| | | | | "Ailes Apprentice Program" drops Ailes' name | | | Jason Farkas flagged these two TVNewser stories that speak volumes about how far Roger Ailes has fallen in the two weeks since he resigned: The "Ailes Apprentice Program" at Fox News is dropping his name, and a senior center in the Hudson Valley that was going to bear Ailes' name is now drawing a lot of scrutiny. The local paper published by Roger's wife Elizabeth Ailes has a story about the senior center fight... | | | What will Kelly's book say? | | | Jeffrey Trachtenberg and Joe Flint raise a very interesting question: Will Megyn Kelly's forthcoming memoir include anything about Roger Ailes' resignation? Kelly is one of the women who came forward and recounted harassment by Ailes. But the info definitely wasn't in her first draft. The book isn't set to come out til November, so there's still time for her to add pages, if she so chooses... Read more... | | | Sunday on "Reliable Sources" | | -- Alicia Shepard IDs a problem for the press: "It's hard to be fair and balanced when one nominee is a headline machine and the other isn't..." (USA Today)
-- Missed this yesterday: CJR's David Uberti says CNN has a "Corey Lewandowski problem" (CJR)
-- Kris Viesselman succeeds Melinda Henneberger as EIC of Roll Call... (Politico)
-- And Betsy Woodruff calls Breitbart a "Trump fanfic site..." (The Daily Beast) | | | Clinton speaking at convention of journalists | | | Hillary Clinton will speak at the NABJ-NAHJ Convention in DC at 12pm ET Friday... | | | Big #'s for Libertarian town hall | | Read into this what you will... CNN's first Libertarian Party town hall on June 22 averaged 929,000 total viewers, 320,000 of whom were between the ages of 25 and 54. The program ranked #3 on cable news behind Fox and MSNBC. But last night, CNN's second town hall with Gary Johnson and William Weld averaged 1.61 million viewers, 642,000 in the demo. The program beat Fox and MS for the hour in the demo... In fact, it was the #1 cable news program of the whole day, topping O'Reilly...
-- Matthew Cooper: Will Johnson make it into the debates?
-- ICYMI: The Green Party's turn is coming up on August 17... | | | The side of Trump rallies not seen on TV | | | This is the video that Donald Trump campaign reporters want you to watch. It's the NYT's three-minute mash-up of racist, sexist and violent language used by Trump supporters at the candidate's rallies. It's been up for over 24 hours now, and the campaign has no comment on it. Here's what I wrote about it today... | | | Why Zakaria called "bullshit" | | | Fareed Zakaria's WashPost column: "A few days ago, I was asked on CNN to make sense of one more case in which Donald Trump had said something demonstrably false and then explained it away with a caustic tweet and an indignant interview. I replied that there was a pattern here and a term for a person who did this kind of thing: a 'bullshit artist.' I got cheers and boos for the comment from partisans on both sides, but I was not using that label casually. Trump is many things, some of them dark and dangerous, but at his core, he is a B.S. artist." Zakaria says "the stench is now overwhelming and unbearable..." | | I'll be joining Christine Romans and George Howell for some early morning politics and media talk at 4:30/5/5:30am ET. Topics will include the latest polls, including the Marist data showing Hillary Clinton with a 15-point lead over Trump...
-- Greta Van Susteren tonight: "I'm not so sure how accurate these polls are." Rove responded: "I wouldn't bet the Fox News poll is wrong..."
-- @Taniel tweets: "From August thru November, no poll had Obama leading Romney by more than 9%. Past 3 days: Clinton +9% (CNN), +10% (Fox), +15% (Marist)."
-- Pew: "Few Clinton or Trump Supporters Have Close Friends in the Other Camp" | | -- Dish Network "is stripping out some of the best-known broadcast and cable networks from its basic TV package to create a new 'skinny bundle...'" (WSJ)
-- The state of Snapchat: It now "claims 150 million daily users, including nearly half the country's population from ages 18 to 34..." (NYT)
-- Revenues slipped at Time Inc. in Q2, and the company "revised its guidance for the rest of the year downward..." (AdAge)
-- Kara Swisher bids a not-so-fond farewell to Yahoo PR head Anne Espiritu, who famously ignored Swisher's inquiries for years. "Espiritu's efforts to not talk to me... taught me a very good lesson about just forging ahead anyway," Swisher writes... (Recode)
-- Great read for journos: "How an AP reporter took down flossing" (Poynter) | | | Apple working on a TV interface | | | Peter Kafka's latest scoop: With Apple's plans for a streaming TV service on hold, the company "has a new plan: Tell you what's on TV and help you watch it. Apple has started talking to TV programmers and other video companies about creating a digital TV guide that would work on both Apple TV boxes and other Apple devices, like iPhones. The idea is to let users see what kind of programming is available in video apps made by the likes of HBO, Netflix and ESPN, without having to open up each app individually, and to play shows and movies with a single click." Of course, this would directly benefit the Apple TV box... | | | LATimes' Meg James writes: "Viacom's profit tumbled 27% in its fiscal third quarter, and the Redstone family wasted little time blasting management for the poor results and calling for Philippe Dauman's ouster." Here's the back-and-forth... | | Brian Lowry emails from TCA: The second season of "UnREAL" has been somewhat uneven and occasionally over the top, but its central premise -- casting an African-American in a reality-TV dating show -- was certainly timely, given the questions about race that have surrounded ABC's "The Bachelor."
Today new ABC Entertainment chief Channing Dungey -- the first African-American woman to hold such a position at a major network -- said the show hopes to reach that goal organically, without having to alter its format of having a top runner-up on "The Bachelor" featured in the next edition of "The Bachelorette," and vice versa. Read Brian's full story here... | | | For the record, part three | | | -- "Gwyneth Paltrow, will.i.am, and Gary Vaynerchuk have joined Planet of the Apps, Apple's new reality series about app developers..." (EW)
-- Will this be a "Big Willie Weekend?" Frank Pallotta says Will Smith is looking to reclaim his throne as king of summer with "Suicide Squad..." (CNN)
-- Jamie said to me the other day, "let's watch '13 Hours.'" She's not the only one. THR's Pamela McClintock says Michael Bay's Benghazi movie is getting a "Trump bump" via digital rentals... (THR)
-- "I'm still in the game:" Chloe Melas talks with John Travolta about his Emmy nomination... (CNN) | | "Suicide Squad" getting sour reviews... | | Brian Lowry responds to the critics of the critics | | Brian Lowry emails: The fanboy community is once again up in arms over the negative reviews of "Suicide Squad," DC and Warner Bros.' latest big-screen epic. But the alleged journalistic conspiracy against such movies (which has even prompted a Change.org petition) rests on the rather faulty assumption that all critics are intellectuals in tweed jackets who hate comic books. While there's certainly an element of that (perhaps especially at some of the more elite bastions), plenty of critics were weaned on comics. Beyond that, the shift toward digital actually gives critics an incentive to be knowledgeable about genre material with the kind of built-in following that these movies possess. So while it might make fans feel better to think so, those Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are not a product of bias against comic books, or DC...
-- ICYMI, here's Lowry's review of the flick... | | Funny for the wrong reasons | | | 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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