memeorandum: Times Public Editor: Ignoring a scoop that's not your own (Gabriel Snyder/Columbia Journalism Review)

7:20 AM ET, June 25, 2019

Top Items:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump vehemently denies E. Jean Carroll allegation, says 'she's not my type' — President Trump said Monday that writer E. Jean Carroll was “totally lying” when she recently accused him of raping her during an encounter in a New York department store in the mid-1990s.

Discussion: Washington Press, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon, Patterico's Pontifications, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

Lara Takenaga / New York Times:

Our Top Editor Revisits How We Handled E. Jean Carroll's Allegations Against Trump — Dean Baquet, our executive editor, says “we were overly cautious” in our handling of a prominent writer's allegations against the president. — After an article last week reported the advice columnist E …

CNN:

Murdoch lieutenant ordered removal of New York Post story on Trump sexual assault allegation, sources say — New York (CNN)The New York Post's former top editor, a supporter of President Trump and an old lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch who returned to the conservative tabloid as an adviser in early 2019 …

Discussion: The Guardian, Mediaite, Splinter and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

'She's Not My Type': Accused Again of Sexual Assault, Trump Resorts to Old Insult — E. Jean Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine, said in a CNN interview on Monday that she fought back when Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Post Millennial, Mediaite, Axios, The Daily Caller and Shareblue Media

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Iran's president says about Trump's White House

Discussion: The Daily Beast and Reuters

John Gage / Washington Examiner: Anderson Cooper cuts to commercial after Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll calls rape ‘sexy’

Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review: Times Public Editor: Ignoring a scoop that's not your own

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast: Stephen Colbert Sounds Off on E. Jean Carroll's Trump Rape Allegation: ‘Specific, Credible and Terrible’

Zack Budryk / The Hill:
E. Jean Carroll says she's received death threats since making allegations against Trump

Discussion: Louder With Crowder, Daily Wire and twitchy.com

Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:

People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They're being turned away. — A Border Patrol official told a state lawmaker that the agency doesn't accept donations for facilities where children are reportedly being held in substandard conditions.

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:

Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Moved Out of an Overcrowded Border Station — Following a public outcry, hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texas where they were detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post and Pacific Standard

Associated Press:

Government moves migrant kids after poor conditions exposed — The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, ABC News, Politico, Mediaite, NPR, Shareblue Media, The Daily Caller, The Week, Axios, Splinter, The Atlantic, The Root, Outside the Beltway and Rolling Stone

Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Almost 300 migrant children removed from Texas facility described as ‘appalling’

Discussion: Washington Post and NB Blog

Slate: What You Need to Know About the Crisis at the Border

A. G. Hamilton / National Review:
What the Viral Border-Patrol Video Leaves Out

Discussion: Instapundit, Above the Law and TheBlaze

Katelyn Polantz / CNN:

Judge releases court details that show speed, scope of Mueller investigation following CNN request — Schiff: Hope to reach Mueller subpoena decision this week — Washington (CNN)At the request of CNN, a federal judge in Washington on Monday released about 230 pages of data from the court showing …

NBC News:

Star-studded cast to perform live reading of the Mueller report — The cast includes Justin Long, Piper Perabo, Michael Shannon and Zachary Quinto, among others. Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mark Hamill will also make appearances. — LOS ANGELES — Haven't perused the Mueller report yet?

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, CBS News, New Jersey Online, The Investigation, Observer and The Moderate Voice

Katie Campione / Associated Press:
Lithgow, Bening and more stars to perform Mueller report

Discussion: The Stranger, New York Post and emptywheel

The Hill:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump: I do not need congressional approval to strike Iran — President Trump told Hill.TV in an exclusive interview Monday that he does not need congressional approval to strike Iran. — When asked if he believes he has the authority to initiate military action against Iran without …

Discussion: RedState, KTLA, CNN, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Breitbart, New York Post and Mediaite

The Hill:

EXCLUSIVE — Trump: I would fill Supreme Court vacancy before 2020 election — President Trump on Monday said he would make a nomination to the Supreme Court if there's a vacancy anytime before the 2020 presidential election. — “Would I do that? Of course,” Trump said in an exclusive interview …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Washington Free Beacon

Ted Barrett / CNN: Democrats may filibuster defense bill to force vote on Iran

Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:

Trump Muses Privately About Ending Postwar Japan Defense Pact — President wants compensation for Okinawa Marine base move — U.S. military in Japan calls itself ‘cornerstone of peace’ — President Donald Trump has recently mused to confidants about withdrawing …

Discussion: Slate, The Week and CNBC

Bob Brigham / Raw Story:

AG Bill Barr killed 7 Robert Mueller investigations — 10 days after he submitted his report — Attorney General Bill Barr killed seven different investigations started by special counsel Robert Mueller just ten days after he submitted his report.

Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:

Maduro's ex-spy chief lands in U.S. armed with allegations against Venezuelan government — BOGOTA, Colombia — In a palace said to be filled with plotters, turncoats and thieves, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro could count on the loyalty of at least one man: Gen. Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera.

Discussion: The Week

James Dobbins / Foreign Affairs: Preparing for a Venezuela After Maduro

The Hill:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump declines to say he has confidence in FBI director — President Trump on Monday declined to say he has confidence in Christopher Wray and stressed that he disagrees with the FBI director, who has said he does not believe there was spying on the president's 2016 campaign.

Discussion: CNN and Axios

Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:

The Student Debt Forgiveness Muddle Continues — I have been arguing for a while that the student debt discussion is undertheorized, which is leading to confusion and muddling (I, II). Recent proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and the discussion around those proposals …

David Goldstein / Vox:
I paid off all my student loans. I still support student loan forgiveness.

Discussion: The Week, Mother Jones, Daily Wire and Progress Pond

Washington Post:

White House moves to bar counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying to Congress about alleged violations of Hatch Act — The White House will block counselor Kellyanne Conway from testifying before a House panel about allegations by a government watchdog that she violated the Hatch Act …

Discussion: Politico, One America News Network, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo and Axios

CNN:
White House says Kellyanne Conway won't show up to Hatch Act hearing

Discussion: Townhall and The Week

Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:

Joe Biden Doesn't Look So Electable in Person — He may be a likable white man, but his performance on the trail doesn't inspire confidence. — On Saturday, Joe Biden was one of 20 presidential candidates to speak at a Planned Parenthood forum in Columbia, S.C., held right next door to the state's Democratic convention.

BBC:

The Arab world in seven charts: Are Arabs turning their backs on religion? — Arabs are increasingly saying they are no longer religious, according to the largest and most in-depth survey undertaken of the Middle East and North Africa. — The finding is one of a number on how Arabs feel …

Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION, Informed Comment and Jewish Journal

CNN:

Trump says Obamacare ‘works at least adequately now’ after trying to dismantle it — Trump punts health care until after 2020 election — Washington (CNN)In the last three months, President Donald Trump has called Obamacare a “disaster,” a “catastrophe” and something that just “doesn't work.”

New York Times:
A New Trump Order May Make More Health Care Prices Public

Discussion: Daily Wire

Washington Post:

Former top Commerce aide says he was directed by Ross to add Census citizenship question — A House panel is releasing information that it says “points to a partisan and discriminatory effort” behind the Trump administration's move to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 Census …

Discussion: Politico and One America News Network

Max Hastings / The Guardian:

I was Boris Johnson's boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister — The Tory party is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people. He cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification — Six years ago, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark published a study …

Fox Business:

EXCLUSIVE: After Stephen Moore's failed Fed bid, he's creating a crypto central bank — Economist Stephen Moore, who recently lost out on a bid to join the board of the Federal Reserve, is now looking to start his own mini-Fed through the creation of a cryptocurrency product that is billing itself as …

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

Michael Flynn's New Lawyer Seeks Security Clearance, Citing Unknown Evidence — WASHINGTON — A lawyer Michael T. Flynn recently hired said on Monday that she would most likely need a security clearance to review classified materials that were separate from the documents that prosecutors …

Discussion: Bloomberg

New York Times:

Iranians Greet Latest Sanctions Imposed by U.S. With Mockery — Iranian officials have railed for two months against the Trump administration's sanctions blocking their oil sales as “economic warfare.” — But the response to the latest American penalties imposed on Monday …

Discussion: USA Today, The Week, The American Conservative and Greensburg Tribune-Review

Mike Schneider / Associated Press:

Florida woman charged after giving husband's guns to police — ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman's effort to protect herself from domestic violence has become a flashpoint in the debate over gun rights and victims' safety. — Courtney Irby gave her estranged husband's guns to police …