It’s an October surprise! Views of the News is back on KBIA after a six-month hiatus. Join Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely for our weekly media roundtable. This week, they’ll discuss the coverage of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, from the overnight announcement via Twitter to his return to the White House and the challenge for journalists finding themselves exposed to the virus. Also, how COVID-19 is affecting how we entertain ourselves on the big screen and at home.
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Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “Journalists, beware: This White House can’t be trusted to be truthful about Trump’s health”
Sarah Ellison, Washington Post: “How the everyday chaos of reporting on the Trump White House played out for the world to see Saturday”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “The White House wages war on transparency: Trump’s health edition”
Jeremy Baar, Washington Post: “The president is sick. Why is TV news booking pro-Trump pundits and campaigners to talk about it?”
Olivia Nuzzi & Ben Jacobs, Intelligencer: “The White House is spreading virus and lies”
Jonathan Swan, Axios: “Covering a cover-up in real time”
Ed Mazza, Huff Post: “Chris Cuomo loses it over Trump’s ‘bulls**t’ coronavirus ‘propaganda’ video”
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker: “Maggie Haberman on the fallout from Trump’s hospitalization”
Seung Min Kim, Josh Dawsey & Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post: “White House gives confusing and incomplete answers about Trump’s health as president says he is ‘feeling well’”
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: “Trump tweeted his COVID test news. But you need to red beyond Twitter for the whole story”
Jessica McDonald & Lori Robertson, FactCheck.org: “Q&A on Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis”
Jospeh A. Wulfsohn, Fox News: “Media outlets suggest White House ‘can’t be trusted’ to be truthful about Trump’s health”
Paul Farhi & Elahe Izadi, Washington Post: “After Trump’s positive test, conservative media goes after liberal critics – real and imagined”
Helen Branswell, STAT: “For many of Washington’s most powerful, Covid-19 public health guidance does not apply”
“We are in for a period of real uncertainty.”@ABC News’ @jonkarl joins with the latest on the president and first lady’s COVID-19 diagnoses and how the White House is handling the situation. https://t.co/iSB5yj0grl pic.twitter.com/qzgk5LdABc
— The View (@TheView) October 2, 2020
Bringing Focus to Trump Covid Coverage
Bill Gueskin, Columbia Journalism Review: “Trump, reckless and behind the wheel”
Brett Samuels, The Hill: “White House Correspondents’ Association: ‘Outrageous’ for Trump to leave hospital without informing pool”
Ben Smith, New York Times: “How to cover a sick old man”
Daniel Funke, Noah Y. Kim, Ciara O’Rourke & Miriam Valverde, Poynter: “Fact-checking misinformation about President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis”
Bridget Thoreson, Hearken: “Meet this moment: 3 steps to focus your coverage on audience needs after Trump’s positive COVID test”
Joy Mayer, Trusting News: “Today’s trust tip: Cover Trump’s coronavirus test calmly, and stick to the facts”
COVID spreading to journalists
Joe Pompeo, Vanity Fair: “’People are livid’: White House reporters fume over Team Trump’s ‘reckless’ COVID response”
Brian Stelter & Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Journalists who work at the White House are testing positive for COVID-19”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Three White House journalists test positive for coronavirus after closely covering Trump”
Peter Nicholas, The Atlantic: “What I saw at the White House”
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “Fox News stars to be tested after attending debate night”
Brian Steinberg, Variety: “Fox News stars slated to get coronavirus tests following Trump disclosure”
Maria Arias, Axios: “Chris Wallace to Fox News viewers: ‘Wear the damn mask’”
Brooke Singman, Sally Persons & Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News: “Cleveland Clinic says guests had ‘low risk of exposure’ to coronavirus at Trump-Biden debate”
Regal Cinemas to close
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Manori Ravindran, Variety: “Cineworld to close all Regal Cinemas, U.K. Venues in response to ‘No Time to Die’ delay”
Sean Hollister, The Verge: “Bond was the last straw: Regal and Cineworld will reportedly close all theaters in US an UK next week”
Julia Kollewe, The Guardian: “Cineworld to close all UK and US venues putting thousands of jobs at risk”
Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter: “AMC Theatres pledges to stay open, touts PVOD pact with Universal”
Frank Pallotta, CNN: “Movie theaters are struggling to survive the pandemic. Many won’t”
Rebecca Davis, Variety: “China box office hits pre-COVID heights with ‘My People, My Homeland,’ ‘Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification’”
Nellie Andreeva, Deadline: “’Glow’ canceled by Netflix; won’t proceed with fourth & final season due to COVID”
‘Cops’ resumes production
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter: “’Cops’ quietly resumes production”
Tyler Hersko, IndieWire: “’Cops’ resumes production in Washington, will not air in United States”
Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter: “Behind the fall of ‘Live PD,’ ‘Cops’ and reality TV police”
Who’s behind coverage on mail-in voter fraud?
Yochai Benkler, Casey Tilton, Bruce Etling, et al., Harvard University: “Mail-In voter fraud: Anatomy of a disinformation campaign”
Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Lab: “A new study shows how Trump and the RNC duped traditional media into covering mail-in voter fraud”
