| | | | | Busy news night: Colin Kaepernick kneeling on "Monday Night Football..." Ryan Lochte the target of a protest during "Dancing With the Stars..." But let's begin with Hillary Clinton's interview: | | | Trump and Clinton call in | | This day, more than most, was driven by TV interviews: Donald Trump on "Fox & Friends" first thing this morning, saying he hopes Hillary Clinton "gets well;" Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon with Andrea Mitchell and Wolf Blitzer in the early afternoon; then Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook with Kate Snow and Jake Tapper; Mike Pence with Wolf Blitzer; and Bill Clinton with Charlie Rose. The Pence interview is getting a lot of attention because Pence declined to call David Duke "deplorable."
The final interview of the day, and probably the most important one, was Hillary Clinton on "Anderson Cooper 360." It's worth noting that both Trump's A.M. chat and Clinton's P.M. interview were phone calls. Clinton told Cooper that she didn't think her pneumonia diagnosis was "going to be that big a deal..." Details here...
-- More: Clinton also sent a signed "thank you" text message to supporters tonight... | | Both Mook and Fallon sound like they regret the Sunday morning timeline. "It took us 90 minutes" to issue an initial statement after Clinton nearly collapsed, Mook conceded to Tappe. "That's on us. I wish we could have done it more quickly."
"We should have provided more information more quickly," Fallon told Blitzer.
But then both men pivoted to Trump -- specifically his refusal to share info about his taxes -- and suggested the media is going a lot easier on him. "I just want to make sure we got a fair playing field here," Mook said... | | | Both sides should share more info | | Clinton's health scare emboldened reporters to renew calls for more information, more transparency, from both campaigns. "Hand the voters a Rosetta Stone, not a blindfold," CNN's Gloria Borger wrote this afternoon. Q's about Clinton's health are not going away. Nor are Q's about Trump's health and Trump's taxes...
-- Programming note: I'll be talking about this on "New Day" 6:30am Tuesday... | | | Dylan Byers emails: If John McCain did it, why can't they? In May 2008, the 71-year-old McCain invited about 20 reporters to AZ to review 1,173 pages of his medical records and interview his doctors, setting a gold standard for presidential aspirants' transparency on health issues. Eight years later, that standard seems naively idealistic. With less than two months until election day, Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, have released just 12 paragraphs of doctors' statements between them, and neither has agreed to a protective press pool that can monitor the minute-by-minute activities of their campaigns. Read more... | | In the minds of Hillary Clinton's biggest boosters, the news coverage of her health scare "has amounted to media malpractice," Tom Kludt writes. One of her most loyal supporters, former advisor Peter Daou, has called the coverage "an ugly feeding frenzy" and said the issue is "NOT asking questions, it's the obsessiveness and hostility of coverage." Read more...
-- More: Meantime, on the other side, Trump called the media "disgusting" again tonight... | | | Garance Franke-Ruta's viral tweet: Trump and Clinton are "treated differently by press because many believe she is the next president. Yet different standard ups odds he will be." Seth Masket wrote about this theory in detail for Pacific Standard today. "Members of the media provide more scrutiny for candidates they expect to win—and they always have…" | | Breaking news from Athens, OH: "Roger Ailes' name will be removed from a WOUB newsroom, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis announced" this evening, per the student paper The Post. "McDavis gave no exact date for its removal, but the letters of Ailes' name were taken down before the meeting ended, and a wooden board was placed over the space soon after."
Here's more info via CNNMoney. Ailes donated $500,000 to OU's communications program back in 2007... McDavis is now returning the money... Leaving me to wonder if others will step up with new donations for the school... | | -- Erik Wemple's scoop: Rupert Murdoch is coming to visit the Fox News DC bureau on Thursday... Jack Abernethy, Bill Shine and Jay Wallace are coming too... (WashPost)
-- Rolling Out profiles "40 Powerful Black media stars..." (Rolling Out)
-- Bill Maher will receive PEN center USA's First Amendment Award "at the organization's 26th Literary Awards this month..." (LATimes)
-- Lara Spencer is back on "GMA" after her hip replacement surgery... (People)
-- "SNL" has added "three new cast members for Season 42: Mikey Day, Alex Moffat and Melissa Villaseñor..." (Variety)
-- FYI, the "SNL" premiere is not til Oct. 1... As Lorne Michaels recently said to me, "We need the first debate to happen first..." The show will be live for four Saturdays in a row... | | | Isaac Lee pulls a Nick Denton | | After J.K. Trotter wrote about Gawker Media's new owner Univision removing six contested posts published by Gawker's sites, Univision news boss Isaac Lee invited Trotter down to Miami for an in-person interview. Gizmodo published the transcript tonight.
Trotter told Lee that Gawker Media staffers are "angry" about the acquisition and skeptical of Univision's commitment to the brands. And Lee told him that "Univision is willing to commit that, if we do fearless but also rigorous journalism that meets the standard that we have to meet, we will never delete those posts..."
-- Related: If you care at all about this story, Fusion's Felix Salmon has a must read about Univision, "independence," and Gawker's "messy resurrection..." | | | Why this Apple News "tweak" is so important | | This morning the WSJ's Jack Marshall explained how a "tweak" to Apple News has steered traffic away from the web sites of participating publishers...
-- More: Via Tim Franklin, Eddy Cue shared a new usage stat today: "More than 70 million active users of Apple News, and that's growing by 10% a month."
-- Why partner with Apple on this news app? CNN chief product officer Alex Wellen emails: "We go where the audience is. It's about establishing the CNN News habit, and it is important that we be everywhere..." | | -- France 24 correspondent Melissa Bell is joining CNN as a Paris correspondent... (TVNewser)
-- The "crowdfunding journalism" startup Beacon is shutting down...
-- The Verge's Chris Welch reports that Twitter's "new, longer tweets" will take effect next week... Here's what that means... (The Verge)
-- Jaunt "has picked Hearst executive George Kliavkoff as its new CEO. The appointment comes as Jaunt is switching its focus from being a VR camera maker to becoming a VR publishing platform..." (Variety)
-- So many streaming services, so little time to watch: "Lionsgate launches its fourth streaming service, this time partnering up with Univision..." (Mashable) | | | CPJ urges North Dakota authorities to drop charges against Amy Goodman | | The Committee to Protect Journalists spoke out today in support of "Democracy Now" host Amy Goodman, who's facing criminal trespass charges in North Dakota stemming from her coverage of the oil pipeline protests there.
"This arrest warrant is a transparent attempt to intimidate reporters from covering protests of significant public interest," said CPJ's Carlos Lauría. "Authorities in North Dakota should stop embarrassing themselves, drop the charges against Amy Goodman, and ensure that all reporters are free to do their jobs..." | | | Heckler interrupts "CBS This Morning" | | | Monday's "CBS This Morning" live broadcast from the National Museum of African American History and Culture had just one hiccup: a heckler. When the co-hosts were interviewing Colin Powell, a loud voice interrupted off-cam: "You know better Colin Powell! As a black man in America, you dropped bombs on Iraq." Here's the video. CBS says "museum security immediately intervened and the matter was quickly resolved..." | | | Olbermann's election commentaries on GQ.com | | | This morning GQ named a new "special correspondent:" Keith Olbermann. He's starting a twice-a-week web series, commenting on the election, starting Tuesday at 8am. Depending on when news breaks, he might weigh in more than twice a week... | | | Today in "things that will not happen..." | | Last week Trump said "I respect the moderators" chosen for this fall's debates. Since then, there's been a lot of talk about how forcefully the moderators should fact-check the candidates. Now Trump has a new opinion.
"The fact is that they're gaming the system. I think that maybe we should just have no moderator. Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate," Trump said on "Squawk Box" this morning, Ashley Killough reports.
Trump cited the complaints about Matt Lauer's forum interviews last week and said "the new person is going to try to be really hard on Trump just to show, you know, the establishment what he can do. So I think it's very unfair what they're doing..." | | | Trump is working the refs | | | Speaking theoretically, it is interesting to imagine a Clinton-Trump jousting match without any moderator in between. But a moderator is absolutely necessary in order to pose questions and follow-ups; enforce time limits; and generally serve as a stand-in for the viewers at home. By bringing up this idea, Trump is working the refs again... | | | Eli Stokols and Hadas Gold's fantastic (wish-I'd-written-it) story, "Why Donald Trump gets a pass," includes this intel: "There is wide speculation among media executives that NBC's Lester Holt, who Trump is comfortable with, was chosen to moderate the first debate with Clinton later this month in order to appease the GOP nominee. Similarly, some also believe that Fox News' Chris Wallace was tapped to moderate the third and final debate to lessen the likelihood that Trump skips it." Read more... | | | "Smart to say it" vs. "right to say it" | | | Over the weekend, when Clinton asserted that "half" of Trump's supporters are "deplorables," I felt like most media coverage focused on whether she was "smart" to say it, versus whether she was "right" to say it. Ta-Nehisi Coates elaborated on this idea in a column today. "Few bothered to investigate the claim itself," he says. Read more… | | | What if a leaker handed over Trump's taxes... | | | Dean Baquet says "he'd publish a story on Donald Trump's taxes even if it means risking jail time," CNNMoney's Chris Isidore reports. The Q -- posed at Harvard's "Pulitzer Prize at 100" event on Sunday -- was about whether he'd accept the legal risks associated with publishing a leaked or hacked copy of Trump's taxes... | | | George Carlin's "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" | | George Carlin's right-before-9/11 routine "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die," which was jettisoned after the attacks, is now "being released as part of a CD" featuring other previously unheard work by the comic, Brian Lowry reports.
He emails: "Carlin always prided himself on being a provocateur, but what's striking about this material is what an acerbic media critique it is. Basically, he's lampooning, in a very uncomfortable way, our tendency to run to the TV when we hear bad news, the digital version of craning our necks at a traffic accident..." | | | "Great British Bake Off" moving from BBC to Channel 4 | | Sandra Gonzalez with the lead of the day:
"The BBC is about to be home to a lot fewer 'soggy bottom' jokes -- 'The Great British Bake Off' is leaving for another network. The show, which is currently in its seventh season, will be moving to the U.K.'s Channel 4." Read more... | | | For the record, part three | | | -- "Sony Pictures has picked up the competitive rights to astronaut Scott Kelly's upcoming book... Amy Pascal will produce the adaptation..." (THR)
-- CBS is shortening the upcoming miniseries "The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey" from six hours to four hours...
-- Christian Siriano has being showing big love for plus size women, and the fashion designer is being hailed for his inclusiveness, Lisa France reports... (CNN)
-- After 18 nominations, Amy Poehler just won her first Emmy! (CNN) Here's the complete list of Creative Arts Emmy winners...
-- Via Chloe Melas: Celine Dion can rap! She showed off her hidden talent on "Ellen" today... (CNN) | | | ICYMI on "Reliable Sources" | | Tell us what you think... | | | Send us your feedback about this newsletter -- the good/the bad/the ugly -- to reliablesources@cnn.com. We'll be back tomorrow! | | | -- Annie Linskey's "Being white, and a minority, in Georgia," on whites in one Georgia community TK | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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