| | | | If Hurricane Harvey lives up to its forecasts, it will be the first major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in twelve years. "Twitter didn't exist when Wilma made landfall 10/24/2005," meteorologist James Spann tweeted Thursday. (A "major hurricane" is defined as category 3 or higher. Sandy was the equivalent of a category 1, though it was technically a post-tropical cyclone when it hit NJ in 2012.)
By Friday evening, Harvey's tropical storm force winds will be reaching the coast. But floodwaters, not winds, are the biggest concern. The National Hurricane Center says "devastating and life-threatening flooding is expected across the middle and upper Texas coast." So this will be a major story for the national news media for many days, possibly weeks, to come... | | -- All of the nightly newscasts led with Harvey... NBC had Jacob Rascon in Corpus Christi... ABC had Matt Gutman there... and CBS had Manuel Bojorquez in Port Aransas...
-- CNN has crews in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Galveston and Houston... Fox has crews in Galveston and Corpus Christi with more reporters on the way... -- NBC's Gabe Gutierrez will be live from Corpus Christi on Friday's "Today," and Joe Fryer in Galveston... -- CBS is leaning on meteorologists from local stations... Scott Padgett from KTVT in Dallas was on the "Evening News," and Megan Glaros from WBBM in Chicago will be on "CBS This Morning..." -- Fox has already decided to start its morning show an hour early on Saturday, 5am ET, in anticipation of the storm... | | Weather Channel goes live at 5am and stays live... | | | "Live Coverage: Tracking Hurricane Harvey" will start at 5am Friday and "will continue until further notice," according to The Weather Channel. The network has 10 crews deployed: Jim Cantore and Paul Goodloe in the Corpus Christi area, Jen Carfagno in Houston, Mike Seidel in the Port Lavaca/Victoria area, Maria LaRosa in San Antonio, etc... | | | Tim Heller, a meteorologist at ABC13 in Houston, tweeted out this pic: "We're ready! Air mattresses inflated for crews who have to work Hurricane #Harvey." | | | The San Antonio Express-News is dropping its paywall Friday at 7am so folks can access full coverage... | | Drudge calls this Trump's "first serious crisis" | | | Oliver Darcy emails: Matt Drudge fired off a pair of interesting tweets Thursday morning. In his first, he said that Trump is "facing his first serious crisis with Hurricane Harvey" and added "it's about to get real." In his follow up tweet, Drudge openly questioned whether Trump was prepared for the damage the storm barreling toward Texas may cause. Drudge asked: "Is he ready?" (We reported last month that Drudge has been firing warning shots at Trump...) | | Alec Baldwin returns as Trump... | | This month's third edition of Thursday "Weekend Update" on NBC opened with Alec Baldwin's return as President Trump. This was Baldwin's first time playing Trump on "SNL" in three months.
"The media has treated me so unfairly by using my exact remarks," Baldwin's Trump said at a faux Phoenix rally. THR has details here... | | Eight "I'll get back to you" answers from Sanders | | Thursday was the first on-camera White House press briefing in three weeks.
Julia Waldow emails: Sarah Huckabee Sanders often falls back on saying she'll "get back" to a reporter or let them know information in the near future when in fact she A) might not know the answer, B) might know the answer but not want to say, or C) doesn't want to publicize an issue. I tallied up Thursday's answers. Sanders said she would get back to a reporter eight times, and referred a reporter to the State Department three times...
-- And: There were other times she dodged by saying she hadn't talked to the president about the subject. Case in point... | | "Does the President know this story is false?" | | | A tip of the hat to Politico's Matthew Nussbaum, who asked this Q at the briefing: "On August 17th, the President again referenced a fictitious story about General Pershing committing a mass execution in the Philippines. A couple of questions on that. Does the President know that this story is false? And if so, why does he keep repeating it? And why does the White House think it's appropriate for the President to perpetuate this false story if he hasn't been informed that it's not true?" Sanders said "I haven't had a chance to ask him about that so I can't speak to it..." | | "Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees" | | Taylor Swift music video on "GMA" Friday morning | | Taylor Swift's first single from her forthcoming album will come out overnight... And ABC's "GMA" says it has the exclusive reveal of the music video... "See the worldwide first look anywhere at Taylor Swift's new music video, about to explode."
>> Until it's here, Lisa France has a recap of what we know about the rollout... | | Mark Gurman's latest Apple scoop: an upgraded Apple TV box | | "Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports, according to people familiar with the matter," Mark Gurman and his colleague Anousha Sakoui reported Thursday. They say it'll be revealed along with Apple's new iPhone and Watch in September.
-- Plus: An updated version of its TV app "can aggregate programming from apps that already offer live streaming." Read more... | | -- Did you know Fort Wayne, Indiana still has an afternoon newspaper? Yeah, well, not anymore... (AP)
-- On the cover of this weekend's Arts & Leisure: an in-depth preview of HBO's next big series, "The Deuce..." (NYT)
-- And speaking of the NYT... Congrats to Jonathan Mahler: Random House has acquired Mahler's next book, a "nonfiction narrative on NYC in the 1980s..." (Twitter)
-- Howard Cohen emails: Spotify and Warner Music have renewed their licensing deal, helping to clear the way for the streaming giant to go public later this year or early in 2018... (Variety)
-- One more from Howard: What will Facebook's "video chat device" be? (Business Insider) | | Murder charge sought in the death of journalist Kim Wall | | | "Danish inventor Peter Madsen is to be charged with the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall," CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Susanne Gargiulo report. | | | Megan Thomas emails: This is a lovely tribute to Wall by The New Yorker's Alexis Okeowo. She writes: "When she died, none of the editors she worked with knew exactly where she was, or what she was doing; she was at the mercy of her interview subject's decency, and of her environment's hospitality -- a risk familiar to nearly every independent female reporter..." | | Tom Brokaw, reacting to Tuesday's #TrumpRally, tweeted this on Thursday:
"mr president,
i've been a journalist 50 yrs. Never met one who didn't love USA.
Many risk their lives reporting on US values.
Cheap shot" | | Rich Lowry says "the media Is Trump's Evil Empire" | | "For most Republicans," Rich Lowry writes in this new piece for Politico Mag, "what matters most about Donald Trump is that he's demonstrated resolve against the enemy—not the Islamic State or the Taliban, but the media. The media has become for the right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War -- a common, unifying adversary of overwhelming importance."
He continues: "Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, religious conservatives and libertarians could agree that, whatever their other differences, godless communism had to be resisted. This commitment was the glue of the GOP coalition, and the basic price of admission to conservatism. Now, a policy of containment, preferably rollback, of the mainstream media occupies that central role."
My reaction? Sad. | | Director of rapid response leaving W.H. | | | He's a familiar presence in the inboxes of many reporters... but not anymore: "The White House's revolving door has seen more out than in lately, as White House director of rapid response Andrew Hemming became the latest comms staffer to depart," CNN's Kaitlan Collins and Betsy Klein reported Thursday morning. "The departure, first reported by Politico, was a mutual decision, a White House source told CNN..." | | "In the newspaper life, you can assuage the journalism gods or Rupert Murdoch. You can pick only one."
--Jack Shafer's latest, reacting to the latest controversy involving WSJ EIC Gerard Baker... | | 🎤: Darcy and Warzel dropping knowledge about the pro-Trump media universe | | | Oliver Darcy emails: Peter Kafka invited BuzzFeed's Charlie Warzel and I on the Recode Media podcast to talk about the pro-Trump media universe. We discussed a wide array of things, including: the process in which we report on the far-right media, how conspiracy theories originate in this space, and who the top influencers are. (Hint: I said the Drudge Report.) You can listen here and read a recap on Recode... | | Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman emails:
-- Michael Calderone says President Trump was following "in the tradition of authoritarian rulers" by "accusing journalists of disliking their own country and actively working toward its failure..." (HuffPost)
-- Jason Steinhauer, writing for Poynter, wants more historians on cable news panel discussions... (Poynter)
-- Wow: Alex Stamos, the Chief Security Officer at Facebook, says the company suppresses over one million accounts each day to weed out spam, fraudulent content and hate speech.... (CNBC) | | Meet the man who said "FOX LIES" on Fox | | Erik Wemple tracked down Bob Reams, the man who interrupted a "Fox & Friends" broadcast from a diner in Louisville, Ky., by flashing a "FOX LIES" sign and yelling "This is fake news!"
"I've always wanted to protest Fox News and they came to a restaurant two miles from where I live and I just couldn't help myself," Reams said. "They have brainwashed so many of my friends and believe in just conspiracy theories and bullcrap. It's just sad to see my friends just turned into idiots."
In this blog post, Wemple argues that hate-viewers of Fox News might be a statistically relevant number... | | | For the record, part three | | | By Julia Waldow:
-- Amazon's comedy-drama "Transparent" has been renewed for a fifth season, one month before its fourth season debuts... (Variety)
-- The WashPost says it is expanding its "PowerPost" vertical... (Digiday)
-- Politico used data from Cortico and MIT to analyze how Charlottesville stories shared on Twitter showed the "left-right media divide." Some key findings: The NYT and Breitbart were the most shared sources, and "outside major media headlines, core Republicans were more likely to share videos, while Democrats were more likely to share petitions..." (Politico)
-- A "Starsky and Hutch" TV reboot is in the works at Sony Pictures, with help from "Guardians of the Galaxy" screenwriter-director James Gunn... (THR) | | James Cameron on "Wonder Woman:" "It's a step backwards" | | Megan Thomas emails: In a new interview with The Guardian, director James Cameron, who has a history of featuring strong female characters in his films, shared a surprising take on the acclaim "Wonder Woman" has received this summer:
"All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over 'Wonder Woman' has been so misguided. She's an objectified icon, and it's just male Hollywood doing the same old thing! I'm not saying I didn't like the movie but, to me, it's a step backwards..." | | Lowry reviews Amazon's "The Tick" | | | Brian Lowry emails: Fox tried a live-action version of superhero spoof "The Tick" in 2001, and canceled it after less than a season. A new take arrives at a more hospitable time, and place, on a niche service like Amazon. Read more... | | | Sandra Gonzalez reports: Jay Thomas, a comic and character actor whose credits include roles on "Cheers" and "Murphy Brown," has died after a battle with cancer, according to his publicist. Thomas was 69. Read Sandra's full story here... | | Jerry Lewis marathon coming to TCM | | | Brian Lowry emails: Given Jerry Lewis' long association with his Labor Day telethon, Turner Classic Movies is appropriately honoring the late comic with a Labor Day marathon, including "The King of Comedy" and "The Nutty Professor." | | | For the record, part four | | | By Lisa Respers France:
-- As the debate rages on in Hollywood about pay inequality, Amy Schumer is speaking out about a report she hit Netflix up for more money for her comedy special so she'd be on par with what they paid Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. She says yes, she believes women should be better compensated, but she doesn't think she deserves equal pay to Rock and Chappelle...
-- George R.R. Martin needs to binge-watch "Game of Thrones." The author of the book series which birthed the wildly popular HBO series says the reports he doesn't watch the show are false. He's just been so busy traveling and writing that he's not caught up on season 7. He needs to hurry, however, as the season finale is this Sunday... | | | Email reliablesources@cnn.com... we appreciate every message. The feedback helps us craft the next day's newsletter! | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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