| | | | Here comes Hollywood awards season... The Golden Globes are about to start at the Beverly Hilton... The telecast is live on NBC, and you can find all of CNN Entertainment's companion coverage right here...
"La La Land" leads the nomination count with seven... "Moonlight" follows with six... On the TV side, "The People vs. O.J. Simpson" has five noms... Personally, I'm rooting for "Lion," "La La Land," "This Is Us," "American Crime," and "Veep..."
-- Chloe Melas emails: The Globes will kick off with a taped piece for the first time ever. Host Jimmy Fallon has enlisted several of his celebrity friends for cameos including Ryan Reynolds, Justin Timberlake and Tina Fey...
-- Lisa France's story notes that "Meryl Streep will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry..." | | | David Sanger's reality check | | On Sunday morning's "Reliable Sources," I asked NYT national security correspondent David Sanger about the implications of Trump's leak investigation threats. After the show, Donald Trump tweeted about it again: "Before I, or anyone, saw the classified and/or highly confidential hacking intelligence report, it was leaked out to @NBCNews. So serious!"
Sanger said the president-elect "is going to have to get used to" picking up the paper and reading about sensitive government info. It's "entirely normal," he said.
Sanger and I both noted President Obama's aggressive pursuit of leakers. "All we hope," he said, "is that the Trump administration continues what has been a Justice Department tradition -- for reasons of respecting the First Amendment -- that they go look around for sources and not go after the reporters... But we don't know how this is going to sort out in a Trump administration." Watch the segment here... | | I asked Sanger: "Are you noticing a chilling effect? Are sources less willing to cooperate or talk to you because of this?"
"Somewhat of the opposite," he said. "Since the president-elect began making statements that the intelligence community considered undercutting their credibility, I'd say we're hearing more from intelligence sources who are worried that the factbase of data they are collecting either isn't going to be respected or isn't going to get fully out there. So, my guess is that the reaction to public doubts about the quality of intelligence gathering is probably going to be more leaks, not fewer..." | | | Glenn Greenwald urges skepticism | | CNN's Alexandra King has this wrap-up of my interview with Glenn Greenwald: He says "recently released intelligence report on Russian hacking contained no 'convincing evidence,' and urged journalists to be skeptical of US intelligence claims."
People shouldn't "blindly and uncritically accept the claims of the intelligence community, especially provocative claims about a foreign adversary, without seeing convincing evidence presented by them that those claims are true," Greenwald said... | | Alex Koppelman emails: Nat Hentoff, the jazz writer and political columnist, died Saturday at 91 -- "surrounded by family listening to Billie Holiday," according to his son Nick. Hentoff, who wrote for The Village Voice and The New Yorker among many others, was a legend to those who knew him and to those who were just lucky enough to be able to read him. His political views were eccentric -- as the Washington Post noted in its obituary, the American Conservative once described him as "the only Jewish atheist pro-life libertarian hawk in America" -- but it's a testament to his abilities that even those who disagreed with part or all of what he had to say still admired him. As Toby Harshaw said on Twitter, "Can't think of any journalist I've agreed with less, respected more."
Perhaps summing him up best, Jack Shafer tweeted, "Nat Hentoff was a gas to read and a joy to edit. A 1st Amendment radical, a sharp music critic, and an inquisitive reporter. And a good egg," and observed, not without merit, "An easy case can be made for Nat Hentoff being the @VillageVoice." | | | Sulliview says it's time to retire the term "fake news" | | "Fake news has a real meaning — deliberately constructed lies, in the form of news articles, meant to mislead the public... But though the term hasn't been around long, its meaning already is lost," WashPost's Margaret Sullivan writes in Monday's paper. Unfortunately she's right. Sullivan proposes that we all "stop using it." Instead, "call a lie a lie. Call a hoax a hoax. Call a conspiracy theory by its rightful name..."
-- More: GWU prof Nikki Usher tells Sullivan: "The speed with which the term became polarized and in fact a rhetorical weapon illustrates how efficient the conservative media machine has become..." | | | KFile scoop: Plagiarism in Monica Crowley's book | | HarperCollins still isn't commenting on Andrew Kaczynski's Saturday scoop for CNN's KFile: Monica Crowley "plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book." KFile found "upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia." The breadth of the lifting from other sources really is stunning. You can see all of it right here.
Crowley was a Fox News contributor at the time. She is about to start a top national security comms job in the Trump administration. The transition team is standing by her, wrongly saying that Kaczynski's reporting is a "politically motivated attack."
What about the publisher? The book was published by the HarperCollins imprint Broadside Books... Kaczynski checked again on Sunday, and no comment... | | | Spat between "Meet the Press" and Team Trump | | A dispute between NBC and Team Trump on Sunday: "Meet the Press" showed just a one-minute-long sound bite from Chuck Todd's interview with Kellyanne Conway. Trump objected in a tweet, saying the show "cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible!" NBC declined to comment on the record. A network source told reporters that a sound bite was the plan all along... and that Trump aides knew about it on Friday... but Conway flatly denied that. "We're not in the business of furnishing 10-minute Sunday show interviews so media can choose which 'soundbite' to run," she tweeted. There were a flurry of phone calls between NBCers and Trump officials in the early afternoon...
-- Noted: NBC did publish the full interview on NBCNews.com... | | -- Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen's Axios launches in beta form on Monday... gearing up for a more formal launch around the inauguration... so look out for Allen, David Nather and Dan Primack's newsletters... Allen says he's leading Monday morning's letter with a Trump scoop...
-- Speaking of Axios, Allen was on Breitbart's radio show the other day, and he heaped praise on the site. "We admire so much of what's been built at Breitbart... You do things people aren't..." (Breitbart)
-- "Martin Shrekli was kicked off Twitter on Sunday. The reason? His strange behavior directed at journalist Lauren Duca, the weekend editor of Teen Vogue..." Sara Ashley O'Brien and Jill Disis report... (CNNMoney)
-- Gabriel Sherman tweets: "Excited to share the paperback of my book will be released on Feb 14! With new epilogue on the end of Roger Ailes..." (Twitter) | | | Megyn Kelly: "I'll see you again, soon." How soon? | | Right after Friday night's final broadcast of "The Kelly File," Megyn Kelly changed her Twitter bio to read "NBC News anchor." On the air Kelly said "I'll see you again, soon," but we don't know exactly how soon. A well-placed source says Fox is likely to let Kelly out of her contract early -- so that the network doesn't have to pay her salary through July.
The source also notes that it's been a "remarkably amicable parting." That's true, and it hasn't always been true in other departures from Fox. From the network's POV, execs genuinely wanted Kelly to stay, but they believe they won't miss a beat with Tucker Carlson at 9 p.m.... "Tucker time" promos have been in heavy rotation all weekend. Speaking of which... | | Replacing Kelly with Carlson is a "sign that Fox is becoming more Trump-friendly," Sarah Ellison said on Sunday's show.
(A Fox exec recently framed it for me slightly differently, saying that the network is on the right but isn't automatically on Trump's side, asserting that Fox is well-positioned to hold Trump accountable from the right...)
-- More from the show: NBC offers Kelly "new opportunities to kind of move into different kinds of television, see if she can push her stardom even to a higher place," Jim Rutenberg said... Watch the segment here... | | | Hannity accidentally retweets "Make Russia Great Again" | | | Mediaite's Jon Nicosia reports: "Sean Hannity explained a tweet Sunday approving of a call for Americans to 'make Russia great again,' calling it an honest mistake. 'Amen!!' Hannity tweeted in response to the sentiment, not realizing the original tweet was making fun of him." | | | Press "totally unprepared" to cover Trump admin? | | Media veteran Merrill Brown, a former EIC of MSNBC.com who's now the director of Montclair State U's school of communications, on today's show: "I'm concerned the media in general is totally unprepared for what's going to happen in two weeks." He elaborated:
-- "Regional newspapers are nearly dead. So the impact of policy decisions in Washington is going to be, almost by definition, under-covered out in America..."
-- "DC bureaus are not as strong as they once were... "
-- "The level of expertise in the media about difficult public policy issues... is not what it once was..." | | | The meaning of Trump's "ratings machine" tweets | | | "A nightmare for Univision" | | BuzzFeed's Adrian Carrasquillo has a very interesting new story looking at Univision News in the age of Trump... Quoting an unnamed star calling it "a nightmare for Univision," among other things...
The story reminded me of something Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas said to me for this oral history of election night. On the morning after election night, she said, "we had backlash from viewers right away, saying we fooled them, we lied to them, telling them Clinton was going to win..." | | | What happened behind the scenes on election night? Hear from Salinas, John Harwood, Judy Woodruff, John Dickerson, David Chalian, Hugh Hewitt, Sopan Deb, Chris Wallace, Abby Phillip, Ryan Grim, Sam Feist, Dana Bash, Amanda Carpenter, Annie Linskey, Nate Cohn, Michael Scherer, Susan Swain, Steve Scully, Van Jones, Kathleen Carroll, Carolyn Ryan, and David Hume Kennerly in this oral history feature... | | "Being a small-C conservative means I get heartburn at the idea that there's a wrecking ball taken to the norms of discourse or the way things are done. But this was a wrecking ball election. America voted for a wrecking ball."
--Kristen Soltis Anderson on Sunday's "Reliable Sources..." | | | Media week ahead calendar | | Monday: MSNBC introduces "For The Record with Greta," Fox introduces "Tucker Carlson Tonight," and CNN holds a town hall with Bernie Sanders...
Tuesday, 8 p.m.: Obama's farewell address...
Wednesday, mid-morning: Trump's presser...
Thursday, 9 p.m.: CNN holds a town hall with Paul Ryan...
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