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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 …
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New York Times, @owillis, @senatorshoshana, @ktumulty, @blakehounshell, @philiprucker, @senatorshoshana, @jsteinbeck1939 and @pkafka
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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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.
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BuzzFeed, @richardbspencer, Vanity Fair, @funnymonkey, Business Insider, @john_overholt, @lisadep, @kfile, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, @cwarzel, Mashable, The Guardian and Salon
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sources: Politico's Chief Political Correspondent Glenn Thrush is joining the NYT to cover the White House; Thrush's roots are in tabloid journalism — The political journalist wil be reunited with former Politico stars Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
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FishbowlNY, @demfromct, @thefix, @buzzfeedben and @mlcalderone
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 …
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FishbowlNY, @joepompeo, @bookgirl96 and @nycjamescobb
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Under a US government bill, the bipartisan board overseeing Voice of America will be disbanded, replaced by a CEO, sparking fears VOA will become “Trump TV” — A provision tucked into the defense bill guts the Voice of America board, stoking fears that Trump could wield a powerful propaganda arm.
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@rvawonk, @anthony, @michikokakutani and @politico
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?
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@adriennelaf, Forbes, @niemanlab, TVNewser and @realdonaldtrump
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.
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@alisonloat, @shashitharoor, @laurahelmuth, @metasynthie, @timharford, @jdforward and @caitlin__kelly
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Sources: proposal for merger of CBS and Viacom has been withdrawn by Shari Redstone, vice-chair of the board of both companies — The proposed merger between CBS and Viacom has been withdrawn by Shari Redstone, vice chair of the board for both companies, according to multiple sources.
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Hollywood Reporter and @brianstelter
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 …
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Mother Jones
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Karen Bradley faces questioning in Parliament over Murdoch's bid for Sky, as the deal faces mounting scrutiny — Karen Bradley forced to appear before MPs as concern mounts over media mogul's bid to take full control of satellite broadaster
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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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