Parkland shooting survivor’s family shops doctored emails with CNN to media outlets

Screenshot/Fox News The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email between Haab’s father, Glenn Haab, and a CNN producer to media outlets.  Colton told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Thursday that a CNN producer rewrote a question for Haab […]

US exerts much stricter control over ‘foreign agent’ media outlets than Russia – Putin

Published time: 25 Dec, 2017 18:35 US law relating to media outlets designated as ‘foreign agents’ are much stricter than the measures outlined by corresponding Russian legislation, President Vladimir Putin has said. But the law needs ‘improvements,’ he added. In the US, where certain Russian media outlets were declared “foreign agents,” these edicts applied to […]

White supremacists who beat people up at rallies are escaping police custody — so media outlets are unmasking them

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Members of California’s Rise Above Movement got into violent altercations during the protests in Charlottesville and Berkeley. But police aren’t charging them with crimes, an investigation from ProPublica found. So the outlet has identified several white nationalists, revealing who they are to the world. White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia and Berkeley, […]

Russian lawmaker: US news outlets are trying to influence Russia’s elections

MOSCOW (AP) — The head of a Russian parliamentary committee is accusing some American news outlets of being part of “a massive system” to affect Russia’s politics. In the wake of widespread claims that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential race, Russia’s State Duma this year began examining the operations of certain U.S. media […]

Why the left’s favorite media outlets are suddenly hiring conservatives

Paul Morigi/Getty Images MSNBC announced Monday that it has hired George F. Will as a contributor, adding yet another conservative talker to its rapidly expanding roster of them. Two weeks ago, the cable news network gave former George W. Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace a 4 p.m. show. Former Fox News star Greta Van Susteren took […]

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China increases restrictions on internet news outlets

The Chinese government has been ramping up tighter control of its internet in the past year. The latest set of new restrictions released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) adds more limitations on what news can be created and distributed by online platforms. But the biggest new rule: Every editorial staff must be approved […]

Major news outlets teamed up to gather financial disclosure documents on the Trump administration

Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images The Trump administration on Friday made available the financial disclosures for White House staff. The documents show, among other things, that President Donald Trump’s appointees are indeed quite wealthy. That is one of many aspects of the Trump administration that are widely seen as unprecedented. Another unprecedented element would be the manner […]

Conservative media outlets are turning against the Republican Obamacare replacement plan

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans facing stiff opposition from Democrats and even many conservative Republicans amid the rollout of their Affordable Care Act replacement plan. But they may face an even larger challenge from the conservative media outlets that fervently supported Trump’s candidacy. Less than a day after the unveiling of the American Healthcare Act, many conservative media […]

Snapchat users are ignoring media outlets and ads on the app, reveals survey

Snapchat publishers are having a hard time finding an audience for their content, according to a new survey from customer acquisition firm Fluent. Despite the fact that Snapchat is home to traditional media outlets such as CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, its users are not seeking out news on the […]