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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
National Enquirer's work is not any kind of journalism, not even tabloidism; it is threat of publication as a bludgeon, with a clear political agenda — The tweet from Jeffrey P. Bezos, announcing his stunning blog post, came Thursday at 5:51 p.m. — And for a few long minutes, the chattering classes shut up.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg: The National Enquirer Picked the Wrong Man to Bully
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline all hail @hayleymiller01! http://www.newyorker.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “Publication as bludgeon"@Sulliview's apt characterization of the National Enquirer's editorial model, as exposed by @JeffBezos http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times: Why Jeff Bezos Went to Medium With His Message
April Glaser / Slate: Most Sextortion Victims Aren't Billionaires
Robin Givhan / @robingivhan: “But what is clear are the Enquirer's true colors. This isn't any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.” @Sulliview spells it out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nina Bernstein / @ninabernstein1: “what is clear are the Enquirer's true colors. This isn't any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.” @Sulliview http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kit Lovelace / @kitlovelace: If you feel you need some context on what the National Enquirer/American Media, Inc. (AMI) is - and why it is suddenly so deep in the soup these days, I wrote a long series on it... https://twitter.com/...
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Sources: SDNY received information about key exchanges concerning Bezos and AMI and is reviewing it for possible immunity agreement violations — - Authorities were given publisher's missives to Amazon founder — Potential jeopardy for AMI's previous deal with prosecutors
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Kara Swisher / New York Times: Jeff Bezos Isn't Afraid of Total Exposure
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: Bezos Allegations Could Upend American Media's Deal With Feds
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Twitter served as the spark and initial validator for the Bezos blog post on Medium, once again showing how instrumental Twitter is for news — Jeff Bezos' highly personal blog post last night was a bombshell in many ways: it served as a middle finger to blackmailing bullies …
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Julie Bort / Business Insider: Medium, the blog site Jeff Bezos used to attack the Enquirer, won't say whether the post violated …
Andréa López / @bluechoochoo: Twitter can be both broadcast *and* viral dispersion. It's gonna be where things happen, and even when it's not where things happen, it's gonna be where you find out about it. pic.twitter.com/UWXAIaeRgj
Brandon Borrman / @bborrman: “The Jeff Bezos blog publication may seem tangential to Twitter's operation, but I think it underlines the substantial influence and growing instrumental importance of the platform.” http://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
Marina Hyde / The Guardian: In the age of Trump and Bezos, public life is one big smutty ancient Greek vase
Steve Rubel / @steverubel: “Twitter is the place where the people who write the news get their news.” http://www.theverge.com/...
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast: Bezos Could Put National Enquirer Brass in Jail
Washington Post:
AMI says it believes it acted lawfully in its Bezos reporting and characterizes its actions as “good faith negotiations” but will investigate the claims — The parent company of the National Enquirer said it would thoroughly investigate extortion claims by Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos …
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David Smith / The Guardian: Jeff Bezos ‘blackmail’ claim puts focus on National Enquirer links to Trump
Todd Spangler / Variety: National Enquirer Parent Says It Will Investigate Jeff Bezos Extortion Claims
Todd Spangler / Variety: Jeff Bezos vs. National Enquirer: Did AMI Break Any Laws?
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: National Enquirer publisher believes it ‘acted lawfully’ on Bezos story, vows to investigate matter
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Full AMI statement here http://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mak / Slate: Who Is Gavin de Becker?
Kenzie Bryant / Vanity Fair: What to Do If You're Feeling Sympathy for Jeff Bezos, a Billionaire, After the Blog
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: Jeff Bezos goes from geek to National Enquirer gossip fodder
Jeff Bezos:
Jeff Bezos publishes letters from National Enquirer owner AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's reporting
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Jeff Bezos / @jeffbezos: I've written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI. You can find it here: http://medium.com/...
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: I and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the National Enquirer's arrangement with Trump fielded similar “stop digging or we'll ruin you” blackmail efforts from AMI. (I did not engage as I don't cut deals with subjects of ongoing reporting.) http://twitter.com/...
Itay Hod / The Wrap: Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into National Enquirer Owner Over Jeff Bezos' Accusations
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: Washington Posts @RoigFranzia says Bezos' team thinks it's possible that the text leaks were politically motivated and that a “government entity” accessed the Bezos texts and hoo boy that's certainly something pic.twitter.com/MQuzNFbCed
Itay Hod / The Wrap: Meet Gavin de Becker, the Security Expert in Charge of Jeff Bezos' Investigation
Jack Shafer / Politico: What's the National Enquirer So Afraid Of?
Jefferson Graham / USA Today: Is Medium cool again? Bezos shows it as a blog platform of choice to reveal and respond
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post: He's studied thousands of threatening letters. Now he's at the center of Bezos's blackmail claims against a tabloid.
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: Bezos' investigator Gavin de Becker does not think that Bezos' phone was hacked - instead he thinks a “government entity” might have got hold of Bezos' text messages and photos and gave them to the National Enquirer (h/t @ceciliakang) http://twitter.com/...
John R. Schindler / Observer: Inside the Spy Scandal at the Heart of Jeff Bezos' War With the National Enquirer
Liam Stack / New York Times: Excerpts From Jeff Bezos' Blog Post Accusing National Enquirer of Blackmail
Ellen Cranley / Business Insider: How the National Enquirer's David Pecker, ‘the bad boy of magazines,’ …
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: The Debate Over Startups and Tipping Could Be Just Heating Up
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Tucker Carlson Mocks Media Coverage of Jeff Bezos: 'He's a Powerful Masculine Bear!'
Casey Newton / The Verge: Jeff Bezos made Medium cool for once
Leigh Honeywell / @hypatiadotca: Bezos's response is actually a textbook example of how to respond to extortion. His consultant, Gavin de Becker, literally did write the textbook - here's the section on extortion from his book “The Gift of Fear”: pic.twitter.com/Wt7JDNhBCl
Bloomberg: Sources: SDNY received information about key exchanges concerning Bezos and AMI and is reviewing it for possible immunity agreement violations
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: The news here is that Bezos has laid out AMI's “catch-and-kill” tactic in greater and more explicit detail than we've seen before. Luckily for him (and unluckily for AMI), he's just rich enough to not be scared. https://medium.com/...
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal: Bezos Security Chief Has Protected Stars for Decades
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Nice one @lpolgreen pic.twitter.com/f0Uq6lnaQn
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Pecker was granted immunity in the Cohen case. http://twitter.com/...
Paul R. La Monica / CNN: Bezos' private life is no concern to investors
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: What Jeff Bezos' intimate-message breach teaches us about digital security
Yun Li / CNBC: Amazon shares have fallen since personal woes for Bezos began, but analysts say not to worry
Yashar Ali / @yashar: HOLY COW. In a medium post, @JeffBezos says that David Pecker and AMI threatened to release embarrassing photos unless Bezos agreed to stop investigating them and released a statement saying he didn't have anything on them! He included emails in the post. http://medium.com/...
Molly Olmstead / Slate: The National Enquirer Started Doing Shady Things Long Before This Jeff Bezos Scandal
Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson: Amazing that the National Enquirer has been so repulsive that the whole Internet is rooting for a billionaire who got busted for an affair.
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: Jeff Bezos Wrote a Blog Post
Sara Jerde / Adweek: National Enquirer Unlikely to Lose Advertisers Following Alleged Blackmail Attempts Against Jeff Bezos
John Bowden / The Hill: Reporter: Bezos investigator believes ‘government entity’ may have obtained texts
Jeva Lange / The Week: Jeff Bezos and the end of the sensational sext
Tom Krazit / GeekWire: Strange bedfellows: American Media appears to host the National Enquirer on Amazon Web Services
Justin Baragona / Contemptor: Lou Dobbs Wonders Why Jeff Bezos Didn't Pay Off David Pecker: ‘Just Buy the Thing!’
Melissa Locker / Fast Company: The continuing adventures of Jeff Bezos, David Pecker, AMI, and Trump
Greg Miller / @gregpmiller: Does anyone believe that the president who called on Russia to hack opponent's emails would hesitate to call on US intel/security agencies to dig dirt on perceived billionaire nemesis? The only far-fetched part is that US intel/security agencies would do his bidding. http://twitter.com/...
Ellen McGirt / Fortune: Bezos Puts Pecker In His Pocket
Ryan Harrington / Melville House Books: Bezos's dick pics may have unlocked a back channel of Saudi influence in the U.S.
Gian Volpicelli / WIRED UK: Jeff Bezos has given a masterclass in how to respond to blackmail
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark: What David Pecker Could Have Learned From Paul Manafort
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times: National Enquirer Heir Whacks Pecker Over Bezos Dick-Pic Blackmail
Tracykbloom / KTLA: Jeff Bezos' Bombshell Could Lead to Other Alleged National Enquirer Plots Being Exposed
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Always thought that conspiracy theories about Enquirer's Bezos expose were too... conspiratorial. Easy to understand why they'd chase a story about the world's richest man — running one of the world's best known companies - having an affair. Easy to understand how they'd get it.
Theodore Schleifer / Recode: Jeff Bezos used to fight the spotlight. Now the world's wealthiest person is surrendering.
Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson: OK, not the whole Internet. But most of it.
Anna North / Vox: Jeff Bezos admitted to sending nude selfies. Who cares?
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast: Bezos: National Enquirer Threatened Me With a ‘D*ck Pick’
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: I aspire to one day have “fuck you, publish my dick pics” money. https://medium.com/...
Rafi Schwartz / Splinter: Jeff Bezos' Team Reportedly Thinks the Feds Might Have Leaked His Dick Pics
Marian Ansah / Citi Newsroom: Amazon boss accuses tabloid of blackmail
Michael Walsh / @dkahanerules: Watch the media cheer the Bond villain over the actual media guy. http://twitter.com/...
Jim Roberts / @nycjim: Not to be lost in the Jeff Bezos story is the fact that the publisher of the National Enquirer is very very afraid of the information that Bezos's investigator had uncovered. http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Leigh Honeywell / @hypatiadotca: I've done a lot of work over the years with folks dealing with non-consensual intimate images (NCII aka “revenge porn") and it's a bit heartening to see someone with a lot of power just flip the bird at folks targeting him that way. I wish everyone I worked with had that option.
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “A decade ago, blogging heralded a new and ‘golden era for journalism.’ Now it is this.” An “ouch, this is too real” take from @yayitsrob @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Above the fold on the front page of Friday's @washingtonpost: “Bezos makes extortion allegation” http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carla Herreria / HuffPost: Jeff Bezos Says National Enquirer Threatened To Publish Nude Photos As Blackmail
Richard Moorhead / Big League Politics: FLASHBACK: Jeff Bezos Supported Gawker in Peter Thiel's Media Lawsuit
Maria Shriver / @mariashriver: I think what @JeffBezos just did is brilliant. Every part of it. Everything he said. I especially loved his line that if he can't push back, who can? Push away, Jeff. Push back. http://twitter.com/...
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: 2/ —Loser,,, AMI. They went out of business tonight, just don't know it yet. This echoes of Thiel vs. Gawker, and will have similar outcome.
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I don't love @JeffBezos in general, but I LOVE Jeff Bezos in particular here. http://twitter.com/...
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: What's remarkable is that Dylan Howard is still sending emails like this after everything that just transpired with Karen McDougal and Trump. I mean, he just struck a deal with federal prosecutors LAST YEAR: https://www.wsj.com/... pic.twitter.com/c3vFxHezxw
Michael Steele / @michaelsteele: Bravo @JeffBezos! Looks like you caught David Pecker in his own zipper! #ExtortionExposed https://medium.com/...
Xeni Jardin / @xeni: Big fan of Gavin DeBecker's work. My cancer therapist told me to read that book. It helped me live. http://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: 1. The Bezos/National Enquirer business is a reminder that there has been a longstanding affinity between authoritarian politics and gossip mongering tabloids, going back at least a century to William Randolph Hearst.
Dmgs / @dmgshuey: “Several days ago, an #AMI leader advised us that Mr. #Pecker is “apoplectic” about our investigation. For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve.” The threat was in writing! #Bezos #NatEnquirer https://medium.com/...
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: Why would AMI try to extort Jeff Bezos—the wealthiest man on the planet—and force him to say publicly that the coverage of his affair was not “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”? We all can venture a good guess, but we need to verify. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: Bezos said the Enquirer wanted him to make a false statement to the media that he and a security consultant “have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.” He declined to do so. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
AccomplishedTheHat / @popehat: From now on, whenever any dude says anything positive or even neutral about AMI or @NatEnquirer, you've got to figure they've got his dick pics.
Tom Lee / @tjl: When the dust settles the most mind boggling part of all this is going to be that the guy who controls AWS and the Washington Post felt Medium was his best option for publishing something
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 2. Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man in the world (who happens to be CEO of the 2nd most valuable company in the world), published an email from a top AMI exec noting that they had Bezos' dick pics and threatening to publish them. I will never get over this. http://medium.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: A source familiar with the matter tells me that Lavely & Singer, Marty Singer's law firm, did not know in advance that Bezos would be posting this essay. Nor did they know that Bezos would be publishing the threatening emails that AMI sent them. They found out when we did..wow. http://twitter.com/...
AccomplishedTheHat / @popehat: So where is the line between settlement negotiation and extortion? Turns out it's really complicated, as @renato_mariotti pointed out. It's been litigated a lot, as you would expect, in California, which is sort of the Florida of law. This is a story of two cases. /1
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Lots of folks sharing this, but I think it would be particularly troubling and worrisome if Amazon used its position as the hosting company for The National Enquirer to extract revenge that way, no matter how despicable AMI may be. Let's not encourage that https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: My Hardball appearance was bumped due to the breaking story that the National Enquirer has dick pics of the founder of Amazon dot com is a sentence I never thought I'd be uttering as a historian.
Richard Gadsden / @po8crg: Presumably Bezos could just adopt the Thiel / Gawker tactic of offering to fund everyone else's lawsuits against AMI, which would make their business completely untenable.
AccomplishedTheHat / @popehat: But, I mean, in any decent society, AMI's lawyers would be shunned, their faces spat in, every back turned to them.
AccomplishedTheHat / @popehat: I think @renato_mariotti is right that it's very tricky to prosecute AMI for extortion for this, though we can certainly hope that all of their lawyers trip and fall eye-first onto an ice pick.
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: I have some people saying “Who cares? This only affects the rich & famous.” To which I say: You are completely wrong.
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: The news is also that Pecker, who has had relationships with both Trump and Jared Kushner, is having this sent as he is also a witness receiving immunity in a federal case. https://twitter.com/...
Michael R. Bromwich / @mrbromwich: Good for Bezos. This takes guts. The SDNY should nullify AMI and Pecker's non-prosecution agreement and prosecute them for extortion and their campaign finance-related crimes. Throw the book at the whole sordid lot of them. http://twitter.com/...
Michael Avenatti / @michaelavenatti: .@jeffbezos deserves enormous respect for what he has just done. I don't know any better way to say it than this: “Grandes Cojones.” http://twitter.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: So this seems important. Bezos is suggesting, not just that he was subject to an extortion attempt, but that this is actually common practice for AMI pic.twitter.com/Urol2gQy5C
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: Jeff Bezos goes full on Keyser Söze on AMI. Good for him! Now it's time for law enforcement to finish the job. http://twitter.com/...
Trevor Smith / @mrtsmith81: Not a bad time to remind folks Trump and Kushner threatened to have the morning joe hosts followed by AMI “investigators” because he wanted better coverage https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: He really is by temperament the right person to own a giant newspaper. The mix of “buy ink by the barrel” righteousness, modest rebelliousness and BDE of calling a bully's bluff are perfect journalistic traits. (But he should give the reporters better benefits). https://twitter.com/...
Kate Seamons / Newser: Bezos' Blackmail Claims Get a Response From AMI
@fritinancy: I had to look it up, but Bezos did not, in fact, invent the word “complexifier.” The verb “complexify” has been in use since 1830. (Oh, and you should read this righteous post accusing David Pecker and AMI of “extortion and blackmail.") https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: 15/ To make this out as an extortion case, prosecutors would have to argue that the claims Bezos had against AMI constituted “money or property” of Bezos and that the whole settlement proposal was merely window dressing for the extortion of Bezos by AMI.
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: 16/ You can make those arguments, but it would be a very hard trial to win. And that's without considering a potential First Amendment defense. AMI would also have an advice of counsel defense, because those terms appear to have been drafted by a lawyer.
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: 21/ As I mentioned earlier, moves like this are fairly common when there are legal disputes between people or companies as a way for one side to gain leverage over the other. It is despicable but I have had no success convincing federal prosecutors to bring charges. /end
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: 8/ The terms explicitly stated that if Bezos didn't abide by the deal, AMI could publish the material. To be clear, when I say “terms,” I'm using a legal word—this is drafted as if they are terms in a settlement agreement between AMI and Bezos. That is important.
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: 3/ In the Medium post, Bezos explained that he hired someone to conduct an investigation of the National Enquirer and its parent company. He notes that there are “now several independent investigations looking into this matter,” suggesting there are criminal investigations.
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: THREAD: Did the National Enquirer and its parent company commit a crime or otherwise break the law in its recent actions towards Jeff Bezos? https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: A tech billionaire The freedom of the press Talk of dick pics One-time Trump friend called Pecker Story broken by blog post This Bezos story is about zeitgeisty as you can get.
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: .@JeffBezos is better at crediting Daily Beast scoops than half of the editors at the big papers out there.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: A clearer case of blackmail, it's harder to imagine. Mr. Pecker could be going to jail. “No thank you, Mr. Pecker"-Jeff Bezos http://link.medium.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: I would urge you to think of people much less wealthy than Bezos who found themselves in a similar situation with a tabloid — they are left feeling scared, alone and like they have no other choice but to capitulate to the demands, whatever they are. https://medium.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: National Enquirer/AMI apparently thought it had the goods on @jeffbezos. In this post, he shoved them right up their corporate ass. http://medium.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Further background: SDNY recently let AMI off the hook for a campaign finance violation in the Michael Cohen case based on their promise that they'd be good boys and girls. If they've been ignoring that promise doing other dirty deeds, that's embarrassing. https://www.justice.gov/... pic.twitter.com/XmQz6FLXFJ
Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile: Jeff Bezos has a blog post about what he says is the National Inquirer trying to shake him down over semi-nude photos they obtained of him. He puts the email from the Inquirer and his response. http://medium.com/...
Jennifer Jacobs / @jenniferjjacobs: Jeff Bezos, CEO of http://amazon.com/ and owner of the Washington Post, is accusing the National Enquirer and its owner David Pecker of extortion and blackmail in connection with an expose of Bezos's relationship with TV personality Lauren Sanchez. http://twitter.com/...
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: Question for people who know stuff about the law: how bad is this for AMI and the goons who sent these emails? https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: One legal aspect that might interest you https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: This alleged extortionate conduct by AMI is, among other things, intensely embarrassing to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And it is not advisable to be intensely embarrassing to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Benjamin Wittes / @benjaminwittes: Maybe now that @JeffBezos has been subject to this unbelievable extortion people will take #sextortion more seriously. Here's some material on the subject.
Heidi Li Feldman / @heidilifeldman: Credit where it is due, Jeff Bezos has this right. https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/OPkwgGLPqY
Gillian Brockell / @gbrockell: This Dylan Howard dude calls himself a journalist? Everyone knows it's “d*ck pic” not “d*ck pick.” Sheesh. https://medium.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 3. I mean the fact that David Pecker and AMI were attempting to blackmail the richest man in the world while they are cooperating with the US Attorney on the Trump investigation is something else. I mean....I will truly never get over this post. https://medium.com/...
Kevinbiegel / @kbiegel: It doesn't matter how you feel about Jeff Bezos — thank God someone stood up to David Pecker and the rest of the turds at the National Enquirer. https://medium.com/...
Shira Tarlo / @shiratarlo: In a medium post, Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, says if he “can't stand up to this kind of extortion,” namely revenge porn, “how many people can?” https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/NjHhdMZbTP
@anildash: Well, there's no point in being the richest guy in the world if you can't shut down scumbags who threaten to extort you for revealing their corruption. Trump's compatriots are so amoral that I imagine even Bezos' biggest critics are on his side on this one. http://twitter.com/...
Donna Rapado / @donnarapado: “I was made an offer I couldnt refuse. Or at least that's what top ppl at Nat'l Enq thought. It emboldened them to put it all in writing. Rather than capitulate to extortion & blackmail, I decided to publish what they sent me, despite personal cost & embarrassment they threaten.” http://twitter.com/...
Karim Sadjadpour / @ksadjadpour: Remarkable piece from Jeff Bezos, exposing his attempted blackmailers. Includes this interesting nugget: “My stewardship of The Washington Post and my support of its mission, which will remain unswerving, is something I will be most proud of when I'm 90 and reviewing my life” http://twitter.com/...
Matt Karolian / @mkarolian: Bullies derive their power from fear. Once you become fearless, they become powerless. https://medium.com/...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: Pro-Saudi, pro-Trump tabloid company tried to blackmail billionaire owner of Washington Post using intimate pictures of him it obtained through as-yet unknown and likely illegal means http://twitter.com/...
Rachel Alexander / @rachelwalexande: This is wild. I also noticed in the grocery store checkout line that the Enquirer cover for this listed Bezos as “owner of the Washington Post” with nary a mention of Amazon. http://twitter.com/...
Dan Barker / @danbarker: Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, has published a series of emails from the National Enquirer threatening to publish nude photographs of him unless he meets their demands. https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/hjs07OvpH1
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: AMI is trying to blackmail Jeff Bezos, plain & simple. And Bezos just published the receipts. https://medium.com/...
Jesse Eisinger / @eisingerj: So the Natl Enquirer just tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos. Prosecutors probably should not reach non-prosecution agreements with companies that serially will extort & blackmail & break the law. #chickenshitclub #whitecollarcrimeepidemic https://medium.com/...
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press: Bezos says Enquirer threatened to publish revealing pics
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Ronan Farrow said he and at least one other journalist involved in stories about National Enquirer and Trump faced “blackmail” threats from AMI
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite: CNN Panel Shreds National Enquirer After Bezos Post: ‘Disgraceful Journalism, Appalling Behavior’
Aris Folley / The Hill: National Enquirer lawyer accused of threatening Bezos worked at Amazon for years
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: In light of Bezos's claims, worth returning to this story we did at @NewYorker, breaking the news that the same Enquirer editor Bezos dealt with was also behind a secret collaboration with Harvey Weinstein to dig up dirt on accusers: https://www.newyorker.com/... pic.twitter.com/D6jxc88zDl
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: “In the process of reporting those stories, The Beast and a member of its staff were threatened by AMI's attorneys.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: They have done hugely important reporting and are always mentioned in the stories I do around AMI. Also important to recognize @JakePearsonProP and @JeffHorwitz for their work, sometimes in the face of considerable efforts to shut them down.
John Carreyrou / @johncarreyrou: My @WSJ colleagues @mrothfeld and @joe_palazzolo are the ones who broke the AMI catch-and-kill story. I feel the need to clarify that. http://twitter.com/...
Ted Bridis / @tbridis: We were warned explicitly by insiders that AMI had hired private investigators to dig into backgrounds of @AP journalists looking into the tabloid's efforts on behalf of Trump. Never saw evidence of this either way, and it didn't stop our reporting.
Rob Quinn / Newser: Ronan Farrow Says AMI Tried to Blackmail Him
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in August, Mohammed bin Salman met with Vice's Shane Smith to discuss a joint venture like the one the state has with Bloomberg and the Telegraph — One sunny afternoon in August on a yacht off the Red Sea coast, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Vice Media Executive …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: Year Before Killing, Saudi Prince Told Aide He Would Use ‘a Bullet’ on Jamal Khashoggi
@wsj: Saudi Arabia is building a media empire, seeking help from Western organizations like Bloomberg and Vice http://www.wsj.com/...
Michael Amon / @michaelkamon: Saudi Arabia is trying to build a media empire to counter Qatar and Iran and reshape its image in the West. It is seeking help from Vice, Bloomberg and others. @RoryWSJ @benoitfaucon @keachhagey http://www.wsj.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: One striking thing in this WSJ piece about how VICE works w/the Saudis to produce content on “social reforms,” is that 4 months after Saudi killed Khashoggi, VICE is still 'reviewing its deal," w/the Suadis...& that no one from VICE goes on the record http://www.wsj.com/...
Jack Crosbie / Splinter: Two Bad Guys Meet on Yacht
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Trump administration declines to submit a report to Congress on whether Saudi Arabia's crown prince is responsible for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi — The Trump administration declined Friday to submit a report to Congress determining whether Saudi Arabia's crown prince is personally responsible …
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Ken Dilanian / @kendilaniannbc: New: Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir on Jamal Khashoggi: “Mistakes happen. We acknowledge that this was a huge mistake.” Per @JoshNBCNews
Sen. Patrick Leahy / @senatorleahy: BREAKING: Leahy REAX On Report That The President Will Ignore Filing Deadline For Magnitsky Act Report On The Murder Of Jamal #Khashoggi @washingtonpost https://www.leahy.senate.gov/ ... pic.twitter.com/ghFOFagFW6
Karen Attiah / @karenattiah: The Saudis are nervous. They should be. #khashoggi https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Statement from @PENamerican pic.twitter.com/0aR0aARgtu
Hunter Walk:
Interview with Adam Davidson, co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, on audio talent, various kinds of podcasts, and how podcasting is maturing now — In the design of social apps, we'll sometimes talk about how there's a Friend Graph and an Interest Graph, and they don't always mix.
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TechCrunch, @hunterwalk, @arishapiro, @adamdavidson, @timslloyd, @hunterwalk and @hunterwalk
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Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Why Spotify is betting big on podcasting
@hunterwalk: Five Questions With @adamdavidson (@NewYorker Journalist, @planetmoney Cofounder & Generally Smart Person) some AMAZING stuff in here about podcasting, twitter, Trump http://hunterwalk.com/... [new blog post]
Ari Shapiro / @arishapiro: This is a great point, @adamdavidson arguing there's no such thing as the “podcast industry”: “We don't talk about the ‘video industry’ to refer to everything from your cousin's bar mitzvah video to some unboxer on YouTube to Better Call Saul to the latest Marvel blockbuster.” http://twitter.com/...
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: Thanks @hunterwalk for a very fun Q and A about podcasting and the joy of abaondoning twitter (sort of) http://hunterwalk.com/...
Tim Lloyd / @timslloyd: This is a good read. And this is a good point: “The skills required to produce a 3-minute story are wildly different from those required to produce a sustained podcast of, even, twenty minutes, let alone 60.” https://hunterwalk.com/... via @hunterwalk
@hunterwalk: “There's, like, 20 people who are true pros in long-form podcasting/audio production and pretty much every one of them has a job they like” - @adamdavidson
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Recode:
Gimlet's Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber on weighing remaining independent and being acquired, the days before the deal, and reach, data, and discoverability — Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode's Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media. — On Friday, Recode broke the news …
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Eric Johnson / Recode: Full Q&A: Fortune CEO Alan Murray on Recode Media
Cherie Hu / Billboard: Spotify's Acquisition of Gimlet & Anchor Does to Podcasts What It Can't Afford to Do to Music
Alan Murray / @alansmurray: Enjoyed talking to Peter Kafka about FORTUNE's future on Recode Media podcast http://www.recode.net/...
Jason Feifer / @heyfeifer: So curious: What's the return for people who put in $5K during Gimlet's 2014 equity crowdfund? I didn't have the money at the time, but always wished I had. http://twitter.com/...
Damon K / @dada_drummer: “I don't think you start a company and just be like, 'I don't care at all if I will eventually get rich from this company.'” Actually, a lot of us do start businesses exactly that way. And then we don't get rich from them. Funny how that works http://twitter.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: Super interesting part of this @pkafka podcast is how mature companies can deal with leaks in an even-keeled way and still respect the reporter who breaks them. http://www.recode.net/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Does The Spotify Gimlet Purchase Signal The End Of The Open World Of Podcasting?
Anna Washenko / RAIN News: Gimlet co-founders open up about sale to Spotify
Owen Williams / Charged:
Google touts its news initiatives, but essentially bars access to Google News for small publishers with its opaque policies and unrealistic output requirements — There's been a lot of discussion about the future of publishing over the last few years, particularly as Facebook traffic began cratering …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Capitol Forum, which focuses on M&A and government contract news, sues Bloomberg News, claiming Bloomberg is violating copyright's “hot news doctrine” and more — Capitol Forum, a Washington-based news service that focuses on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and government contracts …
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Erika Williams / courthousenews.com: Bloomberg Accused of Copying Rival's Reports
Thanks:@talkingbiznews
Reuters:
IAC's Vimeo generated $160M in revenue in 2018, up from $103.3M in 2017 as its subscribers grew to 952,000, up 9% YoY — Arjun Panchadar, Pushkala Aripaka — (Reuters) - Online video platform Vimeo's revenue jumped 54 percent last year as its subscriber base surpassed 950,000, its parent group IAC said on Thursday.
Washington Post:
Jill Abramson responds to plagiarism allegations, says some citations don't match with the right pages and some language is too close to sources, promises fixes — Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson responded Thursday to allegations that she plagiarized portions of her new book …
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Sean Illing / Vox: “I made mistakes”: Jill Abramson responds to plagiarism charges around her new book
Amy Brittain / @amyjbrittain: Browsing through the Post chapters in the Merchants of Truth and found this gem about “a young unknown” @Fahrenthold (Fact check: he had been at the Post for nearly 15 years when the 2016 campaign started and was well known for revelatory stories about the federal government) http://twitter.com/...
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Jill Abramson is trying to get away with plagiarism, and the top rungs of the media “thought leader” industry want to help her do it. Good @tomscocca read. https://hmmdaily.com/...
Melody Hahm / @melodyhahm: I had a chance to ask Jill Abramson about the numerous instances of plagiarism in Merchants of Truth.. and how she expects readers to, well, trust her. Here's how she responded. pic.twitter.com/qkSalrHpN4
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Jill Abramson says she will update her book following allegations of plagiarism. We found two additional examples where she appears to have lifted the work of others. http://www.cnn.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Jill Abramson lifted entire passages from other people's writing and then changed some words or phrases — as if to conceal the theft — and now refuses to admit that she plagiarized. How is this acceptable? Her book is about journalism! https://www.vox.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: Latest statement from NYT's former top editor Jill Abramson on plagiarism issue in her book: “The passages in question involve facts that should have been perfectly cited in my footnotes and weren't.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/zSUzXHMkoC
Christopher J. Scalia / @cjscalia: If any of my (many) plagiarizing students had ever said this to me, I would have laughed them all the way to the honor court. http://twitter.com/...
Ted McCormick / @mccormick_ted: Speaking professionally, this is a load of horseshit. Plagiarism is not an aesthetic decision. It's theft, and it is the act of a fraud. http://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “An endnote is not a license to copy another person's writing the way Abramson did; if you want to use the words that someone else wrote, you have to put them in quotation marks or otherwise set them off in the text, with clear attribution right there” http://hmmdaily.com/...
Sean Illing / @seanilling: So I just interviewed Jill Abramson about, well, you know. I appreciate her doing this. I really do. You can judge her responses for yourself. https://www.vox.com/...
Jaya Saxena / @jayasax: JA: Not enough new media people went to J-school how can we trust their integrity? Also JA: “What we're talking about here are sets of facts that I borrowed; obviously, the language is too close in some cases, but I'm not lifting original ideas.” https://www.vox.com/...
Rebeca Ibarra / @rebeibarrac: Abramson hails from the NYTimes, and the Times has a somewhat annoying habit of not attributing reporting to other outlets... so... not so shocking? http://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: Easy solution if citing other people feels like too much of a pain: use some of that million dollar advance to do more original reporting and go to more primary sources http://twitter.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: I'm a blogger and an academic. I write “according to” and “as this person said” sentences all the damn time. I get the temptation here, but man this kind of “KNEEL BEFORE PROSE STYLE” excuse pisses me off. http://twitter.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: I've long admired Jill Abramson, but the definition of plagiarism she gives here is a...looser one than has been true at the publications I've worked at, and I think it shows less generosity in citation than is appropriate. http://www.vox.com/...
Virginia Hughes / @virginiahughes: Which is worse for a veteran journalist: plagiarizing and then pretending not to know what plagiarism is, or plagiarizing and actually not knowing what plagiarism is? http://www.vox.com/...
John R Stanton / @dcbigjohn: Apparently Jill Abramson describes me as looking like an “ex-convict” which on one hand is hilarious because it shows just how much of a goddamn dinosaur she is and how absolutely out of touch she is with reality.
Gabe Fleisher / @wakeup2politics: If you read Wake Up To Politics, you know one of the most common phrases I write is “according to.” Does it make the newsletter “clunky” at times? Maybe. But it's well worth it to give credit to the journalists whose fantastic reporting I cite. http://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I don't know where this idea came from that it's only plagiarism if you take “original ideas,” but it's incorrect. If you copy a paragraph worth of facts from someone else's work and don't indicate where it came from or put it in quotes, that's plagiarism
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: “I'm not lifting original ideas” http://hmmdaily.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: As far as I can tell, Jill Abramson doesn't believe what she did qualifies as plagiarism: “The language is too close in some cases, but I'm not lifting original ideas. It's not an intentional theft or taking someone's original ideas — it's just the facts.” http://www.vox.com/...
James Gleick / @jamesgleick: Bizarre indeed! What does this even mean: “the practice of approving borrowed phrases”? I don't know anyone in “the book world” who gives plagiarism “a pass.” http://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: This is both a very surprising thing for a newspaper reporter and editor to say, and also, perhaps, not so surprising given how the NYT tends to treat facts uncovered by other outlets http://www.vox.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Miranda Yaver / @mirandayaver: Dear students: Don't plagiarize and use the explanation of “I was just trying to write a seamless narrative.” You'll still get an F. http://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Duns / @jeremyduns: I think this is correct - a lot seems to depend on the power of the plagiarist, or on how much they're valued by culture at large. Fareed Zakaria, Malcolm Gladwell, Roberto Saviano and Bob Dylan are all untouchable for this reason - and that the cognitive dissonance is too great. http://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: For the record, I am not mad at Jill Abramson, and I don't think she deliberately plagiarized anyone. But I think if you're going to get paid $1M for a book, maybe you could make sure you don't accidentally plagiarize people http://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
@timmcguire: Plagiarism applies to the style, manner and specific word expression of anything written. I agree there is no “facts” exception. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Just to go back to Jill Abramson story for a moment: It seems @NYMag has some explaining to do. First, read the two paragraphs screen-grabbed below from our news story today: https://www.google.com/... ingtonpost.com/amphtml/arts- entertainment/2019/02/07/jill-abramson- accused-plagiarism-defends-her-book-fox - news/ ... pic.twitter.com/Pqp3HPrmGu
Michel Martin / NPR: Transcript: Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson Addresses Book Allegations
Wes Wolfe / @wolfereports: “Imperfect.” If she was a reporter at any 15K circulation paper in this country and pulled the same in a story, she would be canned. Before being fired, she also would've been making less than $40K/yr and unable to afford to see a doctor. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: These are head-spinning errors. The “card stack” thing was a very well-covered Vox innovation, and she says it happened five years earlier at a different publication! https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: “My career has been about facts and truth and my love of journalism and the news and I will do everything within my power to correct anything that is imperfect in my book"Abramson offers (some) contrition in chat with NPR's Michel MartinTranscript: http://www.npr.org/...
@dansinker: “Carelessness in attribution might overshadow your achievement” is literally drilled into every journalism student ever. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The idea that fast-paced digital work is a major driver of inaccuracy is a key theme of this error-filled book. pic.twitter.com/G3xkR9dgPt
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The combination of plagiarism and factual errors with the subject matter of the book is just too much; I can't believe people are defending this. https://twitter.com/...
Versha Sharma / @versharma: She also writes that Chris Cillizza is an ‘asset’ http://twitter.com/...
Rick Hasen / @rickhasen: I'm in the middle of writing a book right now, and fact checking is at the top of my list. I'm hoping to have two fact checkers independently go through the entire book independently. How did Abramson let these errors happen? Did she not have fact checkers? http://twitter.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: Pro tip: if you're going to write a book about journalists, make sure you have your facts in order, because otherwise... hoo boy. http://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Petri / @petridishes: have we considered the possibility that this is a Do Your Own Journalism book? fun, interactive, great way to get people involved in this budding industry! http://twitter.com/...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: Is ... any ... of this book ... correct http://twitter.com/...
Tom Zeller Jr / @tomzellerjr: It insults the profession when Jill Abramson (and her defenders) kinda-sorta admit to “minor oversights” and small “mistakes” — all while parsing, with great effort, energy, and sanctimony, the true meaning of the word “plagiarism.” http://www.cjr.org/...
@susanschorn: A point I make over and over in academia: plagiarism matters not just because of the potential or real monetary value of words/ideas—it matters because ideas have a provenance, a lineage. Today more than ever, WHO and WHERE ideas come from is critical. http://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: Every professor has gotten emails like this http://www.cjr.org/... http://twitter.com/...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: As @mathewi notes, Jill Abramson was clearly copying and pasting. Why do so many people feel compelled to excuse her? Come on, say it. Admit it. http://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: Not a very satisfying response. And wouldn't it be good to have someone who isn't Jill Abramson in charge of this investigation? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Marc Masters / @marcissist: How can any actual journalist pretend this is just a matter of endnotes? Taking entire paragraphs from another work and barely changing a few words is wrong regardless of whether you put some stupid note in the back of the book. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Per @maxwelltani, an @nytimes staffer says that the Abramson plagiarism thing is ‘ammo’ for ‘fake news trolls and Trump.’ Nah—it's a betrayal of the standards that MSM has set for itself. Problem of substance, not appearance. http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Michael C Moynihan / @mcmoynihan: the very first example I cite isn't mentioned in the end notes at all, nor is the Time Out one. The others in different spots. Regardless, *even if you cite it deep in the footnotes,* it's still plagiarism. This is something the former executive editor of NYT should understand http://twitter.com/...
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: Have to wonder if it wouldn't just be more effective (and transparent) to credit / attribute right in the body of the text. (This has not been a NYT strength over the years, though it has gotten better) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rafat Ali / @rafat: I have been warning on this fro a decade+: worshipping false prophets is a particularly acute problem in media and has contributed to its ruin today. This is one of these cases. http://twitter.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “The language is too close in some cases and should have been cited as quotations in the text. This, too, will be fixed.” @JillAbramson responds: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John McQuaid / @johnmcquaid: The broad outlines of what went wrong with Jill Abramson's book seem clear - two writers, probably deadline/time pressure, assembling passages via cutting-and-pasting, with the idea that tweaking phrases + endnotes have you covered https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/8B6Xo939ys
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