Founding Partner and Senior Correspondent at Puck. Author of In The Room and host of The Grill Room. Reach me at dylan@puck.news.
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Respectfully, attacking the moderators for pointing out that it’s illegal to kill babies and that people are not eating pets in Springfield is a losing position.
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Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:
“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”
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Womp womp.
#Break: Corey Lewandowski has been dropped by his speakers bureau in the wake of “womp womp” remark … money.cnn.com/2018/06/21/med…
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FACEBOOK timeline:
- didn’t happen
- happened, but was small
- ok, semi-big
- ok, it reached 126 million, but no evidence it influenced them
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SCOOP @PuckNews: NBC NEWS plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent. Execs are deliberating over details; announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation.
Full details, scoops & backstory in next edition of In The Room. Subscribe here: puck.news/newsletters/in-the…
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Today alone, 5 people reached out w/ sexual harassment allegations against 5 different media figures. This isn’t slowing. It’s snowballing.
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#Break: Corey Lewandowski has been dropped by his speakers bureau in the wake of “womp womp” remark … money.cnn.com/2018/06/21/med…
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NEW: CNN's Christiane Amanpour took aim at Chris Licht's Trump town hall in a commencement address today; said she met with Licht this week and argued CNN shouldn't have let Trump “appear in that particular format." puck.news/when-it-rains-it-a…
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Significant layoffs underway today at NBC News... big round of layoffs coming this quarter at CBS News...
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I’m having lunch with Michael Avenatti @MichaelAvenatti at the Vanity Fair Summit and he’s proposing a three-round mixed-martial arts fight with Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr for charity. No joke.
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NEW NBC statement regarding the Trump immigration ad:
“After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible.” – NBCUniversal Spokesperson.
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#BREAK: Fox News: “ FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways” 🚨
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New:: The AP; Bloomberg; First Look; Fox News; Gannett; National Press Club; NBC News; The New York Times; Politico; Press Freedom Defense Fund; E.W. Scripps; USA Today; and The Washington Post have filed joint friend-of-the-court briefs to support CNN’s and Jim Acosta’s lawsuit.
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Hard to think of anything more defiant in media & entertainment recently than Trey Parker & Matt Stone going scorched earth on Paramount in a South Park season premiere on the heels of netting a $1.5 billion deal with the very same company.
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🏀 Multiple sources close to the Golden State Warriors tell me Mark Stevens, the minority owner who pushed Kyle Lowry, will likely be forced to sell his shares before the start of next season … #NBAFinals #KyleLowry
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Peter Thiel sarcastically thanked Reid Hoffman for funding lawsuits against Trump because they had turned him into “a martyr,” increasing his chances of re-election.
From the stage, Hoffman shot back with his own sarcastic quip: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”
SCOOP @PuckNews: Billionaire investors and estranged friends Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman got into a tense confrontation over Biden & Trump at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley. The full readout from inside the Lodge: puck.news/peter-thiel-reid-h…
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Scoop @PuckNews: The Gridiron Dinner, the annual off-record, white tie gathering of D.C. media/political elite, did *not* toast the president at its annual dinner tonight for the first time in its 140-year history. Instead, they toasted the First Amendment.
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SCOOP @PuckNews: CNN's Chris Licht summoned @OliverDarcy and his editor to a meeting with himself and top executives in which they told him that his coverage of Trump town hall had been too emotional and stressed the importance of remaining dispassionate: puck.news/lichts-dispassion-…
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NEW @PuckNews: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who recently interviewed Biden and was today caught in TMZ video saying he doesn’t think Biden “can serve four more years,” tells me, via spokesperson: “Earlier today I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have.”
In a separate statement, an ABC News spokesperson tells me, “George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News.”
TMZ video: tmz.com/2024/07/09/george-st…
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Lawyers for Fox News have successfully argued that you should not believe everything you hear on Fox News. nytimes.com/2020/09/24/busin…
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NEW from DISNEY: Jimmy Kimmel returns Tuesday night.
"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."
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SCOOP @PuckNews: Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news/david-ellison-set-…
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Nicholas Kristof: "I’m told there’s a persuasive piece of intelligence on ties between Russia & member of Trump team that isn’t yet public."
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#Break: I’m told the Trump campaign barred today’s press pooler, NBC’s @VaughnHillyard, from traveling with the former president today in retribution for a recent interview in which Hillyard had pressed Rep. Stefanik to comment on E. Jean Carroll accusations against Trump.
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NEW @NBCNews: Amazon has extended offer to President Joe Biden to assist with national Covid vaccine distribution.
In letter to @POTUS, Amazon Consumer CEO Dave Clark says "Amazon stands ready to assist you…”
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liv…
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Note: The CNN Town Hall was a 90 minute broadcast, though the network expected the actual event to go as long as 75 minutes. They stopped less than 70 minutes in. In other words, they could have gone longer if they wanted—which is usually what executives do with big ratings draws
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#Break: FOX Business has parted ways with Trish Regan - “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” network says.
Regan had said coronavirus was a part of an effort to impeach Trump.
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Scoop: ABC News President Kim Godwin sent a note to staff in which she called recent remarks by Donald Trump shocking and racist. "These remarks are as racist as they come,” Godwin wrote.
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This whole “the leaks are the problem” defense goes over about as well as a cheating spouse who says “you shouldn’t be looking at my phone."
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This is just fantastic @brikeilarcnn cnn.it/2btvFVp
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🚨 NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause.
@PuckNews
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🚨 SCOOP @PuckNews: CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht will soon step down. Amy Entelis will serve as interim leader. Announcement could come as early as today.
Full story: puck.news/lichts-out/
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Where Jeff Bezos owns homes:
• Medina, Washington
• Beverly Hills (x3)
• New York City (x3)
• Washington, D.C.
• Van Horn, Texas
Am I missing anything?
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I don’t know how this shakes out. But it’s really unnerving to watch people who call themselves reporters commend one side and mock the other.
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One year ago (next week), Hillary Clinton went to Reno and warned that Trump was “taking hate groups mainstream…” piped.video/watch?v=PP6Q-OEX…
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NEW: On Tuesday, one week after the election, CNN and MSNBC drew their lowest 25-54 demo ratings in nearly a quarter of a century....
CNN lowest since June 27, 2000
MSNBC lowest since August 7, 2001*
*excluding last year's July 4 holiday
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#Break: FACEBOOK Spox on #ResignModi posts being banned in India:
"“This hashtag has been restored and we are looking into what happened.””
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New @NBCNews: Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are launching a podcast on Spotify >> nbcnews.com/media/barack-oba…
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UPDATE: Paramount will announce deal to acquire Free Press and bring Bari Weiss to CBS News on Monday…
Her title will be Editor in Chief. I’m told she will report directly to David Ellison.
NEW @PuckNews: Paramount’s deal to acquire Bari Weiss’s Free Press is expected to close in about two weeks. The final number is around $150 million, a mix of cash and stock.
puck.news/bari-weiss-nears-1…
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SCOOP / THREAD @PuckNews: CBS NEWS has been roiling after a CBS Mornings interview in which anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed Ta-Nehisi Coates over his pro-Palestinian framing of Israel-Palestine conflict. The interview was celebrated by many—"tense and substantive," per WaPo—but angered some at CBS who felt Dokoupil brought his own bias (1/5)
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Who is responsible for Facebook’s misuse of your data?
• Mark Zuckerberg, for the obvious reasons.
• Washington, for failing to regulate.
• You and me, for trusting FB with our data, hitting the “log in with Facebook” button and not asking ourselves how it actually worked.
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Fwiw: Harwood had 2 years left on contract. So, like Stelter, he was pushed early.
personal news:
today's my last day at CNN
proud of the work
thanks to my colleagues
i've been lucky to serve the best in American media - St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN
look forward to figuring out what's next
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NEW: The audience exodus from CNN and especially MSNBC since the election is staggering. CNN and MSNBC have seen totals decline by 27% and 38%, respectively. In 25-54 demo, CNN has averaged 70,000 while MSNBC has averaged 53,000.
More in tonight's email: puck.news/newsletters/in-the…
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This is *not at all* what these models say, and this kind of misunderstanding of polling is what got pundits into trouble in 2016.
“Almost no chance” is 1%, 2%, not 20%. If you told me I had a 20% chance of falling off of a cliff today, I’d be scared out of my mind.
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Little scoop here on Biden media schedule next week:
In addition to Monday's interview with @LesterHoltNBC, Biden will sit for two more interviews:
- on Tuesday with Black national media outlet (during NAACP Conference)
- on Wednesday with Latino national media outlet
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New from @nytimes:
“The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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Two @nytimes sources tell me there were bursts of applause for general counsel David McCraw when he walked through newsroom this afternoon…
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Scoop @PuckNews: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC.
The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.
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NEW: Don Lemon says that Elon Musk has cancelled his X deal because he didn't like his interview.
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Hannity, previewing Don Jr. interview, goes after media for not caring about Hillary Clinton, Deep State.
I’m not joking.
Integrity: Zero.
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🚨 CNN: "Erin Burnett will sit down with President Biden for an exclusive one on one interview tomorrow. ... Interview will air Wednesday at 7pm ET on Erin Burnett OutFront."
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NEWS: NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary debates on TWO consecutive nights - JUNE 26 & 27, 2019 - in MIAMI, Florida.
Live on NBC, MSNBC & Telemundo.
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UPDATE: CBS News has invited self-described “mental health expert, DEI strategist and trauma trainer” Dr. Donald Grant to moderate conversation on this issue in an all-staff meeting tomorrow.
SCOOP / THREAD @PuckNews: CBS NEWS has been roiling after a CBS Mornings interview in which anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed Ta-Nehisi Coates over his pro-Palestinian framing of Israel-Palestine conflict. The interview was celebrated by many—"tense and substantive," per WaPo—but angered some at CBS who felt Dokoupil brought his own bias (1/5)
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In last hour:
- NYT report on the 2 women
- CBS report on 10-yr-old girl
- Palm Beach Post report woman saying Trump groped her.
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It was real close, but @realDonaldTrump made it from “I alone can fix it” to “I’m not going to own it” in less than a year….
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Wow: Kellyanne Conway tries to suggest settling lawsuits implies guilt…. @andersoncooper reminds her Trump “settles lawsuits all the time…"
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New: Fox News team says "Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground." foxnews.com/politics/2017/05…
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Breitbart: "Wave of Fake ‘Hate Crimes’ Sweeps anti-Trump Social Media”
FBI: There has been a surge in hate crimes.
nytimes.com/2016/11/14/us/po…
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Historic moment for Scott Pelley & 60 Minutes: calls out Paramount (read: Shari Redstone) for “supervising” Gaza and Trump-related content “in new ways” as it tries to complete merger….
Full context in my most recent piece — puck.news/paramount-sale-han… — and more coming next week:
"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways."
— 60 Minutes statement on the resignation of their Executive Producer, Bill Owens.
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Crawford: "... And that is what Tony did. He challenged Coates' one-sided worldview, Coates got to respond. It was civil... I don't see how we can say that it failed to meet our editorial standards.... Tony prevented a one-sided account from being broadcast on our network about a deeply complex situation that completely was devoid of history or fact. As journalists, that's what we have an obligation to do." (4/5)
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Ryan Lizza writes that he’s left Politico to launch a Substack: “The main reason? Their style of political coverage is not meeting the unprecedented moment of democratic peril we are facing.”
That is not the main reason.
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SCOOP/NEW @PuckNews: Chris Licht has been asked to cut $100 MILLION from CNN’s budget, a target that will likely result in hundreds of job losses. His direct reports have already submitted proposals for jobs, shows, etc. that could be targeted >> puck.news/can-licht-make-the…
Can Licht Make the Cuts?
A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN.
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First calls from Trump — who says you can’t trust media, media is enemy — go to Washington Post’s @costareports & New York Times’ @maggieNYT
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Crawford: "I don't even understand how Tony's interview failed to meet our editorial standards... I thought our commitment was to truth. When someone comes on our air with a one-sided account of very complex situation—which Coates himself acknowledges that he has—it's my understanding that as a journalist we are obligated to challenge that worldview, so that our viewers can have access to the truth and can have a more balanced account..." (3/5)
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#Break: “Saturday Night Live” will be *live* this weekend. Skits will be produced remotely and will include “Weekend Update,” NBC says. On a call, NBC chief Jeff Shell said Tom Hanks may be involved, source familiar tells me. NBC would not confirm that. nbcnews.com/news/all/working…
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In sum:
+ The President of the United States has accused the world’s most powerful social media network of “killing people” by not doing enough to combat misinformation.
+ The company has responded by accusing the president of missing vaccine goals & passing the buck.
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I say this with no snark or malice, but the turnout for Trump’s #Inauguration is remarkably small compared to Obama 2008.
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NEW from @WSJ, currently facing lawsuit from Trump:
Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
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Jeff Zucker looking to get under @realDonaldTrump’s skin: “I’ve said before that Fox is state-run TV, the question should be is the White House state-run government by Fox TV?” deadline.com/2019/03/jeff-zu…
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I cannot stress how little Facebook, Twitter have disclosed re Russian-linked accounts, ads vs. what’s likely out there. Tip of the tip.
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#Break: The Walt Disney Company is further delaying the reopening of Disneyland past July 17, per company email ... Move comes amid heightened COVID-19 concerns and following protest from employees…. New date for reopening is TBD.
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Personal News: I’m joining NBC News & MSNBC as Senior Media Reporter, covering the future of media and technology and its broad influence on business, politics and culture
I’m grateful to Jeff Zucker, Andrew Morse & CNN for the last three years.
There will be a newsletter...
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Scoop: Paramount owner Shari Redstone asked Parmount/CBS CEO George Cheeks if it would be possible to delay sensitive '60 Minutes' stories about Trump or his policies until after she had closed the Skydance deal.
puck.news/to-placate-trump-s…
@PuckNews
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Also possible that the nation’s preeminent, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign policy & national security correspondent with 40+ years in the field wanted to use a NATO summit to ask a substantive foreign policy question of a president who rarely takes questions in public. Could be both 🤷♂️
Rather than ask directly about Biden's fitness, it appears @SangerNYT has asked a complex policy question to see how the president handles details on his feet.
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They are covering it on their own air. And you’re retweeting a CNN reporter. Do you even care what you tweet?
CNN thinks that by empathizing with violent protestors they’re immune from the effects of disorder and lawlessness? Mob rule never ends well. How are they not covering this on their own air?
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NPR is maintaining a very strict mask policy, and has set up an HR tip line for employees to report on colleagues who are not adhering to guidelines—with the possible result of discipline and even termination. This is from a memo sent out today:
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+ from @VaughnHillyard pool report:
“Your NBC News pooler has been informed that the pool will no longer travel with and take part in the former president’s OTR stops today before his Rochester rally.
Your pooler was told that if he was the designated pooler by NBC News that the pool would be cut off for the day.
After affirming to the campaign that your pooler would attend the events, NBC News was informed at about 2:20pmET that the pool would not be allowed to travel with Trump today.”
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#Scoop: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens says that publisher A.G. Sulzberger “spiked” his column that was supposed to run on Monday morning in which he took issue with NYT’s handling of the Donald J. McNeil case (McNeil was ousted for his use of racial slur).
Thread….
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NEW: The Associated Press says it is “no longer working with Hassan Eslaiah, who had been an occasional freelancer for AP and other international news organizations in Gaza.” Full statement here: blog.ap.org/ap-statement-on-…
Meanwhile, CNN says it has severed ties with Eslaiah: “We had no prior knowledge of the October 7th attacks. Hassan Eslaiah, who was a freelance journalist working for us and many other outlets, was not working for the network on October 7th,” a spokesperson tells me. “As of today, we have severed all ties with him.”
More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an @AP and @CNN contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter.
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O’Reilly fans will be mad & say Fox caved to liberal pressure — then they’ll come back to Fox for lack of any other conservative programming
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The @SteveKornacki has signed "a new multimillion-dollar four-year contract that will employ him across NBC Sports and its entertainment division in addition to NBC News, where he will be a mainstay for MSNBC’s political coverage,” per @SteveBattaglio : latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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The disingenuousness of conservative media acting like it’s no big deal to fire the guy investigating you is staggering.
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Sean Spicer’s Emmy appearance way off key bc he’s trying to be in on “the joke,” except lies/propaganda aren’t a joke. Makes it look worse.
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If you think Donald Trump handing a one-page health summary from Dr. Bornstein to Dr. Oz qualifies as transparency, you’re very wrong.
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🚨 CNN poll: 200 days into Trump presidency, “Three-quarters of Americans say they can’t trust most of what they hear from the White House."
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Jonathan Gold, the ambassador of Los Angeles and a man who revolutionized dining, has died.
Bourdain and Gold in the same year. One went global to celebrate the local. One went local to celebrate the global. Heroes both. latimes.com/local/obituaries…
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New @CNN: 21st Century Fox's James Murdoch slams Trump: 'There are no good Nazis’ money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/med…
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+ Ronna McDaniel has also been dropped by her talent agency CAA. She'd only hired an agent earlier this month.
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Something about Dave Chapelle and Jon Stewart coming back at the same time that just feels right.
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+ “Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
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#Break: An estimated 10 million people saw the Russian-bought Facebook ads, per Facebook Policy VP Elliot Schrage
More details coming soon
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