Nell McCafferty, whose writing on women's rights and gay rights helped turn Ireland into one of the most progressive European countries, died on Aug. 11 at 80 (Clay Risen/New York Times)
Mediagazer: Nell McCafferty, whose writing on women's rights and gay rights helped turn Ireland into one of the most progressive European countries, died on Aug. 11 at 80 (Clay Risen/New York Times)
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Sources: Sinclair ousts Ken Solomon, CEO of the Tennis Channel since 2005, citing his time spent advising Dr. Phil McGraw's company as a growing distraction— As the tennis world focuses on the U.S. Open, the network is embroiled in off-court drama.
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Deadline: Sinclair Ousts Tennis Channel CEO, Citing His Role As Adviser For Dr. Phil's Company—Report
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Awful Announcing: Tennis Channel fires CEO, reportedly due to role as Dr. Phil advisor
Joe Flint /
@jbflint: Not all the tennis drama is at the US Open! Ken Solomon out as CEO of Tennis Channel after spat with owner Sinclair over Solomon's ties to Dr. Phil's media business. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Christopher Clarey /
@christophclarey: Surprising news in the midst of the #USOpen. Ken Solomon, the driving force at Tennis Channel since 2005, is being relieved of his duties as chairman and CEO by parent company Sinclair Inc, citing concerns about outside roles Solomon a key figure in #tennis
Ben Rothenberg /
@benrothenberg: Strangest Mad Libs of a tennis headline I can remember: “Tennis Channel Ousts CEO, Citing Ties to Dr. Phil” WSJ reports Sinclair ousted longtime Tennis Channel head Ken Solomon over concerns about spending too much time on Dr. Phil's company's projects. https://www.wsj.com/...
Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
The Tenet Media case highlights both the lack of transparency in the creator economy and the threat this poses to media integrity— We need to know who is funding the creator economy — Yesterday, a federal indictment revealed that a Tennessee media company working with right-wing …
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Axios: The rise of fake influencers
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Politico: Why the Kremlin Loves Social Media
Lynne Jackier /
@YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org: Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America's Conservative Media https://www.nytimes.com/... It felt like this because it was actually like this. — #Russia — #Influence — #USpolitics
Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher@threads.net: Not so secret and the INEVITABLE result of zero accountability or regulation on the tech industry, even as the regular media has its economics hollowed out while also having to follow laws: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: Some inside-baseball on the Tenet Media / Tim Pool / Benny Johnson / Dave Ruben story: I know a fair amount about the economics of YouTube and when you look that the channels these guys are running, you can tell pretty quickly . . . 1/6
Ron Filipkowski /
@ronaldfilipkowski@threads.net: Tim Pool gives his side of the story.
Micah Loewinger /
@micah_loewinger@threads.net: I can't get over the irony of the Tenet media stuff. A group of rw influencers, who cater to an audience obsessed with shadowy international conspiracies, were wrapped up in one themselves!
Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@threads.net: My Substack post on how we need to stop letting far right influencers cosplay as independent media is featured on Mediagazer! Read it here: https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ... Mercury News: Want to be an ‘influencer’? Texas university launches new degree for digital influencing
Zoe Scaman /
Zoe Scaman on LinkedIn: Taylor Lorenz's latest piece uncovers something we need to be paying attention to: who is funding our creators? …
Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: This scheme was so shady that SEB GORKA looked at it and said, Bro that money is dirty: 5/6
Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: TL;DR: These Tenet guys aren't victims. They're not even dupes, or profiteers. They're collaborators. /fin https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Jonathan V. Last /
The Bulwark: The Tenet Media Guys Are Worse Than Useful Idiots
Pekka Kallioniemi /
Byline Times: Russia Allegedly Spent $10 Million Funding US Media Company and its ‘Superspreader’ Creators to Push Pro-Kremlin Disinformation
Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social: Without full knowledge of who is financing the creators we follow, watch, and read, how will any of us know whether the content we're consuming is shaped by dangerous hidden agendas or foreign interference? https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ...
Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social: “The robust financial backing the right wing content creator ecosystem enjoys, allows extremists the ability to fund professional production teams, social media ad buys, and marketing initiatives that give them a competitive advantage online. … @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online: Related to guestions about who's behind all this right wing bro content, Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz has an excellent piece out today asking this very question... 'Who's funding these guys?' — https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ... See also: https://mastodon.social/... @katieboue@threads.net: The way I just GASPED when I heard that number on the radio earlier. For a very, very brief moment I chuckled and thought “get that bag content creators” 😂💀
Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@threads.net: Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media! https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ...
Kevin Dolak /
The Hollywood Reporter: How Russia Allegedly Funneled Money Into a U.S. Media Company to Pay Right-Wing Content Creators
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Fortune: Elon Musk repeatedly interacted on X with right-wing influencers allegedly backed by a Russia-funded company
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Wired: An analysis of Tenet Media's videos shows frequent use of terms including “white people”, “Black people”, “civil war”, “Elon Musk”, and “illegal immigrants”
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Matthew Sheffield /
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social: What was in the content that Russia paid for from Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin? Ragebait about trans people, race, civil war, illegal immigration, guns, and Elon Musk. — If you believe right-wing narratives on these topics, you're being manipulated. …
Terra Kater /
@americansfordemocracy@threads.net: I highly recommend reading this entire article. https://www.wired.com/...
Caleb Howe /
Mediaite: MSNBC Guest Demands FBI Investigations Of Big Tech, Social Influencers, MSM, Billionaires, Senators & Reps to Battle - Authoritarianism @wired: Using our interactive tool, you can search terms that were most mentioned in videos by influencers working for Tenet Media like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson. Try it yourself here: https://www.wired.com/... [video]
Dhruv Mehrotra /
@dmehro: We analyzed hundreds of deleted Youtube videos of right-wing influencers working for Tenet Media—a company the DOJ alleges was financed and guided by a state-backed Russian news network. Here's what the paid influencers talked about: https://www.wired.com/...
Steve Thompson /
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social: “What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos” — https://www.wired.com/... “A WIRED analysis shows that right-wing stars like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson focused on topics like Elon Musk and supposed racism toward white people in hundreds of videos allegedly paid for by Russia.” …
Katie Drummond /
@katiedrumm@threads.net: Using closed captioning of the Tenet Media videos we downloaded before YouTube removed them, @wired compiled lists of terms frequently mentioned in them, along with a searchable database: https://www.wired.com/...
Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Right-Wing Influencers Claim Victimhood in Alleged Russian Interference Scheme
Zachary Basu /
Axios: MAGA's media meltdown Reuters: YouTube terminates Tenet Media's channel and four channels operated by Tenet owner Lauren Chen
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Katie Robertson /
New York Times: Tucker Carlson Criticized for Hosting Holocaust Revisionist @chickenpuppet.bsky.social: “We need to kill all the f*gs” - completely fine — “We need to kill all the f*gs. This video sponsored by Russia” - very bad [embedded post] NBC News: How some of the internet's most popular pro-Trump pundits ended up as paid messengers for Russian propaganda
Siladitya Ray /
Forbes: YouTube Removes Alleged Russia-Funded Outlet Hosting Tim Pool, Benny Johnson Videos
Casey Newton /
@crumbler@threads.net: The Tenet indictments show how Russia has shifted its election interference tactics since 2016. Will right-wing dupes prove to be more effective than Macedonian teens and bot farms? https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Mother Jones:
A Tenet Media contributor tweeted that Tenet “has ended”; its X, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble pages are online but haven't been updated since the indictment
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New Republic: Pro-Trump Media Firm Abruptly Folds After Russia Scheme Exposed
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The Atlantic: YouTubers Are Almost Too Easy to Dupe
Anna Merlan /
@annamerlan: One day after the DOJ accused Tenet Media of receiving $10 million in covert funding, a “reporter” for the company announced that Tenet “has ended.” Tenet's founder Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan still haven't commented on any of this. Normal! https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Anna Merlan /
@annamerlan: I wonder if media companies generally roll up like faulty umbrellas and blow away without a single word?
Tayler Hansen /
@taylerusa: Announcement: TENET Media has ended after the DOJ indictment and I will now be pursuing other job opportunities so I may continue to report on vital news stories this election season. If you'd like to independently fund my work or think I'd fit in well at another source let
NBC News:
Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators through a pro-Trump media outlet, prosecutors say
Peter Kafka /
@pkafka@threads.net: “Even after recruiting their talent, though, the Russians purportedly running Tenet were frustrated with Tenet's lack of success. Like many media executives, they worried that their employees were doing more to promote their personal social media brands than their new outlet.” — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Paul /
Reuters: Social media platforms leave alleged Russian influence network largely untouched @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host: #politics #Russia #disinformation #propaganda #InformationWarfare #TenetMedia — 'A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that accused it of being covertly funded by employees of a Russian state-controlled media outlet. …
New York Times:
Nell McCafferty, whose writing on women's rights and gay rights helped turn Ireland into one of the most progressive European countries, died on Aug. 11 at 80— Her pugnacious writing on women's rights, gay rights and other issues helped turn her country into one of the most progressive in Europe.
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Finn Purdy /
BBC: ‘Fearless’ journalist and campaigner Nell McCafferty dies @shockproofbeats: I wrote this when Nell McCafferty turned 80 in March. She was fierce and funny and she was right - so often - when it was a very dangerous thing to be. Nell was a giant whose impact on all our lives is likely incalculable. Her loss is Derry's, Ireland's, and everyone's. RIP. [image]
Eoghan McNeill /
@mcneillyeah: According to Nell McCafferty herself, RTÉ wrecked her broadcast career after she had the impudence to say she supported the armed struggle in Conor Cruise O'Brien's presence ‘I saw my livelihood go down the tubes’ [image]
Roslyn Dee /
Irish Independent: ‘The humour, the take-no-prisoners attitude, the kindness, the vulnerability.’ Roslyn Dee on her friend and colleague, Nell McCafferty @cmcgettrick: In 1993 when the Srs of Our Lady of Charity exhumed 155 women to make way for a property development, Nell McCafferty was amongst the few who put their heads above the parapet to call this out for what it was. Rest in power 💜 [image]
Lisa O'Carroll /
The Guardian: ‘Fierce, fearless and fiery’ Irish campaigner and writer Nell McCafferty is laid to rest
Áine Carson /
@ainecarson1: RTE reporting the sad passing of Nell McCafferty have omitted the bit where they banned her from speaking live on air. Producers were reluctant to book her for fear of losing their own jobs. [image] @hotpress: Former Hot Press columnist Nell McCafferty fought hard for many of the freedoms we now take for granted. Her death provides a suitable moment to reflect on the stance we take on freedom of thought - and on the need for reasoned discussion and debate https://www.hotpress.com/...
Diarmuid Pepper /
TheJournal.ie: ‘There will never be another’: Journalist Nell McCafferty is remembered at her funeral in Derry
Miriam O'Callaghan /
@miriamocal: Farewell to a true feminist icon with endless courage, a ground breaking journalist, a brilliant writer, an incredible interviewee I was lucky enough to interview on many occasions, Nell McCafferty was also great fun,always kind&most of all a proud Derry woman. Codladh sámh Nell [image] @nytimesworld: Neil McCafferty's outsize reputation and outspoken views on women's rights, gay rights and Irish nationalism helped Ireland move on from an era of cosseted social conservatism to become one of the most progressive countries in Europe. https://www.nytimes.com/... @virginmedianewsireland@threads.net: Ailbhe Smyth, a local activist and longtime friend of Nell McCafferty, fondly recalls her remarkable legacy. Born in Derry in 1944, Nell became politically active during the civil rights movement and was a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. …
Helen Charman /
@helen_charman: A beautiful account of mine and @lolaolufemi_'s conversation @LRBbookshop on Tuesday in Eli's essay about the late, brilliant Nell McCafferty, whose work features heavily in Mother State [image] @lilliputpress@threads.net: We are saddened to hear of the death of Nell McCafferty, a brilliant writer and co-founder of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. For a cherished Lilliput author this lament: Those azure eyes That radiant smile The diamond mind RIP, and sail on dear Nell Photo credit: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
Vincent Browne /
@vincentbrowne: I first knew her in 1968. She lived behind Hatch Street. I remember she playing “If I had a hammer” again and again and again. She wrote for Magill brilliantly. She was great fun but, at times, difficult. I remember her particularly from a press conference on the publication of
Rosita Sweetman /
Irish Examiner: Now lauded after her death, Nell McCafferty paid a very high personal price for her activism
@virginmedianewsireland@threads.net:
REMEMBERED: Press Ombudsman Susan McKay remembers Nell McCafferty, the groundbreaking activist and journalist who passed away at 80. Nell, a vibrant force for women's rights and social justice, died in the early hours at a nursing home in Donegal. Her legacy includes fearless advocacy and a profound impact on journalism and activism in Ireland. @eldavldn: New essay up on my substack. It's about Nell McCafferty, but also about @helen_charman's brilliant new book, different ideas of mothering and all the brilliant people, writers, scholars who have ‘mothered’ me in the last few years https://open.substack.com/...
Amanda Ferguson /
@amandafbelfast@threads.net: #Nell I'm in Derry so I had to pay my respects to Nell McCafferty today. How could I not. I didn't know Nell but I know I'm grateful to her, and influenced by her. I am a journalist so I'm going to report on the funeral mass.Eamon McCann spoke about remembering playing football with Nell as children. … @irishtimes: In The Irish Times this weekend: We pay tribute to Nell McCafferty, the fierce and fearless journalist and campaigner with a ‘lovely sense of divilment’. Subscribe now to read The Irish Times exactly as it appears in print on ePaper. https://www.irishtimes.com/... [video]
Prof Catherine Harper PhD /
@profcathharper: Very sad to hear of Derry-born journalist, author + feminist Nell McCafferty's death. Founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, outspoken advocate for women's rights, social/civil justice, campaigner on Bloody Sunday, the Kerry Babies and Church abuse. #ripNell💚 [image]
Caoimhseach Connolly /
TodayFM: Journalist And Women's Rights Activist Nell McCafferty Has Died Aged 80 @iamreddave@threads.net: Women were not allowed to buy pints in most Irish pubs in 1970. Nell McCafferty led a group of women who ordered, 30 brandies and one pint of Guinness. When the pint was refused, they drank the brandies and refused to pay as their order was not served https://www.irishecho.com/...
Kitty Holland /
The Irish Times: ‘A strong woman, took no sh*t’: Members of public sign book of condolences for Nell McCafferty
Catherine Martin TD /
@cathmartingreen: Nell McCafferty was a ground-breaking journalist and determined campaigner She was a leading activist for many causes, most notably her inspiring work to advance civil rights and women's rights. I'm so sorry to hear she has passed away. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. [image]
Inbox Collective:
A profile of The News, a Brazil-based newsletter published in the Portuguese language that has over 2M subscribers, 33 staffers, and seven spin-off newsletters— They've got two million active subscribers, eight different newsletters, 30+ staffers, and multiple revenue streams.
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@risj_oxford
New York Times:
Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81— His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.
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Emily Langer /
Washington Post: Michael Lerner, activist rabbi who founded Tikkun magazine, dies at 81
Mark Leviton /
@markleviton@threads.net: Rabbi Michael Lerner died Wednesday. I attended many services at Beyt Tikkun and went to Michael's classes, learning a lot from him. Here's a link to his final essay, dictated after he knew he was terminally ill. May his name be a blessing. https://givebutter.com/... The Times of Israel: Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser /
The Jewish News of Northern California: Rabbi Michael Lerner, a religious and political visionary, never stopped believing @nytobits: Michael Lerner's primary focus in his magazine was Judaism, Jewish thought, Zionism and Israel. But he also made the news in 1993 when his influence reached the White House. He has died at 83. https://www.nytimes.com/... @sojogram@threads.net: Rabbi Michael Lerner, founding editor of Tikkun, died on Wednesday. As we remember his work, we're reflecting on his words from the May 1994 issue of Sojourners magazine: https://sojo.net/...
Jay Michaelson /
The Forward: How Rabbi Michael Lerner merged spirituality and social justice and influenced a generation of progressives @mitchhorowitz: I worked for Michael briefly after college. He was a hard-driving personality—but I never once heard him enunciate a public position that lacked humanity, relied on shallow anecdote or symbolism, or expressly humiliated anyone. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Techdirt:
A look at the 2nd Circuit's incredibly damaging ruling favoring publishers in a copyright dispute over The Internet Archive's ebook lending program— What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn't bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library?
Discussion:
Mike Masnick /
@mmasnick.bsky.social: Okay, here's my writeup of the Internet Archive ruling. Fair use decisions always depend on vague vibes, but I think this one got some basics wrong. But, still, the comment at the end about how authors won't write any more if books are lent out is CRAZYPANTS. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/ s... @waxy.org: TechDirt's Mike Masnick on the Internet Archive decision: the ruling is “a knife in the back of libraries,” claiming that authors won't write new books if libraries lend digital books for free https://www.techdirt.com/...
Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: The Internet Archive loses its appeal to lend e-books without permission
Didi Rankovic /
Reclaim The Net: Internet Archive Loses Appeal in Copyright Dispute Over Ebook Lending
Raymond McCain /
Cord Cutters News: Internet Archive Faces Setback After Losing Appeal of eBook Copyright Case
New Republic:
Media “sanewashing”, or reframing Trump's incoherent and dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, is a form of misinfo that distorts reality— Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump's incoherent ramblings …
Discussion:
American Crisis, New Republic, @frozencanuck@mas.to, @froomkin, @briannawu, @judisgarcia, @ilpomodoro2, @therickwilson, @froomkin, @cavandy, @langdongrant2, @jamisonfoser, @riseandgrindcor, @mikeelgan, @hemantmehta, @atrupar, @parkermolloy, @mlcalderone, @ok_post_guy, @newsjennifer, @jimwurst1, @acwardblueridge@threads.net, @michael.chabon@threads.net, @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, It's the democracy, stupid, Boing Boing, @parkermolloy@threads.net, The Present Age and Crikey
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Margaret Sullivan /
American Crisis: The power of a single word about media malfeasance @frozencanuck@mas.to: “the media is actively participating in the erosion of our shared reality” — This New Republic article perfectly captures why so many people are infuriated with the majority of American mainstream media (NY Times, CNN, etc). This constant sanitization is straight up journalistic malpractice. …
Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: I found a 2020 use of the term “sanewashing” by Matt Yglesias — ironically (but on brand for him) about liberals sanewashing the far left. https://www.slowboring.com/...
Brianna Wu /
@briannawu: New discourse terminology just dropped! “Sanewashing.” Trying to advocate consideration of additional context instead of just being angry. This is a real term, not a troll, and I will try to listen and grow from this problematic behavior.
Judi Garcia /
@judisgarcia: Dear @nytimes - why do you keep covering for this man, when he obviously has zero clue what he's talking about?! #sanewashing
Rick Wilson /
@therickwilson: “Sanewashing” is a brilliant term
Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: First use of the term I've found on Twitter in the context of politics (Trump coverage, in fact): August 2020 https://x.com/... @cavandy: Also let's imagine Biden said any of this how would the coverage look? https://newrepublic.com/... [image]
Langdon Grant /
@langdongrant2: @TheRickWilson As is Trump's mental decline, as evidenced by their continued sanewashing of his nonsensical gibberish. Here are the headlines from the AP, WSJ, NYT, and WaPo on Trump's train wreck of an “economic speech” yesterday. [image]
Jamison Foser /
@jamisonfoser: Journalists think their job is to turn what Trump said into something people can understand; it's actually their job to make clear that Trump doesn't understand what he's talking about
Hemant Mehta /
@hemantmehta: The correct interpretation of Trump's word salad. A welcome alternative to sanewashing him.
Aaron Rupar /
@atrupar: Hey! I got shouted out by @joyannreid on @thereidout “This process of rehabilitation that journalist Aaron Rupar calls ‘sanewashing’ is happening nearly every time Trump opens his mouth ... ” [video]
Parker Molloy /
@parkermolloy: Amazing levels of sanewashing here. [image]
Michael Calderone /
@mlcalderone: Great points from @ParkerMolloy on the media's “sanewashing” of Trump's statements https://newrepublic.com/... [image]
Jennifer Schulze /
@newsjennifer: Some media outlets reported trump had a sweeping vision of economic policy. Read this⤵️ to see if you agree OR if you think the press was sanewashing trump yet again. (Hint: it's sanewashing)
Jim Wurst /
@jimwurst1: I believe I'm correct in attributing this great coinage to @atrupar. Let's get #sanewashing trending!
AC Ward /
@acwardblueridge@threads.net: From @sulliview: “But why does the media sanewash Trump? It's all a part of the false-equivalence I've been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.” It IS malfeasance to present incoherent rambling as a polished vision expressed by a candidate. https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/ ...
Mike Elgan /
@MikeElgan@mastodon.social: Word of the moment: “sanewashing” https://newrepublic.com/...
Jennifer Schulze /
It's the democracy, stupid: Hello sanewashing, goodbye journalism.
Rob Beschizza /
Boing Boing: Michigan judge suspended after racist, homophobic remarks: “I'm not systemically racist. I'm a new racist.”
Parker Molloy /
@parkermolloy@threads.net: Over at @newrepublic, I wrote about the media “sanewashing” Trump https://newrepublic.com/...
Parker Molloy /
The Present Age: The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing
CNBC:
A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9— A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.
Discussion:
Financial Times, @jason_kint, @kendraebarnett, @jenn_elias, @kayjebelli, @ariellesgarcia, @leehepner, The Verge, AdExchanger, The Drum, MarTech, The Media Leader and Digiday, more at Techmeme »
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Jason Kint /
@jason_kint: Excellent to see AdExchanger digging back in on Google adtech antitrust trial starting on Monday. Fun overview of code named projects. I just want to correct something here so others also are aware (since Google is spreading false info). ps we'll def see them get into weeds. /1 [image]
Kendra Barnett /
@kendraebarnett: NEW for @TheDrum: The DOJ & Google are going head to head in a historic antitrust trial concerning the search giant's adtech business beginning Monday. Here's my overview of what we can expect to see - and key predictions from antitrust & media experts: https://www.thedrum.com/...
Jennifer E. /
@jenn_elias: A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the DOJ, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors. This time, the focus is on the company's advertising tech. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Kay Jebelli /
@kayjebelli: As @vidushi_law notes, helping ad-tech rivals in this way could go against the interests of advertisers and publishers, making the Google products less integrated and less helpful. It's lowest-common-denominator thinking. [image]
Arielle Garcia /
@ariellesgarcia: Great piece by @KendraEBarnett at @TheDrum about what to expect at #USvGoogle II, which starts MONDAY! Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts. Also, lol @ the last line. https://www.thedrum.com/... [image]
Lee Hepner /
@leehepner: Detractors will treat “abuse of dominance” as some indecipherable new antitrust standard created from whole cloth, but courts are already accustomed to articulating it. This is Judge Brinkema in the Google Ad Tech case on “the essence of antitrust law”: [image]
Lauren Feiner /
The Verge: Google and DOJ return for round two of their antitrust fight — this time about ads
Allison Schiff /
AdExchanger: Project Cheat Sheet: A Rundown On All Of Google's Secret Internal Projects, As Revealed By The DOJ
Kendra Barnett /
The Drum: What we know about Google's upcoming adtech antitrust trial - and how it might play out
Constantine von Hoffman /
MarTech: US vs. Google, round 2: Government targets digital ad business
Sabrina Quagliozzi /
The Media Leader: Google heads back to court to defend ad empire
Marty Swant /
Digiday: From ‘Jedi Blue’ to ‘Banksy’: What Google's code names reveal in the DOJ's landmark antitrust case
Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone will get $180M in severance and other benefits on top of $350M from the sale of her 20% stake in National Amusements— Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, will get $180 million in severance and other benefits on top of hundreds of millions from the sale …
Discussion:
Financial Times and Reuters
Variety:
NBC plans to cut The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from five to four original episodes per week in the new season, the last to join its late-night rivals— The last of TV's big five-original-nights-a-week late-night show is giving up 24 hours out of its schedule.
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LateNighter, Matt Wolfe on LinkedIn, New York Post, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, @doctor_hue, @marcmalkin, @variety, @ruthiesky, @bristei, USA Today, Cinemablend, Vulture, TV Shows, Entertainment Weekly, AV Club, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, TVLine, The Wrap, Deadline, IndieWire and New York Daily News
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Matt Wolfe /
Matt Wolfe on LinkedIn: Big - but albeit, not surprising move on NBC's part considering audience viewership habits with linear television today. …
Andrew Court /
New York Post: NBC cuts ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ back to four nights a week
Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: NBC's ‘Tonight Show’ to Drop Friday Show in Shift to Four-Day Schedule
Jay Kelley /
@doctor_hue: Don't tell me streaming hasn't hurt network tv. When I was a kid, the “Tonight Show” was 5 days a week and 90 minutes per night. https://variety.com/... via @variety
Marc Malkin /
@marcmalkin: Whoa... NBC Pulls Back ‘Tonight Show’ to Four Nights Per Week https://variety.com/... via @variety
Ruthie Rader /
@ruthiesky: And Johnny Carson is just spinning in His grave•••• NBC will pull 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to four nights a week as TV networks look to shore up declines in late-night economics Source: Variety https://search.app/...
Brian Steinberg /
@bristei: NITE OWL: NBC pulls back ‘Tonight Show’ to four nights a week, the latest in a series of moves aimed at shoring up the economics of late night as linear audiences decline https://variety.com/... via @variety
Laura Hurley /
Cinemablend: As NBC Makes A Major Cut For Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, Here's How Long The Host Is Sticking Around
Jennifer Zhan /
Vulture: Jimmy Fallon Might Be Laughing a Little Less Than Usual
Wesley Stenzel /
Entertainment Weekly: Here's why we'll be seeing less of Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show
William Hughes /
AV Club: The Tonight Show is dropping to four new episodes per week
Bill Bradley /
Adweek: NBCU Cuts Back on The Tonight Show to 4 Nights Per Week
Loree Seitz /
The Wrap: ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ Cuts Back to 4 Nights a Week on NBC
Nellie Andreeva /