Brian Stelter
Anchor of @ReliableSources and @CNN's chief media correspondent. Formerly @nytimes, @tvnewser and Top of the Morning. Email: [email protected]
Last synced from Twitter 674d ago
Trump's repeat episode; 'rock star quality;' NYT Q's for Dems, Variety's Power of Pride cover; CBS-Viacom update; another Netflix record
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Brian Stelter
>> @MaeveReston on @CNNTonight: Nobody in the Democratic party "has that kind of rock star quality that you see with Donald Trump."
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'The biggest nightmare Perez ever possibly imagined'
Democratic lawmakers sound off on the party's presidential free-for-all — and the dilution of their own power to choose a nominee.
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Brian Stelter
🔥 lead: DNC chairman @TomPerez "is the face of presidential debate rules that will allow a meditation guru to take the stage next week while a red state Western governor watches on TV."
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Big week ahead; what The Times is telling Trump; The Atlantic's new cover; ABC's transcript; Taylor Swift's new video;Â Cannes Lions week
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Brian Stelter
Trump is now accusing news outlets of "treason" when he doesn't like the stories they publish. Worth noting: His casual use of the word "treason" is a relatively new development...
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CNN explains why it's pulling its high-performing Anderson Cooper news show off Facebook Watch
CNN will stream "Anderson Cooper Full Circle," one of Facebook's most popular Watch news shows, exclusively on its own site and apps.
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Brian Stelter
"CNN is taking back its Facebook show, 'Anderson Cooper Full Circle,' to run on its own platforms."
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Trump Transforms Washington’s Corruption Supernova Into a Black Hole
He did start the fire—we’re just trying, and failing, to fight it.
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Brian Stelter
Amazing @mattklewis line: "If Bill Clinton was using a black-powder musket to divert our attention from his scandals, Donald Trump is using a fully automatic distraction machine."
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‘He needs some victories’: Trump lashes out over his Mexico deal
As Trump's presidency reaches the 2.5-year mark, he is more aggrieved than ever, telling advisers that he believes he’ll never get fair treatment.
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Brian Stelter
"More aggrieved than ever" ⬇
"As his presidency reaches the 2.5-year mark, he is more aggrieved than ever, telling advisers that he believes he’ll never get fair treatment from the media and establishment politicians that he believes hate him."
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Trump Meets May in London: Live Updates
On the second day of his three-day state visit to Britain, the president met with Prime Minister Theresa May while protesters mobilized in London.
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Brian Stelter
"Trump said that Britain is the United States' biggest trade partner, a fact he then claimed that many people do not know. (China was actually the United States' largest trading partner in 2018. Britain was No. 7.)"
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Michael Wolff Defends His Reporting Of New Trump Tell-All
The author of the forthcoming book "Siege: Trump Under Fire," defended an explosive claim that had already been called into doubt before the book's publication.
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Brian Stelter
"Wolff says over the course of writing two books he has come to believe Trump is governing on impulse and whim, that there is no method to the madness and that someone who is 'functionally a madman' is president of the United States."
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Donald Trump says he never called Meghan Markle 'nasty,' calls comments about Duchess 'fake news'
Donald Trump denied calling Meghan Markle "nasty."
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Fox headline: "Donald Trump says he never called Meghan Markle 'nasty'"
Very last sentence in the story: "Despite his denial, there is an audio recording circulating of President Trump saying the exact quote about Duchess Meghan that had been reported."
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Why Robert Mueller Should Testify on TV
The special counsel really doesn’t want to talk to Congress about his report. That makes him the best person to do it.
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Brian Stelter
James @Poniewozik's latest: "God bless Mr. Mueller for his quaint faith in his fellow citizens, but let’s be honest. This is America. We wait for the movie, or the TV adaptation."
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Of Course President Trump Hates Maggie Haberman. Why Does the Left?
The weird resistance campaign against the toughest and best White House reporter ever.
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Brian Stelter
"The progressive loathing of @maggieNYT draws some of its force from the mistaken belief that straight news reporters should stand up to the president and call him out for his unfitness to hold office," @jonathanchait writes
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We Need a Word for Destructive Group Outrage
Life in the age of lapidation, which ruins reputations but achieves very little.
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Brian Stelter
>> @CassSunstein says "we need a word for destructive group outrage" -- the online mobs that flare up all too often these days. He suggests repurposing the word "lapidation"
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Trump’s Targeting of Intelligence Agencies Gains a Harder Edge
The president’s war with the deep state has long been waged by tweet, but his new attorney general is poised to professionalize the fight.
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Brian Stelter
Remember how much press this got? Trump ordered the revocation of John Brennan's security clearance. "But the White House never followed through with the complex bureaucratic work it would have taken to strip the clearance..."
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Pelosi smeared; Trump on defense; new Assange charges; 'dire threat to journalists;' Weinstein deal; GateHouse layoffs; podcast with Paul Rieckhoff
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Brian Stelter
I'm really an optimistic person at heart. But right now I find myself agreeing with Politico's @MichaelKruse, who tweeted on Thursday, "We're not prepared for how bad stuff's gonna get." Truly, we are not prepared...
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Cover-up claims; Thursday’s front pages; Times book deals; Lowry’s ‘Aladdin’ review; ‘Love Island’ update; interview with Ev Williams
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Scoop: @NYTLiz is writing a book about "the Sandy Hook families' fight for online truth against conspiracy theorists led by Alex Jones."
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How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became a Long-Running Joke
For two years now, the phrase has become a catchall term invoking the chaos of the Trump White House.
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Brian Stelter
NYT's @KatieRogers: "At this point in the Trump presidency, 'Infrastructure Week' is less a date on the calendar than it is a 'Groundhog Day'-style fever dream doomed to be repeated..."
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POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Don Jr. to pen book … Inside Pelosi’s impeachment battle plan
And a big infrastructure deal looks doomed.
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Brian Stelter
Playbook: "@DonaldJTrumpJr has signed a book deal with Center Street Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, for a book 'that will focus on politics, current events and the future of the MAGA movement'"
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Impeachment pressure; Cuomo's take; Mueller's silence; the power of 'The View;' new fallout in Georgia; Tarantino's Cannes premiere
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Brian Stelter
Something is shifting. More and more Democratic politicians are coming out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. The subject was in the A-block of the NBC, ABC and CBS nightly newscasts on Tuesday. And it was prominent all across the web...
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