Michael M. Grynbaum
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I write for The New York Times about media, TV, and politics. I recently acquired a cat.
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To be clear, since some asked -- this is Billy Bush's actual voicemail message
Billy Bush’s current outgoing voicemail: “You’ve reached Billy Bush’s office. He’s busy making America great again.”
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On Fox, Chris Wallace says Biden sent a message that "especially us in the media must note":
"Whether it's us on the air, on cable or broadcast, whether it's us on social media, on our Twitter accounts: understanding that we have to deal from facts, from the truth."
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TRUMP statement on LOU DOBBS:
“Lou Dobbs is and was great. Nobody loves America more than Lou. He had a large and loyal following that will be watching closely for his next move, and that following includes me.” – Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States
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CNN terminated "three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated," per memo from Jeff Zucker. "We have a zero-tolerance policy on this."
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On Fox News, politics editor Chris Stirewalt says: "Lawsuits, schmawsuits. We haven't seen any evidence yet that there's anything wrong."
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NEW: Chris Cuomo has been suspended indefinitely by CNN, "pending further evaluation." Story coming shortly.
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Chris Wallace on Fox: "The Attorney General seemed almost to be acting as the counselor for the defense, the counselor for the president, rather than the Attorney General, talking about his motives, his emotions... Really, as I say, making a case for the president."
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Trish Regan's Fox Business show is "on hiatus until further notice," network tells me, citing a shift in staff resources to "critical market hours."
Regan was widely criticized earlier this week for a monologue calling the coronavirus "another attempt to impeach the president.”
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NBC: Ratings for Sunday's NASCAR race were 39 percent higher than last year's average viewership.
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal & Washington Post are among the major outlets that have declined to assign reporters to travel with Mr. Trump this week, saying they lack assurance that basic safety precautions are in place.
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Chris Wallace on Fox News: "an enormously effective speech" that "blew a hole" in Trump's attempts to depict Biden as feeble.
"Donald Trump is gonna have to run against a candidate, not a caricature," Wallace said.
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BREAKING: Mike Richards has QUIT as host of Jeopardy!
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Tucker Carlson talking directly to Trump:
"You can regularly say embarrassing things on television. You can hire Omarosa to work at the White House. All of that will be forgiven if you protect your people. But if you do not protect them..then you're done."
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For those keeping track of White House press room solidarity:
Fox News's
@kevincorke
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NEW: Debate Commission will *MUTE* candidates' microphones during their opponent's 2-minute opening answers. Then mikes turn back on & candidates have at it.
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Chuck Todd just attacked his own network, NBC News, over hiring Ronna McDaniel. "Our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation," he told Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. "There's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this."
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Chuck Todd opened his MSNBC show today by saying: "Let's be frank: a national nightmare is upon us. The basic rules of our democracy are under attack from the president."
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HBO responds to Trump's GoT tweet:
“Though we can understand the enthusiasm for Game of Thrones now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes.”
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The Big 3 broadcast networks -ABC CBS & NBC - have cut away from Trump's speech at the White House.
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Chris Christie on Trump's speech: "It's a bad strategic decision. It's a bad political decision."
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Trump put a reality-show spin on State of the Union – but the Nielsen ratings took a dive. TV viewership dropped 20% from a year ago.
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"Surprisingly flat," Chris Wallace says of Trump's speech on Fox News tonight.
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The New York Times will publish a 16-page special print section tomorrow, including summaries & highlights from the paper's annotations of the Mueller Report.
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Nearly 19 MILLION people watched Comey testimony live, nearly same as Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
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BREAKING: Mike Richards is OUT as Executive Producer of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune"
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Because why not, here's Bloomy, Rudy, Trump, and Bill Clinton playing golf together in 2008
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NBC has also cut away, with Lester Holt telling viewers, "We have to cut away here because the president has made a number of false allegations."
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Chris Wallace, live on Fox News, says of Trump: "He bears the primary responsibility for what happened on Tuesday."
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REPORTER: Did you fire him because he called you a moron?
TRUMP: What?
REPORTER: Did you fire him because he called you a moron?
TRUMP: Say it again.
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“As a retired military officer, I simply could not continue with Fox in good conscience,” longtime Fox analyst Ralph Peters tells me. His letter, denouncing the network as “a mere propaganda machine,” is here:
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In his first public remarks since leaving Fox News, Shep Smith assailed autocrats who “flood the world of information with garbage and lies, masquerading as news.”
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Trump suggesting he will hold back vaccines from New Yorkers because of Governor Cuomo.
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Just now on CBS: "
@60Minutes
has obtained a letter that indicates the government whistleblower...is under federal protection because he or she fears for their safety"
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Updated statement from
@BuzzFeedNews
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“As we’ve re-confirmed our reporting, we’ve seen no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate. We remain confident in what we’ve reported, and will share more as we are able.” --Matt Mittenthal, spokesperson.
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Shep Smith is making his first public remarks since leaving Fox News. “Intimidation & vilification of the press is now a global phenomenon,” he tells
@pressfreedom
gala. “We don’t have to look far for evidence of that.”
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CNN just cleared its staff to use "BULLSHIT" in graphics, banners & headlines, per memo from network head of standards.
"We should show and say it because the President sent it out just that way," memo says.
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Fox's Martha MacCallum now grilling Kayleigh McEnany on PA lawsuit: "Even if the person voted on Nov. 3 in PA – because they were told that was okay to do - you're going to toss their ballot out?"
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The Village Voice is ending its weekly print edition. End of a journalism era in New York City.
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MADDOW, just now:
"Well, *that* happened. Let me remind you what you just saw was a production of NBC News. We are MSNBC, we did not produce that event, we simulcast it here along with CNBC."
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Fox News has NOT retracted its Arizona call, per network source & the live broadcast (as of 12:32 a.m.)
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"'Maybe they'll need a moat,' Obama said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. 'Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat.'"
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Trump abruptly cut off his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, refused to film with her & Mike Pence, then taunted the CBS anchor on Twitter w/
@maggieNYT
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State Dept asked NYC Medical Examiner not to disclose cause of death of Russian UN ambassador who died last month
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Shepard Smith just said Fox News has “no evidence of any kind” that Trump was surveilled “at any time, any way."
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Chris Wallace on Fox News: "To be just straight about it, what Donald Trump is saying, when he says 'do the right thing,' is do the right thing for Donald Trump. Not do the right thing for the constitution."
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Tucker Carlson is slamming Pompeo & other Trump officials who cite an imminent threat from Iran: "Seems like about 20 minutes ago, we were denouncing these people as the deep state...Now for some reason, we *do* trust them, implicitly and completely."
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Hillary Clinton is doing CBS Sunday Morning, Stephen Colbert, and The View over the next week...
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I just spoke with “Mr. Kurd.”
His name is Rahim Rashidi, he works for Kurdistan TV, and he is thrilled.
“I love it!” he said of Trump. “He made me happy by this sentence.”
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KAVANAUGH to break TV silence tonight on FOX NEWS -- he and wife Ashley taped interview this afternoon with
@marthamaccallum
, set to air this evening, per 2 sources
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CNN cuts back to
@BrookeBCNN
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CHRIS MATTHEWS just now: "I’m retiring – this is the last Hardball on MSNBC."
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Nicolle Wallace has begun her segment about NBC's hiring of Ronna McDaniel. She aired clips of Chuck Todd & Morning Joe and then said: "I’m going to read to you an excerpt from Timothy Snyder’s ‘On Tyranny.’"
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Tucker Carlson tells viewers he won't show a clip from Biden's speech because it was "awful and weird."
“Jan. 6 barely rates as a footnote,” he says. “Really not a lot happened that day if you think about it."
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Trump is nearing 2 hours on Rush Limbaugh's radio program in the middle of the afternoon.
Presidential debates last for 90 minutes.
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All 3 cable news networks carrying the Congresswomen's presser live, and "shithole" was not bleeped.
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On Fox News,
@BretBaier
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“That’s not how it looked in the briefing, and not how it came across in the briefing. What’s problematic for this President is that sometimes he goes on these riffs."
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NEW: Sean HANNITY texted Kayleigh McEnany on Jan. 7, 2021, with a 5-point plan to persuade Trump to give up his claims about voter fraud.
Hannity's first point: "No more stolen election talk."
McEnany replied: "Love that."
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Jeanine Pirro was suspended by Fox News last month for making anti-Muslim comments.
Her ratings went up.
“She was in the right place at the right time with the right approach, and she’s taken advantage of it,” Rudy Giuliani tells me.
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Fun exchange here on whether Trump sits down with Mueller:
WALLACE: What are the odds? One in a hundred? What--What?
TRUMP: I don’t do odds, I gave very detailed--
WALLACE: You ran a casino sir.
TRUMP: You’re right, and very successfully actually.
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Tucker Carlson's Kyle Rittenhouse interview was seen by 4.9 million viewers on Fox News. That was more than 2.5 times the combined audience of MSNBC and CNN during the same hour.
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Rachel Maddow, live on MSNBC, is speaking frankly about internal NBC unease about management's handling of Matt Lauer / Harvey Weinstein. "It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside this building," she says.
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Laura Ingraham touted hydroxychloroquine for weeks on Fox News. On Wednesday, she denounced "a blind obsession to disprove the effectiveness" of the drug.
On Friday, the FDA formally warned against its use for Covid, citing risk of serious heart problems.
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NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger:
"Our goal in publishing today’s report is the same goal that has animated The New York Times for 170 years — to seek the truth, to hold power to account, to empower our fellow Americans with the information and insights they need as citizens."
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New: James MURDOCH has resigned from the News Corp board, citing "disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions."
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Hannity to his audience: “Please do not interpret what I’m saying tonight to mean anything."
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Lesley Stahl wore a mask today at the White House right up until the start of her interview with Trump, including when she greeted him, per person familiar.
The video tweeted by POTUS shows Stahl immediately after, conferring with (masked) CBS producers.
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In rare direct challenge to Trump, Tucker Carlson on Fox News just asked POTUS:
"If you can't keep a Fox News correspondent from getting attacked directly across from your house, how can you protect my family? How are you going to protect the country? How hard are you trying?"
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Question to Trump on the South Lawn just now: "Did you fire him because he called you a moron?”
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NEW: Ronna McDaniel is no longer represented by CAA, per a source. She is interviewing attorneys to engage with NBC on her behalf.
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NEW: Trump's virus briefings are scoring "Monday Night Football"-level ratings. But should TV networks be covering them live?
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NEW:
@MollyJongFast
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@VanityFair
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She will be "writing regularly on these turbulent times in politics and American culture," per VF editor
@radhikajones
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One of Trump's new impeachment lawyers met with Jeffrey Epstein in prison and told Fox he didn't believe he killed himself.
The other declined to prosecute Bill Cosby in 2005 for sexual assault, citing insufficient evidence.
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.
@JoyAnnReid
will be hosting her regularly scheduled Saturday show this weekend, according to a MSNBC spokesman.
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Joy Reid Succeeds Chris Matthews and Takes Nightly Anchor Slot at MSNBC
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Brian Williams: "Mike Bloomberg, fair to say, is not having the night he paid for."
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Wow, HAWLEY dodged on Fox just now when Laura Ingraham asked directly if Pence "should not accept the certification" tomorrow.
"I don't think the vice president actually counts under the law. He's sort of just there. This is really on Congress," Hawley said.
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Fox News president Jay Wallace issues a statement:
“We stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press.”
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Chuck Todd, on MSNBC, says Trump's speech was "filled with so many made-up problems about mail-in voting that if we were to air just the truthful parts, we probably could only air maybe a sentence – if that much."
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In new excerpt from Fox interview, Kavanaugh says he was a virgin in high school and "many years thereafter."
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Cuomo: "Why don't the NYPD wear masks? What signal does that send?"
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CNN is severely restricting all employee travel, including domestic, due to coronavirus, per memo that just went out. Intercontinental trips must be personally approved by Jeff Zucker, per memo.
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This is an extraordinary on-air confrontation between Chuck Todd and his longtime network, reflecting the discomfort within NBC at McDaniel's hiring
Chuck Todd just attacked his own network, NBC News, over hiring Ronna McDaniel. "Our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation," he told Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. "There's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this."
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"News credibility specialist" is an excellent corporate neologism for "editor"
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HOPE HICKS has landed: she joins the Murdoch empire as chief communications officer of FOX, based in Los Angeles.
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Geraldo Rivera, longtime defender & friend of Trump, told me that the "go back" tweets shifted his view on Trump and race: “As much as I have denied it and averted my eyes from it, this latest incident made it impossible."
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This is ... the night of the second debate!
JUST IN:
@ABC
News will host a town hall with
@JoeBiden
moderated by
@GStephanopoulos
on October 15th. The primetime event will take place in Philadelphia where the former vice president will answer questions from voters.
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@brithume
just now on Fox News: "
@PeteButtigieg
is the most impressive by far candidate in terms of just raw political talent in the Democratic field. And he may be the most impressive candidate I've seen since the emergence of Barack Obama."
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Joint statement on CNN/Acosta lawsuit from AP, Bloomberg, First Look Media, Fox News, Gannett, NBC, NYT, Politico, USA Today, WashPost & others:
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White House email just now -- read closely!!
> Remarks by President Trump Welcoming the 2018 World Cup Series Champions Boston Red Sox
World Cup Series?
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PSA before things get too crazy tonight:
@kwelkernbc
does NOT have a mute button. She cannot shut off the candidates' microphones.
A producer from the Debate Commission will oversee the muting, which only occurs during each candidate's opening 2-minute answer.
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NEW: CNN is *also* rejecting Trump campaign's "Coup" ad. "We cannot accept this ad as it contains statements of fact that are not true," network says. Developing....
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Twitter's reaction to Bill de Blasio 2020, summarized:
1. LOL
2. Fix the subways.
3. Groundhog murder.
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TRUMP wants primetime slot tomorrow to talk shutdown,
@esullivannyt
&
@maggieNYT
scoop
At least TWO major networks still deliberating – skepticism about handing over airwaves for political statement
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