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The star of the Sunday morning information applications was Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The controversial consultant appeared Sunday on NCS’s “State of the Union” and talked about her strained relationship with President Donald Trump. This comes after a current look when Greene appeared on ABC’s “The View” and seemingly impressed the largely liberal panel.
During the federal government shutdown, Greene criticized her fellow Republicans for his or her technique. She questioned the GOP’s lack of a well being care plan. And, most of all, she appeared decided that the Epstein recordsdata be launched.
Her outspokenness was sufficient that Trump took to his Truth Social and wrote, partly: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia.” Trump went on to name Greene “wacky” and say all she does is “COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN” and that she has “gone Far Left.”
He additionally known as her a “disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY.”
However, The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg wrote final week that Greene’s few current breaks for her occasion don’t negate a lifetime of conspiracies.
That checklist of conspiracies and hateful rhetoric is lengthy, too lengthy to recite right here. But it’s well-documented (this story contains a lot of it).
Rosenberg wrote, “People — even politicians — should be allowed to grow and not be forever reduced to the worst version of themselves. But there is a difference between an honest evolution, which entails accountability, and shallow opportunism, which offers none. Which category does Greene fall into? Given her significant following and stated political ambitions, it’s in everyone’s best interest to find out. But for that to happen, her interlocutors will have to start asking her the hard questions she’s thus far avoided.”
Greene instructed NCS’s Dana Bash on Sunday that she nonetheless helps Trump and his administration. However, she says she needs to cease the poisonous rhetoric that, if we’re being trustworthy, has been a staple of Greene’s profession. Some might even argue that it propelled her profession.
Greene instructed Bash, “I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics; it’s very bad for our country. It’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”
She additionally admitted to Bash that she’s fearful that Trump’s feedback in direction of her might result in violence. Greene instructed Bash, “The most hurtful thing (Trump) said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor, and that is so extremely wrong and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”
Bash requested Greene why she by no means spoke out about Trump’s rhetoric till it was directed at her. Greene mentioned that was “fair criticism” and later added, “I’m only responsible for myself and my own words and actions … and I’ve been working on this a lot lately, to put down the knives in politics. I really want to just see people be kind to one another.”
Greene went on to inform Bash, “I’m leading the way with my own example, and I hope that President Trump can do the same.”
Many, together with Politico Playbook’s Garrett Ross, level out that it was fascinating that Greene’s unique interview was with NCS and never Fox News, the place Trump was extra more likely to see it.
Oh, and another thought. Greene talked about reducing the rhetoric, however but in her interview with Bash, she defended Tucker Carlson just lately internet hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his podcast.
Greene mentioned she believes in free speech and doesn’t imagine in canceling individuals. She instructed Bash, “And I think it’s important for people like Tucker Carlson and yourself to interview everyone. I don’t believe in trying to cancel someone by refusing to interview them and question them.”
Greene later instructed Bash that she ought to have Fuentes on NCS to query him about his views.
Jane Pauley wears the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism after being honored Saturday evening at Poynter’s Bowtie Ball. (Chris Zuppa/Poynter)
It was a particular weekend for the Poynter Institute as we honored journalists Jane Pauley and Dean Baquet and cartoonist Garry Trudeau at our annual Bowtie Ball.
Pauley — the legendary host of reports applications resembling NBC’s “Today” and “Dateline” and “CBS News Sunday Morning — received the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. Baquet, longtime editor at both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and Trudeau, creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon “Doonesbury” and Pauley’s husband, have been honored with the Distinguished Service to Journalism Award.
In a dialog earlier than a packed ballroom of a number of hundred in Tampa, Pauley talked about her greater than 5 a long time as a journalist with Poynter president Neil Brown. She mentioned she didn’t know what was extra unlikely and memorable — that she was named to exchange Barbara Walters as co-host of the “Today” present at age 25, or that she was named host of “CBS News Sunday Morning” at age 65.
There have been particular video messages congratulating Pauley, together with from actress Candice Bergen, former “Today” present govt producer Jeff Zucker and musician (and fellow Indiana native) John Mellencamp.
For extra, check out this recap of the night from my Poynter colleague Amaris Castillo.
In addition to the evening’s particular awards, Poynter additionally welcomed and acknowledged a reporting group from the Miami Herald, in addition to scholar journalists from Indiana University, who just lately stood as much as college management to proceed printing the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.
The newest documentary from the good Ken Burns debuted Sunday evening. After fabulous documentaries about all issues American — such because the Civil War, jazz, nation music, baseball, the Vietnam War and others — Burns is telling one thing of an American origin story. This one is “The American Revolution.”
Part one of many six-part, 12-hour sequence aired Sunday evening on PBS and continues nightly by way of Friday.
Like a lot of his earlier documentaries, it’s voiced by big-name celebrities. Peter Coyote narrates, and voicing among the notable figures are Adam Arkin, Kenneth Branagh, Josh Brolin, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Morgan Freeman, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Mandy Patinkin, Matthew Rhys, Liev Schreiber and Meryl Streep.
The New York Times’ James Poniewozik evaluations the sequence in “What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles.” And here’s a Q&A that Burns did with Variety’s Daniel D’Addario.
It’s additionally notable that the sequence is airing on PBS, which has been defunded by Congress underneath the needs of President Donald Trump. NCS’s Brian Stelter wrote, “Despite painful layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, the public broadcasting system remains intact and is still capable of HBO- and Netflix-sized moments, such as the latest from Burns.”
MSNBC is not any extra. After 29 years of being generally known as MSNBC, the cable information community is now formally generally known as MS NOW. The new title went into impact over the weekend. The new title stands for My Source for News, Opinion and the World. The community has utterly minimize ties with NBC News, not utilizing any NBC News journalists or assets. That’s as a result of it, together with a number of different cable channels, was spun off from Comcast right into a media firm known as Versant.
The programming, nonetheless, received’t look that totally different. It will nonetheless characteristic most of the community’s notable names, resembling Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki, Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes. MS NOW, nonetheless, has added (and can proceed so as to add) journalists to fill out the newsroom.
The community’s advertising and marketing marketing campaign facilities on the phrase “Same Mission. New Name.”
The Washington Post’s Scott Nover has extra in “Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington.” And right here’s Semafor’s Max Tani with “The old MSNBC relaunches into a new media world.”
Journalist Olivia Nuzzi, proven right here in 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
So this story is getting fairly the excitement. It’s The New York Times’ Jacob Bernstein with “Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love.”
It was a little bit greater than a yr in the past when Nuzzi left New York Magazine underneath a cloud of controversy. She revealed that she had a private and inappropriate — though not bodily — relationship with somebody she had coated. It turned out to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the previous presidential candidate who went on to endorse Trump after which turned his secretary of Health and Human Services.
Nuzzi was just lately employed by Vanity Fair as a West Coast editor.
But what’s getting all the eye is her new e book, “American Canto,” which is due out Dec. 2. Included in it are the main points of her relationship with Kennedy.
Bernstein’s story for the Times will get into among the particulars of the e book, in addition to being a mini-profile of Nuzzi.
The Times’ story has obtained loads of criticism, calling it every thing from a “puff piece” to worse. Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of TheWrap, tweeted, “Anybody else nauseated by having to be exposed to more of Olivia Nuzzis self indulgence and Jacob Bernsteins needy neediness?”
The Times’ story does include loads of juicy particulars that many will discover notable. Admittedly, I discovered it fascinating to learn. However, the dramatic artwork — which incorporates black-and-white video of Nuzzi’s hair blowing within the wind as she is driving, a photograph of her strolling on the seaside and one other of her in sun shades in a photograph that appears prefer it ought to be in a trend journal — lends to the concept that the Times is glorifying a journalist who crossed moral traces.
- “CBS News Sunday Morning” and Tony Dokoupil profiled the controversial founding father of Barstool Sports in “Dave Portnoy: ‘I don’t go out of my way looking for fights.’”
- The Atlantic’s David A. Graham with “Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein.”
- The Los Angeles Times’ Stephen Battaglio with “NCS anchor Bianna Golodryga takes on antisemitism in ‘Don’t Feed the Lion.’”
- “CBS Saturday Morning” and Scott MacFarlane with “Unexpected group of artists fight to keep radio alive 100 years after its Golden Age.”
- Variety’s Michael Schneider with “Gersh Drops ‘Succession’ Actress Dasha Nekrasova After Podcast With White Nationalist Nick Fuentes.”
- Another so-so episode of “Saturday Night Live” that may’ve been manner worse had it not been for forged member Marcello Hernández’s spot-on impression of comic Sebastian Maniscalco. Here’s The Washington Post’s Ethan Beck with “SNL takes on the Epstein files as Glen Powell hosts.”
- After a two-week carriage dispute, Disney and Google lastly agreed to a deal on Friday evening, so now Disney programming from ABC, ESPN and different properties can return to YouTube TV. That’s particularly excellent news for sports activities followers, who’ve been lacking school soccer and “Monday Night Football.” Here’s Awful Announcing’s Matt Yoder with “4 takeaways from the ESPN-YouTube TV deal.”
- In one of many more unusual moments of the weekend, a University of South Carolina soccer participant scored a landing at Texas A&M, after which, whereas returning again to his sideline, he and a teammate have been aggressively bumped by a Texas state trooper, who then yelled on the gamers. Here’s the astonishing video (go to the 35-second mark). It was introduced that the trooper was instantly despatched house, and there’s now an investigation. Meanwhile, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith already got here to his conclusion on what ought to occur in a video he posted on social media.
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