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Rob Bluey / The Daily Signal:
The Heritage Foundation's The Daily Signal says it “won't be bullied” after The Washington Post writes about its reporter providing press pool reports — “What's a legitimate news outlet?” — Apparently not The Daily Signal, if you believe the self-proclaimed arbiters of journalism who represent the “mainstream” media.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The presence of new partisan media organizations in the White House press pool raises questions about pool's reliability — In an age of partisan media, the lines between “partisan” and “media” can sometimes blur. — Case in point: The pool reporter covering Vice President Pence on Thursday …
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Washington Post:
Records show no fixed address for Steve Bannon as he built Breitbart; 2013 salary was listed as $750K on rental application, plus $270K from Arc Entertainment — In the three years before he became Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook will stream at least 22 live MLS matches in 2017 in English, through deal with MLS and Univision Deportes — As competition in the live streaming space heats up, Facebook has scored a significant deal that will allow it to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer matches on its social network.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Lies aided by right-wing hyperpartisan media outlets require watchdogging, fact-checking, and self-examination by mainstream newsrooms — To save Tinkerbell, all you had to do was clap your hands and really, really believe in fairies. — To send a conspiracy theory on its vicious way around the world …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio reporter Jon Decker, a member of WHCA board, confronts Gateway Pundit staffer Lucian Wintrich in WH press room; Wintrich claims he was assaulted — A Fox News Radio correspondent confronted in the White House briefing room the White House reporter for a website that traffics …
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Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Profile of Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell, founders of satirical feminist site Reductress, which launched in 2013 and now draws about 1M unique views a month — CULTURE REDUCTRESS MEDIA JOURNALISM SATIRE — The internet's best satire site is run by two 30-somethings in an office the size of a walk-in closet.
Alleen Brown / The Intercept:
Hard-to-verify “alt” government social media accounts let dissenting federal employees share truth, but necessary anonymity can fuel profiteering by scammers — In early November, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, a career scientist working for the federal Interior …
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Los Angeles Times:
The $1B deal to sell Dick Clark Productions, producers of Golden Globes and more, to China's Dalian Wanda Group falls through — Ryan Seacrest hosts “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2016.” (Ida Mae Astute / ABC) — The highly publicized $1-billion deal …
Alan Rusbridger / New Statesman:
As 21st Century Fox seeks approval to take over UK broadcaster Sky, regulators must remember that the Murdochs haven't played by the rules in the past — Why the billionaire's bid for Sky should be opposed. — Water under the bridge? That was my gut reaction when - to no one's great surprise …
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Penelope Green / New York Times:
Profile of Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, which has been redesigned for its April issue and is now called AD — One windy morning in February, Amy Astley, the new editor of Architectural Digest, was showing off her magazine's renovation: a near-gut job, as they say in the trade.
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Jessica Camille Aguirre / Backchannel:
How a Syrian immigrant to Germany sued Facebook after posts falsely linked him to terrorism, losing in court but essentially clearing his name — When Anas Modamani found out that the internet had labeled him a terrorist, he was visiting his cousin in eastern Germany.
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