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Conference attendees at a Trump resort in Miami were shown a video of a fake Trump killing news media and political opponents in a church — WASHINGTON — A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
If Trump doesn't condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it — I'll never forget the moment, while covering the Republican National Convention in 2016, that I saw the T-shirt: — “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required,” it read in bold letters.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Sources: Zuckerberg recently hosted off-the-record dinners with conservative figures like Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham to discuss free speech, partnerships — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists …
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Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
In a memo to staff, NBC News president pushes back against Catch and Kill, says “there is no evidence of any reports of Lauer's misconduct before his firing” — “There is no evidence of any reports of [Matt] Lauer's misconduct before his firing, no settlements, no 'hush money …
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
ABC News pulls and apologizes for airing a video that was meant to show Turkey bombing Kurds, but seems to have been made in 2017 in Kentucky — ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians.
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Jared Newman / Fast Company:
With the Washington Post's new reading app, now available on Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, users cycle through a carousel of headlines, chosen by human editors — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asked the Washington Post's product team several months ago to consider what a news reading app might look …
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New York Times:
How Trump is cajoling and bullying his closest media ally Fox News as a total-loyalty litmus test, even as impeachment ups the stakes — Fed up with the coverage on his favorite cable news station, President Trump decided late this summer that a direct intervention was needed.
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
Commitment to quality reporting and staff weren't enough to stop the decline of Pennsylvania's Reading Eagle, which couldn't make up for print ad revenue losses — A wealthy owner opted for quality and commitment at the Reading Eagle. It didn't work. — SHARE THIS ARTICLE — Share — Tweet
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
A deep look at how Jeff Bezos' investments in The Washington Post and Amazon Studios have allowed him to immerse himself in the cultures of DC and Hollywood — 1.0 — where in the pantheon of American commercial titans does Jeffrey Bezos belong? Andrew Carnegie's hearths forged the steel …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Axios has signed a deal for two more seasons of its HBO show; CEO says the subscriber base for its newsletters has risen from 375K to 725K since December 2018 — Axios has decided to do away with the established model for digital publishers' video businesses.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook should ban political ads and let candidates communicate via their pages since it doesn't need the money and doesn't want to police political speech — Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don't.
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Alison Flood / The Guardian:
The 2019 Booker Prize jointly shared by Margaret Atwood, the oldest winner at 79, and Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman awardee, in its 50-year history — Judging panel break rules in choosing The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other as joint winners — Play Video
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