Gadfly of Vice Media since 2015 🆒 https://t.co/mzzeFB2rFp 🆒 Twitter since 2018 📖 Maybe a book someday by @dvoshart
Mar 22, 2019 • 24 tweets • 14 min read
Inside the partnership of VICE and Philip Morris International. Three years and millions of dollars.
~~THREAD TIME~~ notvice.com/vice-and-phili…2/ Earlier today, @FT reported part of the story. Initially I was bummed... but then again it's nice to have the someone else report some high-level, legally risky details. (I heard PMI / VICE deal was "nine figures," FT reports £5m) ft.com/content/9015a5…
Feb 5, 2019 • 61 tweets • 33 min read
1/ Finally reading Jill Abramson's Merchants of Truth (not the uncorrected 'galley proofs' others bemoaned). It tracks NYT, WaPo, Vice and BuzzFeed between 2007 and now.
This thread will be Vice.
I'll tweet things of interest and call out any errors. a.co/dGI4Wu02/ The book was officially released this morning.
1/ Can someone have a white power tattoo and not be a white supremacist? A thread about Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice Media. 2/ I wrote a guide to Gavin at his best and worst. Written for journalists and people considering being guests of his show. The article is an exhaustive, 1 hour #longreadsnotvice.com/gavin-white-su…
The article is chronological but I’ll take some freedoms in this thread.