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Hear the one about Trump? You've probably heard a lot
NEW YORK (AP) — Did you hear the one about President Trump? Or, more precisely, did you hear all 3,128 jokes? A think tank that has studied the content of late-night comedy for the past 26 years said Donald Trump was the butt of more jokes in 2017 t...
From bad to worse: Trump's media relationship frays more
NEW YORK (AP) — President Trump's combative relationship with the media deteriorated further Wednesday with a news conference where he called some reporters rude and accused a PBS reporter of posing a racist question when she asked him about white n...
CNN critical of White House after NYC office evacuated
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN chief Jeff Zucker criticized the White House for a "total and complete lack of understanding" of the seriousness of its attacks on the media, as his network's New York bureau was evacuated for five hours Wednesday following the d...
NASA film by Rory Kennedy revisits her uncle's challenge
NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Rory Kennedy couldn't resist the obvious place to open her new documentary on NASA. That's a news clip of her uncle, President John F. Kennedy, challenging the space agency to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1...
US newsrooms to Trump: We're not enemies of the people
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's newsrooms are pushing back against President Donald Trump with a coordinated series of newspaper editorials condemning his attacks on "fake news" and suggestion that journalists are the enemy. The Boston Globe invited n...
Trump attacks CNN, NBC and British paper in news conference
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump found time to attack CNN, NBC and the British tabloid The Sun, and offer fashion advice to a fourth news organization, while talking to reporters Friday with British Prime Minister Theresa May. The leaders f...
Maryland attack tells journalists to take threats seriously
NEW YORK (AP) — Threats of violence against journalists for doing their jobs are commonplace, and a coping strategy for many is the thought that the words are mostly empty — until that small comfort was shattered by the shooting deaths of five peo...
Celebrity deaths force media to examine suicide reporting
NEW YORK (AP) — The deaths of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have caused media organizations to look at how they cover suicide and whether more could be done to prevent copycat killings, without neglecting the duty to r...
ABC cancels 'Roseanne' following star's racist tweet
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC canceled its hit reboot of "Roseanne" on Tuesday following star Roseanne Barr's racist tweet that referred to former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes." ABC E...
EPA blocks some media from summit, then reverses course
NEW YORK (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency reversed course Tuesday and allowed a reporter for The Associated Press to cover a meeting on water contaminants after she was earlier grabbed by the shoulders and shoved out of the building by a s...
A farewell to the road for Paul Simon
NEW YORK (AP) — Farewell tours don't always mean farewell, but are a ripe time for appreciation and appraisal. Paul Simon's concerts and a new biography offer the opportunity for both. Simon's "Homeward Bound" tour began last week in Vancouver and ta...
More women accuse Rose; some say they alerted CBS managers
NEW YORK (AP) — With 27 more women accusing former news anchor Charlie Rose of sexual misconduct, a report Thursday calls into question CBS News' claims that his behavior was a surprise before he was fired last November. The Washington Post said t...
Sean Hannity's battle of sourcing with New York Times
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Hannity urged his viewers to put a New York Times article on the special counsel investigation of President Donald Trump "in your fireplace and burn it." Instead, he offered a tutorial on the importance of reading. The Times' s...
Tom Brokaw 'hurt and unmoored' by sex harassment allegations
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brokaw denied sexual misconduct charges and told friends in a late-night email that he felt "ambushed and then perp walked" in the media as an avatar of male misogyny and stripped of his honor and achievement. The 78-year-old b...
CNN chief Jeff Zucker says Fox News is propaganda machine
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN chief Jeff Zucker sharply attacked the network's rivals at Fox News Channel on Thursday, saying that it has become a propaganda machine that is "doing an incredible disservice to the country." Zucker spoke at the Financial T...
NBC searches for Olympic clips to go viral
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — In a room lined with computer terminals buzzing all night during the Olympics, an intern raises a hand. He's spotted an amusing piece of film footage of a dropped walkie-talkie skittering down a mountain closed to c...
Pundits fight the urge to stay away from 'presidential'
NEW YORK (AP) — The dirty word for describing President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address was "presidential." That was what some Trump critics tried to put in the mind of pundits assigned to analyze Tuesday's address, urging them a...
NBC's Holt says he approached North Korea with eyes open
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News anchor Lester Holt learned while going through customs in North Korea that his request to visit the heavily-fortified border with South Korea had been denied, and he was headed to a ski resort instead. His schedule was not hi...
NBC fires Matt Lauer over 'inappropriate sexual behavior'
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News fired "Today" show host Matt Lauer for what it said Wednesday was "inappropriate sexual behavior" with a colleague, making him perhaps the most familiar figure in America brought down so far by the misconduct accusations t...
CNN faces backlash over handling of doctored Trump video
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN says safety concerns led to its decision not to reveal the identity of the man behind a doctored anti-CNN video. Yet the way the decision was explained and deep distrust of the network among President Donald Trump's supporters p...
