Good morning. The Poynter employees remains to be discovering its footing within the wake of Hurricane Milton. At this time’s e-newsletter is a brief dispatch of media information, tidbits and fascinating hyperlinks. We hope to be again with a typical Poynter Report later this week.
- Legendary reporter Bob Woodward is out with a brand new e book in the present day. “War” has already made headlines for a few of its revelations. Maybe probably the most notable: Donald Trump’s alleged frequent post-presidency cellphone calls to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump sending Putin COVID-19 exams in 2020 once they have been briefly provide. For extra, NPR’s Scott Detrow Courtney Dorning and Avery Keatley write “Bob Woodward takes NPR behind the headline-grabbing moments in his new book.”
- PolitiFact founder and Duke professor Invoice Adair additionally launches a brand new e book in the present day. “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy” reveals how politicians lie and why. In a piece for The Atlantic, Adair writes, “Once I launched PolitiFact in 2007, I assumed we have been going to lift the price of mendacity. I didn’t anticipate to vary individuals’s votes simply by calling out candidates, however I used to be hopeful that our journalism would at the very least nudge them to be extra truthful. I used to be unsuitable. Greater than 15 years of fact-checking has completed little or nothing to stem the circulation of lies.”
- Final week, Adair appeared on “The Daily Show” and spoke at size with Jon Stewart about PolitiFact’s founding and his new e book.
- Persevering with her blitz of conventional and nontraditional media interviews, Vice President Kamala Harris shared her potential coverage plans for Black males with The Shade Room. The outlet known as a cultural force within the Black group reported Harris’ plans as “offering 1 million absolutely forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs and others to start out companies, championing instructional sources to help Black males achieve good-paying jobs in high-demand industries, and launching a Nationwide Well being Fairness Initiative centered on Black Males.”
- Harris will even seem on what The New York Occasions maybe kindly known as a “not-so-friendly outlet” — Fox Information. She’s slated to sit down for 25 to half-hour of questions with Fox Information chief political anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday, shortly earlier than his present, “Particular Report,” airs at 6 p.m. Japanese. “Ms. Harris may have an opportunity to ship her message to a viewership which may be skeptical of her candidacy,” Michael M. Grynbaum writes for the Times. “Her willingness to seem on Fox Information could help the notion that she is open to going through powerful questions. And she will be able to attain a swath of unbiased voters, extra of whom watch Fox Information than CNN or MSNBC, in accordance with analysis by Nielsen.”
- A yr in the past, Selection’s Brian Steinberg wrote about Baier’s hunt for “big newsmakers” to bolster his program. “Bret Baier is attempting just a few new maneuvers at ‘Particular Report,’ one of many longest-running applications at Fox Information Channel,” Steinberg wrote. “About six months in the past, he says, he talked to his employees about getting extra formidable. ‘We had a discuss what the present ought to appear to be,’ he remembers. ‘Most days, you are taking singles and doubles and also you cowl the information and also you do it as greatest you possibly can, however the occasional triple and residential run typically lend themselves to different massive performs.’”
- On his Reality Social, Trump has already railed against Harris’ interview with Baier, calling Baier “very gentle,” and claiming that his once-favored community “has grown so weak and gentle on the Democrats.”
- We’ve written loads in regards to the unfold of misinformation within the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. A few of that misinformation has stored individuals who have been the worst affected from getting worthwhile assist. After which there’s this, which is a complete new stage. The Guardian’s Edward Helmore writes “North Carolina hurricane recovery team relocated amid threat of ‘armed militia’.”
- In an uncommon transfer, there will probably be two Spanish-language simulcasts of the Tremendous Bowl this yr: Fox Corp’s Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo. “The transfer provides NBCU an opportunity to generate each Tremendous Bowl audiences and advertisers in a yr when Fox would sometimes have each to itself, as a result of it has rights to telecast subsequent yr’s occasion,” Variety’s Brian Steinberg writes.
- The Washington Put up’s Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey write “Trump wages campaign against real-time fact checks.” “Donald Trump and his marketing campaign have waged an aggressive marketing campaign towards fact-checking in current months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to desert the follow in the event that they hope to work together with Trump,” they write. “… The strikes are the newest instance of Trump’s long-held resistance to being known as to account for his falsehoods, which have shaped the bedrock of his political message for years. Simply in current weeks, for instance, Trump has seized on fabricated tales of migrants consuming pets and Venezuelan gangs overtaking cities in pushing his anti-immigration message as he seeks a second time period in workplace.”
- The New York Occasions editorial board writes “A Reporter’s Shield Law Is Vital to Prevent Abuses of Power.” The editorial begins: “Governments usually chafe on the presence of a free press. The reason being easy: A sturdy and unbiased information media retains a pointy eye on authorities and, when obligatory, exposes abuse of energy, corruption, incompetence and waste.”
- This can be a week and a half outdated however wild sufficient to share anyway. The New York Occasions’ Gina Cherelus writes “Her 8-Year-Old Drove Herself to Target and Became an Internet Star.”
At this time’s Poynter Report was written by managing editor Ren LaForme and contributor Amaris Castillo.
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