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‘Thank you,’ now get out of here! The difficult job of a Trump press wrangler (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 16:25
President Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms
Apparently, President Donald Trump has personally pushed US Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, a dramatic move that probably would cost these companies billions of dollars. Brennan has so far resisted Trump’s demand, explaining in multiple conversations occurring in 2018 and last that these arrangements are bound by contracts and must be reviewed by a regulatory commission, apparently.
In the battle for online music, YouTube enters a crowded field (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 17:13Justice Department inspector general finishes draft of report on Clinton email case (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 06:25New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 16:26Greg Sargent: We should take the pro-Trump media machine very seriously (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 12:28US identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 05/15/2018 - 16:19
As big chains gobble up small TV stations, merged newsrooms are creating a uniformity of news coverage
The TV news has a familiar feel to it in west-central Pennsylvania. News stories broadcast on WJAC, the NBC affiliate in town, have appeared on nearby station WATM, the ABC affiliate. And many of those stories are broadcast on WWCP, the Fox station here, as well.
The truth is about to catch up to President Trump. He has Giuliani to thank for it.
May 15 is the deadline for President Trump to file his financial disclosure form for 2017.