MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints (Max Tani/Semafor)

Mediagazer: MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints (Max Tani/Semafor)

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CNN:

MSNBC pulls Morning Joe on Monday, a source says due to worries that a guest might make an inappropriate comment about Donald Trump's attempted assassination— New York CNN — — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday …
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Dan Ladden-Hall /
The Daily Beast: MSNBC Isn't Airing ‘Morning Joe’ Monday Because of the Trump Assassination Attempt

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: I have neither heard nor read of a decision like this in network news. It brings further dimension to the trust-in-media problem: we don't trust ourselves.

Mark Jacob /
@markjacob16: The same NBC executives who wanted to hire fake-electors plotter Ronna McDaniel as a commentator are now keeping their own MSNBC hosts off the air, intimidated by the right wing in the wake of Saturday's assassination attempt. @jeffjarvis: Here is Daily Beast reporting on this terrible decision by NBC. It feels as if @JoeNBC & @morningmika are being imprisoned in an undisclosed 30 Rock dungeon. Tweet 😬once if you need help. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...

Patricia Sauthoff /
@sauthoff.bsky.social: I'm really curious what MSNBC is worried about being inappropriate here. Some wacko conspiracy or someone saying something actually reasonable like Trump is a fascist who has been stoking violence for years. [embedded post] @michaeldsgro: What a mistake @MSNBC made today in not going to @Morning_Joe @JoeNBC @morningmika @WillieGeist. I mean who are these two on now? I was waiting all weekend for Joe's take on all that's going on. #MorningJoe [image]

@jeffjarvis:
Did some numbnuts NBC/Comcast/Universal executive decide an assassination attempt was a good time to promote its foundering streaming show? (I feel like we're living in AppleTV's Morning Show. UBS>NBC.) Or did this essentially Republican megacorporation decide to silence liberal

@jeffjarvis:
What the fuck, MSNBC? You preempted your excellent weekend programming, @TheWeekendMSNBC and @AliVelshi, and now you've silenced @Morning_Joe in favor of your anodyne streaming news cos-play called Now? This is when we need the analysis and conversation these shows bring us (yes,

@jeffjarvis:
MSNBC: You'd damned well better not preempt @NicolleDWallace, @JoyAnnReid, @maddow, @chrislhayes, @Lawrence, and @AriMelber today or I'll come organize a picket line at 30 Rock. Who's in charge there: journalists or Republican media moguls? MSNBC is the alternative to the

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Re: “Morning Joe” being pre-empted today: “A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show's stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: MSNBC has been in “rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” which means POV programs have been pre-empted for the time being- https://www.cnn.com/...

Semafor:

MSNBC and other liberal outlets face a backlash from some viewers and listeners about their coverage of Biden's age; NPR says it is flooded with complaints— The News — President Joe Biden has lost the media. Even the most sympathetic outlets — the liberal MSNBC, the gentle NPR …

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@jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social

The Verge:

X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets— Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …

Discussion:
Mediaite, @fredericlambert, @binarybits, @ericnewcomer, @willoremus@threads.net, @tysonbrody, @jayrosen_nyu, @drjbhattacharya, @michaelscherer, @ericnewcomer, @binarybits, @aidnmclaughlin, @x, @ericnewcomer, @maxwelltani, @bcmerchant, Wired, @blakersdozen@threads.net, @reckless1280@threads.net, @lawrencehurley, @renee.diresta@threads.net, @elonmusk, Washington Post, Breitbart and Politico, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Aidan McLaughlin /
Mediaite: In Defense of A Cautious Media

Fred Lambert /
@fredericlambert: The Trump assassination attempt was a good test of the reporting on X vs traditional media. I followed the event through both, and I can say that I was way better informed by the media than X. Elon and co attacked the media for their cautious headlines, but that's what it was: [image]

Timothy B. Lee /
@binarybits: People (justifiably) get mad at “the media” if they get facts wrong. But the also get mad at “the media” if they write cautiously in the early minutes of a developing story to avoid factual errors. Covering breaking news quickly but accurately is hard.

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: In any other instance Silicon Valley would tell people to build a better version rather than endlessly complaining. Create something better but this armchair media criticism when a photographer literally ran toward the president to get photos is infuriating

Will Oremus /
@willoremus@threads.net: first time i've encountered an official misinfo label on threads and it's wrongly applied to a (correct) debunking post by @shayan86bbc

Tyson Brody /
@tysonbrody: was just thinking back to the boston marathon bombing and the subreddit full of detectives, imagine how that goes now (or is going maybe?)

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Political discussion silenced by civiltarians * Both sides bromides roar * Memory itself said to be in bad taste

Jay Bhattacharya /
@drjbhattacharya: I think @x did a better job covering the assassination attempt than the media did. Didn't we just hear from the EU lamenting the demise of the Twitter 1.0 blue check? How well did those legacy media blue-check organizations do with breaking news?

Michael Scherer /
@michaelscherer: All these headlines were updated after shots were confirmed. The alternative would be for news organizations to report an “apparent” shooting or to guess. Journalists don't report what is not confirmed. That is not propaganda. It's real value over the musings on this site.

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: My feed here was full of six hour old posts when the news was breaking and x kept mixing in old tweets for many hours, and part of why people are mad about these early headlines is x doesn't have any sense of breaking news anymore and shows way too much old stuff

Timothy B. Lee /
@binarybits: Meanwhile, people who claim that “X did a better job” ignore the many inaccurate tweets flying around at any given point in time. https://x.com/...

Aidan McLaughlin /
@aidnmclaughlin: Beyond the fact that most of the news on X is provided directly by “the legacy media,” the idea that any of this reporting on the shooting is propaganda is total nonsense https://www.mediaite.com/...

Eric Newcomer /
@ericnewcomer: X relies on the best photos from the media, key facts from the media, video from the media and then turns around and blames the media for the poor coverage while providing mostly distribution rather than fresh information

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: If he was actually upset about the proliferation of incorrect information, he'd be concerned that his site has been flooded with conspiracy theories and legitimately fake news over the past few days, some of which has been pushed by people he explicitly let back on...

Brian Merchant /
@bcmerchant: This is very dumb on many levels. The media is trying to report as accurate as possible, as quickly as possible—largely to feed the incentives of websites like this one. Meanwhile, the only decent live-ish tweeting of the event I am aware of came from working journalists. [image]

David Gilbert /
Wired: Trump Shooting Conspiracies Are Coming From Every Direction

Blake Montgomery /
@blakersdozen@threads.net: Threads prompting users to search for “conspiracy theories” 😭

Nilay Patel /
@reckless1280@threads.net: Someone please send me Linda Yaccarino's slides explaining how being the most vibrant site for real-time assassination conspiracy theories is great for advertisers

Lawrence Hurley /
@lawrencehurley: One-eyed media commentary ignores the fact that professional, responsible journalists only publish what they know in the moment because in a breaking news situation there is so much you don't know. And of course much of the accurate information on X comes from journalists.

Renee DiResta /
@renee.diresta@threads.net: When you think “content” is synonymous with “information”

Joel B. Pollak /
Breitbart: ‘HOW DO YOU MISS’ Trends on X / Twitter After Trump Survives Apparent Shooting

Clothilde Goujard /
Politico: EU charges Elon Musk's X for letting disinfo run wild

Axios:

Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election— - While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …

Discussion:
Meta, The Verge, Mother Jones, Breitbart, @bostonjoan, @davidclinchnews, @jhglick, @mcbc, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hill, Financial Times, Mediaite, National Review, Washington Post, Forbes, New York Times, NBC News, CNBC, Reuters, New York Post, TechCrunch, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social, The Guardian, CBS News, Deadline, @KimPerales@toad.social, CNN and Bloomberg

Discussion:

Nick Clegg /
Meta: Ending Suspension of Trump's Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses

Jackie Flynn Mogensen /
Mother Jones: Meta Just Removed the Guardrails From Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts

Alana Mastrangelo /
Breitbart: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Removes Restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts @bostonjoan: ...And here we see the limits of technopolitical governance. Private companies in control of communication platforms do not treat all users the same. Instead, ad hac (sic lol) decisions are made to influence the appearance of “fairness and transparency” when none was ever there.

David Clinch /
@davidclinchnews: Parity of access is not the same as parity in adhering to the platform rules

Jacob Glick /
@jhglick: The evidence we collected on the Select Committee showed how companies like @Meta turned a blind eye while Trump used their platforms to incite violence, spread disinformation, and radicalize thousands to storm the Capitol. Now, they are giving him free rein to do it all again. @mcbc: Old enough to remember three days ago, Trump threatened Mark Zuckerberg with jail because he believes (and has for sometime) that Mark “Zuckerbucks” pays immigrants to vote in elections. This happened. And now, Facebook is like screw it let Trump cook.

Daniel Kreps /
Rolling Stone: Meta Lifts ‘Heightened Suspension Penalties’ From Donald Trump's Accounts Ahead of RNC

Hilary Lewis /
The Hollywood Reporter: Meta Lifts Trump's Remaining Facebook and Instagram Restrictions Ahead of GOP Convention

Julia Shapero /
The Hill: Meta lifts Trump's remaining account guardrails

Hannah Murphy /
Financial Times: Meta lifts restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

Phillip Nieto /
Mediaite: Meta Removes All Restrictions on Trump's Account After Former President Threatens Zuckerberg with Prison

Brittany Bernstein /
National Review: Meta Removes ‘Civil Unrest’ Restrictions on Trump's Facebook, Instagram Accounts

Antonio Pequeño IV /
Forbes: Instagram And Facebook Dropping Trump Restrictions As Election Looms

Mike Isaac /
New York Times: Meta Rolls Back Restrictions on Trump's Instagram and Facebook Accounts

David Ingram /
NBC News: Meta removes ‘civil unrest’ restrictions on Trump accounts dating to Jan. 6 fallout

Jonathan Vanian /
CNBC: Meta lifts Trump's Facebook and Instagram restrictions ahead of election

Victor Nava /
New York Post: Meta rolls back restrictions to Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections

Warner Crocker /
@WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social: Guess those Trump threats to throw “Zuckerbucks” in jail worked. — Exclusive: Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election — #politics — https://www.axios.com/... [image]

Faris Tanyos /
CBS News: Meta ends restrictions on Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts ahead of GOP convention

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: Meta Removes “Heightened Suspension Penalties” From Donald Trump's Facebook And Instagram Accounts

Kim Perales /
@KimPerales@toad.social: #Zuck is a danger to #democracy & America, by propping up the #felon. — Meta on Fri said it'd soon roll back restrictions it placed on #TFGs IG & FB acts. — The co said it was making the change to ensure parity among presidential candidates leading up to the 2024 election. …

Samantha Delouya /
CNN: Meta is lifting restrictions on Trump's accounts

Bloomberg:

Source: the board of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel backed a deal with Dazn and the Qatari sports broadcaster beIN to screen live matches this season— France's elite professional football league backed a broadcast deal with Len Blavatnik's streaming group Dazn Group Ltd …

Discussion:
Broadband TV News and Advanced Television

Discussion:

Julian Clover /
Broadband TV News: DAZN and beIN Sports to screen Ligue 1 football

Colin Mann /
Advanced Television: DAZN, beIN score Ligue 1 rights

Wired:

Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more— Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is unsentimental about what's at stake if we don't curb the spread …

Financial Times:

An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more— She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …

Press Gazette:

A look at Long Lead, a “story studio” for freelance journalists to publish longform, multimedia projects that makes almost no revenue and is funded by a VC firm— US in-depth reporting outlet Long Lead is rich in praise for its journalism but yet to make any money.

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@bp22, @pressgazette and

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Bill Perkins /
@bp22: I started this.... https://pressgazette.co.uk/... @pressgazette: Long Lead editor John Patrick Pullen told Press Gazette: “right now we're not generating revenue”. Nonetheless, he said, “we pay, and we pay well. We pay just as high as the highest rates going for the major publications” https://pressgazette.co.uk/...

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

A Moscow court sentences Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen to eight years in prison in absentia for spreading “false” information about Russia's military— A Moscow court on July 15 sentenced Russian-American journalist, writer, and outspoken Kremlin critic Masha Gessen …

Discussion:
The Moscow Times

TechCrunch:

An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content— A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …

Discussion:
@carnage4life@mas.to, Science, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian and NPR

Discussion:

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life@mas.to: An experiment has confirmed an intuitive impact of using AI to aid writing; one person using AI will produce more creative ideas than without but a group end up with very similar writings. — It's like using Google search for writing ideas. If we all did, it'd be repetitive. — https://techcrunch.com/... … Science: Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

Rhiannon Williams /
MIT Technology Review: AI can make you more creative—but it has limits

Nicola Davis /
The Guardian: AI prompts can boost writers' creativity but result in similar stories, study finds

Geoff Brumfiel /
NPR: Research shows AI can boost creativity for some, but at a cost

augment:

Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform— It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.

Discussion:

Lauren Lopes /
@laurenlopes.author@threads.net: If you have found genuine community and made real friends on Threads I urge you to read this brilliant article and try get the right people at @threads and also @mosseri to see it - folks over there, you don't need expensive market research if you just ask us what we want! We'll give you that feedback for free. …

Anuj Ahooja /
@quillmatiq@threads.net: I wrote about the thankless work of the @Threads c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ community builder: “A lack of creators is not the elephant in the room. Creators exist on Threads, but they aren't the same creators who succeeded on Twitter or Mastodon, nor are they the influencers on Instagram. ” …

Jessica McBride /
@thetechsavvyassistant@threads.net: Okay so this perfectly breaks down the ick I get behind the people I've seen getting monetized on Threads. I think most people who have grown up with social media, generally think content creators should be paid for their work. I for one am genuinely happy for creators I follow on TikTok when they get brand deals, if I'm rooting for them as a person. …

Sara Montour Lewis /
@saramontourlewis@threads.net: “Build for the real Threads creators, and I can promise they'll help you build a larger network of communities. Perhaps a good starting point would be understanding why your top native communities continue the conversation in Discords and Instagram group chats...” 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Vijay Pemmaraju /
@hi.im.vijay@threads.net: I post here quite a bit. I've been a member of the Tech Threads community since the beginning. Yes, most of my content is comedic in nature, but I believe that comedy is an important part of building an community as it helps keep the tone lighthearted and the vibes immaculate. …

Pradeep Ananth /
@ananth.pradeep@threads.net: I have thoughts about @quillmatiq's post on the “creator paradox” at Threads. Probably not very well-formed thoughts, but thoughts nonetheless. But before we get to those, I urge you all to read it. It's a brilliant read. https://www.augment.ink/... @documentingmeta@threads.net: “Meta believes that the grass is greener if they inject creators from one site to another while ignoring that the creators who succeed on Threads are nothing like the ones on their sister site and are certainly not traditional celebrities.” …

Devan Stormont /
@lucid_voyager@threads.net: “Perhaps a good starting point would be understanding why your top native communities continue the conversation in Discords and Instagram group chats.” 100% I've met fantastic people here, but the closest groups I've met take many of our conversations out to other, smaller/private channels. …

Vishvanand Subramanian /
@vishvanands@threads.net: The slow exodus of people who regularly engage on threads is the only outcome if Meta chooses to prioritize big influencers over the actual community here.

Eleonor Rose /
@eleonor.rose@threads.net: ✨ thank you so much @quillmatiq for acknowledging and recognizing me and my love put into building Tech Threads ✨ look as a woman & also not the typical “techie” stereotype all I do is for the betterment of the community & focus on the community, but to be SEEN by someone I adore & respect 🥺 …

Associated Press:

A judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's manslaughter case in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after ruling prosecutors withheld evidence— A New Mexico judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the middle of his trial and said it cannot be filed again.

Discussion: LinkedIn,
NBC News, IGN, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Associated Press, CBS News, Deadline, Fox News, Variety, New York Post, Page Six, TMZ.com, Boing Boing, New York Times, Dexerto, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NBC News, NPR, Washington Post, Deadline, IndieWire, Rolling Stone, Reuters, TVLine, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, The Sun, CNBC and Breitbart

Discussion:

Chloe Melas /
NBC News: Lawyer for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will seek to have her case dismissed after Alec Baldwin trial falls apart

Kat Bailey /
IGN: Breaking: Alec Baldwin's Rust Trial Dismissed After Prosecution Accused of Hiding Evidence

Meg James /
Los Angeles Times: Behind the spectacular collapse of the Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting prosecution

Mike Roe /
The Wrap: ‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to Seek Dismissal After Alec Baldwin Case Collapses CBS News: Attorney of “Rust” cinematographer's family says Alec Baldwin case dismissal “strengthens our resolve to pursue justice” Fox News: Alec Baldwin thanks fans for their ongoing support one day after dismissal of ‘Rust’ shooting trial

Dana Kennedy /
New York Post: Ireland Baldwin, eldest of Alec's 8 kids, among celebs supporting him after ‘Rust’ charges tossed

Sara Whitman /
Page Six: Alec Baldwin thanks fans for their support after trial dismissal: ‘I appreciate your kindness’

Rob Beschizza /
Boing Boing: Judge dismisses manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin

Jessica Cullen /
Dexerto: Rust manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin dismissed over “concealed” evidence

Itzel Luna /
Wall Street Journal: Judge Dismisses Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Alec Baldwin Prosecutor Michael M Rubbinaccio / LinkedIn: In an extremely unusual ruling, the judge dismissed this case, based on fact that a few rounds given to the state, that looked like dummy rounds found on the set …

Antonio Pequeño IV /
Forbes: Alec Baldwin's Manslaughter Charge Dismissed By Judge

Samantha Chery /
Washington Post: Judge dismisses Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ case

Dominic Patten /
Deadline: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ Trial Tossed Out Over “Critical” Bullet Evidence; Incarcerated Armorer Could Be Released Too

Brian Welk /
IndieWire: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ Case Dismissed by Judge After Defense Claimed Evidence Was Withheld

Nancy Dillon /
Rolling Stone: Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Case Dismissed, Actor Breaks Down in Tears

Rebecca Iannucci /
TVLine: Alec Baldwin Rust Manslaughter Case Dismissed After Judge Rules Prosecutors Withheld Key Evidence

Rebecca Keegan /
The Hollywood Reporter: Prosecutor Resigns in Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Trial

Meg James /
Los Angeles Times: Judge dismisses Alec Baldwin involuntary manslaughter case for ‘Rust’ shooting

Callie Patteson /
The Sun: Alec Baldwin breaks down at Rust trial and clings to his wife as judge considers dismissing case over ‘hidden evidence’

Dan Mangan /