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CNN’s Brian Stelter: Trump Himself Is A Conspiracy Nut And Promoter Of Fake News Stories [VIDEO]

Politico reports: America is swearing in a conspiracy theorist as president next month, according to Brian Stelter. “Yeah, President-elect Trump is many things,” the CNN media reporter and “Reliable Sources” host said in a segment Monday. “To his voters, he’s a beloved figure. But one of the things he is, is a conspiracy theorist.” Stelter said Trump “latched on to …

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SNICKER: Digital Subscriptions To “Failing, Dishonest” New York Times Skyrocket Because Donald Trump

From the Hollywood Reporter: Trump headed to the White House has been good for business at the Grey Lady. The New York Times has seen paid subscriptions online skyrocket since the election on Nov. 8. “We’ve seen really remarkable growth,” reaching to over 200,000 new digital-only subscriptions during the fourth quarter, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson on Monday said …

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Sean Hannity: Trump Should Freeze Out The Press Until They Confess To Colluding With Hillary [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Fox News commentator Sean Hannity said that until journalists admit to colluding with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, President-elect Donald Trump should reconsider granting traditional access to reporters. “Trump can do this and speak directly to you, the America people, without having his words twisted and taken out of context,” Hannity said on his Fox show Tuesday night, noting that …

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Politico Editor Resigns After Doxing Nazi Leader

The Hill reports: An award-winning Politico national editor resigned Tuesday after publishing two home addresses of an “alt-right” leader. The abrupt departure happened after Politico’s Michael Hirsh published the private addresses of Richard Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, which critics describe as a white nationalist organization. “Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as …

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Trump Cancels Meeting With NYT In Bitchy Tweets

Politico reports: President-elect Donald Trump has canceled a planned meeting with reporters and editors from the New York Times, a frequent target of criticism by the Manhattan billionaire, because he was upset with a supposed change in the terms of the meeting. “I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed …

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Trump Whines Yet Again About “Crooked Media” Hours After Screaming At Journalists In Private Meeting

Via Mediaite: Donald Trump‘s first personal tweet following his meeting with TV network bigwigs today trashed the “crooked media.” So it probably didn’t go well. Reports on the meeting say that Trump lashed out at them, called them liars, and singled out NBC and CNN in particular. Trump is talking about the questions raised in the press recently about his …

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Twitter Rails Against CNN Headline [VIDEO]

From the Hollywood Reporter: CNN saw swift backlash from the media and viewers over an onscreen message that aired on Monday’s The Lead With Jake Tapper. During a segment on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, CNN’s Jim Sciutto spoke with two media correspondents about alt-right leader Richard Spencer and whether Trump needs to formally denounce and disavow alt-right groups. Sciutto quoted …

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REPORT: Breitbart May Be Forced To Reveal Secretive Investors Before Gaining Capitol Hill Press Credentials

Politico reports: On Friday Breitbart News appeared before the Standing Committee of the Senate Press Gallery in order to secure permanent Capitol Hill credentials. But while the act may seem mundane, the process may help shed light on the inner workings of the right-wing news site, whose chairman, Stephen Bannon, is now chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump. Within the …

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Fox News Host Sean Hannity Tops Media “Rich List”

The Hill reports: Fox News anchor Sean Hannity is atop the New York Observer’s annual “rich list” of the highest-paid figures in TV news. Hannity, a conservative commentator and Donald Trump backer, makes a $29 million annual salary when combining his afternoon syndicated radio program and primetime opinion show on Fox News. Hannity, 55, has been with the network since …

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Trump Melts Down Over Transition Reports

Here’s what the New York Times is saying: President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world. One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team …

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Journalist Gwen Ifill Dies Of Cancer At Age 61

NPR reports: Gwen Ifill, one of the most prominent African-American journalists in the country, has died, multiple sources tell NPR. She was 61. Ifill, the host of PBS NewsHour and Washington Week, was a veteran Washington journalist who covered seven presidential campaigns and moderated the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008. Ifill was also the best-selling author of The …

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“Restrained” Trump Continues Attacks On Media

In contrast to this morning’s whining tweet, here’s what Trump said yesterday, via CNN: Donald Trump says social media helped him win the presidential election — but he’ll be “restrained” about using Twitter and Facebook once in power. In an interview with CBS, set to air on Sunday, Trump also tells Lesley Stahl that social media gives him “a method …

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Fox Business Edits Obama Interview To Make It Look Like He’s Encouraging “Illegals” To Vote [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Fox Business Network used a deceptively edited clip of President Barack Obama Monday to argue that the president encouraged illegal immigrants to vote, when in fact he had done nothing of the sort. FBN host Stuart Varney reported on story that he complained was getting “no media play at all, except here.” Varney played a clip of a …

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REPORT: Megyn Kelly Reveals Sexual Assault Attempt By Former Fox Chairman Roger Ailes In New Book

Radar Online reports: Fox News star Megyn Kelly has unveiled explosive new charges against the network’s founder, Roger Ailes, claiming the disgraced 76-year-old executive tried to sexually assault her in his New York office and hinted she would be fired when she “pushed him away.” RadarOnline.com can reveal that the 45-year-old anchor’s bombshell account was added at the last minute …

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REPORT: Casting Call Goes Out For TrumpTV

Via Mediaite: Despite claims from the Republican nominee himself, if Donald Trump loses the election and launches some form of TrumpTV or Trump News Network, it will be a secret that’s about as badly kept as John Podesta‘s email password. And now, a casting notice is reportedly circulating for a “up-and-coming conservative media network currently in development” in New York …

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CNN Guest Drops The Mic On Lewandowski: Listen, I’m Not Getting Paid By One Of The Candidates [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Journalist Peter Beinart and former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski got into a big fight on CNN tonight after Lewandowski trotted out one poll that shows Trump doing well with minorities in one swing state. Beinart bewilderedly asked him why he would rely on one poll instead of an average of all the polls. Lewandowski and Kayleigh …

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Fox News Guest: The White House Knows That Hillary Is Secretly Taking Performance “Boosting Drugs” [VIDEO]

Via Raw Story: How can you tell that Hillary Clinton is winning? Because Fox News is resorting to floating increasingly outlandish conspiracies about her. Case in point: On Fox & Friends on Tuesday, conservative author Ed Klein claimed that he has a source from within the White House who told him that Hillary Clinton has been taking performance-enhancing drugs to …

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AT&T Closes Deal Buy Time Warner For $80B

The New York Times reports: AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for more than $80 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Saturday, a move that would create a new colossus in the worlds of media and telecommunications. Putting together AT&T, a sprawling video and internet empire that encompasses cellphone and cable service along with DirecTV, and …

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Fox News Anchor Shep Smith Finally Comes Out

The Huffington Post reports: Along with the rampant sexual harassment that brought [Roger] Ailes down, there were also reports that he used homophobic slurs toward rivals. Though Shep rarely talks about his sexuality, he is regularly, for instance, included in Out Magazine’s Power 50 list. I asked if Ailes had ever made homophobic remarks when he was around. “No, never. …

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REPORT: The Trump News Network Is Coming

The Financial Times reports: Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry’s top dealmakers about the prospect of setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election in November. Mr Kushner — an increasingly influential figure in the billionaire’s presidential campaign — contacted Aryeh Bourkoff, the founder and chief executive of LionTree, a boutique …

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