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12:25 PM ET, January 3, 2017

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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Joe Scarborough says the feigned outrage over his NYE meeting with Trump stems from a press corps disoriented by the election of a man they openly despise  —  Facts are stubborn things.  Unfortunately in the age of Twitter journalism, too many reporters find such details to be both onerous and optional.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Q&A with Joe Scarborough, who likens his rapport with Trump to Fareed Zakaria's with Obama, Ben Bradlee's with JFK, and Walter Lippmann's with LBJ  —  Joe Scarborough is fed up with his critics.  —  “I am sick and tired of people misrepresenting me and making snide assumptions …
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Joe Scarborough's defensive tweets aimed at Sopan Deb were exactly the kind of intra-media attack an embattled press doesn't need right now
Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos' book  —  Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing a book by controversial right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos.  —  A spokesperson told The Bookseller …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish's new AirTV Player lets Sling customers stream over-the-air local channels, a move that required no carriage deals on Dish's part  —  Dish Network has officially unveiled its plan for bringing local TV channels to its Sling TV over-the-top internet TV service — with no retransmission deals required on its part.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, includes an over-the-air antenna for live TV  —  The AirTV Player is available starting today  —  The rumors of a set-top box designed to combine Dish's Sling TV service, Netflix, and over-the-air television were true.
Discussion: 9to5Google
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is named as a columnist for Time magazine's newsletter, Motto; she will focus on women and empowerment  —  Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson has been tapped as a columnist for Time magazine's online Motto newsletter.  She will focus on women and empowerment issues.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google's AMP makes mobile pages load faster, but some smaller web publishers worry that they've ceded too much control, especially over how URLs are displayed  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, Federico Viticci, who runs MacStories, a news site devoted to Apple and its products …
Kalev Leetaru / Forbes:
How the Washington Post's inaccurate story about a Russian hack spread, with the paper rewriting it rather than issuing a correction, before finally adding one  —  On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through …
Discussion: Media Nation
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
WaPo's inaccurate story claiming Russians hacked US electric grid, weeks after debunked Russian propaganda post, is reminiscent of pre-Iraq war fearmongering
Stephen Steed / NWAonline:
Arkansas teen Hayden Taylor buys weekly Central Delta Argus-Sun for an undisclosed sum; with no prior journalism experience, he plans to start the paper anew  —  Journalism books on his to-do list  —  Hayden Taylor stands outside the office of his new newspaper in downtown Brinkley.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Three former White House press officials, including George W. Bush's former Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, express fears for the press under Trump  —  Three former White House press secretaries sounded various alarms about the president-elect and the possible pitfalls in his relationship …
Discussion: Vanity Fair and @davidjones2898
 
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Mitchell Peters / Billboard:
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