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Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos disinvited from CPAC over pedophilia remarks — Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will not be allowed to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference. — The decision comes while Yiannopoulos is roiled in controversy over a video, in which he is appears to defend pedofilia.
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Simon & Schuster canceling publication of Milo Yiannopoulos's book Dangerous “after careful consideration” — According to a report by Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster is canceling publication of Milo Yiannopoulos's book “Dangerous.”
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Swedish cops say they were misrepresented in a film featured on Fox News, which led to Trump's Sweden remarks, and described the filmmaker as “a madman” — Trump's comments about Sweden during his rally in Melbourne, Florida, spawned headlines in newspapers all around the world.
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Silence from WH press office leaves journalists wondering if non-responses reflect mere indifference or strategy to discredit reporting flaws after publication — An eye-opening sentence has appeared in several important news stories about the Trump administration in recent days …
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Journalist Steve Buttry dies of pancreatic cancer at age 62 — Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer. — A memorial service will be held in coming weeks in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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New Texas Monthly editor-in-chief, Tim Taliaferro, plans to scale back on politics and longform and focus instead on lifestyle coverage which “sells” better — The skyline of Austin, Texas, where Texas Monthly is headquartered. — The new editor in chief of Texas Monthly plans …
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Journalists have flimsy legal protections if Trump's Department of Justice uses Espionage Act and orders them to reveal sources, a practice Obama's DoJ started — For those who care about press rights in America, President Trump's words last week were stunning and disturbing.


Google and Microsoft's Bing agree to demote piracy search results in the UK by 1 June 2017, as part of a deal with the entertainment industry — Deal struck after lengthy spat between search engines and entertainment industry. — Google and Microsoft's Bing have agreed to crack …


As President Trump pushes ahead on his effort to delegitimize US journalism, he is lending credence to theories and phrases advanced by fast-growing Infowars — Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times — were “the enemy of the American people.”
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When President Trump called media outlets “the enemy of the American People”, he echoed strategy of autocrats including Chávez, Erdoğan, Sisi, and Mugabe — When the leaders of the Bolshevik movement—Lenin, Stalin, and the rest—used the term vrag naroda, an …
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Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US on copyright and mail fraud charges, New Zealand high court rules; Dotcom's lawyer says he plans to appeal — Dotcom faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted in the US of piracy, which authorities say cost copyright owners hundreds of millions of dollars
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Fusion Media moves into podcasting with conversational shows and an eight-part series called “Containers” hosted by Alexis Madrigal from a seaport in Oakland — Fusion's Fusion Media Group is looking to raise its profile through audio. The Univision-owned …