| | | | Remembering Mary Tyler Moore | | The worlds of entertainment and journalism mourned the death of Mary Tyler Moore on Wednesday afternoon. Moore was 80.
"She brought the newsroom into our living rooms on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and became a TV icon," the Newseum wrote on Twitter. "I throw my hat up in the air for you, Mary Tyler Moore. Loved her and her spirit," NBC's Savannah Guthrie wrote.
Generations of female journalists said "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" helped inspire them to enter the profession.
Lisa France emails: "That smile, that hat toss. It was all pure joy. Mary Tyler Moore made it more than OK to be a professional woman. She did it with style, grace and a sense of humor. She blazed the trail for women in Hollywood and in media because Mary Richards was the patron saint of women in newsrooms everywhere."
Read the complete obituary by Lisa here... | | | Brian Lowry writes: When Mary Tyler Moore auditioned for the role of Laura on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," series creator Carl Reiner famously put his hand on her head, walked her down to producer Sheldon Leonard's office and said, "I found her, here she is." That might have been television viewers' introduction to Moore, but audiences would continue finding her for years to come, in a Hall of Fame career that included two of the best sitcoms of all time... Read much more here... | | | Sandra Gonzalez emails: Today's tributes to Mary Tyler Moore have seemed to focus on two things: her generous, warm spirit and her trailblazing. One of my favorite reactions came from Rachel Bloom, the creator and star of CW's "Crazy Ex Girlfriend." She wrote, "I could not do what I do without her." More reactions here... | | CBS airing a one-hour tribute on Thursday night | | | More from Sandra: CBS is first out of the gate with some special Mary Tyler Moore programming. Gayle King is going to co-host a one-hour special called "Mary Tyler Moore: Love Is All Around," set to air Thursdayt. It will feature interviews with Oprah (a very sweet clip of her being surprised by Moore once on her talk show has been circulating) and others talking about "Moore's profound impact on acting and how women were portrayed in the media, as well as her work outside of entertainment..." | | | Now a turn to the day's Trump news... This is an early edition of the newsletter because I'm about to moderate a "how to cover Trump" discussion at NYU... organized by Slate, benefiting the Committee to Protect Journalists... the Twitter hashtag is #Trumpcast... | | "Will President Donald Trump's relationship with the truth prevent him from successfully governing the country?"
--CNN's David Chalian on his daily podcast. All this talk about #AlternativeFacts and falsehoods really comes down to this question... | | Trump's first TV interview as POTUS | | | David Muir's morning sit-down will air on ABC at 10pm. ABC released a clip about the wall at lunchtime in a network-wide special report, then released other clips about subjects like Trump's mythical voter fraud conspiracy theory... | | Muir presses Trump on voter fraud | | The key exchange:
MUIR: I'm asking, when you say, in your opinion, millions of illegal votes, that is something that is extremely fundamental to our functioning democracy, fair and free elections… You say you're going to launch an investigation into this?
TRUMP: Sure sure, done--
MUIR: What you have presented so far has been debunked, been called false.
TRUMP: No it hasn't, take look at the Pew reports.
MUIR: I called the author of the Pew report last night, and he told me that he found no evidence of the fraud.
TRUMP: Really, then why did he write the report?
MUIR: He said there's no evidence of voter fraud.
TRUMP: Excuse me, then why did he write the report? ... Then he's groveling again...
The Q to be debated in newsrooms: Did Muir press Trump thoroughly enough? Carl Bernstein and I will be on "CNN Tonight" discussing the interview in the 11pm hour... | | | Trump + Sean Hannity on Thursday evening... | | Now Trump is the executive producer of The Presidency | | My latest story for CNNMoney:
Donald Trump isn't just president: He's playing the part, masterfully. Trump's daily schedule is packed with meetings that double as photo ops -- on Monday, six in a single day -- reinforcing his administration's message about getting to work and overturning Obama administration policies. Trump cares deeply about visuals, knowing that sometimes pictures speak louder than words. Sometimes he even narrates what he's doing to the camera crews, acting as both the star and director simultaneously.
In other words: The new president is back in his element, hosting a show, this time not in the "Apprentice" boardroom but in the Oval Office. Read more... with lots of examples... and cameos by Scott McClellan, Martha Joynt Kumar, Jeff Mason and Arun Chaudhary... | | | NYMag's Gabriel Sherman asks: "Is Donald Trump's war with CNN personal?" He explores Trump's apparent belief that CNN president Jeff Zucker has "betrayed" him, and explains why it's ludicrious... | | | Gloria Borger's latest, on "Donald Trump's Doublethink," asking this question: "How can a President ask for trust when he trusts nothing himself?" | | Join us for a "Reliable Sources" livecast | | | On Thursday at noon ET, we're trying something new -- a live streamed lunchtime media chat on CNN.com. I'll be interviewing historian Julian Zelizer, whose op-ed "President Trump's dangerous war on the media" just came out. Join us! | | Interesting Q from a reader | | A newsroom reader emails: "How will Skimm and other light, quick-hit news offerings present information in the era of Trump? Below they added the word 'falsely' in a couple of lines. Overall, though, he isn't exactly a president doing things you can skim over."
That's true. But I'm also thinking about the reverse -- wondering what new journalistic products and startups can be created around the Trump era news consumption problem -- so much news, so much noise, so much change, and so much of it is overwhelming and out of reach of casual readers and viewers. News junkies understand this voting fraud narrative. But what about the tens of millions of Americans who are hearing about it for the first time and want to understand it? What news outlets are writing for them? | | | Tom Kludt flags the following quote in this excellent story by The Atlantic's Rosie Gray: "I'm building The New York Times," Breitbart's Washington political editor Matt Boyle told Gray. "That's what I'm doing right now. I'm building a journalistic enterprise that's designed to replace all of you." | | First Q at Wednesday's briefing went to... | | | The Washington Times. Big outlets like NBC and Yahoo were also called on, along with the Washington Examiner and Newsmax... | | In case you're wondering... | | | George Orwell's "1984" is still #1 on Amazon's best selling books list, about 24 hours after reaching the top spot... Here's our story from late last night about Penguin printing more copies... | | -- Missed this yesterday: Sarah Kliff has been promoted, her new title is Vox's senior policy correspondent...
-- "Roxane Gay has pulled her forthcoming book, How to Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster in response to its reported $250,000 book deal with Milo Yiannopoulous..." (BuzzFeed)
-- Brad Stone's new book "The Upstarts," about the dual rise of Uber/Airbnb, is coming out next week... Businessweek will publish the first excerpt early Thursday morning... | | Why RT is on your cable/satellite lineup | | | Interesting story by the WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran: The Kremlin's RT channel "has over the years secured carriage on U.S. cable and satellite services in a way that largely protects it from being dropped." Basically "federal law prevents many of them from ceasing to carry the channel, even if they want to." Here's why... | | FT's Murdoch story coming Thursday | | | The FT's Matthew Garrahan has a big story about the MURDOCHS coming out on Thursday... It describes how Lachlan and James Murdoch "are exerting more power across the empire..." and says Trump's campaign "caused splits in the family..." | | Michael Wolff profiling Kellyanne Conway | | | Dylan Byers emails: Coming Thursday from The Hollywood Reporter: Michael Wolff interviews and profiles Kellyanne Conway, "The most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America..." | | "It's like a fire hydrant!" | | "It's seriously like a fire hydrant," Joe Scarborough said on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," reacting to the deluge of news and controversies from the Trump White House.
+1 to what Politico's Alex Weprin tweeted: "I follow the news professionally and I can't keep up with what is happening in the world. Imagine how typical news consumers feel..." | | Trump's obsession with being #1 | | "Trump's fascination with TV ratings as proof of his popularity -- and his willingness to exaggerate them in self-serving and wholly inaccurate ways -- is nothing new," Brian Lowry writes in his latest column. But it's getting new attention now that Trump is in the White House, since it doesn't seem to be going away.
By Trump's final season as host of "The Apprentice," "its Nielsen numbers had fallen dramatically," Lowry writes. "Nevertheless, Trump continued to proclaim the series the No. 1 show on television as late as January 2015, when he appeared at the TCA tour to promote the new season." At the time, it ranked in the 40s...
More: "In interviews with CNN's Gloria Borger last June, former NBC executives also spoke about Trump's persistence in saying the show was No. 1 long after its numbers had declined. 'In his mind, if you were number one once, you are always number one,' Jeff Gaspin, who oversaw reality programming for the network at the time, told Borger, adding that there was 'no point' in correcting Trump because the goal was to keep him happy and willing to perform and appear at network events..."
"In his mind, if you were number one once, you were always number one." If that's not an insight into Trump's thinking, I don't know what is... | | Google's next step against "fake news..." | | | Variety's Janko Roettgers reports: "Google took steps against 340 fake news site in November and December, the company said as part of a report on fraudulent advertising Wednesday. Close to 200 of those sites were permanently banned from using Google ads, the company said... Google said on Wednesday that it had reviewed some 550 sites since those policy changes, resulting in permanent bans for nearly 200 and temporarily cutting off another 140 sites from the company's ad dollar spigot..." | | | ...and Facebook's next step against "fake news" | | CNNMoney's Selena Larson reports: "Facebook's trending section is getting an update that may help stop fake news from proliferating on the site. Instead of surfacing information in its trending section based on how many people are talking about a particular article... it will now factor in the breadth of conversation. That is, how many news articles have been published on the subject, and the volume of conversation surrounding them."
Also: "Topics served through the section will no longer be based on user interests. Instead, Facebook members will see the same popular topics as everyone else in their country as a part of an effort to keep the news and its angles consistent..." | | Brian Lowry reviews "A Dog's Purpose" | | | Brian Lowry emails: "A Dog's Purpose" has generated controversy over a leaked video involving a dog performing a water stunt, but the movie adaptation of the popular novel turns out to be a bizarre construct, even if it hadn't shot itself in the paw... | | Scarlett Johansson and husband split | | | Chloe Melas emails: Scarlett Johansson and her husband of two years, Romain Dauriac, have split... Read more... | | | 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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