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“Everyone Thinks They’re Going to Sell”: Hellfire at Fox as Hannity Mulls Leaving and Lachlan Goes Full Donna Brazile on Trump | Vanity Fair

Inside Fox, staffers believe that C.E.O. Lachlan Murdoch is likely to nudge the network in a less pro-Trump direction. Is this the first step in a larger strategy to sell the newly spun-off company? Donald Trump’s alliance with Fox News has been one of the few constants throughout his shambolic presidency. …

A Future With Less News | The New Republic

Alan Rusbridger’s account of his time at The Guardian illustrates the possibilities and limits of journalism in the digital era. “I think news is incredibly important to society and democracy,” Mark Zuckerberg told a group of editors and media executives in May. The Guardian and its sister newspaper, The Observer, had reported two months earlier …

What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean? – The New York Times

President Trump has ignored bedrock diplomatic alliances. He has stared directly into an eclipse. His disregard for the “off” part of an off-the-record meeting would seem to surprise exactly no one. But the president’s decision to speak publicly about his recent private discussion with A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, …

Quote of the Day

“You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.” ~STEPHEN K. BANNON, chief White House strategist. Source: Quotation of the Day – The New York Times

Quote of the Day

“It was like Wile E. Coyote running halfway across the canyon and realizing that his footing was a little suspect.” ~MARTIN GOTTLIEB, who retired in January as the editor of The Record, New Jersey’s second-largest newspaper, on the paper’s financial pressures. The Record has laid off hundreds of people since …

Can Latinos Swing Arizona? – The New Yorker

An organization’s efforts to get out the vote may help to determine who wins the 2016 election. Jose Barboza was up early on March 22nd, the day of the Presidential primary in Arizona. Barboza, a twenty-four-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was volunteering for Promise Arizona, a local group dedicated to …

In Mumbai, club weddings call for grand receptions – LA Times

It’s winter in Mumbai, which means the Queen’s Necklace, the nickname for the sea-hugging boulevard whose street lamps evoke a string of pearls, is lighted more gaudily than usual. Along a half-mile stretch of the thoroughfare sits a succession of private clubs known as gymkhanas, where generations of families have …

The Eternal Return of BuzzFeed – The Atlantic

What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today, and MTV Before Nyan Cat, before “Imma let you finish,” even beforerickrolling, there was a small startup in New York dedicated to finding pre-viral content online. The first employees of BuzzFeedwrote aboutBorat, MySpace, and the “highly anticipated” Nintendo Wii.That was 2006—nine years ago on …