"ESPN College Football presented by Tums" is exquisite brand synergy

Owens is not great, just posting this because it’s essentially the same thought that got Jimmy Kimmel suspended. (Worth noting she’s been feuding with far right media figures such as Ben Shapiro, so she’s on the outs in some circles. There might not be fertile ground on the right to hear this.)

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

v cool how we are just routinely not letting those passed rest in peace now that we have dead people chatbots, holograms, etc. And not thinking too hard about the kind of world we make when we do digital resurrection that strips people of their dignity and right to be remembered on their own terms.

1/ I tend to be skeptical of boycotts but 👀 this whole story about the internal and external pressure Disney is facing after suspending Kimmel. I would compare the situation facing Disney to something like what Target has faced this year after ending its DEIA efforts.

"As I said, inducements or punishments isn’t the question. It’s both. It’s one stop shopping and the same key opens every door. Unlimited political spending and corporate gigantism have all led us to this moment. Donald Trump knew how to pick the lock."

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

[worst person meme]

When you push your newsletter out to readers without doing some editing.

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

lol @ “reconsider” The stumping about free speech and has always been cynical as they try to have it both ways. Same party that claimed Trump’s words didn’t incite Jan6 but now think using the word “fascist” has this magical ability to incite shootings. Words either have power or they don’t.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

It is brain breaking how so many people losing their jobs, from Kimmel down to random teachers, aren’t actually making light of his death or praising the killer. they’re just saying they disagreed with the guy, or noting the hysteria over people disagreeing with the guy

Well I did it. Preordered the orange iPhone with a black case and hoping this doesn't singlehandedly submarine the Giants' surprising push for a wild card spot.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

look we’ve all had a radicalizing moment on one of the gawker sites, it’s just that for normal people it was marchman ranking cereals

Andrew Cuomo picking up some big name endorsements

1/4 RE Kimmel, what makes this possible is broadcast TV/radio specifically are subject to FCC regulation in ways other media aren't. With limited broadcast spectrum, idea is built on notion the public owns the airwaves. It gives the FCC authority to regulate in the vaguely defined "public interest."

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

oh my FUCKING GOD

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

This is really good.

It's interesting watching LinkedIn's algo surfacing posts the past week (from people I don't follow) complaining about the rise in political discussion on the platform. A reaction to the Kirk shooting but ... my friends, LinkedIn is probably is the most political social network out there. ....

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

"Go pick me out a winner, Bobby"

Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Redford was in the best journalism movie (All the President’s Men) and also one of the worst (Up Close and Personal). Have to respect that kind of range.

I say this every time someone from the cast dies, but Sneakers is an underrated movie.

That’s a smart framing. I remember when the main debate was how best to address climate change, not whether it was happening. How to provide health care, not whether we should.

This man is going to die this season.

I canceled my subscription a year ago after the cowardly non-endorsement decision and things like this are why I have never regretted it. The Post has been squandering its credibility and moral authority the past two years.

Really liked this piece from my friend @jeremylittau.com. Measured and thoughtful and smart (Unlike Jeremy's famously terrible candy opinions). jeremylittau.substack.com/p/media-note...

Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either