Legacy publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post are embracing TikTok, in an attempt to “meet people where they are.”
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In four years, is the first reporter to question why we've been following a fake Ashton Kutcher account this entire time.
So happy our team is getting some much-needed credit for our work (FF and )
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“Meet People Where They Are”: Legacy Media Wants a Piece of That Gen Z TikTok Mojo vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/t via
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Daily Show correspondent @roywoodjr will be the entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
@charlottetklein reports: vntyfr.com/BXLaSRT
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This essay nails it, especially the part about how "the mainstream media has a bias toward normalcy" and feels compelled to treat the traitor Trump as just another politician.
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Nearly a year after President Biden called for more police funding, his second State of the Union arrives in the shadow of a fresh tragedy, the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops.
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"This about targeting women of color!" -- AOC's impassioned defense of Ilhan Omar
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With Tom Brady retiring a second time my pals in merely took the story I wrote last year and updated it. Can’t wait to see what they think of when this happens again in two years!
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White House Correspondents Association president talks to about the her career, covering Biden, and the upcoming dinner:
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New: The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. is the featured entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Daily Show correspondent will be the entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Having bowed to the demands of Ron DeSantis, the College Board has stripped their AP African American Studies curriculum of much of the subject matter that angered the governor.
Read the latest from :
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there is no reasonable standard by which anything Coates has written would be inappropriate for a college level African American studies course nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/
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And here you have it. They were removed…
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On the eve of President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address, ‘Inside the Hive’ talks POTUS reelection potential, the big hurdles for the new chief of staff, and what Jill Biden might be thinking.
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Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail. While many have been counting the former president out, warns that might be the worst thing Americans—and the press—could do.
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This!!!!!
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I wrote about the dangers of treating Trump like a normal candidate in @VanityFair vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/d
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as Judiciary Committee Republicans talk about mandating the pledge of allegiance before hearings, proposes an amendment that those who supported an insurrection against the government cannot lead it so they don't make a "mockery" of it
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President Joe Biden called on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to name his demands ahead of their high-stakes meeting to discuss the debt limit.
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While right-wing outrage about DirecTV's dropping of Newsmax might abound in Congress, the same, surprisingly, cannot be said for Fox News.
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Even though the dust has barely settled from the 2022 midterms, Democrats are already bracing for another election cycle about abortion rights.
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There was discussion a couple years ago, in the aftermath of Jan 6, about whether networks should put election deniers like Kevin McCarthy on news shows: bit.ly/3HIFMqO
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BRENNAN: 70 percent of the House GOP denied the results of the 2020 election. You've put many of them on very key committees. Why are you elevating people who deny reality?
MCCARTHY: Well, if you look to the Democrats ...
BRENNAN: You're talking about things going back to 2000
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Kevin McCarthy’s Republican House is holding the debt ceiling hostage in pursuit of budget cuts, pushing the world’s economy to the brink.
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Terrific piece by about how ChatGPT (and associated AI) might lead to some dark outcomes in media.
I share some perspective after a writer used AI to plagiarize my work a few weeks back. Check it out -->
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Bodycam footage of Paul Pelosi getting assaulted is out. It is very hard to watch. Here's my work on the ghoulish right-wing conspiracy theories about the case.
mediamatters.org/fake-news/righ
mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-f
mediamatters.org/fox-news/even-
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“In the past the Republicans haven’t been willing to shoot the hostage. This time we’re not so sure.”
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“Fred is very good at managing up. He’s the perfect ambassador for a multibillionaire,” Robert Allbritton says of Fred Ryan, who previously served as his CEO at Politico:
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since this will come up a lot in media coverage of Tyre Nichols in Memphis: while I get that it seems narratively significant that the officers are black. Statistically, it is unsurprising. In tracking police violence, we never found that race of the officer made much difference
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BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti told staff today: “Our work in AI-powered creativity is…off to a good start, and in 2023, you’ll see AI inspired content move from an R&D stage to part of our core business”
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ChatGPT’s Mind-Boggling, Possibly Dystopian Impact on the Media World vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/c via
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Kevin McCarthy and his caucus seem to be punching up the folly: Not only are they insisting that Biden negotiate with them—they’re requiring that he come up with their demands.
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i also wrote about why it's SUCH a big deal that live nation finally admitted to the "industry practice" of exclusive contracts and confusing "service fees," even if change seems far off
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Will 2024 Republican candidates step outside the right-wing media bubble for debates?
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VF’s speaks to Arizona congressman Ruben Gallego about his 2024 campaign for the seat held by newly independent senator Kyrsten Sinema and more.
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“What’s become clear over the past seven months is that post-Roe America isn’t in the middle of an abortion crisis, it’s in the throes of a health care crisis. And it’s only going to get worse.”
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My story about a lunch, 100 yrs ago this month, that changed photographic portraiture.
The diners: Edward Steichen, publisher Condé Nast & editor Frank Crowninshield #photography #steichen
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