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 551d ago
Baldwin reacts to Trump; Smollett updates; UK report blasts Facebook; Nauert out; 'time to panic;' Netflix's Oscars campaign; week ahead calendar
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Brian Stelter
In the reactions to the Jussie Smollett developments, I see two competing definitions of "MEDIA."
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Wife of Aurora massacre victim got text from husband: ‘I love you, I’ve been shot at work’
The wife of one of the Aurora mass shooting victims describes how she received a text from her husband saying he'd been shot at work — and then heard nothing more from him.
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Brian Stelter
A wife received a text from her husband in Aurora: "I love you, I've been shot at work."
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At 243 Pounds, Trump Tips the Scale Into Obesity
The president gained four pounds since last year, pushing his body mass index into the obese category, but the White House physician otherwise declared him in “very good health.”
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Brian Stelter
POTUS "is not required to release any of his medical findings. But in recent decades, it has become a custom for presidents to authorize their doctors to provide detailed findings" after checkups.
Not this time. Info from Trump's exam "was sparse…"
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Journalism Isn't Dying. It's Returning to Its Roots
The future of journalism is more partisan and supported by more diverse revenue streams—in other words, like the journalism of 200 years ago.
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Brian Stelter
>> @antoniogm: "The path to the next golden age in American journalism isn't nostalgia for a vanishing past but the same way that led to the previous golden age, namely, that of profit." And more than likely "this will mean some partiality..."
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Sims sues Trump; shutdown resolution; crowd size spat; Enquirer updates; Mueller's end game; Nicki Minaj vs BET; Grammys ratings; Hulu's new shows
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Brian Stelter
Notice the difference: Fox carried almost all of Trump's rally live. MSNBC and CNN covered Beto's rally, but didn't carry it live. bit.ly/2ByRr8S pic.twitter.com/30Zs7FT6uR
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Mistress’ Brother Leaked Bezos Texts to Enquirer
Multiples sources tell The Daily Beast that Michael Sanchez, a Trumpworld associate and brother to Bezos’ lover, gave the couple’s texts to The National Enquirer.
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Bezos investigator Gavin de Becker: "Our investigation into who initially provided texts to the National Enquirer, and why it was done—that investigation is now complete. We have turned our conclusions over to our attorneys for referral to law enforcement"
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Researchers say fears about ‘fake news’ are exaggerated
<p>It’s so widely accepted that it’s verging on conventional wisdom: misinformation, or “fake news,” spread primarily by Facebook to hundreds of millions of people (and created by Russian agents), helped distort the political landscape before and...
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Brian Stelter
Via @mathewi: "Fears about the spread and influence of fake news have been over-hyped, @BrendanNyhan says, and many of the initial conclusions about the scope of the problem and its effect on US politics were exaggerated or just plain wrong."
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'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intel Briefings
Officials say Trump gets angry when given information that contradicts his beliefs
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Brian Stelter
New @TIME story on Trump's "willful ignorance" about intel: "The reporting for this story is based on interviews with multiple officials who have first hand knowledge of the episodes they describe, and multiple others who have been briefed on them..."
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What Do You Learn About Trump in an 85-Minute Interview?
Among other things: Who is up and who is down, what he cares about and what he does not, what he knows and what he does not.
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Brian Stelter
"There is no such thing as an AK-27 rifle. Presumably, the self-described Second Amendment champion was confusing it with the AK-47, although the F.B.I. of course does not use Russian-made weapons."
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The Facebook test; 'vast' list of problems; Trump v. intel chiefs; Schultz's strategy; Netflix's offer; covering the deep freeze
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Brian Stelter
via tonight's @ReliableSources: @Cheddar and @Reddit are piloting a video version of AMA bit.ly/2MGPJqy pic.twitter.com/qegbxNngxe
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POLITICO Playbook PM: Unpaid, uncertain and unmoored: Inside the White House
And the Supreme Court appears to rebuff the Trump administration's push for a quick DACA hearing.
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Playbook: "White House aides are privately becoming more and more freaked out about the shutdown, fretting about their own personal financial situation and the president's political standing..."
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Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump
This is a story about how the lack of faith, not factories, inspired a Middle American movement around one man.
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Brian Stelter
"When Trump caught so many political commentators off guard, we looked for an explanation amid the closing factories, but we should have been looking for the closing churches," @TPCarney writes. "And this is a story much bigger than Trump..."
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Teens in Make America Great Again hats taunted a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial
A crowd of teenagers surrounded a Native American elder and other activists and mocked them after Friday's Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Brian Stelter
A TV exec emailed me: "What's more 'America' in 2019 than a viral standoff at the Lincoln Memorial between white teens in MAGA hats and a Native American elder… spurred by misunderstanding, fear, fury, and social media confusion?"
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A Republican Challenge to Trump?
Larry Hogan can offer a serious and meaningful alternative to the corroded conservatism we have in Washington today.
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Brian Stelter
"Instead of building a wall that Mexicans will pay for, Americans are going unpaid for a wall that’s not going to be built" [email protected]
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Trends & Statistics
There are a variety of sources of information NIDA uses to monitor the prevalence and trends regarding drug abuse in the United States. The resources below cover a variety of drug related issues, including information on drug usage, emergency room...
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Brian Stelter
In a speech about border wall $$, Trump tried out a new stat: He said drugs "cost our society in excess of $700 billion" a year. The NIH's most recent # is $740 billion, but that includes tobacco use, alcohol, etc. Not just drugs smuggled from Mexico. drugabuse.gov/related-topics… pic.twitter.com/Z2Wue6SVtp
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BuzzFeed's bombshell; Netflix's gains; Tribune's transition; Trump boxed in; 'Report for America' is expanding; HBO's timely 'Brexit' film
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Brian Stelter
>> @BuzzFeedBen: "Jason and Anthony have spent many months opening a totally original vein in the Trump story, and with this new scoop, their report last May on the negotiations over a Trump Tower Moscow looks more and more like the central story..."
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Impeach Donald Trump
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.
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Brian Stelter
The House "can no longer dodge its constitutional duty," @YAppelbaum writes. "It must immediately open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and bring the debate out of the court of public opinion and into Congress, where it belongs."
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Rudy's collusion evolution; The Atlantic's case for impeachment; New York's new editor; Tim Cook's essay; NYT's special section; Netflix earnings day
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Brian Stelter
On Thursday morning @TheAtlantic is coming out with its next cover story: "The Case for Impeachment."
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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The unusually secretive way the president has handled these meetings has left his own administration guessing what happened and piqued the interest of investigators.
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Brian Stelter
Whoa: this @peterbakernyt story reveals that Trump called a Times reporter shortly after meeting Putin in July 2017 "and argued that the Russians were falsely accused of election interference" nyti.ms/2MdA6GH pic.twitter.com/yx7MnnDEbm
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The Register's editorial: Steve King should resign for the good of Iowa
Losing his committee assignments has left King with little opportunity to work for his constituents on vitally important rural development issues.
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Brian Stelter
Iowa's biggest paper, the @DMRegister, has had enough: "Congressman Steve King should resign."
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