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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump defends Bill O'Reilly amid sex assault claims: “I don't think Bill did anything wrong” — President Donald Trump called Bill O'Reilly a “good person” who did nothing wrong in an interview Wednesday with The New York Times, jumping to the defense of one of his most vocal …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
As the number of advertisers who have dropped The O'Reilly Factor reaches more than 40, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News remain quiet — Brown: Time for Fox to clean shop — Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
O'Reilly's “hotline defense” is ludicrous: a Fox News culture of fear would prevent a sexually harassed woman from calling an internal hotline — Whatever happens to Bill O'Reilly's career, one aspect of this unrelenting story line at Fox News deserves to be put to rest forever.
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How ProPublica responded to the White House press secretary's insult by defending its journalism and promoting its work in tweets, boosting followers 10% — Journalists often agonize over how to tweet, and rightly so. For many of us, Twitter is the most personal point of contact with audiences.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies — Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google — Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored — Ajit Pai is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Maureen Ohlhausen is acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
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Mará Rose Williams / Kansas City Star:
How student reporters at a Kansas high school dug into the background of a new principal and found questionable credentials, causing her to resign — Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube's $35/mo TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels — Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Russia's Sputnik hires former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan to launch a radio show — A former Breitbart News writer is launching a radio show for Russian propaganda network Sputnik. — “I'm on the Russian payroll now, when you work at Sputnik you're being paid by the Russians …
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Profile of MicroChip, who claims he's a software developer in Utah leading a pro-Trump bot-infested Twitter network that sways trending topics — At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it has acquired Sweden-based micropayment service Flattr — Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquired Flattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden.
David Lieberman / Deadline:
MGM agrees to pay $1.03B for Viacom's 49.8% and Lionsgate's 31.2% stakes in Epix; MGM will become the sole owner of the premium entertainment network — Here's the release, just out. More shortly: — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ("MGM"), Viacom Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAB, VIA), ("Viacom") and Lionsgate …
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