It’s been almost a week since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We’ll talk about what’s transpired since then, and how the national news media covered it.
Aaron Williams, Danielle Rindler, Chris Alcantara, Kevin Schaul & Kevin Uhrmacher, Washington Post: “How cable news networks covered the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing”
Alexandria Neason & Nausicaa Renner, Columbia Journalism Review: “The media bullying of Christine Blasey Ford”
David Uberti, Columbia Journalism Review: “On cable news at the Kavanaugh hearing, everyone stays in character”
David Beard, Poynter: “How Christine Blasey Ford chose to give her story to The Post over the NYT – and almost switched”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Viewers gathered around the TV in high numbers for Ford-Kavanaugh hearing”
Julia Horowitz, CNN: “Fox News fires contributor over tweets during Kavanaugh hearing”
James Poniewozik, New York Times: “A high-stakes hearing raises two voices, one quiet, one loud”
Maxwell Strachan, HuffPost: “What it was like at C-SPAN as women flooded the network with stories of sexual abuse”
Trump’s news conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsJRIBCqAVE
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “’I could be doing this all day.’ Trump delights in sparring with the press.”
Megan McCluskey, Time: “’It may still be going.’ Jimmy Kimmel dedicates entire monologue to tearing apart Trump’s press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=5ay8tanwyhQ
What did Trump say to the ABC reporter?
Amber Phillips, Washington Post: “You’re not thinking. You never do,’ Trump tells female reporters”
Alex Wayne, Bloomberg: “Trump insults ABC reporter, saying she ‘never’ thinks”
Rebecca Morin, POLITICO: “White House corrects Trump’s insult in press conference transcript”
California’s net neutrality act
Tony Romm and Brian Fung, Washington Post: “The Trump administration is suing California to quash its new net neutrality law”
Dell Cameron, Gizmodo: “California net neutrality bill signed into law”
Cristiano Lima and Jeremy B. White, POLITICO: “Trump administration sues California over net neutrality law”
Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times: “California enacts strongest net neutrality protections in the nation – and the Trump administration sues”
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica: “Calif. Enacts net neutrality law – US gov’t. immediately sues to block it”
Facebook security breach exposes 50M
Mike Isaac & Sheera Frenkel, New York Times: “Facebook security breach exposes accounts of 50 million users”
Josh Constine, TechCrunch: “Facebook breach hit up to 5M EU users, and it faces up to $1.63B in fines”
Catalin Cimpanu, ZD Net: “Facebook sued hours after announcing security breach”
Chris Ciaccia, Fox News: “Facebook says 50 million user accounts affected by security breach”
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times: "Why you shouldn't use Facebook to log into other sites"
‘Stairway to Heaven’ case goes to trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye7hCIWwhGE
Associated Press: “Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ case goes back to trial”
Noah Gilbert & Ben Sisario, New York Times: “Led Zeppelin did not steal ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ jury says” (2016)
Choose your own adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8tBU5BqHtw
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg: “Netflix is planning a choose-your-own-adventure ‘Black Mirror’”
Travis Clark, Business Insider: “’Black Mirror’ season 5 is reportedly coming to Netflix this year, and it could include a choose-your-own-adventure episode”
Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine: “Black Mirror: Season 5 to include an interactive episode – report”