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[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

Paramount refused to air our ad calling out Trump's meddling in its potential Warner Bros. merger, citing "conflict of interest."

So, conflicts of interest are only OK when Trump is involved?

Watch the ad they don't want you to see ⬇️

https://t.co/M8ujMaepcB

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just thinking about the months-long freak out because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the White House grounds. This is really really disgraceful stuff. Shameful and won't even get a mention in the press.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

The @washingtonpost opinion page goes into A Tale of Two Cities mode on Trump’s war with Iran.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Everyone’s stopped talking about it for some reason, but the defense of Minneapolis was the most seismic victory against Trumpism. That was supposed to be the blueprint for their autocracy and it was defeated and humiliated by astounding collective action from ordinary Americans.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just remembering the media meltdown when *candidate* Hillary Clinton got woozy at an hour-long 9/11 event taking place in 85 degree weather while she had pneumonia but *President* Donald Trump routinely dozes off in public to precisely NO questions from the press.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

I really cannot believe it’s been a full 8 hours after this event and our major media outlets have simply refused to cover it. I get that it’s a busy news day, but… nothing at all? Nowhere to be found in my @nytimes app

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

I simply cannot believe I live in a timeline where journalists helped force the last president out of his reelection campaign for being too old, so the country put an unstable 79 year old who falls asleep constantly in office and none of the same journalists care at all.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

The most shocking thing about this is that Trump falling asleep in public at the age of 79 is a very regular occurrence, and yet the same journalists that tweeted weekly about Biden’s age & fitness just don’t really care

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The media is too busy fluffing Rubio to do any reporting about how someone doing the dual job of SOS and NSA fucked up *both* the diplomatic and intelligence sides of the Iran War. Seems important for someone who has his eyes on the big chair 🤔

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The @BBC doing what the American media should have done.

Maybe Australian media can tackle the Epstein case

Maybe Italian media can tackle our school shooting epidemic

Maybe Germany can cover selling pardons.

[Tom Arenberg @TomArenberg]

The press deserves the criticism sometimes, but the decades-long, right-wing portrayal of it as a villain has had major political consequences in the U.S.

My latest blog post, including some embarrassing history of Birmingham newspapers (3 min): https://t.co/BMnKVkDhr4

[Citations Needed @CitationsPod]

In this News Brief, we talk w/ @ajbauer about his new book, "Making the Liberal Media," and the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America https://t.co/a1P2YVokEn

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

You will not see @CNN or @MSNOWNews covering this.

The @BBC is doing their job.

This should be a lead story on all US networks.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Remember: The election was not rigged, and Fox News had to pay a $787.5 million settlement for lying and saying it was.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The Supreme Court gave Trump immunity to commit almost any crime, and now Trump is going to give his staff immunity to help him commit those crimes

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

This is a nuanced but remarkable and important headline choice for the leading newsroom in DC.
Red line is mine.

[WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom @CapPressRoom]

A coalition that includes @ReinventAlbany and @MAD_Democracy is calling for the state's $30 million journalism subsidy program to include non-profit oulets.

https://t.co/vlzZ3W8WQ5

[EFF @EFF]

Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. https://t.co/WjLMSMhMnz

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The NY Times continues to erroneously call the SAVE Act a "voter I.D. bill." I did a deep dive into its history and explain that ID was only added this year and is nots it core.

Stop spreading GOP talking points and focus on the facts. https://t.co/8BWmfViPQW