Jonathan Beaton, a former reporter at Sinclair-owned WPEC TV, opens up to Brian Stelter about the corporate culture at Sinclair Broadcasting amid his ongoing legal battle with the company. He says Sinclair’s conservative bent is “insidious” because it is disguised.
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What started out as a dispute over remarks regarding first lady Melania Trump has metastasized into a vitriolic Twitter and TV tirade between Fox News’ Sean Hannity and ABC late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel. CNN’s Oliver Darcy breaks down the war of words between the two TV hosts.
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The president throwing his prepared speech into the air at an event was “Trump as a showman,” Jeff Greenfield says. He also addresses Trump’s conspiracy theory thinking, saying “Donald Trump has this belief that if he THINKS something is true, it IS true.”
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A raft of Chinese data over coming weeks is expected to show the world’s second-biggest economy cooled slightly in March from the first two months of the year, with the main risk to the outlook now centered on an escalating Sino-U.S. trade spat. Ciara Lee reports.
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Dean Baquet says “the biggest crisis in journalism is not Donald Trump’s attacks,” it’s “the decline of local newspapers.” He wants to draw attention to the cutbacks at the Denver Post and scores of other papers.
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New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet says that if the president “creates a culture where ‘Fox and Friends’ and Jesse Watters are regarded as serious journalism, and The New York Times and the Washington Post are not, he will have a “longstanding, harmful effect on the country.”
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