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How Palm Beach Media Is Capitalizing On Trump
Local outlets have developed Mar-a-Lago sources for years. “It’s also kind of: ‘Area Man Is President,’” said a Palm Beach Post political reporter.
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IJR Lands The Only Press Spot On Tillerson’s Plane To Asia
Erin McPike, the White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, was the only journalist to have a seat on the trip. The State Department had said that it was planning on taking a smaller plane.
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Breitbart Is A Player In This Paul Ryan-White House Drama
“Anything that is harmful to passing the president’s agenda is counterproductive,” one White House official told BuzzFeed News, the day after a Breitbart exclusive put Speaker Ryan and President Trump at odds with leaked audio of Ryan saying he wouldn’t defend Trump.
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The Other Fox News Network Is Getting Its Big Break
For Fox Business Network, it pays to have a Republican businessman in the White House. The network has topped CNBC in the ratings for the past five months, giving Fox News’s sister channel new bragging rights.
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President Mike Pence Doesn’t Sound Quite So Bad, Some Top Democrats Say
“I’d sleep easier with almost any other human being as president than Donald Trump,” said a former Obama speechwriter. And they won’t say so publicly, but several elected Democrats told BuzzFeed News they would much prefer to have Mike Pence in the Oval Office.
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Trump Gets Anonymity After Dissing Anonymous Sources
On Friday, Trump said the media “shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name.” On Tuesday, he spoke as a “senior administration official” in stories.
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Breitbart CEO Lobbies For Congressional Press Passes
Breitbart CEO Larry Solov on Friday met with the standing committee of the U.S. Senate Press Gallery — which is made up of five reporters at traditional media outlets — to grant the site permanent press passes to Congress. Breitbart leadership said on Friday that Steve Bannon resigned his position with the company.
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CNN Is Considering Skipping White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The cable network, which Donald Trump has repeatedly called “fake news,” is discussing internally about whether to attend the annual star-studded dinner, sources say.
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Reporters Were Booted From Sean Hannity’s CPAC Taping
Reporters were ushered out of the media area at CPAC Wednesday evening before Fox News taped a special CPAC episode.
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Facebook Is Trying To Smooth Over Relationships With The Media
Facebook’s new head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, is hosting off-the-record events at her Manhattan home with big-name media people like the New Yorker’s David Remnick and Vox’s Melissa Bell.
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How Donald Trump Launched A New Golden Age For Cable TV
With the president watching, cable news has been revived from a stale format into a crucial component in understanding the White House.
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Investigative Reporter David Sirota Has Backed Out Of The Left’s "Answer" To Breitbart
Sirota announced he would join True Blue Media last month. “The circumstances of the job subsequently changed.”
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Bowling Green Is Using The Nonexistent “Massacre” To Attract Tourists
Things to do in the Kentucky city include the National Corvette Museum and the Lost River Cave. There definitely wasn’t a massacre.
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Media Writer Michael Wolff Is Shopping Around A Trump Book, Sources Say
Wolff, who is said to be negotiating access with the administration, recently wrote flattering profiles of Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon.
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Democrats Confront Lefty Fake News
As opposition to President Trump consumes social media, Democrats are facing their own troubles with conspiracy theories and sketchy stories going viral. “It exists on the left and that’s a problem because it misinforms people.”
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Why Corporate America Is Taking Sides On Trump
It’s marketing. Consumers are pushing notoriously safe, big brands into politicized advertising (or dragging existing campaigns into it).
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Russian Tech Executive Files Defamation Lawsuit Against BuzzFeed Over Dossier
The lawsuit claims that the publication of an unverified dossier about President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia was defamatory.
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The White House Has Started Doing Some Normal Press Stuff After The Travel Ban Chaos
On three days last week, White House officials briefed reporters ahead of executive orders — rather than after the fact.
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Wall Street Journal Editor: Stop Calling The Travel Ban Countries “Majority Muslim”
“It’s very loaded. The reason they’ve been chosen is not because they’re majority Muslim but because they’re on the list of countries Obama identified as countries of concern,” editor-in-chief Gerry Baker wrote to top editors.
