Cell service. The same president who broadly used the term “fake news” is now answering calls from reporters directly on his personal phone, the Associated Press reported.
■ News icon Dan Rather has called ‘BS’ on the decision by CBS parent company Paramount to appoint a “bias monitor” who would report directly to President Donald Trump.
■ News icon Dan Rather has called ‘BS’ on the decision by CBS parent company Paramount to appoint a “bias monitor” who would report directly to President Donald Trump.
■ After Meta dismissed its fact-checkers, the crowdsourced replacement to combat falsehoods has been a failure, a tech writer for The Washington Post has deduced.
■ C-SPAN executive and former “Crossfire” producer has unveiled a template for a television program that aims to find common ground in a divisive America.
■ The N-word has been banned at Los Angeles City Council meetings, and the threat of a hefty free-speech lawsuit followed.
‘‘Really scary stuff.’’ Donald Trump’s latest moves against free speech call for defensive maneuvers from news outlets, contended media writer Tom Jones in a Poynter commentary.
■ The N-word has been banned at Los Angeles City Council meetings, and the threat of a hefty free-speech lawsuit followed.
‘‘Really scary stuff.’’ Donald Trump’s latest moves against free speech call for defensive maneuvers from news outlets, contended media writer Tom Jones in a Poynter commentary.
■ A federal judge said the Trump administration violated his order mandating that Voice of America news programming be restored.
■ NBC News examined the ripple effect of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s decision to cease operations after the loss of government funding.
■ Some journalists have found ways to survive in a new media world after years of legacy news experience.
■ Tennessee middle-school cheerleaders were arrested after posting a video on TikTok that depicted a school shooting.
Too late. Regardless of whether politics or money killed Stephen Colbert’s show, late-night television just isn’t what it used to be, explained media writer David Bauder.
■ The Arizona Republic’s Bill Goodykoontz called FCC chair Brendan Carr the “second-most dangerous man” in America.
■ NBC News examined the ripple effect of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s decision to cease operations after the loss of government funding.
■ Some journalists have found ways to survive in a new media world after years of legacy news experience.
■ Tennessee middle-school cheerleaders were arrested after posting a video on TikTok that depicted a school shooting.
Too late. Regardless of whether politics or money killed Stephen Colbert’s show, late-night television just isn’t what it used to be, explained media writer David Bauder.
■ The Arizona Republic’s Bill Goodykoontz called FCC chair Brendan Carr the “second-most dangerous man” in America.
■ FCC’s Carr has been hit with an ethics complaint from the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ Felony rioting charges against two Ohio journalists stemming from coverage of a bridge demonstration have been dropped by prosecutors.
Feline blue. A Seattle woman has sued the Blue Angels for blocking her Instagram account after she posted complaints that the “sonic barrage” from flyovers terrified her dying cat.
■ A Tennessee media group has challenged the state’s new law-enforcement “buffer” law.
■ A Pennsylvania man who filmed an officer driving his police cruiser at him on a sidewalk has filed a First Amendment complaint.
■ Glendale, Ariz., residents have sued the city over a panhandling ordinance that they claim violates the First Amendment.
Which craft? The parallels between spreading false information today and during the witch trials from the 1400s are striking and instructive, a Wellesley College professor has found.
■ A Israeli claim without evidence that Hamas was stealing Gaza aid from the U.N. was reported regularly by The New York Times before sources contradicted it, according to an analysis by The Intercept.
■ Jewish students and a Jewish professor reached a $6 million settlement with UCLA over campus protests.
■ A Washington law that required priests to report abuse disclosed during confession was blocked by a federal court as a violation of religious liberty.
■ Felony rioting charges against two Ohio journalists stemming from coverage of a bridge demonstration have been dropped by prosecutors.
Feline blue. A Seattle woman has sued the Blue Angels for blocking her Instagram account after she posted complaints that the “sonic barrage” from flyovers terrified her dying cat.
■ A Tennessee media group has challenged the state’s new law-enforcement “buffer” law.
■ A Pennsylvania man who filmed an officer driving his police cruiser at him on a sidewalk has filed a First Amendment complaint.
■ Glendale, Ariz., residents have sued the city over a panhandling ordinance that they claim violates the First Amendment.
Which craft? The parallels between spreading false information today and during the witch trials from the 1400s are striking and instructive, a Wellesley College professor has found.
■ A Israeli claim without evidence that Hamas was stealing Gaza aid from the U.N. was reported regularly by The New York Times before sources contradicted it, according to an analysis by The Intercept.
■ Jewish students and a Jewish professor reached a $6 million settlement with UCLA over campus protests.
■ A Washington law that required priests to report abuse disclosed during confession was blocked by a federal court as a violation of religious liberty.