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Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Jeff Zucker's role in boosting Trump for better CNN ratings in 2015 and 2016, and how Trump's misdeeds fuel the network's prime-time broadcasts now — The coziness between the TV executive and Mr. Trump is a Frankenstein story for the cable news era. But then the monster got away.
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Brian Welk / The Wrap:
Trump mocked MSNBC's Ali Velshi at a rally for being shot with a rubber bullet while covering protests in May; MSNBC says Trump's comments endanger journalists — MSNBC says that Donald Trump is endangering the lives of journalists after the president mocked reporter Ali Velshi for getting shot …
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BuzzFeed News:
How BuzzFeed News and ICIJ analyzed a trove of leaked FinCEN docs that included 2.1K+ suspicious activity reports from banks covering $2T+ worth of transactions — Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion.
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO trounced Netflix at the Emmys, with 30 wins to 21, as Schitt's Creek won nine awards, likely due in part to a boost from earlier seasons arriving on Netflix — The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist Scott Feinberg dissects the results. — It was an Emmys unlike any other on Sunday night …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Sources: an anonymous editor of the conservative website RedState, who called Dr. Fauci a “mask nazi”, is a PR official at the federal agency that Fauci leads — Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health. But he also has another job …
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@maxwelltani
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Ellen DeGeneres says she takes responsibility “for what happens at my show”, following reports of misconduct, in her first public statement on the allegations — Ellen DeGeneres on Monday addressed allegations of a toxic work environment in her opening monologue …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Sources: Discovery will call its DTC streaming service Discovery+, launching in Q1 2021 to attract cord cutters younger than its linear audience — Discovery is getting ready to officially enter the streaming wars. — Discovery plans to debut its direct-to-consumer streaming service …
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AgencySpy, @petersontee and @shiraovide
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
SPJ and Trans Journalists Association launch a race and gender hotline for journalists to ask LGBT, Black educators and reporters about appropriate phrasing — Is it “Black” or “black”? (Or African-American? Or kill the hyphen?) Hispanic, Latino, Latino, Latin@, or Latinx?
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@sduncovered and @niemanlab
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox & Friends apologizes for running a since-retracted story falsely accusing Nashville's Democratic mayor of engaging in a coronavirus cover-up — The story was picked up across right-wing media and prompted calls from conservatives for the Nashville mayor to resign or be impeached.
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Mediaite, @justinbaragona and @mattgertz
Bloomberg:
Sources: Fox is willing to spend as much as $2B/year to retain rights to NFL's Sunday games; research suggests Fox currently pays $1.1B/year for Sunday rights — - It's one of several media giants vying for new NFL deals — League's agreements with TV networks begin expiring next year
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@johnjedwards3 and @lucas_shaw
Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asian Review:
South Korean media outlets, which have long struggled to monetize their online content, are studying global peers like The New York Times to spur digital growth — Studying global peers and leveraging COVID credibility could spur online growth — SEOUL — When The New York Times was looking …
Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
Sources: Charles Moore, a former Daily Telegraph editor and a vehement BBC critic, is the favorite to become the new BBC chairman in February — It would be the BBC's worst nightmare made real - a fox-hunting, Old Etonian Brexiteer being appointed its chairman on a platform of abolishing the licence fee.
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