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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Critics slam WSJ's opinion section after it published a column by Joseph Epstein calling Jill Biden “kiddo” and suggesting she drop her use of “Dr.” as a title — Many women said Joseph Epstein's suggestion in The Wall Street Journal was blatantly sexist and underscored …
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Melissa Korn / @melissakorn: There is a thick wall between the news and opinion operations of @WSJ, but it still saddens me that they'd print it. Which is the way I've felt about many op-eds over the years. Pieces like that make it harder for me to do my job. 2/2
@mattyglesias: No better sign of the real divide in American politics today than a weekend long freakout defending the honor of PhD-havers.
Chasten Buttigieg / @chasten: The author could've used fewer words to just say “ya know in my day we didn't have to respect women.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Eugene Volokh / Reason: Who Should Be Called Dr.? Probably Not Jill Biden, Just as Lawyers Like Me Aren't
Tom Jones / Poynter: The Wall Street Journal's op-ed about Dr. Jill Biden — what were they thinking?
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story: WSJ is acting like a ‘gutter internet publication’ in effort to smear Dr. Jill Biden and prop up Trump: Morning Joe
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Imagine being so aggressively unwilling to see that you published something bad that you think there must be some secret coordinated effort when everyone attacks it!
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Joseph Epstein has been publishing bad takes on anyone who is not a straight man for literally 50 years. This latest was not only bad, it was predictably so. (Go read this full thread. Seriously, it's short and is worth it.) https://twitter.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: A waste of column space. After calling Dr. Biden kiddo & dismissing her dissertation on support for community college education, we have to endure a long brag because the author took his final exam on a pool table on a military base. Tired of the misogyny. https://www.wsj.com/...
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic: The Professor and the Madman — Joseph Epstein's record of provocation and self-disgracing is long but not unbroken.
Andrew Solender / @andrewsolender: This is a real paragraph - written by Joseph Epstein - that was published in the Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Korn / @melissakorn: I cannot bring myself to include a link, because why give it more air? But that op-ed belittling Jill Biden, urging her to drop the Dr., mocking her research on community college, likening her degree to an honorary doctorate, is disgusting. 1/2
@bettemidler: My my, Mr. Epstein, aren't you on a high horse. How easy it is to condescend to and patronize a woman, especially one you imagine needs taking down a peg. Why don't you pick on someone of your own size and small-minded misogyny? You can start with #PresidentDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/...
Dr Khodosh / @drkhodosh: Mr. Joseph Epstein-Joey-baby. Please drop the pretense. Your op-Ed is nothing more than misogyny. Having both MD and PhD never stopped men like you from trying to belittle me. The outrage your words ignited gives me hope. A wise man once said: the Times They Are a-Changing. https://twitter.com/...
Joanne Lipman / @joannelipman: Agree. I spent 22 years at the @wsj and have never commented on an edit page piece til now. What's so alarming is the lack of judgment running the piece. This wasn't a misogynistic dog whistle; it was a bullhorn. How could editors not have seen that? Worse yet if they did. https://twitter.com/...
Harriet Alexander / Telegraph: ‘Patronising, sexist, elitist drivel’: Anger as WSJ writer calls on Jill Biden to drop the Dr title
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Mr Epstein, 83, an essayist, author and former editor of The American Scholar, has advanced offensive views before. In a 1970 essay about homosexuality in @Harpers Magazine, he called gay people “cursed” and “an affront to our rationality.” https://www.nytimes.com/...? via @nytimes
@rheabutcher: All those words in the Wall Street journal complaining about Dr. Jill Biden when “Dr.” Phil exists
Eric Todisco / People.com: Dr. Jill Biden Receives Support After WSJ Op-Ed: This ‘Would Never Have Been Written About a Man’
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: @ArminRosen This is good trolling but I don't actually see any pressure, beyond a Biden spox saying the column was dumb. Seems like the internet mob is freelancing.
Dr. Lora Burnett / @ldburnett: Nice article, but it would have been useful to talk to an expert in the history of higher education. The title “Dr.” was an indicator of expertise CENTURIES before MDs used it in the 19th century. @mlevenson, I can help you with some contacts in #highered. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: WSJ reporter: “Pieces like that make it harder for me to do my job” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: The problem with the WSJ insane op-ed was not the nominal argument that people with humanitarian doctorates should not use “Dr” (which is a think lots of people believe), it was that the op-ed was written in the most insulting and patronizing way possible. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott G / @scott_garrod: @JoannaStern @WSJ @WSJopinion The Op-Ed section is designed to appeal to a certain demographic and the rest of the newspaper casts a wider net. Most readers understand that and it's all good. Don't get caught in the noise. Keep bringing us the best of you. It's why I subscribe.
Christopher Knight / @knightlat: Paul Gigot thinks race & gender are “cards” to be “played” rather than intrinsic aspects of lives that are lived. Spoken like a white male bigot. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kurt Schlichter / @kurtschlichter: I like how we're somehow morally obligated to ignore convention in order to build up the ego of some ridiculous woman whose only achievement has been to marry a desiccated old weirdo. No. I won't. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Cannon / Newsweek: Author of WSJ Op-Ed on Jill Biden Denounced by Former Employer, Has Profile Removed From Northwestern Website
Rupa Subramanya / @rupasubramanya: Many in academia actually don't use the honorific title. It's usually insecure non academics or academic wannabes who want to prove their credentials and call themselves Dr. How are we going to get through the next 4 years of this insufferable sanctimonious bs? 🤢 https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary / @stephaniecreary: I - like many others - am appalled and concerned about this sexist article published in the WSJ on December 11: https://www.wsj.com/...
Benjamin Wittes / @benjaminwittes: Translation of this piece: “I have status anxiety and I'm playing it out by attacking a woman for using the title Dr.—which she is fully entitled to use.” https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Berk / @bobbyberk: Cannot believe that the @WSJ published this disrespectful and misogynistic “opinion” piece. They should be disgusted with themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Walther / @matthewwalther: Seriously, if this mild-mannered 83-year-old light essayist makes you wet the bed, I shudder to think at how you would read respond to anything not written by a Teen Vogue editorial intern.
Aoibhinn N Shilleabhin / @aoibhinn_ni_s: This op ed in @WSJ is rightly getting a lot of negative backlash. To top it off the author clearly doesn't know that “Dr” shouldn't have a full stop. That's required only when abbreviation doesn't end in last letter of the word e.g “Prof.” Eejit = ej. = et #DrJillBiden https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Today feels like a good day to remind everyone who follows me of something: I work for @WSJ. I do not work for the @WSJopinion. Those are two different things and there's a strong wall between them.
Aris Folley / The Hill: Northwestern University rejects Wall Street Journal op-ed on Jill Biden penned by former lecturer
Valerie Jarrett / @valeriejarrett: It is disappointing that the @WSJ would give anyone an avenue to publish such misogynistic nonsense. The soon-to-be First Lady of the United States will be referred to by her name - Dr. Jill Biden. Get used to hearing it, kiddo. https://twitter.com/...
Moe Davis / @colmorrisdavis: I've published 35+ op-eds, including in the Wall Street Journal. For every one published, I wrote an equal number no one would print. I'm sure the @WSJ turned down other pieces on real issues to run this piece trashing Dr. Biden. Shame on them. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: This from a WSJ reporter. It's so often the case that those who shoulder the brunt of criticism for bad editorials or op-eds are the reporters, who spend way more time interacting with the public than anyone else at a newspaper. Imagine being asked to defend that piece. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Shea / @bill_shea19: I know the WSJ editorial pages cater to a conservative aristocracy but publishing dead-ender revanchist bigots and misogynistic rubbish at some point will be bad for business. https://twitter.com/...
Ming Long AM / @mingylong: Courtesy #JodieWhittaker @bbcdoctorwho #DrJillBiden should be #DrFLOTUS not just #FLOTUS https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jimhollo: All of the outrage is focused on Joseph Epstein an 83 year old misogynist, sexist, racist, jagoff but very little on the @WSJ and @WSJOpinion who allowed it to be printed. https://twitter.com/...
Alma S. Adams / @repadams: I'm disappointed by the unvarnished sexism of the @WSJ op-ed that minimizes @DrBiden's academic accomplishments. I doubt a successful man with a doctorate and two masters degrees would be treated with the same level of condescension. Yours truly, Dr. Alma S. Adams
Fareed Zakaria / @fareedzakaria: How come he never wrote this about “Dr. Kissinger”? https://twitter.com/...
@ilyseh: Breaking: the WSJ is absolutely that clueless. Doubling down on their insane OpEd and making themselves the victim of...checks notes...the Biden's?!!! Just wow. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@seyitaylor: I want to understand the editorial process for these opinion pieces. How does it work? Is it like Medium or Substack? Is there a dialog asking “ARE YOU SURE?!” Or is it more of a Twitter-style thing where you're screaming for the edit button? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary / @stephaniecreary: This article should never have been published. It is highly offensive to all of us who have earned doctorates. It is also extremely elitist. As a result, I am unwilling to support any diversity initiatives backed by the WSJ - it would be hypocritical for me to do so."
@viet_t_nguyen: Epstein “had taught at Northwestern University for 30 years, even though he held only a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Chicago.” It's called white male privilege. I've taught 23 years at a university. I had to have a PhD. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr Naomi Wolf / @naomirwolf: Author tragically conflating honorary with earned doctorates. The fact that Dr Biden earned her title at 55 is even more impressive. Author didn't get a doctorate - how does he know how difficult it is to do so? Academic Twitter rightly on a rampage https://www.wsj.com/...
Kim Lisagor Bisheff / @kimlisagor: Crappy op-eds erode public trust in journalism. Stop it already. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: WSJ reporter covering higher Ed rips WSJ column mocking Jill Biden over academic pedigree and use of honorific “Dr.” for PhD. I don't recall Henry Kissinger getting cuffed by WSJ opinion writers for same. https://twitter.com/...
Jaime Harrison / @harrisonjaime: I understand now why some newspapers are having such a hard time financially... they are wasting money by employing Neanderthals on their editorial boards. Dr. Biden earned her PhD and the right to use the title Dr. @WSJ #DoBetter https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary / @stephaniecreary: For the record, differentiating @WSJ and @WSJopinion in order to protect “real” journalism from the taint of that writer's misogynistic and elitist dribble is absurd. I'm a business school professor for goodness sakes. A room in the same house is burning.
Anushay Hossain / @anushayhossain: A thousand percent https://twitter.com/...
George Takei / @georgetakei: Why is the @WSJ publishing such drivel? No, Dr. Biden should not drop her title, because she has earned it. And Mr. Epstein—Joseph—Joey— boy: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think not unimportant matter: Any chance you can STFU? https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: Interesting history of the “Doctor” honorific here https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Stephanie J. Creary / @stephaniecreary: I just sent the following email to @WSJ. “Thank you for inviting me to serve as a subject matter expert to answer audience questions in the Diversity+Business newsletter. At this time, I would like to withdraw my name and likeness from your newsletter....
Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez / @stefanieoconnel: Today's @WSJ OpEd disparaging @DrBiden is exactly why I argue that woman don't have a ‘confidence gap’ so much as they face an ‘ambition penalty’ Our behavior is shaped by a lifetime of having our expertise dismissed and our successes devalued. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Wiggins / @paulwiggins: @JoannaStern @WSJ @WSJopinion I'm of the view opinion sections show more rigour when there is no such wall.
Armin Rosen / @arminrosen: Wow. The president-elect is now pressuring a newspaper to remove an article critical of his wife. Quite an escalation... https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rutiregan: @melissakorn @WSJ I'm sorry you're having to deal with that kind of misogyny at work. It's wrong, and I think that was the intended impact of that piece. Everyone who played a role in its publication ought to be ashamed of themselves.
@jrubinblogger: Misogyny a defining feature of the repulsive right. Even forWSJ Ed page this is horrendous https://twitter.com/...
Kat Arney / @kat_arney: The irony being that it's PhDs who can legitimately call themselves Doctor as they have a doctorate - it's actually an honorific for medical doctors (certainly in the UK, as I kept reminding my medic friends when I was younger and more obnoxious). https://twitter.com/...
Business Insider: Wall Street Journal op-ed telling Jill Biden to drop her ‘Dr’ title condemned as ‘patronizing drivel.’ Even the WSJ higher education reporter was disgusted.
Reid Nakamura / The Wrap: Wall Street Journal Slammed as Sexist for Op-Ed Calling Jill Biden ‘Kiddo’ and Urging Her to Drop Doctor Title
Joshua Espinoza / Complex: Jill Biden Targeted in WSJ Op-Ed Asking Her to Drop ‘Dr.’ from Her Title
Dom Calicchio / Fox News: WSJ op-ed on ‘Dr.’ Jill Biden gets writer ‘canceled’ by Northwestern University
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Paul A. Gigot / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Gigot, WSJ editorial page editor, equates the Biden team's reaction to an op-ed on Jill Biden's use of “Dr.” to Trump's “enemy of the people” tweets — Its strategists promote an identity politics campaign against an op-ed on Jill Biden's use of ‘Dr.’
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Dr. Jill Biden / @drbiden: Together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather than diminished.
Michael LaRosa / @michaellarosadc: .@jamestaranto, you and the @WSJ should be embarrassed to print the disgusting and sexist attack on @DrBiden running on the @WSJopinion page. If you had any respect for women at all you would remove this repugnant display of chauvinism from your paper and apologize to her.
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: Scarborough Destroys WSJ's Paul Gigot Civility Complaints: Anyone Accuse You of Murder?! If Not ‘Keep Your Stupid Mouth Shut’
@womenatdj: We appreciate the need for reading different perspectives, but we're embarrassed that @wsjopinion published an op-ed this weekend that stooped to patronizing and denigrating her — and many other doctors' — many accomplishments. 2/2
Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: Will there be a Dr. in the White House? Absolutely
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Or maybe it was just because the piece was shit, Paul. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: I wrote up WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot's response to the responses to The Op-Ed. If past is prologue, the op-ed and/or his response could stir tensions with newsroom, which have occurred several times this year. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christina Sommers / @chsommers: WSJ editor claps back: “These pages aren't going to stop publishing provocative essays merely because they offend the new administration or the political censors in the media and academe,” says editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: One reason the president assumes everything is coordinated against him is because he and his advisers often coordinate criticism of/political attacks on others. Weirder seeing it on the op-ed page of the WSJ. https://twitter.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Jill Biden urges celebrating women's accomplishments after critical op-ed
Monica Hesse / Washington Post: The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought
Alexis Paton / The Independent: Take it from me, kiddo - each and every one of us ‘doctors’ is deserving of the title
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: If you're wondering why the @WSJ ran that misogynist piece about Dr. Jill Biden, lets take a closer look at James Taranto, the man in charge of op-eds. He's called efforts to stop military rape a “war on men” & “an effort to criminalize male sexuality” https://www.wsj.com/...
@ijbailey: Don't whine after you publish a provocative piece with some idiotic points and people respond passionately. You aren't a victim. You're a provocateur. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Bowler / @katecbowler: The @WSJ's horrifying op-ed on Dr. Jill Biden using her own title is a reminder that when women hold genuine authority, they are still reduced to “borrowed” credentials. She must only be a wife. We can be both ourselves and connected to others. Both experts and grateful to serve https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: Victimhood of powerful, rich white men complaining about free market criticizing their attempts to cancel ... in this case, checks notes ... women (especially highly educated ones), is so pathetic, sad, infuriating. Especially when it comes from super-villain Murdoch Family. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Back to Paul. How bad of an opinion section editor is a person if they're pissed that ... people paid attention to the words published in their opinion section? https://twitter.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: Respected journalists in @WSJ newsroom are sick of how the editorial pages and the top editor there, Paul Gigot, bring disgrace to the newspaper. They pushed back earlier against the @VP Pence op-ed boasting of Trump's pandemic efforts, which was full of falsehoods. https://twitter.com/...
Dodes / @racheld: Here's the @WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot conflating criticism with censorship and comparing the Biden team's reaction to a sexist op-ed to Trump's attacks on the press as “the enemy of the people.” You don't need a PhD to see this thesis is indefensible. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dodes / @racheld: I feel for my former WSJ colleagues on the news side, who shouldn't have to be associated with this bullshit.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Nothing about that editorial page is worse than I thought. https://twitter.com/...
Preet Bharara / @preetbharara: This is an overwrought and really dumb defense by Paul Gigot of an even dumber op Ed about Dr. Jill Biden by Joseph Epstein https://twitter.com/...
Ian Higham / @highamian: Again, Judith Martin and other etiquette experts have publicly stated opposition to social use of “Dr.” for PhDs. But they didn't do so by talking down to a prominent woman PhD. That's why @WSJ is indeed sexist.
Emily Tannenbaum / Glamour: The Wall Street Journal Published a Rant Telling Dr. Jill Biden to Drop Her Title
Halima Mansoor / @hmansoor: @MonicaHesse taking a scalpel to @WSJ piece on @DrBiden makes for a great pre-Monday pep talk: I do doubt Epstein would have written this column about, say, Dr. Henry Kissinger. I do believe Epstein wouldn't have called him “kiddo.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Barbara St Clair / @forconversation: @mediagazer @AmyArgetsinger Also said it was ok that he called her “Kiddo” because her husband, Joe calls her that sometimes. Well my husband has been known to call me “Baby.” Do we now expect to see that term when addressing a professional woman in WSJ as well?
@womenatdj: Dr. Jill Biden is an example for all women and men — an expert in her field, dedicated to improving education and career outcomes for Americans. 1/2
Varad Mehta / @varadmehta: Exactly the right response. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: All of which is to say: Who leads publications is fucking important! If we continue to give misogynists power over some of the most influential column inches in the country, we can't be surprised when they, in turn, elevate other bigots.
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: Note to self: Re-cancel @WSJ subscription, not just because of the op-ed but mostly because of Gigot's response to criticism and the overall poor leadership of what used to be a great opinion shop, whether you shared their views or not https://twitter.com/...
Amy Argetsinger / @amyargetsinger: @mediagazer Also concludes that “If you disagree with Mr. Epstein, fair enough. Write a letter or shout your objections on Twitter.” But.... that's exactly what happened, and he's mad about it.
Prof Janine O'Flynn / @janineoflynn: This. That WSJ article was truly nasty. Perspective | The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bob Davis / @bobdavis187: WSJ edit page editor @WSJopinion doubles down on op-ed on Jill Biden. Claims the criticism is the work of the Biden camp playing the gender card instead of commentary on an insulting opinion piece that was so dumb it could be read as parody. https://www.wsj.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: Is... is Paul Gigot arguing that since Joe Biden has called his wife “kiddo” then everyone, including Joseph Epstein, gets to do so? https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story: Post style-writer rebukes ‘weird, grumpy, elitist’ WSJ columnist telling Dr. Jill Biden to drop her Ph.D.
Jeffrey Sachs / @jeffreyasachs: “When we published a purposefully obnoxious piece, we never imagined anyone would exploit our obnoxiousness to win sympathy. That's not how the WSJ editorial page is supposed to work.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Ankit Panda / @nktpnd: And once again: my thoughts are with the hard-working reporters on the news side of the WSJ, who deserve far better from their opinion colleagues https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Topol / @erictopol: So what does the WSJ do after it published a misogynistic, egregious oped? It doubles down, and politicizes it, and says “The outrage is overwrought because, whether you agree or disagree, Mr. Epstein's piece was fair comment.” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bob Davis / @bobdavis187: @BGrueskin What makes it even more rich is that @WSJopinion constantly complains about media elitism when it comes to portrayal of conservative. Then it runs this ridiculously condescending op-Ed about Jill Biden.
Marc Ambinder / @marcambinder: I would not want everyone to be able to call my husband what I get to call him. :-) https://twitter.com/...
Heather Ferris / @bartferris5: @mediagazer @AmyArgetsinger There was not a “coordinated response.” We all read it at the same time...and he sounded like a misogynistic a*$hole.
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: I'm fine if we're being sticklers for titles. If so, Paul Gigot is a Dick
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Also, anyone who dares to criticize the WSJ edit page is a “political censor”??? Gigot: “these pages aren't going to stop publishing provocative essays merely because they offend the new administration or the political censors in the media and academe.”
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Taranto has called feminism a “totalitarianism mindset” and said “the nastiness of contemporary feminism is an indication of its intellectual weakness.” He's also bemoaned that “women can have sex without the fear of pregnancy, just like men can.” (?!) https://www.huffpost.com/...
Tim Wu / @superwuster: No one needed to orchestrate a campaign to condemn that Jill Biden honorific piece written in the style of the 1880s — a piece like that organizes its own orchestra of contempt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kate Aurthur / @kateaurthur: Among other things, Paul Gigot has never heard of a viral ratio on a Saturday — and instead sees a coordinated campaign! How embarrassing! https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Pallas / @ampallas: WSJ Opinion Page editor Paul Gigot should acknowledge that much of Joseph Epstein's screed about Dr. Jill Biden reproduces a column Epstein wrote for the Weekly Standard in 2008. Tired editing of a tired argument. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Maggie Farley / @maggilista: @WSJopinion If you're going to provoke a debate, engage in the debate — and don't dismiss it as a political backlash. Thousands of people are making persuasive arguments why Epstein's article — and Paul Gigot— are hopelessly out of step. https://www.wsj.com/...
Eva Dou / @evadou: Am incredulous that WSJ is doubling down on defending the sexist op-ed. Editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot writing, “The outrage is overwrought” & attributes the blowback to politically motivated attacks https://www.wsj.com/...
@gzgzgz____: @JeffreyASachs the possibility that no one at the WSJ saw the sympathy alley-oop coming is laughable. if it's that upsetting, consider keeping a journal on lieu of, you know, publishing in a major media outlet.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “The outrage is overwrought,” claims Paul Gigot, about the storm over the Dr. Biden op-ed, while also claiming this outrage is a nefarious plot by the Biden administration https://www.wsj.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Wow, that's not much of an apology to Jill Biden. It's almost as if they don't think their misogyny is misogynistic https://twitter.com/...
Tim / @iamtimsteele: @WSJ doubles down on misogyny which Paul Gigot sees as a “relatively minor issue.” He doesn't live up to the generally high standards of the Wall Street Journal and it's time he was shown to the door.
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Taranto has also likened rape to drunk driving and said women “are absolved of responsibility [of rape] by virtue of having consumed alcohol.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Julie McClain Downey / @mcclainjulie: Erasing women's accomplishments is not new. But the @WSJopinion should be able to spot clear sexism and refuse to give it a platform by now. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Seitz / @patrickseitz: Jill Biden is an intelligent, accomplished woman. But she is no doctor. I'll stand with AP Style. https://twitter.com/...
@bibliotecariarr: Indeed — much to @WSJopinion & Paul Gigot's chagrin, we “kiddos” have enough agency to speak for ourselves, thank you very much. I know, I know it's hard to believe educated women don't need to rounded up, campaign style and told what to think, and how to say it, concert. https://twitter.com/...
Suleiman Alfred Massarweh / @drmassarweh: Mr. Paul A. Gigot needs to be removed from his @WSJ @WSJopinion role. There is no place in the 21st century for these prehistoric views that denigrate hard earned achievements because they don't meet your stale assessment. https://www.wsj.com/...
Laureen Lazarovici / @laureennarro: @melaniesill @andyfurillo @WSJ I did not realize Paul Gigot was still ... around 🦖🦕
Ian Higham / @highamian: The framing here doubles down on the disgusting sexism by calling the rebuttal of sexism “identity politics”. @WSJ is gross. https://www.wsj.com/...
Katherine X Lewis / @katherinelewis: Please listen to the women in your newsroom, @WSJ Paul Gigot. It's disrespectful and reductive to paint all opposition to your (wrong) position as politically motivated. Methinks a few of the @WomenatDJ are Republicans. Reread that awful editorial & apologize. (Kiddo? Really?) https://twitter.com/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: what an absolute disgrace. just insultingly bad. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: First: Write incendiary piece aimed to antagonize and anger. Then when the piece has desired effect, double down and write another piece claiming the outrage is example aggrieved party throwing their weight around and punching down in effort to silence dissension.
Daniel Larison / @daniellarison: What a joke. They run a garbage op-ed and then whine when people call them on it https://www.wsj.com/...
Claire Splan / @clairesplan: @marcatracy The problem is Paul Gigot equates conservative outrage and bitchiness with provocative commentary.
Frank Rich / @frankrichny: This guy was on board for the smearing of Anita Hill. The silence of @Peggynoonannyc about the misogyny and homophobia of her employer is predictable and deafening. via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
@brad_polumbo: Good for the WSJ editorial staff for telling the outrage mob to piss off. I didn't agree with/like the Op-Ed but that's the point of pro active commentary & the reaction is absurd. You simply cannot bow to the mob. Ever. https://www.wsj.com/...
Neil Mackenzie / @mknz: Paul Gigot, @wsjopinion editor, goes balls-out in support of Joseph Epstein in an op-ed which befouls the @WSJ and the many fine journalists who work for it. This preening fool has already torched the op-ed pages. He needs to be fired before he burns the @wsj to the ground https://twitter.com/...
Adam Piore / Columbia Journalism Review:
A deep, historical look at opinion pieces in news outlets, and how a large quantity of hot takes has served as a cheap, powerful attraction, sometimes at a cost — The New York Times and the unending blizzard of takes — In 1961, John B. Oakes was appointed to lead the editorial page of the New York Times.
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@cjr: “When opinion writers publish pieces that contrast with facts reported by journalists under the same banner, staffers have little recourse.” https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: The NYT's subscriber model attracted more believers, with commentary an inexpensive way for an outlet to assert its value and build customer loyalty. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: New from the winter magazine issue: In the nineties, when the media went online, opinion pieces, which cost little, proved to be ideal filler. @adampiore on the business value of commentary: https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: @abestreep @johnmrod @shinheeeee @d_holli @mayabinyam @jnoisecat @Oaklandside @jherrerx @tasneemraja @chameauleon @ruthmargalit @mikerosenwald @Alex_Norcia @FevenMerid @julieposetti @emilybell @beteprown At its founding, the New York Times op-ed page aimed “not to tell people what to think, but to tell them what to think about.” What's it doing now? @adampiore reports: https://www.cjr.org/...
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Adam Rubenstein, the NYT editorial assistant who edited Sen. Tom Cotton's infamous “Send in the Troops” column, has resigned from the newspaper
Discussion:
@brithume, @thedailybeast, @rachaelbl, @conor64, @bariweiss, @bariweiss, @bariweiss, @matthewstoller, @caitlinpacific and @ggreenwald
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Brit Hume / @brithume: Thread on young NY Times editor. To think this was once a great institution. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: “A false equivalence, but historical images are there now,” a photo editor reportedly messaged back to Rubenstein, prompting the editorial assistant to reportedly admit: “Yeah, there are a few in there” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Rachael Larimore / @rachaelbl: One of my favorite moments of my tenure at The Weekly Standard was @RubensteinAdam exposing the racism of Iowa Rep. Steve King. He's a young talent who deserves better. https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: The New York Times is now less diverse and inclusive than it was before. It's almost as if some people who invoke those values in ideological power struggles don't really mean them to apply to people with whom they disagree. https://twitter.com/...
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: This piece says that Adam was “thrust into the media spotlight.” No. Adam was hung out to dry by his own colleagues. Then he and his work were lied about, including in this mendacious editor's note. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: Adam doesn't seek the spotlight, which is why you likely hadn't heard his name until June as the editor who published the Tom Cotton oped. Adam was one of half a dozen editors who worked on that piece. He was the most junior among them. Yet Adam was named by @nytimes.
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: There is a bigger story to be told here, but the bottom line is that what @nytimes did to Adam was a disgrace. So is the fact that there wasn't a massive and public union campaign to defend him.
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: @ggreenwald Glenn if you had an editor the NYT would never have helped the Bush administration go to war with a falsified package of stories on WMDs. Get an editor already those typos are costly!
Caitlin Flanagan / @caitlinpacific: . @RubensteinAdam is one of the most intelligent and (preternaturally) gifted young people I've ever met. In addition to being a very good sort. Anyone who lets the “junior man/woman” take the fall for his own mistakes is a coward. Worse than that. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: More people have been forced to leave the NYT over the Tom Cotton op-ed than left due to the Paper of Record's 18 months of Iraq/WMD coverage that convinced millions of people to support an illegal invasion that destroyed a country of 26 million people and gave rise to ISIS. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources: Apple TV+ was making Scraper, a show about Gawker Media, with several episodes written, then Tim Cook sent an email about it and the project was killed — Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend.
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Kate Duffy / Business Insider: An Apple TV Plus series about Gawker Media was axed after Tim Cook found out about it
Chris Anderson / @chr1sa: Gawker was 20% pioneering new media and 80% toxic gossip, class warfare, clickbait and gross public shaming of people who didn't rise to the level of public figure I hugely admire Nick Denton, but everyone who worked for Gawker is tainted by its history. Glad that Apple did this https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: Apple senior executive told told partners working on shows for the company's streaming service that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Neil Cybart / @neilcybart: So we are going do a round two of “Tim Cook and Eddy Cue don't want naughty / violent / unmentionable things on Apple TV+”? Sigh. These rumors were wrong the first time, as seen by Apple TV+ content, and I suspect they are wrong yet again.
Neil Cybart / @neilcybart: There are often various reasons behind a TV show in production getting canned, altered, etc. Such decisions will cause some people involved in that show to be very angry, blame others, and seek revenge. Something to keep in mind when you read about these “scoops.”
Bill Murphy Jr / Understandably: Hee-haw and Merry Christmas
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: We Let Straight Men Do It All The Time — We are living in the most fascinating of times …
@dhh: Who could have foreseen that the conglomerate making your phone, your set-top box, your watch, your speakers, your credit card, your fitness plan, as well as distributing your news, music, and movies might not be the ideal producer of your TV shows! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: “...Gawker is revealing another reality in this era of media consolidation: that the chief executive of one of the biggest companies in the world, who testifies before Congress and negotiates with China, also decides what television shows get made.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andy Ihnatko / @ihnatko: A corporate overlord meddling in creative decisions at a studio it owns isn't a new thing in the entertainment biz. Still, not a good look for Apple...particularly given how the company chooses to brand itself. . https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tiana Lowe / @tianathefirst: I have zero problem with this. Most Hollywood studios wouldn't green light a pro-life film, and unlike user-based content platforms, we don't expect viewpoint neutrality from corporate content production. Why should Cook propagandize the homophobes who outed him? https://twitter.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: Hmmm I've had a little think about this and come to a firm conclusion: this sucks https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meg Graham / @megancgraham: Apple TV was making a show about Gawker. Then Tim Cook found out.... “Apple proceeded to kill the project. And now, the show is back on the market and the executive who brought it in, Layne Eskridge, has left the company.” Via @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Uh, like The New York Times decides what stories to cover? https://twitter.com/...
@thetomzone: fwiw I think it's extremely funny that Tim Cook is killing his own streaming service by shutting down anything he considers a spicy meataball https://www.nytimes.com/...
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: brb, tapping @cordjefferson's phone just because i'm so curious to hear all the calls from network execs tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out. Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful who you offend. @benyt reports https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katharine Trendacosta / @k_trendacosta: Tell me more, Hollywood, about how you and Big Tech are not the same—thin-skinned, monopolistic, and exploitative https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Ease your feelings, man, turns out your side won the class warfare https://twitter.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: “Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president for internet software and services, who has been at the company since 1989, has told partners that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China.” https://twitter.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: In addition to the stories here, my favorite Gawker reporting on Apple were the incessant stories of a (then healthy) Steve Jobs consistently and with impunity using parking spaces designated for people with disabilities. https://gawker.com/5506526 https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Bernhardt / @jonbernhardt: if nick denton was the only person at gawker you respected, it explains why class warfare is where it is in this tweet https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn: For running the most valuable company in the world, Tim Cook portrayals usually don't go deeper than casting him as calm and collected. But @benyt reveals an out of sight Machiavellian side. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Everyone inside Apple swears Tim Cook doesn't get involved in its TV programming. Everyone outside Apple says that's not true. https://twitter.com/...
China Uncensored / @chinauncensored: “Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president for internet software and services...told partners that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China,” one creative figure who has worked with Apple told me.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Walter Hickey / @walthickey: explains why everything on Apple TV seems milquetoast af https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: Shouldn't he have other shit to do https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: “The two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: This is the problem with massive media consolidation: MGM would've never made a movie shitting on MGM, but MGM wasn't also the most powerful tech company in the world https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Miller / @katherinemiller: “And then, there are the phones: A person involved in another recent Apple show recalled instructions to avoid a scene in which a phone would be damaged.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: For anyone looking at China issues, the lines in @benyt story are notable. Also, unrelated: a writer mentioned here, @cordjefferson, an ex-Gawker reporter, co-wrote one of the all-time best hours of TV: episode 6 of Watchmen, on Hooded Justice. Black Americans and the law. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: I worked there, but Gawker's racism against Founder-Americans is nothing that should be whitewashed away. https://twitter.com/...
Foster Kamer / @weareyourfek: An unreal (but not at all surprising) story. Powerful people are still settling scores with Gawker years later. https://twitter.com/...
Vincent Bevins / @vinncent: A good @benyt story on - I will use stronger language than he did - our new tech oligarchs and the way they shape our culture to suit their interests https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: The highest compliment I can pay @benyt is that when his columns are just asking questions, they're asking really good ones. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: the idea that CEOs of massive corporations were involving themselves in content production decisions and issuing mandates not to say anything bad about China is...the exact reason why Gawker was good and necessary https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: What if the hard-core nudity is in China? Does it cancel out? https://twitter.com/...
Ken Tremendous / @kentremendous: This sounds like a very good subject for a TV show. https://twitter.com/...
Mo Ryan / @moryan: I think it's worth noting that one of the key creatives on this project was a Black man, Cord Jefferson. It is still rare for Black folks to be the key creative leaders on big Hollywood projects. And Apple kicked this one to the curb without a qualm, it seems. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Terrific column this week by @benyt on how Tim Cook vetoed Apple TV show about Gawker, which for years did more to puncture Silicon Valley's bubble of arrogance than any other media outlet. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Norm Eisen / @normeisen: It's as if William Randolph Hearst had succeeded in killing Citizen Kane. Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Baumann / @nickbaumann: “The chief executive of one of the biggest companies in the world, who testifies before Congress and negotiates with China, also decides what television shows get made.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: Steve Jobs smashing his way out of his coffin groaning “must...destroy....Jason....Chen....” https://twitter.com/...
Marco Rubio / @marcorubio: More proof that many of our “woke” corporate elites are completely under #China's control. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zachary Lipton / @zacharylipton: While you're smarting over the realization that corporate behemoths can't be stewards of ethics, turns out (surprise!) you can't trust them w free expression either. If you plan to make a TV show, better not offend 1 of the 4 ppl that control *everything* https://www.nytimes.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Can't believe a company that uses cheap labor to make $300 headphones (that we all buy) would do this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Tacopino / New York Post: Tim Cook killed an Apple TV show about Gawker: report
Upvoted:
Reddit announces it has acquired short-form video app and TikTok rival Dubsmash — Reddit is where passionate communities come together for authentic exchanges about the topics that matter to them. Video is increasingly core to how people want to connect, and as we continue to grow our community …
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Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Reddit Snaps Up Dubsmash to Expand in Fast-Growing Video App Market
Sara Fischer / Axios: Reddit acquires TikTok rival Dubsmash
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash to bolster its video offerings
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Reddit acquires Dubsmash
Todd Spangler / Variety: Reddit Buys Short-Form Video Platform Dubsmash, Its First Major Acquisition
Sahil Patel / @sizpatel: Reddit's been trying to get users to upload videos natively to its site—instead of just posting YouTube embeds—for a couple of years. Buying Dubsmash helps accelerate those efforts. https://www.wsj.com/...
Sarah E. Needleman / @saraheneedleman: “The transition to video will be bigger than the transition to mobile,” said Reddit Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Huffman. “We're still only at the beginning.” https://www.wsj.com/...
The Financial Express: Reddit buys Dubsmash bringing TikTok-style video creation tools to the platform
Steve Dent / Engadget: Reddit snaps up TikTok rival Dubsmash
Jon Porter / The Verge: Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash
@reddit: Teamwork makes the dream work! We're thrilled to share our acquisition of video platform @Dubsmash. Reddit is where communities come together to discuss their favorite topics & video is an integral part of this discourse. Here's how we'll work together.👇 https://redditblog.com/...
@dubsmash: we are so excited to announce that we'll be joining forces with Reddit! ty to all our dubsmashers for being a part of this incredible journey. we're so honored to join a company whose focus is also building thriving communities. <3 https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: New: @Reddit is buying @dubsmash, confirming @alexeheath and @Jessicalessin's reporting for @theinformation. By acquiring the TikTok-like app, the company is doubling down on video. https://redditblog.com/...
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Reddit scoops up TikTok rival Dubsmash
Turner Novak / @turnernovak: Reddit acquires Dubsmash: - 25% of Black teens in US are on Dubsmash - 70% of users female - 30% of users login + create content daily - 1 billion video views per month Reddit had 1.4b monthly video views in Feb 2019, total videos posted up 2x in 2020 https://redditblog.com/...
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Jeff Zucker was recently made aware of investor interest in taking CNN private, as WarnerMedia is in talks with Zucker on whether to renew his contract — A month after the election, CNN holds leads in key ratings categories; President Jeff Zucker made aware of investor interest in network
Discussion:
Alex Salvi / @alexsalvinews: CNN is riding a ratings high in the aftermath of the election. Whether the network boss who oversaw those gains will stick around is an open question. @BenMullin https://www.wsj.com/...
Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino: More on the possible sale of @CNN—"One scenario floated was a management buyout that would see Mr. Zucker lead the network under new ownership, some of the people said. Mr. Zucker has indicated that would-be suitors should contact AT&T." https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Parler has moved from #1 downloaded app to not in the top 500. Newsmax has averaged 88% lower viewership during prime time than Fox News. Both are at their peak. The future looks much like the past in terms of brands people turn. https://www.wsj.com/...
@wsj: CNN averaged more total-day viewers than Fox News since Election Day through Dec. 8, the first time in 19 years it has won such a long stretch in that category https://www.wsj.com/...
Mark Glaser / Knight Foundation:
Nonprofit local news thrived in 2020, as INN membership rose by 25% to reach 300 news organizations, because of resilient business models, new funders, and more — As legacy media struggled during the pandemic, many nonprofit outlets shone, with NewsMatch as a catalyst for bringing in more donations
Chris Stokel-Walker / Business Insider:
TikTok says it has partnered with Samsung to launch TikTok on TVs from 2018 or later in Europe, starting with the UK — - TikTok's will be available on TV for the first time. — A partnership with Samsung means the app is available to download on certain smart TV models in Europe …
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@markghuneim, Pocket-lint, TVBEurope, Samsung Global Newsroom and Digital TV Europe, more at Techmeme »
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Mark Ghuneim / @markghuneim: Interesting device partnership for an app closely tied to the unique capabilities of phones https://twitter.com/...
Jenny Priestley / TVBEurope: TikTok app launches on Samsung TVs
Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg:
Profile of Russian online investigative outlets Proekt and Istories, backed by crowdfunding and Western foundations, which have recently broken stories on Putin — The Russian leader's campaign to control the press is backfiring in a technological environment that he doesn't understand.
Discussion:
Lee Brown / New York Post: Vladimir Putin allegedly has a secret lovechild with cleaner now worth $100M
Bill Bostock / Business Insider: Putin installed a replica of his Moscow office at his beachside retreat so he could pretend to be in the thick of things while shielding from COVID-19, report says
Pavel Lokshin / @lokshin: Disagree with Bershidsky's optimism here. The journalists behind this are more at risk than before, since there's no legal entity based in Russia to take the blame, and there are more ways to go after individuals, like the revised “foreign agents” law https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Chris Brown / @cbcchrisbrown: Good column explaining why recently there have been a large number of independent investigations into Vladimir Putin and his family. https://twitter.com/...
Brett Harris / @bretthar123: @Malinka1102 Proekt media - I can't figure out why a Russian media outlet is registered in Panama, has its details hidden in the US, is hosted in Germany, and has no social media interaction? https://twitter.com/...
Kim Andrew Elliott / @kaedotcom: “They are small organizations with a handful of employees and corporate entities outside Russia (in Lithuania in the case of Proekt and in Latvia in the case of Istories).” https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Rothrock / @kevinrothrock: Proekt has been doing a bang-up job lately of digging up dirt on Putin and his inner circle, but this editorial criticizing him for “hiding in a bunker” during the pandemic feels like weaksauce to me. Nothing wrong with teleconferences during COVID. https://meduza.io/...
Leonid Bershidskiy / @bershidsky: Russia's new crop of media is buillt to didge persecution, and it can sting Putin quite painfully https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Fabrice Deprez / @fabrice_deprez: “The Kremlin's problem is that it cannot do much with that “knowledge.” Neither Proekt nor Istories has a wealthy Russian owner or backer. Neither is officially registered as a Russian media outlet. Both can easily uproot and move” https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: President Vladimir Putin of Russia has built two identically appointed offices for video linkups, one outside Moscow and the second on the warmed-up shores of the Black Sea, the investigative news outlet Proekt reported. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meduza.io: ‘Proekt’ investigation reveals how Putin's ‘close acquaintance’ became a multi-millionaire
Will Stewart / The Scottish Sun: PUTIN IT ABOUT Putin's ‘god-father’ adviser revealed as shadowy billionaire who bankrolls President's millionaire ‘mistresses’
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: Incredible work. Also, the timing of this piece is spot on. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Weber / The Week: Russian report claims Putin is secretly working at a duplicate office in seaside resort
Marc Bennetts / The Times: Vladimir Putin's son-in-law ‘bought $380m of shares for $100’
New York Times:
Analysis of 7,124 English-language fiction books published by major publishing houses from 1950 to 2018 finds 95% of the authors were white — During last summer's Black Lives Matter protests, books written by people of color climbed the best-seller lists. — Was last summer a vision of equality to come for the publishing industry?
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@nytopinion: Eighty-five percent of the people who acquired and edited books in 2019 were white. Is it a surprise that the vast majority of fiction authors are, too? ask @RichardJeanSo and Gus Wezerek. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jeremyoharris: This is why I'm always so transparent and attempt to be open abt money on this bird app. Not to flex, but to make it more difficult for the powers that be to take screw us. I just had to turn down a commission for a new musical bc the money was funny. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Saraciea / @sj_fennell: This NYT opinion piece is a hot take. I have so many thoughts & feelings. But basically, publishing is broken. It will remain broken until the entire industry changes. Not just one house. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kishani Widyaratna / @kishwidyaratna: “It's amusing to me when publishers say that they follow the market,” said Ms. McKinney “They're doing it because of tradition. And the tradition is racism” In this, just 11% of the fiction books published in the US in 2018 were written by people of color https://www.nytimes.com/...
Beth Nguyen / @bichminhnguyen: Thinking about the many, many times I've heard certain people complaining, stating, implying that BIPOC writers “have it easier” or have an “advantage” re: publishing and jobs https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Kardon / @jlkardon: This one goes out to all the white writers who genuinely and snarkily ask if there's any room for them left in publishing, or want to know if their book didn't sell well because they are white. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rumaan Alam / @rumaan: i mean... no one wants my shitty books, my publisher told them they wanted them, that's how it works and it could work for a lot more writers who are black brown what have you if publishing decided that was a priority
Aura Bogado / @aurabogado: “Want your book published? It helps to be white.” *also, it helps to be white but pretend to be a person of color, or to be white and obscure your whiteness, or to be white and write about poc stuff with authority. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexandra Alter / @xanalter: The lack of diversity in publishing is widely acknowledged, and still the numbers in this analysis are shocking: “Of the 7,124 books for which we identified the author's race, 95 percent were written by white people.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah M. Broom / @sarahmbroom: Marie Brown, who is largely responsible for my being a writer, tells the truth today. “Black life and Black culture are rediscovered every 10 to 15 years. Publishing reflects that. “Many white editors are not exposed to Black life beyond the headlines.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Morgan Jerkins / @morganjerkins: “Just 11% of books in 2018 were written by people of color.” 2018 was the year that I debuted. This is a necessary read: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rumaan Alam / @rumaan: in my obviously very limited experience, publishers tell you they publish “what the market wants” but this fails to account for the fact that some huge percentage of the publisher's business is telling the market what it wants
Jordyn Holman / @jordynjournals: “Black life and Black culture are rediscovered every 10 to 15 years. Publishing reflects that.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mxcreant: “Literary prizes may also make publishing appear more diverse than it actually is.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@malorieblackman: Been through this BS with a friend of mine. Almost the same conversation with just the names changed. They published me so why did they need to publish her, in spite of the fact that our books were nothing alike. The only thing they had in common? Black characters. Enough. 🤨☹️😠 https://twitter.com/...
Valentine / Taco Thoughts: 030: Speed dating experiences, the book industry, and influencer capital.
Amal El-Mohtar / @tithenai: I know the instinct is to say “we KNOW” (we know!!!) but for a lot of white people that knowledge is a kind of flinching; “I KNOW, but what about ME, I didn't get a 100K advance,” etc. This is absolutely worth reading through carefully. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee: “Of the 512 books published by Random House between 1984 and 1990 in our data, just two were written by Black authors: Ms. Morrison's “Beloved” (through Knopf, which was owned by Random House) and “Sarah Phillips,” by Andrea Lee.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marissa Evans / Nieman Lab:
Trauma-informed reporting, often key for crime stories, will gain relevance post-pandemic; newsrooms need to be aware of potential secondhand trauma for staff — “Trauma is everywhere, even if the communities we serve don't always use the t-word to describe their experiences.”
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Kari Cobham / @kariwrites: “Trauma is everywhere, even if the communities we serve don't always use the t-word to describe their experiences.” @CarterFellows' @marissaaevans predicts for @NiemanLab: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: I wrote for @NiemanLab 2021 predictions that newsrooms must improve trauma informed storytelling to help communities understand what they endured + “marginalized people whose traumas are often forgotten must be ethically centered but never exploited.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Thee Rural AfroTexan / @dalyahj: “With newsrooms still reckoning with how they've perpetuated harmful narratives about the communities they report for, marginalized people whose traumas are often forgotten must be ethically centered but never exploited.” https://twitter.com/...
Allegra Hobbs / Study Hall:
A look at the enduring popularity of advice columns, mainstays at Slate, NYT, The Cut, how they've changed since the days of Dear Abby, and their role today — Trompe l'oeil. Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book by Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
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@spj_tweets, @katie_rayford, @thecitywanderer, @niemanlab, @niemanreports, @bfishbfish, @delia_cai and @sesmith
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@spj_tweets: “The consistently high demand for these columns indicates that they are fulfilling some dire need both on the part of both letter writers and readers. There are masses of people longing to be heard, to be taken seriously...” https://studyhall.xyz/...
Katie Rayford / @katie_rayford: “In this crowded field, Slate stands out as something of an advice column powerhouse” This is such a good deep dive into the evolution and rise of the advice column by @AllegraEHobbs featuring @Slate's @mwieg and @wcarey22 and...twincest https://studyhall.xyz/...
Rebecca Baird-Remba / @thecitywanderer: Good piece from @AllegraEHobbs on the rise of one of my favorite genres, the “messy advice column” https://studyhall.xyz/...
@niemanlab: The editor of @Slate's Dear Prudence cited escapism as a key component in the advice column boom. “My hunch is, especially seeing the growth over the last couple years, it's a way to take a break from the relentless news cycle.” https://studyhall.xyz/... https://twitter.com/...
@niemanreports: Why has advice become a safe bet in an otherwise precarious media landscape? https://studyhall.xyz/...
Rebecca Fishbein / @bfishbfish: An absolutely fascinating look at the evolution of the advice column by the one-and-only @AllegraEHobbs https://studyhall.xyz/...
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