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People that Tucker singles out in his rants, especially women, reliably receive a deluge of death threats. He is aware of this and makes these decisions with that knowledge.
Tucker Carlson opened his show tonight by comparing @TaylorLorenz to Meghan Markle, @MichelleObama and @HillaryClinton saying she has "one of the best lives in the country."
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If I were a giant tech monopoly, I would consider not making an ad where I literally crush commonly recognized symbols of creativity and joy.
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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“Everyone must work in the office” and “I will not pay for the office” are interesting views to hold concurrently. businessinsider.com/elon-mus…
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I’m just going to say, once again, that we went horribly wrong when we decided to let venture capitalists become public intellectuals in all areas of life.
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This is a fun headline because at no point in this story do they present any evidence that Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges.
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Not going to name the publisher, but you shouldn’t be able to post a salary range like this and claim to be complying with New York’s pay transparency rules.
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As a hiring manager, I always find these awkward to receive as I've probably made a decision about the candidate already. I struggle to imagine a scenario in which it would impact that decision.
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We need to start thinking about what can be done to help the non-trivial number of Americans who are so addled by misinformation and lack of media literacy that they embrace bizarre conspiracy theories in the face of an increasingly dangerous and complex world.
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Kathy Griffin's account was suspended for this tweet. Twitter is showing deference to the President by merely obscuring his Tweet. Why would you omit that?
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A lot of people questioned why NABJ would invite him, personally I’d like to know who on the campaign thought it would be wise for him to go.
Aaron Rupar
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You can debate the individual merits, and obviously Elon is pursuing a specific political project, but at the aggregate level, I’m not bullish on building a new media platform exclusively around people who’ve been fired by legacy media.
Scooplet: Ex-CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge — known for Hunter Biden laptop reporting — in talks to join X nypost.com/2024/03/27/media/…
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Caroline Calloway continues to influence.
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THIS. Please do not make me watch an eight minute video to get the same information I could get by scanning a text article for 30 seconds.
Every day I’m heartbroken by the continuous shift away from text online to audio/video. I don’t WANT to LISTEN or WATCH things. I want to READ things
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Georgia's system of tax breaks and incentives was among the most successful in luring film and tourism dollars. This regressive law is going to cost that state much of what it's built. hollywoodreporter.com/news/f…
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Everyone I know is refreshing twitter waiting for the AT&T/Time Warner ruling and let me tell you I definitely need cooler friends.
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How do you write news without interviewing sources? nytimes.com/2023/07/19/busin…
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"Three people at the Post with knowledge of events tell NPR that Lorenz lost the trust of the newsroom’s leadership both by posting that selfie with the caption about Biden and then by willfully misleading editors in claiming that she had not done so." npr.org/2024/10/10/g-s1-2736…
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There’s just no reason for the New York Times to give a platform to the junior senator from Arkansas as he calls for an invasion of American cities.
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🚨Breaking🚨 We have enough Work From Home guides. I repeat, no one needs any more guides to working from home.
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It's not the money. They don't want it. It's a meaningless bauble. Instead of signaling authenticity it now just signals submission to a gang of capricious dorks.
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I regret to inform you that I am once again going to start publishing my weekly newsletter about ~the media~ every Friday. Sign up here if you like that sort of thing. evandesimone.substack.com/
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These people, who have deep but narrow expertise in one field (sophisticated gambling), are routinely invited to opine on public health, foreign policy, education, macroeconomics, and a host of other topics in which they have no actual background.
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Thank God we handed this data over to a gaggle of partisan opinion writers instead of any of the scores of journalists who’ve spent years writing about platforms, technology policy, and the business of Twitter or we might not have this trenchant analysis.
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I’m wracking my brain for who this will be and the only criteria is “who is the worst woman I can think of”
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Who would you rather have on your website, beloved star Lynda Carter and her half million followers, or three verified weirdos with a collective audience of 2,000 incels?
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Everything described here, including Murdoch's participation, is illegal. There should be an investigation. businessinsider.com/presiden…
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I wish great success on any outlet hiring journalists right now, but these numbers and this business model make no sense. We have all been attending the very public funeral for this business model for the last two weeks. axios.com/2023/05/02/messeng…
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A lot of execs complain about the lefty labor politics of young journalists. I would argue that if you didn’t want every young writer to become a socialist you shouldn’t have tried to pay them 30k a year a made them live in the worlds most expensive cities, but what do I know?
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All the fanfare around AOC elides the fact that she’s actually a very grounded and straightforward communicator. This is actually really effective example driven analysis.
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This is the first time in like a decade that I can recall people actually rooting for a Facebook product to succeed. nytimes.com/2023/07/03/techn…
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It's kind of beside the point, but there's a whole generation of working media professionals who never experienced any of these perks and it's kind of absurd to keep referencing them like the 90's weren't two full decades ago. nytimes.com/2020/04/13/busin…
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Always fascinated by how Oprah remains above reproach despite having fostered some of the most malignant personalities ever to grace daytime TV. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Just read a pitch for something described as “a retail metaverse for the real world.” My friends…it’s a mall.
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It's an interesting choice to skip a major network interview and instead bring this to a disgraced racist's YouTube channel. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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The brand is the only thing left with any value so sure, burn it. What an incredible moron.
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"I am stunned," former Voice of America director Amanda Bennett told NPR early Tuesday morning. "It removes the one thing that makes Voice of America distinct from broadcasters of repressive regimes." - npr.org/2020/10/27/928118147…
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I need someone to find out who invited Larry David to sit front-row at Fashion Week so I can thank them.
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It's entirely possible that Shane Smith may end up being worth more than the whole company he founded. semafor.com/article/03/19/20…
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Tronc?
Surprise: Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on the metaverse.
I’m told Zuckerberg is planning a formal unveil next Thursday at Connect, the company’s annual AR/VR conference theverge.com/2021/10/19/2273…
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Still one of the most bizarre relationships in media. It'll make for a lucrative book deal if there are still book deals by the time this is all over. money.cnn.com/2017/04/07/med…
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I don't think it tells me anything about a candidate that I wouldn't glean from a normal interview so I don't think it should be a consideration in the hiring process.
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Aside from the obvious technical limitations on display tonight, none of the upstart pro-fascist platforms offer the experience their intended users really want, namely the ability to harass and annoy normal people.
Since Parler is still trending because of Twitter’s long overdue purge of conspiracy nonsense, I will shamelessly remind you of this maxim from a recent newsletter. evandesimone.substack.com/p/…
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Given the number of interviews, candidates need to go on just to secure employment I don't think it's necessary to add any additional tasks. Particularly if they're purely performative. I don't plan to have an ongoing personal relationship with any of these candidates.
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Guys! While digging out my winter clothes I stumbled on a very important piece of forgetten swag…
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This person should, of course, be covered. However I’d question whether a glossy Sunday night sit-down is the right tool to help an audience understand someone who lies habitually and whose past statements have been demonstrably untethered from any observable reality.
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes. 60Minutes.com
ALT Lesley Stahl sits down with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene this Sunday on 60 Minutes.
ALT Lesley Stahl sits down with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene this Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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Is this the first example of overt dystopia marketing? bit.ly/3kwabKR
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Here's a sample of the dozens of Facebook ads the Trump campaign is currently running in Florida to encourage supporters to request absentee ballots.
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So this is pretty much exactly what right-wing power users were complaining about when they talked about "shadow banning"
New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
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Bari Weiss spent three years trying to get fired so she could do a talk-show martyrdom tour about it, and I really respect the NYT just waiting her out. vice.com/en_us/article/4ay47…
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Saying again, I think the true media winners in AI will be the ones that are able to leverage more value from their archive using AI, not the ones focused on cutting the cost of content production with generative tools.
New from me: G/O Media caused an uproar when it used bots to write stories for Gizmodo and other sites this month. Now it’s going to do it again. “It is absolutely a thing we want to do more of.” vox.com/technology/2023/7/18…
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I’ve read this a dozen times and still can’t wrap my mind around a person thinking that The Social Network was a flattering/aspirational portrayal of startup guys.
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that.
let's get that movie made!
(i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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Forbes is grouping @TylerOakley and @lelepons as "Digital Stars" so I guess we really are post-platform now.
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Alex Trebek went out of his way to be transparent and open about his cancer diagnosis and to encourage others to get screenings and treatment. Particularly despicable to float a health huckster like Dr. Oz as a possible replacement.
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Call me crazy, but I think one reason that so many people want to work at the New York Times is that the New York Times is not constantly about to run out of money.
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Setting up a fund that exclusively shorts Forbes covers…
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It’s interesting that various zombie outlets keep getting caught doing this and sort of hastily deny it. If you really believe this is a cornerstone of some emerging future business model why try to hide it?
Futurism caught Sports Illustrated publishing AI stories — with fake author profile pages and all. We went to them with it, and they wiped...all of it. futurism.com/sports-illustra…
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In 2022, billionaire having a public breakdown is a viable exit strategy for your failed tech product. theverge.com/2022/10/17/2340…
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So to sum up, Netflix forced everyone to reorient their business around streaming, had two weak quarters that tanked the market's view of streaming, and is now on track to outperform everyone. cnbc.com/2023/06/25/netflix-…
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A fresh twist on the zombie genre is tough to find but @Strawburry17's "The Void" has definitely got one.
goo.gl/ImdnON
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