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12:55 PM ET, September 19, 2017

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As authoritarian tendencies rise in America, shutting down voices like Jemele Hill's is dangerous  —  I love words, but sometimes they just aren't up to the job.  —  Like the word “inappropriate,” which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, the ESPN commentator …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes sues Fox News, accuses anchor Charles Payne, who just returned after suspension, of rape and network of retaliation  —  Fox News, which for more than a year has dealt with the fallout from an embarrassing sexual harassment scandal …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News and two of its employees moved to dismiss the lawsuit from Rod Wheeler on Tuesday, claiming it was “overloaded with sensationalistic allegations”  —  Fox News on Tuesday moved to dismiss a controversial lawsuit levying the wild allegation that employees …
Lauren Duca / Teen Vogue:
Sean Spicer is an accessory to an ongoing attack on democracy; his appearance at the Emmys is the normalization of what authoritarianism looks like  —  It wasn't just a joke.  —  Thigh-High Politics is an Op-Ed column by Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca that breaks down the news …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
A look at Sean Spicer's sketch at the Emmys, which a source says was Stephen Colbert's idea, and the criticism it has been met with
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
The Republican Governors Association has launched an online publication that looks like a legitimate news source, only added disclosure after query from AP  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Republican governors are getting into the “news” business.  The Republican Governors Association has quietly launched …
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
Herb Scannell, ex-president of BBC Worldwide's North America division, joins Hispanic media company mitú as chief executive  —  Chalk up another coup for digital media hiring as the media company mitú,focused on digitally distributed content for hispanic audiences …
Discussion: The Wrap and Variety
Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
Pablo Escobar's brother says he will “close” Netflix's Narcos if the company does not meet his demand for $1B for alleged IP violations  —  The former “chief of the hitmen” says the streaming network sent him “a long letter to threaten us” over his demand of $1 billion for IP violations …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Sources: Pentagon reporters say access to Defense Sec James Mattis is decreasing, with Reuters and the AP being excluded from some of his trips  —  Trump's war on the press may be spilling over into the Defense Department, journalists fear.  —  Pentagon reporters are complaining …
Discussion: @jacqklimas and The Week
Simon Rogers / The Keyword:
Google News Lab releases data journalism study, reveals that 51% of all news organizations in the US and Europe have a dedicated data journalist  —  Data journalism has been a big focus for us at the Google News Lab over the past three years—in building tools, creating content and sharing data with the data journalism community.
Matthew Gault / Motherboard:
Pepe the Frog's creator sends cease and desist orders to alt-right personalities and websites, and DMCA takedown requests to Reddit and Amazon  —  Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie has made good on his threat to “aggressively enforce his intellectual property.”  —  The artist's lawyers have taken legal action against the alt-right.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Facebook cites privacy laws in its lack of transparency over Russian political ads purchased during last year's election  —  Here's what we know, so far, about Facebook's recent disclosure that a shadowy Russian firm with ties to the Kremlin created thousands of ads on the social media platform …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Forbes and The Verge
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Former Facebook and Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan announces he is joining Twitter as senior director of product  —  Krishnan, who previously worked on ad tech, is trying something new.  —  Twitter has hired Sriram Krishnan, a former ad tech executive from Facebook and Snap, but he won't be working on ads.
 
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Thomas Frank to cover national security and counterintelligence for BuzzFeed after he and two others resigned from CNN over retracted Russia-Scaramucci story
Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing:
FoxSports.com has reportedly lost 88% of its audience after pivoting to video
Discussion: @richarddeitsch and Real Stories
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News confirms Laura Ingraham will host new 10PM show The Ingraham Angle, premiering Oct 30, while Hannity moves to 9PM
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Government bodies are increasingly seeking to frustrate FOIA requests by suing those requesting the information
Discussion: Associated Press