Migrant children in a Texas border facility have been living in squalor, without access to sanitation supplies such as soap and toothpaste. Reporters’ access to the facility, and others like it, has been limited, making reporting on the conditions difficult.
Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post: “U.S. returns 100 migrant children to overcrowded border facility as HHS says it is out of space”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story.”
Martha Mendoza & Garance Burke, Associated Press: “US gov’t moves migrant kids after AP exposes bad treatment”
Cedar Attanasio, Garance Burke & Martha Mendoza, Associated Press: “Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids”
Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times: “’There is a stench’: Soiled clothes and no baths for migrant children at a Texas center”
Pam Key, Breitbart: “Fox News’ Shep Smith compares Trump admin ‘horrifying’ treatment of migrant children to war crimes”
Ben Fenwick, New York Times: “’Stop repeating history’: Plan to keep migrant children at former internment camp draws outrage”
Charles M. Blow, New York Times: “Trump’s ‘concentration camps’”
Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune: “Column: Quit arguing about what to call the migrant camps near the border. Children are dying. Don’t look away.”
Relative silence on rape allegation
Hayley Miller, Huffington Post: “Sunday morning talk shows largely ignore Trump rape allegation”
Katie Sullivan, Media Matters for America: “Major newspapers largely leave new report of sexual assault by Trump off their front pages”
Oliver Darcy & Marianne Garvey, CNN: “Murdoch lieutenant ordered removal of New York Post story on Trump sexual assault allegation, sources say”
Lara Takenaga, New York Times: “Our top editor revisits how we handled E. Jean Carroll’s allegations against Trump”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “E. Jean Carroll’s Trump rape claim did not get enough coverage”
Trump threatens reporter with jail time
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Trump threatened Time journalist with prison over Kim Jong Un letter”
Time Staff, Time Magazine: “Donald Trump’s interview with TIME on 2020: Read the transcript”
Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post: “Trump threatens reporter with prison time during interview”
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent: “Trump ‘threatened journalist with prison time’ for taking photograph of letter from Kim Jung-un”
BBC: “Trump threatens Time journalist with prison over photo”
Bye-bye, Sarah Sanders
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Sarah Sanders: Farewell happy hour not the ‘appropriate venue’ to discuss honesty”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “White House reporters have arranged farewell drinks with Sarah Sanders”
Kate Bennett, CNN: “Trump taps Melania Trump’s spokeswoman as next White House press secretary”
Deaths in the Dominican Republic
Simon Romero & Nichols Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times: “Crisis hits Dominican Republic over deaths of U.S. tourists”
Steve Helling, People: “Dominican health official calls reports of tourist deaths ‘fake news’: It’s all a hysteria”
Danica Coto, Associated Press: “Minister: 8 tourism deaths in Dominican Republic not unusual”
NY1 Anchors Sue for Discrimination
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “Five NY1 anchorwomen sue cable channel for age and gender discrimination”
Oliver Darcy, CNN Business: “Five female anchors file age and gender discrimination lawsuit against NY1, a prominent New York station”
Twitter Removes Geotagging
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab: “Twitter is removing precise-location tagging on tweets – a small win for privacy but a small loss for journalists and researchers”
Mikael Thalen, Daily Dot: “RIP to the Twitter geotagging feature that no one acutally used”
Amrita Khalid, Engadget: “Twitter removes precise geo-tagging option from tweets”
Relaxing Children’s Programming Rules
Dade Hayes, Deadline: “Children’s TV rules relaxation planned by FCC gets kudos from NAB”
Ajit Pai, FCC: “A giant leap for 5G”
