“CNN CEO Chris Licht met with a handful of senior Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill Tuesday in an effort to strengthen the network’s relationships with key lawmakers, many of whom have turned sour on cable news,” Axios reports.
TV Networks Will Show Next January 6 Hearing
ABC, NBC and CBS will preempt their normal programming to show the January 6 Committee hearing on Thursday night, while a Fox spokesman “says the hearings will be available to affiliates in the event they wish to televise them in their markets,” Deadline reports.
Pulitzer Board Says Russian Collusion Stories Stand Up
The Pulitzer Prize Board upheld the 2018 prize jointly awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on the investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign, finding no contradictory information that came out since the prize was awarded.
From the statement: “The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
Gallup: “Americans’ confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points.”
“Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both readings are down five percentage points since last year.”
News Engagement Plummets as Americans Tune Out
“Engagement with news content has plunged during the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2021 and in some cases has fallen below pre-pandemic levels,” Axios reports.
“Americans have grown exhausted from the constant barrage of bad headlines that have replaced Trump-era crises, scandals and tweets.”
Trust In News Collapses
A new Gallup poll finds trust in the news media has plummeted to an all time low, with partisan preference being the driving factor.
Trump’s Final Days
Filmmaker Alex Holder’s documentary on the final days of the Trump administration, Unprecedented, will be streaming Sunday on Discovery+.
The Irony Meter Has Broken
This is priceless: Fox & Friends slammed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this morning for being untrustworthy, refusing to leave office, mishandling the pandemic and overall just creating chaos.
At Least It’s Not Video
Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has a new podcast.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”
— Podcaster Joe Rogan, quoted by The Week, on declining interviews with Donald Trump.
Fox News Viewers Blame January 6 Riots on the Left
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds a whopping 68% of Fox News viewers blame the Jan. 6 attack on “Left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad.”
Conservative Newspaper Declares Trump Unfit
An editorial in the conservative Washington Examiner declares that former President Donald Trump is a “disgrace” who is “unfit to be anywhere near power ever again.”
Meanwhile, the National Review looked at Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, writing that that Trump “willfully exacerbated the problem” on January 6 and that “things will not be the same after this.”
Daily Beast: Is conservative media breaking up with ex-lover Trump?
Newspapers Keep Failing
“Over 360 newspapers in the United States have gone out of business since just before the start of the pandemic,“ the New York Times reports.
“Overall, 2,500 newspapers in the United States — a quarter of them — have closed since 2005. The country is set up to lose one-third of its newspapers by 2025. And in many places, the surviving local media outlets have made major cuts to staff and circulation.”
Tucker Carlson Issues Warning to Biden Foes
Tucker Carlson interviewed John Eastman, and called his situation a “reminder to anyone who didn’t vote for Joe Biden to erase your texts and emails every single day.”
Clarence Thomas Wants to Revisit Media Libel Standard
“Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday indicated that he believes the Supreme Court should reconsider a ruling that makes it more difficult to sue media organizations, saying he disagreed with the court’s decision to turn away an appeal in a defamation case,” Axios reports.
Fox Host Rips Trump Over Baseless Election Claims
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade attacked Donald Trump on Sunday and said he has seen no evidence that proves the former president’s claims of election fraud, the HuffPost reports.
Said Kilmeade: “I’ve said this before: I believe from the time when the election results came in until January 6th is the worst moment of Donald Trump’s political career.”
He added: “I think how you lose in life defines who you are. And even if there are things that bother you, welcome to the world. A lot of times times things don’t work out, and are so-called ‘unfair.’ Your team couldn’t prove the vote was rigged, move on.”
Article on Boris Johnson Vanishes
“The most talked-about article in the British newspapers last weekend was one that featured juicy allegations of love, ambition and thwarted corruption at the pinnacle of the British government. Then it vanished abruptly from the pages of The Times of London in the early hours of Saturday,” the New York Times reports.
“Two days later, the circumstances of its disappearance remain cloaked in mystery.”
“The article reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, when he was the foreign secretary in 2018, proposed appointing his mistress at the time, Carrie Symonds, as his chief of staff, with a salary of $122,000. Ms. Symonds married Mr. Johnson in 2021, but in 2018, he was still married to his previous wife, Marina.”
The Daily Mail posted a version of the report on its website only to delete it a few hours later.
USA Today Finds 23 Articles Were Fabricated
“USA Today said on Thursday that it had removed 23 articles from its website after an investigation into a reporter’s work revealed sources that appeared to be fabricated,” the New York Times reports.
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