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Review of court records details AT&T's role in creating and funding OANN; 90% of OANN's revenue comes from contracts with DirecTV and other AT&T services (
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/ Reuters)
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General Motors says it is suspending advertising on Twitter as it evaluates the "direction of the platform under their new ownership" (CNBC)
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US Sec. of State Pompeo alleges that China threatened to interfere in US journalists' work in Hong Kong and warned doing so may risk Hong Kong's status with US (Axios)
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Chicago PD shuts down its arrest API, used by journalists to access arrest data, after Chicago Reporter used it to reveal that CPD had inflated looting claims (Chicago Reporter)
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Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification (
@anna_c_kramer
/ Protocol)
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Fox News host Sean Hannity joined colleague Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night in retracting story alleging CNN had scripted a high school student's question (
@jeremymbarr
/ Hollywood Reporter)
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CNN issues statement in support of reporter Jim Acosta, following latest attack from Spicer
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Longtime Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, who currently co-hosts America's Newsroom in the morning, is taking over the 3PM slot previously held by Shepard Smith (
@aidnmclaughlin
/ Mediaite)
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A Washington Post spokesperson says the company has decided to pause advertising on X, after Elon Musk's amplification of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory (
@drewharwell
/ Washington Post)
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Jimmy Fallon's ratings decline in Trump era, with his show losing nearly 1M viewers
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The Atlantic has added 325,000 paid subscribers since launching a paywall a year ago; 20,000+ signed up over last weekend after Jeffrey Goldberg's post on Trump (
@kerrymflynn
/ CNN)
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Trump budget cuts would cause "the collapse of the public media system itself," says CPB CEO
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Investigation: GB News presenter Dan Wootton used fake online identities from 2008 to 2018 to trick and bribe many men into sharing compromising sexual material (Byline Times)
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Sources: Elon Musk has lined up a new CEO for Twitter and told banks about ideas for monetizing tweets like charging a fee for quoting or embedding tweets (Reuters)
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In her new book "Merchants of Truth", former NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson says the paper has become "unmistakably anti-Trump" under Dean Baquet (
@howardkurtz
/ Fox News)
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None of the major US media outlets that predicted a "red wave" at the midterms regret the prediction or seem to be holding discussions on improving the coverage (
@erikwemple
/ Washington Post)
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Sources: Disney CEO Bob Iger is considering running for President in 2020 as a Democrat
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Source: BuzzFeed News has fired senior reporter Ryan Broderick for plagiarism or misattributed information in at least 11 of his articles (
@jclarachan
/ The Wrap)
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The FTC proposes a ban on difficult-to-cancel subscriptions, with new "click to cancel" rules requiring companies to make canceling as simple as subscribing (
@thedextriarchy
/ The Verge)
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A look at video site Rumble, which has been on an upward trajectory since H2 2020, when right-wing star Dan Bongino moved from YouTube and took an equity stake (
@kait_tiffany
/ The Atlantic)
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Sources: Shep Smith's plunging ratings at CNBC, averaging just 197,000 viewers in June, have fostered internal turmoil, including "regular tantrums" from Smith (The Daily Beast)
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Source: Quentin Tarantino declines to recut his movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, after China's regulators blocked the film's release date of Oct. 25 (Hollywood Reporter)
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Maker Media, the company behind Make: magazine and the festival Maker Faire, is laying off all of its 22 employees and pausing all operations (
@joshconstine
/ TechCrunch)
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Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media suspends an ad campaign on X one month after announcing a partnership with X; it's unclear whether the partnership is still on (CNN)
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WaPo, CNN, Politico, ABC, Axios, Gannett, and others demand the release of January 6 footage that the House speaker provided exclusively to Tucker Carlson (
@anumitakaur
/ Washington Post)
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Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer, after updating policy to tackle disinformation (
@parismartineau
/ The Outline)
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Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, who left CNN over leaks to Clinton campaign, has joined Fox News as a contributor (
@bristei
/ Variety)
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Sources: NBC News has suspended tech reporter Ben Collins from NBC and MSNBC airwaves for criticism of Elon Musk that it deemed not editorially appropriate (
@maxwelltani
/ Semafor)
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How Fox News commentators including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Jeanine Pirro create a feedback loop with President Trump to cast doubt on Mueller probe (
@brianstelter
/ CNNMoney)
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Elon Musk tweeted that the US media is "racist against whites & Asians", in reply to a tweet that was sympathetic to Scott Adams' rant against Black people (
@willoremus
/ Washington Post)
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ABC News apologizes after showing a chyron for about five seconds falsely stating Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to manslaughter (
@levinejonathan
/ The Wrap)
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PBS to air CNN International's Amanpour on an interim basis to replace Charlie Rose, is finalizing plans for a public affairs program to follow Amanpour's slot (
@brianstelter
/ CNNMoney)
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Sarah Sanders' primary legacy will be the death of daily press briefings, as she shortened and then did away with the meetings; the last briefing was March 11 (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman opens investigation into Devumi, the company that sells millions of fake followers to celebs, journalists, others (
@nickconfessore
/ New York Times)
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A new generation of WH reporters like CBS' Weijia Jiang and CNN's Jeremy Diamond are holding Trump accountable by following up and fact-checking in real time (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, the head of the Anti-Defamation League called on her to fire Tucker Carlson for invoking "white replacement theory" (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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CA's AB 5 bill author says the law's 35-submission limit for journalists is "a little arbitrary", as freelancers seek changes before the law takes effect Jan. 1 (
@katiekilkenny7
/ Hollywood Reporter)
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CNN parent company WarnerMedia sends a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over new ad that WarnerMedia claims deceptively misuses CNN news coverage (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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Netflix says it plans to raise $800M in debt, bringing total long-term debt to $3B
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Sources: Toby Emmerich will step down as Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman, to be replaced by Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, who previously led MGM (Variety)
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Media companies better embrace Project Glass because it's going to change everything...
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Newsweek's Eichenwald implied a link among Trump, Wikileaks, and Russia that doesn't hold up
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Profile of Rana Ayyub, one of India's best-known investigative journalists reporting on Narendra Modi's India amid increasing anti-Muslim bigotry (Dexter Filkins / New Yorker)
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Sources: Spotify in early talks to buy The Ringer, founded by former ESPN commentator Bill Simmons, which has a podcast network that made $15M+ in 2018 (Wall Street Journal)
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Source: Shepard Smith asked Fox News management in September to let him out of his contract; tensions with pro-Trump opinion shows were the breaking point (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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CNN booked Corey Lewandowski for an interview just hours after telling Congress he has "no obligation to be honest with the media" (
@atrupar
/ Vox)
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NPR says it has decided not to use the word "lie" to describe Trump's false claims
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Tim Mak, who covered Ukraine for NPR, launches The Counteroffensive, a newsletter to report on the war in the country, after leaving NPR as part of its layoffs (
@timkmak
/ The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak)
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In court filing, NRA says it may be forced to close NRATV since it's been unable to get media liability insurance due to pressure from Cuomo on insurance firms (
@alexyablon
/ The Trace)
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Sam Bankman-Fried invested in several nonprofit and for-profit newsrooms over the last year, including Semafor, The Intercept, ProPublica, and Vox (
@teddyschleifer
/ Puck)
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Sources: Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are expected to sit for depositions as soon as this month in Dominion's suit against Fox, and there were no settlement talks (
@jwpetersnyt
/ New York Times)
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Substack sets a goal of making the 2024 US election "the Substack Election" and hires publicist and producer Catherine Valentine to lead politics initiatives (
@hamishmckenzie
/ On Substack)
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Bannon returns to Breitbart News as executive chairman, led Friday evening editorial meeting
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Sources: NY Post editors tell staff not to use reporting from CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo as the sole basis for any Post article without independent confirmation (
@katie_robertson
/ New York Times)
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NBC stations partner with Instagram for viewer photos (
@corybe
/ Lost Remote)
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $1M to Mother Jones magazine to finance reporting around misinformation and fake news, more (
@dabeard
/ Poynter)
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Jen Psaki held her last briefing as White House press secretary, her 224th briefing in about 16 months, passing all of Donald Trump's press secretaries combined (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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Media "sanewashing", or reframing Trump's incoherent and dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, is a form of misinfo that distorts reality (
@parkermolloy
/ New Republic)
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Q&A with Insider's Linette Lopez on covering Elon Musk, being temporarily banned from Twitter for a post featuring an image with his email address, and more (Public Notice)
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Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets (New York Times)
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The White House calls on Fox News to correct coverage of bribery claims against Biden by an informant now charged with lying; source: Fox declines to make fixes (
@oliverdarcy
/ CNN)
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CNN should sue the White House for taking away Jim Acosta's press pass under a false pretext, and press-rights groups and media outlets should join in (
@sulliview
/ Washington Post)
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Lyra McKee, Mediagazer editor, freelance writer, and journalist who wrote about the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles, was killed amid violence in Derry, NI (The Irish News)
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Mail on Sunday prints a story stating it infringed on Duchess of Sussex copyright and will pay "financial remedies" for publishing her letter to her father (
@markbrown14
/ The Guardian)
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KTLA weekend anchor Courtney Friel appeared in none of her regularly scheduled anchoring slots the weekend after publicly accusing Trump of making a pass at her (
@mollyjongfast
/ The Daily Beast)
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Wirecutter Union reaches a deal that includes a $59K salary floor, the elimination of NDAs in cases of harassment, and monthly remote work reimbursements (
@wirecutterunion
)
🚨Bargaining Update🚨
We’re excited to share we’ve reached a deal with management on our first contract! After 2 years of bargaining & a 5 day strike, we’ve secured an agreement that makes meaningful improvements to our working conditions. We came together to demand better & won!
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Since January, every book to occupy the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list has been about Trump (
@brianstelter
/ CNNMoney)
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CNN, the Texas Tribune, and 11 other news organizations sue the Texas Department of Public Safety to obtain Uvalde shooting records amid officials' stonewalling (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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Meet The Next Version Of Twitter (
@mattbuchanan
/ BuzzFeed)
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Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and the WSJ link Trump's lack of action on Jan. 6 to a character failure; the Post calls him unworthy to be president again (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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How the Mail on Sunday admitted that it published a defamatory story about a beautician, but still dragged her through court before losing the libel suit (
@briancathcart
/ Byline Times)
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Journalists must wrest control of headline writing from the social-optimization teams
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Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for "hateful conduct" that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for "political or newsworthy content" (
@jake_k
/ The Verge)
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A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit against MSNBC and Rachel Maddow from One America News Network; OANN's owner says the network will appeal (
@kenstonemedia
/ Times of San Diego)
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Nandini Jammi, half of Sleeping Giants, explains how she worked well with Matt Rivitz early on, then Rivitz monopolized media interviews and diminished her work (
@nandoodles
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Netflix said it would rethink filming in GA pending abortion law, but CEO has given $143K to GOP members of MO legislature, which passed an 8-week abortion ban (Popular Information)
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Sources: pro-Trump operatives have collected dossiers of damaging old social media posts by journalists and are releasing them in response to critical coverage (New York Times)
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Twitter permanently suspends James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam (
@aidnmclaughlin
/ Mediaite)
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A look at Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-declared truth-telling journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a for-mega-profit propagandist (
@davidcorndc
/ Mother Jones)
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Spotify executive Bill Simmons calls Harry and Meghan "grifters" after their $20M deal ends with 12 episodes; sources say some interviews were done by staffers (Podnews)
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Peter Bright, also known as
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@clairenjax
/ The Daily Dot)
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CNN's media show, Reliable Sources, wins a Walter Cronkite award (PR Newswire)
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After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack by bots, fakes
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News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites "in return for significant payments by Google" (News Corp)
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Netflix signs content deal with the production house of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan
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The Indian government is attempting to present journalists as instigators of violence as a journalist faces harassment and criminal charges over a tweet (
@ranaayyub
/ Washington Post)
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CBS says 60 Minutes head Jeff Fager will not return to work on Monday, extending his vacation while he waits for conclusion of the probe into harassment at CBS (
@brianstelter
/ CNNMoney)
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Questioning Trump's stability based on his pattern of daily lies, distortions, and contradictions is reportorial, not political, in nature (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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Haberman's book: Tucker Carlson met Jared Kushner in February 2020 at the White House to demand clemency for Roger Stone; Trump pardoned Stone in December 2020 (
@swin24
/ Rolling Stone)
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Email reveals Facebook execs mulling how to remove a well-founded fact check label from a viral climate misinfo post from The Daily Wire after pressure from GOP (Popular Information)
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Washington Post Guild issues scathing critique of the paper's suspension of Felicia Sonmez, says WaPo should let her return and provide a security detail (Washington Post Guild)
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Katie Way, the reporter who broke the Aziz Ansari story, sent HLN host Ashleigh Banfield an email insulting her appearance after Banfield criticized Way (
@sidescrollers
/ Mediaite)
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Over 40 CNN staffers share their anger and fear after a brutal profile of Chris Licht and the announcement of David Leavy as COO; Licht vows to earn back trust (
@brianstelter
/ New York Magazine)
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Source: BuzzFeed has agreed to voluntarily recognize the BuzzFeed News union, following months of negotiations and a walkout by staffers last month (
@gerryfsmith
/ Bloomberg)
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Breitbart News gave Cambridge Analytica exclusive rights to resell its engagement data in 2016, former Cambridge Analytica employee tells UK Parliament (The Daily Beast)
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How a ProPublica data journalist with a bioinformatics background used public genomic sequencing data to track a salmonella outbreak in the US chicken industry (
@irenatfh
/ ProPublica)
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Fox News' website is altering AP and Reuters articles to replace "gender-affirming care" with "sex change" or "sex reassignment", including in a direct quote (
@miagingerich
/ Media Matters for America)
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Sources: Fox producers have been told to avoid booking some regular guests if the latter kept doing Newsmax appearances after being encouraged to stop (
@brianstelter
/ CNN)
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