MSNBC had aired stories falsely claiming the doctor performed mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia.
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LA Times owner boosts RFK Jr. online, as writer says paper cut his critique
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has become a fierce champion online for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Will Lewis’s first year at ‘Washington Post’: Cancellations, red ink and an exodus
Subscribers and star journalists have fled the Post in its first year under CEO and Publisher Will Lewis. Now staff have signed a petition asking owner Jeff Bezos to intervene.
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CNN goes on trial over its report alleging ‘black market’ for Afghan rescues
A CNN story about a “black market” for rescuing people from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover is at the heart of a defamation trial that opens Monday in Florida.
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‘Guardian’ journalists strike to protest sale of sister paper ‘Observer’
Nearly 500 journalists have walked out of the Guardian and its sister paper, the Observer, to protest what they see as a betrayal of the paper’s values: the planned sale of the Observer to a startup.
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Over 200,000 subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
Over 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions in the first few days following news that The Washington Post would not endorse any presidential candidate.
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‘Washington Post’ won’t endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s
The Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in this year’s presidential race. Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office.
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Did the ‘L.A. Times’ and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump?
Inside the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the Washington Post, journalists question whether news executives are making editorial decisions with an eye to appeasing former President Donald Trump.
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Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected
On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has threatened to jail reporters who won’t give up the sources of leaks and to strip networks of their broadcast licenses for fact-checking him.
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A Cambodian reporter who exposed scams is charged over online posts
The U.S. State Department said it was “deeply troubled” by the recent arrest of Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian investigative reporter who exposed online scams and corruption.
