Newsrooms are scrambling to counter Elon Musk's bans

[brooklynite]

Source: Semafor

News organizations are scrambling to respond to Elon Musk’s suspension from Twitter of prominent journalists whose coverage he objected to.

On Thursday, Twitter suspended CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, as well as liberal commentator Keith Olbermann and reporters from Mashable and the Intercept.

News organizations are now considering a range of options to respond, people familiar with their conversations said. They range from pulling coverage from Twitter, as CBS News did briefly in November, to retaliating against Twitter’s advertising business: CNN executives have discussed whether their corporate parent, Warner Media Discovery, would stop its advertising on the platform.

News organizations have also discussed dropping out of the Amplify program, in which they post videos to twitter and share in the revenue, or simply asking their staffers to stop contributing to the service.

Read more: https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/newsrooms-are-scrambling-to-counter-elon-musks-bans

[Javaman]

1. if the various news agencies are smart, they would create their own type twitter for only news...

"scoop".

[Walleye]

3. Oh I really like that idea. If only we had some rich CEO to push it to the networks

[AllaN01Bear]

6. they used to did . called associated press. pathae news reels and their own news rooms

[BumRushDaShow]

9. AP had teletype printers for their corporate and educational subscribers

When I worked at my college radio station many years ago, our station had an AP sub and the printouts would include their news (national & international)/business/sports feeds as well as the schedule (with the topic and content time) for their radio reports so we could be ready with a cart to record the audio feed at the noted times.

[Roy Rolling]

11. Ha!

Hence the term “rip and read”.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. LOL

That's what I would do... although it was more "ripping" and "hunting" for the stories I was gonna use.

[PlutosHeart]

2. This is a perfect time

for something as effective as Twitter to rear its head.
Between the Tesla pressures and an actual effective SM network similar, he would certainly come down. Maybe even go broke as bills come due.

[Walleye]

4. I can't really get upset about Twitter. He bought the company he can do what he wants with it

We’ll just leave it to the gods of the marketplace

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. They are the only gods they worship

Or things

[calimary]

5. Maybe they should launch their own news collective forum.

If the other vehicle closes on you, open one of your own. And build on THAT.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. If only people hadn't got bored with RSS feeds

Google could resurrect their RSS Reader. Or other free ones, like Feedly (which I use - designed to look similar to how Google's did) might become popular.

Yes, the public don't get the chance to reply, but it works well for people who want to get notifications of the latest articles, or blog posts, from known sources.

[Sympthsical]

10. I loved RSS feeds

Mainly because they were so stupidly efficient. I kept all kinds of things in my reader, and it was an easy way to spend 5-10 minutes catching up on everything of interest in one place.

I stopped using them when I started phasing out blogs from my daily reads. Now I'm curious if . . .

[Mawspam2]

17. Rss is still around.

I use Feedly into gReader Pro.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Yeah, but some sites have stopped using it

in favour of tweeting that they've something new. And the free Google RSS reader was a really simple way to use it, that it was easy to say to someone "try this!".

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Censorship by a CEO promoting Free Speech. Tass and Pravda had nothing on this guy.

Irony died, ironing died, laundering died. This whole episode is just too bizarre. Twitter is done. It may live on as Truth Social Legacy Lite, but competitors will rush in to fill the void as they have been doing. This is just too twisted to continue. Tass and Pravda had nothing on this guy.

[ificandream]

14. Newsrooms can get by without Twitter.

It would serve musk right.

[womanofthehills]

16. I think it's only a temporary ban - probably a week

Newsrooms can’t handle that??

[Kennah]

15. Just walk away from the dumpster fire

[zanana1]

19. Vindictive little ***hole isn't he.