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1:50 PM ET, October 6, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity trade insults over their divergent approaches to covering Trump, the latest example of a widening ideological rift inside Fox News  —  Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity, who have back-to-back shows on Fox News, have a sharp difference of opinion about Donald Trump.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder  —  Which leaves Salesforce, for now.  —  Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either.  —  Sources familiar with Disney …
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Recode:
Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple is also an unlikely suitor; Twitter stock falls around 20% after the news  —  Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims  —  According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed:
Fusion's newsroom prepares to unionize with Writers Guild of America, East; management sends email saying move “would not be beneficial” for staff or company  —  Update: Management responds with company-wide email stating unionization “would not be beneficial for you or Fusion.”
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Despite the work of fact-checkers, the disinformation spread by Trump, Pence, and others is gaining currency as cable TV has devolved from news to discussion  —  It's official: A time-honored political dark art has gone flamboyantly public.  Who's to blame?  Start with cable news.
Paul Cheung / Asian American Journalists Association:
AAJA demands an apology from Fox News for Jesse Watters' racist segment on Chinese American voters; Watters says he regrets if anyone found offense  —  RESPONSE TO JESSE WATTERS' TWEETS (Oct. 5th 10:30 pm EST)  —  “O'Reilly Factor” correspondent Jesse Watters issued two tweets in which he described …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Atlantic endorses Clinton, its third endorsement in 159 years, but the impact of editorials against Trump remains unclear  —  The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
How marketers created “Rachel Brewson” and other online characters for a fake tale of romance and politics with actors posing on ABC Nightline to drive traffic  —  In December 2015, readers at women's site xoJane were enthralled and filled with all-caps rage by Rachel Brewson …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: vice presidential debate drew 37.2M viewers across nine TV channels, the lowest number since the 2000 Cheney-Lieberman debate  —  Tuesday night's vice presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the VP debates in 2012 and 2008, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
BuzzFeed:
Interview with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, who says that over 100M people use its Stories feature daily  —  BuzzFeed News sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the CEO of Instagram for its sixth anniversary and looked back on the slew of changes the company has made to its product in recent months.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Elizabeth Becker / Columbia Journalism Review:
How two reporters came to different conclusions for story on genocide and human rights abuse in Cambodia  —  Two reporters escaped with their lives, but left Cambodia with very different stories.  History shows one was right.  —  3765 WORDS … Last year, I was flown to Cambodia to testify …
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew study: about 40% of American adults under 50 prefer reading news, mostly online; more than half of Americans over 50 opt for watching the news on TV  —  When it comes to technology's influence on America's young adults, reading is not dead - at least not the news.
Discussion: Nieman Lab
 
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