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Washington Post media critic. I love family, journalism, pushups. Girl Scout Troop Cookie Mgr.--2018-22 cookie seasons. Tips welcome: erik.wemple @washpost .com
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New York Times newsroom lawyer David McCraw delivers this response to
@seanhannity
request for retraction and apology related to
@nytimes
coverage: "No." Addressed to Hannity lawyer Charles Harder:
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Huge day in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News defamation case, with both sides filing summary-judgment motions. Dominion's version is a nearly 200-page document bursting with text messages from network talent in the tense days following the 2020 presidential election. 1/
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We are in the midst of one of the great experiments in human history: How long can cable news talk about a document that it doesn't have?
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A verdict in the case of Democracy Partners v. Project Veritas has been handed down, according to Joseph Sandler, an attorney for Democracy Partners. Project Veritas has been found liable on both counts: Unlawful wiretapping and fraudulent misrepresentation.
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A CNN spox just told me that Miles Taylor will remain a contributor despite lying to Anderson Cooper. CNN cannot have it both ways -- slamming Trump for his lies, yet condoning a very big and blatant one by its own contributor.
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Intercept EIC Betsy Reed sent me this statement regarding the departure of
@ggreenwald
, saying there's a "fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship."
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Great deadpan from House Dems counsel Daniel Goldman: "I want to spend some time just reading the transcript, as we've been encouraged to do."
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Counsel for the publisher of has sent this reply to legal threats from Roy Moore camp:
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More: After a Fox News staffer correctly fact-checked stuff that was coming out of the network's opinion side, all hell broke loose among the prime-timers. Stunning:
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Memo is a big win for the
@nytimes
in that it confirms the Papadopoulos issue 'triggered'
the FBI investigation, as the newspaper reported in late December:
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There are now upwards of 225 people on the
@politico
Zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite
@benshapiro
to guest-write an edition of Playbook. People are very mad, I am hearing.
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Fareed Zakaria says on CNN that this will be remembered as the day that the United States "resigned as the leader of the free world."
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The argument from Dominion -- bolstered by correspondence among the network's top people -- is that Fox News knew all too well that the stolen-election claims were a lie, yet they plowed ahead with programming indicating the opposite. /3
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Have a look at this collection of Fox quotes from November 2020, as Sidney Powell and others were spinning their case that the presidential election was stolen.
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By filing its suit and plowing through discovery, Dominion has produced perhaps the most piercing look at the internal goings-on at Fox News in its quarter-century history.
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"We are descending into something that is not the United States of America," says CNN chief White House correspondent
@Acosta
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In suspending David Wright, ABC News has handed Project Veritas a scalp; exposed its ignorance regarding journalism ethics; screwed a longtime correspondent; and botched the distinction between opinion and bias.
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CNN says that the only thing it did wrong in its Joe Rogan coverage was to 'bruise the ego of a popular podcaster.' Here's why that sidesteps the issue:
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The minutiae disclosed in the Dominion filing are scandalous: They show just how incompatible is the hosts' candid chatter with the product they put on the airwaves -- and the reason for that gulf is ratings. Period.
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Rakoff says straight up: He is issuing an order dismissing the Palin complaint against the New York Times.
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Just as Trump finishes at CPAC, WaPo Executive Editor Marty Baron releases statement standing by nine-source story:
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Fox News wiggled out of a defamation suit by arguing people shouldn't take the programming seriously (specifically, Tucker Carlson's show). Perhaps to fend off that defense, the Dominion filing goes into detail to show that the network's people see themselves as journalists:
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One thing that leaps out of the document is just how panicked were network officials about the viewers' disenchantment with the network's very early call of Arizona for Biden. It appears the whole place was in a state of revolt:
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On CNN, Atty. Mark Geragos says he has it on 'good authority' that Steve Bannon is considering a defamation suit against President Trump.
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President Trump just decreed: "We must never allow political violence to take root in America." This is the same man who very recently celebrated a politician body-slamming a journalist.
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Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier. Then it fell apart.
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Here is the statement from Fox News's John Roberts, who was selected by Trump to ask a question after CNN's Jim Acosta was dissed.
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Though Hannity said in private that he knew Trump needed accept the election results, look at what the host presented to his viewers each night:
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As
@presssec
Jen Psaki nears her last day, some numbers: As of yesterday, she'd done 222 briefings, which is more than all Trump press secretaries combined. They teamed up for 205 briefings, according to data from Martha Joynt Kumar.
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More material in which Fox News people affirm they're in the news biz:
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I have contacted Fox News for a comment about the newly surfaced recordings of
@tuckercarlson
saying misogynistic things: One thing Fox News cannot say: We're shocked and appalled.
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Nearly three years into the Trump presidency, the three major cable-news networks are still running unfiltered his Q&A sessions, wherein he delivers misinformation directly to the American public.
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And when the WikiLeaks dumps of 2016 showed reporters' emails with people in the political sphere, the results often were unflattering.
Yet those instances were far more mild than what we see in these Fox News revelations. This is astounding.
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Here's the email released by CNN that represents that interaction. Note the part that indicates "that he submitted":
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Just interviewed Bob Woodward about criticism regarding the timing of his scoop about President Trump's acknowledged downplaying of the coronavirus. 1/
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I, too, dislike what
@tuckercarlson
says on television, in books, etc. But this kind of doorstep intimidation is reprehensible. Please respect his family's domestic life.
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Here's what Trump-appointed Judge Kelly said about gov't case: "Whatever process occurred within the government is still so shrouded in mystery that the government could not tell me at oral argument who made the initial decision to revoke Mr. Acosta's press pass."
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Bill O'Reilly: An awful, awful man:
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Wondering: Are there scandals of this magnitude at *every* state capital -- and we don't know about them because the U.S. media has by and large abandoned state capitals?
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On CNN,
@acosta
just described the chaos within the White House and said that advisers to President Trump are having one heck of a time convincing him of the reality out there. Maybe just quit?
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ABC News announces that Brian Ross, who reported Friday’s bogus story on Michael Flynn, will be suspended for four weeks without pay.
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If you were wondering why Senate Rs were so frantic last week about their Kavanaugh timetable, well, here's some critical context from
@RonanFarrow
and
@JaneMayerNYer
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One caveat: News organizations that proceed through discovery in defamation suits rarely look good. Think of the New York Times in the Sarah Palin suit -- discovery exposed a shoddy and hurried editorial process that the Times surely didn't want to see in the light of day.
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Because of OAN's violation of the coronavirus seat rotation in the White House briefing room, the network has indefinitely lost its shared seat in the briefing room as well as its shared workstation in the basement, according to a source familiar with WHCA's actions.
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@willsommer
But let's be clear about all this: Fox News's propagation of this conspiracy theory was one of the most heinous acts in media of the 21st Century. The fact that they fought the Riches in court for more than two years is an outrage of comparable magnitude.
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Per
@smencimer
,
@AOC
is taking big tech -- FB, Google, MS, to task for role in climate-denial conference:
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Fabulous template for ethical source-building. Thanks for sharing, Eric.
These are the tactics used by the
@WashingtonPost
.
@JeffBezos
- you should be very proud... 🙄
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What evidence does the Justice Department have to justify the raid on James O'Keefe's home. It had better be good.
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A federal judge in Kentucky today granted summary judgment motions from five media companies (NYT, ABC News, Gannett, CBS News and Rolling Stone) in defamation cases from Nick Sandmann.
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Context for Chris Wallace's departure from Fox News: He and Bret Baier had recently objected to the Tucker Carlson documentary "Patriot Purge."
Chris Wallace's big surprise at the end of today's
@FoxNewsSunday
: He's leaving, effective immediately.
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Fitting that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that's where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector.
I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.
This confirms that the case exists.
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WaPo editorial: Mueller would have done a lot of good had he done what he did today several weeks ago.
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CNN's John King: "This isn't just some boorish, sexist guy in a bar making an ass of himself. This is the president of the United States."
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Politico has released a statement on the backlash against using
@benshapiro
as a guest-writer for Playbook. It says, "we rise above partisanship and ideological warfare."
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Do you feel empathy with torn families? Possibly the easiest question
@presssec
has faced from podium. Yet she mocks reporter.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch has sent letters of apology to Jennie Willoughby and Colbie Holderness, ex-wives of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter. 1/
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CNN's
@johnberman
is among the most underrated interviewers in journalism. Always informed, patient, never snarky. A plus: CNN allots enough time for him to wade through the filibustering of his interviewees, in this case VP Pence:
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"This is my last newscast here," Shep Smith just said on Fox News. "It's been an honor and my pleasure." He expresses hope that "journalists and journalism" will thrive. "Whoa," says Neil Cavuto upon taking the handoff.
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Fox News has escaped accountability for its big role in the big lie, as
@jaketapper
segment lays out.
"That is how the terrorist attack of Jan. 6 happened. Millions of Americans infected with the virus of disinformation,” says
@jaketapper
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"Until those who spread the big lie work to correct it... I fear that the US will continue to be in this bad and dangerous place"
#CNNSOTU
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So now
@nytimes
has announced it is no longer working as a media sponsor of this Saudi conference. Will CNN and others follow suit?
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This appears to be an important coronavirus media moment: A reporter on the news side of
@nytimes
saying that the CDC chief should resign. 1/
Donald G. McNeil Jr: The CDC “is a great agency but it’s incompetently led, and I think Dr Redfield should resign.”
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This
@cnn
town-hall event on gun violence is riveting. Great format, perfect timing. Crowd won’t allow a single equivocation, as Sen. Rubio is learning with every utterance.
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Tucker Carlson walks back his South Africa scaremongering, though you might not have noticed.
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Checking in again with
@CNN
to see if it still stands by its reporting on the partial corroboration of the Steele dossier:
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There will be many, many more videos like this, in which people slammed by
@tuckercarlson
will note that his own company's counsel, to prevail in a defamation suit, argued that there's no reason to take his programming seriously. And that is correct.
We'd be a lot better off if more people responded to smear attempts the way that
@brikeilarcnn
just did. Full clip shortly.
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CNN is now releasing copies of the network's email exchanges with the Haab family after receiving inquiries this afternoon from the HuffPost and Fox News.
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Talking about the tight race in Florida,
@cnn
county czar John King just said that this is why “elections are fun.” My sense is that the country is now united in a consensus that elections are no longer fun.
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On CNN right now,
@brianstelter
reporting that White House is backing down on hard pass of
@acosta
. Is fully restoring it.
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Now have a look at the email that CNN was asked to comment upon Friday afternoon. "that he submitted" isn't there :
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Now Bloomberg is pulling out of the Saudi investment conference: "Bloomberg will no longer serve as a media partner for the Future Investment Initiative. As we do with every major event in the region, we plan to cover any news from our regional news bureau."
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News: Federal judge tosses Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times. Negligence, maybe. But "not defamation of a public figure."
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Checking on something here, in case I missed it: Has
@foxnews
issued even a statement about its promotion of the big lie? Did I miss something?
@brianstelter
@Sulliview
@jeremymbarr
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On
@cnn
, John King just advised people to stick with them through a long night. “Brew some coffee,” he said. My sense is that many people are choosing a different sort of beverage.
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Weeks ago, Tucker Carlson encouraged lawlessness vis-a-vis coronavirus restrictions. Following unrest over George Floyd's death, he insists every rule be followed:
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After David Carr died -- three years ago today -- my son etched this block of wood and mounted it on the door of the room where David stayed on visits to D.C.
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WaPo's misguided suspension of Felicia Sonmez:
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"Integrity" is such a foreign concept to
@seanhannity
that he doesn't know how to spell it.
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Statement from
@CNN
spokesman Matt Dornic on reports that
@ChrisCuomo
got special coronavirus testing treatment from NYS officials.
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There's notice of a settlement in the suit of Joel and Mary Rich against Fox News et al. for infliction of emotional distress over the network's retracted promotion of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
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Seeing a lot of arguments that Bob Woodward did something unethical or untoward in "holding" on to his scoop about Trump's admission that he played down the coronavirus. I disagree with the criticism. 1/
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Announcement from Fox News: Shepard Smith is stepping down from his role as chief news anchor. This afternoon's show was his last. Fissures between news and opinion at Fox News are for real.
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Fox News and CNN are both carrying Trump's immigration remarks live. MSNBC is sticking with
@NicolleDWallace
show, perhaps on the thinking that this guy will just fearmonger.
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What's behind Martha McSally's chilling insult to CNN's
@mkraju
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@ThePlumLineGS
has a compelling answer:
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Cummings says, "We have got to get back to normal." Not sure anyone remembers what that looks like.
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May be time to rename 'White House press secretary' to 'Special Envoy to Fox News.'
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Judge Rakoff in the Palin v. NYT case is now ruling on the newspaper's Rule 50 motion, which seeks a ruling in favor of NYT based on the contention that Palin hasn't provided enough evidence to support a claim under the law.
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The
@nytimes
said it won't "tolerate" participation by its journalists in "protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums” -- in reference to a letter attacking NYT coverage of transgender youth:
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CNN must investigate Chris Cuomo.
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One thing I've learned: You'll never feel bad about tipping in excess of 20 percent. Never.
Tip at least 20% regardless. Working in the service industry is hard work and people deal with all sorts of stuff throughout the day including sexual harassment. You never know what someone is dealing with. Also, some restaurants pool tips and wait staff have to tip out to others
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Asked directly whether earlier publication of his interviews would have saved lives, Woodward responded, "No! How?" He pointed out that Trump made that comment on March 19, and he had already made an Oval Office address on March 11. Confirmed cases were taking off. 4/
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In post-debate coverage, CBS News's Bob Schieffer has some remarks about a certain candidate:
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This interview in Science with Dr. Anthony Fauci is the strongest argument yet why the networks must not allow Trump to go on live television:
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I was not in court for the reading of the verdict because it came suddenly. Much more to come on this.
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We got a bit of footage of the White House trying to reassign seats before Friday night’s briefing:
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