Notable that even the *spokesman* for Hamas refuses to justify the reality of the Oct 7 atrocities and instead just lies about it

Fascinating look at the rise of conservative accounts on Twitter since Elon Musk took over, from the Washington Post washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Jeff Bezos spent Wednesday at Washington Post HQ, as I reported yesterday (see below). This morning, he emailed staff to profess ahis commitment to the future of the paper, starting with a return to profitability:

“I just had an invigorating 48 hours learning about our great and…

McCarthy was the House Minority Leader in 2020, and he rejected some of the more extreme efforts to overturn the election. Johnson was the architect of them. Doesn’t bode well for 2024.

Good piece on the challenge facing news organizations trying to report accurately on the death toll in Gaza. The question is: if you can't cite data from the Health Ministry, what data can you cite?

'A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter because, he said, doing so was 'important to the future of civilization,' he’s made the social media service smaller in almost every way'
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Al Jazeera says Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh's family were killed in an airstrike.

His wife, his 7-year-old daughter Sham and his 15-year-old son Mahmoud, 'who wanted to be a journalist like his father,' are dead.
aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/2…

The wife, son and daughter of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, who had been displaced from their home to the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, have been killed.

'Hamas’s level of savagery seems to have licensed a new level of settler aggression.'

Graeme Wood reports from the West Bank: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Scoop: U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's rhetoric about the war in Gaza. My story on Axios
axios.com/2023/10/25/ton…

“Obviously we didn’t win.”

ABC EXCLUSIVE — Mark Meadows has testified before a grand jury in exchange for immunity - according to sources familiar with the former chief of staff’s conversations with the Special Counsel.

Meadows told prosecutors he he agreed the 2020 election…

New: A series of Slack messages shows there was immediate concern inside the New York Times over the paper's framing of the Gaza hospital blast
vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/n…

.Graeme Wood attended the screening of Hamas atrocities. Here's what he saw:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'We are waiting for our turn to die.'

Gaza-based photojournalist Fadel Mghari spoke with dianafalzone and shared graphic images from the ground of Israel's war against Hamas:
mediaite.com/news/what-crim…

News organizations backtrack on Gaza hospital blast coverage after relying on Hamas for information - when the fog of war meets the push for push alerts

My analysis for NPR:

npr.org/2023/10/24/120…

The Messenger launched with an absolutely insane pitch: 100m monthly uniques (that's more than the NYT) and $100m in annual revenue by 2024

Four months in and they might be out of cash?

Trump nailing James Austin Johnson’s Trump here

Nearly two dozen journalists have been killed so far in Hamas-Israel war
- It’s a staggering number. I can’t recall the last time so many journalists killed in such a short period
- For context, 15 journalists have been killed in Ukraine between 2022-2023 axios.com/2023/10/16/at-…