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CNN says Trump is encouraging violence against reporters by tweeting an altered 2007 Wrestlemania video of Trump body-slamming a man with a CNN logo as a head — CNN statement says president ‘involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office’ while Ben Sasse says he is ‘trying to weaponise distrust’
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Twitter says Trump's CNN wrestling tweet doesn't violate its rules, even though it appeared to incite his supporters, with some posting even more violent images — Trump tweets insults at MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski — Twitter told CNN on Sunday that the company reviewed the tweet …
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A Reddit user who posted comments on the site about stabbing Muslims has claimed to be the creator of the CNN WWE GIF tweeted by Trump — The user whose screen name is an unprintable corruption of “Han Solo” spent about a year on Reddit before attaining stardom, courtesy of a share from President Trump.
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Quartz, The Guardian, Slate, The Wrap and The Gateway Pundit
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How New Jersey's Star-Ledger snapped photos of Gov. Christie on a beach he'd closed to the public, taking aerial pictures from a small plane — The (Newark, New Jersey) Star-Ledger is committed to keeping Gov. Chris Christie honest — even if it takes a private plane.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Jamie Horowitz, president of Fox Sports National Networks, is fired less than a week after 21CF began probe of allegations of sexual harassment — Jamie Horowitz onstage at the ESPN portion of the 2013 Summer Television Critics Assn. tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 24, 2013 in Beverly Hills.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Facebook is challenging a gag order from a DC court, which prevented it from notifying users about search warrants for their accounts — New public court filings — in an otherwise sealed case — reveal a brewing First Amendment fight between Facebook and federal prosecutors over an order blocking …
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@katienotopoulos and @zoetillman
Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ announces the end of China Real Time Report site; its archives will remain online, and @ChinaRealTime will continue to tweet links to China stories — “Under heaven,” wrote the Ming Dynasty poet Feng Menglong, “there's no such thing as a never-ending feast.” — Mr. Feng was probably onto something.
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Nieman Lab, @alyssaabkowitz, @joshchin, @wsj and @chinarealtime
David Bond / Financial Times:
Sources: YouTube offered some advertisers $3 in compensation, in an attempt to lure them back after their ads appeared on extremist sites — Video site makes tiny payouts after brands' concerns over ads linked to extremism — Read next … Companies that pulled advertising from YouTube …
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Tubefilter and The Drum
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube — Earlier this month, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo, incorporating the internet-portal pioneer's slate of brands under a new umbrella corporation named, ominously, Oath.
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Ivana Kottasová / CNNMoney:
Al Jazeera journalists resist demand from UAE, Saudi Arabia, others that Qatar shutter TV network, as UN and some journalism orgs call for demand to be dropped — Al Jazeera: “We demand press freedom” — Al Jazeera is fighting back against demands that the government of Qatar should close down the media network.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
After doubling its paid subscribers in a year, Talking Points Memo tries to find new extras to offer them, including views behind the scenes — “We've learned a lot over the last few years about how to construct a business model that allows a substantial but still relatively small news organization to thrive."
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
Lyle Denniston, a well-known 86-year-old reporter who has covered the Supreme Court for 58 years, retired last week — There have been 113 Supreme Court justices in American history. Lyle Denniston has reported on 31 of them — more than one in four. “My wife and I ran a calculation,” …
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