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Article in The Guardian by Margaret Sullivan, 6/28/25

Headline: “Struggling in politics? Consider a war – the media will help”

Subhead:  “Trump’s Iran strike knocked everything else out of the news, including the Minnesota shootings – and it was little surprise”

” ‘You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,’ was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington after the illustrator was sent to Cuba to cover an insurrection and cabled back to the boss that there was little going on.

Much has changed since that famous (if true) exchange of the late 19th century, in the heyday of sensationalism known as yellow journalism.

But one thing that hasn’t changed is that there’s nothing like military conflict to capture the attention of the public, with plenty of help from the media. And the media – whether a tabloid newspaper or a cable news network – benefits, too. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/28/trump-iran-war-media-support

Publish a Thousand Points of View?

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Article in The New York Times by Benjamin Mullin, 6/25/25

Headline:  “The Washington Post Will Ask Some Sources to Annotate Its Stories”

Subhead:  “The program, called From the Source, will start with articles from the publication’s climate team. It could provide readers with more viewpoints but would also require moderation and vetting.”

“The Washington Post, facing serious financial shortfalls, has spent the past year working on new ways to draw more readers to its site, and encourage those who come to spend more time there.

“In November, executives rolled out ‘Ask The Post A.I.,’ an artificial intelligence tool that answers readers’ questions using published works from The Post. The publication has also been experimenting with lower-priced subscriptions, called flexible access, for readers who want to sample its journalism.

“On Wednesday, The Post’s top editor said in a memo that the publication would begin piloting another attempt to keep readers engaged: inviting some of the people quoted in its stories to annotate articles they appeared in. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/business/washington-post-annotations-comments.html

Media Caught Off-Guard

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 5/23/25

Headline:  “Opinion | ‘Extraordinary and unprecedented’: The media reaction to Trump’s Iran attack”

Subhead:  “Trump’s order to bomb Iran drew sharp media scrutiny over its timing, global risks and potential to drag the US into war”

“Stunning news broke Saturday night when it was learned the United States, under the orders of President Donald Trump, bombed three sites in Iran in an effort to dismantle that country’s nuclear program. . .”

“So, what has been some of the media reaction?. . .”

“Speaking on MSNBC, host Rachel Maddow said, ‘There have been factions within U.S. politics who have advocated for the United States to go to war with Iran for decades. President Trump is generally politically credited with standing in opposition to those kinds of factions in U.S. politics. But he has now made their dreams come true without really making a case to the U.S. public that there is a need to urgently act right now, to have done this — and that has a few different consequences’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/trump-iran-airstrikes-media-reaction/

Sinking Media Outlet?

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Article in AP by Staff, 6/23/25

Headline:  “With its stock in sharp decline, Trump’s media company will buy $400 million of its own shares”

“President Donald Trump’s media company plans to buy back up to $400 million of its stock, which have lost 46% of their value this year. . .”

“The company said early this year that it lost $400.9 million in 2024 and its annual revenue declined 12% to $3.6 million.

“After winning the U.S. presidential election in November, Trump transferred all of his shares in the company — worth around $4 billion on paper — as a gift to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Trump’s shares amounted to more than half of the company’s stock. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-buyback-stock-truth-social-385a1389bbc8508477fb272a4bfcf179

Facts for the Media?

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Article in FAIR by Emma Llano, 6/20/25

Headline:  “Top Papers Dutifully Echo Cooked-Up Charges Against Abrego Garcia”

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States on June 6, after being wrongly deported to El Salvador almost three months earlier. Abrego Garcia had been detained in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center since March 15, along with more than 250 other immigrants accused of belonging to the Latin American gangs Tren de Aragua and MS-13. . .”

“Though there are plenty of reasons to cast doubt on the charges made against Abrego Garcia, in the seven articles published in the wake of his return, the New York Times . . . and Wall Street Journal, . . .  present them mostly at face value. Given that the publications are the top two largest newspapers in America, their deficient coverage of one of the most important immigration cases of the second Trump administration is noteworthy. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/top-papers-dutifully-echo-cooked-up-charges-against-abrego-garcia/

Settle or no Media Deal

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Article in UPI by Mark Moran, 6/19/25

Headline:  “Paramount stalls $35 million ’60 Minutes’ settlement, slowing merger”

“Paramount has pulled back on a $35 million settlement with President Donald Trump after he sued the media company over a segment on CBS’ News’ “60 Minutes.”

“The lawsuit alleges that the program edited an interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election to change how she would appear to viewers.

“The stalled settlement is holding up a potential $8 billion takeover of Paramount by Skydance, a deal that the two companies negotiated over a year ago. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/19/paramount-stalles-35m-trump-settlement/7591750371277/

No Prescription for TV Ads

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Article in the Daily Caller by Robert McGreevy, 6/18/25

Headline:  “CNN Acknowledges RFK’s Drug Ad Ban Could ‘Cripple’ Broadcasting Giants “

“CNN admitted Wednesday policies to limit pharmaceutical TV advertising that are being considered by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could cripple the TV news business.

The policies, which include a plan to remove a loophole allowing pharmaceutical companies to write off advertising as a tax deduction, could ‘leave broadcasters in financial straits,’ CNN reported in a Wednesday article.

“While Kennedy Jr. has long advocated to end the practice of pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising — a practice banned in almost every other nation globally — experts believe that pharmaceutical giants would challenge an outright ban on First Amendment grounds. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/18/cnn-rfk-drug-ad-ban-cripple-broadcasting-giants-pharmaceuticals/

Media Execs Were Shocked!

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Article in Mediaite by Colby Hall, 6/9/25

Headline:  “The Fake Outrage at ABC’s Terry Moran Exposes How Dishonest Independent Media Can Be”

“Terry Moran made a mistake.

“Not a big, career-killing one —more like the kind of late-night lapse that happens when the filter slips and the truth comes out a little too unvarnished. In the bleary hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning, the ABC News senior correspondent let fly a tweet about Stephen Miller, calling him ‘richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,’ . . .” nourishment.”

“The blunt bit of analysis was deleted quickly. The damage was already done, his post having landed squarely in the middle of the culture war mosh pit, where such commentary is chum for partisan sharks desperate for engagement. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-fake-outrage-at-abcs-terry-moran-exposes-how-dishonest-independent-media-can-be/

Reporters Expose Things

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jon Alsop, 6/9/25

Headline: “Doin’ It Live”

Subhead:  “A timely televised play won’t save the republic.”

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live! These, of course, are the immortal words of Bill O’Reilly. But George Clooney had a similar thought recently—involving a different former CBS newsman—when he decided to mount a live televised production of Good Night, and Good Luck, a Broadway play that he cowrote, based on a movie that he cowrote, based on Edward R. Murrow’s famous takedown of the demagogue Joseph McCarthy in the fifties. . .”

“Of course, Clooney and CNN were also interested in televising the show because its subject matter is supremely relevant right now, as every journalist covering it dutifully pointed out. The historical echoes ‘are extraordinary,’ even ‘eerie,’ CNN’s Brian Stelter wrote, noting the play’s themes of ‘unrestrained political power, corporate timidity and journalistic integrity.’ Clooney told the Times that, “unfortunately, this play always is timely. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/doin-it-live-clooney-cnn-good-night-good-luck-tv-live-broadcast-murrow-friendly-mccarthy.php