President Donald Trump gave his first interview this weekend, but for journalists, the real story is not what he said, but what interviewer Maria Bartiromo didn’t.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2czMbfMx7E
Alexis Benveniste, CNN: “Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo gave Trump his first TV interview since the election. It was filled with lies”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “President Trump’s interview is an embarrassing low mark for him, Fox News, and, especially, interviewer Maria Bartiromo”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Maria Bartiromo’s phenomenal flop”
Bill McCarthy & Amy Sherman, Poynter: “Fact-checking President Trump’s whopper-laden interview with Maria Bartiromo”
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here’s one radical idea.”
Biden’s communication team
Errin Haines, 19th: “Women lead communications teams for Biden and Harris”
Staff, Reuters: “Biden names all-woman communications team”
Theodric Meyer, POLITICO: “Biden announces all-female White House communications team”
Tamar Lapin, New York Post: “Biden names all-female senior White House communications team”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “How will Biden’s new team treat the press?”
Annie Linskey & Jeff Stein, Washington Post: “Biden hires all-female senior communications team, names Neera Tanden director of OMB”
Netflix pulls ‘Chappelle’s Show’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un_VvR_WqNs&feature=emb_logo
Julia Jacobs, New York Times: “Netflix pulls ‘Chappelle’s Show’ at Dave Chappelle’s request”
Reese Oxner, NPR: “Netflix removes ‘Chappelle’s Show’ at Dave Chappelle’s request”
CNN: “Dave Chappelle praises Netflix for taking down “Chappelle’s Show’”
Craig Jenkins, Vulture: “Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue was illuminating”
Masking up on tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LEAuVuNO8U
Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture: “What the hell is happening with masks on network tv?”
Jim Riek retires from KOMU
Stephanie Southey, KOMU: “Happy retirement, Jim Riek!”
Anna Lewis, Columbia Missourian: "Anchor away: Jim Riek retires at KOMU, heads our for new adventures"
Scott Jones, FTV Live: “Wrapping it up in Missouri”
Free NYT subscriptions
John Bowden, The Hill: “NYT goes free for high school students, teachers” | New York Times