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2:30 PM ET, January 4, 2018

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Washington Post:
Lawyer Charles Harder demands that publisher Henry Holt and Co. cease and desist from publication of Michael Wolff's book on Trump  —  President Trump on Wednesday castigated his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon as a self-aggrandizing political charlatan who has “lost his mind,” …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Michael Wolff has dozens of hours of tapes of interviews with Bannon and other White House insiders, making some quotes in his new book hard to refute  —  Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.  —  Among the sources he taped, I'm told …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Charles Harder sends Steve Bannon a letter demanding he refrain from disparaging comments about Trump and his family, claims Bannon breached NDA  —  Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding …
Michael Wolff / British GQ:
Wolff book excerpt on the Ailes plans for a new conservative TV network and the media handlers closest to Trump, including Hope Hicks  —  Soon after the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January 2017, GQ columnist Michael Wolff was granted special access to the White House.
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
Michael Wolff book excerpt recounts Trump's talks with media figures including Roger Ailes, who urged Trump to float rumors of a TV network, and Murdoch  —  One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration's shocked first days.  —  Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Second-guessing of Michael Wolff's juicy book on the Trump White House begins, fueled by some rebuttals of Wolff's reporting in the past
Will Oremus / Slate:
Calls for Twitter to ban President Trump are misguided and counterproductive; the biggest threat posed by @realDonaldTrump is to Trump's own presidency  —  Ever since Donald Trump became president, some liberal activists have called for Twitter to suspend his account.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Source: Stay Tuned, NBC's five-month-old, twice-daily Snapchat show, has gained 4M subscribers, with over two-thirds under 25  —  CNN made waves when it said last month it would throw in the towel on its Snapchat show after just four months.  But rival NBC News says it's satisfied with the traction …
Discussion: @daviduberti and @insidepages
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Memo: Bloomberg Businessweek editor Megan Murphy is leaving, to be replaced by Joel Weber, editor of Markets magazine  —  Some changes are coming to Bloomberg Media this year, and a number of them are on the staffing front.  —  Bloomberg Businessweek editor Megan Murphy is departing the company.
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian:
French president proposes law to let authorities remove content or block sites publishing fake news during elections, improve sponsored content transparency  —  French president warns democracies are under threat as he sets out plan including emergency blocks on websites
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
BBC Connected Studio, the BBC's innovation unit, is seeking out local tech companies in India to help with personalization and curation  —  In a country where the 10 most popular languages are all spoken by at least 25 million people, creating content that's relevant to everyone is a tall order …
Recode:
Sources: TPG and Dragoneer converted Spotify debt into equity at ~$10B valuation, sold it to Tencent at ~$20B, solving Spotify's $1B debt problem ahead of IPO  —  Big investors TPG and Dragoneer get a nice return, and Tencent gets a piece of the streaming music company.  Everybody happy?
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
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Alicia A. Caldwell / Wall Street Journal:
National Press Club and others are advocating for Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto, denied asylum and arrested after fleeing to US ~10 years ago