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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Fox News sued by Dominion Voting for $1.6 billion over election fraud claims  —  It's the second voting-systems company to file suit against Fox over the bogus allegations aired by President Donald Trump's allies after the 2020 election.  —  Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed …
New York Times:
Fox News Faces Second Defamation Suit Over Election Coverage  —  Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company, accused the news channel of advancing lies that devastated its reputation and business.  —  Fox News and its powerful owner, Rupert Murdoch, are facing a second major defamation suit …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Presidential Press Conference in the Biden Era Is as Awful as Ever  —  Under Trump, we had to listen.  But now?  There must be a better way.  —  Sometimes the big moments in our politics meet the very low expectations we have for them.  Joe Biden's first Presidential press conference, on Thursday, was one of them.
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Zeynep / Insight:
Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden  —  A socially distant press conference shouldn't mean distance from the most important story  —  Yesterday, President Joe Biden held his first press conference.  There were questions on Biden's plans for the 2024 election …
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
New photos show cheat sheets used by Biden during his first press conference  —  New photos reveal several cheat sheets used by President Joe Biden during his Thursday press conference — including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters hype—then waste—Biden's first press conference  —  Last week, when the White House announced that Joe Biden would hold his first formal press conference as president on March 25, the pre-game hype began.  Reporters excavated the history of White House press conferences …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
At Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Image of lawmaker's arrest spoils victory lap on election law  —  By Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  —  Talk about mixed messages.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia representative arrested after governor signs elections bill
Rich McKay / Reuters:
Georgia bans giving water to voters in line under sweeping restrictions
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Complains Government Is ‘Persecuting’ Capitol Rioters  —  One of the most dangerous, long-lasting changes effected by Donald Trump is the rightward extension of the Republican coalition.  A wide array of far-right militias and cults was either created or inspired to join the Republican Party …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump: Rioters in deadly Capitol insurrection posed ‘zero threat’  —  Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 posed “zero threat” — despite the fact that five people died as a result of the violent insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer.
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill, Forbes, CNN, KRDO and IJR
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84  —  In “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.  —  Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized …
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan GOP leader reveals plans to go around Whitmer for voting law overhaul  —  Lansing — Michigan Republicans are crafting plans to work around Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to make changes to the battleground state's voting laws after losses in the 2020 election.
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans know their war on voting is racist — so they're barely bothering to defend it
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine  —  Extremist organizations are now bashing the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines in an effort to try to undermine the government.  —  Adherents of far-right groups who cluster online have turned repeatedly …
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Media Startups Axios and the Athletic Discuss Merger, Eyeing SPAC Deal  —  Deal would be part of plan to create larger company with a portfolio of digital-media publishers  —  Sports-media outlet the Athletic is in merger talks with news startup Axios, according to people familiar with the matter …
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
MAGA World says Biden's lost it.  Republican senators disagree.  —  For former President Donald Trump's GOP allies, President Joe Biden's recent stumble on the Air Force One stairs was a sign of bigger problems.  But Republican senators who've met with Biden say the 78-year-old president is just fine …
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
Suez Canal blockage is delaying an estimated $400 million an hour in goods  — Lloyd's List calculates blockage is costing $400 million an hour.  — Lloyd's values the canal's westbound traffic at roughly $5.1 billion a day, and eastbound traffic at around $4.5 billion a day.
Discussion: Forbes, Reuters and New York Times
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Linda Lew / South China Morning Post:
Hugo Boss' Xinjiang comments spark accusations of hypocrisy online  —  Chinese subsidiary's social media post appears to contradict German fashion brand's corporate buying policy Japanese homeware brand Muji also accused of double standards as Beijing's dispute with Western countries hots …
Discussion: Variety
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Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China hits British lawmakers with new sanctions as spat with U.S. allies intensifies
Reuters:
Taiwan reports largest ever incursion by Chinese air force  —  TAIPEI (Reuters) - Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island's defence ministry and marking a dramatic escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait.
Discussion: Associated Press
Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Autopsy of a pandemic: 6 doctors at the center of the US Covid-19 response  —  Watch, “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out,” at 9 p.m. Sunday, March 28, only on CNN.  —  (CNN)This past January, just a few days after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, six of the doctors responsible …
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
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Steve Inskeep / New York Times:
For 50 Years, I Was Denied the Story of My Birth  —  All adoptees deserve better.  —  Mr. Inskeep, a co-host of NPR's “Morning Edition” and “Up First,” is an adoptee and an adoptive father.  —  In 1968, a woman appeared for an interview at the Children's Bureau, an adoption agency in Indianapolis.
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD detains, then releases, Los Angeles Times reporter covering unrest in Echo Park  —  Los Angeles Times reporter James Queally was briefly detained by the Los Angeles Police Department as he was covering a protest in Echo Park on Thursday evening.  —  Protesters were also detained by police …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Oh God, I miss him’: Biden keeps returning to Trump as a cause of nation's troubles  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  President Biden mentioned him early and often.  He mentioned him overtly and obliquely.  And he mentioned him on a range of issues …
Hemal Jhaveri / Medium:
Hemal Jhaveri  —  I am no longer employed at USA TODAY, a company that was my work home for almost eight years.  —  Over eight years, I rose from a social media editor to a writer to a columnist and finally the Sports Media Group's Race and Inclusion editor.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Biden administration guts Homeland Security Advisory Council  —  The Biden administration has fired 32 members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, according to a letter to members of the council obtained by POLITICO.  —  A letter sent Friday by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told members …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Stephen Miller to launch a new legal group to give Biden fits  —  Former Trump White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, known for his hard-line immigration policies and conservative culture war postures, is launching a new legal group.  And he's looking to use it to make Joe Biden's life miserable.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Yellow Journalism Turns Blue  —  Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that's abandoned honesty and fairness.  —  “Yellow journalism” means a sensationalized press.  Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning standards to work seamlessly with the progressive left against any opposition.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Afraid to Open Twitter”: Next-Level Harassment of Female Journalists Is Putting News Outlets to the Test  —  Newsrooms that once preached “don't feed the trolls” are being forced to grapple with a daily deluge of smears.  “Even the most open-minded media organizations are still run …
Gene Marks / The Hill:
It's time to stop feeling sorry for restaurants  —  One of the saddest business stories that came out of the 2020 pandemic was the impact that mandated shutdowns had on the restaurant industry.  News reports across the country covered frustrated business owners who were forced to comply …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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