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X Marks The End. Twitter is dead.
This platform only reluctantly lives on as a zombie.
Warped and disfigured, it marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader.
RIP, Twitter. It was a fun ride. cnn.it/4766hAU
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The Reliable Sources A1: The Supreme Smackdown view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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The post-Chris Licht era at CNN is taking shape. More in @ReliableSources: view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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One notable thing about this rapidly developing international story: Since Elon Musk took a sledgehammer to Twitter’s verification system, the platform is far less useful during breaking news events, and so people are depending on traditional newsrooms for verifiable information.
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The live-update format across all news websites serves news junkies who are plugged into the cycle well, but for those just trying to get their hands around the basic contours of the story? The old-school inverted pyramid style story probably works better.
The NYT live-blog is a daily disaster, but especially so during huge news events. Hard to fathom how it still exists.
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MSNBC reruns of Morning Joe
FNC Fox and Friends blah blah
CNN Wall to Wall Russia coverage
Seems worth noting
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NEW from me and @lawton_sophie: Tucker Carlson's racist former head writer Blake Neff resurfaces as Charlie Kirk’s radio producer
Neff resigned from Tucker Carlson Tonight in 2020 after his racist, anonymous posts in an online forum were exposed by CNN
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A little thought experiment on WSJ’s decision to publish Alito’s pre-buttal of the @propublica investigation. From my new @GuardianUS column, linked below
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“It's dangerous talk—and it's being peddled to the masses in broad daylight. You don't have to go to obscure online forums to find this type of unhinged discussion. Just turn on Fox News,” @oliverdarcy on right-wing rhetoric undermining law enforcement.
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Are news outlets going overboard in coverage of the missing Titanic submersible? That's the subject of the latest edition of @ReliableSources. view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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The all too common failure from major news orgs to be direct with audiences when covering politicians and media figures who traffick in lies and conspiracies leaves audiences with a distorted understanding of events. More in @ReliableSources: view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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"Some news organizations are beating around the bush when covering prominent figures who hold detestable views, many of which are wholly unhinged from reality," writes @oliverdarcy of CNN. view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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News organizations keep failing to describe in clear-eyed terms the outrageous — and often dangerous — ideas that some politicians and commentators peddle to millions.
That comes at a cost. More in @ReliableSources. view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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"This type of normal language news organizations use doesn’t communicate how unhinged … this stuff is. The language of news gets very watered down and it’s flattened and it’s hard for people consuming it to understand it’s not normal stuff." @Sulliview view.newsletters.cnn.com/mes…
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