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David K. Li / NBC News:
Radio shock jock Don Imus, an early pioneer of the genre known for his controversial and often offensive statements, dies at 79 — He had announced on Jan. 22 that he was retiring, telling fans: “Turn out the lights...the party's over. — Radio shock jock Don Imus, one of the early pioneers of his genre …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: Don Imus, Radio Host Who Pushed Boundaries, Dies at 79
David Gura / @davidgura: “My concern ... is not that people are sorry that they say these things, they are sorry that someone catches them.” In 2007, Gwen Ifill appeared on @MeetThePress, with Tim Russert, @nytdavidbrooks, @JohnJHarwood and @Eugene_Robinson, to discuss Don Imus: https://youtu.be/... .
Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter: Don Imus, Legendary ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Dies at 79
Connor Mannion / Mediaite: Don Imus Dead at Age 79
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: In his heyday Imus was the best interviewer—an epic talent. Many great on-air memories in his Astoria studios, and (sorry, haters) responsible for my 17-year radio career. “Don Imus, Legendary ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Dies at 79 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost: Don Imus, Racist Radio Show Host, Dead At 79
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Flashback: It was Les Moonves who fired Imus for Imus' comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Fagin / @danfagin: This #Imus obit is a whiff but David Carr nailed him: What matters isn't what he was “really” like, but what he told millions. He was a bully, not an “equal opportunity offender” & his charity work wasn't “private”, it was a big part of his public image. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: So while it might be more politic for me not to criticize the Times publicly, I am reminded and inspired by Gwen's amazing and graceful leveling of the truth over Don Imus' appalling remarks from long ago. She was a national treasure.
Daryl Sturgis / @darylsturgis: This irascible growler called Gwen Ifill, one of the most respected journalists of the 20th Century, a “cleaning lady”. He also constantly compared Black athletes to apes. https://twitter.com/...
Carrie B / @cabinop: I won't miss Don Imus for a second, but when we lost Gwen Ifill's voice in this world, we LOST something important. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Mushnick / New York Post: Don Imus leaves behind complicated shock-jock legacy
Maya Contreras / @mayatcontreras: Gwen Ifill on Don Imus' racism directed at her: “There's been radio silence from a lot of people who have done this program who could've spoken up and said, ‘I find this offensive.’ Tim [Russert] we really didn't hear from you and @NYTDavidBrooks we didn't hear from you.” https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_ldf: One of the great moments in television. Will never forget #Gwen's unflappable clarity in that moment & as the controversy unfolded. It wasn't ultimately abt the cruel racist. It was abt those who stayed silent & condoned the conduct of the cruel racist. It still is. #GwenIfill https://twitter.com/...
Frank Lester / @loveyourcarrot: During Gwen Ifill's tenure at the NY Times, Don Imus said of her, “Isn't The Times wonderful. It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” That's all you need to know about Don Imus.
Sean Hannity / @seanhannity: (1/2) I'm heartbroken. I knew the REAL Don Imus. Imus adored his wife and son and his adopted son and had a heart of gold. The work he did for children with cancer will live on forever. Every email he ever sent me made me laugh... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Don Imus, Controversial Radio Host, Dies at 79
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: I'll never forget interviewing the talented young black female athletes he called “nappy-headed hoes”. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough paid tribute to to the late radio personality: “Morning Joe obviously owes its format to Don Imus. No one else could have gotten away with that much talk on cable news. Thanks for everything, Don, and Godspeed.” http://thr.cm/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “There has been radio silence from a lot of people ... who could have spoken up and said, ‘I find this offensive,’” Gwen Ifill said. “These people didn't speak up.” Then, she turned to Tim Russert and David Brooks: “Tim, we didn't hear from you. David, we didn't hear from you.” https://twitter.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: The NYT's Don Imus obit must be read to be believed. Classic McFadden. (via @NYTObits) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steve Cochran / @cochranshow: He was cranky. He was mean. He was hilarious. He was great. And when I was a kid...and wanted to be on the radio...he was my idol. Don Imus dead at 79. They'll never be another like him. RIP IMUS. #ImusInTheMorning https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blackamazon: And this is why misinformation flourishes because it's not public/private or if/but it's AND https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: Lol he didn't do that in private. That's why everyone knows about it. https://twitter.com/...
@benschwartz_: “pushed boundaries” - in the country that invented the minstrel show, he was enforcing boundaries. https://twitter.com/...
Richard M. Nixon / @dick_nixon: The cancer charity was investigated for fraud. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hannity / @seanhannity: (2/2) ...Always Smart, witty, irreverent, and iconoclastic. God speed Don Imus as you move to the great rodeo in the sky. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: “[Mr. Imus] won some early notoriety by calling a Sacramento McDonald's on the air and ordering 1,200 hamburgers...” https://www.wsj.com/...
Steven Zeitchik / @zeitchikwapo: Has there been a personality that shaped as many contemporary media cultures as Don Imus? Talk radio, cable news, the digital discourse — all would look fundamentally different without him. Debate the legacy; respect the influence.
Barry Yeoman / @barry_yeoman: Perspective on #DonImus. Here's @gwenifill's original op-ed piece: https://nyti.ms/2Qr9Qv1 (hat tip @ladrine). https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Danna Young / @dannagal: But if your product is predicated on the amplification of the worst instincts among us, does compassion/charity done in private mean you're *actually* a good person? I ask because based on our media landscape lots of people will have to answer that same question sooner or later. https://twitter.com/...
Lin Wood / @llinwood: I never met I-Man. Did 1 remote interview with him years ago, 6:30 am from home office. Afterwards, kids said my name was misspelled on chyron. I did not care. I had survived the I-Man. He was good man & provoked great conversations. Named my mare Deirdre for his wife. Respect. https://twitter.com/...
Mark R. Levin / @marklevinshow: The extraordinary Don Imus has passed. A true legend. May he RIP. (A more worthy tribute when I return to our beloved radio airwaves.) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@nytmetro: For nearly a half-century — from his start on local stations in the West in 1968 until his retirement in 2018 — Mr. Imus entertained and offended countless millions with his mercurial outbursts https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Updated the story: Source close to Imus family said radio broadcaster Don Imus had been battling pneumonia http://bit.ly/2QtfjBF
@thr: The radio personality passed away on Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas http://thr.cm/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: In public he was an irascible growler “who led pranks and parodies that could be tasteless, obscene and sometimes racist, sexist or homophobic.” In private he raised millions for wounded vets and kids with cancer. NYT's obit captures all of Imus https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nydailynews: Radio icon Don Imus — a New York institution for decades at WNBC and WFAN — is dead at 79 The shock jock had been on radio for 50 years and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Veteran radio and TV broadcaster Don Imus died this morning. He was 79. He had been in the hospital since Christmas Eve, according to a statement from his family.
Mike Lupica / New York Daily News: ‘I said everything I needed to say’ — Don Imus, who worked nearly 50 years without a net, changed everything in radio
Teresa Roca / The Sun: Don Imus dead: Legendary radio host of Imus In The Morning dies in hospital aged 79
Stephen Andrew / Celebrity: ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Legendary Radio Personality Don Imus Dead at 79
USA Today: Legendary radio host Don Imus dies at age 79 after being hospitalized since Christmas Eve
Emily Bicks / Heavy.com: Don Imus Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
William Mansell / ABC News: Controversial former radio host Don Imus dead at age 79
Marc Fisher / Washington Post: Don Imus, talk-show host who turned bad behavior into big ratings, dies at 79
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner: ‘Good riddance’: Don Imus death prompts backlash on social media
Stephen Miller / Bloomberg: Don Imus, U.S. Radio-Show Host Who Thrived on Shock, Dies at 79
Jeffery Martin / Newsweek: Shock Jock Don Imus' most controversial quotes during his lifetime
Spencer Neale / Washington Examiner: Legendary radio host Don Imus dead at 79
Jason Duaine Hahn / People.com: Controversial Radio Broadcaster Don Imus Dies at 79
Dave Nemetz / TVLine: Radio and TV Host Don Imus Dead at 79
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Don Imus, former radio broadcaster, dead at 79
Vanessa Romo / NPR: Controversial Shock Jock Don Imus Has Died At 79
Leah Asmelash / CNN: Don Imus, radio shock jock, dies at 79
Emma Tucker / The Daily Beast: Infamous Shock Jock Don Imus Dead at 79
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News: Don Imus, giant of New York airwaves who pioneered shock jock genre, dead at 79
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline: Famed Radio DJ Don Imus Dies At Age 79
Sarah J. Jackson / New York Times:
In 2010s, Twitter enabled young and marginalized people to be heard, held news organizations accountable, and pushed largely ignored issues into the mainstream — It's impossible to avoid news about how harmful social media can be. The Cambridge Analytica scandal. The ubiquitous Russian bots.
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@gregbradyto, @brentnyt, @sjjphd, @dada_drummer, @goldengateblond, @andreas212nyc, @marklittlenews, @dantley, @rahaeli, @mazmhussain, @millie, @hkesvani, @sjjphd, @sjjphd, @nytopinion, @sjjphd, @nesrinemalik, @nesrinemalik, @clancynewyork, @sybrenkooistra, @valeriabrownedu and @neillewisjr, more at Techmeme »
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Greg Brady / @gregbradyto: Love this read. Compelling argument & yet I go back and forth on its “value” every damn day. https://twitter.com/...
Brent Staples / @brentnyt: Twitter improved popular discourse - partly by making it less white, writes @sjjphd via @nytopinion https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah J. Jackson / @sjjphd: Add to that that people kneejerk react to headlines (which writers don't choose) and don't read often before reacting to social media and I have people yelling I don't know anything about Twitter, which is, frankly, laughable. But this is the public sphere and that's okay ;)
Damon K / @dada_drummer: That rare thing, a Twitter-positive article - we're here for a reason, after all - by @sjjphd https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: “Twitter can be exploited for evil and harnessed for good ... But this decade, it helped ordinary people change our world.” If you're going to read an @nytopinion column, skip Bret Stephens' and read @sjjphd's instead. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andreas Sandre / @andreas212nyc: “Rightful critiques of #socialmedia, and Twitter in particular, shouldn't obscure the significance of the conversations that have happened there over the past 10 years,” writes @sjjphd @AnnenbergPenn in @nytopinion. “Twitter made this decade better.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “Twitter users have disrupted a media landscape where gatekeepers were for too long solely responsible for setting the agenda” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dantley: I'll let this piece speak for itself, but it covers many of the reasons why I joined Twitter and why I feel we have so much work to do. Let's go! Opinion | Twitter Made Us Better - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rahaeli: These are all excellent points and why I'm still here, but the author of this letter does a disservice to the marginalized people she (rightly) praises Twitter for containing by failing to mention Twitter's ongoing failure to apply best practices for anti-abuse... https://twitter.com/...
Murtaza Mohammad Hussain / @mazmhussain: “It's not surprising when powerful people resent Twitter. [It] didn't invent knee-jerk reactions, conflict or polarization, but it did expand the set of voices all of us have to hear.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Millie Tran / @millie: Despite it all*, why it's worth being here: “Many people who lacked public platforms 10 years ago — the young and members of marginalized groups in particular — are speaking up, insisting on being heard.” via @sjjphd https://www.nytimes.com/... *Yes, “all” is doing A LOT here
Hussein Kesvani / @hkesvani: Something worth bearing in mind when you read all the “Twitter has poisoned politics” takes from the columnists https://twitter.com/...
Sarah J. Jackson / @sjjphd: Thx to those who've shared+read my NYT piece on Twitter activism. For folks shouting in my comments Twitter is bad b/c nazis, Trump, etc. True, but I'm guessing you didn't read it. Nuance is necessary, we must document resistance & change even as it coexists w/ regressive forces. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah J. Jackson / @sjjphd: There is a lot of important work by colleagues on how social media has been exploited by regressive forces. It's all true! And these companies, as I note, have largely failed to address hate & harassment on their platforms. Yet, resilient determined folks have made real change.
@nytopinion: “Gone are the days when a piece of art could promote stereotypes, demean women, or ignore the existence of people of color without a backlash. Professional critics might identify these problems. Twitter users definitely will,” Writes sjjphd http://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah J. Jackson / @sjjphd: That last part is a story that must be told and something I have dedicated my career to. Progress is neither linear or singular it exists alongside violent backlash always, folks committed to truth-telling nonetheless deserve to be documented, they are brave & important.
Nesrine Malik / @nesrinemalik: My own advice, humbly offered in my book, after a decade on this website which god has forsaken. But Twitter still pretty much the only tool we have to challenge those ensconced behind the walls of powerful orgs. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nesrine Malik / @nesrinemalik: Despite everything, this is true. https://twitter.com/...
Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork: What's Twitter good for? Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd says Twitter helps marginalized people to influence what we talk about as a country. And, acts as mechanism of accountability for news orgs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sybren / @sybrenkooistra: The online commentary that takes place here is often dismissed as expression of “cancel culture.” But a closer look reveals what's really happening: Many who lacked public platforms 10yrs ago — members of marginalized groups in particular — are speaking up https://www.nytimes.com/...
Val Brown / @valeriabrownedu: “Twitter users have disrupted a media landscape where gatekeepers — in an industry that has always fallen short when it comes to race and gender diversity — were for too long solely responsible for setting the agenda.” Twitter Made Us Better https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News:
A look back at how Facebook and Twitter evolved over the 2010s, chasing size and influence at a cost to society that will take years to understand
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@ekp, @espiegler, @laurahelmuth, @mrshanerussell, @gregoriancant and @kantrowitz, more at Techmeme »
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Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: “Over the course of 10 years, they made a series of misguided product decisions that transformed them from online amusement parks into hellscapes.” Facebook & Twitter's spiral into toxicity, harassment, fake news, hate, genocide, and election interference https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/y4JZvRsWFp
@espiegler: What @Facebook & @finkd gave us. Far too generous to say they're “scrambling to clean up.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/Dj8Y4VDuY1
Laura Helmuth / @laurahelmuth: Facebook and Twitter “prioritized growth and influence over safety ... achieving great wealth and power as a result, but at a cost to society that won't be fully calculable for some years to come.” Important history from @Kantrowitz https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @kantrowitz
Shane Russell / @mrshanerussell: Facebook's decision add a mobile share button ignited fake news on its service. People spread all manner of lies without much thought — the share button removed almost all hesitation from the act of sharing — as long as those lies confirmed their worldview https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Greg Brian / @gregoriancant: I arrived here in 2009 and saw all it's done in covering the decade's most historical events. On that front, it's been invaluable in giving us instantaneous response to events. Socially, it's brought out the worst in people, except for a rare few. #Twitter https://twitter.com/...
George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Spotify will suspend political ads in early 2020, citing the lack of tools to review them; source: political ads are not a significant source of its revenue — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers — Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising …
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NPR, @tonyromm, Breitbart, VentureBeat, The Wrap, @slpng_giants, @digiphile, @zck, @emilyglazer, @john_henson, @whotargetsme, @seanspicer, New York Daily News, @logandobson, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, Vanity Fair, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, CNN, Engadget, TechCrunch, Variety, The Verge, VICE and Marketing Land
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Tony Romm / @tonyromm: i would be very curious to see how much campaigns are even spending on spotify. it does not seem like a particularly useful tool for anyone running, its decision this week notwithstanding. https://twitter.com/...
Reid Nakamura / The Wrap: Spotify to Suspend Political Advertisements in 2020
@slpng_giants: Good for @Spotify. @facebook seems to be one of the last holdouts for political ads, which is doubly bad considering they're allowing deliberate falsehoods in them. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If @Spotify was taking $ to run political ads, it should have added disclaimers linked to a public file of disclosures. What other tech companies run ads without transparency? @verizonmedia? @Reddit? Reminder: Self-regulation isn't enough! https://e-pluribusunum.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Zak Kukoff / @zck: My concern with announcements like these is that they reward the worst behaviors in politics. When paid reach is banned — Outrage, anger, base appeal = free reach https://twitter.com/...
Emily Glazer / @emilyglazer: Spotify is suspending political ads in 2020. “Executives had previously been concerned that political ads could bother Spotify's listeners and lead to negative feedback,” + employees had to manually monitor political ad creative, per our reporting: https://www.wsj.com/...
John Henson / @john_henson: They were “successful” online because of Russian troll farms and cyber crimes, which the campaign was aware of and actively sought. And you're best known for lying about the inaugural crowd size, hiding in the bushes and whoring yourself out on Dancing with the Stars. https://twitter.com/...
Who Targets Me / @whotargetsme: An increasingly common position for big tech. Though still no answer to what's ‘political’. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Spicer / @seanspicer: Notice that after @realDonaldTrump @GOP we're successful online in 2016 they all now want to ban political advertising: Via @Reuters Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020 https://www.reuters.com/...
David Matthews / New York Daily News: Spotify is suspending political advertising ahead of 2020 elections
Logan Dobson / @logandobson: congratulations to random Spotify ad salespeople on their new jobs determining what is “Political” and what isn't https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: ps would be helpful if advertising trade press dug in harder on Facebook and TTD's failed but convenient logic that sunlight is the best disinfectant for false political advertising considering microtargeting serves disinfo campaigns by providing the very darkness. @adage https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Hmmm. Spotify doesn't allow microtargeting of ads, does it? Banning mass-audience political ads is a shrug. It's only in microtargeting where political ads can become toxic to democracy. Hence my problem with Facebook and Trade Desk's empty words. https://twitter.com/...
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Spotify to Suspend Political Advertising
Sean Captain / Fast Company: Spotify is banning political ads—but there's a catch
Kerry Flynn / CNN: Spotify will stop running political ads in 2020
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Spotify will ‘pause’ airing political ads in early 2020
Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify Will Suspend Political Ad Sales in 2020, Citing Need For More Robust Ways to Vet Content
Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: Spotify latest platform to halt political ads
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
An overview of NBC's special edition of Meet the Press, “Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation” — On a special edition of “Meet the Press,” top journalists discuss the challenges of finding the facts amid growing disinformation.
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@meetthepress: .@PostBaron says journalists need to be more responsive when attacked. “I think it's something that we have to fight against.” #MTP #IfItsSunday
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Quick grades for the @MeetThePress “special” on misinformation: Facing the fact of asymmetry between the major parties: F Floating new ideas for how shows like MTP can respond: D Reminding audience “this isn't new,” “goes back to Hamilton,” etc: A Dissecting Russian disinfo: B+
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Baquet: “I think people want to be comforted. And I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them.” No. Trump says things to anger and incite and divide, not comfort. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Closing panel had fab mix. @karaswisher hit on topic super critical that had very little coverage on show. Tech has changed everything particularly how platforms provide velocity, reach, amplification. They're like AK-47s instead of pistols for spreading propaganda/disinfo. /5
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Swisher also called out Zuckerberg's conflation of paid vs free speech and hinted at the profound issues in Facebook selling advertising with microtargeting which can include lies aimed at individuals susceptible and worth targeting them. ht @karaswisher See #2 above. /6
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Was thrilled @chucktodd had Clint Watts on the next segment to spend time breaking down disinformation. Super valuable he used CrowdStrike as a case study. Well covered, @selectedwisdom. ps highly recommend his book, “Messing with the Enemy.” /3
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: First segment had NYT and Wash Post editors. @PostBaron of Post made many key succinct points. This includes how people are more and more drawn to sources confirming their preexisting pov. This shift first struck me in this 2007 research. /2 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: just now watching Sunday news shows after family time this morning. Serious hat tip to @chucktodd @MeetThePress for its special focused exclusively on disinformation. They covered a lot very well. Quick highlight from each segment. /1 https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: >> @DeanBaquet: When pols mislead the public, “Our job is to jump into the breach and to jump into those conversations, to do the deep reporting, to say, “Look, I'm sorry. What I have to say may be uncomfortable. But that thing you just heard that made you feel good is a lie.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Check the @MeetThePress twitter feed for a recap of today's hourlong special about disinformation in the Trump era 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Good to see @chucktodd break down how propaganda works, but frustrated at how little historical context there was for it, going back across media history, or the lack of self-reflection about how he & @meetthepress have responded to Trump's disinformation. http://pressthink.org/...
Jacob Knutson / Axios: WaPo editor: Americans may be “numb” to Trump's “15,000 false or misleading claims”
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: NYT's Baquet, WaPo's Baron: We Cannot be Dismissive Of Trump Voters With Our Coverage, ‘They Are Owed Our Respect’
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Hearing @deanbaquet praise the @washingtonpost's #AfghanistanPapers because they “showed their work” is important, as was the key context of politicians & officials lying to the public about our union's longest war. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Well, Dean Baquet did say on @MeetThePress “no more diners.” So it seems he heard those complaints. Nothing noteworthy beyond that. Marty Baron said it was important to be “fair to the public” and speak bluntly about what you have found, which does differentiate Post from Times.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Good to hear @deanbaquet talk about the importance of showing your work, particularly with respect to publishing source documents, but disappointed he put in in the context of marketing @nytimes journalism. (Open data & code are core to 21st century practice.)
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: editor of NYT leading the Normalizing Olympics https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Watching the @MeetThePress special on disinformation. They led with some greatest/worst hits: “Alternative facts."-@KellyannePolls “Truth is not truth"-@rudygiuliani “Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening."-@realDonaldTrump Lies? https://twitter.com/...
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What Chuck Todd blamed on naiveté to lessen his error of ignoring the GOP's spread of disinfo was in fact willful blindness and malpractice
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. http://pressthink.org/... My new post. I hope you will read it.
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: This is a tough piece on Chuck Todd, but it makes important points on him and many of us mainstream journalists. I often wonder how to critique media when journalists are simultaneously doing some of their best work & dropping the ball conspicuously? http://pressthink.org/...
Jodi Jacobson / @jljacobson: I have a big problem with this piece on @chucktodd in that he does none of this. https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... Because Todd is the ultimate both-sides-er and the ultimate inside-the-beltway narrative driver and he does not own any of it.
Jordan / @jordanchariton: It's truly amazing seeing the glorification of one of the premiere access journalists of our time https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 4/ ... succumb to the “premise of symmetry” or false equivalence. In that sense this isn't Roy Cohn Redux (although he's certainly the model for Trump & Co.). Nor do I think access to these shows lends credibility to the charlatans—not among any serious viewers, anyway, ...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 3/ I'm skeptical that it causes an “epistemological crisis,” or that, in @Kasparov63's words, it misinforms, exhausts critics, or “annihilate[s] truth.” The mine run of viewers of MtP, or the readers of the @nytimes, etc., aren't fooled (I hope not, anyway) when those outlets ...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 2/ is to identify the *harms* caused when @MeetThePress continues its business as usual w/guests such as Kellyanne Conway, Ted Cruz, et al., who so freely & unashamedly spout patent nonsense and self-professed “alternative facts.”
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 6/ ... “fighting with the press helps them with core supporters.” (Although, even there, does it really make a material difference in how, e.g., FoxNews viewers think of NBC, or does it serve mostly to confirm their worldview?).
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 1/ Have @chucktodd and others like him really been so naive and gullible? I doubt it, but I also don't care all that much. The more interesting & important inquiry, methinks, ... http://pressthink.org/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 5/ ... all of whom are more likely to be infuriated or disgusted than to be persuaded. I *do* think that @jayrosen_nyu might be onto something, though, when he suggests that the reason the Trumpers go on such shows is to instigate “confrontation[s] with journalists” b/c ...
Puesto Loco / @puestoloco: Disrobing Chuck Todd, Jay Rosen shows how the media empowered & fuels Trump's Disinformation Machine: • Make stuff up • Spread it on social media • Repeat it..to journalists • Pocketing for the party..mistrust of the news media to help insulate..Trump http://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Marty Lederman / @marty_lederman: 10/ One more thing: Are we, the outraged, better off if @MeetThePress, et al., continue to give these folks an audience, so that we can see, and more forthrightly confront, what we're up against, rather than staying in our echo chambers here in our Twitter feeds?
Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: Great piece by @jayrosen_nyu lambasting the media for being so slow to acknowledge the right's full-throttle use of sheer *disinformation,* and media figures' inability (or unwillingness?) to fully adapt to the deep asymmetries it has produced: http://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Veronica Escobar / @vgescobar: This is precisely why the Sunday morning shows (with very few exceptions) are so incredibly frustrating to watch. 👇🏽 http://pressthink.org/...
@toure: Amazing story. Chuck Todd the political director admits he did not understand basic Republican disinformation strategy. RT @jayrosen_nyu: The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. http://pressthink.org/... My new post. I hope you will read it.
Porpentina / @porpentina2017: Chuck Todd is either an idiot or complicit. Think about it; he said he was surprised by this? He was surprised for THREE YEARS?! Right! This was to sell advertising for the show. If it wasn't, then he isn't intelligent enough to host this news institution https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Bernard Zuel / @bernardzuel: This is as relevant to the insider political reporting of much of the Australian media (save for a handful like Katharine Murphy, Michael Pascoe, Michael West & oddly, ex News journos now able to speak) as Americans. https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur: When you read this, please remember that Chuck Todd isn't just the host of Meet The Press; he's also the *political director of NBC News* https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: This inherent belief in the integrity and honor of folks who exist in the same social class as you and who run in the same professional circles, who as Rosen said, break bread with you, despite evidence to the contrary is a BIAS, and one that has done untold damage to our country
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: This both-sideism tht ensapsultes so much of our political reporting is actually the opposite of objectivity. To ignore, down play or overlook what is clear because we need to give both sides equal time and treatment even when one side openly & strategically lies is not objective
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: So, one, this was so spot on, and infuriating, and frightening in that we know little will likely come of Todd's admissions. Two, what is glaring but unsaid — this is just another stark example of the lie of objectivity. This reveals the subjective decision to ignore facts. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Hanson / @jimhansondc: The only way this is not utter garbage Is if it's a confession https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: Really important post by @jayrosen_nyu about the “confession” by @chucktodd. Journalists (and especially editors) need to do much better. Too many have been sleep walking through the destruction of our democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Rabbi Latz / @ravmabay: Brutal. But fair. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Lerner / @sarahlerner: “That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before Chuck Todd discovered it. That attacks on the press were baked into Trump's political style was knowable from 2015 on.” https://twitter.com/...
Merrill Brown / @merrillbro: Fine work here @jayrosen_nyu. Would welcome you or a media reporter putting a similar seiries of questions to Todd's Sunday and weekday competitors. The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd http://pressthink.org/...
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: If I were talking to *Rolling Stone* about the sources of the public's distrust of the media, I might consider that some of the source lies in the media. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ...
@deniseshrivell: Familiar? 'Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it's a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in' #auspol http://pressthink.org/...
Chris Messina / @chrismessina: This piece on Chuck Todd is on point. We're talking Iraq War-level malpractice by the MSM when it comes to uncovering and debunking the disinformation/#Trumpaganda agenda. We're fscked. /cc @borthwick https://highly.co/... pic.twitter.com/ySD5g8pbmv
Linda Fader / @lindafader: Behold Chuck Todd a 47-year-old ingenue who's been working in politics since 1992, somehow managing to believe until December 2019 that the contemporary Republican Party deserves the presumption that they are equal partners in truth telling. Thank you Jay Rosen. https://twitter.com/...
David Porter / 8tracks blog:
As 8tracks prepares to shut down on December 31, its co-founder shares a post-mortem of what went wrong with the once-promising music streaming startup — 8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind …
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@chr1sa, @ow, @caseynewton, @joshconstine, @robinsloan, @rrhoover, @mathewi, @hasief, @jherskowitz, @agaresia and @davidporter, more at Techmeme »
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Chris Anderson / @chr1sa: The Long Tail has won music culture but failed the economic needs of most musicians and music companies (fascinating post-mortem from @8tracks, RIP) https://blog.8tracks.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Owen Williams / @ow: Wow, the end of 8tracks feels like the end of another internet era. 8tracks helped me *actively* discover so much music over the years, a habit that was destroyed by Spotify's (bad) mood playlists https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: One thing I like about this 8tracks shutdown post is that it acknowledges how the company was out-competed by a superior product (Spotify). I get the SV mantra of “most startups die by suicide, not murder” but like ... not always! https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: If all founders were as fearless about sharing their failures as 8Tracks' @davidporter, startups would evolve much faster https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Robin Sloan / @robinsloan: I found this post about the life and death of 8tracks surprisingly moving. It also functions as a kaleidoscopic review of music economics, 2008-2020. https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover: Another music streaming service goes the Heaven https://blog.8tracks.com/... (I agree that there's an opportunity to build a music listening experience that's social, focused on community)
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Kudos to the founder of 8tracks for writing this in-depth exploration of why he shut the service down after 10 years, including competition from Spotify, egregious song licensing fees and the changing nature of music consumption https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Hasief Ardiasyah / @hasief: Haven't used it in a while, but I loved 8tracks for making playlists back in the pre-Spotify era. https://twitter.com/...
J Herskowitz / @jherskowitz: One of the longest and most impressive runs of a musictech generation. 👏🙏 https://twitter.com/...
@agaresia: oh my god 8tracks shutting down on the 31st ???? i need to grab my playlists https://blog.8tracks.com/...
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show featuring a user's avatar and their friends in regularly-scheduled adventures, starting in February — Snapchat's most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020.
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Matthew Lynley / @mattlynley: Bitmoji is so undervalued and the scale of content that's available when you dig into it is astounding. This has shades of the Early Flash Cartoon Era in the late 90s/early 2000s which is going to be awesome. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: Here's a look at the history of Bitmoji, Cameos, and why they're key to Snapchat's strategy to put your face at the center of every experience https://techcrunch.com/...
Mark Ledwich / Medium:
A new study finds that YouTube's late 2019 algorithm actively discourages users from watching radicalizing content, directing them to more mainstream videos — In 2018, Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times in which Caleb Cain, a liberal college dropout, described his experience …
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Arvind Narayanan / @random_walker: A new paper has been making the rounds with the intriguing claim that YouTube has a *de-radicalizing* influence. https://arxiv.org/... Having read the paper, I wanted to call it wrong, but that would give the paper too much credit, because it is not even wrong. Let me explain.
Austen Allred / @austen: Wow. Very, very well done analysis of the YouTube algorithm that shows, contrary to NYT claims, YouTube actually *reduces* radicalization. Two questions: 1. If this is true, what does it say about YouTube? 2. If this is true, what does it say about the New York Times? https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: There's been some renewed interest in this story because of a poorly designed study that claimed to debunk it. A few points! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Ledwich / @mark_ledwich: 1. I worked with Anna Zaitsev (Berkely postdoc) to study YouTube recommendation radicalization. We painstakingly collected and grouped channels (768) and recommendations (23M) and found that the algo has a deradicalizing influence. Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/... 🧵
Mark Ledwich / @mark_ledwich: 4. My new article explains in detail. It takes aim at the NYT (in particular, @kevinroose) who have been on myth-filled crusade vs social media. We should start questioning the authoritative status of outlets that have soiled themselves with agendas. https://medium.com/...
Aviv Ovadya / @metaviv: Unverified/overbearing claims: 1) YouTube doesn't have a rabbit-hole effect. 2) YouTube de-radicalizes. 3) Mainstream/NYT coverage was misleading. These are *slightly* accurate in different areas; but overall deeply misleading (even based off the study data!).
Aviv Ovadya / @metaviv: A study has re-confirmed that some YouTube channels (called out by previous reports and media coverage) are no longer being recommended. Unfortunately, commentary by one of the authors massively overstates its claims so I won't link to it. Please be careful in covering it.
Becca Lewis / @beccalew: I'm not sure why people are so resistant to focusing on this aspect of the problem. I guess it's thornier and less sexy and also is impossible to de-politicize, so it's tougher to tackle. But I truly think we can't talk about YouTube's role as a propaganda machine without it.
Becca Lewis / @beccalew: In light of the recent conversations about radicalization on YouTube, I thought I would repost my research from 2018, in which I basically ignore the recommendation algorithm completely and instead focus on the radicalizing potential of influencer culture https://datasociety.net/...
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: I'll write more on this later, but this thread basically argues that complex theories can only be tested with data that addresses the entire theory, rather than a piece of the theory. Like arguing that DSGE models can only be tested with macro data. It's a dubious argument. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: This story uses data about a single user's journey through YouTube — 12,000 videos spanning 4 years. Personalized, logged-in, longitudinal data is how radicalization has to be understood, since it's how it's experienced on a platform like YouTube.
Mark Ledwich / @mark_ledwich: 3. Check out https://www.recfluence.net/ to have a play with this new dataset. We also include categorization from @manoelribeiro et a.l. and other studies so you can see some alternative groupings. All of the code and data is free to review to use https://github.com/... pic.twitter.com/s17z9kr5lA
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: The premise of this article/study is so odd. Studying the YouTube algo of late 2019 (after YouTube made some very well-publicized algo changes to reduce recommendations of extreme content) doesn't say anything about what YouTube recommendations were like before then. https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Mattern / @shannonmattern: Two great threads about the limitations of quantitative methods to study socio-technical phenomena https://twitter.com/... + https://twitter.com/...
Matthias Spielkamp / @spielkamp: This. But: We still need to pressure platforms to grant access to a lot more data - to poke around in it & maybe come up with better concepts to study their impact. And additionally develop ideas how to understand that impact without the access. Lots to do. cc @algorithmwatch https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: I would love to have more data about individual users' trips through YouTube from 2014-2018, but it's extraordinarily hard to get. (I only got it because @Faradayspeaks was incredibly generous and trusting enough to send me his entire watch history.)
Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd: Very good explanation of why YouTube radicalization is difficult to study quantitatively. And an important reminder why its important to understand the methodology behind any study. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: I am glad that YouTube has made the changes it has. I hope they work! I am also reasonably certain that this wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly without journalists and experts like @beccalew / @zeynep digging in.
Tim Pool / @timcast: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” Its amazing how so many people have a view about radicalization that was never backed by data Two studies came out so far and debunk the rabbit hole narrative but they still cling to their narrative https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Useful thread but if you believe it it suggests we shouldn't trust quantitative studies showing anti- OR pro-radicalization effects of YouTube, since it's such a hard thing for external-to-YouTube researchers to measure. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Jennifer Mercieca / @jenmercieca: This thread shows you how to think. (specifically it models how to think about how to understand the YouTube algorithm). It's hard to know what you don't know, so I'm not dunking on the researchers. Though good researchers should know the limits of their research. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: In any event, I'm glad people are talking about this. I'm proud of the work we've done, and I hope that YouTube will open up data to third-party researchers like @random_walker, so that future studies can be more meaningful than what's out there now. https://twitter.com/...
Katelyn Gadd / @antumbral: so “the late 2019 version of the algorithm doesn't do the thing” means that past criticisms were invalid and a “crusade” even though youtube has publicly announced changes/fixes to the algorithm multiple times in the last couple years?
Arvind Narayanan / @random_walker: After tussling with these complexities, my students and I ended up with nothing publishable because we realized that there's no good way for external researchers to quantitatively study radicalization. I think YouTube can study it internally, but only in a very limited way.
Brian Hughes / @mrbrianhughes: There's still tons of work to be done analyzing the role of algorithmic recommendation in radicalization. No one can legitimately claim an authoritative answer bc, frankly, no one has access (yet) to the granular, longitudinal, user-specific data that we need! https://twitter.com/...
Elad Gil / @eladgil: YouTube pushes politics mainstream versus radicalizes? https://arxiv.org/... pic.twitter.com/wqCA6b2Kzi
Matt Grossmann / @mattgrossmann: YouTube's recommendation algorithm actively discourages viewers from visiting radicalizing or extremist content; it favors mainstream media & cable news content over independent channels with a slant towards left-leaning or politically neutral channels https://arxiv.org/...
Paul Lewis / @paullewis: This is important for people who care about YouTube radicalisation and may have read the flawed research (which Google will have loved) downplaying the problem. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Ledwich / @mark_ledwich: 2. It turns out the late 2019 algorithm *DESTROYS* conspiracy theorists, provocateurs and white identitarians *Helps* partisans *Hurts* almost everyone else. 👇 compares an estimate of the recommendations presented (grey) to received (green) for each of the groups: pic.twitter.com/5qPtyi5ZIP
André Spicer / @andre_spicer: Does YouTube's algo direct people down extreme right wing rabbit holes? Study of 800 channels finds it discourages viewers from visiting radicalizing or extremist content. Algo favors mainstream media over independent YouTube channels. Slants left/neutral https://arxiv.org/...
Jon Fingas / Engadget: Study says YouTube ‘actively discourages’ radicalism
Jodi Beggs / @jodiecongirl: not sure how I feel overall about the critique, but he gets to an interesting point where I realized that the better researcher often looks worse in terms of research output because they refuse to pursue BS lines of inquiry https://twitter.com/...
Vikram Singh / @wordsandsuch: Your claims far exceed your evidence. You don't account for the basic premise of the ‘radicalisation’ thesis: that algorithms fine tune reccs based on user data - i.e previously watched videos, search terms, etc. You only use an ‘anonymous’ user's first video recc.
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this is the key point about studying proprietary algorithms of big platforms w/o inside access. anyone who really cares about this work will tell you that opaque platform design and super personalized algo decisions at massive scale are what holds back our understanding https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: I also think radicalization is much more complex than just “the algorithm.” But the algorithm is important (70% of time spent on YouTube results from it) and I would love more people with actual AI/ML expertise studying the mechanics.
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: The only people who have the right data to study radicalization at scale work at YouTube, and they have made changes in 2019 they say have reduced “borderline content” recs by 70%. Why would they have done that, if that content wasn't being recommended in the first place?
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: 👇Yep, that “paper” isn't even wrong. One tragedy of all this is that, at the moment, only the companies can fully study phenomenon such as the behavior of recommendation algorithms. There are some great external studies that do give us a sense—but that's all we get. Yet. https://twitter.com/...
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Interviews with six journalists working in Turkey, who have been taken into custody by authorities at least once and who have had their equipment confiscated — Turkey is notorious as a leading jailer of journalists worldwide, a fact that can overshadow the other problems for its press.
Matteo Moschella / First Draft:
Q&A with Lee Mwiti, the chief editor of Africa's first independent fact-checking website Africa Check, on disinformation and media manipulation on the continent — Lee Mwiti is the chief editor of Africa Check, the continent's first independent fact-checking website.
Heather Bryant / Nieman Lab:
In 2020, the question of how to save newsrooms will start to shift to how to save journalism as a process, emphasizing more collaboration and inclusiveness — Heather Bryant is founder and director of Project Facet. — There are always two conversations happening in any given field.
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Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: “We're rallying millions of dollars in the name of saving journalism, and yet so few newsrooms can be bothered to respond to a diversity survey that funders had to make a special appeal to get newsrooms to participate.” AMEN. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Morrison / @ihearttheroad: Leave it to @HBCompass to make me feel, at the same time, deeply uncomfortable and deeply hopeful about product and process. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
H R Venkatesh / @hrvenkatesh: This is sooooo important! Thanks @HBCompass for writing this, and it reminds me also of conversations I've had with @thischrishorne of the “it's time to end the news as we know it” topic. https://twitter.com/...
David Skok / @dskok: “The question of how we save journalism (meaning newsrooms) will begin to shift to how do we save journalism (meaning the process).” - @HBCompass. 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Mandy Van Deven / @mandyvandeven: “Some of the brightest, most effective journalistic work is done by people and organizations who are thinking deeply and carefully about how they do what they do, who gets to be involved, and what needs are served by the work.” @HBCompass https://twitter.com/...
@thischrishorne: I didn't think I could be a bigger @HBCompass fan but reading this, I know better now. All of this, over and over until everyone is singing along: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Simon Galperin / @thensim0nsaid: An independent press helps people navigate decisions, builds empathy, and serves the public interest. The news industry turns journalism into a commodity and trades it like any other POS corporation. Which are we trying to preserve? From @HBCompass: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. / @nikkiusher: “The newsroom that publishes an accessible and clear explainer of the ballot...is doing the service of journalism. The newsroom... runs the breathless account of winners and losers...is participating in the industry's attention marketplace” via @HBCompass https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Antonio Attolini / @antonioattolini: “...willing existing organizations that are putting in the effort and work to be diverse, to be collaborative, to prioritize audience needs over platform demands, and to actively defend against the attempts of powerful interests to weaponize the news cycle?” 2/2
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast is in advanced talks to acquire Xumo, which offers an ad-supported video streaming service, as Comcast prepares to launch NBC's Peacock — Deal would help cable giant's digital-video ambitions as it prepares to launch its own video-streaming service
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Beet.TV, Variety, The Streamable, New York Post, MediaPost, @digitalshields, @tomventimiglia, @aagave and @benmullin
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Robert Andrews / Beet.TV: Xumo In Advanced Talks for Sale to Comcast, report
Todd Spangler / Variety: Comcast Might Be Buyer Free-Video Streamer Xumo Has Been Seeking
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Comcast Reportedly in Advanced Stages of Buying XUMO
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Comcast Reportedly In Talks To Buy Free, Ad-Supported Streamer Xumo
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: I don't really have a feel for what Xumo is or wants to be, but it is on my TV, which is prob worth something https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ventimiglia / @tomventimiglia: @mediagazer Advanced Talks would be a good name for an M&A-themed podcast
Andrew A. Rosen / @aagave: Reads like Xumo can be a free version of Peacock the market seems to be anticipating from Comcast. Also curious to see if Comcast mirrors the Viacom-PlutoTV strategy of IP-exclusive channels for the purpose of ad sales. @lindayacc will be fun listen on this deal if it goes thru https://twitter.com/...
Emma Grey Ellis / Wired:
How The Dodo has achieved viral success by posting heartwarming videos about animals, racking up 2.3B views each month — The media empire's heartwarming (and highly shareable) animal videos rack up 2.3 billion views each month. It might be our favorite website of the decade. — Frog is a rooster.
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