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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Experts: expansion of prosecutions using Espionage Act, started under Obama, could be a larger threat to media during Trump's presidency than libel law changes — Worry about the Espionage Act, not libel laws. — Anyone who doubts that Donald Trump could use the levers of the presidency …
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@jayrosen_nyu, Twitter, ThinkProgress, @sulliview, @arishapiro, @penamerican, @pierre, @dankennedy_nu, @honey17011, @jayrosen_nyu, @kendallmire, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone and @yehudahmirsky
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The persistent questioning by CNN's Jake Tapper of Mike Pence should be the rule on TV news, not the exception, as false assertions and deflections grow — Too often television news, especially on cable, serves as a megaphone for politicians who use it to forward lies and propaganda …
Discussion:
New York Times, @jsteinbeck1939 and @pkafka
Aja Romano / Vox:
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer 's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule — Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.
Discussion:
BuzzFeed, @richardbspencer, The Guardian, @lisadep, @kfile, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, @cwarzel, Mashable and Salon
Jake Romm / The Forward:
Deconstructing the color, pose, and chair in Time's Trump photo, a layered field of references that place the image among the magazine's greatest covers — Time Magazine's annual “Person of the Year” announcement is, year after year, grossly misunderstood.
Discussion:
@shashitharoor, @metasynthie, @caitlin__kelly and @jdforward
Washington Post:
An anatomy of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, as it mutated from an online rumor to a hashtag on social media to actual gunfire in Washington, DC — What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, The Guardian and Observer
Thomas E. Patterson / Shorenstein Center:
Harvard report finds news coverage of both Clinton and Trump during 2016 election was negative in tone and light on policy — A new report from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage during the 2016 general election …
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Business Insider
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
News outlets have simultaneously lost cultural power and the public's trust, which represents both a cause and an effect of the fake-news problem — For a term that is suddenly everywhere, “fake news” is fairly slippery. — Is “fake news” a reference to government propaganda designed to look like independent journalism?
Discussion:
Forbes, The Nation and The Daily Caller
Ken Kurson / Observer:
Bloomberg poaches business writer Joe Nocera from The New York Times to write magazine stories and columns — Mike Bloomberg personally intervenes to hire biz legend who'd been exiled to sports — Even billionaires covet that which they cannot possess. The Observer has learned that former …
Discussion:
@joepompeo, @bookgirl96 and @nycjamescobb
Matt Feeney / New Yorker:
Prominent conservative journalists like Kristol and Podhoretz, who disavowed Trump during the election, are mostly staying silent now that Trump has won — Before the election, I wrote a piece describing why, despite his radical deviation from conservative orthodoxy on many policy issues …
Liz Stinson / Wired:
The Outline, with its opaque user interface and maze-like browsing experience, seems as though it was designed to be used like Tinder or a slot machine — In an introductory post to his colorful new project, The Outline, Joshua Topolsky writes that the site is “a new kind of publication for a new kind of human.”
Discussion:
@adrjeffries
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network, called Trump TV by some, plans to expand to 24-hour operation — Can Trump grant the online channel dedicated to his campaign into the White House without proper credentials? — The conservative online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The Atlantic adds former New Republic editor Franklin Foer as a writer, shortly after making several other hires for its politics and policy team — Former New Republic editor Franklin Foer is the latest in a string of splashy post-election hires at the magazine.
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@franklinfoer
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