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“Don Lemon said Wednesday that his partnership with Elon Musk went down in flames, hours after the former CNN anchor conducted an interview with the erratic billionaire for the debut episode of his new independent web-based show,” Oliver Darcy reported for CNN.
” ‘Elon publicly encouraged me to join X with a new show, saying I would have his “full support,” ‘ Lemon said in a statement, adding that he took Musk at his word that he was ‘interested in working directly with diverse voices.’
“Lemon said the sit-down he conducted with Musk for the first episode of ‘The Don Lemon Show,’ which will be released Monday on social media platforms including X and YouTube, was ‘respectful and wide ranging’ and that ‘there were no restrictions on the interview that he willingly agreed to.’
“ ‘His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me,’ Lemon added. . . .
“In a video posted on his Instagram page Wednesday, Lemon took further aim at Musk’s claim to be a ‘free speech absolutist.’
“ ‘Throughout our conversation I kept reiterating to him, although it was tense at times, I thought it was good for people to see our exchange,’ Lemon said. ‘But apparently free speech absolutism doesn’t apply when it comes to questions about him from people like me.’
“In a statement, X defended Musk’s decision to pull the plug on its agreement with Lemon.
“ ‘The Don Lemon Show is welcome to publish its content on X, without censorship, as we believe in providing a platform for creators to scale their work and connect with new communities,’ the company said in a statement. ‘However, like any enterprise, we reserve the right to make decisions about our business partnerships, and after careful consideration, X decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show.’ . . .
“But a spokesperson for Lemon told CNN that the media personality expects Musk to honor the financial terms of the agreement.
“ ‘Don has a deal with X and expects to be paid for it,’ the spokesperson said. ‘If we have to go to court we will.’ ”
[Max Tani reported for Semafor:
[“Two people familiar with the terms of the deal told Semafor that Lemon had not technically inked a contract with X arguing that the social media company does not need to pay the former cable news host. Worse, one person familiar with the deal told Semafor, Lemon had not signed the contract for weeks.
[“People close to Lemon have dismissed some of these concerns. One person familiar with the agreement pushed back on the argument that X doesn’t owe Lemon money, saying that X’s legal department took weeks to get a contract to the host’s team. Further, according to one person familiar with the deal, X had begun selling ads on the show, and its CEO Linda Yaccarino had promoted the deal at the CES conference in January.”] (Updated March 14)
- David Ingram, NBC News: Elon Musk and right-wing influencers use ‘cannibal’ claims to smear Haitian migrants amid crisis (March 13)
- Inside Edition: Elon Musk Cancels Don Lemon’s Talk Show After Interview
- Peter Kafka, Business Insider: Who could have possibly foreseen that Elon Musk would be capricious and erratic except for Everyone Who Has Watched Him For Years?
- Journal-isms: Don Lemon Reportedly Settles for $24.5 Million (Feb. 27)
- Benjamin Lindsay, the Wrap: Don Lemon Sets First X Series Interview With Elon Musk: ‘Hardcore Questions Were Asked’
Black Journalists Exult in Oscar Wins
March 11, 2024
Ron Nixon, Kevin Merida Take to Social Media
John Britton, Veteran of Jet, Meharry, Motown Dies at 86 (Added March 12)
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Homepage photo: After “20 Days in Mariupol” won the Oscar for best documentary feature, director Mstyslav Chernov said, “I wish I never made this film.” (Credit: Amir Hamja/New York Times)
“20 Days in Mariupol” now has an Academy Award in addition to its Pulitzer Prize. (Credit: YouTube)
Ron Nixon, Kevin Merida Take to Social Media
Black journalists Ron Nixon and Kevin Merida took to social media Sunday night, nearly beside themselves at the roles they and their colleagues played in two winning films.
The winner for best documentary was Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It was a joint project between the Associated Press and PBS “Frontline,” which premiered the film at the Sundance Film Festival.
“I’m still in a state of shock. Just wow!” Nixon wrote on LinkedIn while the awards program was still in progress. “Congrats to my amazing The Associated Press colleagues and incredible partners at FRONTLINE PBS.”
At a Journal-isms Roundtable with Pulitzer winners last May, Nixon told a chilling “how we got that story” in documenting the siege by Russian troops of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, reporting while very often under assault, after all other news organizations had pulled out. [01:15:02.000 in this video]
The coverage won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
The siege, which lasted more than two weeks, included smuggling out gigabytes of information past Russians by storing the data in a tampon, and journalists disguising themselves in medical scrubs given them by Ukrainian hospital workers.
Nixon began his recounting at the Roundtable with a shout-out to two women of color who were instrumental in the project, Mary Rajkumar, then international investigations editor, originally from Singapore, and Jeannie Ohm, an Asian American who was then senior producer for investigations. In February, both were promoted and given the title of global investigations editor.
“In my 35 years of doing this, this is one of the things I’m most proud to be associated with,” Nixon said in May of the coverage, “because again, you know, everybody, Journal, Times, Post, everybody [was there] to cover this, right?”
Co-director Kris Bowers called “The Last Repair Shop” a “love letter to our city,” Los Angeles. (Credit: YouTube)
Separately, Josh Rottenberg wrote Sunday night for the Los Angeles Times that the newspaper “has covered the Oscars for 95 years — and now it has won one.
“The heartwarming ‘The Last Repair Shop,‘ directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, took home the prize in the documentary short category at the Oscars on Sunday.
“A moving love letter to Los Angeles itself, ‘The Last Repair Shop’ centers on four unsung master craftspeople who service musical instruments for Los Angeles Unified School District students. Working in the largest remaining workshop of its kind in America, the four help oversee the maintenance of some 80,000 instruments, ensuring that the city’s schoolchildren have playable instruments in their hands every day.”
But Merida quickly tweeted again. “Oh, man. The Last Repair SHOP,” he wrote. “Typing too fast in my first post. So excited for former colleagues who creatively led @latimes studios and worked to build the short docs program. Shani Hilton, Sharon Matthews, Leslie Lindsey, Nani Walker and others no longer there 🙏🏾🎻 #Oscars
@krisbowersmusic” On LinkedIn, he added, “Congrats also to Terry Tang, Jessica Chen, Jason Spingarn-Koff & Karen Foshay.”
As Jonathan Abrams reported in the New York Times, Chernov “used his acceptance speech for ’20 Days in Mariupol’ . . . to give an emotional denunciation of the continued invasion of his country by Russian forces.
“ ‘I’ll be the first director on this stage who will say, “I wish I never made this film,” ‘ Chernov said. . . .
“ ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is the first Ukrainian film to win an Oscar.
“’ ‘I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities,’ Chernov continued. ‘I wish to give it all the recognition to Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all the civilians who are now in their jails.’ Chernov and his crew raced to make it out of Mariupol alive. He said in his speech that he could not change history but wanted it to be remembered.
“ ‘We can make sure that the history record is set straight and that the truth will prevail and that the people of Mariupol and those who have given their lives will never be forgotten,’ he said.”
The big winner of the night was “Oppenheimer,” which “overwhelmed the competition at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning seven Oscars, including the one for best picture, and at long last cementing Christopher Nolan’s status as the foremost filmmaker of his generation,” as Brooks Barnes wrote in The New York Times.
- Jason Clark, The Wrap: ‘American Fiction’ Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson Says He Stills Feels Like a Journalist at Heart (Feb. 6) (Jefferson won for best adapted screenplay)
- Emil Guillermo, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: Biden shows he’s ready for the fight (March 11)
- Michael Harriot, the Grio: How Cord Jefferson made the Oscars not-so-white (March 15)
- Cord Jefferson, The Root, Confessions of a Formerly Angry Black Man (April 5, 2011)
John Britton, Veteran of Jet, Meharry, Motown Dies at 86
John Britton, a managing editor of Jet magazine who also worked at Meharry Medical College, Motown Records and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and spent 19 years at the University of the District of Columbia, died Saturday at his home in Annapolis, Md. He was 86.
His wife, Cherrie Alvilda Dean Britton, told Journal-isms that suffered from congestive heart failure.
“You all have lost a giant among yourselves,” Cherrie Britton said.
Britton was the subject of an interview by theHistoryMakers in 2005.
Britton, a native of Nashville, Tenn., began his journalism career as a reporter for the Atlanta Daily World as the civil rights movement was gaining steam. There, in 1959, he met and worked with veteran journalist Paul Delaney, later an editor at The New York Times and co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, who became a close friend.
Britton’s stories from that time included one in which Martin Luther King Jr., explained why he was supporting neither presidential candidate in the 1960 election.
The HistoryMakers summarized, “In 1962, he was hired by Jet magazine and worked there as an associate editor until 1966 when he went to work for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and later on the Ralph Bunche Civil Rights Documentation Project in Washington, D.C. In 1968, he returned to Jet magazine as managing editor. In 1971, Britton worked as a publicity manager with Motown Records, and then, in 1973, he was hired as director of public affairs with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington.
“He then moved to The Washington Post in 1976 to serve as public relations manager. In March 1978, Britton was hired as the director and then associate vice president for public affairs at the University of the District of Columbia, where he served for nineteen years.
“In 1998, Britton returned to Nashville, Tennessee, as associate vice president for marketing and assistant to the president of Meharry Medical College. He continues to serve in the latter position. Throughout his career, he has served as a speechwriter and editorial consultant. . . .”
Services are scheduled for Wednesday, March 20, at 1 p.m. at Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West St. in downtown Annapolis. (Added March 12)
Sound Alarm on ‘Slow Creep’ Against Democracy
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“President Biden used his State of the Union address on Thursday to launch a series of fiery attacks against former President Donald Trump, a competitor whom he did not mention by name but made clear was a dire threat to American democracy and stability in the world,” Katie Rogers reported Thursday for the New York Times.
It is a threat hiding in plain sight, evidenced by Trump’s own words and those of his supporters.
It’s also one that many people don’t yet get, but about which some have been sounding an alarm.
In December, Trump promised that if elected, he would be not a dictator “except for day one.“ (New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt)
“We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency. With New Hampshire behind, the question isn’t who’s running but whether US democracy will endure,” media critic Margaret Sullivan wrote in January in the Guardian. Critics of excessive horse-race coverage nodded in agreement.
As the political calendar was heading toward the early primaries and last week’s Super Tuesday, the Journal-isms Roundtable grappled with the question: “Dictator on ‘Day One’: ‘How Journalists Can Counter the Growing Threat of Authoritarianism.’ ”
The consensus: By stepping up their game. Many in the media have moved in that direction, but not enough, certainly not in proportion to the stakes.
A more pointed answer: Wake up, journalists! Connect the dots and alert your readers and viewers in ways that will move them to action.
“Authoritarianism happens by slow creep, not a bomb drop, and these range from things like quashing dissent and politicizing independent institutions, all the way to stoking political violence. They don’t all happen at once, but they do reinforce and sort of build on one another in ways that make giving context really, really important,” Jennifer Dresden told the Roundtable.
Dresden is a policy advocate with Project Democracy and the primary author of “The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics-as-usual.“
Others elaborated.
“The idea that could never happen in America is obviously a fallacy,” said Griff Witte, who heads the Democracy team at The Washington Post.
The march was triggered by a report exposing discussions about expelling immigrants by AfD members.
Rhetoric that sounds familiar?
“Many of these January 6 people are explicit white supremacists,” Martin continued. “That’s what January 6 was about. Some are MAGA supporters that don’t necessarily believe in white supremacy, but believe in some type of supremacy.”
Millican told us, “We have seen individual reporting that has been very good.” The challenge “has been that there hasn’t been a consistency. . . . You’re not constantly kind of tying this all back to, ‘here’s what the threat is,’ ‘here’s how it’s playing out,’ ‘here’s where all these alarm bells and the authoritarianism playbook are sounding.’ “
Lawyer Barbara Arnwine, president and founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, a social justice group most recently working on restoring the gutted parts of the Voting Rights Act, outlined what she considered yet another affront to democracy: A court decision last year that said only the attorney general, not citizens, may take legal action against voter suppression.
Daryl Jones, the coalition’s board chair, told the group, “We have a resolution that we’re going to be passing around the country. It’s going to county councils, to city governments, to municipalities, and what it’s going to say is, we recognize the challenges that have been overcome by the use of the Voting Rights Act of ’65 and we are in opposition to what the Eighth Circuit has stood for.”
Fourteen state attorneys general have signed onto an amicus brief [PDF] backing the coalition’s position.
For too many in the public, though, said Arnwine and Jones, that court decision and its implications have yet to register.
Nichelle Smith, an investigative journalist formerly with USA Today, contended that on the broader subject, “the issue is getting the average white person to understand that the threat to democracy is just as much a threat to his way of life as it is to the ways of life of Black and immigrant people . . . people believe that this is just something that people of color need to worry about.”
He put his finger on what might be the biggest problem of all:
“The American public is woefully ignorant about democracy and how our government functions. And we in the media tend to operate on this level that presumes that they are all understanding of concepts like democracy, authoritarianism, demagoguery, but the reality is those are really, really abstract concepts to most of the American public.
“And the people who are are absolutely familiar with and aware of those concepts we kind of already have. The other issue that we have to confront and we haven’t really talked about here is that no matter how well we attempt to connect those dots . . . . the reality is also [that] more and more the American public is avoiding news.
“They are not seeing anything. It doesn’t matter how well we do it. They are not buying what we’re selling.
“They are not consuming it. They . . . feel embattled, they don’t like the rancor in politics or they don’t think that it has a direct effect on their lives. I wonder to what extent that is not just the fact that that information is not being presented to people as much as it is also that people are completely tuning out on that information when it is presented to them.”
Another who deals with young people, Louise Dubé, CEO of iCivics, a group founded in 2009 by the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said flatly, “I don’t think that this democracy will survive without a radical investment in civic education.”
The perspectives were all part of a Journal-isms Roundtable held Jan. 22 by Zoom and in-person, conducted at the Washington, D.C., campus of the Medill School, located in the same building as The Washington Post.
Twenty-one attended in person, with 48 on the Zoom, including Morgan State University students of E.R. Shipp, tuning in from a campus media room. Other viewers watched on Facebook. As of Sunday, 55 had seen the YouTube recording, embedded above.
Griff Witte, a former Washington Post foreign correspondent, is the democracy editor at the Post. “We stood up a Democracy team two years ago, in 2022, and I think we were among the first news organizations to do that,” he said. “The Washington Post should have had a democracy team throughout its entire existence. The Post was founded in 1877, which many of you may know was also the year that Reconstruction ended following an inconclusive presidential election.
“And what followed was 100 years of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South. That would have been a great time for The Washington Post to have a democracy team throughout the civil rights era. That would have been a great time for the Post to have a democracy team.
“Throughout the entire history of the United States, the question of who gets a say, who gets a seat at the table, whose vote matters has been in dispute. And it has been in dispute in different ways and through different means, but it remains in dispute today.
“The question of who gets a say, whose voice matters, is one that the democracy team at the Post is dedicated to covering.”
One of the team’s products is a 10-part series, “Imperfect Union,” which, in Witte’s words, “looks in detail at all of the ways in which the system of government that we have isn’t reflective of the popular will.”
The Associated Press created its own team in early 2023, said Gary Fields, a team member.
“And some of the things we’ve been looking at are the same things that Griff was talking about, which is, you know, [you’re] looking at misinformation, disinformation and what role that’s going to play.
“You’re looking at history and you’re looking at what people say. Part of this thing is kind of easy because, hell, it’s not like anybody’s hiding . . . what’s going on here. People come out and openly say it and take open actions. You have open actions. You have open gerrymandering.
“Nobody’s hiding the fact that they’re trying to actually control seats and control Congress. Nobody hides the fact that there’s disenfranchisement.
“Or in a place like for instance Georgia, where they were changing some of the rules on what you can actually do in terms of going out to cast a ballot, that you couldn’t have water you couldn’t have these various things.
“So it’s not like anybody’s actually doing this in a subtle way. So then it just becomes a matter of getting out there and getting off your behind and just going to cover the stories.”
Roundtable attendees saw this two-minute video clip from Eddie Glaude, author, public intellectual and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Donald Trump supporters are “reaching for languages of order as an economic system collapses,” Glaude said. “You do have this kind of sense of history that is leading people to reach for strongmen to get them a sense of order.”
An example of the AP team’s coverage: “As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections.”
Public media is stepping up as well, noted Julie Drizin, executive director of Current, which reports on public television and radio.
Leigh Giangreco reported for Current in January 2022 on the democracy-coverage efforts of several local stations, such as KPCC in Pasadena, Calif., which created a democracy beat.
The “new role is part of the station’s commitment to cover the ‘Big Lie’ locally in an effort to make the existential threat to democracy relevant to its audience,” Giangreco reported. “KPCC CCO Kristen Muller described those plans in a Nieman Lab ‘prediction,’ outlining the need for voter registration guides for school board elections, lists of lawmakers who supported Trump’s false claims and detailed explainers on how votes are counted.”
Drizin added that WITF in Harrisburg, Pa., “has an unusual approach of identifying legislators’ connections to January 6 in every story:
“In online articles, WITF includes a breakout box that details elected officials’ connections to the insurrection and explains their participation. After a radio story including such a lawmaker ends, a host reads a tagline.”
Gilbert Bailon, veteran journalist now executive editor of public station WBEZ in Chicago, was joining the Roundtable on his birthday, and the attendees sang the Stevie Wonder version of “Happy Birthday.”
WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago are part of a year-long Democracy Solutions Project. It “examines the current threats to our democracy, including barriers to voting, cynicism, misinformation, polarization and much more,” according to the project’s website. That includes Illinois’ history of corruption in state government, Bailon said.
“We offer solutions for voters. So in this, we have multiple different things. Some of it would be more traditional news coverage.
“Features, guides, explainers, conversations, editorials. And stories that present solutions for people.” In the spring, “We’re going to have three different trips to different international sites. One in Colombia, looking at immigration, and one in Canada, looking at immigration also, and one in Australia, where we’ll be looking at compulsory voting there; looking at how [are] these issues tackled elsewhere around the world.
“As you know, migrants have been bussed to Chicago.
“Immigration is a big issue.
“We’re looking at how does it look like when you’re in Colombia, where you’re right next to Venezuela and you have people coming in.
“Have they found solutions for that? It’s also very engaging. We’ve done a survey already.
“We’ve had more than 1,500 answers from people [when we asked,] what do they want to know about? What are their concerns?
“We’re with this at the University of Chicago. We’re convening a group of what we’re calling salons.”
Believing that the threats to democracy must be addressed in the schools, Louise Dubé is carrying on the work of Justice O’Connor in bringing the issue to the classroom.
“We need to have a check and balance on the processes that you guys have all incredibly well described and the schools of our country, K-12 schools, are one leverage point to do that,” she said.
“So as Dean Whitaker mentioned, students are not graduating with the proper training and we have not only instructional materials, professional development, but we also have a six- person policy team that is seeking to make a change at the federal level to get a radically higher investment in civic education as well as 40 states — coalitions in 40 states to try to pass legislation to get more civic and better civic education.”
Moreover, iCivic and like-minded groups have designated this week, March 11-15, as Civic Learning Week, where “We will discuss stories of progress on policy in civic education, but also in communities where there have been deep divisions about the nature of civics and the community was able to move forward.”
Witte echoed Bailon’s message about positivity, and gave an example.
“It is important to remember that there are things that are happening that are positive and that people, when they engage, actually are capable of moving the system and changing things,” Witte said.
“And so that ‘Imperfect Union’ project that I mentioned earlier, a lot of it was focused on the problems with our democracy.
“But we really made a point of profiling people who had engaged with their democracy and who had improved the system and who had changed things.
“And that included young people. So, you know, we wrote about a young woman in Michigan who was very disturbed by the gerrymandering that she saw in Congress, in her state legislature.
“She got on Facebook and she said, who wants to help me on gerrymandering? You know she didn’t expect anyone to answer because, who was she? She was just a young person who had no formal role in politics whatsoever, no experience in politics whatsoever, no experience in politics.
“But it just so happened that 1,000 people answered and said, ‘me, I want to do it.’
“And the first thing she did after that was Google, ‘How do I end gerrymandering?’ And she was able from that, just sort of throwing an idea out there to start a movement that actually did change how congressional districts and legislative districts are drawn in Michigan. And it took it out of the hands of politicians who are always going to draw districts to favor themselves and put it in the hands of citizens.
“And so, you know, it is important. It’s not Pollyannish to focus on the positive when it does exist. . . . It’s a reminder that there is nothing that’s predetermined about the direction that our democracy is headed in, that there are ways that regular citizens can engage and can change things.”
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- Renée Graham, Boston Globe: Michelle Obama is not coming to save us: The upcoming election is less a popularity contest between two old men than a battle between two warring political ideologies — democracy and authoritarianism.
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- Greg Sargent, New Republic: Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats
- Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe: Public criticism of political news coverage cries out for the return of the public editor (Feb. 28)
- Chinta Strausberg, Chicago Crusader: Attorney Arnwine warns of paid Hip-Hop artists promoting Trump (Jan. 22)
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