| | | | | Trump toys with revoking NYT credentials | | | This afternoon Trump hinted that he might revoke The New York Times' press credentials for his rallies. "The Washington Post has gotten a little bit better lately, I took away their press credentials," he told a crowd in Ohio. "I should do it with The Times. The problem is, you get more publicity for doing it -- just let 'em ride. But The New York Times is really, really dishonest..." | | I asked Trump senior communications advisor Jason Miller about the "blacklist," and he made it sound like the campaign might loosen its widely-denounced restrictions against news outlets like the WashPost and Politico:
"We are reviewing all of that... Our events are open, anybody can come into our events... That's the spirit that we have had with the campaign, and that's the spirit we're going to have going forward...." | | | Premiering tonight: "Meet the Donors" | | | Brian Lowry emails: For all the talk about a certain billionaire candidate, the way the super-rich usually put their mark on elections is through donations. HBO has a timely if at times slightly unsophisticated look at that in "Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?," Alexandra Pelosi's 10th documentary for the network. Haim Saban, T. Boone Pickens, Stanley Hubbard, Foster Friess, J.B. Pritzer and Tom Steyer are among those interviewed. And spoiler alert on the subtitle: The answer's "Yes." Read more from Brian here... | | Frank Pallotta emails:
"Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll." Those were MTV's opening words 35 years ago today. Now the company is launching something new again -- this time by looking to its past. The Viacom-owned network has gone back in time by rebooting MTV News; promising to put the "M back in MTV;" and launching MTV Classic (replacing VH1 Classic) this morning.
-- EVP Erik Flannigan: "MTV always runs in cycles. It reinvents itself often. Music is something that's always been there, but its reflection on air had gotten diminished." Read Frank's full story here... | | | Joshua Topolsky, most recently the top digital editor at Bloomberg, "has raised $5 million to found The Outline, a new digital publication set to debut this fall," WSJ's Mike Shields reports. "The funding round was led by the New York-based RRE Ventures... Topolsky is touting The Outline as something of the antidote to a rising crop of digital media brands that are reliant on social media distribution and, in his mind, are too focused on reaching massive user totals." More... | | -- About that new Harry Potter book, Lisa France asks: Have you finished it yet? Lots of people have and they are feeling all of their feelings...
-- More from Lisa: Frank Ocean was the hot new artist in 2013 when he told us he was working on his sophomore project. It's been years and even Adele has complained about the wait. So where is your new album, Frank Ocean?
-- Sandra Gonzalez reports from TCA: Starz and 50 Cent are staying in business together... Their next project together will be a superhero-themed drama called "Tomorrow, Today," which is in development... | | "Incredibly, we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissist that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities."
--John Oliver on last night's "Last Week Tonight." Other comedians will surely weigh in on the Khan controversy tonight... | | | 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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