ESPN doubles down on its no politics policy after radio host Dan Le Batard shared his disgust with President Trump’s racist tweets on the air.
David Bauder, Associated Press: “ESPN reasserts political talk policy after attack on Trump”
Andrew Marchand, New York Post: “The huge decision ESPN’s Dan Le Batard faces after talking politics”
Summer Concepcion, Talking Points Memo: “ESPN host absent from radio show after blasting net’s Trump-bashing ban”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “ESPN’s Dan Le Batard is taking the day off from his radio show after chiding network for its no-politics policy”
Andrew Marchand, New York Post: “Dan Le Batard rips EPSN’s no-politics policy but stays on the air”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “ESPN’s policy feels ignorant, plus readers ‘go back’ stories and gripping DMN photo essay”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “’Racially charged’: Reuters is struggling with descriptions of Trump’s racist tweets”
Mueller testimony
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “The media is getting a second chance to cover Robert Mueller’s findings – and this time get it right”
CBS News: “Trump says he probably won’t watch Mueller testimony”
John Eggerton, Broadcast & Cable: “Mueller to draw broadcast crowd”
Philip Ewing, NPR: “Will Robert Mueller’s testimony shift the prevailing winds in Washington”
Michael D. Shear, New York Times: “Trump and his aides seek to dismiss Mueller hearings as a desperate act”
Joel Mathis, The Week: “Robert Mueller’s testimony is too little, too late”
Elie Honig, CNN: “Mueller, drop the Yoda act”
Bernie Sanders’s media platform
Juana Summers, Associated Press: “Bernie Sanders thinks media is unfair, so he created his own”
Reporting in Puerto Rico
Brian Stelter, CNN: “These journalists exposed the corruption that led to Puerto Rico’s mass protests”
Omaya Sosa Pascual & Luis J. Valentín Ortiz, Center for Investigative Journalism: “The pillage of public funds in Puerto Rico going on behind the chat”
Luis J. Valentín Ortiz & Carla Minet, Center for Investigative Journalism: “Las 889 páginas de Telegram entre Roselló Nevares y sus allegados” (Use Google Chrome for automatic translation from Spanish)
GateHouse poised to buy Gannett
Nathan Bomey, USA Today: “Gannett reportedly in talks to combine with GateHouse Media”
Rick Edmonds, Poynter: “How a GateHouse-Gannett merger would work”
Ken Doctor, Nieman Lab: “Newsonomics: It’s looking like Gannett will be acquired by GateHouse – creating a newspaper megachain like the U.S. has never seen”
Lion King takes the crown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TavVZMewpY
Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling, New York Times: “’Lion King’ remake becomes Disney’s latest box-office smash”
Frank Pallotta, CNN: “’The Lion King’ could seal Disney’s reign over the box”
What’s next for Marvel?
Brooks Barnes, New York Times: “Marvel Studios unveils diverse film lineup at Comic-Con”
Palmer Haasch, Polygon: “Here’s the massive voice cast for Marvel’s animated Disney Plus series What If…?”
Miles Surrey, The Ringer: “Marvel is entering Phase 4, which is good if you like Marvel”
Remembering George Hodgman
Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “George Hodgman, author of ‘Bettyville,’ dies at age 60”
Jeannette Cooperman, St. Louis Magazine: “Remembering George Hodgman”
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: “George Hodgman, 60, dies; wrote best seller on caring for his mother”
Steve Weinberg, Mizzou Magazine: “Books in the Big Apple” (2007)
