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Martin Belam / The Guardian:
US court documents reveal the editorial concerns of publisher Simon & Schuster about book manuscript from “alt-right” controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos — Court submissions in lawsuit over far-right provocateur's memoir reveal concerns over weak arguments, boasting and racism
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Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
Vanity Fair faces backlash after reporter suggests in video that Hillary Clinton should take up knitting or “literally anything” instead of running again — The snarky video is part of a series, but the New Year's advice for the former presidential nominee caused the biggest stir.
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David Uberti / Splinter:
The faux scandal about Vanity Fair's Clinton video uses familiar social media bad-faith tactics that end up silencing individual journalists
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Yair Rosenberg / New York Times:
Twitter blocked Impostor Buster, a bot that exposed trolls that posted racist messages impersonating Jews, other minorities, after trolls reported harassment — Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed …
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
A Mother Jones reporter recalls her unlikely friendship with a right-wing Tea Party member and their diagnoses with cancer, within weeks of each other — Our unlikely bond only grew stronger when we were both diagnosed with cancer this spring. … On paper, Robin Stublen and I should never have been friends.
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
Mexican President Nieto spends more on media advertising than any predecessor, nearly $2B since '12, used with other state-derived influence to direct the media — MEXICO CITY — Running a newspaper, radio station or television outlet in Mexico usually means relying on a single …
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed has fired White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo after an internal investigation into allegations of inappropriate comments to a colleague — - BuzzFeed News' White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo has been let go following an investigation into inappropriate comments to a colleague.
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Refinery29, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, thecut, @jasonschwartz, @cernovich, Splinter, @maxwelltani and Axios
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump continues to define the press as his prime adversary, using Twitter and a Fox News alliance to bury damaging stories and capitalize on recent media errors — Assessing Year One. — The guy who said, “Never quarrel with a man who buys his ink by the barrel,” didn't anticipate Donald Trump.
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Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast:
Sources: WikiLeaks may have ~$25M worth of bitcoin; founder Julian Assange was an early adopter of the currency, following financial blockade — Everyone from early investors to cybercriminals has benefited from the huge spike in the value of bitcoin in the past few weeks.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Inspired by a reader, Margaret Sullivan travelled to states in the Rust Belt to find out if residents there viewed the press as biased and one-sided — The July email from Daniel Hastings, a Post reader who lives in Washington, was harsh: “You never have any intention of providing an unbiased …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
HuffPost Global Editorial Director Howard Fineman is leaving the site to join NBC News where he will contribute pieces on politics and other topics from Jan 8 — HuffPost Global Editorial Director Howard Fineman announced Thursday he will be leaving the publication for NBC News.
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Business Insider, @howardfineman and @samstein
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: American Horror Story and Glee creator Ryan Murphy is being pursued by both Amazon and Netflix, as his contract with Fox is up in 2018 — Ryan Murphy is said to consider move to Netflix or Amazon — Creator of ‘Glee’ is said to seek $100 million or more
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Broadcasting & Cable and Tubefilter
Karl Bode / Techdirt:
States including New York will attempt their own net neutrality legislation in 2018, testing a provision in the FCC's order that bans states from doing this — Numerous states say they'll be crafting their own net neutrality protections in the wake of the FCC's recent vote to dismantle the rules.
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