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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Trump says he wants to start an online streaming media channel, which would be cheaper than cable, to undermine Fox News — President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Newsmax staffers and CEO Chris Ruddy hurl criticism at Fox News as the smaller network tries to draw Fox viewers away — Newsmax, which wants to draw viewers away from Fox News, has played up conservative criticisms of the network. An anchor said Fox is “jumping right into the tank for the left.”
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The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after an investigation into an incident in which he masturbated during a Zoom call with colleagues — The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.
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Politico:
Maggie Haberman is writing a book about Donald Trump, which will be published by Penguin Press in 2022 — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW ... NYT'S MAGGIE HABERMAN is writing a book about President DONALD TRUMP. — WHAT ELSE do we need to say about this? You know this is going to be awesome.
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Kansas City Star:
Kansas City Star will vacate its downtown office by the end of 2021 and look for smaller premises; printing will move to the Des Moines Register — The Kansas City Star will leave its glass building at 1601 McGee St. in downtown Kansas City. The Kansas City Star will leave …
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Karl Bode / VICE:
With Ajit Pai likely out as chairman when FCC reverts to Democratic control, experts say Pai's likely to leave and his controversial decisions will be reversed — You can expect most of his more controversial decisions, like the repeal of net neutrality, to be reversed. — KB — His trademark grin.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Hearst names Debi Chirichella as president of its magazines group, a job she has held on an interim basis since the departure of Troy Young — Hearst Corp. on Wednesday named Debi Chirichella as president of its magazines group, replacing Troy Young, who resigned in July over explosive allegations …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Despite settling multiple pay disparity cases, BBC is cleared of unlawful pay discrimination by UK equality watchdog investigation focused on 10 pay complaints — The BBC has been cleared of unlawful pay discrimination after an investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Researchers say YouTube's policy loopholes for election videos have led to an onslaught of videos aiming to undermine the legitimacy of the election — Google video site says election misinformation policies are ‘generally working as intended’ — On Monday, cable outlet One America News Network posted …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Top American political reporters, addicted to conflict and gamesmanship, should take a year or two off, replaced by beat reporters focused on examining policies — Our top political reporters must be exhausted. I suggest they take some time off. — Like, a year or two.
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Drudge Report, a key part of Trump's rise, has distanced itself from the president since the election, using headlines such as “The world moves on” — Matt Drudge and Donald Trump boosted each other four years ago. Now his site says, in prominent type, “The World Moves On.”
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube, YouTube TV, and Google TV are back online after suffering video playback issues worldwide on Wednesday morning — There were issues loading videos during the outage — YouTube has recovered from a seemingly worldwide outage that prevented videos from loading for roughly an hour.
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Digital TV Europe, @xpangler, @yoda, @verge, ScreenRant, SlashGear, The Sun and Boing Boing, more at Techmeme »
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