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Journalism Glance
Former White House press secretary Bill Moyers died on Thursday at the age of 91 after a “long illness.”
His death was confirmed by Tom Johnson, CNN’s former CEO and close friend, according to The Associated Press.
Moyers served under former President Lyndon B. Johnson, where he helped create the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eventually curated informational programming for PBS.
President Trump on Wednesday called for the firing of CNN correspondent Natasha Bertrand, who reported on air that an internal U.S. intelligence assessment found Saturday’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites set back Tehran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out “like a dog,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Bertrand, the president argued, was “attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look bad.”
Trump said earlier Wednesday that the preliminary classified U.S. report wasn’t complete, while members of his administration vowed to investigate the leaked assessment, which was also reported on by The New York Times, The Washington Post and others.
The Los Angeles Press Club and other journalists are suing Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, for using “Unnecessary and excessive violence to prevent them from exercising their First Amendment rights.”
The lawsuit also accuses DHS of violating the Fourth Amendment prohibiting arbitrary arrests, and the Fifth amendment, which demands due process of law.
“Since June 6, at least seven members of our organization have been subject to use of force or suffered a serious press rights violation by DHS officers,” Adam Rose, press rights chair of the Los Angeles Press Club, said in a statement.
“Democracy depends on an informed public. An informed public depends on a press free to do its job without fearing violence by federal agents.”
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ordered his execution, security sources have told the BBC.
Major General Bassam Al Hassan is a former commander in the Republican Guards who was part of President Assad's inner circle.
He was also the Chief of Staff of the National Defence Forces (NDF), the paramilitary group that a BBC investigation uncovered was responsible for holding Mr Tice after his abduction in 2012.
ABC News on Sunday suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran after he sharply criticized President Trump and his top aide, Stephen Miller, in a social media post earlier that day.
In the since-deleted post on the social platform X — screenshots of which were shared on social media — Moran called Trump and Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, “world-class hater[s].”
ABC News on Sunday suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran after he sharply criticized President Trump and his top aide, Stephen Miller, in a social media post earlier that day.
In the since-deleted post on the social platform X — screenshots of which were shared on social media — Moran called Trump and Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, “world-class hater[s].”
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order that purportedly bars the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.
"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" the legal filling for the public broadcasters states. "The Order targets NPR and PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news and other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased.'"
The line about the "wolf" was drawn from a 1988 dissent by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The lawsuit says the administration is usurping Congress' power to direct how federal money will be spent and to pass laws. It names President Trump, White House budget director Russell Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Maria Rosario Jackson, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, as defendants.
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume on Monday pushed back at Donald Trump’s recent claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “gone absolutely CRAZY.”
In a Sunday social media post, Trump wrote that he’d “always had a very good relationship” with Putin — with whom he is attempting to broker peace over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — but claimed “something has happened to him” after Russia launched a huge new, weekend assault on its neighbor.
Hume dismissed the notion that Putin’s behavior had changed.
Trump “has always had a very odd conception of Vladimir Putin,” Hume said. “I think he’s thought that he and Putin could be kind of friends and partners, and could make deals together.” Trump has for years talked about his admiration for his counterpart.
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