Insulting Women in the Media

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Article in The Wrap by Alyssa Ray, 9/8/26

Headline:  “Trump Launches Back-to-Back Attacks on ‘3rd Rate’ Kaitlan Collins and ‘Unattractive’ Maggie Haberman

Subhead: “’Fake News is getting worse and worse in the U.S.A.,’ the president writes”

“Donald Trump once again publicly criticized CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, launching back-to-back attacks against the female journalists on social media.

On Tuesday, the president kicked off his renewed attacks on female journalists by zeroing in on Collins on Truth Social, where he blasted her as a “3rd rate” anchor. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/trump-attacks-kaitlan-collins-maggie-haberman-truth-social/

Media – Digging Out the Facts

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Article in Mediaite by Kathryn Wilkens, 9/8/26

Headline:  “Trump Rages at Maggie Haberman and New York Mag Over 9/11 Reports: ‘Liars and Scoundrels’

“President Donald Trump erupted at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and New York magazine on Tuesday over reporting about his whereabouts following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and his plans for this year’s 25th anniversary commemoration, demanding retractions while calling journalists ‘liars and scoundrels’ and attacking Haberman as ‘unattractive both inside and out.’. . .”

“. . .During Tuesday’s Tunnel to Towers event on the Ellipse, Trump recounted being near One Liberty Plaza when two firefighters, fearing the building was about to collapse, grabbed him under the arms, ‘literally lifted me up,’ and carried him away. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-rages-at-maggie-haberman-and-new-york-mag-over-9-11-reports-liars-and-scoundrels/

Fighting Public Mediacide

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 9/8/26

Headline:  “Opinion | As ‘perfect storm’ hits public media, initiative seeks a reimagined system to serve communities”

Subhead:  “Poynter Institute, Public Media Company will guide effort to recommend plans for renewed public media after federal funding cuts”

“A little more than a year ago, the federal government delivered a devastating blow to a critical part of our media landscape: It defunded public media.

“The move, under the direction of President Donald Trump, stripped important funding from public radio and television stations that provide crucial news and information from our biggest cities all the way to our most rural outposts. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/as-perfect-storm-hits-public-media-initiative-seeks-a-reimagined-system-to-serve-communities/

Media Consolidation Backfire

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Carolina Abbott Galvão, 9/8/26

Headline:  “What Happened in Lancaster?”

Subhead:  “The saga of a public radio station, a regional newspaper, the Pennsylvania family that funded them, and an NPR host turned nonprofit executive.”

“. . .’To advance their legacy of supporting local journalism and media literacy, the Steinman family sought to pair LNP [daily newspaper] with another locally based media organization—one with a self-perpetuating community board and a track record of strong leadership,’ Krasne told LNP’s digital arm, LancasterOnline. . .”

“. . .On October 3, 2024, three out of the seven people working in the station’s newsroom were laid off, and a fourth was reassigned. McDevitt, Long, and Jordan Wilkie, a democracy reporter, were the only three people left on the editorial staff. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-in-lancaster-lnp-witf-steinman-family-npr-all-things-considered.php

No WH Talking Points? Get Fired.

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Article in The Guardian by Victoria Bekiempis and Jeremy Barr, 9/8/26

Headline: “Ex-60 Minutes managing editor says fired staffers ‘refused to be accomplices’ in show’s ‘destruction’

Subhead: “Guy Campanile addresses ouster in Facebook post and says ‘we were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs’”

“The former managing editor at 60 Minutes, who was fired in May with several other top correspondents, has spoken out about the ouster, saying he and his colleagues, were dismissed because they ‘would not compromise our principles or reputations by jamming unverifiable notions or White House talking points into our reporting’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/08/60-minutes-managing-editor-facebook-post

Radio Active Magazine 9/8/26

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Headline:  “Today’s Radio Active Magazine & Media & Democracy for Sept. 19: ‘The impact of news media on the Japanese political economy’

Tune in to http://KKFI.ORG for thelive episode 6:00 PM CST.

“The impact of news media on the Japanese political economy is the theme of to night’s Radio Active Magazine, to be released a week from Saturday, Sept. 19, as ‘Media & Democracy’ on Audioport for Pacifica.

This features a presentation by Rachel Clark about news media in the US and Japan and their impact on the political economy.

The podcast with a video and highlights is available in the article on “The impact of news media on the Japanese political economy” on Wikiversity:

Stealing from Journalists OK?

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Article in The Intercept by Noah Horowitz, 9/2/26

Headline:   “Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles”

Subhead:  “Trump’s Justice Department filed a brief on behalf of OpenAI in a landmark copyright lawsuit by The Intercept and other media companies.”

“President Donald Trump’s Justice Department took the side of tech giant OpenAI in its court battle with The Intercept and other media companies over the company’s use of others’ creative work to train its artificial intelligence tools.

“In a federal court filing in New York, the Justice Department argued that the U.S. has a vested interest in OpenAI having access to a vast array of intellectual property. The Trump administration warned that restricting OpenAI’s access to the data could hamper scientific progress and harm the country’s dominance in the race for artificial intelligence. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/trump-openai-copyright-lawsuit-news-articles/

Report Weapons Use – Treason?

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Article in Al Jezerra by Staff, 9/3/26

Headline:  “Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions”

“US President Trump has again pushed back on media reports detailing dangerously low munitions stockpiles as the US-Israel war on Iran stretches into its seventh month.

“In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump said the military was producing munitions at ‘levels never seen before” and has “far more than we could ever use’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/9/4/iran-war-live-us-rules-out-iran-talks-until-ship-attacks-stop?update=4915298

Rt. Media Eating Their Own

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 9/3/26

Headline: “Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal”

Subhead: “Fox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes, and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network.”

“On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued a press release that reverberated through the media and political worlds. In a terse statement, the network announced that it had severed ties with Maria Bartiromo, the once-respected business journalist who in recent years became consumed by right-wing conspiracy theories. . .”

“Status has learned that Bartiromo’s termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. After Trump delivered his unhinged prime time speech. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/maria-bartiromo-fox-news-announcement-departure

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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 9/3/26

Headline: “Fox News Media abruptly ousts longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo”

Subhead: “Bartiromo had been a host at the network for more than a decade and Fox gave no explanation for the decision”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/03/maria-bartiromo-fox-news-departure

ABC Se-f Censorship

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Joel Simon, 9/2/26

Headline: “Why ABC Self-Censored”

Subhead:  “In a lawsuit, the network cops to making coverage decisions based on government pressure. It’s a striking admission—and an untested legal strategy.”

“A cardinal rule of journalism: never back down in the face of intimidation. And yet, in a lawsuit filed in August by ABC and its parent, Disney, in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers argued that for months, as the Trump administration “steadily increased the pressure on ABC,” the actions of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively undermined the network’s First Amendment rights. In the filing, ABC says that led to self-censorship—a seemingly unprecedented admission, and an untested legal strategy for a media organization. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/why-abc-self-censored-disney-lawsuit-government-pressure-fcc-carr-kimmel-untested-legal-strategy.php