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At the crossroads of news and opinion, 'Morning Joe' hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting

One of the striking things about how furiously many people reacted to the news last week that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-Elect Donald Tr...

DATE: Nov 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

'Kissing the ring?' MSNBC 'Morning Joe' hosts meet with Trump to reopen lines of communication

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, fierce critics of President-elect Donald Trump, say they traveled to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with him to reopen lines of communication that ...

DATE: Nov 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Fighting conspiracy theories with comedy? That's what the Onion hopes after its purchase of Infowars

Headlines from the satirical website the Onion on Thursday: “New Dating Site Suggests People You Already Know But Thought You Were Too Good For.” “Trump Boys Have Slap Fight Over Who Gets to...

DATE: Nov 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Chris Wallace is leaving CNN. He says he wants to see what the new media environment has to offer

Chris Wallace says he's leaving CNN after three years and, at age 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer. “When I look at the media landscape right now, the pe...

DATE: Nov 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Unexpectedly, news outlets wind up having a relatively traditional election night experience

For all the concerns about a tumultuous process that could leave Americans waiting for days to learn who its next president would be, news outlets instead experienced an election night Tuesd...

DATE: Nov 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Peeking behind the curtain: News outlets are conscious of the need to explain election reporting

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand next week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in ...

DATE: Oct 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Washington Post report: Subscriber loss after non-endorsement reaches a quarter million

The Washington Post has lost at least 250,000 subscribers since announcing last Friday that it would not endorse a candidate for president — roughly 10 percent of its digital following, the ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

CNN bans conservative writer after 'beeper' comment to Muslim commentator

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN has banned conservative writer Ryan Girdusky from the network following a contentious on-air exchange in which he told panelist Mehdi Hasan that “I hope your beeper doesn...

DATE: Oct 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Newspaper non-endorsements at Washington Post, LA Times fit a trend, but their readers aren't happy

The number of newspapers endorsing a candidate for president has dwindled with the industry's financial troubles the past two decades, in part because owners reason that it makes no sense to...

DATE: Oct 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Owner Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post's decision not to endorse as the right, 'principled' one

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Monday defended the newspaper's decision not to endorse a presidential candidate as “right” and “principled” and pushed back a...