Wall Street Journal Killed Editorial on Trumps Mob Ties

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9. NYT keeps Thrush -- Rolling Stone sells -- WaPo raids WSJ -- Breitbart looks beyond Roy Moore

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mass exodus...

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WSJ's @shaneharris and @PaulSonne are heading to WaPo http://politi.co/2z9zERP

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NYT keeps Thrush — Rolling Stone sells — WaPo raids WSJ — Breitbart looks beyond Roy Moore — Never Trumpers carry on

By MICHAEL CALDERONE 12/21/2017 05:34 AM EST

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WASHINGTON POST RAIDS WALL STREET JOURNAL: Journal reporters Paul Sonne and Shane Harris are soon heading to the Post to cover the Pentagon and intelligence, respectively, according to sources familiar with the moves. The Post has already hired three other reporters from the Journal’s Washington bureau this year — Devlin Barrett, Beth Reinhard, and Damian Paletta — and last year nabbed Adam Entous, who is now heading to the New Yorker.
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MEANWHILE, NEVER TRUMPERS CARRY ON: Sam Tanenhaus, the former New York Times book review editor and author of a forthcoming biography of William F. Buckley titled “The Death of Conservatism,” checks in with Never Trumpers like David Frum, Jennifer Rubin, and Ross Douthat for an Esquire feature.
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— Tanenhaus also traced the Journal editorial page’s shift from Trump critics to broadly supportive of insurgent candidate as the Republican primary wound down. “Several sources pointed to the editorials by one writer, James Freeman,” he writes. “‘All-in for Ted Cruz’ during the primaries, Freeman wrote a strong attack on Trump’s Mob dealings, and had a second ready to go. But as Trump got closer to clinching the nomination, Paul Gigot kept delaying publication, saying ‘it needed work.’ Once Trump became the likely Republican nominee, Freeman executed a neat volte-face. ‘The facts suggest that Mrs. Clinton is more likely to abuse liberties than Mr. Trump,’ he wrote. ‘America managed to survive Mr. Clinton’s two terms, so it can stand the far less vulgar Mr. Trump.'"

MARK ZUCKERBERG WINS ‘MISINFORMER OF THE YEAR’ AWARD: Media Matters, the progressive watchdog group, has given this title in the past to familiar targets like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. So why Zuckerberg? "Much of what Facebook has done in 2017 has amounted more to a public relations effort than a deeper systemic and underlying approach," Media Matters president Angelo Carusone told Mashable. "What the election did was really illustrate the underlying problems — enabling all this right-wing misinformation and misinformation more broadly."