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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Twitter removed the verified badge from The New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme taunting the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue — The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: Elon Musk Makes His First Big Strike in the Great Blue Check Purge, Pulls the NY Times' Badge: 'Their Propaganda Isn't Even Interesting'
Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth: When you remove one verified account (@nytimes) out of pure vindictiveness, but have no uniform policy or plan. https://twitter.com/...
Baratunde Thurston / Puck: Elon's Blue Period
Julianne McShane / NBC News: Twitter hasn't removed verified check marks — except from The New York Times
Alys Davies / BBC: Twitter's blue ticks disappear as Musk attacks NY Times
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Clearly this is a mistake, which just further proves how messy and uncoordinated this checkmark removal process is, but wild to see the 24th most followed Twitter account lose its organization verification - not even standard verification - before other verification statuses. https://twitter.com/...
@bigbluewaveusa: “The real tragedy of @nytimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting.” -Elon Musk, trying to discredit one of the most respected newspapers in the world, The New York Times. I'm pretty sure The NY Times will survive Musk removing their check mark https://www.mediaite.com/...
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: Unverified account sharing images of the pope in a nice jacket — what do you think I was born yesterday? I'm not falling for that AI shit again. https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: Twitter removed the “verified” badge from the New York Times' main account on Sunday, a move that billionaire owner Elon Musk pushed for overnight after learning that the news organization would not pay for its Twitter Blue service. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Not everything can be the Santa Monica observer https://twitter.com/...
@hsajwanization: WooW ! Just 5 hours ago @elonmusk said we will take their check make off ! https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Ninecow / @geoff9cow: So destroying the value of @twitter does what for Musk again? Elon Musk Makes His First Big Strike in the Great Blue Check Purge, Pulls the NY Times' Badge: 'Their Propaganda Isn't Even Interesting' https://mediaite.com/a/cvuuf via @mediaite
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The point, again and again, is that one of the most important social media sites is run according to the whims of an incredibly petty person https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: #Twitter removes the “verified” blue tick from the main profile of The New York Times, after the news organization said it wouldn't sign up for Elon Musk's new scheme of paid-for verification. https://www.independent.co.uk/ ...
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: The New York Times (@nytimes) has become unverified The verification checkmark is gone https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@wilson__valdez: Again, the old Twitter system had some established (imperfect) guidelines that were supposed to be upheld. The new Twitter is literally one man raging at his enemies and making decisions on a whim. There is not any universe where this is a less ‘biased’ system. https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Elon Musk retaliates against the @NYTimes for tis refusal to pay to play by removing its blue check verification. Now will he start downgrading its content, filling the “For you” feed with whatever crackpots are willing to fork over his monthly fee? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Twitter Spite-Removes New York Times' Verified Badge
@penamerica: “Twitter has removed the ‘verified’ blue tick from the main profile of The New York Times, after the news organization said it would not sign up for Elon Musk's new scheme of paid-for verification.” https://www.independent.co.uk/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Musk has stripped The NYT if it's badge after the outlet said it would not pay him for it. https://twitter.com/...
Evie / @eviebauer727: Elon Musk Pulls NY Times' Twitter Blue Check Verifications https://www.mediaite.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: New: Twitter removed @nytimes' verified badge after @elonmusk saw a meme that said they won't pay for Twitter Blue. Latest chapter in his long grudge against the people who report on him. The Times tells me this morning they're still not planning to pay https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: In a deleted tweet from early Sunday morning, Musk had said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace, unless they tell they won't pay now, in which we will remove it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Robert Mackey / @robertmackey: Seems like a reasonable guy to entrust stewardship of a public information utility to https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell@mastodon.social: New report from the bad place: Twitter removed @nytimes' verified badge after Elon Musk saw a meme that said they won't pay for Twitter Blue. Latest chapter in his long grudge against the people who report on him. …
Philip Bump / @pbump: Not to mention how stupid it is about newspapers! It's like saying “the Times would get more engagement if it mirrored the New York Post” or saying “the Times should only write stories about things people already care about.” Totally bizarre.
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: The world's richest man has taken possession of a global social media platform used by the world's journalists, scientists, governments, private citizens, businesses, religions, militaries and health/emergency services to share all vital information—It's going as you might expect https://twitter.com/...
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Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance:
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace” but take away their checkmarks if “they tell they won't pay now” — - The first day of Twitter's previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.
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Grace Dean / Insider: News organizations say they won't pay for Elon Musk's Twitter Blue because ‘verified checkmarks no longer represent authority and expertise’
Kalhan / @kalhanr: Interesting the NYT is the only one to lose verification when some celebs said they wouldn't pay either https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: @nytimes @elonmusk .@elonmusk had said old checkmarks would disappear as of yesterday but @nytimes is one of the very few affected so far, possibly because the badges have to be removed one by one. Since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, its ad revenue has plunged 90% https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: For newsrooms, Twitter's blue check mattered a lot, especially in emergency and breaking news situations. Now that's going away. I spoke with @rachelerman about what is being lost... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Marc Malkin / Variety: Jack Black Wants to Call Elon Musk's ‘Bluff’ on Removing Twitter Verification Checkmarks: 'It's Definitely Not Cool to Pay for It'
Christian Zilko / IndieWire: Jack Black Wants to Call Elon Musk's ‘Bluff’ on Twitter Verification: 'I'm a Little Embarrassed by the Blue Check'
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials' accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks — The White House will not pay to have its staff's official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios.
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LeBron James / @kingjames: Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain't paying the 5. 🤷🏾♂️
Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk's Twitter Updates Verified User Descriptions So You Can't Tell Who Paid for a Blue Check-Mark Anymore
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 2)The reason the Twitter Media team existed was because *almost all* of the engagement on Twitter happens with tweets from high profile people/organizations across government, sports, music, business, news, whatever the Kardashians are, etc. They're the lifeblood of the platform.
Loree Seitz / The Wrap: Twitterverse Puzzled as New York Times Loses Blue Check: ‘Tidal Wave of Disinformation’
Gov. Mike Huckabee / @govmikehuckabee: The Biden White House said they will refuse to pay to verify their staff @Twitter accounts. I think that's a bad idea: it's already hard enough to tell the difference between actual Biden staffers and psychotic pranksters pretending to be Biden staffers. https://www.axios.com/...
Kyle Yates / @kyleynfl: I've enjoyed my checkmark that I was given through the application process, but in no world will I be paying for it. Twitter's about to become an absolute mess, so - legitimately - what other platform are we needing to move to? https://twitter.com/...
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico: April fools? The Twitter blue check apocalypse that wasn't
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: LeBron may have check-mated Elon Musk, because if celebs with his following say paying for a check isn't worth it, that will be disastrous. I'm with LeBron, the moment this blue check is gone, oh well. https://twitter.com/...
Ty Roush / Forbes: Twitter's Blue Checkmarks: Here's Who Gets To Keep Them And Who Says They Won't Pay Up
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: This is far and away the most compelling argument I have encountered for why the verification fuckery actually matters and could lead to an actual crisis for twitter https://twitter.com/...
Jay Zawaski / @jayzawaski: As Twitter verifications go away tomorrow, here's why it matters to people in the media industry and beyond. Do I care about a blue check? Not really. Does it make it harder to do my job and give YOU accurate info? Yes. https://twitter.com/...
Glen McGregor / @glen_mcgregor: Excellent 🧵on blue check issue. I don't care much about mine — I was a Twitter evangelist long before I had one — but stripping verification will make the platform a lot less useful, for journalism and public discourse. https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: good thread from fmr twtr exec on how checkpocalypse is quite a gamble (and for what i might add is a relatively small payoff if recent subscriber numbers are to be believed...) https://twitter.com/...
Rob / @robl_l: @MollyJongFast It's a good job no one is lining up to cause mischief https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Bye bye “may or may not be notable” https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Twitter's Verification Purge Set to Begin
Brian Kibler / @bmkibler: The funny thing is that the *reason* people care about blue check marks is *because* famous people like LeBron have them. Removing them from existing verified accounts just turns them into “this MF paid for Twitter” fodder and nothing else. https://twitter.com/...
Tolu Ogunlesi / @toluogunlesi: Wawu. If @elonmusk capitulates and exempts the White House, he will have to extend the exemption to @NGRPresident and @NigeriaGov, no? https://twitter.com/...
Elie Mystal / @elienyc: King James has the right idea https://twitter.com/...
Christian Borys / @itsborys: Elon didn't understand that verification was like a badge telling people that whatever you were doing in life was noteworthy, so it was kind of cool. Now that people can pay for that notoriety instead of earning it, it becomes EXTREMELY uncool. It smells of being a try hard. https://twitter.com/...
Jason DeRusha / @derushaj: Great thread that explains why the blue checkmark crowd (incl me) cares about the ☑️. We generate content that generates engagement - and why keep doing that for a company that holds you in contempt? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Saskia Popescu / @saskiapopescu: This whole thread 👇🏻 https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Here's a good thread on what verification used to be about and the economic insanity of Elon's extortion scheme https://twitter.com/...
Thomas C. Theiner / @noclador: White House knows it is not “verification”, but a brazen extortion attempt. Twitter's whole value was its verified users and content creators. The former will lose their verification tonight - the latter will be hidden from now on unless they pay. Elon has ZERO business sense. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Edwards / @keithedwards: Excellent thread. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 4) There were a bunch of important safety and security reasons for doing this as well. Hero tweeps like @KatieS and @Larakate have all the scars/stories to prove it. It was also possible to organically build a verifiable account by gaining followers and impact on the platform.
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 9) But what Twitter is going to start doing tonight flips the equation - it is going to ask its most important creators to *pay Twitter* instead of the other way around. Every other social media platform has found a way to pay its creators, not charge them. Will it work?
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 13) The likely sequencing will be like LeBron: first, give up the check and not pay. But as the experience degrades and impersonation abounds, creators will start to wonder why they'd contribute content to a platform and company that holds them in such contempt.
Nathan Hubbard / @nathanchubbard: 14) That will be the point at which we might expect a wave of silence to ensue. The first real staring contest of the creator economy is upon us. Will creators seize the moment? Can Twitter sustain it? 🍿
@doctoryasmin: He'll just make a different coloured check mark for celebs and/or do something similar to what he did with businesses and say ‘oops, forgot to mention, people with x amount of followers can keep their check mark’ https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Clark / @realrclark25: Yea man!! It's just a check I can't cash. I for sure ain't paying https://twitter.com/...
Sahil Kapur / @sahilkapur: Twitter's biggest asset has been to get some of the most interesting or powerful or popular people on the planet to post daily content on this site for free; all in return for merely verifying that they are who they say. Now they want those creators to pay? Good 🧵 here 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Rooks / @taylorrooks: Players always say Lebron doesn't even pay for data roaming and will wait forever to get to a place with wifi because he refuses to do that extra cost....so this definitely tracks 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Charging people to be @verified was always a bad idea: https://twitter.com/... A Premium version with more features makes sense when there is a clear return of value (no ads?) for $. Charging global celebrities who create value every time they tweet & engage with people is...🤷♂️ https://twitter.com/...
Dan Bernstein / @dan_bernstein: I'm also team #ohwell. https://twitter.com/...
Lawrence Hurley / @lawrencehurley: Again, the old twitter verification system always mattered more to twitter than it did to any individual user, and we are about to find out why https://twitter.com/...
Keith Edwards / @keithedwards: We don't negotiate with terrorists https://twitter.com/...
Matt Whitlock / @mattdizwhitlock: I agree with this - I don't want my tax dollars paying for twitter subscriptions for government offices - whether its the White House or a Congressional office. @Twitter should find other ways to verify government organizations. https://twitter.com/...
Bob Cesca / @bobcesca_go: No one should. Elon screwed up and overpaid — no one should help him pay for his crashed car. https://twitter.com/...
@ashleygjovik: It didn't really hit me until I saw this update But many institutions (including actual govs), are undertaking tactics with Twitter/Elmo often used in public international law conflicts Naming/shaming, sanctions, ending/pausing diplomatic relations, banning or burdening trade https://twitter.com/...
Sophia A. Nelson / @iamsophianelson: None of us will https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick / @reichlinmelnick: As a person who thinks a lot about the budget, I've been expecting this. $12,000/year for a gold checkmark on Twitter is just not a justifiable expense for most governments, big or little, so I expect few will pay. Imagine asking a small town with a tight budget to pay that. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Ford / @fordm: I don't really care whether I'm verified, but if *no one* is verified—truly verified, not just paying for a cosmetic blue check—then this website's utility and everyday value drops a lot. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: There have been all kinds of moments since Musk bought Twitter that you could point to as the exact moment it was officially “over,” but I actually think this is it. The US gov having a meaningful presence here was what elevated Twitter over, say, Reddit. Site's cooked. https://twitter.com/...
Evan McMurry / @evanmcmurry: “It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user.” https://www.axios.com/...
Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer: Not having a blue checkmark is the new status symbol https://twitter.com/...
Susan Del Percio / @delpercios: Who's paying for twitter verification? I am not. https://twitter.com/...
Rory Johnston / @rory_johnston: Going great. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll have a Blue-verified White House account hosted in a hostile power in no time. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Sheridan / @rob_sheridan: Say what you will about Elon, but it is truly impressive to be so uncool to your very core that despite every potential resource on the planet at your disposal you still make a service so spectacularly lame that guys who make 50 mil a year will make a point not to give you $8 https://twitter.com/...
BuzzFeed News:
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for Blue, but Semafor and other small outlets plan to — BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense. — Pranav Dixit
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Rob Tornoe / @robtornoe: The New York Times is no longer verified on Twitter because they refuse to pay. It's the first big step in stripping away the true value of this social media platform - trusting and knowing something is real without having to spend time investigating. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sravasti Dasgupta / The Independent: New York Times loses Twitter ‘verified’ tick as Musk's changes take effect
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @cb_doge Oh ok, we'll take it off then
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Scoop: @WhiteHouse won't pay for @Twitter verification — It will not enroll in Twitter's “Verification for Organization” program either — It also won't reimburse staff who chose to pay for Twitter Blue either Story on @axios: https://www.axios.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The Los Angeles Times also says it will not pay for Twitter Blue, noting “verification no longer establishes authority or credibility.” Here's an internal note from managing editor Sara Yasin that went out to staff. https://twitter.com/...
Hussain / @huspsa: @pbump Musk and that whole crowd are just very anti journalism, NYT a proxy for their wider resentment at journalists existing. Critical media coverage of the tech industry in recent years and especially critical coverage about Tesla (all normal journalism) likely big explainers.
Ryan Hogg / Insider: Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to ‘convict’ those responsible for Twitter ‘botnets’
Tiffany Kelly / The Daily Dot: What will Twitter look like without verified profiles?
Oliver Alexander / @oalexanderdk: Officially time to stop calling it “Verification” which it no longer is and just call it a premium subscription. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Is it really a verification any more or is it just a subscription https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Panetta / @alex_panetta: After media companies, this one is gonna test the system. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I won't believe it until @JoeBiden writes a self-pitying post here complaining about the loss of his blue check. https://twitter.com/...
Hans Mahncke / @hansmahncke: “verification no longer establishes authority or credibility” Never did. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: CNN: “As of right now, we do not plan to pay for Twitter Blue subscriptions for either our brand or individual accounts, except for a small number of select teams who need this verification as an essential part of newsgathering and reporting.”
@spj_tweets: “In the future, a checkmark will no longer mean you are a verified journalist. Instead, it will simply mean you are paying for benefits such as longer tweets and fewer ads.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Wouldn't this mean that all these big publishers will just get the gold check for free? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: LAT also won't reimburse: “Verification no longer establishes authority or credibility, instead it will only mean that someone has paid for a Twitter Blue subscription,” @sarayasin told staff. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: POLITICO also tells staff: “In the future, a checkmark will no longer mean you are a verified journalist. Instead, it will simply mean you are paying for benefits such as longer tweets and fewer ads. POLITICO will not pay for you to subscribe to Twitter Blue.”
Blake Herzinger / @bdherzinger: I am told this is what business acumen looks like - trying to charge people to produce the content and data your model requires, then having everyone but neckbeards refuse to pay you. Incredible stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: The Newsrooms Who Say They'll Pay For Twitter Blue Checkmarks For Their Journalists The New York Times: ❌ Washington Post: Undecided CNN: Undecided The Los Angeles Times: ❌ Semafor: ✅ The Daily Caller: Undecided Insider: ❌ BuzzFeed: ❌ HuffPost: ❌ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: The Twitter blue check no longer verifies identity, it just confirms you're spending money, so from a journalistic point of view it makes no sense to pay. Have the outlet post a list on its site of its reporter's accounts and have the accounts link to it. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: It's very funny that newsrooms have to put out statements about whether they plan to get extorted by Elon Musk or not. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Spector / @jessespector: I was once told that my articles did exceptionally well on Twitter, and that meant maybe 10% of my traffic was from here. It's a useless cesspool and I will miss it dearly. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: @dmccabe @kateconger Some other news in this story as the company gets ready to rid legacy verified checkmarks this weekend: Twitter's top 500 advertisers and 10,000 most-followed organizations will not be expected to pay for verification, according to an internal doc. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Roslyn / @roslyntalusan: like i'm sorry but being verified will officially lose its meaning and you'll be lumped in with the likes of MikeHunt06942069 shilling crypto schemes in your mentions. wake up https://twitter.com/...
@thekidskoob: This is exactly what I was saying the other day. The new “policy” around verification has completely ruined the authenticity and credibility of its core purpose. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: Times is not paying for verification, they say, because “verification no longer establishes authority or credibility.” It does seem odd that Musk won't just commit to making verification actually mean real verification, even if he charges. Would it cost too much to do that? https://twitter.com/...
Claire Goforth / @claire_goforth: @oliverdarcy All verification establishes at this point is that you have $8 you're willing to spend on Twitter
Thomas Chatterton Williams / @thomaschattwill: The NYT and I see eye-to-eye on this https://twitter.com/...
Tim Fullerton / @timfullerton: This is the correct answer and I hope all organizations (and individuals) follow the Times lead. https://twitter.com/...
@skooks: Thinking about Twitter's brilliant strategy to deliberately deligitimize itself as a breaking news conduit https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: The Times just sent me an identical statement except for one change: Instead of “verification” they won't pay for “check mark status,” an important distinction because Twitter doesn't verify the identity of Twitter Blue subscribers. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@boydhilton: No one in their right mind is planning to pay for Twitter verification... https://twitter.com/...
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: I hope many other news orgs follow suit on this. https://twitter.com/...
William Shatner / @williamshatner: Well it looks like this is becoming a #blueless thing.😉 What is CNN going to do Oliver?🤔🤷🏼 https://twitter.com/...
@stevelackmeyer: I wonder at what point do the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Gannett and other news organizations agree to pick a replacement social media platform... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: im beginning to think the business model of “give the richest man on the planet $96/yr for nothing in return” isnt especially well thought out https://twitter.com/...
Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti: Twitter may not generate a ton of traffic but it sure does allow me to bully politicians in public so who is to say what the trade off really is https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: The NYT gets a W here https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: @JoeBelBruno @paulvigna The mass verification of newsrooms is often mocked but I actually think it was helpful in spreading accurate information for years. (I got mine artisanally back in 2011 however). It's basically unwieldy and nothing will fix it.
Andrew Marchand / @andrewmarchand: One down ... https://twitter.com/...
Roslyn / @roslyntalusan: for those of you who feel pressured into buying twitter blue for business purposes*, please bear in mind that corporations are resisting this site owner's extortion scheme. *paying ~$8 to the man screwing your business over is not a good business decision. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Bevan / @katebevan: Big news orgs saying nope to paying for their reporters to have Elon's blue checks - good. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Honestly this is a no-brainer on multiple levels. The blue check is about to become a tool for impersonation, so it makes sense to stay away completely. https://twitter.com/...
Bob Moore / @bobmoorenews: Same with @elpasomatters. Sticking it to The Man. https://twitter.com/...
John Iadarola / @johniadarola: We need to see more major outlets signing on to this. https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: this is a no-brainer imo forget any feelings one might have about mgmt or the company — the way they are handling bluechecks now is punitive rather than value-adding and there's no actual safeguard against impersonation whether you buy it or not, which is the major concern https://twitter.com/...
@tinu: I do t even LIKE the nyt but it's not to be denied. Twitter is destroying itself with this pay for verification shit. It's not gonna die, it's just gonna become Digg or Friendster. Google Plus. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Same, she declared airily. https://twitter.com/...
@kt_so_it_goes: this is that scene in every burglar comedy where they've kidnapped a hostage nobody likes enough to pay the ransom https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I would pay $96 to watch this meeting, or at least $8 to read Elon's mash notes to Lina. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Gaba / @charles_gaba: This whole thread is giving me serious Star-Bellied Sneeches vibes. Going forward, any account claiming to be a legitimate news source which *has* a “verified” checkmark will by definition be deemed illegitimate. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Twitter does not generate traffic. I've been in countless meetings at multiple outlets where this fact has been repeated to me over and over. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Twitter needs the New York Times WAY more than the New York Times needs Twitter. And it's not particularly close. https://twitter.com/...
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: Would be tens of thousands per month for “real” branded verification ($1k per brand, $50 per affiliated account). If brands don't pay, this whole model falls apart pretty quickly revenue-wise. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Summers / @wfkars: It would be inane for anyone who got “legacy” verification for the sake of, y'know, actually being verified as who they said they were, to pay for the same symbol when it lacks all value whatsoever. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Messina / @chrismessina: Ah, well, that's fair! The rich get richer under Elon's watch. https://www.nytimes.com/... #DeadTwitter #LegacyVerified #ToadiesBackslider https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Forge ahead, Elon. https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur: That's the key: it's now worthless to anyone with credibility https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: What's the over/under on how many organizations actually pay $1,000/month for institutional verification? 10? 50? https://twitter.com/...
Nicolas Gonzalez / @nicosgonzalez: Comms guy here. Yes—no one really clicks links here compared to other platforms that drive way more traffic. This place is/was great in order to be part of a specific “discourse” and to elevate and/or engage with specific subject-matter experts. Also breaking news. Alas... https://twitter.com/...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: Even if this was a good deal for companies, and even if newsrooms got high traffic from twitter (we don't), there's zero incentive to pay for any feature announced by a CEO who rips up his own rule book each week. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: Seriously why would any outlet pay for it. It now just identifies the account as a troll account with fewer than 200 followers. https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: Can't wait to introduce my new Twitter account, @NYTlMES https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: My hot take (possible wish fulfillment fantasy) is Elno is just running a huge troll with these threats to delete checkmarks, and he'll back down at the 11th hour. https://twitter.com/...
Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler: Why on earth would it? Market will decide whether NYT or paid-for blue ticks are more credible sources of info on Twitter. (Don't think it'll be the $8 ticks) https://twitter.com/...
@wtfis2bdone: Lmao. NYT, WAPO, POLITICO, LA Times, Vox, BuzzFeed won't pay for Twitter Blue. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Hanrahan / @ryanhanrahan: Making a blue checkmark meaningless makes absolutely no sense to me. Will make vetting information that much harder and make this platform even less useful than it already is. https://twitter.com/...
Lakshya Jain / @lxeagle17: Twitter really doesn't drive a lot of traffic. Not sure how many news organizations are going to pay the astronomical fees for verification ($1K/mo per brand, and then $50/mo for each affiliate). Imagine a bill of >$10K a month for the minimal traffic you get from Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Elon Musk wants to fill your Twitter feed with paid accounts
New York Times: Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Buzzfeed say they won't pay for Twitter verification
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Sorry, Elon! NY Times, WaPo, LA Times and Other Major Outlets Won't Pay for a Twitter Blue Check
@hammancheez@c.im: @Mediagazer lol MM+ a year for a 1700 member org, those prices are derived from meth
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Evan Gershkovich, the 31-year-old WSJ reporter detained by Russia whose parents fled the USSR for the US and who later made Moscow his second home — The Wall Street Journal correspondent, whose parents fled the Soviet Union, made Moscow a second home.
Discussion:
New York Times, Fox News, @wsjpr, @nickkristof, The Moscow Times, CBS News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, CNN, @picardonhealth, @lindsayaellis, @emilyzfeng, @cgrantwsj, @tggrove, @fatmafaizi, @vmsalama, @maxseddon, @chrislhayes, @paulsonne, @biettetimmons, @cathyarnst, @mjluxmoore, @jrezaian, @w7voa, @piperk, @isabelcoles, @repmiketurner, Insider, The Guardian, @mtthwrose, @nytimes, @dreamgirls, @williamyang120, @benmullin, @stephenkalin, @rohded, @antontroian, @jrezaian, @mollyjongfast, The Comeback, @cliffordlevy, @katie_robertson, @mjluxmoore, @_karenhao, Reporters Without Borders, @biannagolodryga, @peterbakernyt, @nicktimiraos, @alecmacgillis, @mims, @srussolillo, @davidenrich, @drewhinshaw, @geraldfseib, @reevellp, @jmalsin, @austinramzy, New Yorker, @joewsj, Washington Post, @dinasrinivasan, @mjluxmoore, @georgikantchev, @pjotrsauer, New York Post, @gtcost, @joshkraushaar, @_silversmith, @wsj, @bychunhan, @alanmillernlp, @mikevorkunov, @elizacollins1, @daiwaka, @aosipovich, @johnwest, @benpershing, @shalini, @nickkristof, @sgurman, @maxseddon, @laobserved, @joelsimonsays, @dabeard, NBC News, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Discussion:
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Journalist Detained by Russia Was Reporting Stories That ‘Needed to Be Told’
Fox News: Blinken demands Russia release detained Wall Street Journal reporter in rare call with Kremlin counterpart
@wsjpr: “For us, I think it's important to keep this case front of mind,” @WSJ Editor in Chief @emmatuckerwsj told @andersoncooper in response to the detainment of journalist Evan Gershkovich. The Journal continues to call for Evan's immediate release. #IStandWithEvan Video Credit: @CNN https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: @jrezaian ... Jason, you've been in Evan's situation. What would you suggest that the journalistic community do to support him?
Pyotr Kozlov / The Moscow Times: Hostage, Signal or Revenge? Spotlight on Russia's Reasons for Arresting WSJ Reporter
Caroline Linton / CBS News: Blinken says he spoke to Russia's top diplomat about arrested American journalist
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian: The arrest of an American journalist in Russia is awful. For me, it's also painfully personal
Ramishah Maruf / CNN: WSJ editor says paper is still not in contact with reporter arrested in Russia
@picardonhealth: Journalist Detained by Russia 🇷🇺Was Reporting Stories That 'Needed to Be Told. @evangershkovich of the @WSJ knew the risks but felt a profound connection to the country, by @katie_robertson https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism
Lindsay Ellis / @lindsayaellis: Please read and share our article — no paywall — about Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal, the distinguished U.S. journalist unjustly detained by Russia. And read his work, too. https://www.wsj.com/.... #IStandWithEvan https://twitter.com/...
Emily Feng / @emilyzfeng: “Russia is a place that can surprise and disappoint you, even as it holds your attention—yet never could I imagine all of those feelings would collide in such a story, one that I wish I never had to write.” https://twitter.com/...
Charley Grant / @cgrantwsj: Free Evan now. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Grove / @tggrove: “We haven't been able to reach him. We haven't been able to get any messages to him” Free. Evan. https://twitter.com/...
Fatima Faizi / @fatmafaizi: I sincerely hope Evan is released shortly. However, I would like to draw attention to a similar case that has gone largely unnoticed. For three months now, a brown journalist has been held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan on similar charges. https://twitter.com/...
Vivian Salama / @vmsalama: The WSJ has lifted the paywall on all articles pertaining to our colleague & friend Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested by Russian authorities on Wednesday and charged with espionage. Journalism is not a crime. Please share & help us fight for his release. https://www.wsj.com/...
Max Seddon / @maxseddon: “He always understands Russia with an extreme amount of insight and nuance and depth - he's lived and breathed this story for the past five years. And that's what makes this all so painful - he really cares so much about what is happening in the country.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: Evan Gershovich's detention is outrageous and despicable. Journalism is not a crime. I join fellow members of the press and all people of conscience in calling for his immediate release. https://www.wsj.com/...
Paul Sonne / @paulsonne: “It's utter rubbish.” Wall Street Journal editor in chief @emmatuckerWSJ responds to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's espionage claims. https://twitter.com/...
Nora Biette-Timmons / @biettetimmons: me, @jfberke, @polinaivanovva & @jazzedloon on @evangershkovich's love of journalism: https://www.nytimes.com/... #FreeEvanGershkovich #IStandWithEvan @freegershkovich
Catherine Arnst / @cathyarnst: “this was the fresh-faced young man in his early 20s, a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, often wearing a pine-green pullover sweater and with his hair in slight disarray, with whom I had worked so closely”-@Sulliview. #EvanGershkovich #IStandWithEvan https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Matthew Luxmoore / @mjluxmoore: “We haven't been able to reach him. We haven't been able to get any messages to him.” @WSJ editor-in-chief on our reporter @evangershkovich, who is imprisoned in Russia for doing his job #FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan https://twitter.com/...
Jason Rezaian / @jrezaian: If you take anything away from the massive volume of Evan Gershkovich coverage coming your way in the coming days, let it be this: He is a hostage until proven otherwise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Update: #Russia says WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was “caught red handed,” his fate will be determined by a court and it's unacceptable for the US to politicize the case and whip up a stir.
Karen Piper / @piperk: Evan is from New Jersey. He was hauled out of a steakhouse in Russia by Putin's thugs and hasn't been heard from since. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Isabel Coles / @isabelcoles: One of the things that always struck me about @evangershkovich is how easy he makes reporting look. As friend & fellow journalist @polinaivanovva says, for him it is “incredibly natural because he is an amazing talker + charms everybody + is very funny” https://www.nytimes.com/...
US Rep. Mike Turner / @repmiketurner: Russia is not winning. With assistance from the United States and our @NATO allies, we are seeing a huge difference on Ukraine's battlefield. Today, I spoke with @DanaBashCNN on @CNNSOTU about U.S. support for #Ukraine and Russia's arrest of @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider: Russia's arrest of Evan Gershkovich is the first time the country has accused an American journalist of spying since the Cold War.
Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian: My friend Evan Gershkovich is no spy. Just a brave reporter jailed in Moscow
@nytimes: Evan Gershkovich, a Moscow-based Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested in Russia last week. In interviews, his friends said reporting in Russia was his dream job — he was cleareyed about the risks, but had a love for the country and its people. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dreamgirls: Brittney Griner weighed in on Russia's detainment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, saying she's greatly concerned for his safety and urging President Biden to do everything he can to bring him home. https://www.tmz.com/...
William Yang / @williamyang120: “Mr. Gershkovich is the American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles who had settled in New Jersey. He fell in love with Russia—its language, the people he chatted with for hours in regional capitals, the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars."https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: “I just got hired by The Wall Street Journal. I'm the Moscow correspondent. I'm in the bureau. I did the thing.” -@evangershkovich @katie_robertson's profile of Evan, the first American reporter jailed on spying charges since the end of the Cold War: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephen Kalin / @stephenkalin: My @WSJ colleague & US citizen Evan Gershkovich is wrongly arrested in Russia. Instead of silencing his reporting, let's amplify it! Read his work for free https://wsj.com/... And read about his life https://wsj.com/... #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime https://twitter.com/...
David Rohde / @rohded: “It's painful and surreal to write these words: Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is being held by Russian authorities on espionage charges.” @yaffaesque on his friend @evangershkovich https://www.newyorker.com/...
Anton Troianovski / @antontroian: “It was a story that really needed to be told because we need to understand it.” @polinaivanovva added, “It helps no one if Russia remains a black box.” #FreeEvan https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Rezaian / @jrezaian: When reporting on Evan's ordeal, avoid repeating the Russian narrative. The fact that he is a hostage is the story, not the supposed charges against him. Constantly humanize Evan. Drop all our notions of competition and steel ourselves for a potentially long ordeal. #FreeEvan https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: I don't know exactly what Evan was working on in recent days. According to Russian press accounts, it may have had something to do with the military and the Wagner Group, which has supplied mercenaries to the war effort. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Phillip Bupp / The Comeback: Brittney Griner reacts to reporter detained in Russia
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: “Hard-working, thoughtful beyond his years and idealistic about journalistic ethics.” Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter unlawfully detained by Russia on bogus spying charges, was Margaret Sullivan's assistant when she was NYT public editor. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: “What he was doing was incredibly important. It was a story that really needed to be told because we need to understand it.” I spoke to friends of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter detained in Russia https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Luxmoore / @mjluxmoore: All of Evan's stellar reporting from Russia is now free to read on the WSJ website, as is this story on him by @drewhinshaw and @JoeWSJ https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
Karen Hao / @_karenhao: It's been so painful to process my colleague Evan Gershkovich's unfounded detention, especially knowing that we share the same reason for becoming correspondents: to better understand the country our parents once called home. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: In a sick twist, Russia has assumed the UN Security Council presidency today. A country that, under Putin, starts illegal wars, commits war crimes, and kidnaps American journalists for just doing their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt: The American son of Soviet-born Jewish exiles, @evangershkovich fell in love with Russia—its language, its people, even the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. Now the country he loved has turned on him. @joewsj @drewhinshaw https://www.wsj.com/...
Nick Timiraos / @nicktimiraos: “Reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years,” he said in July. Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. journalist now detained in Russia, labored so that people might better understand the world around them. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alec MacGillis / @alecmacgillis: What a great profile of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter being held in a Russian prison, who really does come across as the correspondent ideal: curious, hard-working, deeply humane. https://www.wsj.com/...
Christopher Mims / @mims: Every unjust detention is tragic. But of all the people Russia's successor to the KGB could grab, it is absolutely heartbreaking to me personally they took Evan, a man so dedicated to writing about a country he loved. Please share this. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Russolillo / @srussolillo: We are very grateful if you can take the time to read and share our article about the young American unjustly imprisoned by Russia #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotACrime https://www.wsj.com/...
Drew Hinshaw / @drewhinshaw: There are reporters and then there are reporters who spend 5 days camping by a raging forest fire in Siberia, because “I just wanna get the story right.” Our profile of a colleague whose drive to understand Russia represents the very best of my profession. https://www.wsj.com/...
Gerald F Seib / @geraldfseib: Everybody, please rally behind Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter illegally detained in Russia; Before Evan Gershkovich headed on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a colleague wrote him a text: “Hey buddy, good luck today.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Patrick Reevell / @reevellp: Beautiful article on the WSJ front page today that captures their reporter @evangershkovich who Russia seized this week. Gives a picture of the brilliant, funny and exceptionally dedicated reporter he is and how deeply he cared about covering Russia. https://www.wsj.com/...
Jared Malsin / @jmalsin: My wonderful colleague Evan Gershkovich, who is being detained on false charges by Russian authorities, is a talented reporter who deeply loved Russia and its people. He was passionate about understanding all things Russian. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Austin Ramzy / @austinramzy: My colleague Evan Gershkovich pursued journalism in Russia out of love for the country, its language and its people. I hope he is safe and is freed soon #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/...
Joshua Yaffa / New Yorker: The Unimaginable Horror of a Friend's Arrest in Moscow
Joe Parkinson / @joewsj: I stand with Evan. And this is the hardest story I've ever had to write. About our colleague and friend, who woke up today for the third morning in a Russian prison. Keep him in your thoughts and let's keep his case at the top of everyone's mind. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dina Srinivasan / @dinasrinivasan: “Many Western news agencies that posted reporters to Moscow under Stalin have determined that President Vladimir Putin's Russia is too dangerous for journalism.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Matthew Luxmoore / @mjluxmoore: When I first met Evan over a beer in Moscow in 2017 he talked about all the books he was reading to better understand Russia, a country he deeply cared about. That mission, which shaped his life, has cost him his freedom. Hopefully not for long #FreeEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Georgi Kantchev / @georgikantchev: Evan fell in love with Russia—its language, the people he chatted with for hours in regional capitals, the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. Now, espionage charges leave him facing a possible prison sentence of up to 20 years https://www.wsj.com/... #IStandwithEvan
Pjotr Sauer / @pjotrsauer: What a heartbreaking profile of our friend Evan by @JoeWSJ and @drewhinshaw. I remember the bike day like it was yesterday. Can't wait for the next one https://www.wsj.com/...
Isabel Vincent / New York Post: Wall Street Journal pulls Russia bureau chief after reporter arrested as spy
Constantin Gurdgiev / @gtcost: Disgusting. Using journalists as bargaining pawns. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @joshkraushaar: “Gershkovich's biography traces Mr. Putin's efforts to rebuild an empire atop the former Soviet Union, a homeland his parents had fled only for their American son to return and wind up in the type of prison they had been taught to fear.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Shawn Peirce / @_silversmith: @Sulliview Did not remember Evan had worked for you until I read this. Damn. No journalist should be a political pawn, especially not one abused by Putin. But this is exponentially worse. May he come back to the U.S. sooner, rather than later. https://twitter.com/...
@wsj: Before Evan Gershkovich headed on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a colleague wrote him a text: “Hey buddy, good luck today.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Chun Han Wong / @bychunhan: Evan Gershkovich, the son of Soviet-born exiles and a @WSJ reporter now detained in Russia, loved the country, its language, the people he chatted with for hours in regional capitals, and the punk bands he hung out with at Moscow dive bars. https://www.wsj.com/... #IStandwithEvan
Alan C. Miller / @alanmillernlp: “It's not like he was in Russia because no one bothered to tell him it was dangerous,” @yaffaesque tweeted. “He is a brave, committed, professional journalist who traveled to Russia to report on stories of import and interest.” https://twitter.com/...
Mike Vorkunov / @mikevorkunov: So hard to read this profile of @evangershkovich, who seems like such a good-natured person and reporter, and know the kind of situation he is stuck in https://www.wsj.com/...
Eliza Collins / @elizacollins1: This is so upsetting. Evan is an excellent reporter who covered a country he cared deeply about. #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/...
Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka: Absolutely terrifying. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alexander Osipovich / @aosipovich: Beautiful piece on my colleague @evangershkovich who has been unjustly arrested in Russia. I am still in disbelief that this is happening to him. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
John West / @johnwest: Free Evan now. https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Pershing / @benpershing: Before Evan Gershkovich headed on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, a colleague wrote him a text: “Hey buddy, good luck today.” #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Shalini Ramachandran / @shalini: Read this moving account of Evan's impactful journalism and love for Russia, the country that turned on him. #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: A profile of Evan Gershkovich, the @WSJ correspondent who has been imprisoned in Russia, apparently for committing journalism. Putin is taking hostages. https://www.wsj.com/...
Sadie Gurman / @sgurman: On Friday,@WSJ withdrew its Moscow bureau chief, who has covered the country since the final years of the Cold War. Many Western news agencies that posted reporters to Moscow under Stalin have determined Putin's Russia is too dangerous for journalism. https://www.wsj.com/...
Max Seddon / @maxseddon: “Reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years.” A heartbreaking piece about how @evangershkovich chronicled Russia's descent into madness until the FSB arrested him, by @JoeWSJ and @drewhinshaw https://www.wsj.com/...
Kevin Roderick / @laobserved: “They've chosen a well-known journalist from an authoritative media outlet...The idea is to have an ace up their sleeve for negotiations.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Joel Simon / @joelsimonsays: There has been an outpouring of outrage in response to Russia's arrest of @WSJ reporter @evangershkovich on espionage charges but here's an account from @Sulliview that humanizes this wonderful journalist and human being. Via @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
David Beard / @dabeard: Putin, the child-kidnapping invader of #Ukraine, has taken another hostage. This time, it's an American. The hostage, says @Sulliview, is an upstanding former colleague, “often wearing a pine-green pullover sweater and with his hair in slight disarray.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
NBC News: Reporter detained in Russia on spying allegations known as dedicated journalist who ‘cares a lot ... about the Russian people’
Wyatte Grantham-Philips / USA Today: Who is Evan Gershkovich? What we know about WSJ reporter arrested by Russia for espionage
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Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal:
Top editors at 38 outlets globally sign a letter condemning the detention of The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich and calling for his immediate release — The editors condemned Mr. Gershkovich's detention in a letter to the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Discussion:
Committee to Protect …, @wsjpr, The New York Times Company, @portraitinflesh, @proflevin, @joannastern, @yarotrof, Politico, The Guardian, @maxseddon, @lrozen, @davecbenoit, @benfritz, @hamiltonnolan, @nickkristof, @williams_paige, @kenroth, @mjluxmoore, @maggienyt, @khadeeja_safdar, @larryryckman, @berber_jin1, @spiegelpeter, @mvhaydencenter, @pressfreedom, @sgurman, @wsj, @leisel_leisel, @jimmyvielkind, @asharma, @trippmickle, @jbflint, @dollydeighton, @ebu_hq, @eliotwb, @bbcwillvernon, @edmundlee, @wendyfry_ and @mschwirtz
Discussion:
Erik Crouch / Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ, media organizations, and partners call for release of US journalist Evan Gershkovich
@wsjpr: Statement from @WSJ on reporter Evan Gershkovich #IStandWithEvan https://www.dowjones.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maria Case / The New York Times Company: Statement from a coalition of news organizations regarding the detention of WSJ's Evan Gershkovich in Russia.
Tom Doran / @portraitinflesh: I feel it can't be a total coincidence that Evan Gershkovich is the son of parents who fled the Soviet Union during one of its brief intervals of allowing Jewish emigration. Beyond his fluency in Russian making him suited to the job of reporting from the region, I mean. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Levin / @proflevin: 🕊️CHSE🌎 📰We join news orgs in calling for the immediate release of 🇺🇸 Evan Gershkovich of the WSJ. This is not only an attack on Evan, but on press freedom & the world's right to access news. https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: “No reporter should ever be detained for simply doing their job.” https://twitter.com/...
Yaroslav Trofimov / @yarotrof: Today is the third morning that my @WSJ colleague and friend @evangershkovich is waking up in a Russian prison, a hostage of the Kremlin who has been taken off the street for the sin of being an American journalist, and denied any contact with the outside world since #FreeEvan
Kelly Garrity / Politico: Blinken calls for release of WSJ reporter in call with Russian foreign minister
Robin McKie / The Guardian: Editors sign letter condemning ‘unjust’ arrest of US journalist in Russia
Max Seddon / @maxseddon: “Evan, I said out loud in my hotel room. In that moment, this news story moved out of the realm of professional dismay and into the intensely personal.” important piece from @Sulliview on @evangershkovich. “Now he has become, essentially, a hostage.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: Russia arrested Sullivan's former editorial assistant at the NYT https://twitter.com/...
Dave Benoit / @davecbenoit: The story Evan Gershkovich wrote before he was arrested is the most read thing on WSJ today. Because his work deeply matters to people. And is that good. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Fritz / @benfritz: Like many who value press freedom, I support this letter from more than three dozen top editors of news organizations around the world calling for the immediate release of my colleague, reporter Evan Gershkovich. #IStandwithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups.” - NYT editor Joe Kahn, Feb. 16, 2023. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Evan Gershkovich is a great correspondent who has been imprisoned in Russia for committing journalism. Putin is taking hostages because he thinks he can benefit, so we should ensure he doesn't. There should be a push to expel Russian ambassadors and FSB officers. #istandwithevan https://twitter.com/...
Paige Williams / @williams_paige: “This is not, in other words, the kind of thing that happens all the time, even in a climate of worsening relations between Washington and Moscow. And it could not have occurred without Putin's personal approval.” https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: More than 30 global organizations and media outlets press the Russian government to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. He was just doing his job as a journalist. The Kremlin seems to want him as a hostage. https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Luxmoore / @mjluxmoore: @evangershkovich and I started at @WSJ's Moscow bureau on the same morning last January. He has been committed to covering Russia diligently & fairly ever since I first met him when he arrived in Moscow in 2017. He was arrested for doing his job, and should immediately be freed. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Don't lose sight of this amid legal developments in the US > https://twitter.com/...
Khadeeja Safdar / @khadeeja_safdar: #IStandWithEvan Gershkovich, the American @WSJ journalist currently detained by Russian authorities. He's not allowed contact with his family or access to an attorney provided by his outlet. @pressfreedom & the int'l press call for his immediate release: https://cpj.org/...
@larryryckman: @davidfolkenflik As a Moscow correspondent for @AP in the 1990s, I always assumed the Russians would monitor my phone calls, discussions and movements whenever they wished, or could even expel me. The job was hard and dangerous enough without having to worry about being jailed, too.
Berber Jin / @berber_jin1: i've long dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent, and @evangershkovich's work has always inspired me from afar. i am devastated by his detention in russia. he should be released immediately. #istandwithevan https://cpj.org/...
Peter Spiegel / @spiegelpeter: The @FT's @khalafroula is one of more than 3 dozen editors of major news orgs calling for #Russia to release @WSJ correspondent @evangershkovich in letter to Moscow's ambassador to Washington. https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: Joint letter by leaders of top global news organizations states: “Russia is sending the message that journalism within your borders is criminalized and that foreign correspondents seeking to report from Russia do not enjoy the benefits of the rule of law.” https://www.wsj.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Sadie Gurman / @sgurman: “Russia is sending the message that journalism within your borders is criminalized and that foreign correspondents seeking to report from Russia do not enjoy the benefits of the rule of law.” #istandwithevan https://twitter.com/...
@wsj: News organizations from around the world joined President Biden's call to release WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich https://www.wsj.com/...
Lizeth Beltran / @leisel_leisel: I worked with @evangershkovich last year during a stint overseas. Immediately I was impressed by his talent and diligence, but most of all by how much he cared. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Jimmy Vielkind / @jimmyvielkind: More than three dozen top editors of news organizations around the world signed a letter to the Russian ambassador to the U.S. condemning the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and calling for his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: I STAND WITH EVAN. Editors of more than three dozen news organizations signed a letter calling for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Tripp Mickle / @trippmickle: #istandwithevan, the @WSJ and journalists around the world calling for Evan's immediate release. https://www.wsj.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Please media and non-media peeps, retweet this article with hashtag #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/...
Katie Deighton / @dollydeighton: An uplifting sense of solidarity from the @WSJ's newsroom peers this morning: “Gershkovich is a journalist, not a spy, and should be released immediately and without conditions.” https://www.wsj.com/...
@ebu_hq: We are deeply concerned by the detention of @wsj journalist Evan Gershkovich in #Russia We have joined with CPJ @pressfreedom and media outlets from around the world to call for his immediate release 👇 #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Brown / @eliotwb: My friend @evangershkovich is a brave, honest, ethical, vivacious, strong and exceptionally talented journalist — one cleareyed about risks of war reporting. I'm honored to know him. I stand with Evan. Free Evan. https://cpj.org/...
Will Vernon / @bbcwillvernon: Heads of major news organisations, including the @WSJ and the BBC, condemn the arrest of @evangershkovich and call for his release.... https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Detaining any reporter for doing their job is an attack on every reporter regardless of affiliation https://twitter.com/...
WendyFry / @wendyfry_: Not only does Evan's detention have a chilling effect on independent journalism and deprive the public of essential news from Russia, it's also a dangerous precedent for foreign correspondents in any country. He should be released immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Schwirtz / @mschwirtz: Together @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @Bloomberg, and @politico call on Russia to immediately release @WSJ's Evan Gershkovich. “Evan's detention is intended to have a chilling effect on independent journalism and deprive the public of essential news.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: UFC parent Endeavor nears a deal with Vince McMahon to buy WWE and form a new publicly traded company; a deal could be announced as soon as Monday — - Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment is in advanced talks to be sold to Ari Emanuel's Endeavor Group, the parent of Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Discussion:
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: WWE Nears Deal for Sale to Endeavor, Would Form New Company With UFC (Report)
J. Kim Murphy / Variety: Endeavor Nears Deal to Acquire WWE (Report)
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Vince McMahon resigned last year after using corporate funds to pay women he allegedly assaulted and harassed. Now he's about to sell his company for $9 billion and stay on as chairman.
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Endeavor Closing In On Deal For Majority Stake In WWE, Will Combine It With UFC To Form Combat Sports Giant - The Dish
Joseph Staszewski / New York Post: WWE close to being sold to UFC parent company Endeavor
Sean Keeley / The Comeback: Pro wrestling world reacts to stunning WWE news
Tom Hals / Reuters:
The judge in the $1.6B Fox-Dominion case denies Fox's summary judgment motions and partially grants Dominion's motions ahead of the trial scheduled for April 17 — A jury will decide whether Fox Corp (FOXA.O) defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false vote-rigging claims aired by Fox News …
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Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: 2/ In its partial ruling in favor of Dominion, the court did determine statements made by Fox were statements of fact and were not statements of opinion. https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: 1/ Judge issued ruling on the summary judgment motions in the Dominion v Fox News case. Fox Corp and Fox News' motions for summary judgment to dismiss the case have been denied. Domion's motion for summary judgment is granted in part and denied in part. Details to follow...
Elizabeth Landers / @elizlanders: NEW: Dominion spokesperson reax “We are gratified by the Court's thorough ruling soundly rejecting all of Fox's arguments and defenses, and finding as a matter of law that their statements about Dominion are false. We look forward to going to trial.”
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: To get Trump to stop talking election fraud, Rupert asks then-NYPost editor Col Allan, “should we say something Donald might see?” Next slide shows the NYPost piece telling Trump to stop “stolen election” talk. And Lachlan Murdoch admits he read the editorial before it ran. https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Judge: Statements About Dominion On Fox Were False, Trial To Start April 17
@nytimes: Donald Trump's criminal indictment and Fox News's civil trial aren't connected. But, combined, they delivered a rare reckoning on consecutive days this week for two forces that have transformed politics. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: “For the better part of a decade, Trump and his Fox allies have beguiled some Americans and enraged others as they spun up an alternative world. “This week the ex-president and cable channel were delivered a dose of reality by the American legal system.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Legere / @johnlegere: Fox News is going to be in court for a little while longer. Dominion's lawsuit against the entertainment news station will go to trial next month. https://www.cnn.com/...
CNN: Judge won't declare early winner in Dominion defamation case against Fox News, paving way for trial over 2020 election lies
Norman Ornstein / @normornstein: Settlement— ginormous settlement— coming soon. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Sterling / @gabrielsterling: FoxNews loses on summary judgement on falsity. “The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true,” Davis wrote in his 81-page ruling. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
@jrubinblogger: The most important thing: The trial starts with the instruction to jury that what Fox reported was false. That in and of itself is devastating. With the mound of evidence of actual malice and a preponderance of evidence standard Fox in DEEP trouble. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Did you see the judge in the Dominion trial said Fox cannot use its “we were just reporting the news” logic? If you were just reporting the news, he said, then pushback from election officials and Dominion would have been more prominent in your coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Mediaite's Colby Hall Says Latest Dominion Ruling ‘Devastating For Fox News’
Justin Klawans / The Week: Judge orders Dominion lawsuit against Fox News to go to trial
George Conway / @gtconway3d: Fox's statements about Dominion: false as a matter of law, no triable issue of fact, holds the trial judge. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Timmer / @jefftimmer: This seems to signal the trial is likely to be ginormouslydamagingandstaggeringlyfucki ngexpensive (that's a word, right?) for Fox. https://twitter.com/...
@katrinanation: Have to believe FOX will try to settle-/ Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Defamation Case https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR: Judge rules Fox hosts' claims about Dominion were false, says trial can proceed
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Demolishing the argument Bill Barr offered in the WSJ last week. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: 2/ “The judge's decision represents a major legal setback for @FoxNews and sets the stage for an agonizing weeks long trial in which some of the right-wing channel's highest ranking executives and most prominent hosts could be called to the stand to testify” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: One of my favorite journalism classes at @UTAustin was libel law. This trial will be studied for decades to come. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: “The evidence developed in this civil proceeding,” Judge Eric M. Davis wrote, demonstrates that it “is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tristan Snell / @tristansnell: BREAKING: Fox News LOSES summary judgment motion in Dominion defamation case, and Dominion wins on some elements of defamation. Judge rules that whether Fox acted with “actual malice” — the crux of any defamation claim — must be determined at trial. Trial begins April 17.
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: BREAKING: huge pre-trial win for Dominion in $1.6B defamation case over Fox “News.” Judge rules Fox's statements about Dominion are FALSE - a jury will decide if there are monetary damages. Rupert is F'd 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇺🇸https://courts.delawa re.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I am shocked ... shocked, I say! Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Dominion Case https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Jukes / @peterjukes: Murdoch's Fox News losing the key defence against the Dominion suit. They were making statements of fact about a rigged vote, not just opinion Wish @Ofcom could check out GBNews in this regard. It claims to be a ‘news’ not just a ‘talk’ channel https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: @nycsouthpaw so what does it mean that they granted the summary judgment on falsity? It just curtails possible defenses? Or does it mean that Dominion has actually won one of its claims entirely and the trial for it will just be about damages?
@nycsouthpaw: @bendreyfuss The former; Dominion will still have to prove actual malice to win its claims. But that's all the trial should be about, if it's properly managed. Fox wont be able to argue they got everything right, for instance.
David / @crookedknight: @bendreyfuss @nycsouthpaw Limits defenses. Dominion must still prove that Fox either knew it was broadcasting false material or proceeded with reckless disregard for whether it was true — the “actual malice” standard.
@existentialfish: @chrislhayes @nycsouthpaw it was a huge defeat for fox — partial summary judgment granted, including that the claims were false and that fox news published them
Adam Klasfeld / @klasfeldreports: Essentially, the court is granting Dominion summary judgment on everything but actual malice, which will go to trial.
Paul Farhi / @farhip: “This is a disastrous decision for Fox:” Judge rules Dominion lawsuit can go to trial, says @FoxNews aired false statements. Story by @sarahellison, @jeremymbarr and me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: It's going to trial, which is exactly what Fox doesn't want. The rest is largely noise. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: “The evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true. Therefore, the Court will grant summary judgment in favor of Dominion on the element of falsity. ” https://twitter.com/...
Maria Shriver / @mariashriver: News hosts and guests made false claims. Fox is the home of fake news https://twitter.com/...
@tempdiaries: Looking forward to Fox settling for an undisclosed amount without admitting guilt on the Friday before Memorial Day. https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: I just keep thinking about how Tucker Carlson was so upset that telling the truth was hurting Fox's stock price. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: “The evidence developed in this civil proceeding,” Judge Eric M. Davis wrote, demonstrates that it “is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.” @rupertmurdoch's Fox will go to trial https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anthony Zurcher / @awzurcher: Fox is one step closer to owing Dominion Voting a *lot* of money. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The judge's decision represents a major legal setback for Fox News and sets the stage for an agonizing weeks long trial in which some of their highest ranking execs and most prominent hosts could be called to the stand to testify about 2020 election lies.. https://www.cnn.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: After multiple failed attempts to have the case thrown out, a judge now says Fox will need to face a jury in its defamation suit. https://www.reuters.com/...
Greg Dworkin / @demfromct: reporters really, really, really have to stop treating Fox News as a legit outlet They deliberately lie. https://twitter.com/...
RL Miller / @rl_miller: WOW. This is a very strong pro-Dominion ruling. Very little left for Fox to try beyond “how much money does Fox owe, and which Fox entity owes it.” short legal thread starting https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: this whole ruling. I can't read it fast enough. my goodness gracious. really something. https://twitter.com/...
@reuterslegal: A jury will decide whether Fox defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false vote-rigging claims aired by Fox News after the 2020 US election, a Delaware judge ruled https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@chancery_daily: fox's motions for summary judgment denied in the dominion case, dominion's motion granted in part, denied in part opinion available here: https://courts.delaware.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Dominion released the slides they DIDN'T show in court last week, and one includes a new email from Rupert Murdoch in which he weighs in on when Fox should call the election for Biden. Murdoch: “Whenever we do it, it will all be over.” https://twitter.com/...
Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal: Fox News Defamation Case Cleared for Trial
@JillWineBanks@ohai.social: Judge grants summary judgement to Dominion on the issue of the falsity of Fox's reporting and sends question of malice of Fox to trial. I predict evidence wil support Dominion in its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox. …
Drew Taylor / The Wrap: Judge Orders Fox News-Dominion Defamation Case to Trial
Karl Rasmussen / Sports Illustrated:
Nielsen: the NCAA women's basketball tournament semifinals averaged 4.5M viewers on ESPN's platforms, the highest average on record for the Women's Final Four — The Women's Final Four captivated millions across the country on Friday evening, and the viewership numbers back it up.
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Kevin Draper / New York Times: Iowa's Win Over South Carolina Was a Hit for ESPN, With 5.5 Million Viewers
Jordan Hart / Insider: Iowa's Caitlin Clark is captivating basketball fans — here's how the college star's NIL value compares to fellow women's college players
@espnpr: #WFinalFour 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒 across ESPN platforms to become the most-viewed #NCAAWBB semis (4.5M avg viewers) in ESPN history 🏆@IowaWBB vs. @GamecockWBB | 5.5M viewers | Peak: 6.6M 🏆@LSUwbkb vs. @HokiesWBB | 3.4M viewers | Peak: 5M 🏆2 most-viewed 🏀 games ever on @ESPNPlus https://twitter.com/...
Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports: Caitlin Clark Pulls Most-Watched Women's Semifinal
Rodger Sherman / The Ringer: Winners and Losers of the Final Four
Cori Close / @coachcoriclose: Women's sports are a good business investment. #INVESTinWomen https://twitter.com/...
Cody Worsham / @codyworsham: The LSU-Virginia Tech lead-in averaged 3.4 million, up 57% from last year and the most-watched early semifinal on record. Outside of Iowa-South Carolina, the Tigers' win ranks as the most-watched national semifinal — early or late — since 2012. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/ ...
Anthony Riccobono / ClutchPoints: Caitlin Clark, Hawkeyes' Final Four upset makes NCAAW history not seen since 2004
@paulsen_smw: Iowa-SC averages 5.5M viewers on ESPN (fast-nationals) — Most-watched women's national semifinal on record — Most-watched women's tournament game since '04 — Most-watched CBB game on ESPN (men or women) since '08 https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/ ...
Dr. Lindsey Darvin / @drlindseydarvin: Massive gains, record highs, for Women's Final Four: ▪️Iowa vs. South Carolina averaged 5.5 million viewers ▪️peaked with 6.6 million viewers ▪️most-watched college basketball game on the ESPN networks since Duke-North Carolina men's game in 2008 (5.6M) https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/ ...
Chris Hassel / @hassel_chris: We all knew Iowa/South Carolina was going to be HUGE but @paulsen_smw is reporting that it was the most watched ESPN college bball game (MEN INCLUDED) in 15 years!!! https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/ ...
Drew Taylor / The Wrap:
CBS' 60 Minutes faces a backlash after promoting Lesley Stahl's interview of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, scheduled to be broadcast on April 2 — The CBS news magazine profiles the congresswoman who questioned whether 9/11 happened and defended the events of Jan. 6 in an upcoming interview
Discussion:
@60minutes, CBS News, @mollyjongfast, @fawfulfan, @mtgreenee, @briannawu, @zigmanfreud, @andrewkimmel, @marston4ca42, @neontaster, Forbes, @realdeancain, Mediaite, @adamkinzinger, @katiehill4ca, @lindyli, @7veritas4, @elienyc, @vabvox, @sawyerhackett, @kaivanshroff, @anandwrites, @blackamazon, @petestrzok, @david_hemond, @gloriacampos, @professajay, @sifill_, @repriggleman, @victorshi2020, @markjacob16, @bryanbehar, @jemelehill, @thewrap, @davidcorndc, @mehdirhasan, @meidastouch and Decider
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@60minutes: Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn't afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes. https://60minutes.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Keith Zubrow / CBS News: MTG on Ukraine war opposition
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Attention is currency and 60 minutes is spending its currency on the Jewish space lasers woman https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: I am going to cut against the grain here and say this interview was probably worth doing. Like it or not, Greene holds a lot of power in the GOP. She helped defuse the food fight over the Speakership and got McCarthy the gavel. Americans deserve to see what she actually believes. https://twitter.com/...
Marjorie Taylor Greene / @mtgreenee: It was an honor to spend a few days with the legendary icon Leslie Stahl and talented crew @60Minutes. Leslie is a trailblazer for women in journalism. And while we may disagree on some issues, I respect her greatly. Tune in tomorrow 7 pm ET on CBS. https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think Lesley Stahl has decades of asking politicians incredibly brutal questions on camera, and it's uncharitable to assume this will be a puff piece. If you don't want 60 minutes to cross examine her, whose job is it? https://twitter.com/...
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: It's now “insane” for 60 Minutes to simply interview a prominent member of the same congressional caucus to which you recently belonged?! 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kimmel / @andrewkimmel: Giving a larger platform to this antisemitic troll - what the fuck are you thinking @60Minutes @LesleyRStahl https://twitter.com/...
Regina M / @marston4ca42: It's not insane. It's a planned effort to normalize fascism. #Boycott60Minutes https://twitter.com/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: Nobody calls her MTG. They just use it to save characters in tweets. https://twitter.com/...
Dean Cain / @realdeancain: Do what? Interview someone with whom you disagree? https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite: Critics Pounce On ‘60 Minutes’ Interview With ‘In Your Face’ Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘What a Fall From Grace’
Katie Hill / @katiehill4ca: It's mortifying that @60minutes is giving her the time of day. https://twitter.com/...
Lindy Li / @lindyli: 60 Minutes just torched its legacy, which took decades to painstakingly build This is what happens when you elevate a raging bigot and antisemitic conspiracy theorist who incited terrorism against the United States No forgiveness. No clemency https://twitter.com/...
Elie Mystal / @elienyc: Legacy media really looks at these white supremacists and fascists and thinks “how can we help them?” https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: Why are you giving the respected platform of @60Minutes to a seditionist white supremacist antiSemitic racist homophobic transphobic hater who has literally called for civil war, accused Jews of manipulating the criminal justice system and attacked children? WHY? https://twitter.com/...
Sawyer Hackett / @sawyerhackett: She isn't afraid to share in-your-face opinions, like believing the murder of 17 children was a false flag operation. This is garbage. https://twitter.com/...
Kaivan Shroff / @kaivanshroff: It's not that the media didn't learn anything from 2016. It's that they learned exactly how dangerous repackaging extremists like this is — and they've decided to go all in. Shame on 60 Minutes. This will permanently tarnish the brand and it should. https://twitter.com/...
@anandwrites: So many of us in the media were trained to find these seemingly neutral ways of framing extreme ideas. “Intense,” “in-your-face.” But this training doesn't work for the moment we're in. These aren't intense opinions. They're a recipe for the end of liberal democracy. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: CBS has all white panels on anti fascism and MTG but yeah Twitter being gone is a “joke” https://twitter.com/...
Pete Strzok / @petestrzok: Haven't had domestic divisions like this in 50 years. Maybe 150. Imagine Morley Safer and Mike Wallace watching. Wonder what they'd think. https://twitter.com/...
David Hemond / @david_hemond: Ed Murrow established CBS as a world leader in news, famously confronted Joe McCarthy before a national audience with the shame of McCarthy's lies. Today's CBS takes one of McCarthy's heirs, gives her a national platform to disseminate lies. We can draw appropriate conclusions. https://twitter.com/...
Gloria Campos / @gloriacampos: I doubt Stahl will go easy on her; let's wait & see. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Coupet / @professajay: I think some folk can look at white supremacists white this 30,000 foot view of curiosity, objectivity, and wonder, the kind one has at a panda at a zoo, without pause because they don't face any of the consequences. Your suffering is immaterial to their bemusement. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: “Intense and in-your-face.” How about unhinged and toxic? https://twitter.com/...
Denver Riggleman / @repriggleman: I was the first to see Greene's texts to Mark Meadows...pure batshittery Platforming a woman who called for “Marshall” law, believes in Q, a 9/11 Truther, thought space lasers started a fire, believes in broken algorithms, is a FBI and Antifa false-flagger and said Pelosi was... https://twitter.com/...
Victor Shi / @victorshi2020: & for those who don't believe it's real, here. Even just the language in this Tweet is revolting. Words like “isn't afraid” make her seem like she's courageous and brave when she isn't. They make her actions sound justified when they aren't. This is terrible. Shame on CBS. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: The decision by “60 Minutes” to profile Marjorie Taylor Greene shows that CBS is as desperate for attention and as eager to mainstream insanity as she is. https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Behar / @bryanbehar: Sorry @60Minutes. Being a “virulent anti-semite who wants to violently destroy our Union” isn't the same thing as being “opinionated.” https://twitter.com/...
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: There's nothing wrong with interviewing and profiling controversial, even despicable people, but this framing is shit. There's also a fine line between engaging provocative people and platforming stupid. This is platforming stupid. https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Yep. A friendly chat with a cutely nicknamed antisemitic QAnoner who enthusiastically appeared at a white nationalist conference with a Hitler fanboy. Oh yeah, she also amplified calls for murdering Obama and Pelosi. And she sure ain't afraid to share opinions. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: So brazen anti-Muslim, antisemitic, anti-trans bigotry, and insane conspiracies about Hillary Clinton torturing kids and murdering her opponents, are reduced by a storied American news brand merely to ‘intense and in-your-face’. This is equal parts embarrassing and reckless. https://twitter.com/...
Maurice Oniang'o / Reuters Institute:
An interview with Kenyan data journalists Eunice Magwambo, Purity Mukami, and Juliet Atellah on data journalism's impact, training reporters, and key challenges — Eunice Magwambo, Purity Mukami and Juliet Atellah discuss their work and the challenges faced by data journalists in their country
Associated Press:
The Taliban close Sadai Banowan, Afghanistan's only women-run radio station, for playing music during Ramadan; the station launched in 2013 and has eight staff — A women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday.
Discussion:
@pressfreedom: #Afghanistan: “The Taliban should immediately reverse its decision shuttering the Radio Sada e Banowan broadcaster and allow the outlet to reopen and work freely,” said @CPJAsia Program Coordinator @behlihyi. https://cpj.org/...
@declarationon: Lest we forget our Afghan sisters: Taliban close a women-run station for playing music. https://apnews.com/...
Robert Horvitz / @open_spectrum: Afghanistan: “The Taliban have closed a local women's radio station in the northeastern province of Badakhshan for broadcasting music... Radio Sada-e-Banowan (Voice of Women Radio)” - https://www.voanews.com/...
@behlihyi: The Taliban have deprived #Afghan women of everything from jobs to education. Shutting down a women-run radio station shows there is no reprieve for the Afghan media even during the holy month of #Ramadan. Stop cracking down on #journalism @pressfreedom https://cpj.org/...
@news_pug: A Taliban official says a women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast was closed for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan. During their previous rule in the late 1990s, the Taliban barred most television, radio and ... https://apnews.com/...
@pressfreedom: @CPJAsia @behlihyi The Taliban have deprived Afghan women of everything from jobs to education. Shutting down a women-run radio station shows there is no reprieve for the Afghan media even during the holy month of Ramadan. The Taliban must stop cracking down on journalism. https://cpj.org/...
Salma / @salmma1997: Taliban Close Women's Radio Station, for Airing Music. But a local journalist said that radio programs didn't include any music. “Taliban claimed that music was aired, but they did not say when &what type of music was aired,” the journalist said. #FreeWesa https://www.voanews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marie Lamensch / @marielamensch84: More hate against women. The Taliban has shut down the only women-run radio station in Afghanistan. https://apnews.com/...
Fox News: Taliban closes Afghanistan's only women-run radio station for playing music during Ramadan
Bob Cronin / Newser: Taliban Take Radio Station Run by Women Off the Air
Roshan Noorzai / Voice of America: Taliban Close Women's Radio Station for Airing Music
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