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Nick Denton:
Taking a post down — Yesterday evening, Gawker.com published a story about the CFO of Conde Nast texting an escort. It was an editorial call, a close call around which there were more internal disagreements than usual. And it is a decision I regret. — The story involves extortion …
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Condé Nast's CFO Tried To Pay $2,500 for a Night With a Gay Porn Star — David Geithner, brother of ex-Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is currently the chief financial officer of Condé Nast. This past weekend, he'd planned to go to Chicago—where he planned to meet …
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Gawker Is Removing Story About Condé Nast CFO — Yesterday, Gawker published a post about the CFO of Condé Nast attempting to pay a gay porn star for a night in a Chicago hotel. Today the managing partnership of Gawker Media voted, 5-1, to remove the post.
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The Intercept, The Daily Banter, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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A Note About Our Coverage Of Donald Trump's ‘Campaign’ — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Editorial Director, The Huffington Post — After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huffington Post's politics team won't cover Trump's campaign
Huffington Post's politics team won't cover Trump's campaign
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Los Angeles Times and Poynter., more at Mediagazer »
David Brooks / New York Times:
Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates While White — The last year has been an education for white people. There has been a depth, power and richness to the African-American conversation about Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston and the other killings that has been humbling and instructive.
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Sadly, No!, Progress Pond, Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog and RH Reality Check
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David Brooks scolds Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think you distort history” — The Times columnist displays more white privilege in one column than some white people experience in a lifetime — The New York Times' moral scold David Brook took time out from his career as a professional taxi cab passenger …
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Shakesville
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Insiders: Ted Cruz hurt most by Trump candidacy — Insiders say Donald Trump is a candidate who is as uncompromising as Cruz on hot-button issues like immigration — and can deliver the message with even more fiery rhetoric. — Donald Trump's turn in the national spotlight is mainly taking …
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Washington Monthly, Democratic Strategist, Mock Paper Scissors and Phantom Public
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The mystery of the Trump coalition
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Fox News, Washington Post, The Hill, Daily Kos, Slantpoint and Christian Science Monitor
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
First on CNN: Cruz super PAC's plan to win presidency
First on CNN: Cruz super PAC's plan to win presidency
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Trail Blazers Blog, Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Rand Paul may hold up highway bill over Planned Parenthood
Rand Paul may hold up highway bill over Planned Parenthood
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Daily Kos
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Chattanooga Shooting Suspect's Trip to Jordan Scrutinized by Authorities — Officials looking at whether he had contact with extremists or traveled to other countries — Counterterrorism investigators are looking closely at a monthslong trip the Chattanooga shooting suspect took to Jordan …
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CNN, New York Times, ABC News, The Daily Beast, VICE, Liberty Unyielding, Taylor Marsh, Talk Radio News Service, protein wisdom, The Daily Caller and Daily Mail
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Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
Mitchell Fishes for Better Angle on Chattanooga Terrorist
Mitchell Fishes for Better Angle on Chattanooga Terrorist
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The PJ Tatler, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
Beth Burger / WRCB-TV:
Gunman was UTC grad and arrested in April by Chattanooga police
Gunman was UTC grad and arrested in April by Chattanooga police
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New York Times, WBIR-TV, NBC News, Pamela Geller, The PJ Tatler, Tennessean.com, VICE, WWBT-TV and timesfreepress.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Liberals and Wages — Hillary Clinton gave her first big economic speech on Monday, and progressives were by and large gratified. For Mrs. Clinton's core message was that the federal government can and should use its influence to push for higher wages. — Conservatives, however — at least those who could stop chanting “Benghazi!
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Washington Monthly, The Federalist, Hullabaloo and Washington Post
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Trump: McCain will lose his primary — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday defended his supporters from Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), saying his attacks on the right will cost him in his campaign for reelection next year. — McCain said in an interview published Thursday …
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Political Wire
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Wanna bet? Trump makes wager after MSNBC host calls him liar
Wanna bet? Trump makes wager after MSNBC host calls him liar
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Hillary Clinton's No Good, (Record-Breaking, Poll-Winning), Very Bad Week — If you believe the mood and headlines from some of the press, it's been a pretty rough week for Hillary Clinton. While there was widespread and substantive coverage of the rollout of her economic agenda, politically, it's a different story.
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The Moderate Voice, Politico, America Rising and Hot Air
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton
Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton
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CNN, Common Dreams and The Huffington Post
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FBI joins investigation into death of inmate Sandra Bland — The FBI is investigating the death of Sandra Bland. She was arrested in Waller County, Texas after a routine traffic stop but was found hanging in her jail cell days later. VPC — HOUSTON — The FBI has joined the Texas Rangers …
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Sandra Bland / The Root:
Everything We Know About Sandra Bland
Everything We Know About Sandra Bland
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Shakesville, Slantpoint, Daily Kos, VICE, Raw Story and Guardian
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CNN Analyst Unsure If Mass Shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's Name is Muslim — Share it Tweet it — On Thursday's The Lead, CNN analyst Tom Fuentes was unwilling to conclude that the perpetrator of a mass shooting against servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee was Muslim.
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Washington Post, RedState, Mediaite, Jihad Watch and The Gateway Pundit
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I have my doubts Bill Cosby's a rapist — Bill Cosby is a lousy husband and a possible sex addict. But is he a rapist? — I have my doubts. — Is Cosby, 78, so diabolically creepy that he secretly slipped Quaaludes into the mouths of his alleged victims, as even President Obama suggests?
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Winners and Losers in the First Big Cash Grab of the 2016 Presidential Race — Money talks. — t michaelcbender — Taken together, the thousands of pages of campaign finance reports filed by presidential candidates this week are a significant marker in the race for the White House.
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Washington Monthly
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Washington plane crash survivor desperately tried to save grandparents — Story highlights — Bellingham, Washington (CNN)A 16-year-old girl agonizingly tried to save her step-grandparents after a fiery small plane crash into a Washington mountain last weekend, she told CNN.
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Fox News Insider, KFOR-TV and Daily Mail
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Republicans criticize Confederate flags at Obama visit — Two Oklahoma Republican congressmen ripped protesters in their state who greeted President Obama in Oklahoma City by waving Confederate flags, calling their actions “disrespectful,” “embarrassing” and “inappropriate.”
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy — Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north. — Santayana had it wrong: Even if we remember the past, we may be condemned to repeat it.
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Washington Monthly
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There Was a Significant Terrorist Attack in France This Week and the Mainstream Media Hasn't Even Bothered Telling You — Three deliberate, simultaneous explosions rocked a major petrochemical plant in France on Bastille Day, but as usual it is still ‘too early to talk about terrorism’.
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Belmont Club and The Daily Caller
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Watch: Tur Threatens to Send Breitbart's Ben Shapiro Home in an Ambulance During Jenner Discussion — Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro and transgender reporter for Inside Edition and helicopter pilot Zoey Tur engaged in a heated debate over Caitlyn Jenner and transgenderism during …
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Mediaite, EW.com, Towleroad, The Daily Banter and Hot Air
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Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres — Nexen Energy spill south of Fort McMurray covers about 16,000 square metres — One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company's Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.
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ThinkProgress, Nexen - Media Centre, DeSmogBlog, Toronto Star and Common Dreams
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Petition: Add Outkast to Confederate carving at Stone Mountain — Story highlights — (CNN)A Brooklyn-based artist and animator has devised a way to hush that fuss over the Confederate icons striding across Georgia's Stone Mountain. — Rather than trying to wash away the South's history …
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Weekly Standard, Mediaite, VICE, Washington Monthly and Guardian