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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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@mikeallen, Mediaite, Breitbart, Wonkette, @lisamarieboothe, @halsparks, @my_babyanme, @semperwry, @danpfeiffer, @sjdemas, @ndrew_lawrence, @davidfrum, @GreenFire@climatejustice …, @donaldjtrumpjr, @brianstelter, @jeffjarvis, @repmtg, @joycewhitevance, @juddlegum, @lauraloomer, @macfarlanenews, @ablurbablurb@mastodon.social, @emptywheel and @nycsouthpaw
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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/...
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: JUST IN: Kevin McCarthy Releases Jan. 6 Riot Tapes — All 41,000 Hours — to Tucker Carlson
Nick Gilbertson / Breitbart: Report: McCarthy Grants Tucker Carlson Access to 41,000 Hours of January 6 Video
Evan Hurst / Wonkette: Kevin McCarthy Gives Tucker Carlson J6 Tapes, Because Nothing Matters Anymore
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/...
Hal Sparks / @halsparks: Tucker Carlson is now the official editor of History for the @HouseGOP. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
Susan J. Demas / @sjdemas: This is pro-insurrection propaganda. 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/...
David Frum / @davidfrum: Public property for partisan propaganda and private profit. 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.
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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, @amlwhere, @alexanderrusso, @spj_tweets, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @markmaxwelltv, @markdstrauss and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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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/...
@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/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Polk Awards: New York Times wins three, CoinDesk wins for its FTX coverage, The Stanford Daily's Theo Baker becomes the youngest ever recipient 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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Long Island University, Reuters, Talking Biz News, Washington Post, @shimonpro, @cnnpr, @laforgia_, @nixonron, @chaskelbennett, @ericalg, @stuloeser, @michaelbolden, CoinDesk, @johnarchibald, @bgrueskin, @susanchira, @marcambinder, @polkawards, @smerelman, @meridithmcgraw, @juliepace, @elizashapiro, @katie_robertson, @gingerthomp1, @bgrueskin, @jdawsey1 and @warondumb
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Lou Carlozzo / Talking Biz News: New York Times wins three Polk Awards
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie
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
Evan Rosen / New York Daily News: Don Lemon pulled from ‘CNN This Morning’ amid sexist remark scandal: report
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
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/ ...
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/ ...
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
James O'Keefe resigns as Project Veritas leader, after clashing 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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New York Times, @nytmike, @willsommer, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, @gtconway3d, @jkarsh, @actuallyemerson, @rschooley, @willsommer, @brianbeutler, @garylegum, @jessehawken, @ariehkovler, @pattymo, @willsommer, @iwriteok, @jamesrbuk, @nycsouthpaw, @kevinmkruse, @realaxelfoley, @ryandbusse and FEN
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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/...
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/ ...
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: James O'Keefe is out at Project Veritas after internal power struggle
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/...
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/...
Gary Legum / @garylegum: So this went well. 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/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This felt inevitable. The question now is whether they can keep their funders without him. 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/...
Benjamin Hart / @realaxelfoley: As good as James is at editing footage misleadingly, he's an even better colleague. HIRE HIM https://www.nytimes.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/...
K. L. Cobb Jr / FEN: BREAKING NEWS: James O'Keefe addresses Project Veritas Departure
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/ ...
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
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ And More
Judson Berger / National Review: Roald Dahl Rewrites: When Surrendering Discretion to DEI Consultants Goes Wrong
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/...
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times: Roald Dahl's Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language
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/...
@incunabula: Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition. https://telegraph.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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.
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/...
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/...
Telegraph: Roald Dahl goes PC in a world where no one is ‘fat’ and the Oompa-Loompas are gender neutral
Gerald Posner / Just the Facts with Gerald Posner: “Ugly” and “Fat” no Longer
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
@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/...
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/...
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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@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/ ...
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
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Google's $168 Billion in Ad Revenue at Risk in Supreme Court Case
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
@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
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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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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/...
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/...
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/...
Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele: It will become interesting times as reading something by machine becomes seen as training. The earliest search engines read and indexed the internet. Each iteration of technology will dilute the original. 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/...
Nick Diakopoulos / @ndiakopoulos: In case anyone's wondering — this is how the news media will launder false information from ChatGPT. No reason to believe the “evidence” from a list generated by a statistical text program. Journalists, please don't cite ChatGPT as a source, even if passed through a person. https://twitter.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/...
@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/...
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/...
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.”
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: @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/ ...
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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Lukas Shayo / Screen Rant: Alec Baldwin Wins Major Victory In Rust Shooting Case
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: ‘Rust’ Shooting Charges Downgraded for Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — 5-Year Sentence Now Off the Table
Meg James / Los Angeles Times: New Mexico downgrades manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting
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’
Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ firearm enhancement dropped, eliminating 5-year minimum sentence
Lee Brown / New York Post: Alec Baldwin faces reduced prison sentence after charge dropped in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter: Alec Baldwin and ‘Rust’ Armorer Charges Downgraded, Removing Potential Five-Year Prison Sentence
Wilson Chapman / IndieWire: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ Charges Downgraded, Maximum Prison Time Reduced to 18 Months
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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