| | | | | Obama says Fox and Limbaugh are spreading "misinformation" | | President Obama says "misinformation" fed by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and right-wing web sites partly explains why the presidential race is such a nail-biter. At a fundraiser at Danny Meyer's home in NYC Sunday night, Obama said: "This should not be a close election, but it will be. And the reason it will be is not because of Hillary's flaws, but rather because, structurally, we've become a very polarized society. If all you're doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it's very hard for you to think that you're going to vote for somebody who you've been told is taking the country in the wrong direction."
Will there be a rebuttal on "Fox & Friends" in the morning? Here's my full story... | | | Hollywood's Trump anxiety | | | Drudge's hed on this is "Hollywood Trashes Trump." Jimmy Kimmel set the tone by pointing to "Apprentice" producer Mark Burnett in the audience and blaming him for Donald Trump's campaign. Then Kimmel called Melania Trump "Malaria." There were "several pro Hillary/anti-trump statements" as the night rolled on, entertainment editor Megan Thomas notes. Aziz Ansari tried to joke about endorsing Trump. Backstage, Jill Soloway called Trump an "inheritor to Hitler" and a "dangerous monster..." | | | "Veep," the perfect political comedy for our time, won the Emmy for best comedy for the second year in a row. I'm going to use this as an excuse to start over from season one and re-watch the whole series! cc: my wife Jamie Stelter... | | Almost everybody was a winner. Sandra Gonzalez's takeaway: "It's really not about cable or streaming domination -- it's good TV is truly everywhere." Via Brian Lowry, here's the scoreboard:
HBO, FX: 6 each
Netflix: 3
Amazon, NBC, PBS: 2 each
Fox, ABC, USA, BBC America, AMC, Comedy Central: 1 each | | | With HBO's half a dozen wins, including "Game of Thrones" for best drama, there's "no name uttered tonight more than Plepler," NYT's Katie Rosman tweeted. Vice's Shawna Thomas joked: "I'm gonna go ahead and jump on the thanking Richard Plepler bandwagon because job security..." | | | Scroll down for more Emmys insights... | | -- A must-read in the latest issue of GQ: Jason Zengerle's profile of Joe Scarborough... (GQ)
-- Also take some time to read this... Preferably in print... Andrew Sullivan's NYMag cover story about how "an endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too..." (NYMag)
-- Via BI's Maxwell Tani: "Meet the man behind Right Side Broadcasting, the network that live-streams every Donald Trump speech..." (BI) | | | Monday will mark 50 days til Election Day... | | | Highlights from Sunday's "Reliable Sources" | | Our focus on today's "Reliable Sources" was Trump's contempt for the media. Yes, contempt.
I identified five examples during the "A block," and Jeremy Diamond provided details.
A little bit later in the hour, Lynn Sweet said it really well: Hillary Clinton also frustrates journalists. Of course she "should have had more press conferences." But "that's a misdemeanor compared to the felonies" that Trump has committed. "And they're not comparable. They shouldn't be treated as comparable..."
Misdemeanors vs felonies is a useful way to frame conversations about "false equivalence" in campaign coverage...
-- More: S.E. Cupp said incidents like Friday's press event/hotel infomercial show "that he is in charge." It's a matter of control, she said, and Trump has been "playing the press at every turn, forgetting that the media really has a lot of control over what they cover and what they can do." Her message: "We still have some control here..."
-- We also discussed the record low levels of trust in the media... Check out what David Fahrenthold said here... | | | Vice reporter arrested while trying to attend Trump event | | Vice News reporter Alex Scott Thompson was freed on bond early Sunday morning after being arrested while trying to attend a Trump campaign event. The campaign says it had nothing to do with this. It is troubling nonetheless.
"On Saturday afternoon, Thompson was arrested at the Omni Westside Hotel while inquiring about media access" to Trump's event. Here's Vice's full story... | | Chris Christie falsely telling Jake Tapper that Donald Trump resolved the "birther" issue in 2011:
Christie: "It's just not true that he kept it up for five years."
Tapper: "Sure he did."
Christie: "It's simply not true."
Tapper: "It is true."
Christie: "No, Jake, it wasn't like -- it wasn't like he was talking about it on a regular basis until then. And when the issue was raised, he made very clear the other day what his position is."
Trump did keep talking about it. Dozens of interviewers, myself included, gave Trump opportunities to "make his position clear." Trump chose not to... | | | Gary Johnson knows the clock is ticking | | | Now that he's been excluded from the first debate, Gary Johnson is campaigning for a spot at the second one. "You know, the clock does keep on ticking," he told me on Sunday's show... Read/watch more here.. | | | Weld thinking of defecting? | | Johnson denied that he and his running mate William Weld are feeling pressure to drop out. Hmmm. Carl Bernstein said on "Reliable" that his sources indicate Weld is "thinking about dropping out of this race if it looks like he and Johnson might get Trump elected." Specifically, Weld could "renounce his candidacy and go out and help Hillary Clinton."
Weld told CNNPolitics' Eli Watkins that this was just "wishful thinking on the part of the two-party duopoly." Details...
-- Will this help their standing in the polls? Johnson and Weld were profiled by Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes" Sunday night... | | | "Long debate" about 15% threshold | | About that 15% threshold for the debates: "We have got to establish criteria well in advance... We did that last fall," commission co-chair Mike McCurry told Michael Smerconish on Saturday. (This was McCurry's first interview on CNN in 12 years!)
"Some members of our commission thought that was too low. Some thought it was too high. We had a long debate about it," McCurry said... | | Speaking of Johnson... He misspoke on today's show when I asked him about the explosion in NYC; another explosion in Seaside Park, NJ; and a mass stabbing in Minnesota. He said he was "just grateful nobody got hurt." Officials say 29 were injured in NYC... and 9 were injured in MN...
-- Live TV challenge: During this live interview, I didn't believe my ears when Johnson said "nobody got hurt." So I was loath to interrupt his answer. When I re-watched the clip right after the show, it was clear he had misspoken... | | Proportionality. That's what this moment calls for.
-- This graf from the NYT stands out: "The city has experienced bombings with a variety of motivations over the years, from the Weather Underground, which opposed the Vietnam War, to George P. Metesky, the Mad Bomber who in the 1940s and '50s terrorized the city with bombs in subway stations, movie theaters and a Macy's department store. His motive appeared to be anger at the electric company Consolidated Edison. Of late, however, many episodes later deemed terror attacks have been committed by homegrown extremists inspired by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda..." | | -- Jim Rutenberg concludes that "you can call RT America whatever you want — a news network, a propaganda arm, something in between. Regardless, it's Mr. Putin's. Despite their protests, it sure looks like Larry King and Ed Schultz are, too..." (NYT)
-- WP's Carlos Lozada says Clinton and Tim Kaine's new campaign book "is an embarrassment, sloppy, repetitive, dutiful, and boring..." (WashPost)
-- ICYMI: A great read by Joe Adalian: "Why Bloodline's Cancellation Hints at a New Phase for Netflix" (Vulture) | | | WashPost editorial board urges no pardon for Snowden | | | CNNMoney's newest addition, Jill Disis, writes: The WashPost "is facing criticism after its editorial board argued that Edward Snowden, the source of the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the National Security Agency, should accept some 'criminal responsibility' for the leaks." In other words: No pardon. Here's her full story about the backlash... | | | NYT's next international editor is... | | | Joe Pompeo's scoop: "Joe Kahn's promotion to managing editor of the NYT has created an opening for a new international editor, and Politico can confirm that person will be Michael Slackman, who has most recently served as international managing editor under Kahn." Official announcement coming this week... | | | Reactions to the "key man clause" story | | ICYMI, I filed this story about the impact of "key man clauses" at Fox News on Friday night. Greta Van Susteren, Bill O'Reilly, Shep Smith and other Fox stars had these escape hatches in their contracts, allowing them to leave if the "key man" -- Roger Ailes -- left. Experts say this is an example of improper corporate governance by 21st Century Fox -- something the Murdochs should have curbed.
-- Bernie Gershon tweets: "Pretty clear that Ailes operated a kingdom inside of Fox with zero oversight!"
-- Gabriel Sherman: "Ailes used Fox talent contracts to gain power..." | | | "Let's hope BuzzFeed nails down a long-term business model that others can emulate. Like a watermelon wrapped in rubber bands, the news business is under increasing pressure. That explosion — or maybe implosion — is something nobody should want to see." | | | --Margaret Sullivan in her Monday column... | | | "The People v. O.J. Simpson" scored wins "for outstanding limited series and for some of its actors," Lisa France writes. "One of them, Sarah Paulson, won for outstanding lead actress in a limited series. In her acceptance speech, Paulson talked about the challenge of playing O.J. Simpson murder trial prosecutor Marcia Clark. Her words brought Clark to tears." Read more... | | | Out: "Daily Show." In: "Last Week Tonight." | | | John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" won the Emmy for outstanding variety/talk series. Via The Verge's Kaitlyn Tiffany, here's why that's significant: "The award was won last year and every year from 2003 to 2012 by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but Stewart's Daily Show successor Trevor Noah was not nominated this year." Now the prize has been passed to Oliver... | | | Brian Lowry emails: "Certainly a fair amount of politics within the show — perhaps inevitable, not only due to the proximity to the election but the nature of some of the winners. The creators and stars of "Transparent," for example, are going to discuss transgender rights. And in terms of diversity, the Emmys have set the bar pretty high for this year's Oscars, with several prominent wins by people of color, as well as spreading the wealth among a wide assortment of channels..." | | — "Topple the patriarchy!" —Jill Soloway
— Jeff Bezos "took my hand last night and said: Call me Jeff Bezos" —Jeffrey Tambor
— Veep "started out as a political satire," but "it now feels like a sobering documentary" —Julia Louis-Dreyfus
— "Thank you, Hillary Clinton" —Kate McKinnon | | | BEST cameo of the night: "If you run a positive campaign, the voters ultimately will make the right choice, Jimmy," Jeb Bush told Kimmel at the very start of the show. Per Ashley Killough, "the scene was taped last Sunday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., where Bush has his office..." | | Tell us what you think... | | | What do you like about this newsletter? What do you dislike? Send your feedback- to reliablesources@cnn.com. We appreciate every email. See you tomorrow! | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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