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DEAL MAKER : As Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of the big questions hanging over the media industry is whether AT&T's proposed purchase of Time Warner Inc. will receive approval. As The Wall Street Journal reports, AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson headed to Trump Tower on Thursday morning to meet with the president-elect , who vowed before the election to block the $85 billion deal.
In a move that may surprise some Fox News viewers, out anchor Shepard Smith criticized President-elect Donald Trump for "belittling" a CNN journalist. During the first press conference held since his win of the presidential election, Trump refused to field a question from Jim Acosta.
Donald Trump was combative and in control at his first news conference in months on Wednesday, sticking to his campaign formula - boasting of his successes, cracking jokes and slamming media he considers hostile. Journalists sat elbow to elbow, knee to knee in the crowded marble lobby of Trump Tower, clamoring with question after question nine days before the Republican is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
And the chaos and intrigue that surrounds our soon-to-be 45th president will undoubtedly follow him into the White House. As he often does, Trump took on the news media.
MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd laid into Ben Smith on his TV show on Wednesday for publishing a salacious and unverified dossier about Donald Trump, telling the BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief, "you just published fake news." Todd invited Smith on to his show to discuss a 35-page memo that BuzzFeed published on Tuesday which included uncorroborated raw intelligence gathered from Russian sources by a former British spy.
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday dismissed as an ''absolute fantasy'' allegations that the Kremlin has collected compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump. ''The Kremlin has no compromising dossier on Trump, such information isn't consistent with reality and is nothing but an absolute fantasy,'' Dmitry Peskov, who handles Putin's day-to-day communications, told journalists.
Hillary Clinton campaign national press secretary Brian Fallon, left, ripped the media on Twitter after CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump. CNN reported Tuesday evening that U.S. intelligence officials last week briefed President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump on unconfirmed claims that Russia has attempted to compromise Trump.
Authors Isabel Wilkerson, J.D. Vance, Diane Guerrero and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh appear on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. JOHN DICKERSON, CBS HOST: Today on FACE THE NATION, on the first day of 2017, a look at America.
Not worried enough about our future? Check out this: That's disgusting -- they snuck an act into a bill and now they're going to be on their propaganda mission. Here's a thought: I don't want to hear politicians talk about fake news.
Donald Trump Trump revealed the impotence of celebrities Washington Post to add more than 60 journalists in 2017 GOP rep Duffy considering Senate run in 2018: report MORE 's lack of star power at his inauguration on January 20th, here's a telling story from the campaign to look back on. The date was November 5, just three days before the election.
More than a month after the election, the news industry is still at a loss for how to cover Donald Trump as he transitions into power. Fact checks have proven ineffective, press conferences have virtually gone extinct, and Trump's supporters couldn't care in the slightest about what reporters are uncovering.
While there are widening concerns within the United States, among both leading Democrats and Republicans, over early statements and policy initiatives of president-elect Donald Trump, there has been a warm reception in the region for the draft US-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act from the Georgetown-based Caricom Secretariat. Passage of the bill in the US congress could well lay the foundation for new and more enlightened co-operation between the US and the Caribbean region in the vital health sector that is often plagued by various problems and challenges.
Between Trump's secret tax returns and Pence's own email scandal, open government advocates have a lot of questions. As a single party takes the presidency and both houses of Congress, the normal oversight system of checks and balances becomes endangered.
To mark the political ascent and enduring legacy of President Barack H. Obama, Ebony has published a special commemorative edition, "Hail to the Chief: Saluting Eight Years of Excellence." This stylish, thought-provoking issue is a unique collection of exclusive photographs, archival Ebony articles and hard-hitting analyses from leading African-American writers including award-winning poet, author and civil rights activist, Nikki Giovanni; MSNBC award-winning journalist Joy-Ann Reid; culturally astute critic Eric Deggans; pop culture pundit Tour; and New York Times best-selling author Baratunde Thurston.
President-elect Trump on Thursday lashed out at the White House and critics of his decision to cancel a press conference where he was to detail how he would separate his business from the presidency. Trump initially played media critic Thursday morning, ripping magazine Vanity Fair as having "really poor numbers" and being "way down, big trouble, dead!" The magazine published a negative review of a restaurant in Trump Tower on Wednesday and Trump sparred regularly with editor Graydon Carter when he covered Trump in New York.
Turkish and Azeri circles were displeased with my latest column where I had analyzed Vice President-elect Mike Pence's phone call to Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan. 's Trend news agency published a ridiculous article by Elmira Tariverdiyeva, titled: "Yerevan's failed phone call or why Trump did not respond."
At the beginning of Richard Nixon's presidency, that's how Attorney General John Mitchell explained the way reporters could best understand what the country was about to experience. It's also good advice for understanding the administration of the billionaire phony populist who will assume the presidency next month.