| | | | -- WSJ's deep dive on Verizon's purchase of Yahoo: "Wireless carrier's plan is to own and distribute online content, use data collected from mobile phones to target ads to users…" (WSJ)
-- Headline intended to help morale: "In the Midst of Its Sale to Verizon, Yahoo News Saw Record-Breaking Traffic" (AdWeek)
-- Instagram has added a new feature called Instagram Stories, and everyone agrees it's a rip-off of Snapchat Stories... (The Next Web)
-- Google is expanding AMP "beyond news and bringing it to other mobile sites…" (TechCrunch) | | | This is why "Morning Joe" made fun of Trump today | | Trump does not think good of the NYT. Errr, I mean, think WELL. He does not think WELL of the NYT.
He caused some journalists to chuckle last night when he told Sean Hannity that political reporters like Maggie Haberman "don't know how to write good." Clearly he meant "don't know how to write good stories about me..." | | Dylan Byers emails: Trump's freeze on The Washington Post may be thawing: More than six weeks after revoking Post reporters' press credentials, Trump gave an interview to Philip Rucker and agreed to meet with several reporters backstage at a campaign rally today. But the ban isn't lifted yet: "This is not the first time Donald Trump has done an interview with a Post reporter since the ban was announced... and we haven't received word of any change," senior politics editor Steven Ginsberg told me. And Hope Hicks, a Trump spokesperson, said "there has been no change..."
-- Related: The transcript of the Trump-Rucker interview is really something to behold... Read it here... | | | "We're running against a rigged press" | | | When the going gets tough for Trump, he gets tough on the media. That's what I said on the air this morning to explain his current anti-CNN, anti-NYT campaign. At an event in Virginia later in the day, Trump was upfront about his strategy: "We're running against a rigged press. W're running against dishonest people, OK?" Similarly, in his interview with Rucker, he said, "Now it's myself really against the media..." | | | Trump's future on television? | | This afternoon at the TCA Press Tour, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt was asked about Trump, and he said, "I have no idea if he's got a future of television, but he would never be back on 'The Celebrity Apprentice.'" Sandra Gonzalez has the full story here, noting that Greenblatt didn't completely rule out Trump's return to the network in some other capacity.
Dylan emails: Given the all the controversies -- with women, Muslims, Mexicans, etc -- you have to imagine that that wouldn't go over terribly well... | | | For the record, part three | | | -- Emily Nussbaum tweets: "Hannity wants to know whether we think the general election is rigged. This is the actual FOX poll..."
-- New stat via NBC: "Team Clinton has reserved $98m in TV ads. Team Trump? Less than $1 million total..."
-- Most politicians' Facebook pages feature a big button that says "Sign Up." But Trump's page says "Shop Now," CNNMoney's Heather Long observes...
--- John Schwartz tweets: "Writers I'd dearly love to read on Trump: David Foster Wallace, David Carr, Molly Ivins, Hunter S. Thompson, Mary McGrory. So missed..." | | Foul-mouthed media editor Alex Koppelman emails:
Big news from that now-former paragon of moral f---ing virtue, the Wall Street Journal: "We now allow the printing of most vulgarities if they are in direct quotations and our news judgment is that the quotation is important to include because it gives insight into how the person communicates, his or her depth of feeling on a subject, or character. Thus, an executive referring to a 'shit storm' or a politician (guess who) vowing to 'bomb the shit' out of Islamic State's oil operations."
The Journal will be keeping some g-dd--ned standards, though. They'll use vulgarities "quite sparingly and only in direct quotes, not in our own voice," the blog post announcing the policy notes. And even in quotes, some obscenities -- racial and ethnic slurs, and the words f--k and c--t, for instance -- will still be censored.
Still, perhaps this will be the spur the NYT needs to finally get off its a-- and stop coming up with complex, confusing writearounds to avoid using even the tamest of naughty words.
(So what's CNNMoney's policy, you ask? What the hell, we'll tell you: it boils down to "don't be needlessly vulgar." As for on-air at CNN, we'll leave it to Anthony Bourdain to explain that, as relayed to Jimmy Kimmel: "I think I'm allowed two s--ts per show.") | | | Trouble at the top of Roll Call | | "Melinda Henneberger is out as editor of Roll Call," less than a year after taking over, Hadas Gold scoops.
Henneberger emailed Gold: "I balked at a plan to make such deep cuts to staff that I feared the place wouldn't survive them, and further felt that such cuts were unnecessary since the place is profitable, though not making the projected 25% profit margin that management is intent on cutting its way to, no matter what the long-term toll on the organization. We also disagreed over the new site, which has serious technical problems that I felt should be addressed instead of hidden from the Economist Group..."
Gold notes that "Henneberger's tenure was fraught with staff departure and turnover..." | | | Takeaways from Variety's CNN feature | | Jeff Zucker is on the cover of this week's Variety... These are the quotes from Ramin Setoodeh's interview that stood out the most to me:
>> "We've got our largest share of the primetime audience in 15 years. We're within 2 share points of Fox."
>> After the election "the ratings are going to go down. That's the way it is. It's not about comparing 2016 to 2017. It's about where we were before 2016 began."
>> Why Zucker eschews social media: "If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly."
>> On Ailes' resignation: "It's certainly not something we expected to happen. We're going to continue to be focused on what we're doing."
>> On Trump's attacks against CNN: "It doesn't bother me."
>> "I don't think Vice and Buzzfeed are legitimate news organizations. They are native advertising shops. We crush both of them." Ben Smith responded here…
>> "As long as I'm happy, I'll be here," and right now "I'm very happy..." | | | For the record, part four | | | -- Anton Yelchin's parents have filed a wrongful death suit against the maker of his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which crushed the actor in his driveway in June, Chloe Melas reports...
-- Leonardo DiCaprio is hosting a fund-raiser for Clinton at the end of the month, Lisa France reports...
-- "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" star Ellie Kemper has given birth to her first child. But that's about all we know...
-- And OWN is betting that fans will love "Queen Sugar." Lisa notes that the drama has received a second season pick-up before it has even premiered... | | | 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 tomorrow... | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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