| | | | | Trump's sixth interview with Fox | | A fresh example of the Fox News presidency: President Trump will sit down for an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. It'll air on Fox Business on Wednesday morning.
Bartiromo is billing it as "America's first business president" giving his "first business network interview." I'm seeing it as part of a pattern. Counting Tuesday's session, 6 of Trump's 8 sit-down TV interviews since taking office have been with Fox. (The other two were with ABC and CBN. NBC once had a brief stand-up interview.) POTUS has also spoken with the NYT and the FT recently. And he's given a couple of local TV interviews. But 6 of 8 interviews to Fox isn't just imbalanced -- it's illustrative of Trump's focus on his base... | | Dylan Byers emails: "It raises the question... why is Trump so reluctant to talk to the other networks?"
Well it's certainly not because he's reaching a bigger audience through Fox Biz. Bartiromo's morning show has been averaging 100,000 viewers lately... "Today" and "GMA" average 4+ million apiece... | | | "MULTIPLE MIXED MESSAGES ON SYRIA" | | That was the banner on "AC360" at 8pm. Here's how Anderson Cooper outlined the confusing state of play. One reason for the confusion: Sean Spicer's statement at Monday's press briefing that Trump will respond if Bashar al-Assad uses barrel bombs... something that is believed to occur regularly. Other W.H. spokespeople had to come out and speak for Spicer... to clarify that Spicer "did not signal a change in administration policy..."
-- More: Maybe the comment was an accident, Jeff Zeleny said on "AC360," but "he did it three times in a row..."
-- My Q from Sunday's "Reliable Sources:" When life and death is on the line, do people believe the White House's assertions? | | | Slate's in-depth look at the daily briefings | | Slate contributor Seth Stevenson spent several weeks observing the W.H. press briefings up close, and he says the real problem "isn't the kind of questions getting asked, who's being allowed to ask them, or how they're phrased." It's... you might have guessed it... "the posturing of the press secretary and the brazenness of his lies." Check out his full report here... it's excellent... | | | Is this the true Trump doctrine? | | CJR fellow and Trump critic Max Boot writing for Foreign Policy mag: "The Trump doctrine appears to be: The United States reserves the right to use force whenever the president is upset by something he sees on TV." | | "It is totally sui generis... I have never seen anything like this where people just flat-out lie. You know, black is white and white is black, and they mislead you. It's really disconcerting..."
--NBC's Andrea Mitchell speaking with Susan Glasser about the Trump White House... | | Jim Olson has a reputation as a smart guy... a savvy guy with strong reporter relations... but I think it's safe to say this was one of the worst days of his career. Maybe THE worst day. Why? Because of the brutal way this United passenger was treated yesterday. Videos from multiple angles went viral by mid-morning. Olson is the top P.R. person at United... a relatively new hire... he was one of Howard Schultz's deputies at Starbucks before joining United last year.
Airline beat reporters say CEO Oscar Munoz is really United's best spokesman. (He's the one who received a PRWeek award last month.) Olson and the newly hired "chief storyteller" of the company, Dana Brooks Reinglass, have not impressed reporters in the first 12 hours of this P.R. crisis...
-- Q: Has any network identified and booked the passenger yet? Interview airing soon? | | | ProPublica's fourth Pulitzer in nine years | | The New York Daily News and ProPublica are the twin recipients of this year's Pulitzer for public service... together, the two news outlets exposed how the NYPD abused eviction rules... and on Monday at 3pm, the two newsrooms celebrated the prize news.
Impressive: ProPublica is just nine years old but has picked up four Pulitzers, partly through these kinds of collaborations. Flashback: Just last week, Sean Spicer dismissed ProPublica as a "left-wing blog..." | | You might call this the least surprising award of the batch... but one of the most exciting awards nonetheless... David Fahrenthold won the national reporting prize. | | It was the only award summary that mentioned Trump by name. But the judges recognized several other journalists who reckoned with the campaign and its aftermath. WSJ's Peggy Noonan received the commentary prize... The Miami Herald's Jim Morin won for editorial cartooning... and the NYT won for international reporting for its "Russia's Dark Arts" series. Here's my full recap... | | | Meet some of the local winners | | -- Michael Calderone tweets: "Magazines were eligible in all Pulitzer categories for first time this year, but nearly all journalism prizes still went to newspapers..."
-- An exception: "The drama critic Hilton Als of The New Yorker won for criticism, the second year in a row the magazine has won in that category," NYT's Sydney Ember notes...
-- Ben Mullin notes that BuzzFeed was named a Pulitzer finalist for the first time... | | -- "Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner," Oliver Darcy reports, citing two sources... read all about it here... (BI)
-- The NYT's Eric Lichtblau is joining CNN... he'll be assistant managing editor for the CNN Investigates unit... Erik Wemple has details here... (WashPost)
-- Fox News has a new CFO: Amy Listerman... (Variety) | | | Wendy Walsh speaks with Fox lawyers | | Lisa Bloom, who's been representing Wendy Walsh, tweets: "Walsh and I just completed a 2 hour phone interview with 4 Fox News lawyers re her O'Reilly sex harassment claim. Given Paul Weiss' conflict as attorneys for Fox News, I requested an outside company investigate. Denied. Nevertheless we're cooperating." | | | Only 11 ads on Monday night | | Anthony Crupi tweets: "Tonight's O'Reilly Factor: 11 advertisers, 8.25 minutes ad time, $374,450 revenue, per iSpot." The ads were for brands like Coventry Direct (twice) and a sleeping aid.
The comparison: "Last Monday: 32 sponsors, 14.5 mins, $706,035." | | On his HBO show Sunday night, John Oliver "revealed that he's attempting to purchase ad time on The O'Reilly Factor in New York and Washington, D.C., in order to educate Trump about sexual harassment," Marlow Stern writes at The Daily Beast. Here's the "ad..." | | | The cover of this week's Variety... in print on Tuesday... | | I'll be talking about all this with Laura Coates and the "New Day" crew on CNN Tuesday morning... 6:50am ET... | | | J.D. Vance's book might become a movie | | "Imagine Entertainment has emerged from an auction with the film rights to the J.D. Vance's NY Times bestselling debut memoir Hillbilly Elegy," Deadline's Mike Fleming reports. "Ron Howard will direct and will produce the film with his Imagine partner Brian Grazer. Grazer spearheaded the pursuit of the book with president Erica Huggins, and she also will be a producer..." | | | Who tweets to @realDonaldTrump? | | Jason Farkas emails: Who's got time to tweet at the President? Seven Types of People, to be exact, according to this enlightening Bloomberg story: Loyalists, Haters, Ragers, Activists, Bots, Comedians, and Eggs. | | | Some straight talk from the LAT | | LATimes' Matt Pearce and Michael Finnegan write: "Americans often seem to live in one nation but inhabit two widely divergent realities. One version these days typically comes from Fox News and other outlets that echo the Trump White House line. A much different one can often be found on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media..." | | -- "The SEC on Monday announced charges against 27 individuals and businesses for schemes in which writers were allegedly paid in secret to promote the stocks of public companies," Julia Horowitz reports... (CNNMoney)
-- Lucas Shaw and Alex Sherman's latest scoop: "Comcast plans to introduce an online video service offering hit shows from its NBCUniversal TV networks in the next 12 to 18 months, an effort to compete with rivals Netflix and CBS." Lots still TBD... (Bloomberg)
-- W's Edward Enninful is becoming editor in chief of British Vogue. He's the first man and the first black editor to take the helm of Britain's most powerful fashion publication..." (NYT)
-- James Andrew Miller is bringing his oral history work to the podcast world... The pod will be called "Origins..." (THR) | | | Lowry reviews "Better Call Saul" | | Brian Lowry emails: "Better Call Saul" returns for season 3, inching closer to its sire "Breaking Bad" with the introduction of Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring...
Read Lowry's full review here... | | | Amazon's latest two-season order | | "Amazon has handed out a two-season order to one of its pilots," THR's Lesley Goldberg writes. "The retail giant/streaming service has handed out a two-season order for Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel...' The hourlong pilot, one of five currently online for 'viewer feedback,' stars House of Cards alum Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a 1958 New York City housewife who, through a series of events, winds up exploring the world of stand-up comedy..." | | Check out this stat from Chloe Melas: Kylie Jenner has landed her own spin-off E! reality show, "Life of Kylie," for a summertime premiere. This makes nine reality shows that have catapulted off the success of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians..." | | | For the record, part three | | | | Highlights from Sunday's "Reliable Sources" | | | | How the press covered the Syria strike | | Jeremy Scahill and Lara Setrakian took the conversation in some unexpected directions during Sunday's show. Setrakian said "our industry has failed coverage of the Syrian crisis." Scahill questioned the role of retired generals as commentators on TV. Watch the full segment here... | | | The need to hear from all sides | | My essay from Sunday's show: History shows us that, too often, when the subject is military action, skeptical voices are marginalized -- drowned out by the beating of war drums. When it comes to the president's strike in Syria, there are hawks and there are doves, and on TV and online, we need to hear from both -- actually, from all of them, because there are a lot more than two sides here.
>>Video of the two-minute segment>> | | -- David Folkenflik: Among some staffers at Fox, "there is a degree of contempt towards O'Reilly..."
-- Emily Steel: "Sexual harassment is against the law. You are not supposed to treat women like this in the work force..."
-- David Zurawik: "Short-term, I don't think anything happens to O'Reilly. He's the franchise." But O'Reilly "has become the face of that sick and predatory culture... There's a difference in the perception of him..."
-- Michael Wolff: "This is an issue as much about politics as it is about sexual harassment...." | | | Fox "should enforce the law" and "enforce the culture" | | A key comment during the show from AU professor and former Fox contributor Jane Hall: "21st Century Fox should enforce the law... And they should enforce a change in the culture... And if O'Reilly's audience views this as some kind of liberal cabal, then that is regrettable, but that is not the point. This is against the law." Watch the full segment here... | | What do you like about this newsletter? What do you dislike? Send your feedback to reliablesources@cnn.com. We appreciate every email. | |  | | 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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