CNN: “Journalists reacted with dismay when the Trump administration barred CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from attending a presidential event in the Rose Garden. Two White House officials, Bill Shine and Sarah Sanders, told Collins that she asked ‘inappropriate’ questions during Trump’s meeting with European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker. So the ban was retaliatory in nature.”

“And it was deeply concerning to many reporters, even among CNN’s rivals. Fox News issued a statement saying ‘we stand in strong solidarity with CNN for the right to full access for our journalists as part of a free and unfettered press.’”

“A CNN reporter said she was blocked from an open media event at the White House on Wednesday after officials objected to questions she asked President Trump at an event earlier in the day,” the Washington Post reports.

“Reporter Kaitlan Collins said press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Bill Shine told her she was banned from a late-afternoon announcement in the Rose Garden involving Trump and European Union president Jean-Claude Juncker a few hours after she sought to question Trump during a press-pool “spray” in the Oval Office.”

“A Massachusetts congressional candidate pulled a bait-and-switch on a Fox News talk show Monday morning, using the president’s preferred morning show as a platform to blast his administration’s policy of immigrant family separations,” Politico reports.

“The network thought it had booked Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, a former Arizona congresswoman running for another stint in Congress, for its Fox and Friends First morning show — the idea was that Kirkpatrick was a Democrat who supported the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.”

“But the bookers had instead lined up state Sen. Barbara L’Italien, a Democrat running in a crowded open congressional race in Massachusetts. And she had an entirely different message in mind.”

“The investigation into President Trump’s former lawyer and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen has ensnared the publisher of The National Enquirer, further thrusting the media company into a federal inquiry involving a onetime top lieutenant to a sitting president,” the New York Times reports.

“Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York subpoenaed executives at the publisher, American Media, this spring, according to people who have been briefed about the move but agreed to share the details about it only on the condition of anonymity.”

“Three times this summer, government regulators have had to make major decisions regarding media ownership. Three times, the decision has gone the way that Murdoch and his company, 21st Century Fox, would have wanted,” CNN reports.

“Murdoch is known to speak regularly with President Donald Trump. And some of the biggest stars of Murdoch’s network, Fox News, have arguably been the president’s most important supporters over the past year and a half. There’s no evidence that either of those things led to the regulators’ decisions, or that the decisions coming together this way are anything but a coincidence, but Murdoch’s string of good fortune has set some tongues wagging.”

The Guardian: “Terrorist attacks committed by Muslim extremists receive 357% more US press coverage than those committed by non-Muslims, according to new research from the University of Alabama. The researchers controlled for factors like target type, number of fatalities, and whether or not the perpetrators were arrested before reaching their final statistic.”

“Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines.”

“It was a subtle exchange, about 20 minutes into yet another clamorous White House press briefing, and a casual viewer of Wednesday’s proceedings would be forgiven for missing it,” the New York Times reports.

“But an unusual show of solidarity between rival journalists seemed to signal a new approach by the White House press corps toward an administration that regularly uses briefings to deride, and divide, the news media.”

Fox: “Since Trump’s inauguration, Fox News has consistently covered Clinton more than other cable news channels — by a wide margin.”

”If you forced a robot to watch Fox News for the last six months — which is what the TV News Archive did — it would’ve seen Clinton’s face more than 2,000 times. That’s six times more than CNN.”

President Trump falsely claimed that CNN did not report on his snub of the network’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta at a news conference the previous day, The Hill reports.

Tweeted Trump: “So funny! I just checked out Fake News CNN, for the first time in a long time (they are dying in the ratings), to see if they covered my takedown yesterday of Jim Acosta (actually a nice guy) They didn’t! But they did say I already lost in my meeting with Putin. Fake News……”

”But the incident was widely covered, including by CNN, who featured Acosta reacting directly and suggesting that the president’s comment itself was ‘fake news.’”

An old classic re-designed: Monopoly Cheater’s Edition.

Fast Company: “The original Monopoly was designed in 1903 as a protest against uber-rich turn-of-the-century families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts–the original 1% that consolidated power by owning everything. But in the political climate of 2018, another class has risen to rule. They’re rule-benders, law-breakers, and, for lack of a better term, cheaters, who seem to intentionally rub their own misdeeds in the face of the American public. Intentionally or not, this is the modern day Monopoly game to roast them.”