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‘Saturday Night Live’ Produces Ad for Google in Late-Night Twist (Variety)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 12:38Nexstar Makes Regulatory Case for Tribune Acquisition, Drawing Contrast With Sinclair (Variety)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/05/2018 - 06:20Rep David Cicilline (D-RI) Warns of Mass Newsroom Layoffs With Nexstar’s Tribune Acquisition (Variety)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/04/2018 - 10:10Instagram Is Purging Fake Followers Obtained Through Third-Party Apps (Variety)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 15:00What a Democratic Midterm Victory Would Mean for Hollywood (Variety)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/06/2018 - 10:26Just Which Outlets Are President Trump’s ‘Enemy’? By His Definition, There Are Many
President Donald Trump sent out a couple of tweets Oct 29 pushing back on the idea that he’s called the media the “enemy of the people.” It’s the “fake news” media, he specified. “A very big difference.” The first time that President Trump used the phrase, “enemy of the American people,” he identified the New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS, and CNN. He’s also called the Washington Post “fake news” several times. In a Sept 16 tweet, he characterized all of mainstream media as “fake news.”
Comcast Closes Deal for Fox’s Sky Stake, Owns Over 75% of European Pay-TV Giant (Variety)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/09/2018 - 12:48
Zuckerberg: Fixing Facebook’s Content Filters Will Take at Least 3 Years
Rebuilding Facebook’s content enforcement mechanisms to weed out harmful content could take 3 years or longer, said the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The good news is we started this in 2017, so even though this work will extend through 2019, I do expect us to end this year on a significantly better trajectory than when we entered it,” he added. Zuckerberg said that he would reveal more about the company’s plans to fight abuse in the near future in a series of posts.