| | | | | Colbert's best two weeks yet | | Bill Carter's latest must-read for our media section: Arguably Stephen Colbert needs a "convention bounce" as much as Trump and Clinton do.
"With live editions of his 'Late Show' on CBS over the past two weeks, covering the two weeks of political conventions, Colbert has generated more energy, more buzz and more digital views than any previous period in his first year on the network -- not to mention some of his best ratings this year.
After a run of uneven performances that surprised many of his fans, and even his late-night rivals, who consider him outrageously talented, Colbert clearly elevated his game during the conventions. Maybe that will finally squash the bubbling rumors -- never more than that -- that CBS might consider installing its emerging later-night star James Corden in the earlier time period." Read more from Bill here... Including his analysis of Viacom's complaints over Colbert's use of his "Colbert Report" character... | | | Sunday's "Reliable" guest list | | | Along with the aforementioned Jason Miller, I'll be joined by Julian Assange (from the Ecuadorian embassy in London), Dan Rather, Kim Ghattas, Margaret Sullivan, and David Zurawik... | | | While Clinton is giving her first post-DNC interview to Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," Trump's first post-DNC interview is with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week..." | | Fox's DNC coverage decisions came under scrutiny this week, particularly after the channel skipped Khizr Khan's speech, which was hailed by some as the single most remarkable moment of the week.
While Fox showed each night's keynote speakers, "it skipped many of the speeches that focused on gun violence, racial issues, women's rights and the LGBT community, counter-programming the event with a more conservative narrative," Dylan Byers and Olivia Beavers write. "This was a stark contrast to Fox's coverage of the RNC a week earlier, when the network covered the vast majority of primetime addresses." Read more...
Brian Lowry emails: "There really was a parallel-universe quality to the coverage... The disparity on Fox stemmed not so much from the tone or the analysis but from the moments that the network simply chose not to cover..." | | | Oliver Darcy spotted an excellent CNN chyron this afternoon: | | | Trump campaign rethinking the "blacklist?" | | | WashPost's Callum Borchers reports: "Mike Pence isn't promising anything, but it looks like he might be journalists' best hope for ending Donald Trump's crackdowns on the media." Speaking with Hugh Hewitt today, Pence "said the Trump campaign is having internal conversations about its practice of denying credentials to reporters and news outlets who criticize the business mogul. Pence seemed uncomfortable with what happened Wednesday at a rally in Wisconsin, where a Washington Post reporter was denied entry, even after waiting in the general-admission line and agreeing to leave his cellphone and computer in his car." Read more... | | | Eriq Gardner says this case has potentially serious First Amendment implications: Today "36 media organizations including ABC, CNN, Fox News, NBCUniversal and The Washington Post asked permission to file an amicus brief in Mark Boal's lawsuit against the United States of America over a threatened military court subpoena. Boal, the screenwriter and producer of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, is seeking to protect about 25 hours of recorded interviews conducted with U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl." Details... | | -- Bill Wyman's latest for Columbia Journalism Review: an in-depth look at the three libel cases stemming from Rolling Stone's "Rape on Campus" article... (CJR)
-- And speaking of CJR, the outfit has a new editor and publisher: Kyle Pope. He starts in September, replacing Liz Spayd...(Poynter)
-- Per Fast Company, "Half of Vine's 9,725 top accounts have abandoned the service..." (Fast Company)
-- Lisa France emails: So much sadness as "Sesame Street" fans mourn the loss of longtime characters Louis, Bob and Gordon. People are as grumpy as Oscar about it... (CNNMoney) | | | At the end of a hectic Q2 earnings week, Variety's Andrew Wallenstein says Twitter, Redbox, Apple, Verizon, Netflix, Nintendo, and Starz were the biggest losers... While Amazon, Facebook, Google, Comcast, CBS, T-Mobile, and Samsung were the biggest winners... Here's why. | | | Matt Damon goes back to "Jason Bourne" | | | Frank Pallotta emails: Matt Damon has been famous nearly from the start of his career thanks to a star-making, award-winning role in "Good Will Hunting." But it wasn't until Damon became Jason Bourne, a role to which he returns this weekend in the aptly-named "Jason Bourne," that he was, ahem, reborn at the box office. Damon's 19 films released nationwide before 2002's "The Bourne Identity" brought in $1.08 billion overall, for an average of $54.4 million per film. His 28 nationwide films since? $2.3 billion overall, for an average of $84.5 million. A Bourne boost! This weekend's latest installment is projected for a solid $50 million, so we'll see if Bourne still has punch at the box office for Mr. Damon. Read Frank's full story here... | | | Today's prize goes to Quartz: "An earlier version of this post misstated the number of buttons on Bill Clinton's jacket. It had three buttons, not two." | | | What do you like about today's newsletter -- and what do you think we should improve? Email your feedback to reliablesources@cnn.com. We'll be back Sunday... | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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