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cxenseparse_start The Arizona Republic announces its editorial board presidential endorsement for 2016. The Republic What is the correct response to these threats? Today, I offer you a few. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of Republic Media, which includes The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic) As someone who has spent a career in the business of…
How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” Bernie Sanders rallied tens of millions of voters by decrying the influence of corporate dollars in U.S. politics. But that’s not stopping big corporate donors from using his writing as part of illegal campaign advertisements. That’s thanks, in no small part, to the failure of the…
Hillary Clinton speaking to members of the media aboard her campaign plane on Sept. 6. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Look, Mom, there I am in WikiLeaks. Right there among the rest of the media sellouts, Clinton shills and biased tools of the MSM who are apparently bent on destroying Donald J. Trump. Sarah Palin tweeted…
Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images On Sunday, Ken Bone left his house, split his pants, donned a red sweater, asked a question about energy, and returned home a national celebrity. By early Monday morning, Bone emerged the clear winner of the second presidential debate. Within 24 hours, Bone could be seen on talk shows, heard…
HBO UNDECIDED? Bill Maher Goes After Ken Bone: ‘Too Stupid to Pick Hillary Over President Pussy-Grabber’ The jolly man in the red sweater is no “folk hero,” claims the ‘Real Time’ host. He’s just an idiot. Perhaps it was election fatigue or perhaps, amid the cacophony of sexual assault allegations, hacked emails, and ghosts of…
Photo: AP Most publishers of news and information have policies governing their relationships to advertisers. Generally speaking, these policies are tailored to suit the goals of those publishers and the expectations of their audiences. Some publishers feel comfortable working closely with advertisers to generate stories and videos that appeal to those advertisers, others, such as…
Start Article Post Content Discovery Communications, in a significant consolidation in the digital media sector, is investing $100 million into a new digital media holding company that will merge Thrillist Media Group, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery’s digital network Seeker and its SourceFed Studios. The new company, Group Nine Media, will be headed by Ben Lerer…
Donald Trump’s speech rebutting the growing swirl of sexual assault charges around him has a lot going on in it, but for my money the most important section came in the middle, when Trump went into a full-bore attack on the press. “Let’s be clear on one thing,” he said, “The corporate media in our…
The New York Times’s Response to Donald Trump’s Retraction Letter October 13, 2016 New York Times VP and Assistant General Counsel David McCraw sent the below letter to Donald Trump’s legal team in response to a retraction request about The Times’s article Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately Source: The New York Times’s Response to…
Donald Trump denied a People magazine journalist’s claim that he sexually assaulted her during an interview. His explanation: She’s not attractive enough. On Wednesday, People magazine journalist Natasha Stoynoff alleged that Trump tried to forcibly kiss her while she was on assignment. She wrote that Trump brought her into a room, shut the door, “and…