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Washington Post media critic. I love family, journalism, pushups. Girl Scout Troop Cookie Mgr.--2018-21 cookie seasons. Tips welcome: erik.wemple@washpost.com

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    Dec 20

    Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, will join The Atlantic as a staff writer in the spring (The Atlantic)

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  2. Dec 17

    Fox News is running out of First Amendment runway.

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  3. Dec 16

    Correction: As pointed out, discovery in this case had already been underway; the judge in the case did not stay discovery. Apologies.

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  4. Dec 16

    Perhaps Fox News executives will sidestep any further possible releases of internal communications/emails/text messages/etc.

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  5. Dec 16

    Just look at what happened this week: Rep. Liz Cheney read a few texts from Fox Hosts to former WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows from Jan. 6, and Fox News had itself a half-weeklong scandalito.

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  6. Dec 16

    It's anyone's guess what happens now. The denial of Fox News' motion means that the case can head into discovery, though you don't need - level experience in media to know that Fox News might do everything possible to end this thing before discovery.

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  7. Dec 16

    Here's the statement from Fox News Media:

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  8. Dec 16

    Sounds like the judge has a pretty good understanding of Fox News.

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  9. Dec 16

    A key line from the ruling of Judge Eric M. Davis: "Dominion’s well-pleaded allegations, however, support the reasonable inference that Fox’s reporting was not accurate or dispassionate."

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  10. Dec 16

    Legal experts, and anyone with half-decent analytical chops, expected this defeat for Fox News, considering that the network aired segment after segment implicating the voting-tech company in election wrongdoing.

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  11. Dec 16

    A Delaware judge has denied Fox News' motion to dismission the lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems relating to the network's coverage of alleged election fraud in the 2020 election.

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  12. Dec 12

    It's official: Chris Wallace is joining CNN+

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  13. Dec 12

    Context for Chris Wallace's departure from Fox News: He and Bret Baier had recently objected to the Tucker Carlson documentary "Patriot Purge."

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    Chris Wallace's big surprise at the end of today's : He's leaving, effective immediately.
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    Dec 9

    After WaPo and the Guardian created databases of people killed by police, the FBI announced they'd begin tracking the data themselves. 5 years later, those efforts may be abandoned because local police departments won't cooperate

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  15. Dec 9

    It's not the job of the editor or any other editor to preoccupy themselves with thought projects such as: Hey, what would happen if everyone decided not to publish this document? 18/

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  16. Dec 9

    And my response is that I "prefer" that news organizations publish material that is newsworthy, verified and accurate. Period. In every instance. /17

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  17. Dec 9

    I've heard various versions of this argument, one of them being that the document may well have made it into the public realm anyway, via some less responsible outlet. /16

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  18. Dec 9

    Now on to request that I address what scenario I would "prefer" given that CNN, prior to BuzzFeed publishing the dossier, reported that it was being briefed to Trump and Obama. His request:

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  19. Dec 9

    Perhaps Tofel is referring to some other issue regarding Flynn, and if so, I'm happy to consider it. But we didn't need BuzzFeed to publish the dossier to acquire background to understand the Flynn-Russia drama of Jan.-Feb 2016. /14

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  20. Dec 9

    Check out just about any of the pieces on the dossier for more about what it missed and what it aggregated. /13

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