Several National Football League owners took to the field in solidarity with their players following President Trump’s incendiary words toward those who kneeled during the playing of the national anthem. We’ll talk about what happens when sports gets political.
Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle: “And now the president takes on the sports world”
Ben Strauss, POLITICO: “Trump just threw his NFL buddies under the bus”
Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times: “Trump’s comments on NFL and Stephen Curry draw intense reaction”
Brian Stelter, CNN Media: “With ‘son of a bitch’ comments, Trump tried to divide NFL and its players”
Daniel Politi, Slate: “Trump rescinds White House invitation for NBA’s Warriors after criticism from players”
Marissa Payne, Washington Post: “Mayor Muriel E. Bowser welcomes Warriors to D.C. after Trump rescinds White House invite”
Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart: “NBA legend Kobe Bryant accuses Donald Trump of inspiring ‘dissension and hatred’”
Theodore Kupfer, National Review: “Comments like Trump’s make the sports world a political battleground”
Adam Kilgore & Abby Phillip, Washington Post: “Trump turns sports into a political battleground with comments on NFL and Stephen Curry”
Fox News: “Trump vs. pro sports: President finds new target in America First agenda”
Vanessa Romo & Martina Stewart, NPR: “Trump embroiled in 2 controversies about professional sports, race and culture”
Juana Summers, CNN: “It’s impossible for black athletes to leave politics off the field”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Pro-Trump media goes on offense for president in NFL controversy”
Frank Pallotta, CNN: “Early ratings for the NFL are down again, but maybe not because of President Trump”
Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review: “Donald Trump vs. the NFL”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “NFL aired unity ad in prime time on Sunday”
Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg: “Trump’s war on NFL threatens to overshadow rollout of tax plan”
Editorial, Wall Street Journal: “The politicization of everything”
ESPN: "ESPN Monday Night Football overnight rating up 63 percent over a year ago"
Killing the health care bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5Hek7Z2b8
Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair: “Jimmy Kimmel comes for Trump and Pence in latest health-care bill attack”
Frank Pallotta, CNN Money: “Did Jimmy Kimmel kill the health care bill?”
CBS News: “Is Jimmy Kimmel right about Obamacare repeal bill’s failings?”
Linda Qiu & Daniel Victor, New York Times: “Jimmy Kimmel accused a senator of lying about his health care bill. Who’s right?”
Matthew Dessem, Slate: “Jimmy Kimmel: Senator Bill Cassidy ‘lied right to my face’”
Maureen Ryan, Variety: “Jimmy Kimmel turns Trumpian weapons on health care bill”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Here’s why Jimmy Kimmel is playing Ezra Klein on late-night television”
Laura Bradley, Vanity Fair: “Jimmy Kimmel won’t let GOP, ‘phony little creep’ from Fox brush him off”
Chris McCrory, Arizona Republic: “Jimmy Kimmel thanks McCain on Twitter for stand on health bill”
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times: “Colbert, Kimmel and the politics of late night”
Facebook’s promise to fight election interference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=dAay3FrjbnE
Editorial, New York Times: “Facebook’s belated awakening”
Donie O’Sullivan & Eric Bradner, CNN Media: “Facebook could still be weaponized again for the 2018 election”
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times: “On Russian meddling, Mark Zuckerberg follows a familiar playbook”
Sapna Maheshwari & Mike Isaac, New York Times: “Facebook, after ‘fail’ over ads targeting racists, makes changes”
Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News: “Facebook says it will hand Russia-linked ads over to Congress”
Melinda Zetlin, Inc.: “Mark Zuckerberg, facing class action lawsuit, scraps plan to issue non-voting Facebook shares”
Sarah Kessler, Quartz, “Mark Zuckerberg will sell at least $6 billion in Facebook stock over the next 18 months”
Adam Entous, Elizabeth Dwoskin, & Craig Timberg, Washington Post: “Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook”
Covering St. Louis demonstrations
Davis Winborne, Columbia Missourian: “From the Newsroom: Police posed a greater danger to journalists than demonstrators in St. Louis”
Jeremy Kohler, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Post-Dispatch demands charges be dropped against reporter covering protest”
KTVI-TV: “Scary moments for a FOX2 reporter during a Stockley protest”
Obits from beyond the grave
Stephen Hiltner, New York Times: “An obituary written from beyond the grave? Not quite”
Michael T. Kaufman, New York Times: “Lillian Ross, acclaimed reporter for The New Yorker, dies at 99”
Bruce Weber, New York Times: “Obit for the obits”
Megyn Kelly on Today
Brian Steinberg, Variety: “Megyn Kelly turns away from politics and toward morning tv in new launch”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Must we have ‘fun,’ Megyn Kelly?”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Megyn Kelly: ‘Must everything be political? Everything? EVERYTHING!”
David Bauder, Associated Press: “Megyn Kelly hopes for a Trump-free zone with new show”
John Koblin, New York Times: “Megyn Kelly is ready for her morning closeup”
Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair: “Has Megyn Kelly’s star already eclipsed?”
Brian Lowry, CNN Media: “Megyn Kelly awkwardly begins ‘Today’ makeover”
Willa Paskin, Slate: “Megyn Kelly might be done with politics, but politics aren’t done with her”
Your first memory of local news?
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “What are your earliest memories of local news?”