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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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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.


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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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 …


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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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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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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White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus says media shouldn't use anonymous sources and should take Trump seriously when he calls them “the enemy” — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” …
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How Washington power-brokers protected columnist Joe Alsop for over 13 years after the KGB entrapped him in a homosexual tryst — Joe Alsop was the dean of Washington's foreign-policy columnists, a committed Cold Warrior, the doyen of Georgetown society, close confidante to presidents, senators, secretaries of state—and secretly gay.
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