Brian Stelter
CNN's host of @ReliableSources and senior media correspondent. Formerly @nytimes, @tvnewser and Top of the Morning. Email: [email protected]
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Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned
Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars, a media organization that is one of the world's leading purveyors of conspiracy theories, to have a page on its platform.
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Don't miss this by @oliverdarcy: "Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned"
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Hope Hicks is looking for a job in the Big Apple
Hicks resigned after a grilling from Congress as part of the Russia probe.
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Page Six says Hope Hicks is looking for a job in NYC. "Being wooed by a number of major companies."
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After Kavanaugh, the Deluge
The promises that the conservative legal movement made to the pro-life voters are about to come due.
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>> @DouthatNYT: "With his second SCOTUS nomination, notwithstanding all the head-fakes and reality-TV atmospherics, Trump has demonstrated that he'll take his Trumpishness only so far..."
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YouTube says it has a plan to stem the flow of misinformation videos
The world's biggest video website outlined a number of improvements and investments, all designed to show that it is an ally of news publishers.
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Bad actors exploit YouTube's algo by posting conspiracy theory vids. The company knows it's a problem. Here's my full story cnnmon.ie/2KHW5rU pic.twitter.com/nZFy26UXq8
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McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options
Senator Mitch McConnell argued that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed, according to Republican officials.
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Not just once at a rally: Trump's been mocking the #MeToo movement "in private conversations," too, NYT says
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What we lose when we let Trump's tweets and insults take over the news
When newsrooms scramble to cover Trump's rallies, such as the one held on Thursday in Montana, other, more important stories may be getting left behind.
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Q posed by @EzraKlein on this week's @ReliableSources pod: "Does the public know what the government is actually DOING as well as they know what Donald Trump is saying, but often not doing?"
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Ahead of NATO and Putin summits, Trump’s unorthodox diplomacy rattles allies
The president wants to slash U.S. defense spending in Europe if the partners don’t step up.
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2018: U.S. officials tell WashPost that H.R. McMaster said "the president thinks he can be friends with Putin. I don't know why or why he would want to be." wapo.st/2tZSV8j
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Trump calls journalists 'bad people' at rally a week after newsroom shooting
Trump's latest attacks are startling partly because of the timing, one week after five employees were killed at a newspaper 30 miles from Washington.
Scott Pruitt's exit shows the enduring value of hard-hitting journalism
Concerned EPA officials and other sources played a key role in exposing EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's abuses of power.
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In the end, the whistleblowers made enough noise to be heard. Here's my story about Scott Pruitt's exit...
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Water in a news desert: New Jersey is spending $5 million to fund innovation in local news
The dollar amount isn't huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it's also an official statement that communities' information voids are a problem worthy of government attention.
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NJ's "Civic Info Bill" is an "official statement that communities' information voids are a problem worthy of government attention"
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Refuting Trump; new anti-media attacks; NYDN's July 4 cover; Annapolis updates; Ali Watkins reassigned; LeBron the media mogul; holiday viewing guide
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Most days, "here's what the president said" is the wrong frame. The right frame is "Why isn't he telling the truth about X, Y, Z? Is he misinformed, or lying, or worse?"
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New Jersey poised to invest $5 million into local journalism
Public media advocates are calling the investment a historic legislative victory.
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What if every state provided some seed $$$ for local journalism -- as a way to rebuild some of what's been lost through years of budget cuts and layoffs? That's what New Jersey is on the verge of doing. Here's my full story...
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Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built
Friends say his decision to sell part of his business empire is the end of an era.
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"Trump and Murdoch talk weekly and sometimes daily, according to people close to both men..."
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Fast-growing global trend: pop-up protests
We haven't seen this kind of unified social pressure since the Great Depression.
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"This weekend's massive flash rallies to protest President Trump's immigration policies — following the global women's marches and the March For Our Lives — represent a unified, accelerated activism surpassing even what was seen in the late '60s"
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Our Say: Thank you. We will not forget.
Thank you. Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office.
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The Capital Gazette's survivors wrote a letter:
"We will never be the same as we were, now that Rebecca, Wendi, John, Gerald and Rob are gone.
Some day we hope to be as good again. That’s all we can do.
Until then, keep reading. We’ve only just begun."
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‘We have to pick a great one’: Inside Trump’s plan for a new Supreme Court justice
The president, who is listening to advisers and has outsourced much of the spadework, is moving quickly in hopes of replicating last year’s chaos-free pick of Justice Gorsuch.
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WashPost: Trump "wants to see a portfolio of solid academic writing" from his SCOTUS nominee, though an adviser "acknowledged Trump does not care to read it; he simply wants to know it exists."
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For Capital Gazette journalists, the focus is on getting out Saturday's paper
The coming days are likely to be even more difficult for the staff. The grieving process has just begun but the deadlines keep coming.
Act of defiance: After shooting, staffers at Capital Gazette published this edition
Try to imagine getting your day job done after several of your colleagues were killed at your office. It is hard to fathom. But that's exactly what staffers at the Capital Gazette say they're doing.
Annapolis attack: Deadliest day for journalism in US since 9/11
Thursday's attack at the Capital Gazette newspaper is the deadliest day for journalism in America in several years.
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This is the single deadliest day for journalists in the United States since 9/11. cnn.it/2tKch1t snappytv.com/tc/8348588/584…
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