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Founder of Nexta Telegram channel, which covered Belarus protests, arrested in Minsk after passenger plane was forced to land, allegedly after a fake bomb scare — (CNN)A leading Belarusian opposition activist in exile has been arrested in Belarus after his flight from Athens to Vilnius made an emergency landing in the capital city.
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@gitanasnauseda: Unprecedented event! A civilian passenger plane flying to Vilnius was forcibly landed in #Minsk. Belarusian political activist & founder of @NEXTA_EN was on the plane. He is arrested. 🇧🇾 regime is behind the abhorrent action. I demand to free Roman Protasevič urgently!
@franakviacorka: BREAKING! The regime landed @Ryanair plane, which was flying from Athens to Vilnius,in order to arrest the famous Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich. In Belarus, he faces the death penalty. Belarus has seized a plane,put passengers in danger, in order to repress an opponent https://twitter.com/...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya / @tsihanouskaya: The regime forced the landing @Ryanair plane in Minsk to arrest journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich. He faces the death penalty in Belarus. We demand immediate release of Raman, @ICAO investigation, and sanctions against Belarus. https://twitter.com/...
Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times: Belarus Scrambles Jet to Force Down Plane Carrying Dissident
Ursula von der Leyen / @vonderleyen: It is utterly unacceptable to force @Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk. ALL passengers must be able to continue their travel to Vilnius immediately and their safety ensured. Any violation of international air transport rules must bear consequences.
Prime Minister GR / @primeministergr: The forced landing of a commercial plane to detain a journalist is an unprecedented, shocking act. We demand all passengers' immediate release. Tomorrow's #EUCO must address the need to step up pressure on Belarus. Enough is enough.
Christophe Deloire / @cdeloire: What happened may seem extravagant, in reality it is extremely serious. Hijacking a plane to arrest a journalist is pushing state treachery to the extreme. We expect from the international community sanctions commensurate with this perfidy. #PressFreedom #Belarus https://twitter.com/...
@krisjaniskarins: Concerning reports about forced landing of @Ryanair flight in Minsk and safety of all the passengers. We call for independent international investigation of this incident and immediate release of Belarusian opposition activist Roman Protasevich arrested on this flight.
@ingridasimonyte: Passengers and crew of Ryanair flight en route from Athens to Vilnius have been put in danger - when forcibly landed in Minsk. We demand that the plane and passengers be allowed to fly to Vilnius immediately!
Tadeusz Giczan / @tadeuszgiczan: What we know so far: KGB operatives boarded the plane in Athens this morning together with Roman Protasevich (he noticed dodgy-looking ppl taking pics of him at the gate). Then when the plane has entered Belarus airspace KGB officers initiated a fight with the Ryanair crew (1/2)
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: A new low for Belarus President Lukashenko: his forces endanger a commercial jet flying over its territory to force it down and arrest a dissident journalist on board. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: The Belarus government has forced down a commercial airplane flying over its territory in order to arrest a passenger - an opposition journalist. This is state-sponsored hijacking. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Sciutto / @jimsciutto: And the costs are clearly survivable. If Russia can poison and then jail its main opposition leader (and throw others out windows), Belarus calculates it can hijack a plane to arrest its own. And the cycle goes on. https://twitter.com/...
Mathieu von Rohr / @mathieuvonrohr: #Ryanair leave out of their statement that one of their customers was kidnapped in #Minsk by state authorities https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: This is fucked up https://twitter.com/...
Denis MacShane / @denismacshane: Well said https://twitter.com/...
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: Fine while Lukashenko was just imprisoning people inside his country. Now he's detaining overflying jets? Things are going to change. Of course, have to hope this isn't Gavrilo Princip's sandwich. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesworld: Belarus said its president gave an “unequivocal order” to make the plane, carrying Roman Protasevich, do a U-turn and land. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ivo Daalder / @ivohdaalder: Outrageous actions by Belarus to force down civilian plane flying from Athens to Vilnius requires strong, concerted action by US and EU, including new sanctions and banning flights from Belarus. https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Ash / @tashecon: No plane is safe flying over Belarus airspace after this. https://twitter.com/...
Linas Linkevicius / @linkeviciusl: It just turned out that Pratasevich was detained at #Minsk airport. All this reckless and lawless ‘operation’ by 🇧🇾 special services deserves strong response, not just condemnation. One can't use airspace controlled by regime criminals. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Nandy / @lisanandy: Intercepting a civilian airliner to detain a journalist is appalling, dangerous, and illegal. It imperils the freedoms of the air and freedom of speech. The Belarus government must face serious consequences. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Browder / @billbrowder: Truly shocking and unprecedented: Ryanair flight carrying Belarusian journalist critical of the regime forced to land in Minsk. The journalist was subsequently arrested and faces 15 years in prison. A true nightmare. This is why I'll never fly over Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Vladislav Davidzon / @vladdavidzon: French, Belgian, Greek, Romanian and almost a hundred Lithuanian citizens have been taken hostage after Belarus hijacks plane in midair to capture a political opponent. https://twitter.com/...
Tadeusz Giczan / @tadeuszgiczan: MiG-29 of the Belarusian Air Force has returned to the airbase in Baranovichi after successfully intercepting Ryanair Athens-Vilnius flight and forcing it to land in Minsk. The plane with 171 passengers on board still hasn't been released. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times: Nexta Telegram channel founder arrested as Belarus, under orders from Lukashenko, sends fighter jet and forces a Ryanair Athens-Vilnius flight to land in Minsk
Luis Garicano / @lugaricano: Dear Mme @vonderleyen This kidnapping shows that the dictators-first Putin, then Erdogan, now Alexandr Lukashenko have discovered there is nothing behind our “we condemn” and our “we strongly condemn”. Let's save ourselves the words now, and take action. https://twitter.com/...
Boris Ryvkin / @bryvkin: von der Leyen to Lukashenko: all passengers must be able to continue their travel to Vilnius immediately! Lukashenko to von der Leyen (who he regards as utterly impotent): have a carrot. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Radek Sikorski Mep / @radeksikorski: This is a dangerous precedent for travellers everywhere. I shall be tabling a resolution @Europarl_EN to expel Belorus from @ICAO and impose other sanctions until Mr Pratasevicz is freed and the guilty of this outrageous act of state terrorism are punished. https://twitter.com/...
Josep Borrell Fontelles / @josepborrellf: We hold the government of Belarus responsable for the security of all passengers and the aircraft. ALL passengers must be able to continue their travel immediately. (2/2)
Gabrielius Landsbergis / @glandsbergis: Disturbing news regarding @Ryanair plane from Athens to Vilnius forced landing in Minsk. Working with international partners to secure safe passage back to Vilnius for all passengers.
Josep Borrell Fontelles / @josepborrellf: Closely following developments around today's @Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, which was forced to land in Minsk over an alleged security threat. This is totally inadmissible. (1/2)
ND Kirsch / @ndkirschmann: Whelp, definitely NOT taking Ryanair this summer. Seriously, how does this happen? The EU and US need to slap (more) sanctions on these clowns. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander S. Vindman / @avindman: Good thread on events in Belarus. Yes, the Gov. of Belarus forcing down a Ryanair flight to detain an opponent is a Human Right violation. Yes, this was a terror act. It is also violation on international norms with grave implications for vital US national interests. https://twitter.com/...
David Coltart / @davidcoltart: Belarus President Scrambles Jet to Force Down Plane Carrying Dissident . Tyrants are the same the world over. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evan Hill / @evanchill: Belarus appears to have staged a snatch operation to force a commercial aircraft flying over its airspace to land in order to arrest 26-year-old opposition journalist Roman Protasevich. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sasha Chavkin / @sashachavkin: Brazen assault on press freedom and the rule of law. Dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus scrambles military jets to force down an international flight carrying an opposition journalist, who was arrested upon landing https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: Absolutely unacceptable behavior from Belarus. Protasevich and NEXTA have played an integral role in informing citizens during the past year or protest; he should be freed, and the EU & US must act to discourage this wanton disregard for int'l norms. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: This is incredibly messed up: A leading opposition figure has said the Belarusian regime “forced the landing of the plane in Minsk to arrest journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich. https://www.cnn.com/...
Erin Burnett / @erinburnett: See Anne's full thread about how this went down - KBG on board forced plane down https://twitter.com/...
@jesselynradack: Remember when the U.S. asked European countries to force down the plane of Bolivian President Morales bc they thought @Snowden was aboard?? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: Strong statement. Question is, what will be the consequences? https://twitter.com/...
Mario Seminerio / @phastidio: Waiting for the consequences, then https://twitter.com/...
Will Stewart / The Sun: PLANE DRAMA Ryanair bomb scare: Plane forced to land after ‘false threat led to fighter jets being scrambled to arrest passenger’
Emma Grimshaw / Mirror.co.uk: Ryanair plane ‘forced to land’ in Belarus with fake bomb scare as journalist ‘detained’
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Belarusian Journalist Arrested After His Flight Diverted To Minsk By Military Fighter Jet
Andrew Roth / The Guardian: Belarus accused of ‘abhorrent action’ after Ryanair flight diverted to arrest blogger
Tadeusz Giczan / @tadeuszgiczan: insisting there's an IED onboard. Eventually the crew was forced to send out SOS (literally moments before the plane would've left Belarus airspace). MiG-29 took off and escorted it to Minsk. Security services entered the plane and arrested Protasevich. (2/2)
@cjcmichel: Needless to say, unless there's massive pushback against this from the West, we're going to see repeats of this new tactic in Russia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Peter Meijer / @repmeijer: The authoritarian Belarusian regime just forced down a civilian Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania to arrest a political activist who criticized the dictator Lukashenko. This is an egregious violation that deserves condemnation and stronger sanctions against Belarus. https://twitter.com/...
Marc Burleigh / @marcburleigh: Latvia's PM on the @Ryanair plane forced to land in #Belarus https://twitter.com/...
Valda Kalnina / TASS: Lithuanian president says Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk
Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss: Belarusian KGB hijacked a plane headed to Vilnius with a fake bomb threat to arrest a journalist wanted by Lukashenko. Extraordinary. https://www.rferl.org/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This action *must* have consequences, or else the reach of dictatorships to suppress free speech will extend even further than it does already. https://twitter.com/...
Jacopo Bertolotti / @j_bertolotti: Immediate sanctions on Lukashenko and his cronies. Thank you @EUCouncil https://twitter.com/...
Bakhti Nishanov / @b_nishanov: The regime has gone absolutely rogue https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Weaver / @ncweaver: One problem that the EU and US face on this: The EU and US did this to the President of Bolivia because we thought Snowden was on the plane, albeit not with a bomb threat. https://en.wikipedia.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Max Seddon / @maxseddon: The president of Lithuania, where the plane reportedly carrying activist Roman Protasevich was headed, is calling for his release https://twitter.com/...
X Soviet / @xsovietnews: It's now reported that a Belarusian fighter jet was scrambled to escort the Ryanair flight to Minsk so that journalist Roman Protasevich could be arrested. “On the orders of the commander-in-chief.” https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Miller / @christopherjm: Unbelievably brazen move by Belarusian dictator Lukashenko to fake a bomb threat, scramble a jet, & force a @Ryanair flight to land in Minsk to arrest @nexta_tv founder @pr0tez, who helped organized last years protests against Lukashenko. Protasevich could face the death penalty. https://twitter.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: 🚨An authoritarian regime forced the landing of a plane en route to Lithuania to arrest a journalist. This is outrageous and requires immediate response from the EU. Beyond just a harsh statement. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Miller / @christopherjm: Here's the president of Lithuania reacting to today's absolutely mad events. The Ryan Air fight was headed to his capital of Vilnius. The Irish airline had flown through EU airspace before crossing into Belarusian airspace. https://twitter.com/...
@vloracitaku: This is absolutely unacceptable. The way how EU will respond to this act of aggression will determine whether such despicable actions conducted by states will become a norm in the future. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: And this context is spot on. It's a risk calculation and any failure to respond appropriately for press freedoms and international law only increases risk to press and democracy globally. https://twitter.com/...
Deth Veggie / @dethveggie: https://www.bbc.com/... How is this not hijacking? This is incredibly messed up. https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: The Belarusian govt reportedly forced a plane down in order to arrest a journalist on board. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Hamilton / @danielrhamilton: It doesn't just require a response on the part of the EU, @biannagolodryga; it requires coordinated action on the part of the *entire* international community to exclude Belarus from the global banking system, end debt financing and to impose ban on dual-use exports. https://twitter.com/...
Alec Luhn / @asluhn: Roman Protasevich of the Nexta Telegram channel, which exposed Belarus police brutality, has been arrested after his Athens-Vilnius flight made a surprise landing in Minsk due to a “bomb threat” https://meduza.io/... https://twitter.com/...
Henry Foy / @henryjfoy: Belarus media reporting that a @Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, while over Belarus airspace was ordered to land in Minsk, where a journalist critical of the Lukashenko regime was taken from the plane and detained. Some reports say a fighter jet was also used https://twitter.com/...
Bob Rae / @bobrae48: This is the world we are in - the authoritarian world ! https://twitter.com/...
Max Seddon / @maxseddon: Strong statement on Roman Protasevich's detention in Belarus from the head of the EU commission. But the bloc's options are pretty limited. “We will be super concerned and demand his release,” one diplomat told me. “But the EU can't do much, sad as it is.” https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kimmel / @andrewkimmel: Belarus secret police hijacked a commercial airliner to arrest a journalist. https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: “Belarus security service, still known as KGB” https://twitter.com/...
Mitchell Prothero / @mitchprothero: Official: Belarus conducted an operation on a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania to force the plane down in Minsk so they could arrest a dissident journalist on board. i'm having a difficult time processing how illegal this is under various international laws and treaties https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after his racist remarks about Native Americans at an event last month — The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Cuts Ties With Contributor Rick Santorum
Jesus Jiménez / New York Times: CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Dismissive Comments About Native Americans
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: CNN is cutting ties with contributor and former Republican Senator Rick Santorum, the latest in a parade of conservative commentators at the network whose off-camera behavior made keeping them on air untenable.... https://variety.com/... via @variety
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: “Leadership wasn't particularly satisfied with that appearance. None of the anchors wanted to book him,” this CNN senior executive tells me “So he was essentially benched anyway.” https://www.huffpost.com/...
@mrddmia: So @CNN canceled its token conservative (@RickSantorum). But it let (liberal) news anchor @ChrisCuomo go unscathed after it leaked that he advised his corrupt politician-brother @NYGovCuomo & his top advisors to be “defiant” in the face of 7 allegations of workplace sexual abuse https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal / @repjayapal: Good. Santorum's comments were outrageous—racist and arrogantly uninformed. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: CNN parts ways with pundit Rick Santorum, former senator who made much-criticized comments about Native Americans
@wajahatali: The 900 lives of white conservative men on cable news finally ran out. Well, at least for Rick Santorum. CNN will be better for this. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Moving with lightning-fast speed, @cnn fires @RickSantorum just three weeks after the latest in a series of racist, misogynistic, homophobic, trump-excusing, fact-free comments on @cnn that began just four years ago https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jordan Zakarin / @jordanzakarin: Compare the number of years and chances CNN gave an outright bigot like @RickSantorum versus how immediately the AP just dumped @vv1lder at the slightest bad-faith whine by outright bigots. https://twitter.com/...
@pamkeithfl: Thank you @JasonOverstreet and EVERY other person who wouldn't be quiet about this. https://twitter.com/...
Jamal Yaseem Igle / @jamaligle: As opposed to all the other sexist and bigoted things he's said? https://twitter.com/...
Julian Brave NoiseCat / @jnoisecat: CNN has never had a regular on air Native reporter or commentator. Now would be a great time to change that. https://www.nationalobserver.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Roberts / @nycjim: CNN confirms that it's parting ways with Rick Santorum, but doing so without issuing a statement about his offensive comments about Native Americans. Network exec tells @HuffPost: “Leadership wasn't particularly satisfied with that appearance.” https://www.huffpost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Halperin / Wide World of News: Aren't These Fish Incredible? — If it's a slowish news Sunday, it's my S-U-N-D-A-Y gimmick format.
Daniel Kibblesmith / @kibblesmith: When they get around to googling everything he said and did *before* they hired him, then they're gonna feel *really* embarrassed. https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: CNN has terminated its contract with Rick Santorum over racist remarks he made about Native Americans @jbendery reports https://www.huffpost.com/...
Marc Lamont Hill / @marclamonthill: According to reports from CNN execs, the network decided to part ways after Santorum failed to redeem himself (or even apologize) in an interview with Chris Cuomo. Interesting that he was given such an opportunity... https://m.huffpost.com/...
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: May 23, 2021
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: Keep in mind that this is a network that frequently had on Jason Miller, Kellyanne Conway, Jeffrey Lord, and others I would consider even worse than Santorum. I have no objection whatsoever to conservative commentators; some of the folks CNN has had on are well beyond the pale. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: A @CNN spokesman said that while they have a long history of platforming the kind of white supremacy Santorum represents, it was distracting focus from Chris Cuomo's unethical journalistic malfeasance, which they consider the crown jewel of the network. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Concha / @joeconchatv: Scoreboard: Cuomo stays - no reprimand for a host of ethical breaches. Toobin - no decision after the Zoom incident (this is a family show). Santorum- Out. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Took a few weeks but... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Toole / @michaeltoole: scary times in america!! all it takes for a conservative commentator to get canceled is to be unbelievably racist on national TV, followed by an entire month of sustained public outrage that continues to mount until the man's employer finally, grudgingly acts https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist, inaccurate remarks he made about Native Americans, HuffPost has learned. https://m.huffpost.com/...
Non Fungible Tom Tomorrow / @tomtomorrow: and they will hire some other horrible right wing lunatic and then someday have to fire them when they turn out to be a horrible right wing lunatic, rinse and repeat ad nauseum https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Klingler / @jamieklingler: That took long enough but I'm glad they did it https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Weaver / @ncweaver: However, it is often hard to remove santorum stains, especially if you've let them remain for too long. https://twitter.com/...
Killjoy McCoy / @letsgoayo: I don't know why they hired him in the first place https://twitter.com/...
Mookie Alexander / @mookiealexander: Apparently the 549th shitty thing he did/said was a step too far for CNN. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: A CNN spokesperson confirms that the network has parted ways with Santorum https://twitter.com/...
Bob Brigham / Raw Story: CNN blasted for ever hiring Rick Santorum after they finally fired the disgraced bigot
Bob Brigham / Raw Story: Disgraced Republican Rick Santorum finally fired by CNN for his racism: report
Neal Broverman / Advocate: CNN Finally Fires Rick Santorum
Chelsea Steiner / The Mary Sue: Finally! CNN Fires Rick Santorum After His Racist Comments About Native Americans
Brett Bachman / Salon: CNN drops Rick Santorum following controversial comments on Native American culture: report
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: CNN Has Finally Had Enough of Rick Santorum
Jamilah King / Mother Jones: CNN Fires Rick Santorum Over Claim That White Settlers Found “Nothing” in America
Ted Johnson / Deadline: CNN Parts Ways With Contributor Rick Santorum After Furor Over Comments About Native Americans
Dennis Romero / NBC News: CNN drops Rick Santorum following remarks about Native Americans
Kanishka Singh / Reuters: CNN drops former senator Rick Santorum after remarks on Native American culture
Daniel Politi / Slate: CNN Gets Rid of Rick Santorum After Comments on Native Americans
Bob Cronin / Newser: CNN Drops Rick Santorum
Brian Stelter / CNN: Rick Santorum departs CNN after criticism of Native American comments
John L. Dorman / Insider: CNN ends contract with Rick Santorum after dismissive comments about Native Americans
Nick Caruso / TVLine: Rick Santorum Out at CNN After Racist Comments About Native Americans and On-Air Non-Apology (Report)
Zoë Richards / Talking Points Memo: CNN Dismisses Santorum After Botched Cleanup Of Remarks About Native Americans
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: CNN Cuts Ties with Rick Santorum After He Made Racist, Inaccurate Remarks at a Speaking Engagement
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: Rick Santorum Out at CNN After Comments on Native Americans
Alaina Demopoulos / The Daily Beast: CNN Fired Rick Santorum for Racist, Pro-Colonization Comments
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The failure of local investors to block Alden from buying Tribune Publishing was a failure of civic leadership, especially by Chicago's class of plutocrats — It didn't have to turn out this way. — Local investors — especially in a prosperous town like Chicago — could have stepped forward …
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Wesley / @wesleylowery: I keep thinking about this, from @perrybaconjr, and how it speaks to so many of the conversations happening currently in journalism about our values, ethics and standards https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: There's an alternate history where Trib management makes better decisions,invests in journalism & product, & the Trib is a competitive national brand — maybe right of center, more Midwest focused than NYT/WaPo. It's a huge missed opportunity, and no reason you couldn't do it now https://twitter.com/...
Katrina vandenHeuvel / @katrinanation: But and yet, shame you shareholders who value the shortterm maximization of profits and dividends more than value of robust local journalism— And these papers were making profit, just lower margins. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: And on this note, read Richard Norton Smith's bio on former Trib owner and Midwest supremacist Col McCormick https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: This was the plan of the billionaire who got away and I'd say it was as fanciful and unrealistic as making the LA Times a national paper. There's nothing wrong with being a local paper; that's hard enough. I wish NYC still had one. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Noel / @hopnotes: You know who benefits when journalists aren't keeping watch over communities they cover? Rich people. https://twitter.com/...
@sulliview: America's rich people could have saved local journalism — and perhaps democracy. They refused. .... My column as a hedge fund buys @chicagotribune @baltimoresun @orlandosentinel @hartfordcourant @NYDailyNews & more https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: @Sulliview just nails it here. The death of quality local news enables corruption, results in a more divided and less informed public, and can even shift election outcomes. and the folks with the resources to do something about it are letting it happen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jennifer W. Sheehan / @jenwsheehan: I'm always going to be proud of our work. We have people solidly behind us and that's a great feeling. The fight now may be different but I'm ready and so are all our unions. #savelocalnews https://twitter.com/...
Jason Mastrodonato / @jmastrodonato: “This is a terrible outcome, not just for the employees but for every community where Tribune has a newspaper.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Kusek / @mkusek01060: If you live somewhere, like getting local news, and your local newspaper is owned by the Tribune company, you best hope someone starts up an alternative news outlet. https://twitter.com/...
Janice Hough / @leftcoastbabe: Sad for journalism. But another reason to urge Senators to support Amy Klobuchar & John Kennedy's bipartisan “Journalism Competition & Preservation Act” -allows newspaper industry to collectively negotiate w/digital platforms (like Google & Facebook.) We need local & REAL news. https://twitter.com/...
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: “It's a terrible turn of events, if not a surprising one, because Alden has a proven record of slashing newsroom jobs in cities from Denver to San Jose and beyond, and failing to invest in ways that might make its newspapers sustainable in the long run.” https://twitter.com/...
John Warner / The Biblioracle Recommends: Recommendations 5/23/2021: What Short Stories Should We Read?
Dan Gainor / @dangainor: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. | Tribune shareholders vote to sell legendary chain of newspapers to a hedge fund https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katrina vandenHeuvel / @katrinanation: Value @sulliview views — But why should we expect rich people to save journalism, local or other. Cool if they wish to, but shouldn't a country which lectures others about rules based norms & how democracy dies in darkness, have public funding for a robust,accountability media? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: From all evidence, most of the nation's ultra-wealthy people consider democracy a bug, not a feature, in their pursuit of power and money. We need to rebuild journalism from the neighborhood outward. https://twitter.com/...
Anjalee Khemlani / @anjkhem: 'In fact, it's no exaggeration to make a more sweeping statement: that healthy local journalism is essential to the functioning of American democracy.' 💯 I'd like to go back to local at some point in the near future. That's where the real news is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: Don't blame “rich people.” It's not the role of rich people to subsidize media. Newspapers should not have gone free; they should have created things people wanted. And Americans, if they cared about local news, might have paid for it.
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: Our final story: Hedge fund Alden's takeover of Tribune newspapers approved by shareholders today, something many of its journalists had said for a year would be an apocalyptic outcome for journalism in their communities https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: To be clear: I'm told that Soon-Shiong decided to allow Alden bid for Tribune to succeed, despite all of today's confusion The sale was the result he intended https://twitter.com/...
Darrin Bell / @darrinbellart: I think America's oligarchs may have decided that democracy isn't actually in their best interest. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Adams / @samuelaadams: it's almost like relying on the largesse of billionaires is not a sustainable model for journalism https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: Media folk have been dreaming of a quick-fix billionaire solution to the journalism crisis. There is no quick fix for those who don't work for Bezos's newspaper. Sorry. It's going to require the hard work of building reader-supported journalism. Join us: https://www.dailyposter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: “The just-sold newspapers are essential to their communities' well being,” writes @sulliview. “In fact, it's no exaggeration to make a more sweeping statement: that healthy local journalism is essential to the functioning of American democracy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Arelis R. Hernndez / @arelisrhdz: Thinking of my former colleagues at the @orlandosentinel & the fabulously courageous journalists of @OS_Guild who deserve respect, admiration and the job protection to carry out the vital work their community needs and they consistently deliver. ✊🏾 https://twitter.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: I'm quoted in this WaPo story. Sad quote on a sad day for Chicago. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Shafer / @danrshafer: Awful news for our friends in Chicago. And a warning to the rest of us. The best thing a wealthy Wisconsinite could do is restore local ownership to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: “We're slowly replacing a functional press with PR spam, hedge fund dudebros, trolling substack opinion columnists, foreign and domestic disinformation, brand-slathered teen influencers, and hugely consolidated dumpster fires like Sinclair Broadcasting” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeffrey Platsky / @jeffplatsky: A sorrowful day in journalism. The once proud Tribune Co. took a figurative dual blow to the chin and stomach today. Accountability journalism will likely be demolished. https://twitter.com/...
M Robinson Chavez / @mrchavezphoto: A horrible day for @tribpub, the journalists and editors that work there and the readers they serve. They are about to be gutted. #journalismmatters https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Rich Chicagoans sent a signal that they do not care.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Local investors — especially in a prosperous town like Chicago — could have stepped forward to block a hedge fund from gaining control of several of the nation's top daily newspapers. But they didn't.
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: Chicago is a city that rebuilt itself after destruction by fire yet it can't save its newspaper. What a dark day. https://twitter.com/...
Holly Brewer / @earlymodjustice: “Devastating” Alden Capital, which we know from prior investigations has been acquiring newspapers seemingly in part to loot their pension funds—acquires more gems of American journalism. See here and https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: Alden cost-cutters pick off Tribune Publishing: “Healthy local journalism is essential to the functioning of American democracy. But it's dwindling, as more local papers either close their doors or become mere shadows of what they once were.” - @Sulliview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Tribune shareholders vote to approve Alden's $633M purchase of the chain; Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns a 24% stake in Tribune, abstained from voting
Discussion:
@sulliview, @davidfolkenflik, @elaheizadi, @rexhuppke, @bgrueskin, @domknight, @markstenberg3, @ndhapple, @mathewi, @nicdawes, @nytimesbusiness, @chinchillarudy, @jason_pontin, @brynstole, @scott_tobias, @goldengateblond, @davidfolkenflik, @katie_robertson, @bykowicz, @jfslowik, @benyt, DFM Workers, @vwpickard, @davidfolkenflik, @nprembedded, @lillianereed, @mathewi and @clarajeffery
Discussion:
@sulliview: The grim news: Tribune shareholders vote to sell legendary chain of newspapers to a hedge fund. By @sarahellison and @ElaheIzadi who've been on the story for months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Tribune Publishing CEO Terry Jiminez has put out this memo to staff: https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: Joint statement from employee unions representing Tribune newspapers/outlets on Alden takeover https://twitter.com/...
Rex Huppke / @rexhuppke: 1/ Tribune Publishing shareholders just let the hedge fund Alden Global Capital buy the company. This is terrible news for the Chicago Tribune and all our sister newspapers. It's also terrible news for the communities these papers cover and, I'd argue, for the country.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: The future of local journalism in Chicago, Hartford, Orlando and a host of other US cities seems to depend on an LA billionaire's failure — intentional or not — to check a box on a shareholder ballot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dom Knight / @domknight: Has any hedge fund anywhere ever left a newspaper in a better position than they found it? Has any hedge fund anywhere ever left a newspaper? https://twitter.com/...
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: yikes this really gets at one of the core tragedies of what happened to The Tribune: none of the moneyed in Chicago wanted to save it https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Not sure why I'm the only one that gets an @ mention here, but I never said nothing will work, and I also never said subscriptions were bad. I said hard paywalls wouldn't work for most, and that a membership or community-based approach was best, and I still believe that https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: The reaper prevails. Awful news for the communities Tribune papers serve, and the journalists who work at them. Also a spur to build new local outlets now, rather than awaiting the next round of hollowing-out at legacy institutions. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: In the end, the hedge fund got its way. Shareholders of Tribune Publishing on Friday voted to approve the company's sale to Alden Global Capital, an investor with a reputation for slashing costs and cutting jobs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rudy Chinchilla / @chinchillarudy: This is horrible news. I've had friends in newsrooms destroyed by Alden Global. I hope this doesn't signify the end of the LA Times and others. Sounds dramatic, but Alden really is that bad. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: Well, if I may, you all should have paid for your “content” rather than listened to Clay Shirky, Dave Winer, @mathewi, insisting that “nothing will work,” “sources go direct,” and that subscriptions were old fashioned and elitist. You've no one to blame but yourselves. https://twitter.com/...
Bryn Stole / @brynstole: could be plenty more baltimore newspaper drama to come. from @davidfolkenflik: https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Tobias / @scott_tobias: Since moving here for the A.V. Club job in 1999, I've watched the Chicago media landscape wither with a pace and a level of cruelty that feels unique even among the rot that's occurred industry-wise. This is awful for the city, its citizens and many talented journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: this thread from my friend (and @chicagotribune columnist) @RexHuppke is a clarion call. it's an embarrassment that we as a society don't value local newspapers. if you're lucky enough to have one, please subscribe — while you still can. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: a fiery thread from Chicago Trib humor columnist https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: Another update: Dr. Soon-Shiong did not check any box on the ballot, so his vote was counted as in favor of the Tribune/Alden deal, I'm told by a source familiar with the matter, which confirms reporting from @chicagotribune https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julie Bykowicz / @bykowicz: I'm devastated for @baltimoresun, my home newspaper in more ways than one. But I'm confident that the amazing reporters there will keep doing the very best they can. Subscribe to local newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
@jfslowik: Chicago, the third largest city in the US and an anchor for the Midwest/Great Lakes region, will soon lack a primary new source as Tribune gets subsumed by a hedge fund: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julie Reynolds / DFM Workers: Patrick Soon-Shiong has some explaining to do
Victor Pickard / @vwpickard: Terrible news — all the more heartbreaking given that viable alternatives were so close to prevailing. A healthy democratic society would never let vulture capitalists like Alden plunder its newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: One wrinkle in the Tribune sale: SEC filing says “Patrick Soon-Shiong's vote in favor of the transaction is required, based on his current ownership of the common stock.” It also said abstentions would be counted as a vote against the Alden bid - so PSS abstention would doom it
Embedded / @nprembedded: Big news today: Tribune shareholders vote in favor of sale to Alden Global Capital. This seems to change the postscript for our series on @capgaznews. We do plan to follow this and bring you more updates in one way or another. https://twitter.com/...
@lillianereed: I believe that quality local journalism is and always will be worth fighting for. We won't give up. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Not voting is also a vote https://twitter.com/...
Orlando Sentinel:
While a spokeswoman for Patrick Soon-Shiong said he abstained, Tribune officials said his ballots lacked a check in the “abstain” box and were tallied as “yes”
Discussion:
@newsynick, @darrendcarroll, @walldo, @tvjedi, @j_la28, @megjameslat, @chabelih, @journo_christal and @megjameslat
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Nick Turner / @newsynick: The takeover of Tribune Publishing all came down to the definition of “abstain.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @gerryfsmith https://twitter.com/...
Darren Carroll / @darrendcarroll: .@DrPatSoonShiong spokeswoman Hillary Manning said he abstained from Tribune vote. False. He did not mark abstain on his ballot, since it would have meant a vote against Alden's bid. He simply didn't mark his ballot, which meant a vote for Alden's bid - and a handsome payday. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: @tvjedi I am fucking furious about this
Wendy Fox Weber / @tvjedi: I haven't always made the right move, but I can't even imagine doing something like this. And even worse, misrepresenting it as something it was not. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer LaFleur / @j_la28: Really? “purchase reaffirms Alden's ‘commitment to the newspaper industry and our focus on getting publications to a place where they can operate sustainably over the long term.’” https://www.baltimoresun.com/ ...
Meg James / @megjameslat: Fellow reporter @RobertChannick is close to the action. He has reported that Election Officials tallied Soon-Shiong's lack of votes as “yes” votes in favor of the deal, per ballot rules.
Chabeli Carrazana / @chabelih: It's so hard to do good work when every force is working against you. And yet — my friends at @orlandosentinel haven't stopped and won't stop because they care about something these corporate leeches have never invested in: Community https://twitter.com/...
Christal Hayes / @journo_christal: This is awful news for journalism. How can we honestly encourage young people to join this industry with people like this running newspaper chains? Thinking of my friends in Orlando and at papers across the country today. https://twitter.com/...
Meg James / @megjameslat: UPDATE: We've confirmed that @latimes owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong did not mark his ballot in the Tribune Publishing sale. He didn't check any of the boxes. Tribune Publishing has not commented publicly, adding a last-minute twist in this closely watched sale. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Wagner / Defector:
Both CNN's treatment of Chris Cuomo and the AP's treatment of Emily Wilder show media institutions siding with the powerful over the ethical — On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Chris Cuomo, CNN's star anchor and brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, had participated …
Discussion:
@dceiver, @alex_shephard, @newrepublic, @davidwalk3, @alysonmetzger, @newrepublic, @newrepublic, @newrepublic, @jdawsey1, @laurawags, Jezebel, New York Magazine, Salon, The Guardian, The Week, @king_kaufman, @woodwarddiannej, @newsmediaguild, The Mary Sue, Forbes, HuffPost, @mattnegrin, @sulliview, @onesarahjones, @alexandermccoy4, New Republic, @cherijacobus, @grossdm, @lrozen, @elisewho, @janinezacharia, @jcameronpeters, @lolonghi, @thehungryhutch, @_gaffknee, @nickgillespie, @froomkin, @andrewjfhoward, @adrienne_dunn, @drewmagary and @amandabecker
Discussion:
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: if the @AP is mad about this story then I just have to ask where they managed to procure a backbone so quickly https://newrepublic.com/...
Alex Shephard / @alex_shephard: “The precedent being set here—that any level of ‘activism,’ even as a teenager or college student bars a career in mainstream journalism—is an abysmal one. Having been encouraged by the AP, the right will move on to their next victim without much thought.” https://newrepublic.com/...
@newrepublic: The Associated Press “folded like a cheap suit in the latest, dumbest example of news organizations being wholly unprepared for bad faith right-wing smears against their employees,” writes @alex_shephard. https://newrepublic.com/...
David Walker / @davidwalk3: .@Alex_shephard nails this: the @AP really screwed up here. https://twitter.com/...
Alyson Metzger / @alysonmetzger: “This is also a scandal for The Washington Post, as well. It was recently announced that Sally Buzbee, currently the AP's top editor, would be taking over the Post.” https://twitter.com/...
@newrepublic: “The fact that Bari Weiss, known far and wide for her efforts to get an Arab professor fired for his comments on Israel, has been somehow reborn as some anti-censorship crusader is just one of the more baroque absurdities in this era of the Culture Wars.” https://newrepublic.com/...
@newrepublic: The right has tried to push the idea that the mainstream media is insufficiently sympathetic to Israel—a truly wild charge, with no basis in fact. https://newrepublic.com/...
@newrepublic: With Emily Wilder, the Washington Free Beacon played Lucy, holding the football; The Associated Press as the hapless Charlie Brown. https://newrepublic.com/...
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: NEW: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo took part in a series of strategy calls with his brother and his brother's staff on how the governor should respond to misconduct allegations. Network says he shouldn't have participated and won't going forward. w/@sarahellison: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: wrote about yesterday's cases of (un)ethics in journalism https://defector.com/...
Marie Solis / Jezebel: AP Fires Staffer After Harassment Campaign from College Republicans Over Past Support for Palestine [UPDATE]
Sarah Jones / New York Magazine: Who Is the Media Really For? — Emily Wilder is a promising young journalist.
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon: How Stanford College Republicans worked with right-wing media to get an AP reporter fired
Maanvi Singh / The Guardian: Outcry after Associated Press journalist fired amid row over pro-Palestinian views
Ryan Cooper / The Week: Why Emily Wilder got fired and Chris Cuomo didn't
Dianne Woodward / @woodwarddiannej: Wilder's firing by the #AssociatedPress for past comments critical of the #Israeli government came less than a week after the Israeli military leveled the AP's HQ in #Gaza pushes tragedy into the realm of farce.. https://defector.com/...
@newsmediaguild: The News Media Guild, which represents the rank-and-file members of The Associated Press' editorial and technology units, was notified today by The Associated Press of the firing of Emily Wilder. Here is our statement (1/4)
Vivian Kane / The Mary Sue: CNN's Chris Cuomo Couldn't Cover His Brother Andrew's Harassment Allegations so He Secretly Advised Him Instead
Joe Walsh / Forbes: CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo Reportedly Gave His Brother — Gov. Andrew Cuomo — Advice On Harassment Claims
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost: AP Reporter Fired For Pro-Palestinian College Activism Says She's A ‘Scapegoat’
@mattnegrin: Caving to the bad-faith right-wing mob is a defining feature of newsrooms and the chilling fear of it is why the media preemptively defaults to language like “voter integrity” instead of voter suppression or “Republicans say” when they're obviously lying https://defector.com/...
@sulliview: The usual two thoughts on reading @laurawags: god, she's good; and I hope she never comes for me. In @DefectorMedia https://defector.com/...
Sarah Jones / @onesarahjones: I wrote about Emily Wilder, Chris Cuomo, and what a news outlet is for: https://nymag.com/...
Alexander McCoy / @alexandermccoy4: “The rules matter. They exist to protect the integrity of a news outlet and to protect the public from corruption. Instead, news outlets are failing consumers and journalists alike. They serve power rather than challenge it.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Shephard / New Republic: The Associated Press Gives in to Right-Wing Trolls
Cheri Jacobus / @cherijacobus: Men get a pass. Women get ruined. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Gross / @grossdm: good piece. the one edit I'd make is that nobody really thinks that what Chris Cuomo does is journalism https://twitter.com/...
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: “This is really a story about journalism and an industry that has abdicated its most basic responsibilities... The AP showed it is not impartial after all; it can be persuaded, if only from the right.” https://twitter.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “That Wilder's firing by the AP...came less than a week after the Israeli military leveled the AP's headquarters in Gaza City pushes tragedy into the realm of farce so on-the-nose that it need not be emphasized here beyond the observation.” https://defector.com/...
@janinezacharia: “A functional newsroom actually concerned with training young reporters might explain to one exactly what she's supposed to have done wrong vis-à-vis their internal policies, instead of firing her.” https://defector.com/...
Cameron Peters / @jcameronpeters: .@laurawags: “In a single day, two of the country's largest media institutions chose to side with the powerful over the ethical. They failed at the fundamental principle to which they are ostensibly duty-bound.” https://defector.com/...
Lorraine Longhi / @lolonghi: So much has been said about yesterday's knee jerk decision from @AP, a decision cost them a thoughtful, whip smart, empathetic and passionate young journalist. But our community is better because Emily was here, advocating for people's stories. https://nymag.com/...
Aaron Hutcherson / @thehungryhutch: “Journalists are not automatons. They have opinions, and if they are not male or white or rich or straight, those opinions make them vulnerable to the right-wing outrages that just cost Wilder her new job.” - @onesarahjones https://nymag.com/...
Theresa Gaffney / @_gaffknee: thinking of journalism as “an industry that has abdicated its most basic responsibilities” is accurate in too many ways to count, but here's one that's deflating me this Friday afternoon https://twitter.com/...
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: Doesn't the firing of Emily Wilder reflect most poorly on @AP, not right-wing jagoffs who are situational free-speechers/anti-cancelers at best? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: 🔥 “As long as the gatekeepers of journalism... are busy screeching and letting themselves be screeched at about ‘objectivity’... only those who already possess power and platform will receive anything resembling justice.” https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Howard / @andrewjfhoward: “The phenomenon is obviously one-sided; the outrage, bogus. This is really a story about journalism and an industry that has abdicated its most basic responsibilities.” https://twitter.com/...
Adrienne / @adrienne_dunn: “They serve power rather than challenge it. The result is a weak press in a nation desperate for the truth. That's no way to serve the public.” https://twitter.com/...
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Court filings show US seized $90,000 paid to a Utah man by several news outlets for footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Capitol attack — U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack …
Discussion:
@bradheath, @bradheath, @maggiejordanacn, Raw Story, @dlamontjenkins, @jannwolfe, @jannwolfe and Insider
Discussion:
Brad Heath / @bradheath: The Justice Department redacted the names of the news organizations. It's been reported previously that CNN and NBC each paid $35,000. And the description of this $10,000 payment to Sullivan pretty clearly refers to The @washingtonpost. https://twitter.com/...
Brad Heath / @bradheath: News organizations paid accused Jan. 6 rioter John Sullivan $90,000 for footage of a fatal shooting during the siege. He was caught on video boasting that he was going to “instigate shit. ... I'm gonna make these Trump supporters f— all this shit up.” https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@maggiejordanacn: Feds seized $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage he shot at the insurrection to news outlets, which incl fatal police shooting of rioter Ashli Babbitt.  He now faces 8 criminal counts, including weapons charges, related to the deadly insurrection. https://www.reuters.com/...
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story: Feds seize $90,000 from Capitol rioter who sold footage of Ashli Babbitt's fatal shooting: report
Daryle Lamont Jenkins / @dlamontjenkins: Hahahahahahhaha! They took his money! I'm curious to see what will happen to the other “citizen journalists” that were in the Capitol https://twitter.com/...
Jan Wolfe / @jannwolfe: CNN and NBC each paid a Utah man $35,000 for his footage from January 6. DOJ charged him, and now the feds are making him forfeit the $90,000 he made for those deals and others. Interesting story by @andysullivan, with assist from @bradheath. https://www.reuters.com/...
CNN:
President Biden says he won't let his DOJ seize phone records or emails from reporters, calling it “simply wrong”, following a CNN report on Trump's DOJ — (CNN)President Joe Biden on Friday told CNN he would not let his Department of Justice seize phone records or emails from reporters.
Discussion:
Forbes, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Axios, Raw Story, The Hill, Deadline, Mediaite, Slate, @cnnpolitics, @kylegriffin1 and Insider
Discussion:
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press: Biden won't allow Justice Dept. to seize reporters' records
Cody Fenwick / Raw Story: How William Barr is desperately trying to rehab his image as the dirty truth comes out
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Trump Era DOJ Secretly Obtained CNN Reporter's Phone Records, But Journalists Question If Biden Administration Will Condemn Practice
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Biden Says DOJ Seizing Reporters' Phone, Email Records Is ‘Simply Wrong’: I Will ‘Not Let That Happen’
Daniel Politi / Slate: Biden Vows He Won't Let Justice Department Seize Reporters' Records: “It's Wrong”
@cnnpolitics: President Biden says he won't let DOJ seize phone records or emails from reporters: “It's simply, simply wrong” https://www.cnn.com/...
Columbia Journalism Review:
A Harvard study of link rot of “deep links” in NYT.com articles from 1996 to mid-2019 showed that 25% were completely inaccessible — Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away.
Discussion:
@zittrain, @internetarchive, @btsmu, @zittrain, @jdevalk, @marklittlenews, @jenit, @meereeneseknot, @sandricollins, @boonerang, @waxy, @baekdal, @chris_levesque_, @klonick, @permacc, @mabatron, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @zittrain, @internetarchive, @bkcharvard and @internetarchive, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: With the help of the ace @nytimes digital team, we compiled a list of ~2.2 million externally-facing hyperlinks that had been used in https://nytimes.com/ articles since its launch in 1996. The goal was to discern how many of them had fallen victim to linkrot or content drift. https://twitter.com/...
Beth Thornburg / @btsmu: This is such a good reminder for #judges citing internet sources that those links are likely to go bad. Take an extra minute and use https://perma.cc/ https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: So, how to solve this? The @internetarchive and @brewster_kahle have done extraordinary — unparalleled, really — work to preserve and make available links over the course of decades. https://web.archive.org/. There can also be more tailored newsroom-specific solutions.
Joost de Valk / @jdevalk: Looking at this and thinking that we should make it easier for site owners to know their links have rotted. Wouldn't it be awesome if browsers pinged an origin site when a target link 404s? Maybe make it an opt-in mechanism for sites? @ChromiumDev @JohnMu @othermaciej https://twitter.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: And the latest threats to journalism are .... Linkrot and content drift (and the “fundamental volatility of the Web") https://www.cjr.org/...
Jeni Tennison / @jenit: This is fascinating work. The web gains its scale and resilience from the fact that links can break, but as it evolves we lose parts of it. Like memories. Like tears in the rain. Personally I find that loss kinda beautiful, but I can see why it's important to preserve things too https://twitter.com/...
Ashaya / @meereeneseknot: This thread on link rot is fascinating & alarming. Particularly notable - there are *many* Supreme Court cases that have dead links or that now direct to a political statement rather than the original cited material, because using resources like InternetArchive isn't the standard https://twitter.com/...
Dr Sandra Collins / @sandricollins: Great thread about link rot! We really need our copyright legislation to facilitate web archiving at scale to preserve the Irish internet @NLIreland https://twitter.com/...
Boon Sheridan / @boonerang: Linkrot is one of those problems you don't think about much until you're staring at a 404 page and cursing a bluestreak. Beyond news, it happens all the time for bands: band forms, buys domain, puts up info, band breaks up, no one renews the domain, band info vanishes. https://twitter.com/...
@waxy: Harvard Law School's analysis of link rot in the New York Times: 6% of deep links in NYT articles from 2018 are dead, 43% from 2008, and 72% from 1998. https://www.cjr.org/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: I did a study about this for my site, and it showed that ‘link rot’ start to happen really quickly. Go back to 2005, and 93% failed to work. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Chris Levesque / @chris_levesque_: This is why I tell students that a URL without other identifying information is useless. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Klonick / @klonick: “The internet is forever” https://twitter.com/...
Perma.cc / @permacc: We partnered with the @nytimes to understand the scope & nature of #linkrot in their online publication. Thank you to their team for their partnership & willingness to explore this important topic in digital journalism! https://www.cjr.org/...
Mary Bakija / @mabatron: “Newsrooms ought to consider adopting tools to suit their workflows and make link preservation a seamless part of the journalistic process. Partnerships between library and information professionals and digital newsrooms would be fruitful for creating these strategies.” EXACTLY!! https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: Heartfelt thanks to co-authors @john_bowers_ and @clare__stanton, to @nicksrockwell, @sethcarlson, @mericson and the @NYTimes digital staff, and to our colleagues at @hlslib who assisted @HarvardLIL with the review of 4,500 links and their context for our content drift analysis.
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: We know link rot is a real problem for academic articles and judicial opinions. How about for news articles? Well, @shootingthemess wrote a fascinating piece about how what's found at links in major media articles can be resold (!) for spam and fraud https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: There are differences in relative rates of rot for various sections of the paper, as well as different top level domains. Health does well; sports does not. This might help to identify particularly vulnerable web content so that newsrooms can be proactive about their linking. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: Content drift is related to link rot — drift happens when the link functions, but what was there at the time the link was shared or embedded in, say, a news story or academic article, has vanished or, more confusingly, changed. Here's @NASA's web site during a gov't shutdown.(!) https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: More than half of all articles in the New York Times that contain deep links have at least one rotted link. https://www.cjr.org/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: We need to build flexible & open tools to fit existing publication workflows. From the actual process for a newsroom to archive web content, to the experience of a reader viewing a playback, current tools don't address the dynamics of the digital journalism space.
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: A link “rots” when it no longer works — which can happen if the server hosting it is taken down, if a web site is reorganized (especially if it changes ownership), or if a takedown request or demand has eliminated access to that page. This happens a lot. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: A study I co-authored with @KendraSerra and @lessig (w/more thanks below to the many who helped!) in 2014 found that 50% of the links embedded in Supreme Court opinions since 1791 (well, 1996) no longer worked. 75% of the links in the Harvard Law Review no longer worked. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: Which brings us back to the study we did with the help of the @nytimes digital team. Of the ~2.2 million URLs, we found that: 25% of deep links to specific content were completely rotted. It got worse over time: 6% of links from 2018 had rotted 43% from '08 72% from '98 https://twitter.com/...
@internetarchive: Hyperlinks in digital news are a crucial way #journalists provide us with deeper context. But researchers from @Harvard_Law found that linkrot is corroding those links. https://www.cjr.org/...
@bkcharvard: 🔗🔗@john_bowers_, @clare__stanton, and @zittrain explore the substantial link rot and content drift found on the New York Times, exposing the fragility of the Web and the need for new practices, workflows, and technologies. Learn more via @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/...
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
A look at the underbelly of subscriptions and direct-to-consumer models, which has publishers using “dark patterns” to avoid losing subscribers — This week, I explore the underbelly of the pivot to subscriptions: publishers using dark patterns to avoid losing “sleepers” …
Daniel Levitt / Inside The Newsroom:
Reporter says he left WSJ after being disciplined for violating company policy with his Substack Inside The Newsroom, even after he anonymized subscriber data — Hello folks, hope we're doing well. Today's newsletter is an emotional one, so bear with me.
Discussion:
Bill Bishop / @niubi: Leaving The Wall Street Journal, by @DanielLevitt32 https://insidethenewsroom.substack.com/ ... says WSJ effectively fired for him for having a newsletter on the side
Jeong Park / @jeongpark52: We live in a world where a reporter writing a newsletter to help others find jobs can be forced to resign from his journalist position because he wanted to compensate others who are helping him https://insidethenewsroom.substack.com/ ...
Luisa De la Concha Montes / @l_d_c_m: Daniel has been doing an amazing job curating information and helping students find jobs. It's so heart-breaking to hear that instead of supporting Daniel's venture, WSJ decided to shut him out. Leaving The Wall Street Journal, by @DanielLevitt32 https://insidethenewsroom.substack.com/ ...
Alvin Chang / @alv9n: This is very messed up, WSJ. @DanielLevitt32's Inside the Newsroom is one of the most valuable tools for aspiring journalists. https://insidethenewsroom.substack.com/ ...
@thefighttowrite: Another terrible treatment of talent in journalism that should earn @WSJ management scrutiny: @DanielLevitt32 compiles a newsletter to help journalists get jobs, pays people to run it, and even anonymized the payment process at WSJ's request. Yet: https://insidethenewsroom.substack.com/ ...
New York Times:
Interviews with 18 people reveal details of the Discovery-WarnerMedia deal, including stock structure change and an awkward talk with WarnerMedia's Jason Kilar — An early-morning meeting at a Greenwich Village townhouse, under the watchful eye of Steve McQueen, was part of a monthslong campaign.
Discussion:
@reckless, @grynbaum, @ennisnyt, @katierosman, @jeffjarvis, @edmundlee, @mattbelloni, @brentalang, @editorialiste, @annehummert, @karlbode, @karlbode, @jakesherman, @shannonpareil, @karlbode, @dylanbyers and @oliverdarcy
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Nilay Patel / @reckless: Okay what I'm learning from this NYT piece is that media CEOs write flirty u up texts before deals https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Private jets from the Hamptons! Steve McQueen with a revolver! Artisanal donuts! (yum) - how a big ol' media confection got made. w/ @koblin @edmundlee @LaurenSHirsch https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Connor Ennis / @ennisnyt: How the Discovery-AT&T deal came together thanks to emojis, a rented Greenwich Village townhouse and the watchful eye of Steve McQueen. Great behind-the-scenes piece by @koblin @grynbaum @edmundlee & @LaurenSHirsch https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: The details in this story about rich white men exchanging piles of money + power with one another are fantastic. (Nice shout out to Mrs. Zaslav who was irked by the Mr.'s WFH meetings at their CPW pad so he had to buy/gut reno a townhouse in the Village.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Journalistic understatement: “One awkward conversation awaiting Mr. Stankey was with Jason Kilar...” Inside the Discovery-AT&T Deal: Cute Emails, a Big Loan and Now, a Media Giant https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: How the @Discovery / @WarnerMedia deal went down: emoji emails, artisanal donuts, a rented West Village townhouse ... and Steve McQueen w/ @koblin @grynbaum @LaurenSHirsch @brooksbarnesNYT $t $disca #WeekendRead https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: Makes sense Allen Grubman is repping Jason Kilar on his abrupt WarnerMedia exit; he also repped Richard Plepler on HIS abrupt WarnerMedia exit. Lucrative specialty. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brent Lang / @brentalang: Some day I'd like to be this rich: “Mr. Zaslav lives in Conan O'Brien's former apartment on Central Park West, but he bought a townhouse in Greenwich Village after his wife, Pam, grew weary of Mr. Zaslav's impromptu meetings at their home.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@editorialiste: “Even the chief executive of WarnerMedia was kept in the dark while his company was being negotiated out from under him.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cynthia B. Meyers / @annehummert: @KarlBode News coverage of media mergers is usually like a movie: melodramatic plot twists! clashing executive personalities!—but rarely about what matters because audiences prefer movies anyway 😏
Karl Bode / @karlbode: also not even a passing mention of the parade of AT&T cockups, or the vast court, antitrust, and regulatory failures that let this $200 billion wrecking ball happen they're way more interested in the chittering of the rich and powerful
Karl Bode / @karlbode: @AnneHummert yep. NYT readers want Hamptons intrigue. but we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again in part because the press can't accurately inform readers of the real human and market impact of these deals
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: Best tick tock so far of discovery/Warner media. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: again I want you to notice how this NYT story on the AT&T deal has everything (artisanal donuts! secret code names! Steve McQueen!) but no reference at any point to the 54,000 employees fired in the wake of AT&T's $200 billion bungled merger spree. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hollywood Reporter:
How the relationship between Hollywood and China has deteriorated in recent years amid US-China rivalry, as US studios' market share in China has plummeted — Five years after an unprecedented era of frenzied East-West dealmaking, cash flow has stopped, Donald Trump's trade war lingers …
Discussion:
@lachlan, @alanmcole, @adamserwer, @ritapanahi, @thr, @qwerty4life, @secretsunblog, @thedragonfeeder, @yair_rosenberg, @politiwars, @becomeatexan, @ccp_china_watch, @oliverdarcy, @cuyghurs and @thr
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Lachlan Markay / @lachlan: New details on the lengths to which Disney has gone to placate Chinese censors https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alan Cole / @alanmcole: This is a good example of @DKThomp's “values tariff” in action. The idea is that China uses state force to restrict trade, but it often does so to extract non-financial concessions instead of money. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: It's always bad when a government can successfully do an end run around the first amendment's free speech protections https://twitter.com/...
Rita Panahi / @ritapanahi: The biggest corporate virtue signallers are typically the biggest frauds. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: “The real fundamental strategic question for all U.S. industry sectors is can the Biden administration, through a restabilization of the U.S.-China relationship at a strategic level, create the basis for a restabilization of the economic relationship?” https://thr.cm/EAWwW0k
RP Adams / @qwerty4life: Amazing. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: America can't survive the CCP's ability to buy off our corporations so easily. We need an economic divorce - or we'll eventually become a client state. The economic pain of cutting ties doesn't matter. Our freedom does. https://twitter.com/...
@secretsunblog: Say goodbye to Hollywood: without Chinese money, it's over. But hey, keep telling your audience how much you hate them and want them dead. If you're going down, why not go down in flames? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Chris Fenton / @thedragonfeeder: “Instead of #Hollywood doing business with #China and that leading to China being more free, what has happened is that China has bought our silence with their money.” @JuddApatow Thanks 4 covering this vital issue, @TatianaSiegel27 @Patrick_Brzeski @THR! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Yair Rosenberg / @yair_rosenberg: Disney became more vocal on social justice issues for the same reason it censors its own talent when they criticize China's repression: because they determined that it was more profitable. Corporations are not moral entities, and the sooner we internalize this, the better. https://twitter.com/...
@politiwars: Walt Disney was so anti-Communist that he actually got criticized for some of the things he said and did about it. Now his company has bowed to Communist China. https://twitter.com/...
Proud Texan / @becomeatexan: I've said it before, I'll say it again: stop giving money to Disney. The Disney you grew up with is a distant memory. In fact, the present state of the company would infuriate Walt beyond your wildest imaginations. https://twitter.com/...
@ccp_china_watch: In late 2020, a publicist from Disney-owned studio Searchlight pressured Filmmaker magazine to remove Chloe Zhao's 2013 quote “It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere.” via @Byron_Wan https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “If it weren't already de rigueur for the American film industry, Disney's behavior would be a scandal — the United States' most iconic media brand, going out of its way to preemptively aid an authoritarian government in censoring an artist's interview...” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@cuyghurs: “@JuddApatow stood out as the exception when he summed up the state of affairs during a Sept. interview on @MSNBC “Instead of us doing business with #China & that leading to China being more free, what has happened is that China has bought our silence..” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Sadiq Shaban / Gulf News:
Prominent Israeli journalist Asaf Ronel says he has resigned from Haaretz after 15 years over its coverage of violence against Palestinian citizens in Jaffa — Ronel's reportage widely known for its extraordinarily well researched quality and style — A top reporter with the influential …
Discussion:
Asaf Ronel / @asafronel: After close to 15 years, I quit @Haaretz in protest of their failure to report on the attack by @IL_police & Israeli far-right against the Palestinian society inside Israel & for siding with settlers & security forces - just when they bring West Bank tactics into Israeli cities https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Those who today remain silent in the face of a totally disproportionate conflict in terms of show of force are really no different than those who stood silently when Jews were butchered in the Holocaust. This isn't about religion anymore, but empathy. https://www.mediagazer.com/...
James North / @jamesnorth7: I'm disappointed in @haaretzcom. @AsafRonel is an honest, hard-working reporter who obviously has integrity. Would any mainstream U.S. journalist ever quit over the even more biased reporting in our media? #Gaza #Israel #PalestiniansLivesMatter @Mondoweiss https://twitter.com/...
Miqdaad Versi / @miqdaad: This is such a brave move by a principled journalist, highlighting the failure of Israeli newspaper @haaretzcom to act as journalists: 1. Lack of reporting of attack by Israeli police & far right against Palestijian society 2. Siding with settlers & security forces https://twitter.com/...
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