| | | | Now the publisher is printing extra copies | | Scoop: Penguin is printing more copies of George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" in response to a sudden surge of demand. It's hard to say for sure how much of the interest is related to Donald Trump's inauguration and the rise of #AlternativeFacts, but the publishing house knows it's not a complete coincidence. Check out the Amazon best selling books chart -- the 68-year-old novel made it onto the chart on Monday, hovered around #6, and rose to #1 on Tuesday evening.
Here's what a Penguin spokesperson told me: "We put through a 75,000 copy reprint this week. That is a substantial reprint and larger than our typical reprint for '1984.'" Look for more info at ReliableSources.com overnight... | | Trump reacting to "O'Reilly Factor" segment | | | It's time to re-up my idea for a new cable newscast: "Good Evening, Mr, Trump," a show produced with one specific viewer in mind. On Tuesday night Trump tweeted that he will "send in the Feds" to Chicago if they don't fix the "horrible carnage" there. The tweet came one hour after Bill O'Reilly brought up the federal involvement idea and had a guest deplore "carnage" in Chicago. Dylan Byers has all the details here... | | The president "believes what he believes," Sean Spicer said Tuesday afternoon, confirming that Trump really thinks millions of illegal votes were cast in the election last November. This is crazy, as I said on CNN after the press briefing. There's no evidence to back it up and there's a huge amount of evidence to disprove it.
Speaking with Brooke Baldwin, I asked: Does Trump want to be remembered as the "fake news president?" As the "conspiracy theory president?" I don't think he does... | | Who is misinforming the president? | | These stories always come back to the same Q: What are the president's trusted sources of info? Who is feeding him this nonsense?
Let me highlight one part of Spicer's defense: "The President does believe that... based on studies and evidence people have brought to him." Reporters are rightly saying: Show us the studies and evidence. I'd also like to ask: Who are the "people?" Who brought this so-called evidence to him? | | NYT calls it a "lie" again | | "Lie" was in the headline on Tuesday's front page. Eighteen hours later, the NYT web site had this fact-check story: "Trump Won't Back Down From His Voting Fraud Lie. Here Are the Facts."
The WSJ, on the other hand, has been saying things like "unsupported claim." Tuesday night's headline: "Trump Sticks to Voter-Fraud Claim, Despite Lack of Evidence." Which editor is right? Dean Baquet or Gerard Baker? | | Jeff Zeleny's question lingered in the air, unanswered | | | Spicer skipped Jeff Zeleny's follow-up question: "If he does believe that, what does that mean for democracy?" | | "Alternative reality" administration? | | | Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes on MSNBC's "The Last Word:" This is "not really about voter fraud. It's about the whole concept of reality and about TRUTH and about whether or not this administration is going to be an 'alternative reality' admin..." | | Channeling the views of Trump voters... | | | On Red Facebook and on conservative news sites, I'm seeing two types of responses to Trump's illogical beliefs about illegal voting: One, to just ignore it and pretend this controversy isn't going on. Two, to blame the media for picking on the president and blowing this way out of proportion... | | "It's a lie that won't die."
--CNN's Jim Acosta on Tuesday night's "AC360..." | | | Trump tweeted Tuesday evening: "Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN -- public is smart!" The Friday #'s were released on Saturday. So why is Trump tweeting about it now? (Is it because he disliked CNN's coverage of his voter fraud beliefs?) | | Trump + #WomensMarch = high cable news #'s | | Complete #'s for the post-inauguration weekend came in on Tuesday. TVNewser says MSNBC had its most-watched Saturday since the Iraq War. CNN won the full day among 25- to 54-year-old viewers. Fox News edged out CNN on Sunday. All three cablers were way up on both days.
Here's a personal stat: "Reliable Sources" at 11 a.m. Sunday had its highest #'s since last November's election coverage. Total viewers: 1.3 million. And "State of the Union" at noon had 1.5 million. Before airtime, a Trumpworld aide predicted to me that the ratings for the programs would be hurt because no Trump administration officials had agreed to be interviewed. I think it's worth noting that the aide's prediction was wrong... | | Three CNN stories about Trump you should see | | "LifeZette" gets the first question | | The first question at the briefing went to LifeZette, Laura Ingraham's conservative -- and relatively small -- web site. The AP notes that LifeZette "published some untrue stories" during the campaign. Key graf: "Before Trump, major news outlets were traditionally called upon to open White House press conferences and briefings..."
-- CNNPolitics' Tal Kopan emails: LifeZette asked why Trump hasn't acted on DAPA or DACA yet like he promised. Spicer mostly dodged the question... The White House's much-discussed strategy to diversify the media organizations that get a seat in the room, and a chance to ask questions, could backfire if conservative outlets feel the admin is no longer as friendly as it once seemed... | | When will the "Skype seats" start? | | | Short answer: We don't know yet. On Monday night Trump's press aides tested out Skype feeds on the monitors in the briefing room. Sean Spicer says he'll take Q's via video-link later this week... Still no word on how the remote reporters will be selected... | | | Time editor Nancy Gibbs made it clear in an editors note on Tuesday: While reporter Zeke Miller made a mistake last Friday night by saying a bust of MLK had been removed from the Oval Office, it was just an honest mistake, and the magazine has his back despite Trump and Spicer's repeated criticisms... | | -- The Committee to Protect Journalists is speaking up about the arrests of several journalists during Friday's protests in DC... (CPJ)
-- This is a must-read by Emily Kaplan: "The Pain You Can't See," about how Erin Andrews kept working while fighting cervical cancer. Andrews is now cancer-free... (MMQB)
-- CBS is ordering a drama pilot called "The Get," set in a digital media newsroom, about journalists who use "unconventional investigative techniques..." (THR)
-- A behind the scenes story from the NYT: "Mike Isaac live-tweeted Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at a federal court last week — until it almost got him booted from the courtroom..." (NYT) | | | From Dylan Byers: Univision's Deadspin site is under fire for tweeting an obscenity at U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz during a back-and-forth on Twitter. Here's what happeed... | | Facebook and Snapchat deals: Media companies coming up short | | Bloomberg's Gerry Smith has a big-picture look at how media companies "are struggling to make money from their partnerships with tech giants like Facebook and Snapchat..."
>> "Some publishers are scaling back on Facebook's Instant Articles program," according to Digital Content Next...
>> More via Digiday's Lucia Moses: "Publishers made only 14% of revenue from distributed content..." | | Two Breitbart staffers joining the administration | | More evidence that Breitbart has an open door to the White House: "Julia Hahn, who covered immigration issues for Breitbart through an aggressively anti-immigration lens, has been named special assistant to the president," and "Sebastian Gorka, the site's national security editor and a policy consultant on Trump's presidential campaign, has joined the Trump White House in a yet-to-be-announced role," Dylan Byers reports.
BI's Oliver Darcy was first to report Gorka's role on Tuesday. Fox News has terminated its contributor deal with Gorka... | | | Fox's John Roberts on "Tucker Carlson Tonight:" "I can't remember a White House that has generated this much news in the first two days. Just pulling out of TPP yesterday would have been a day's worth of news, but it was one of three executive orders, and there were five more today..." | | Wednesday: Muir interviews POTUS | | | David Muir will sit down with President Trump on Wednesday AM... Excerpts will air on "World News Tonight," and the sit-down will be shown in a prime time special called "The First Interview" at 10pm Wednesday... | | | ABC aired a promo for Muir's interview that used this doctored picture of Trump in the Oval Office. It's pretty clearly Photoshopped -- and it's been making the rounds for days. I asked ABC what happened. "When the marketing team created the promo, they included the wrong image by mistake. They updated it with a new photo as soon as they realized the error. We regret the mistake," a spokesman said. | | Thursday: Hannity interviews POTUS | | | Muir is first, Sean Hannity is second... Fox News announced on Tuesday that Hannity will sit down with the president on Thursday... | | Remember, O'Reilly will interview POTUS on Super Bowl Sunday... | | | So Hannity is getting a chance to interview the president before his colleague Bill O'Reilly. I'm sure things are fine between the two of them, but the news reminded me of this sight gag from last Sunday's "The Simpsons..." | | | Brian Lowry emails: Buoyed by a big ratings win Inauguration Day, CBS's "Late Show" finished within a hair of "The Tonight Show" last week, with less than 10,000 viewers (2.85 to 2.84 million) separating them. Jimmy Fallon's show still posted a clear win among younger demos — the metric networks use to sell ad time — but at least in terms of reach (and certainly cultural cachet) Stephen Colbert has narrowed the gap. Season to date, "Tonight" is averaging 3.4 million viewers, to just under 3 million for Colbert... | | Conway receiving Secret Service protection; she blames media | | Tom Kludt reports: Kellyanne Conway says that recent threats have forced her to receive an extra layer of security.
On Sean Hannity's show Monday night, Conway said the threats are a result of "what the press is doing now to me." A Secret Service spokesman confirms that Conway is receiving protection. Threats are absolutely unacceptable... | | Figure out "how to co-parent?" | | | Something else Kellyanne Conway told Sean Hannity on Monday night: "I consider myself someone who has good relations with the press, at least I think so. I think we have to have a free and open press. What I say about it is that this White House and the media are going to share joint custody of this nation for eight years, and we ought to be able to figure out how to co-parent." | | Lisa France reports: Lee "Q" O'Denat, the founder of the immensely popular site WorldStarHipHop.com, died Monday at 43, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed to CNN. The cause of death has been listed as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The site, which O'Denat started in 2005, became a thriving aggregator... Read Lisa's full obit here... | | | A historic day for Amazon | | WSJ's Ben Fritz and Laura Stevens write: "America's biggest online retailer is now the first internet company to earn an Academy Award nomination for best picture. Little more than a year after launching its original movies business, Amazon's drama 'Manchester by the Sea' earned six Oscar nominations Tuesday, including best picture..."
-- Via CNN Entertainment: Here's the complete list of nominations... You have four weeks to see these flicks before the awards telecast... | | | A year ago, #OscarsSoWhite was trending. On Tuesday, Lisa France reports, seven actors of color were nominated -- Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for "Fences," Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris for "Moonlight," Ruth Negga for "Loving," Dev Patel for "Lion" and Octavia Spencer for "Hidden Figures." Read more... | | | Brian Lowry sees a three-horse race | | | Brian Lowry emails: There's no such thing as an awards show without griping about "snubs" anymore, but the Oscar nominations got things more right than usual, setting up what looks to be a three-horse race among "La La Land," "Moonlight" and "Manchester By the Sea." That included breakthroughs for people of color both in front of and behind the camera, from the seven actors recognized to documentary films. Read Brian's full column about the noms here... | | | Sandra Gonzalez emails: Meryl Streep had my favorite reaction of the day. (Spoiler: she sent a GIF!) And I also loved what "Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins had to say. Check it out here... | | Netflix reviving "Queer Eye for a Straight Guy" | | More from Sandra: Reboot alert! Netflix is bring back "Queer Eye for a Straight Guy." The reimagined series will have a new "Fab 5" and, according to Netflix's release, a mission to "Make America Fabulous Again."
Check out this logline: "In a time when America stands divided and the future seems uncertain, a team of five brave men will try to bring us closer together with laughter, heart, and just the right amount of moisturizer. ... With a new Fab 5 and the show's toughest missions to date, Queer Eye moves from the Big Apple to turn the red states pink... one makeover at a time." | | | What do you like about this newsletter? What do you dislike? Send your feedback to reliablesources@cnn.com. See you tomorrow! | |  | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out Five Things for Your New Day, CNN's morning newsletter. Give us five minutes, and we'll brief you on all the news and buzz people will be talking about. | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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