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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
White House releases list of 78 terrorist attacks that it claims received little media attention, but list includes many that were widely covered — The White House on Monday evening distributed a list of terrorist attacks that “have not received the media attention they deserved.”
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Speaking to the US Central Command, Donald Trump claims that the media intentionally covers up reports of terrorist attacks — Speaking to the United States' Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Melania Trump files suit against Mail Media, claiming Daily Mail escort article “impugned her fitness to perform her duties as First Lady of the United States” — A lawyer for first lady Melania Trump argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that an article falsely alleging she once worked …
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
First Lady Melania Trump has settled her lawsuit against Maryland blogger Webster Tarpley; Tarpley has agreed to pay a “substantial sum” and issue an apology — LawNewz.com has learned that First Lady Melania Trump has agreed to settle her defamation lawsuit filed …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen says she wants the site to become a tabloid that everyone from “the janitor to the CEO” can read — Trumps escalating war with the media — Can The Huffington Post, a web site founded as a liberal answer to The Drudge Report, win over millions of Trump voters?
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google adds anchor button on AMP pages, to help readers see and share publishers' real URLs — As promised, Google is making a change to how it displays Accelerated Mobile Pages, so that users can easily view and share links that lead directly to publishers' sites rather than to Google's copy of the content.
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Investigative reporter David Sirota says he will not be taking up the CEO role at David Brock's True Blue Media, positioned as a left-wing Breitbart — Sirota announced he would join True Blue Media last month. “The circumstances of the job subsequently changed.” — David Sirota / Via davidsirota.com
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Court rules against Public.Resource.org, says standards like fire codes, developed by private orgs and incorporated into law by reference, are copyrightable — For many years, we've written about Carl Malamud and his non-profit organization Public.Resource.org, which goes to great lengths …
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
PolitiFact raised $105K in 20 days through its newly launched membership program, with $3K raised during Sean Spicer's first press conference on Jan. 23 — The Committee to Protect Journalists saw a spike in donations after Meryl Streep's Golden Globe hat-tip; The New York Times and Vanity Fair …
GašPer ZavršNik / Politico:
In response to Kremlin's demand for an apology Fox News host Bill O'Reilly tells Russian officials he's working on it and to check back in 2023 — Fox News anchor responds with mirth to Moscow's demands for a mea culpa. — Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly laughed off the Kremlin's demand …
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
21st Century Fox beats Q2 estimates, with quarterly revenue up 4% to $7.68B, from $7.38B, with cable network programming revenues up to $3.96B — The second-quarter financials beat a 49 cents per-share earnings estimate by analysts by 4 cents. — Spurred on by its cable networks' performance …
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Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot:
FBI won't accept FOIA requests by email from Mar., requiring them to be sent via fax, mail, and a fraction through online portal with personal info of requester — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will implement a new policy next month likely to further frustrate people seeking public records under …
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