ESPN announced Wednesday that it is laying off approximately 150 employees, the network’s third round of job cuts over the past two-plus years. Faced with a declining subscriber base and increasing sports-rights costs, ESPN laid off around 300 employees – many of them working behind the scenes – in October 2015. Then, in April, the […]
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Meredith buying Time, Inc. for $1.8 billion
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Meredith and Time are climbing Monday morning after news that Meredith, a magazine and broadcasting company, will buy the New York publisher. Meredith Corp. announced Sunday night that it is buying Time Inc. for about $1.8 billion. Iowa-based Meredith owns TV stations that reach 12 million U.S. households. Its […]
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Voicemail confirms that Paul LePage told lawmakers he would leave the state
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and his staff have denied since Monday that he told lawmakers he was leaving town for 10 days during what at the time was an ongoing government shutdown, but a voicemail obtained by the Bangor Daily News with a public records request says otherwise. The 20-second voicemail was left for […]
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Commentary: Why is Gov. Paul LePage trying to confuse reporters?
If I’m reading this right, it looks like Maine’s governor just admitted to doing something that the Russians are being investigated for: making up news to confuse reporters. And then he took it a step further by wishing news never existed. “I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they’ll […]
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Paul LePage brags he misleads the press, calls media 'inaccurate' and 'vile'
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican governor is lashing out at media reports he planned to leave the state during the government shutdown. And his comments suggest his feud with the press has reached the point where he makes up stories to mislead reporters. Gov. Paul LePage criticized the news media Thursday on WGAN-AM for reporting that […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says state faces mountain of records requests
AUGUSTA — The governor’s office says it’s facing a mountain of public records requests, but one law firm isn’t waiting for its documents so patiently. Andrew Schmidt Law filed a lawsuit against the state, saying it’s been waiting for six months to get information behind Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to withdraw from the refugee […]
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Media search for facts
This letter is in response to Thomas Shields’ letter (May 21), “National media are anti-Trump.” Shields stated, “There are misleading, inflammatory headlines on the front page leading to anti-Republican narrative, and the Republican side of the story is usually buried on an inside page”. I would remind Shields that accurate reporting has become a thing […]
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White House is trying to dupe media with phony leaks
Television network crews begin their evening news broadcast from the driveway outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. The Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign […]
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Paul LePage blames media when asked about Trump’s problems
At first, the Gov. Paul LePage had a muted reaction to the heightening controversy around President Donald Trump when asked about it by WGAN on Thursday. He ended at a conspiracy theory. He said “I don’t trust the media,” then endorsed the Trump administration’s appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel handling the investigation into the […]
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Inside Donald Trump’s obsession with cable TV
WASHINGTON — During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Donald Trump’s tumultuous White House came up, and one of the attendees wondered whether press secretary Sean Spicer might be the first to go. The president’s response was swift and unequivocal. “I’m not firing Sean […]