“ABC News removed an investigation into government contracts involving companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump because the article was published prematurely,” The Wrap reports.

“The article was taken down while reporting is being finalized.”

Here’s my post on the article that has since been taken down.

“President Trump said Monday that reporters from the New York Times and other media outlets should be ‘arrested’ over their coverage of his Saturday rally in Ohio,” NewsNation reports.

“President Donald Trump offered an ominous prediction/threat on Monday, saying The New York Times is nearing the end of its existence,” Mediaite reports.

“The president went on a tear against the Gray Lady after it reported that the venue where he hosted a rally in Alabama on Friday ‘was not full.'”

“The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities,” CNN reports.

“Mark Thompson will remain at CNN after Skydance closes its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery,” Deadline reports.

“Thompson, who joined CNN in 2023, will serve as chairman and editor in chief of CNN, a slightly different title. His continuation at the network is likely a relief to staffers, with anxieties that the network would combine with CBS News. There also had been speculation that Bari Weiss, who serves as editor in chief of CBS News, would be given additional oversight over CNN.”

The Economist: “If an American president set out to manipulate some of the best reporters—to preoccupy them with his political priorities, to distract them from what is really happening in government and to recruit them to distribute his propaganda—he could do no better than to invent the White House press corps.”

“Journalists are understandably upset that Donald Trump, in his imperious pettiness, is trying to ban from the White House those news organizations of which he disapproves. But they are wrong to say he would be undermining press freedom. He would actually be enhancing it, at least for those reporters he has targeted. He would be liberating them from the drudgery of covering the same staged events and briefings as a legion of other journalists. He is also giving the news media an opening to do away with the antiquated, corrupting and infantilizing rituals of the White House press corps.”