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China orders broadcasters and websites to avoid celebrity hype, stop using fake statistics
Chinese broadcasters and online entertainment sites should avoid celebrity hype and crack down on fake audience and click-through rates, state media quoted the National Radio and Television Administration as saying. The edict comes after Beijing ordered A-list movie star Fan Bingbing to pay about 884 ...
Media watchdog asks Nippon TV to address alleged fabrication of Laos festival
A Japanese media watchdog has decided to demand that Nippon Television Network Corp. issue a report in response to allegations that it fabricated a Laos festival in a popular variety show broadcast in May. "We'll also check the broadcast images," Asaka Kanda, head of the ...
Financial Times editor refused entry to Hong Kong as a tourist
The Asia editor of the Financial Times has been refused entry to Hong Kong, weeks after the semi-autonomous Chinese territory refused to renew his work visa. The newspaper reported that Victor Mallet was turned away at the border on Thursday after being questioned for several ...
In case you missed it: Trump's awkward response to a Japanese reporter
A reporter, whose question Trump brusquely dismissed as incomprehensible, prompted an array of reactions from those watching the scene unfold.
From bad to worse: White House bans CNN reporter as Trump's media relations fray further
President Trump's combative relationship with the media deteriorated further Wednesday with a news conference where he called some reporters rude and accused a PBS reporter of posing a racist question when she asked him about white nationalists. "It's such a hostile media," Trump said during ...
Trump visits Pittsburgh synagogue after massacre as protesters mass outside
Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were gunned down at the weekend in an anti-Semitic attack, as more than 1,000 protesters gathered nearby to make it clear the US president was unwelcome. Carrying signs that read "President Hate, Leave Our ...
Trump blames media for sowing pre-election 'anger' in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
President Donald Trump blamed the media Monday for pre-election "anger" as the nation mourned the loss of 11 lives in the weekend shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the worst anti-Semitic attack in recent U.S. history. As suspect Robert Bowers made his first court appearance, in ...
George Soros — the far right's boogeyman — is again a target
When pipe bombs turned up in the mail of Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats last week, the first recipient — billionaire investor and liberal philanthropist George Soros — quickly fell out of the headlines. But there's no chance his many critics and enemies have ...
U.S. mail bomb suspect was cash-strapped ex-stripper devoted to Trump
Focus Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the man who put pipe bombs in small envelopes ...
How the U.S. investigation into a series of package bombs unfolded
A week of mail bombs started with a single suspicious package in a billionaire's mailbox. In the days that followed, at least a dozen more suspected explosive devices were found, all of them targeting high-profile critics of President Donald Trump. On Friday, as still ...
