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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 …
Discussion: New York Times, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, The Wrap, The Desk, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Variety, Fox News, @ted_scheinman, @ryanjthomas83, @nh_homebrewer, @ngrossman81, @dkthomp, @dominiccampbell, @vinodsreeharsha, @will_bunch, @lailaalarian, @rolandsmartin, @nycsouthpaw, @esaagar, @austinahlman, @wajahatali, @gbbranstetter, @kenklippenstein, @byronyork, @doughenwood, @heerjeet, Breitbart, Deadline, @maxwelltani, @brianstelter, @jeffjarvis, @michaeldsgro, @sauthoff.bsky.social, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @brianstelter and @markjacob16

Discussion:

Jim Rutenberg /
New York Times: ‘Morning Joe’ Is Pre-empted for Breaking News Coverage

Dan Ladden-Hall /
The Daily Beast: MSNBC Isn't Airing ‘Morning Joe’ Monday Because of the Trump Assassination Attempt

Colby Hall /
Mediaite: Is MSNBC Taking Morning Joe Off Air in Wake of Trump Shooting an Admission They Can't Do News?

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: MSNBC Pulls ‘Morning Joe’ in Trump Shooting Aftermath, Airs Breaking News Coverage Instead

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: “Morning Joe,” “Daily Show” cancel episodes following Trump assassination attempt

Taylor Herzlich /
New York Post: ‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday over Trump assassination attempt

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: ‘Morning Joe’ Moved on MSNBC Monday After Trump Assassination Attempt

Ted Scheinman /
@ted_scheinman: the refs are now working themselves.

Nicholas Grossman /
@ngrossman81: A media organization saying it was possible that 1 out of 25 on air comments might offend the potential future president and his supporters so they'll say nothing instead is a bad sign of how they'll act if those political forces get national power.

Derek Thompson /
@dkthomp: This explanation makes no sense on its face. 1) “We pulled Morning Joe so a guest wouldn't say something offensive on Monday.” What changes on Tuesday? 2) “Our political news show can't handle big politics news” is a brutal judgment (to the point of being in-credible)

Dominic Campbell /
@dominiccampbell: Already acting like an authoritarian state. People hate me in 🇺🇸 when I say this, but US closer to Russia and Israel than it would like to pretend. Certainly looking into the future.

Vinod Sreeharsha /
@vinodsreeharsha: Excellent. @MSNBC should extend this decision to every day, not just today. If something positive can come out of past few days, it'd be abolishing all cable television news shows. And introducing something novel to 24-hour news channels: “airing rolling breaking news coverage.”

Will Bunch /
@will_bunch: When anti-fascism experts say “Do not obey in advance,” this is the kind of banana republic BS they are taking about

Laila Al-Arian /
@lailaalarian: Comments on cable news rationalizing or justifying the mass killing of Palestinian civilians are fine 👍 @rolandsmartin: I'm stunned. @MSNBC leadership has pulled their flagship morning show @Morning_Joe today, on the first day of the @GOP convention. I'm sure @JoeNBC @morningmika and their crew is stunned by this decision. It's totally perplexing to me. So are they pulling all primetime shows too? @nycsouthpaw: The former Republican congressman who defines morning coverage on the supposedly Democratic-aligned cable news channel was reportedly taken off the air this morning out of fear he, his wife, or his guests would say something to offend the MAGAs. https://cnn.com/...

Saagar Enjeti /
@esaagar: MSNBC is telling us that on one of the most important news days in US politics Morning Joe can't be trusted This is an actual admission they can NEVER be trusted

Austin Ahlman /
@austinahlman: the reasoning is bizarre but taking Morning Joe off air, even for just one day, is a service to this nation

Wajahat Ali /
@wajahatali: A lot of news today. Let's see what Morning Joe is saying. Oh nevermind. MSNBC caved to bad faith MAGA attacks and took them off the air. Obey in advance apparently. Nice nice.

Gillian Branstetter /
@gbbranstetter: Obsessed with the notion a 20-year-old Republican in a gun club t-shirt was being radicalized by Morning Joe

Ken Klippenstein /
@kenklippenstein: Let's make the Morning Joe suspension permanent just to be safe

Byron York /
@byronyork: It's a huge day in politics and MSNBC has pulled ‘Morning Joe’ off the air. They're apparently worried the MJ crew might say something ‘inappropriate’ about the Trump assassination attempt. From CNN: https://www.cnn.com/... [image]

Doug Henwood /
@doughenwood: Free press. Morning Joe yanked—not for being stupid either. https://nypost.com/... [image]

Jeet Heer /
@heerjeet: I hate, hate, hate the Morning Joe show with a passion, it's a toxic stew of braindead centrist smugness, but pulling the show for this reason is even worse. Just pure cowardice from MSNBC

Joel B. Pollak /
Breitbart: NBC Pulls MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ Off Air Monday for News Coverage

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: MSNBC Preempts ‘Morning Joe’ For Breaking News Of Trump Assassination Attempt

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: Second major programming decision from Cesar Conde this cycle (1st was firing Ronna McDaniel). Two people I've talked to said that Joe and Mika ultimately didn't disagree with the decision to stay off the air today (CNN reports decision was made in consultation with the hosts).

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 @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

@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 @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]

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]

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.

@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:
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/ ...

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/...

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.

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

Discussion:

Chris Stokel-Walker /
Fast Company: After the Trump assassination attempt, Elon Musk's X is a misinformation factory

Aidan McLaughlin /
Mediaite: In Defense of A Cautious Media

Elon Musk /
@elonmusk: I tried using both 𝕏 and legacy media this weekend, but legacy media was so far behind and wrong that it was pointless. When something is wrong on 𝕏, it is corrected very fast, but it stays wrong for hours to days on legacy media.

David Gilbert /
@daithaigilbert: It may be hard to imagine, but it would have meant a world without the flood of conspiracies and disinformation which dominated people's feeds when they were searching for fact-checked and verified information about the shooting https://www.wired.com/...

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.

Linda Yaccarino /
@lindayax: It's hard to imagine a world without X after a weekend like this past weekend. Let's stick together in the days ahead, and stick to X always.

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]

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”

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]

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

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 Poynter:

A look at the coverage of the assassination attempt on Trump, including top networks and outlets providing hours of reporting with no errors or controversies— The Associated Press photographer who made the now-famous photo said he never thought about the danger of the moment. He was too caught up in his job.

Discussion:
Fox News: Trump reflects on stunning photo of him after being shot: ‘Usually you have to die’ to have iconic picture

David Bauder /
Associated Press: At a Trump rally, shocking images fill TV screens. Then reporters rush to find out what it means

Tyler Austin Harper /
The Atlantic: A Legendary American Photograph

Dasha Burns /
NBC News: NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns describes chaotic and dangerous scene at Saturday's Trump rally

Corbin Bolies /
The Daily Beast: Photographer of Viral Trump Rally Shooting Pic Spills on Historic Moment

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: The TV anchors who were on the air when the shots rang out, like CNN's @jessicadean and Fox's @ShannonBream, were calm and careful. At a moment of fear and uncertainty for the country, the news coverage was steady and sober, exactly as it should be.

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: @jessicadean @ShannonBream Weekend newsroom crews deserve a big shoutout. Weekends can be a lonely, underappreciated, overstretched shift. The weekend crews at the networks all rose to the occasion. NBC, ABC and CBS stayed on the air for hours and hours, a rarity.

Bryan Beal /
@bryanrbeal: No wonder this paper is failing [image]

Jon Allsop /
Columbia Journalism Review: The cynicism of blaming the media for the Trump assassination attempt

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: Poynter's @TomWJones asked for my impressions of the Trump shooting coverage. I told him this was best-case coverage of a worst-case scenario — top networks and publications provided wall-to-wall coverage with virtually no errors or controversies https://www.poynter.org/...

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 …

Discussion:
The Guardian, @michaelkruse, @semaforben, @mattyglesias, @johnspurlock, Mediaite and @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social

Discussion:

Mehdi Hasan /
The Guardian: Blue Maga: we need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party

Michael Kruse /
@michaelkruse: “Some of the same people who bemoaned paranoia, ignorance and intolerance among Trump supporters are now exhibiting those exact traits in defense of Biden,” @brianstelter tells @maxwelltani. https://www.semafor.com/...

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: Smart @maxwelltani piece, a bit overtaken by events, on the viewer rage at liberal media that's questioning Biden's fitness https://www.semafor.com/... @mattyglesias: Audience is an issue with any kind of media. I'd been favorable to Biden's renomination until the debate and I've had some angry cancellations since flipping. But overall paid + free subs are both up. https://www.semafor.com/... [image]

John Spurlock /
@johnspurlock: ‘Playing on audiences’ political views can be useful in the short term — in particular driving subscriptions, the new lifeline for American news media — but clearly can result in angry readers/subscribers when you tell them what they don't want to hear' https://www.semafor.com/...

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Mehdi Hasan Hits Out At ‘Cult-like Blue MAGA’ Democrats Quashing Biden Criticism

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 …

RELATED:
Financial Times:

Sources: DAZN will pay €400M/year for the rights to show the majority of France's Ligue 1 matches, while Qatar-owned beIN will spend €100M for one game per week— Accord with DAZN and BeIN helps stave off financial crisis at some clubs but locks in a lower price than first expected

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

9to5Google:

YouTube Music tests “AI-generated conversational radio”, which lets Premium users in the US create a custom radio station by “describing exactly what they want”— YouTube Music today is making official sound search, while acknowledging that it's testing the …

Discussion:
Engadget

Discussion:

The Hollywood Reporter:

Southern California Public Radio names Alejandra Santamaria as its president and CEO; she was previously the interim president and GM of Univision Los Angeles— The Univision veteran succeeds Herb Scannell in the role after he announced plans to retire last fall.

Discussion:

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: LAist and Southern California Public Radio Names Alejandra Santamaria President and CEO

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.

Discussion:
@bp22, @pressgazette and

Discussion:

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/...

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:
@michellemanafy@journa.host, @carnage4life@mas.to, Science, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian and NPR

Discussion:

Michelle Manafy /
@michellemanafy@journa.host: A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to help less naturally creative people write more original short stories — but dampened the creativity of the group as a whole. It's a trade-off that may be increasingly common as AI tools impinge on creative endeavors. …

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 /