Media reporter • lindsey.ellefson@thewrap.com • Twitter: @ellefs0n
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Fox News’ Shepard Smith Defends Andrew Napolitano After Guest’s ‘Repugnant’ On-Air Attack
Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova appeared on the network Tuesday night and called Napolitano “a fool”
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Bill O’Reilly Snagged Only One TV Appearance to Plug His New Trump Book – and It Wasn’t Fox News
Promo for “The United States of Trump” is happening largely on his own platforms
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Joe Scarborough Says Democrats Have ‘Compelling’ Impeachment Message With National Security
The “Morning Joe” co-host explains that current arguments could have “resonance with a lot of Americans”
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Al Franken Lands Weekly Talk Show on SiriusXM
Comedian and former U.S. senator to launch show on Sept. 28
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Andrea Mitchell: Journalistic Credibility Is Being Attacked ‘as Part of a Re-Election Strategy’
NBC’s Mitchell received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Tuesday night and took on the Trump administration in her remarks
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Conservative News Sites TheBlaze, Washington Examiner See Big Traffic Gains as Breitbart Fades and ThinkProgress Dies
Comscore data shows the sites have posted their eighth straight month of year-over-year growth
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Aurora Shooting Victims’ Families Voice Concerns About Warner Bros’ Upcoming ‘Joker’
“When we learned that Warner Bros. was releasing a movie called ‘Joker’ that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause,” says letter to studio chair Ann Sarnoff
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Trump Administration ‘Intended to Sit on’ Plan for Egypt to Arrest NY Times Reporter, Publisher Says
“We learned the official was passing along this warning without the knowledge or permission of the Trump administration,” A.G. Sulzberger says of 2017 incident involving Declan Walsh
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White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Confirms Televised Briefings Won’t Return Soon: Reporters Were ‘Getting Famous’ From It
In her first appearance on “Fox & Friends” as press secretary, Grisham calls daily White House press briefings “theater”
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Emmys Announcer Thomas Lennon Fires Back at Jackée Harry’s ‘Because It Sucks’ Critique
“Sister, Sister” actress tells Lennon “those jokes suck” after Sunday night’s Emmys
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Pete Buttigieg Criticizes LGBT Media Coverage: ‘It’s All, He’s Too Gay, Not Gay Enough, Wrong Kind of Gay’
The Democratic presidential candidate talked about LGBT-centered media during a SiriusXM interview
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Lauren Duca Responds to Complaints From Her NYU Class: ‘I Am Disappointed With How It Went’
“It was really hard and I don’t think they paid me enough money to do it,” Duca told Marie Claire of her teaching experience
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New Study Finds Americans Believe Journalists Act More Unethically Than Police, Military
Pew Research polled Americans on trust in leaders
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Trump Talks Gun Legislation on Fox News: ‘We’re Not Moving on Anything’
The president spoke to Fox News’ Ed Henry in a two-part interview
