| | | | Happy Memorial Day Weekend, and welcome to the official start of Summer. Turn off your phone. Go outside. Grab a book. Get on the road. Be with people you love. Ditch the 24-hour news cycle for a few days. We'll be here when you get back.
This is Dylan Byers filling in for Brian Stelter... We're going to keep it short so you can get started on your weekend. | | Here's a look at what's ahead:
"SUNDAY NIGHT WITH MEGYN KELLY"
Megyn Kelly's highly anticipated new show launches June 4 on NBC, which means next week will be filled with curtain raisers. I spoke to Kelly earlier this week for an interview that we'll be posting Wednesday, May 31.
-- My questions for Kelly: "What do you hope your new show will achieve?" ... "Is there really room for another Sunday Night magazine show?" ... "How will you define success?" ... "Who are your first interviews?" ... "How did you respond to the death of Roger Ailes?" ... "What's your reaction to Bill O'Reilly's ouster at Fox?" ... and "What is the future of Fox News?"
Her answers, Wednesday. Meanwhile, here's the "Sunday Night" promo.
NBA FINALS
This is the dream series folks. The NBA's two best teams: Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers. It is the third consecutive year these two teams are facing off in the finals, and thus likely to be one of the most-watched finals in NBA history. How happy is ABC right now? Tip-off is June 1.
-- Bonus: Internationally, the big sporting event is the Champions League Final on June 4 between defending champions Real Madrid and Italian powerhouse Juventus. Same question: How happy is Fox Sports?
GAME OF THRONES, SEASON 7
The new trailer is out, and CNN Senior Political Analyst Ron Brownstein told me that Ser Davos Seaworth's line from the new trailer is the most important one: "If we don't put aside our enmities and bound together, we will die. And then it won't matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne." I'm not sure if he was speaking in his capacity as a political analyst or a 'Thrones' geek.
-- Fun backstory on the late start date from Sandra Gonzalez: "'Thrones' is returning almost three months later than its usual early-April start. The show's producers had to delay production on the new season because the story required a snowy setting, which was not possible during the summer in their filming locations."
The season premiers July 16.
FACEBOOK ORIGINALS
"Facebook is focusing on some of the biggest names on its platform to create video shows this summer," Digiday reports. "The social media giant has signed deals with Condé Nast, Mashable and Refinery29 to produce original and exclusive video shows, according to sources. These companies join a list that includes BuzzFeed, Vox Media, Attn and Group Nine Media."
-- $$$: "Budgets for Facebook originals are in the $250,000-per-episode range, which puts them in the low-end cable TV range, sources said. ... Budgets for spotlight shows sit between $10,000 and $40,000 per episode."
"TRUMP'S LONG, HOT SUMMER"
No summer break for news junkies. The FBI investigation into possible ties between Trump's campaign and Russia has found its way into the president's family as Jared Kushner has come under the scrutiny of FBI investigators. Welcome to Season 2 -- or is it 3? -- of the Trump show, playing out across your three cable news channels all summer long.
-- Paul Begala's message to Kushner: "Jared, don't lie. Don't. Lie. They'll catch you. [Justice Department special counsel] Bob Mueller is the most thorough investigator in America. He will know everything about this. He has the entire apparatus of national security and the FBI at his disposal. He will catch you. And, what's the chances that when you met with that Russian banker, he taped the meeting? So if you lie about what happened in that meeting, he can hold a perjury rap over your head. Just don't lie, Jared. Don't. Lie." | | Yahoo loses editor-in-chief | | Tom Kludt scoops: Megan Liberman, the editor-in-chief of Yahoo News, is leaving the company after the completion of its merger with Verizon.
Liberman was named editor-in-chief of Yahoo News in 2013, when she left the New York Times. ... The decision to leave the company was her own, a spokesperson said.
Tom emails: "Liberman's tenure was notable for all the marquee journalists she brought to Yahoo -- including Matt Bai, Michael Isikoff and Garance Franke-Ruta... Katie Couric joined Yahoo shortly after Liberman was hired there, but that move appears to have been largely the doing of Marissa Mayer...
Liberman told Tom she is "incredibly proud of the team that I built and the work they produced" and that she wishes "the new company all the best going forward."
FYI: The Verizon deal is expected to close next month. | | Sunday's Reliable Sources | | | Frank Sesno anchors live from D.C. ... Topics: Journalists under assault; President skips reporter questions on first international trip; Coverage of Manchester bombing; Fox News' dueling narratives; How international reporters covered Trump trip. GUESTS: NPR's Michael Oreskes; American Urban Radio Networks' April Ryan; Politico's Tara Palmeri; The Washington Post's Erik Wemple; Poynter's Indira Lakshmanan; American University's Jane Hall; BBC's Kim Ghattas. | | Greg Gianforte off the hook? | | All things considered, yes.
Gianforte will appear in court in the next two weeks on his misdemeanor assault charge for body slamming The Guardian's Ben Jacobs, but by the time we're all back from the holiday that will be a buried story.
Because 1. He won 2. He apologized, thoroughly and at length. 3. There are more important stories in the world, and the media has attention deficit disorder. You may find that disheartening, but it's true.
Here's the real question...
How much violence are conservatives willing to tolerate?
1. The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought
"The angry forces that propelled President Trump's rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party," the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty and Bob Costa write. "Candidates often are either adopting aspects of his persona or finding themselves having to fitfully explain why they back him. Coupled with a national conservative media complex that sears the press as much as it does Democrats, they are navigating a highly charged and volatile environment."
2. President Trump's war on the press is dangerous
"Trump's war on the press isn't just name-calling. It has a more insidious intent: to discredit a profession he fears, because he sees journalism as a challenge to his authority," writes Poynter's Indira Lakshmanan. | | | "When you make a mistake, you have to own up to it... I should not have responded the way I did, for that I'm sorry. I should not have treated that reporter that way, and for that I'm sorry, Mr. Ben Jacobs." | | | Jacobs has asked that the Go Fund Me page dedicated to getting him a new pair of glasses (since Gianforte broke his) be dedicated to raising money for the Committee to Project Journalists. They've already passed their initial goal of $1,500. Now they're gunning for $10,000. | | Montana stations apologizes | | | Talking Points Memo: "A local television station in Montana on Friday apologized for not airing audio of... Gianforte's alleged assault on a reporter... 'We clearly made a mistake, it was unintentional and we apologize," Tamy Wagner, the general manager of NBC News affiliate KECI, said...." | | Fox's Sean Hannity looks set to weather the advertiser pushback following his promotion of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.
"As of Friday, multiple companies had decided to yank ads from Hannity's program, including the mattress maker Casper and Cars.com," Tom Kludt reports. "But Hannity's promotion of a fringe conspiracy theory has not prompted the same level of fallout that ultimately undid his former Fox News colleague, Bill O'Reilly."
-- And in case you missed it, Hannity and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough are back to bickering with one another again. If you really want to sully your Friday with all that, feel free to click.
| | The real threat to journalism ($$$) | | Fun screed from Fusion's Hamilton Nolan:
"It's not mean words that threaten journalism in America. It's money. The advertising market of the future will be concentrated overwhelmingly in the hands of a few enormous tech companies. Facebook and Google control not just the online traffic that feeds the media, but also the ad dollars that keep them afloat....
"It is increasingly clear that legacy media like newspapers—the places that everyone thinks of as the headwaters of 'good journalism,' where News Itself is born before it flows out to TV and radio and internet aggregators—are only able to survive as luxury products for the rich. Rich owners, that is...
"Yes, newspaper owners have always been rich, but in the past, they made their money from newspapers... Now they must make their money elsewhere, then buy a newspaper for the same reason they might buy an expensive artwork. It's a prestige toy. There are a handful of national papers still able to sustain themselves, but there are many more that can't, and the trend lines are not good. And don't imagine that a vast new crop of righteous startups will take over the job of producing quality journalism themselves—the days when the internet was an open frontier are over. The walls have been erected. The moats of corporate American power have now been fully installed on the internet. The golden age is over."
(hat-tip Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman) | | Hillary Clinton at Wellesley: "There is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason. People denying science, concocting elaborate hurtful conspiracy theories about child abuse rings operating out of pizza parlors, drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants, Muslims, minorities, the poor, turning neighbor against neighbor and sowing division at a time when we desperately need unity."
Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard: "We live in an unstable time... The forces of freedom, openness and global community are up against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism... The forces for the flow of knowledge, trade and immigration against those who would slow them down. This is not a battle of nations; this is a battle of ideas." | | Email from 'Donald J. Trump': "I've said it before and I will say it again: the Fake News Media is the real opposition. It's a 24/7 barrage of hit jobs, fake stories, and absolute hatred for everything we stand for as a movement... This is a fight we can't afford to lose. The future of America hangs in the balance. Our country is at stake."
(Includes two links to Mainstream Media Accountability Survey, which then directs users to financial contribution page.) | | | Frank Pallota talks to James Cameron about the wait for his new 'Avatar': "Avatar" came out roughly a decade ago. ...No, no, no. Let's not exaggerate. Seven-and-a-half years. ... Okay, seven-and-a-half years ago. ... You're off by 25%! Do you feel that that kind of gap in time hurts those who are truly engaged with this land at Disney's "Pandora?" ... Well it didn't hurt "Avatar," that there was no "Avatar" before "Avatar." So I kind of rest my case. | | Netflix's 'War Machine' fizzles | | Brian Lowry emails: "Netflix has made a concerted push to buy its way into the movie business, and renting Brad Pitt was certainly an attention-getting device. But 'War Machine,' which stars Pitt as a fictionalized version of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, inspired by the Michael Hastings book, turns out to be a defective vehicle."
The full review. | | Still waiting on ABC's 'Star-Crossed' | | Lowry: "Handsomely shot, mounted and cast, the premiere chronicles the romance of Romeo and Juliet's tragic end, then continues into the ongoing feud between the Montagues and Capulets... What "Star-Crossed" can't do, at least in the early going, is provide much incentive to care about its characters."
The full review. | | 'Wonder Woman', for women-only | | | From Lisa France: A cinema in Austin, Texas, is having women-only screenings for "Wonder Women" and some men are not happy. | | | A Ben Jacobs-themed New Yorker cartoon, by Kim Warp. | | | Email us: reliablesources@cnn.com. Let us know what you like and dislike... what you want more of, what you want less of. We appreciate every email! | |  | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out Five Things for Your New Day, CNN's morning newsletter. Give us five minutes, and we'll brief you on all the news and buzz people will be talking about. | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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