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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 …
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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 — Joe Scarborough is sensitive to any suggestion that he is too cozy with President-elect Donald Trump, so it is no surprise that the MSNBC host pushed …
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Rachael Jolley / Telegraph:
If another country had a press law like Section 40, Britain would condemn it for persecuting journalists — For years Index of Censorship has monitored state interference in news reporting, from the authoritarian Chile in 1970s to North Korea today. With a history of scrutinising government pressure …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK press campaigns against Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act which would force them to sign up to a state-backed press regulator or face heavy libel fees — The Sunday Times has warned that its historic exposure of drugs cheat cyclist Lance Armstrong would never have happened had Section 40 …
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Kate Sheppard / The Huffington Post:
WSJ EIC Gerard Baker says his publication likely won't call a Trump falsehood a “lie” because the word implies intent to mislead, will let readers decide — “I'd be careful about using the word ‘lie,’” says Gerard Baker. — WASHINGTON Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker …
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Simon Van Zuylen-Wood / Politico:
In a fake news experiment, a reporter recreated Pizzagate believer Michael Flynn Jr.'s Twitter feed by creating a dummy user and following the same accounts — I lived Michael Flynn Jr.'s media diet so you wouldn't have to. — A few weeks ago, perplexed by the persistence of fake news, I attempted to think like someone I wasn't.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
Scribd removes comics from its subscription reading service after adding them in 2015 — A reader has tipped me to the news that Scribd has quietly removed digital comics from its subscription reading service. Ten thousand comics had been added in February 2015 when Scribd was still in the upward swing …
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
As newspaper editorials lose their influence among politicians, editors should focus on educating readers on important issues, encourage them to take action — Recently, I've been thinking a lot about something that most people aren't thinking about much at all these days: Newspaper editorials.
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