many of of the edits to Roald Dahl's books seem silly and frankly unnecessary. But those demanding that the books be returned to their original form may not realise that *this* is their original form: https://twitter.com/...
Rob Palk / @robpalkwriter: I think the problem with the change kids books when societal norms change argument is that Roald Dahl wasn't usually displaying unconscious bias etc. He was being a cunt on purpose and we should respect that
Joshua Vinson / The Wrap: Roald Dahl's Children's Books Rewritten to Remove Language Deemed Offensive
Jack Montgomery / Breitbart: Publisher Rewrites Passages in Roald Dahl's Books to Promote Feminism, Fight Fatphobia
Joanne Harris / @joannechocolat@mastodon.online: Lots of anger and misinformation about sensitivity readers from Certain People today. I wrote this last year. It still makes sense to me. https://www.tumblr.com/...
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Fans react to publisher efforts to edit in a kinder, gentler Roald Dahl
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times: Roald Dahl's books have been edited to stop calling people fat so much
Freddy Tran Nager / @freddytrannager@newsie.social: @Mediagazer Will they find all the double-plus ungood words and sanitize them?
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Roald Dahl's New Editions of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘James and the Giant Peach’ And Others Have Been Edited For Sensitivity
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Roald Dahl's Children's Books to Republish With Offensive Language Removed
Caroline Downey / National Review: Roald Dahl Goes Woke: Famous Children's Author's Books Heavily Altered by ‘Sensitivity Readers’
Maryam Zakir-Hussain / The Independent: Editors rewrite Roald Dahl's books to remove controversial language
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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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
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Google's $168 Billion in Ad Revenue at Risk in Supreme Court Case
Issie Lapowsky / Fast Company: The internet's Supreme Court showdown is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher
@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
Jeffrey M. McCall / The Hill: Supreme Court to wade into quagmire of internet regulation
Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Section 230 is On Trial. Here's What You Need to Know.
Andrew Chung / Reuters: As U.S. Supreme Court weighs YouTube's algorithms, ‘litigation minefield’ looms
Tristan Bove / Fortune: The Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could upend protections Big Tech has enjoyed for years—and the internet may never be the same
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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
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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/...
John Eggerton / Next TV: Supreme Court Poised to Tackle Online Content Moderation
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/...
Gary Baum / @garymbaum: All the CEO's Men: I took a look at how Les Moonves and his lieutenants sought to fend off one of his accusers. It's a case study in corporate complicity, control and cover-up. Some players are still there. CBS and Paramount Global wouldn't answer Q's. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Nina Metz / @nina_metz: “According to the AG report, two other top CBS executives used the unredacted police report to investigate Golden-Gottlieb's ‘personal circumstances and that of her family, including her children, her brother and her former spouse.’” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Nina Metz / @nina_metz: This was literally published today: How Les Moonves and His CBS Loyalists Worked to Discredit Accuser: “It Was Sort of a Mafia Culture” Let's stop pretending sexual misconduct in Hollywood is/was only happening on set during the filming of love scenes https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Max Tani / Semafor:
Memo: New York public radio station WNYC won't renew The Takeaway, launched 15 years ago to rival NPR's Morning Edition, after the show's contract ends in June — WNYC is canceling one of its longest-running shows. — The New York public radio station told staff on Friday that it would not renew …
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@deggans: So sorry to hear this. Liked listening to and appearing on this show, which has had a long string of turbulent times recently. https://twitter.com/...
Vince Fairchild / @vincefair: Despite having the best host in @MHarrisPerry and the best staff in radio . . . https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Botti / @talkonpointe: In 4+ years working for @TheTakeaway I met the most talented, courageous, wonderful journalists and friends on earth. We went through hell together and still made work I'll be deeply proud of forever. So grateful to have worked for this complicated, difficult, extraordinary show. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Andrew Wilde / @ryanandrewwilde: A heartbreaking end. Working with the incredibly talented, smart, and kind team @TheTakeaway has been such a privilege. And it's been an honor working with @MHarrisPerry who is the kindest, most supportive, fun, and thoughtful host there is. So much gratitude for the entire team. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Zwillich / @toddzwillich: Sad that The Takeaway is coming to an end, but the staff there has so much to be proud of. Creativity, mission, and journalism with a moral core. It's the show that gave me my start in live broadcasting. I'll always be proud to say I was a part of it. https://twitter.com/...
@jacklynpinera: Fantastic show, with a fantastic host, and a fantastic team. It is a shame. Our work is stellar. Go hear for yourselves https://www.wnycstudios.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ethan Oberman / @ethan_oberman: WNYC is blaming $$$ for canceling The Takeaway but the truth is they never gave it the support or resources it needed to succeed even when it had a host in MHP who was trying to make it sound different from anything else on public radio and an amazing group of producers https://twitter.com/...
Ciku T / @cikutheuri: This is really sad. The Takeaway provided important conversations that weren't heard elsewhere on public radio. We need to examine why that is and the REAL reason stations stopped carrying it https://twitter.com/...
Bradford William Davis / @bwdbwdbwd: I love @TheTakeaway and had the pleasure of doing a handful of interviews. The show made room for meaningful discussions about how sports move our world and reflect our values. The producers (and @MHarrisPerry, who is without equal) deserve opportunities worthy of their talents. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / @josephzeballos: What a loss for public radio. I interned at @TheTakeaway in fall 2018 and worked with a talented team that helped me grow as a reporter. We also did stories featuring voices and perspectives you really don't see anywhere else. Sending my best https://twitter.com/...
T. J. Raphael / @tjraphael: Fucking mind blown. And for those who don't know, The Takeaway has churned out so many of the stellar talents who now sit at the top of podcasting. Too many names to list here. Forever indebted to this wonderful show https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: Public radio is gonna public radio. Read the responses to understand the anger, angst, and hints of other stuff around this decision. That being said, there are GREAT producers at this show and I hope they land at solid places, stat. They deserve it. https://twitter.com/...
@catverypopular: welp. now y'all know! shout out to The Takeaway team and all of the incredible people I've made radio with for the past five months. I am so, so sad that this is our end. https://twitter.com/...
Katerina Barton / @katerinabarton: It's been an absolute honor to produce for @TheTakeaway for the past 3 years. I have given my heart to this show and so has the whole team. It is a damn shame. https://twitter.com/...
@woolyknickers: I got my start in radio at this show and met so many people who stayed to guide this show for another decade and those who went on to jobs leading the world of audio. The show already has an incredible legacy and it will be missed https://twitter.com/...
Dan Saltzstein / @dansaltzstein: That's a bummer. A good show under multiple hosts. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Cunningham / @rccunni: Damn. And that was one of my favorite public radio shows too. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Falk / Current: ‘The Takeaway’ canceled by WNYC, PRX
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/...
@pressfreedom: Juan Lorenzo Holmann was arrested shortly after becoming @laprensa's publisher. “When I made the decision to take the job, it was clear what I was doing. Not that my life was in danger, but [that] I was doing something that would put me in the spotlight.” https://cpj.org/...
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 had a chance to earnestly grapple with a serious critique of its trans coverage by a serious group of professionals …
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The Guardian, @roseschmits, @gustavoturnerx, @jeffjarvis, @bindelj, @sarahditum, @maria@thelife.boats, @dianagoetsch, @niemanreports, @autostraddle, @nancyromm, @jeffjarvis, @bgrueskin, @amandabecker, @hillarykwiatek, @stevesilberman, @froomkin, @melissagira, @ijbailey, Media Matters for America, LGBTQ Nation, Fox News and @froomkin@journa.host
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Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian: The New York Times' trans coverage is under fire. The paper needs to listen
@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/ ...
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/ ...
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
@niemanreports: More than 1,000 Times contributors have sent an open letter asking for the paper of record to examine its biases in reporting on trans issues. The paper's response is part of the problem (by @ijbailey) https://niemanreports.org/...
@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/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: In a rare moment of media covering itself, here's the lead story on The Guardian right now (while everybody is *at last* covering the venality of Fox News, too)... Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times' coverage of trans people https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “The Times could have invited in some of its critics, to listen, learn, and have a substantive back-and-forth about an issue that is vexing many Americans. Instead, it took the route too many high-profile journalists take when challenged.” Via @ijbailey https://niemanreports.org/...
Amanda Becker / @amandabecker: The NYT had a chance to earnestly grapple with a serious critique of its trans coverage by a serious group of professionals, including journalists who contributed to the paper. Instead, it decided to demean them as activists. https://niemanreports.org/...
@hillarykwiatek: The comparison to crime coverage and Hillary Clinton's emails (remember the incredibly irresponsible Clinton Cash coverage?) in this piece is really spot on. https://niemanreports.org/...
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: Superb, informed reply to @nytimes' grotesque response to criticism of its coverage of #trans issues. https://niemanreports.org/...
@froomkin: This is a fantastic essay by @ijbailey. Here's the first paragraph: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: “He could have saved a few words and just officially slurred them as ‘woke,’ because that's the way it comes across.” https://niemanreports.org/...
Vesper Henry / Media Matters for America: The New York Times rejects calls for accountability after letters suggest anti-trans bias at the paper of record
John Russell / LGBTQ Nation: Amy Schneider blasts New York Times' anti-transgender coverage as the paper defends JK Rowling
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