Will a judge buy it? A man convicted of threatening a California Islamic advocacy group claims binge-watching Fox News for a week following the Charlie Hebdo attacks made him do it.
Christopher Mathias, Huffington Post: “Did binge-watching Fox News inspire this man to threaten Muslims?”
Marty Graham, Reuters: “California man pleads guilty to hate crime threat to Islamic group”
Libby Watson, Media Matters For America: “Meet the extremists who lead Fox’s conversation about Islam”
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Melissa Click charged with assault
University of Missouri Assistant Professor Melissa Click entered a not guilty plea Tuesday. Click is charged with misdemeanor assault in connected with an incident on Monday, November 9, 2015. Click is seen calling for "some muscle" during an altercation with a photographer during the Concerned Student 1950 protests on the Carnahan Quadrangle.
Liv Paggiarino, Columbia Missourian: “MU professor Melissa Click faces assault charge”
Taylor Stevens, KOMU-TV: “Interim Chancellor, MU task force investigating Melissa Click”
Tribune Staff, Columbia Daily Tribune: “Chancellor: Melissa Click’s job safe during tenure process”
Austin Huguelet & Christine Hauser, New York Times: “Missouri professor who called for ‘some muscle’ at protest is charged”
Corky Siemaszko, NBC News: “Mizzou media professor Melissa Click charged with siccing ‘muscle’ on reporter”
Jason Hancock, Kansas City Star: “MU professor Melissa Click, who called for ‘muscle’ to remove reporter, charged with assault”
Power of the polls
With less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, it seems every network, national newspaper and presidential campaign has new poll numbers to share. But, as the number of polls put in the field increases, they become harder to trust.
Frank Bruni, New York Times: “Our insane addiction to polls”
Cliff Zukin, New York Times: “What’s the matter with polling?”
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker: “Are polls ruining democracy?”
Real Clear Politics: “2016 Election 2016 Presidential Polls”
Bloomberg on Bloomberg
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has an unwritten rule for the journalists who work for him -- Bloomberg doesn't cover Bloomberg. But, what if he ends up making rumored the third-party run for the White House?
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “How Bloomberg covers Bloomberg”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Michael Bloomberg’s 2016 ambitions may shake up the race – and his media company”
Alexander Burns & Maggie Haberman, New York Times: “Bloomberg, sensing an opening, revisits a potential White House run”
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post: “Michael Bloomberg considers a presidential run”
Mara Gay, Wall Street Journal: “Michael Bloomberg mulling run for president as independent”
Glenn Thrush & Annie Karni, POLITICO: “Bloomberg drawing up plans for presidential run”
Bloomberg Politics: “Bloomberg tells advisers to draw up possible campaign plan: NYT”
Hollywood's diversity 'problem'
The debate over the lack of minority Oscar nominees continued into a second week as entertainers push for changes in Hollywood.
James Rainey & Tim Gray, Variety: “Hollywood diversity: Oscars highlight plague infecting entire industry”
Robert Mclean, CNN: “Variety seeks to shame Hollywood on lack of diversity”
Michael Cieply, New York Times: “Academy board endorses changes to increase diversity in Oscar nominees and itself”
Roxanne Gay, New York Times: “The Oscars and Hollywood’s race problem”
Richard Prince, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education: “#OscarsSoWhite morphs into #JournalismSoWhite”
Bill Wyman, Columbia Journalism Review: “Can we talk about the Oscars intelligently?”
Janell Ross, Washington Post: “What Stacey Dash gets very wrong when she calls for ending BET and Black History Month”
Pam Key, Breitbart: “Whoopi grills reporter co-host: ‘What do you know about black history?”
Brooks Barnes, New York Times: “Sundance officially sidesteps Oscar controversy, but its opening film doesn’t”
Tre’vell Anderson, LA Times: “Twitter says a white British actor playing a Mexican American is exactly what’s wrong with Hollywood”
‘Ask Amy’ duped
Advice columnist Amy Dickinson got a letter from a reader, looking for advice on a budding friendship. Only... that friendship wasn't what it seemed.
Elahe Izadi, Washington Post: “Someone hoaxed Ask Amy using an old ‘Seinfeld’ plot”
Amy Dickinson: “Helloooo Jerry: Punked by Seinfeld”
