After Joe Biden’s campaign announced a town hall with ABC News following President Donald Trump’s , the president and his team sensed an opportunity for another media spectacle.On Wednesday, . The network announced that it will hold a town hall with the president on Thursday at the same exact time that a town hall with former Vice President Joe Biden will air on ABC News. NBC’s programming decision, critics complained shortly after the network touted it, plays into Trump’s hands.According to multiple sources familiar with the president's thinking, Trump has told close associates that he...…After Joe Biden’s campaign announced a town hall with ABC News following President Donald Trump’s , the president and his team sensed an opportunity for another media spectacle.On Wednesday, . The network announced that it will hold a town hall with the president on Thursday at the same exact time that a town hall with former Vice President Joe Biden will air on ABC News. NBC’s programming decision, critics complained shortly after the network touted it, plays into Trump’s hands.According to multiple sources familiar with the president's thinking, Trump has told close associates that he...WW…

The painful occurred with just the sort of recrimination and negative PR that former Washington local news anchor and failed Democratic House candidate Kathleen Matthews, his wife of 40 years, and their adult children long hoped to avoid.According to sources at MSNBC, Kathleen had communicated concerns over the past several months to network chief Phil Griffin, Chris’s long-ago Hardball executive producer when the show aired on CNBC. She expressed worry that her husband’s on-air controversies would become more frequent, more embarrassing, and more damaging to his legacy.For months, it was...…The painful occurred with just the sort of recrimination and negative PR that former Washington local news anchor and failed Democratic House candidate Kathleen Matthews, his wife of 40 years, and their adult children long hoped to avoid.According to sources at MSNBC, Kathleen had communicated concerns over the past several months to network chief Phil Griffin, Chris’s long-ago Hardball executive producer when the show aired on CNBC. She expressed worry that her husband’s on-air controversies would become more frequent, more embarrassing, and more damaging to his legacy.For months, it was...WW…

In today’s Darwinian media environment, newspapers, magazines and online publications seem to be biting the dust every week—a depressing new normal. But the sudden death of Pacific Standard—a decade-old Santa Barbara-based online magazine covering environmental science, social justice, economics policy, official corruption and other substantive issues—has hit the journalism community especially hard. “Generally the loss of smart independent publications makes me cynical and deeply tired,” New Yorker contributor tweeted to Wednesday’s announcement of the shutdown, “but I gotta say, the...…In today’s Darwinian media environment, newspapers, magazines and online publications seem to be biting the dust every week—a depressing new normal. But the sudden death of Pacific Standard—a decade-old Santa Barbara-based online magazine covering environmental science, social justice, economics policy, official corruption and other substantive issues—has hit the journalism community especially hard. “Generally the loss of smart independent publications makes me cynical and deeply tired,” New Yorker contributor tweeted to Wednesday’s announcement of the shutdown, “but I gotta say, the...WW…