No Hugs for You! Imagine That Viral Seinfeld-Kesha Moment as the Perfect Lost 'Seinfeld' Episode
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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of June 7:
Yesterday’s accidental theme, dear reader, was friendship. Today’s equally accidental theme is rejection — of certain Twitterers by President Trump (see No. 1, below), of Trump by James Comey and vice versa (No. 2), and especially of Kesha by Jerry Seinfeld (Nos. 3 and 4). Anyway, let’s get started …
1. Or maybe he could just block everyone? “The Knight First Amendment Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group based at Columbia University, threatened to take legal action against President Trump if he does not unblock critics on Twitter,” per Benjamin Mullin of the Poynter Institute. “The demand, made in a letter to President Trump, was sent on behalf of Holly O’Reilly and Joseph M. Papp, two Twitter users who were blocked by the president’s account after criticizing him on the social media network.” Knight argues that Trump’s Twitter is something called a “designated public forum” and that the president has no legal right to just banish his critics in such a forum.
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