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The Hill reports: CNN says it won’t try to hire ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, a company spokesman told Buzzfeed on Monday afternoon. Scaramucci has experience in cable news, having hosted “Wall Street Week” on Fox Business and serving as a contributor on Fox News. CNN made a similar declaration when White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned …

Via press release from MSNBC: For the first time in the network’s 21-year history, MSNBC finished the week as the most-watched cable network during weekday prime (M-F 8-11pm) in total viewers.  According to Nielsen, MSNBC ended the week of July 17-21 as the #1 cable network for all weekday prime, averaging 2.34 million viewers, ahead of FOX News at 2.25 …

Politico reports: The New York Times on Sunday took the unusual step of requesting an apology from a competitor, asking “Fox & Friends” to retract a report that the Times was to blame for the 2015 escape of an ISIS leader. Fox subsequently updated the story on its website with the NYT letter. “I am writing on behalf of The …

The Washington Post reports: A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter. Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters’ previous …

The New York Daily News reports: Joe Scarborough has left the party. The “Morning Joe” host and former Republican congressman announced on “The Late Show” Tuesday that he’s leaving the GOP. “I am a Republican but I’m not going to be a Republican anymore,” Scarborough told host Stephen Colbert. “I’ve got to become an Independent.” Colbert opened the segment by …

Raw Story reports: Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy admitted Tuesday that the report they did on former FBI Director James Comey revealing classified information in his memos was “mistaken.” After the story aired on the Monday morning show, President Donald Trump then tweeted, “James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!” However, as of Tuesday …

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a laugh at the expense of journalists covering the G-20 summit in Germany on Friday. The two leaders were chatting with each other ahead of their two-hour meeting when the press was asked to leave the room. As the reporters made their exit, Putin gestured to them and …

The Guardian reports: Robots will help a national news agency to create up to 30,000 local news stories a month, with the help of human journalists and funded by a Google grant. The Press Association has won a €706,000 (£621,000) grant to run a news service with computers writing localised news stories. The national news agency, which supplies copy to …

The AV Club reports: For those appalled at the right-wing hellscape the Donald Trump era has unleashed upon the land, the idea of going local is seen as an effective strategy to fight back against a federal government infested with conservative idealogues at the highest levels. Unfortunately, according to Last Week Tonight host and guy whose astutely angry British-ness can …

The Intercept has published audio of Donald Trump telling the crowd at his $10M Republican National Committee reelection fundraiser that he should sue CNN. Reporters were banned from attending the event. They write: Trump drew loud applause with his suggestion that he was prevailing in his campaign against the cable news network. “Boy, did CNN get killed over the last …

Mediaite reports: On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert slammed President Trump over his tweets attacking MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. “I’m gonna say something right now that I did not think was possible anymore,” he began. “I am shocked by something Donald Trump said.” Colbert read the tweet out loud in his Trump voice and reacted, “First of all, …

From today’s New York Daily News: Morning breaks over Washington. The President of the United States, possessed of awesome power and awesome responsibility, readies to grapple with the most urgent business of nation and world. The man in the mirror. For embarrassingly too many a morning since Jan. 21, 2017, Donald Trump gripped his phone, opened the Twitter app and …

Vanity Fair reports: A few days shy of her six-month mark on air, Van Susteren’s business is finished on MSNBC, according to people familiar with the situation. The anchor, whose show struggled to gain traction even as the rest of her colleagues were buoyed by anti-Trump hysteria, has parted ways with the network. She will not appear on the show …

Raw Story reports: Seth Meyers on Wednesday hit Fox News for its’ incessant championing of Donald Trump, joking the morning show “Fox & Friends” has “showered Trump with so much praise they’re starting to sound like the helicopter parents of a sh*t private school kid.” “Our Donny would never collude with Russia how dare you?” Meyers joked. “Do you even …

Confirming rumors first floated last month when he announced his resignation from Congress, today Fox News announced that they’ve hired soon to be former GOP US House Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Their press release notes that Chaffetz “will offer political analysis across Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network’s daytime and primetime programming.” Chaffetz checks out of Congress on Friday and …

UNDERWAY. On camera! Via the Daily Beast: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is finally back on camera today. White House–press relations have been contentious the past few weeks as the Trump administration has cut off media access more and more. During yesterday’s audio-only, off-camera briefing, CNN’s Jim Acosta asked the question most media is wondering: “Why not turn the …

Politico reports: CNN’s decision to retract a story published last week tying a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team to ongoing Russia investigations offered the president an opportunity Tuesday morning to attack perhaps his favorite media target, which he labeled “fake news” and questioned for publishing “phony stories.” The story in question, published late last week, reported that the …

From the Hollywood Reporter: MSNBC, which has been soaring lately in both ratings and in advertising prices, is giving radio host Hugh Hewitt his own show, adding another conservative voice to a lineup that already includes Fox News poach Greta Van Susteren and former George W. Bush communications hand Nicole Wallace. Hewitt’s self-titled show will air on Saturday mornings at …

Politico reports: Fox News anchor Eric Bolling may have just signed a new multi-year contract, but he’s also eyeing a possible career change: A future run for Senate. For now, Bolling is secure in his job as co-host of the new show “The Fox News Specialists.” But in a recent telephone interview from Fox News headquarters in New York City, …

The Hill reports: Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge weighed in on cable news “stress” in a Friday morning tweet, citing recent medical leaves of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson while stating that “another host appears heavily drugged.” Drudge’s tweet referred to Carlson missing his Thursday program due to appendicitis and Maddow missing nearly two weeks of hosting …