NY Times’ Rutenberg Tries to Enlist Republicans to Defend Media, Oppose Trump

Sunday's New York Times featured the latest installment in easily-freaked media reporter Jim Rutenberg's crusade against President Trump: " Trump's Undermining Reporters May Haunt Republicans ." The online headline foreshadowed Rutenberg's unlikely attempt to enlist Republicans in defense of the press and against Trump: "Will the Real Democracy Lovers Please Stand Up?" while the text box delivered an empty threat: "This strategy could push Republicans into a corner later."

Spurned Reporters Should Dump Trump Briefings and Turn to Investigative Journalism

Donald Trump was unhappy Saturday that the major media had neglected to report a point made by Herman Cain in an interview on Fox. Cain alleged that in Barack Obama's first month, the Federal budget deficit rose $200 bn., but in Trump's first month it fell to only $12 bn.

White House slams door on reporters

The White House blocked a number of news organizations from attending an informal briefing Friday, a rare and surprising move that came amid President Donald Trump's escalating war against the media. White House press secretary Sean Spicer banned reporters from CNN, the New York Times, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed from attending a "gaggle," a non-televised briefing, but gave access to a number of other reporters, including those representing conservative outlets.

Milo Yiannopoulos, Larry Wilmore go head-to-head on ‘Maher

While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" was relatively tame -- at least until the cameras were turned off. It was later, during an online-only "Overtime" segment of Maher's Friday night show, that two of Maher's three panelists hurled expletives at the Breitbart News senior editor.

Black reporter clashes with Omarosa in Trump White House

EXCLUSIVE: Brendan Dassey's confession - omitted from Making a Murderer - describes how his uncle Steven Avery touched his genitals and was p*ssed off that his fiancA e was in jail and he hadn't 'gotten any,' reveals prosecutor Ken Kratz in bombshell book Extraordinary confrontation between Omarosa and African-American White House reporter as former 'Apprentice' star now in Trump's inner circle claims to have 'dossiers' on black journalists Formerly friends, the two began feuding after Manigault hinted that Ryan may have been paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign; no evidence supports that Ryan said Manigault 'physically intimidated' her and warned that she was among a group of black journalists on whom the White House keeps 'dossiers' Press secretary Sean Spicer batted away that idea on Tuesday, saying it's 'absolutely not true' - but joking that the opposition research was in a ... (more)

Detecting fake news added to classroom instruction

Pat Winters Lauro, a journalism professor at Kean University in Union, N.J., led a class discussion talking about fake news. WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y.>> Teachers from elementary school through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and fictional news - and why they should care that there's a difference.

Wall Street Journal’s tough week ends with departure of top editor

The Wall Street Journal is losing one of its top editors on Friday, and that's only the capper to what has been a trying week at the newspaper. Deputy editor-in-chief Rebecca Blumenstein's decision to leave for The New York Times was reportedly not connected to newsroom frustration over the Journal's coverage of President Donald Trump.

DRUDGE: ‘Republican Party should be sued for fraud’

Internet-news mogul Matt Drudge laced into GOP leadership on Wednesday morning, contending the Republican Party should "be sued for fraud" for not delivering on campaign promises soon enough. "No Obamacare repeal, tax cuts! But Republicans vote to shut Warren?" Drudge tweeted, linking a New York Times article about Republicans voting to silence Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren .

Steve King: Putin allows freedom of dissent because he hasn’t…

Rep. Steve King defended President Donald Trump's recent praise of Vladimir Putin, noting that the Russian president had not killed a famous dissident, Garry Kasparov, who fled to New York City. During an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Trump dismissed the murder of journalists in Russia, arguing that the United States was not "so innocent" either.

Trumpa s a running wara on the media undermines trust

Donald Trump's "running war" on the media is continuing into his presidency, with statements over the weekend calling into question the extent to which information from the White House can be trusted. White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday will hold his first daily press briefing, at which he could face questions about a statement Saturday night that included demonstrably false assertions about the crowd size at Trump's inauguration and a promise by the new administration that "we're going to hold the press accountable."

Bill would give students control of school-sponsored media

Jaxon Owens, 17, right, editor-in-chief of the Viking Vanguard student newspaper at Puyallup High School, speaks during a Senate hearing at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Olympia, Wash. Washington state lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that would protect student journalists' free speech in school-sponsored media at public schools and colleges in response to a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave administrators control over what gets published in school media.