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New York Times newsroom lawyer David McCraw delivers this response to @seanhannity request for retraction and apology related to @nytimes coverage: "No." Addressed to Hannity lawyer Charles Harder:

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Huge day in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News defamation case, with both sides filing summary-judgment motions. Dominion's version is a nearly 200-page document bursting with text messages from network talent in the tense days following the 2020 presidential election. 1/

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We are in the midst of one of the great experiments in human history: How long can cable news talk about a document that it doesn't have?

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A verdict in the case of Democracy Partners v. Project Veritas has been handed down, according to Joseph Sandler, an attorney for Democracy Partners. Project Veritas has been found liable on both counts: Unlawful wiretapping and fraudulent misrepresentation.

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A CNN spox just told me that Miles Taylor will remain a contributor despite lying to Anderson Cooper. CNN cannot have it both ways -- slamming Trump for his lies, yet condoning a very big and blatant one by its own contributor.

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Intercept EIC Betsy Reed sent me this statement regarding the departure of @ggreenwald , saying there's a "fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship."

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Great deadpan from House Dems counsel Daniel Goldman: "I want to spend some time just reading the transcript, as we've been encouraged to do."

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Counsel for the publisher of has sent this reply to legal threats from Roy Moore camp:

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More: After a Fox News staffer correctly fact-checked stuff that was coming out of the network's opinion side, all hell broke loose among the prime-timers. Stunning:

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Memo is a big win for the @nytimes in that it confirms the Papadopoulos issue 'triggered' the FBI investigation, as the newspaper reported in late December:

How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt (Published 2017)

George Papadopoulos, a Trump foreign policy adviser, was the improbable match that set off a blaze that has consumed the first year of the Trump administration.

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There are now upwards of 225 people on the @politico Zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite @benshapiro to guest-write an edition of Playbook. People are very mad, I am hearing.

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Fareed Zakaria says on CNN that this will be remembered as the day that the United States "resigned as the leader of the free world."

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The argument from Dominion -- bolstered by correspondence among the network's top people -- is that Fox News knew all too well that the stolen-election claims were a lie, yet they plowed ahead with programming indicating the opposite. /3

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Have a look at this collection of Fox quotes from November 2020, as Sidney Powell and others were spinning their case that the presidential election was stolen.

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By filing its suit and plowing through discovery, Dominion has produced perhaps the most piercing look at the internal goings-on at Fox News in its quarter-century history.

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"We are descending into something that is not the United States of America," says CNN chief White House correspondent @Acosta

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In suspending David Wright, ABC News has handed Project Veritas a scalp; exposed its ignorance regarding journalism ethics; screwed a longtime correspondent; and botched the distinction between opinion and bias.

Opinion | ABC News hands James O’Keefe a victory

Veteran reporter spouts off at a bar, while being taped surreptitiously by a Project Veritas operative.

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CNN says that the only thing it did wrong in its Joe Rogan coverage was to 'bruise the ego of a popular podcaster.' Here's why that sidesteps the issue:

Opinion | CNN defends Joe Rogan treatment in fiery statement

But you don’t have to endorse Rogan to abhor CNN’s coverage of this topic.

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The minutiae disclosed in the Dominion filing are scandalous: They show just how incompatible is the hosts' candid chatter with the product they put on the airwaves -- and the reason for that gulf is ratings. Period.

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3 years

Rakoff says straight up: He is issuing an order dismissing the Palin complaint against the New York Times.

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8 years

Just as Trump finishes at CPAC, WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron releases statement standing by nine-source story:

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Fox News wiggled out of a defamation suit by arguing people shouldn't take the programming seriously (specifically, Tucker Carlson's show). Perhaps to fend off that defense, the Dominion filing goes into detail to show that the network's people see themselves as journalists:

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On CNN, Atty. Mark Geragos says he has it on 'good authority' that Steve Bannon is considering a defamation suit against President Trump.

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One thing that leaps out of the document is just how panicked were network officials about the viewers' disenchantment with the network's very early call of Arizona for Biden. It appears the whole place was in a state of revolt:

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President Trump just decreed: "We must never allow political violence to take root in America." This is the same man who very recently celebrated a politician body-slamming a journalist.

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Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier. Then it fell apart.

Opinion | Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart.

Various news outlets cited instances of vindication for the Steele dossier. Then came the Horowitz report.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Here is the statement from Fox News's John Roberts, who was selected by Trump to ask a question after CNN's Jim Acosta was dissed.

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Though Hannity said in private that he knew Trump needed accept the election results, look at what the host presented to his viewers each night:

Opinion | Sean Hannity, America’s No. 2 threat to democracy: An A-to-Z guide

How much longer can the Fox News host's attacks go on?

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As @presssec Jen Psaki nears her last day, some numbers: As of yesterday, she'd done 222 briefings, which is more than all Trump press secretaries combined. They teamed up for 205 briefings, according to data from Martha Joynt Kumar.

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More material in which Fox News people affirm they're in the news biz:

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I have contacted Fox News for a comment about the newly surfaced recordings of @tuckercarlson saying misogynistic things: One thing Fox News cannot say: We're shocked and appalled.

In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments

Between 2006 and 2011, Tucker Carlson spent approximately an hour a week calling in to Bubba the Love Sponge, a popular shock jock radio program where he spoke with the hosts about a variety of...

www.mediamatters.org

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Nearly three years into the Trump presidency, the three major cable-news networks are still running unfiltered his Q&A sessions, wherein he delivers misinformation directly to the American public.

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And when the WikiLeaks dumps of 2016 showed reporters' emails with people in the political sphere, the results often were unflattering. Yet those instances were far more mild than what we see in these Fox News revelations. This is astounding.

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CEO Suzanne Scott revealed this about the process:

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Here's the email released by CNN that represents that interaction. Note the part that indicates "that he submitted":

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4 years

Just interviewed Bob Woodward about criticism regarding the timing of his scoop about President Trump's acknowledged downplaying of the coronavirus. 1/

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I, too, dislike what @tuckercarlson says on television, in books, etc. But this kind of doorstep intimidation is reprehensible. Please respect his family's domestic life.

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Here's what Trump-appointed Judge Kelly said about gov't case: "Whatever process occurred within the government is still so shrouded in mystery that the government could not tell me at oral argument who made the initial decision to revoke Mr. Acosta's press pass."

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Bill O'Reilly: An awful, awful man:

Opinion | Bill O’Reilly: An awful, awful man

New reports square with what we knew about the King of Cable News.

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Wondering: Are there scandals of this magnitude at *every* state capital -- and we don't know about them because the U.S. media has by and large abandoned state capitals?

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On CNN, @acosta just described the chaos within the White House and said that advisers to President Trump are having one heck of a time convincing him of the reality out there. Maybe just quit?

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ABC News announces that Brian Ross, who reported Friday’s bogus story on Michael Flynn, will be suspended for four weeks without pay.

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If you were wondering why Senate Rs were so frantic last week about their Kavanaugh timetable, well, here's some critical context from @RonanFarrow and @JaneMayerNYer

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One caveat: News organizations that proceed through discovery in defamation suits rarely look good. Think of the New York Times in the Sarah Palin suit -- discovery exposed a shoddy and hurried editorial process that the Times surely didn't want to see in the light of day.

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Because of OAN's violation of the coronavirus seat rotation in the White House briefing room, the network has indefinitely lost its shared seat in the briefing room as well as its shared workstation in the basement, according to a source familiar with WHCA's actions.

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@willsommer But let's be clear about all this: Fox News's propagation of this conspiracy theory was one of the most heinous acts in media of the 21st Century. The fact that they fought the Riches in court for more than two years is an outrage of comparable magnitude.

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Per @smencimer , @AOC is taking big tech -- FB, Google, MS, to task for role in climate-denial conference:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to task for conference featuring...

She and Rep. Chellie Pingree sent a letter to the companies on Monday about their sponsorship of the conference.

www.motherjones.com

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Fabulous template for ethical source-building. Thanks for sharing, Eric.

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These are the tactics used by the @WashingtonPost . @JeffBezos - you should be very proud... 🙄

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What evidence does the Justice Department have to justify the raid on James O'Keefe's home. It had better be good.

Opinion | Did the Justice Department overreach in raiding James O’Keefe’s home?

There is a dearth of information about what prompted the FBI raid last weekend at the apartment of James O'Keefe. Even so, there are reasons to be wary of what went down.

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A federal judge in Kentucky today granted summary judgment motions from five media companies (NYT, ABC News, Gannett, CBS News and Rolling Stone) in defamation cases from Nick Sandmann.

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Context for Chris Wallace's departure from Fox News: He and Bret Baier had recently objected to the Tucker Carlson documentary "Patriot Purge."

2 Fox News commentators resign over Tucker Carlson series on the Jan. 6 siege

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned after the Fox News star hosted a series that relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

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Chris Wallace's big surprise at the end of today's @FoxNewsSunday : He's leaving, effective immediately.

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Fitting that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that's where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector.

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I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned. This confirms that the case exists.

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CNN’s @ddale8 is doing a fabulous job of fact-checking this debate. A pity that his stuff isn’t appearing on the debate broadcast screen.

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WaPo editorial: Mueller would have done a lot of good had he done what he did today several weeks ago.

Opinion | Mueller should have said this weeks ago

Now, the special counsel should not resist testifying.

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CNN's John King: "This isn't just some boorish, sexist guy in a bar making an ass of himself. This is the president of the United States."

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In first press briefing since @acosta had his credentials yanked and then restored, he asked a question and at least one followup to @PressSec . And it all went down without incident.

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Politico has released a statement on the backlash against using @benshapiro as a guest-writer for Playbook. It says, "we rise above partisanship and ideological warfare."

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Sen. Orrin Hatch has sent letters of apology to Jennie Willoughby and Colbie Holderness, ex-wives of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter. 1/

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Do you feel empathy with torn families? Possibly the easiest question @presssec has faced from podium. Yet she mocks reporter.

Opinion | ‘You’re a parent’: Reporter presses Sarah Huckabee Sanders on immigration

A reporter asks about empathy for divided families. But Sanders said he was just looking to get on television.

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CNN's @johnberman is among the most underrated interviewers in journalism. Always informed, patient, never snarky. A plus: CNN allots enough time for him to wade through the filibustering of his interviewees, in this case VP Pence:

CNN's John Berman Grills Pence on Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response: '174,000 Americans...

CNN anchor John Berman grilled Vice President on the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic during a Friday morning interview -- pressing him on his previous claim that there...

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Judge just ruled in favor of @Acosta : Cnn TRO is granted and press pass must be restored

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"This is my last newscast here," Shep Smith just said on Fox News. "It's been an honor and my pleasure." He expresses hope that "journalists and journalism" will thrive. "Whoa," says Neil Cavuto upon taking the handoff.

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Fox News has escaped accountability for its big role in the big lie, as @jaketapper segment lays out.

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"That is how the terrorist attack of Jan. 6 happened. Millions of Americans infected with the virus of disinformation,” says @jaketapper . "Until those who spread the big lie work to correct it... I fear that the US will continue to be in this bad and dangerous place" #CNNSOTU

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So now @nytimes has announced it is no longer working as a media sponsor of this Saudi conference. Will CNN and others follow suit?

Opinion | Why are U.S. media companies partnering with a Saudi conference?

Several U.S. media outlets — Bloomberg, New York Times, CNBC, Fox Business Network and CNN — are listed as "media partners" in a government-linked investment conference.

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This appears to be an important coronavirus media moment: A reporter on the news side of @nytimes saying that the CDC chief should resign. 1/

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Donald G. McNeil Jr: The CDC “is a great agency but it’s incompetently led, and I think Dr Redfield should resign.”

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This @cnn town-hall event on gun violence is riveting. Great format, perfect timing. Crowd won’t allow a single equivocation, as Sen. Rubio is learning with every utterance.

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Tucker Carlson walks back his South Africa scaremongering, though you might not have noticed.

Opinion | Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering

But, not surprisingly, he didn't alert his audience to these corrections.

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Checking in again with @CNN to see if it still stands by its reporting on the partial corroboration of the Steele dossier:

Opinion | Does CNN still stand by its reporting on the Steele dossier?

Did the former British intelligence officer really have an impressive network of sources?

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There will be many, many more videos like this, in which people slammed by @tuckercarlson will note that his own company's counsel, to prevail in a defamation suit, argued that there's no reason to take his programming seriously. And that is correct.

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We'd be a lot better off if more people responded to smear attempts the way that @brikeilarcnn just did. Full clip shortly.

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CNN is now releasing copies of the network's email exchanges with the Haab family after receiving inquiries this afternoon from the HuffPost and Fox News.

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Talking about the tight race in Florida, @cnn county czar John King just said that this is why “elections are fun.” My sense is that the country is now united in a consensus that elections are no longer fun.

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On CNN right now, @brianstelter reporting that White House is backing down on hard pass of @acosta . Is fully restoring it.

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Now have a look at the email that CNN was asked to comment upon Friday afternoon. "that he submitted" isn't there :

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Now Bloomberg is pulling out of the Saudi investment conference: "Bloomberg will no longer serve as a media partner for the Future Investment Initiative. As we do with every major event in the region, we plan to cover any news from our regional news bureau."

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News: Federal judge tosses Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times. Negligence, maybe. But "not defamation of a public figure."

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Checking on something here, in case I missed it: Has @foxnews issued even a statement about its promotion of the big lie? Did I miss something? @brianstelter @Sulliview @jeremymbarr

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On @cnn , John King just advised people to stick with them through a long night. “Brew some coffee,” he said. My sense is that many people are choosing a different sort of beverage.

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Weeks ago, Tucker Carlson encouraged lawlessness vis-a-vis coronavirus restrictions. Following unrest over George Floyd's death, he insists every rule be followed:

Opinion | Tucker Carlson must be outraged by Tucker Carlson

One night, he's wishing good luck to a restaurateur who's planning to defy a state coronavirus order. Another night, he's praising the virtues of rule-following.

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After David Carr died -- three years ago today -- my son etched this block of wood and mounted it on the door of the room where David stayed on visits to D.C.

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WaPo's misguided suspension of Felicia Sonmez:

Opinion | The Post’s misguided suspension of Felicia Sonmez over Kobe Bryant tweets

A veteran reporter tweets out a news story about Kobe Bryant. What's the problem?

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"Integrity" is such a foreign concept to @seanhannity that he doesn't know how to spell it.

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Statement from @CNN spokesman Matt Dornic on reports that @ChrisCuomo got special coronavirus testing treatment from NYS officials.

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@nytimes Among those who signed that letter were several @nytimes employees. The NewsGuild of NY says that members have been called into "investigatory meetings" and an informed source tells me that disciplinary proceedings are under way.

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There's notice of a settlement in the suit of Joel and Mary Rich against Fox News et al. for infliction of emotional distress over the network's retracted promotion of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.

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Seeing a lot of arguments that Bob Woodward did something unethical or untoward in "holding" on to his scoop about Trump's admission that he played down the coronavirus. I disagree with the criticism. 1/

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Announcement from Fox News: Shepard Smith is stepping down from his role as chief news anchor. This afternoon's show was his last. Fissures between news and opinion at Fox News are for real.

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Fox News and CNN are both carrying Trump's immigration remarks live. MSNBC is sticking with @NicolleDWallace show, perhaps on the thinking that this guy will just fearmonger.

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What's behind Martha McSally's chilling insult to CNN's @mkraju ? @ThePlumLineGS has a compelling answer:

Opinion | GOP senator’s vicious outburst shows the corruption of Trump’s defenders

Thank you for exposing what a sham you want Trump's trial to be, Senator.

www.washingtonpost.com

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On a day when we're talking about White House briefing-room working habits, it bears noting that @PressSec has returned to the old ritual of calling first on @AP and then having the @AP correspondent end the session with a "Thank you, Jen."

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Cummings says, "We have got to get back to normal." Not sure anyone remembers what that looks like.

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May be time to rename 'White House press secretary' to 'Special Envoy to Fox News.'

Opinion | We haven’t had a bona fide ‘White House press secretary’ for months. How about ‘Special...

Stephanie Grisham has a style all her own.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Judge Rakoff in the Palin v. NYT case is now ruling on the newspaper's Rule 50 motion, which seeks a ruling in favor of NYT based on the contention that Palin hasn't provided enough evidence to support a claim under the law.

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The @nytimes said it won't "tolerate" participation by its journalists in "protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums” -- in reference to a letter attacking NYT coverage of transgender youth:

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CNN must investigate Chris Cuomo.

Opinion | CNN must investigate Chris Cuomo

There are plenty of unanswered questions regarding the anchor's involvement with his brother.

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ErikWemple

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7 years

Another thought on @CNN foul up today: I have read hundreds if not thousands of @mkraju stories, and they have been almost without exception unimpeachable. He’ll doubtless get no benefit of the doubt from his network’s motivated critics, though he deserves it.

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One thing I've learned: You'll never feel bad about tipping in excess of 20 percent. Never.

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

5 years

Tip at least 20% regardless. Working in the service industry is hard work and people deal with all sorts of stuff throughout the day including sexual harassment. You never know what someone is dealing with. Also, some restaurants pool tips and wait staff have to tip out to others

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Asked directly whether earlier publication of his interviews would have saved lives, Woodward responded, "No! How?" He pointed out that Trump made that comment on March 19, and he had already made an Oval Office address on March 11. Confirmed cases were taking off. 4/

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In post-debate coverage, CBS News's Bob Schieffer has some remarks about a certain candidate:

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4 years

This interview in Science with Dr. Anthony Fauci is the strongest argument yet why the networks must not allow Trump to go on live television:

Opinion | President Trump botched his own coronavirus address. He shouldn’t be on live TV.

Broadcasters scrambled on Wednesday night to fact-check President Trump. They could have seen this coming.

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4 years

We got a bit of footage of the White House trying to reassign seats before Friday night’s briefing:

Opinion | The White House needs to answer coronavirus questions, not...

By trying to reassign seats in the White House briefing room, the Trump administration is attempting to stifle real journalism, says media critic Erik Wemple...

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