McKay Coppins

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Found this piece helpful and interesting. (One takeaway is that this has been a pretty rough stretch for the Smart Twitter People consensus.) https://t.co/LOfcTo54e6 — PolitiTweet.org

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A delightful (and largely charitable) dispatch from Provo, Utah, following a cast of BYU students as they attempt to put on a production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' https://t.co/tyq5HliVkF — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, in case you missed it, here's the story Obama recommended from @TheAtlantic's November issue: An investigation of Alden Global Capital, and an exploration what happens to our communities—and to our country—when local news disappears. https://t.co/tR4OR2Lj7Y — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm ambivalent on that question, and tend toward rejecting the either/or frame, but I also know there's a limited amount of energy and money devoted to this particular project and it needs to be deployed wisely. The best approach probably depends on the community. — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaking anecdotally, one of the big divides among people working to address the local-news crisis (journalists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, politicians, etc.) is whether their focus should be on saving/reinventing legacy newspapers or building new outlets from the ground up. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's been heartening to hear from a range of political leaders and lawmakers (from both parties) in the months since @TheAtlantic published my story on Alden. There's genuine alarm at what companies like Alden are doing, and the downstream civic consequences. — PolitiTweet.org

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A nice shout-out here from Barack Obama for my reporting on Alden Global Capital. (You can read his answer to @JeffreyGoldberg's follow-up question—and the rest of their conversation—here: https://t.co/zIu3zAYql9) https://t.co/Q3Whrp89b8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshua_eaton Person 1 should have been like, "OK what is the most traumatic thing that happened to you in high school and how has it warped your view of yourself and the world?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Evidence that I am ancient: Just heard the aforementioned babysitter in the other room say, “Alexa play ‘Hey Ya’ by, ummm…” and then give up because she couldn’t remember/possibly had never heard of Outkast. — PolitiTweet.org

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Evidence that our kids’ extremely fun babysitter has been here: I find inexplicable things like this all over our house. https://t.co/XUa97JUXWI — PolitiTweet.org

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I was going to make fun of the idea that Spirit Halloween stores now pass for valuable Hollywood IPO, but if I'm being honest I will almost certainly end up watching this with my kids (who are constantly in the market for spooky-but-not-too-scary movies). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnGHendy: I spent nearly 30 years feeling ashamed of the way that I speak. I’m both terrified and honored to share this story in full… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m really happy for John and cannot wait to read this book. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MichaelCBender: This was one of the most challenging reporting assignments of my 20+ yrs covering politics: Spending the past two month… — PolitiTweet.org

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@UNCPPD @JohnHoodNC @JustNafari Thank you for having us! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattZeitlin: This is so important from @JerusalemDemsas, it's sometimes too easy to exist in liberal advocacy/academic world, there are… — PolitiTweet.org

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“The eviction tsunami never happened. Neither did the ‘she-cession.’ Here are four theories for the failed economic forecasting of the pandemic era.” https://t.co/lcitSTOMaK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: .@BarackObama and @JeffreyGoldberg reflect on the collapse of local news at #Disinfo2022. Newspapers aren’t dying a natu… — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations also to @JenSeniorNY, who won for feature-writing. You should read her incredible piece if you haven't yet: https://t.co/BX0HKHunQ3 — PolitiTweet.org

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And to me, frankly. I think I deserve a lot of the credit. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is incredible, and so well-deserved. Big congratulations to @JeffreyGoldberg and the other brilliant editors here, and to all my colleagues. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs listen — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I feel bad about making this joke. Sorry, UNC fans. It was a great game and you have a great team. (Come console yourselves tomorrow by taking part in an interesting conversation about journalism and democracy!) — PolitiTweet.org

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Got into Chapel Hill tonight and everyone on campus seems super amped up, presumably about this event. Students and alumni crammed into bars and restaurants, talking excitedly, bursting into spontaneous cheers. Love to see so much passion about journalism and democracy! — PolitiTweet.org

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Busted. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dbmoss7 @Rachel_Rueckert I don’t know that it’s worth trying to hash this out on Twitter, and I’ll grant that some of it is subjective, but would you say the same thing could be said about, say, every sect of Islam? Or Protestant Christianity? — PolitiTweet.org

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@dbmoss7 @Rachel_Rueckert Wow I absolutely do not agree with, “That which unites the various sects is greater than the elements which divide them.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@dbmoss7 @Rachel_Rueckert I don’t agree with that — PolitiTweet.org

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I was offered a screener for this show but haven’t watched it yet. I think it’s fair to say I’m dreading it, but reserving judgment for now. As @Rachel_Rueckert notes, there’s a long history of movies/books/shows blurring the lines between Mormonism and fundamentalist Mormonism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, I’m glad to see more Latter-day Saints getting a platform to talk about this stuff. I hope editors will make an effort to get perspectives on Mormon life/theology/politics from writers who are part of the community. (If you need help finding them, my DMs are always open!) — PolitiTweet.org