Trump “wielded his power in backlash to political speech he didn’t like,” Wesley Lowery says, and now the NFL debate has pivoted into something that has “nothing to do with what Colin Kaepernick was talking about.” This poses challenges to journalists covering the story. Jason Gay also weighs in on the anthem protests and the possible effects on NFL TV ratings.

Is there a correlation between TV coverage and Trump’s interest in a given topic? Was there enough coverage of the crisis in Puerto Rico in the immediate days after Maria made landfall? Brian Stelter asks Tara Palmeri, Edwin Melendez, and Leyla Santiago. Melendez says “thank you” to the news crews on the island because the coverage will make a “big difference in how we move forward…

Is the Pentagon cutting back on access for journalists? Former Pentagon spokesman Steve Warren says Secretary of Defense James Mattis is balancing his “obligation” to stay accountable to American taxpayers against the constant media criticism coming from his boss President Trump.

The magazine world is mourning the loss of two media titans. S.I. Newhouse Jr., the longtime publisher of Condé Nast, died Sunday at 89. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died Wednesday at his Playboy Mansion home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.

As reporters uncover the magnitude of the foreign meddling problem on Facebook, CNN’s Dylan Byers says “the onus” of recognizing fake information “is going to be on citizens.” ProPublica’s Julia Angwin says we need “more structural ways” to deal with the issue than “telling people to think critically…

Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are all on the rise, federal researchers found.