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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
WHCD is a celebration of a system of access journalism that failed to detect a phony war — On the deep grammar of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner — “The Washington press corps is like that big extended family with a terrible secret that cannot be confronted …
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Politico, @shoq, @jayrosen_nyu, @nicdawes, @drudge, @lizsly, @jayrosen_nyu and Washington Post
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Reena Flores / CBS News:
At White House Correspondents dinner, Obama slings jabs mostly at presidential contenders and some at TV news — Obama slings jabs at the White House Correspondents dinner — Shares - — WASHINGTON — At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Obama weighed in Saturday …
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
The WHCA dinner represents everything people hate about the Beltway and shouldn't be taken so seriously — Nerd Prom Is a Mess — How to fix Washington's worst week. — Lead image by AP Photo. — Everyone knows the White House Correspondents Association dinner is broken.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
So far, NBC News finds Brian Williams embellished at least 11 times — A months-long internal investigation of Brian Williams by NBC News has turned up 11 instances in which the anchorman publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits, according to a person familiar with details of the probe.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Sources: internal NBC probe of Brian Williams' war accounts has examined six instances, including Tahrir Square statements; investigation continues — Brian Williams Inquiry Is Said to Expand — An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances …
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Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney, Mediaite, TVNewser, The Wrap, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The Week, Gothamist, The Daily Caller, @jayrosen_nyu and Variety
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's D.C. bureau strongly opposed Brian Williams's return in February
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@jayrosen_nyu and TVNewser
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T deal for DirecTV presents fewer problems for regulators than Comcast's Time Warner Cable deal — AT&T deal for DirecTV presents fewer problems for regulators than Comcast's Time Warner Cable deal — Two big media deals were announced in the first half of 2014. Only one is likely to survive.
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Bloomberg Business:
FCC Chief Tom Wheeler confounds former allies and wins praise from public interest groups with net neutrality rules and Comcast/TWC merger rejection — Comcast Trips Over Wheeler's Nixon-to-China Moment as FCC Chief — Tom Wheeler came to the Federal Communications Commission in 2013 …
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@haroldfeld and bizjournals
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
How Comcast failed to get merger support in Congress despite $25M spent on lobbying in 2014 — Intense Lobbying Failed to Assure Comcast's Deal — WASHINGTON — David L. Cohen, the master salesman who runs the Comcast Corporation's lobbying efforts, stood before a room full …
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Monday Note, @reddy, @thedudekabides, @seandrankin, @libbybrittain, Wall Street Journal and Consumerist
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Generation YouTube: Today's fastest-rising stars aren't coming out of Hollywood — Thanks to the popularity of online media sites like YouTube, mainstream entertainment soon may look more like that kid clowning around in front of a laptop camera.
Evan Serpick / Baltimore City Paper:
City Paper photo editor J.M. Giordano beaten by police at Freddie Gray protest — City Paper Photo Editor J.M. Giordano was tackled and beaten by Baltimore City police outside of Western District headquarters last night while covering protests over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
James Warren / Poynter:
Despite downturn, journalists still prefer to not use press releases — As American newsrooms have shrunk, reporters are increasingly shills for the dubious declarations of public officials. — Or, ah, is it all rather more complicated? — Research by a Georgia Southern University political scientist …
Brooks Jackson / FactCheck.org:
Three new studies show most readers value fact-checking, practice is increasing, and rating systems are popular — Fact-Checking Is More Popular than Politicians — New research shows that the public views political fact-checking journalism — the sort of thing we do here — far more favorably than it does most politicians.
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