Tuesday, November 8, 2022 |
Have you voted yet? Disney's earnings day, eve of mass layoffs at Meta, more mayhem at Twitter, and stellar reviews roll in for "Black Panther." But first, the A1. |
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It's Election Night in America! Polls are on the verge of closing in key states on the East Coast and news organizations are already in special coverage mode. Here is your viewing guide: ► CNN: Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper will lead coverage, drawing on reporting and analysis from Dana Bash, Abby Phillip, Chris Wallace, John King, Gloria Borger, and many others. "CNN This Morning" hosts Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins will pick up coverage overnight and into the morning. ► MSNBC: Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Joy Reid will lead coverage. They'll get insights from Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ari Melber, Stephanie Ruhle, and Steve Kornacki. A special edition of "Morning Joe" will air in the morning. ► Fox News: Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will lead coverage with Bill Hemmer, Harris Faulkner, and Shannon Bream. They will get analysis from Brit Hume, Dana Perino, Juan Williams, Trey Gowdy, Karl Rove, Kellyanne Conway, and Josh Kraushaar. ► ABC News: David Muir will lead coverage with Linsey Davis, Jonathan Karl, Cecilia Vega, Martha Raddatz, and others. They'll be joined by contributors María Elena Salinas, Chris Christie, Donna Brazille, Heidi Heitkamp, Yvette Simpson, and Sarah Isgur. ► CBS News: Norah O'Donnell will lead coverage. She'll be joined by John Dickerson, Margaret Brennan, Robert Costa, Major Garrett, Ed O'Keefe, Scott MacFarlane, Anthony Salvanto, and others. The network will debut its "Democracy Desk." ► NBC News: Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, and Andrea Mitchell will lead coverage. They will get reporting and analysis from Tom Llamas, Hallie Jackson, Peter Alexander, and Kristen Welker. |
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| - WaPo is debuting its "Election Model" which will give readers access to key data and trends (link for House here and Senate here). The paper will also draw on reporting from 120 journalists deployed to 37 states.
- The (anxiety-inducing) NYT election needle is back. The paper posted an explainer on how the novel forecasting tool works. (NYT)
- NewsNation has partnered with forecasting site Decision Desk HQ for midterm election results. (NewsNation)
- FiveThirtyEight, which is forecasting that Republicans have a 59% chance of winning the Senate and 84% chance they win the House, will post rolling updates from their team of data experts throughout the night.
- Late-night is ditching pre-tape. Both Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are broadcasting their respective programs live.
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Election Week: We should probably get used to the fact that Election Night in America simply kicks off Election Week in America. As Politico's Katherine Tully-McManus wrote Tuesday, "Let's call it Election Week." Tully-McManus explained why it is important this info is conveyed: "Getting the word out," she wrote, can help in "heading off misinformation, political violence and intimidation of poll workers as false theories about American elections continue to proliferate."
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HEADLINES FROM SWING STATES |
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From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
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CNN Photo Illustration/John Moore/Getty Images |
Maricopa Madness: Right-wing media on Tuesday was quick to cite isolated incidents of voting troubles in Arizona to lay the groundwork for casting doubt on entire elections. Websites such as The Gateway Pundit and personalities such as "War Room" host Steve Bannon, for instance, gave significant oxygen to an issue with voting tabulation machines in the Phoenix area. While Fox News did not go as far as others, the outlet did also cast a bright spotlight on the issue, making it its top story online Tuesday afternoon and carrying Kari Lake's press conference addressing it on-air. Of course, election issues are bound to happen and figures such as Bannon know fully well that they do not translate to mass fraud. But they pushed the false narrative regardless. News outlets and elections officials were quick to pour cold water on them. The official Maricopa County Twitter account, for instance, took a screen shot of a Charlie Kirk tweet and wrote, "No part of the tweet below is accurate." 🔎 Zooming in: Misinformation, now a predicable menace plaguing every American election, must be quickly confronted by news organizations before it is given a veneer of validity by sympathetic outlets. False claims circulating online, particularly about elections, are part of a much larger information environment that feed right-wing media. That includes Fox News, talk radio, podcasts, social media, and a constellation of websites that legitimize swirling conspiracy theories and lies. Arguably, the media personalities that push disinformation have much larger platforms than the Republican officials who get most of the coverage from mainstream outlets. |
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- The Associated Press' big picture view: "Americans voted without major problems Tuesday in midterm elections receiving intense scrutiny after two years of false claims and conspiracy theories about how ballots are cast and counted." (AP)
- Davey Alba has a guide to Election Day misinformation. (Bloomberg)
- "The torrent of misinformation battering American democracy on Tuesday showed how myths built up over the last two years have created an alternative online ecosystem where all unfavorable election outcomes are suspect," Isaac Stanley-Becker and Drew Harwell write. (WaPo)
- Maggie Haberman points out that the news media has been playing into Trump's hands with its coverage of his possible 2024 run. (Mediaite)
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CNN Photo Illustration/Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images |
Disney Disappoints: Disney shares are down nearly 10% in after-hours trading after the company missed big on revenue and earnings, hampered by its streaming business. The WSJ's framing: "Disney's Earnings Hurt by Costs at Disney+." That said, Disney+ did deliver on subscriber growth, adding 12.1 million customers versus the 8.9 expected. And CEO Bob Chapek said in a letter to investors that, moving forward, the company expects its streaming "operating losses to narrow." CNN's Frank Pallotta has more. 🔎 Zooming in: As Insider Intelligence analyst Paul Verna said, "Disney's top-line revenue miss in its fiscal Q4 2022 is likely to overshadow its over-delivery on Disney+ subscribers." |
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- Nexstar shares ended Tuesday up 8% after the company reported strong Q3 earnings Tuesday. (Variety)
- Nexstar added that it will lose some Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount content in its 2023-2024 season. (Deadline)
- Peacock will begin live streaming NBC affiliates in all of its 210 markets for premium plus subscribers. (The Streamable)
- Netflix is eyeing sports. It recently bid to stream the ATP tennis tour, was in talks to buy the World Surf League, but deals fell apart. (WSJ)
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- The NYT has hired Ravi Mattu as DealBook managing editor and Bernhard Warner as a senior editor; Mike Dang joins the paper as a personal finance editor. (NYT/NYT)
- Del Quentin Wilber is departing the LA Times and joining the AP as Washington investigations editor. (Twitter)
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CNN Photo Illustration/Erin Scott/Reuters | Mass Layoffs at Meta: The Meta layoffs will get underway on Wednesday morning, The WSJ's Jeff Horwitz and Sam Schechner reported Tuesday, noting the cuts at the social media giant could be the deepest to a tech company this year. The duo reported that a "downcast" Mark Zuckerberg delivered the news to executives on Tuesday, saying he was responsible and had been too optimistic on growth. Impacted employees will get at least four months of severance, the company's HR chief said. More details here. |
Jail Bird?: Elon Musk has discussed putting all of Twitter — yes, you read that right, the entire website — behind a paywall as he searches for revenue, according to new reporting from Casey Newton. Newton reported that "it could not be learned how serious Musk" was when discussing the topic, and that Twitter did not respond to requests for comment. Newton also reported that such a paywall "does not appear imminent." More here. |
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- Twitter's solution for ruining verification is another check mark for government agencies, media outlets, publishers and more. (The Verge)
- Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait says Twitter's changes have "heightened the risk of using the platform as a source of news" and that the company won't pay for staff verification, Max Tani reports. (Twitter)
- A report from Digital Planet says the quality of conversation on Twitter "has decayed, with more extremists and purveyors of hateful content testing the boundaries of what Twitter might allow." (Fortune)
- A good read from Jasmine Enberg: "Twitter needs advertisers. They don't need Twitter." (Barrons)
- Musk axed Twitter's Africa staff just days after opening Ghana office. (CNN)
- Steven Levy goes "inside Meta's Oversight Board," which has now been up and running for two years. (Wired)
- "For Twitter and Facebook to stay afloat in this next big storm, their leaders need to untether themselves from new-fangled ideas, and any urges to solidify their legacies as innovators," Party Olson writes. (Bloomberg)
- The EU will pursue an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's planned $75 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard. (WSJ)
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CNN Photo Illustration/Marvel Studios |
"Black Panther" Pounces: The reviews for the much-anticipated "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" are in, and they're glowing. The film is currently rocking a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 88% rating on MetaCritic. CNN's Brian Lowry wrote in his review that the film "manages to strike" a "somber chord" as it addresses the death of Chadwick Boseman, but also still delivers on "Marvel-style entertainment." |
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- Condé Nast is suing rappers Drake and 21 Savage for creating a fake Vogue magazine cover to promote their new album. (Reuters)
- Game 6 of the World Series drew an audience of 12.5 million viewers, down nearly 2 million from the year before. (Deadline)
- The world's largest record labels, including Universal, Sony and Warner Music Group, want TikTok to pay more to use its music. (Bloomberg)
- Did "Top Gun: Maverick" bring the country back to theaters? Christine Romans and Frank Pallotta look at Paramount's decision to hold the film for two years. (CNN)
- Shawn Levy is in talks to direct a "Star Wars" film, Mike Fleming Jr. and Justin Kroll report. (Deadline)
- Apple TV+ has renewed "Bad Sisters" for a second season. (THR)
- Conan O'Brien is launching a SiriusXM channel. (THR)
- Chris Evans is People's "Sexiest Man Alive." (People)
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