My @TheWrap look at the talent scramble post-WaPo cuts, with Atlantic, NOTUS, others in the fray
“If the Washington Post’s ownership and management is going to drive away its best journalists,” says the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg, “I’m more than happy to give them a home.”
https://t.co/sCaJCjp68N
The Washington Post has long done — and is still doing — great journalism. I don’t understand how laying off a bunch of talented and hardworking journalists solves what is fundamentally a publisher and business side problem. The Post deserves better.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "What's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding to see their papers. At grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools, they're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans. Kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process. Let's be very, very clear. This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government. This week, he went online to promise that 'the day of retribution and reckoning is coming.' That's a direct threat against the people of this state who dared to vote against him three times and who continue to stand up for freedom with courage and empathy and profound grace."
Mitch McConnell just said the quiet part out loud on Greenland:
We already have everything we need.
Greenland already cooperates.
Our Arctic access already exists.
What Trump is proposing isn’t strategy, it’s burning allied trust for nothing.
“Incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies” is not strength. It’s self-sabotage.
This photo underscores the importance of eyewitness journalism and AP’s legacy of documenting the presidency. I look forward to the day I can once again cover President Trump alongside my colleagues. Now more than ever, independent, nonpartisan photojournalism is essential.
On political endorsement https://t.co/e5OTZhylIE
This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
Several cars in the Walz motorcade crashed just before 1 p.m. A staff member in our press van appeared to have a sprained or broken arm and is being treated by medics. Everyone else is shaken but appears to be in okay condition.
Here's a link to the full package awarded the @PulitzerPrizes today in explanatory journalism, which I shared with an extraordinary cast of colleagues. Thank you to the @washingtonpost - a place that still has the ambition to do the hard stuff. https://t.co/pskaQydxIL
Millions of Americans don’t have clean running water. In the age of the coronavirus, that puts the entire population at risk. Via @FrancesSSellers with magnificent photography from @melinamara
https://t.co/MIsKja4WLO