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(CNN)On Monday, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer published an explosive expose on "the Fox News White House," a deeply reported story alleging that the channel had killed a story about Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election and that President Trump tried to spike the AT&T-Time Warner merger apparently because he wasn't happy with the news coverage of his presidency by CNN, which is now owned by AT&T. The story makes clear in vivid detail that Mayer's answer to the headline question about Fox News — "Is it propaganda?" — is a resounding yes.

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But for some readers, that still left a lingering question: Is it new? After all, presidents have had close ties with media outlets before. Didn't journalists provide cover for the Bush administration during the Iraq War? Didn't MSNBC's Chris Matthews declare he got "a thrill go up his leg" when he listened to Barack Obama's speeches? Haven't mainstream outlets carried water for presidents for decades?

Absolutely. Yet the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News is distinctly different, bringing the channel closer to state television than anything the United States has ever known.

There's certainly precedent for some features of Trump's relationship with Fox News. American presidents have long cozied up to the press, seeking favorable coverage for their parties and agendas. And some journalists returned the favor, enjoying the access and prestige of being a White House insider. New York Times columnist Arthur Krock had long been close to John Kennedy, helping him with his senior thesis and even privately advising him on how to handle the CIA. Drew Pearson, a Washington Post columnist, regularly traded favors with Lyndon Johnson, including dropping investigations in exchange for political help and weighing in on speeches and strategy.

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News outlets have also backed particular candidates, hoping to get their man in the White House. In 1940 Henry Luce, who owned Time, Life, and Fortune, single-handedly engineered Wendell Willkie's nomination. Not only did his magazines popularize the little-known candidate, Luce ensured the coverage was uniformly positive, often to the dismay of journalists working for him. "Take me off this train," begged one Time reporter covering Willkie. "All I can do is sit at my typewriter and write, 'Wendell Willkie is a wonderful man. Wendell Willkie is a wonderful man.'"

And journalists have certainly covered up presidents' sexual dalliances. In the mid-20th century, stories of such misdeeds were considered out of bounds, so while it was common knowledge that both Kennedy and Johnson regularly pursued women other than their wives, those lascivious tales never made it into the nation's newspapers. There are even plenty of cases of news outlets acting as court stenographers, credulously repeating the party line even as evidence amassed that an administration was lying (see: Vietnam, Iraq).

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Yet despite all the ways journalists and presidents have coordinated in the past, none comes even close to the symbiosis between Fox News and Donald Trump. Not even Fox News has been so in bed with a White House before. While the channel has always been firmly Republican -- Roger Ailes was an adviser to Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush before launching Fox News -- it did not have the wholesale influence over George W. Bush that it has over Trump (and vice versa).

One metric: the steady flow of personnel from Fox News to the Trump White House. Fox News' Tony Snow served as press secretary to George W. Bush, and while it was unusual for a journalist to move into an administration, it was not unprecedented. For the Trump administration, however, appearances on Fox News have often served as the first step in the interview process. That is, no doubt, how Bush administration official and hawk John Bolton wound up in the White House, despite the fact that Trump regularly bashes interventionism.

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But Bolton is just one of many former Fox News folks in the administration. There's Tony Sayegh in Treasury and Mercedes Schlapp in communications. Trump recently nominated Heather Nauert, former "Fox and Friends" host turned State Department spokeswoman, to become the next ambassador to the United Nations (having no experience outside broadcast journalism, her appointment was resisted until she finally withdrew -- reportedly for other reasons). Behind the scenes, Sean Hannity, who last year spoke in support of Trump at one of his rallies, regularly advises the President.

And the head honchos at Fox News became Trump people, too. Fired for sexual harassment, Ailes went to advise Trump on his debate prep. Fox News co-president Bill Shine, also ousted for abetting sexual harassment, is Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications.

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It goes much further than personnel, of course. Trump's tweets both echo Fox News stories and shape them; the White House and Fox News are each other's programming directors. And perhaps most shocking and unprecedented: The cable channel is a direct line of communication to the White House. Just one example: Repeated poundings on Fox prompted Trump to reverse course on a budget deal, leading to the longest government shutdown in American history.

"Fox and Friends" has even joked about the back-and-forth between the channel and the President. A week after the inauguration, one of the hosts interrupted Heather Nauert, who had not yet been poached by the administration, and said on air, "Hey, Donald Trump, if you're watching, turn some lights on and off!" The screen cut to a live shot of the White House, where the effects team made it appear the lights in the residence flickered in response.

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It was a deeply weird moment, one that acknowledged the reality of the relationship between the President, who from 2011 to 2015 was a regular guest commentator on "Fox and Friends," and the network, only to laugh it off as though it were just a joke. But there's not much funny about a network that purports to offer news while instead serving as a branch of the administration.
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Much like its crumbling bridges and tunnels, the infrastructure of America’s democracy needs urgent maintenance and repair.

Too many Americans find it too hard to vote, or think their vote doesn’t count after years of headlines about cheating, foreign interference, partisan redistricting, the corrosive influence of big money and more. It just so happens there’s a bill in Congress right now, HR 1, that addresses these issues. Bloomberg’s editorial board supports its passage, while acknowledging it won’t become law any time soon, because Republicans in the Senate, the White House and the Supreme Court won’t support it. And it’s true Republicans have mostly benefited from some of these systemic flaws lately; but both parties will suffer as confidence in democracy fades, as the editors warn is happening now.

Francis Wilkinson breaks down just some of the many particulars of this exhaustive bill, which would make it easier for people to vote; reform the Federal Election Commission and lobbying; shield the voting system from hacking and make it easier to audit results; make partisan gerrymandering a thing of the past; and expose those who would try to buy elections. And that’s just for starters. It’s ambitious and, again, unlikely to become reality soon. But every election cycle that passes without such fixes makes the risk of a democratic bridge collapse more likely.

The Self-Harm of Brexit

One of the many ways Brexit is already hurting the U.K. economy is by chasing immigrants away, writes Therese Raphael. The sinking value of the pound, along with the hostility to foreigners that motivated Brexit, have central and eastern European migrants bailing out. Contra Britain’s immigrant-phobia, these foreigners take economic demand with them when they go, Therese writes, permanently damaging Britain’s growth potential.

Of course, Brexit’s March 29 deadline looks fluid lately; there’s talk it could be delayed for years. This would be a disaster for both the U.K. and the EU, warns Lionel Laurent. No amount of time will probably be enough for the U.K. to come to its senses, and the EU would be better off ending the Brexit distraction quickly, Lionel asserts.

Further Anglosphere in Bad Decline Reading: When England leaves the EU, it won’t take English with it; the language will still be used by diplomats and around the world even as British and American influence wane. – Leonid Bershidsky

Pity China’s National Champions

Being a Chinese “national champion” might sound like an unbeatable deal: You get government backing and free rein in what will soon be the world’s biggest economy. It’s not so simple, though. Some of China’s biggest companies, such as Alibaba, Tencent and WeChat, have beenmade complacent by government coddling, writes Adam Minter. That's led them to make sloppy decisions that opened the door for upstart competitors.

Take Huawei Technologies Co. China’s national-champion telecom company is in hot water around the world, accused of spying, violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and other misdeeds. Like any other company would, it has responded with a PR campaign. But it’s going too far, Tim Culpan writes, with clumsy efforts such as suing Canada and trying to shower journalists with expensive gifts.

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Campus Correctness

In the name of free speech, Trump has threatened to order withholding federal money from universities that discriminate against conservatives. But public schools are already subject to the First Amendment, notes Noah Feldman. And if Trump’s order stood – which is unlikely – it would be an assault on academic freedom.

Havard students want to punish a law-school professor for representing Harvey Weinstein, notes Stephen L. Carter. As odious as Weinstein may be, punishing his lawyer runs counter to everything our legal system is supposed to represent, Stephen writes.

Telltale Charts

Is the ride-hailing market truly huge, and will Lyft Inc. make money? Its IPO filing isn’t exactly reassuring on either point, writes Shira Ovide.

Bill Gross is right: It’s harder than ever for active money managers to beat the market, writes Brian Chappatta.

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House investigators launched a swarm of document demands at Trump and his associates. Luke Perrydied of a stroke at 52. Square Inc.’s co-founder Tristan O’Tierney died at 35.

Kickers

A black man took over a white-supremacist movement to shut it down.

Area man survives five days on taco-sauce packets. (h/t Scott Kominers for the first two kickers)

Every animal tested in the deepest part of the ocean had plastic in its gut.

Researchers use algae to produce bioplastic.

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Tuesday March 5th, 2019 at 3:32 AM

House Democrats are laying down a vast net as they ramp up their investigation into deep tracts of the President's personal, business and political life, with a breathtaking document request from a list of 81 people, agencies and entities.

They went after the Trump Organization, Trump employees, the Trump presidential campaign, the Trump transition team, the Trump inauguration committee, the Trump White House and blood members of the Trump clan.

"Our goal is to hold the administration accountable for the obstruction of justice, the abuse of power and the corruption," Nadler said on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Monday.

"Our goal is to protect the rule of law in this country. We have to find out what is going on and we have to lay out a case to the American people and we have to reveal it."

While Democrats are convinced they can make a case that denigrates Trump, it is a measure of the political sensitivity of their quest that they are not willing to talk about their options at the end of it.

Whether the eventual remedy for that case is impeachment or the 2020 election, in which voters will be asked to reject what Democrats already brand a historically corrupt presidency, is a decision for down the road.

"This is not a pre-impeachment hearing," Nadler said. "If we are going to do anything, we have to have proof."

Moving forward carefully

It's basic politics for Democrats not to call their investigations an impeachment drive right now. To do so would hand the GOP a gift as it claims the fix is already in -- a case some Republicans are making, as well as arguing that Democrats are trying to reverse a presidential election and that the constant investigations are a classic case of congressional overreach.

"(They are) going into every part of his life now. In America, we investigate crimes. We don't investigate people," said Rob Astorino, a prominent Trump supporter, Monday night on CNN.

To defuse such claims, the Democratic line is that the majority is simply fulfilling a duty to check a norm-busting President.

"To do anything less would be delinquent in our duties to exercise our oversight," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday.

Perhaps Democrats will not turn up offenses by Trump that would meet the constitutional impeachment threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Or Democratic leaders, sensing the Republican Party will never ditch its President, could conclude that a foiled effort to oust Trump in a Senate trial could harm their political prospects more than his in 2020.

But the shadow of a potential impeachment process will never pass, given Nadler's use of terms like "abuse of power" and "obstruction" -- offenses for which presidents have faced impeachment inquiries twice within the last 50 years.

And Nadler, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, would preside over any eventual impeachment proceedings -- which would likely be based on evidence that his investigators are now seeking to unearth.

A glimpse into the post-Mueller world

In the short term, Monday's move was yet another sign that even when special counsel Robert Mueller files his report and even if other civil and criminal prosecutions into Trump's past and present life and behavior come to nothing, his troubles are not over.

The potential offenses Democrats are examining are stunning in their breadth. They include alleged corruption, obstruction of justice, hush money payments to women, supposed collusion with Russia and claims that Trump infringed the Constitution by using his office for personal financial gain.

The people who are getting letters asking for documents include Trump's grown sons, Eric and Donald Jr., his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, his transition chairman, Tom Barrack, key members of his campaign team like Steve Bannon, and West Wing officials like former chief of staff Reince Priebus.

Letters to Trump's former press secretary Sean Spicer and communications confidante Hope Hicks requested private notes. The committee also sent a letter to Trump's former gatekeeper in Trump Tower, Rhona Graff.

One notable figure not on Monday's list was Trump's daughter and White House adviser, Ivanka. Nadler did not explain why, though he told Burnett that it was "quite conceivable" she could be on a future list.

"They don't have anything with Russia. There's no collusion. So now they go and morph into, 'Let's inspect every deal he's ever done. We're going to go into his finances. We're going to check his deals.' These people are sick," Trump said.

On Monday, he took a more tempered approach when asked how he would respond to Nadler, telling reporters: "I cooperate all the time with everybody."

The House Judiciary approach is one of an overlapping set of congressional investigations now powering up, also centered in the House Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Intelligence committees.

They also want interpreters who took part in the pair's private chats to be made available for interviews, all but ensuring a showdown with the administration.

Democrats run their own risks

The oversight offensive launched on Monday brings its own risks and consequences, given the significant raising of the stakes. And there is no guarantee that such a grave constitutional process and its unpredictable political reverberations can be contained by Democratic leaders.

If Democrats spend months making Trump's life a misery and turn up nothing impeachable, they risk handing the President a huge political victory he can tout in his re-election effort.

But if they do find evidence that Trump has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" in attacking core principles of US democracy, they will face an opposite and fateful political choice.

If they fail to take the ultimate sanction against Trump through political timidity, they will have to explain why to grass-roots voters who revile him.

Nadler said his duty to the rule of law, the Constitution and civil rights would help him decide what to do.

"If protecting that says no impeachment, I will not support impeachment," he said. "If protecting that says go a different course, I will go that course."

There are also practical barriers that Democratic investigations will face.

An investigation that extracts documents from more than 80 witnesses eventually leads to interviews and new leads, could end up with millions of pages of evidence and take many months.

That's one reason why some observers suspect that Democrats are seeking to pursue a process that badly damages Trump, heaps pressure on his White House and lands in the middle of the 2020 campaign -- but does not include the risky political step of impeachment hearings.

Nadler said his list was made up of people and organizations that had already been asked for cooperation by Mueller and other jurisdictions in an effort to avoid contentious court challenges.

But the White House and other agencies are certain to slow-walk the requests and make claims of executive privilege, leading to Democratic subpoenas that could further delay the process by initiating long court battles.

And Republicans who remember the Bill Clinton impeachment battle 20 years ago are certain to portray Democrats as pursuing a vendetta against the President, in an effort to shore up his political support.

There are already GOP claims that the Democrats are launched on an endless investigation in search of a crime in the belief that Mueller will not unearth impeachable offenses in his final report, expected soon.

"We don't even know what the Mueller report says, but Democrats are already hedging their bets," Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.

"After recklessly prejudging the President for obstruction, Chairman Nadler is pursuing evidence to back up his conclusion because, as he admits, 'we don't have the facts yet.'"

Trump's unshakable position among Republican voters, which could mitigate large-scale desertions from his party in any Senate impeachment trial, is legendary.

But the potency of the GOP defense has yet to be tested. Almost every day brings a whiff of another scandal or controversy from the Trump White House -- meaning that any proof of wrongdoing found by Democrats could be especially powerful.

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FBI stepping up efforts to root out international corruption
Tuesday March 5th, 2019 at 3:28 AM

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WASHINGTON — Aiming to crack down on money laundering and bribes to overseas governments, the FBI is stepping up its efforts to root out foreign corruption with a new squad of agents based in Miami.

The squad will focus its efforts not only on Miami but also in South America, a continent that has been home to some of the Justice Department's most significant international corruption prosecutions of the last several years. The Miami squad joins three others based in the FBI's largest field offices — Washington, New York and Los Angeles.

"We're protecting the rule of law," Leslie Backschies, the chief of the FBI's international corruption unit, said in an interview Monday. "If there's no rule of law, you'll have certain societies where they feel like their governments are so corrupt, they'll go to other elements that are considered fundamental, that they see as clean or something against the corrupt regime, and that becomes a threat to national security."

The unit aims to identify violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law that makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials. The FBI has also been doing outreach to companies in a variety of industries, from oil to pharmaceuticals, to teach them about red flags that could indicate corruption and encourage the companies to "self-report" potentially improper conduct to the bureau.

"One thing when I talk to companies, I'm like, 'When you pay a bribe, do you know where your bribe goes? Is your bribe going to fund terrorism?'" Backschies said.

And so far, the cases the unit has brought have resulted in billions of dollars in settlements.

Last September, for instance, the Brazilian-owned energy company, Petrobras, agreed to pay more than $853 million to resolve investigations into allegations that executives paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to Brazilian politicians and political parties. And in December 2016, the Brazil-based construction conglomerate Odebrecht and another petrochemical company agreed to pay more than $3.5 billion to settle charges they bribed politicians around the world through a web of shell companies and off-the-books transactions.

"We've seen a lot of activity in South America — Odebrecht, Petrobras. South America is a place where ... we've seen corruption. We've had a lot of work there," Backshies said.

"But not just South America. Miami itself, it's an economic center," she added. "It's a big flow of money in and out of Miami. It's a city where we see individuals hiding their money, through shell companies, through real estate, through boating."

More broadly, special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has shone a spotlight on international corruption. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being sentenced Thursday in federal court in Virginia on charges that he evaded taxes on millions of dollars in income received through political consulting on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party, and that he concealed his money in undisclosed foreign bank accounts.

Prosecutors have scored 34 convictions in cases brought by the international corruption unit from 2016 until 2018. The cases are often longer-running and more financially complex than other crimes the FBI investigates.

Agents also have to be conscious of any potential political ramifications because international corruption cases can have widespread effects that influence elections and economies, Backschies said. In addition to regular conversations about cases, FBI supervisors meet with lawyers at the Justice Department in Washington each quarter to review potential prosecutions and the possible consequences.

"These cases are very politically sensitive, not just in the U.S. but overseas," she said. "When you're looking at foreign officials in other governments — I mean, look, in Malaysia, the president wasn't re-elected. We saw presidents toppled in Brazil. These are the results of cases like this. When you're looking at high-level government officials, there's a lot of sensitivities."

The agents are working to ensure there's "a place where business can compete fairly," and in most cases other governments are glad to accept the FBI's help in rooting out corruption, Backschies said.

"You can't just have one agent or two agents in a field office addressing it. ...You can't be working this two hours a week. It's just not going to work. You need full-time dedicated resources," she said.

The unit had been splitting cases involving South American countries between the three other offices before Backschies decided they should refocus their resources and add agents in Miami. The new squad will be comprised of six agents, who will start in their roles later this month, plus a supervisor and a forensic accountant. Unlike other FBI field office squads that focus on violent crime and public corruption and report to local leadership, this one will answer to officials at headquarters in Washington.

"Beverly Hills, New York, Miami — these are cities where we find people hiding their money" in real estate and boating, Backshies said. "They're attractive cities for that."

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Jared Kushner got a clearance, I was denied for blog post about hacking
Tuesday March 5th, 2019 at 3:22 AM

Bonnie Goldstein, Opinion contributor Published 3:00 a.m. ET March 5, 2019

On the surface you wouldn’t think Jared Kushner and I have much in common, but we both have an interest in access to secret information.

As a private eye in the 1970s and 80s, I started tracking down skipped debtors, then performed due diligence employment investigations and finally graduated to high profile corporate accountability cases. In the 1990s I became a congressional investigator — like those working for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform chaired by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Cummings in January launched an investigation into security irregularities in the Trump White House, focused in particular on top-secret clearances for nine current and former high level White House appointees. Kushner is now at the top of the list in light of what Cummings called "grave new reports" that President Donald Trump "may have falsely claimed that he played no role" in the clearance process for his son-in-law and senior White House adviser, a highly leveraged real estate developer whose foreign partners include Saudi Arabia and other countries potentially at odds with U.S. policies and interests.

White House adviser, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP)

Kushner given access despite concerns

When his original security clearance was delayed, Kushner was assigned an interim designationapproved for top-secret access to intelligence reports. The privilege allowed him access to our government’s most sensitive secrets — including his own preview copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing.

Provisional approvals are typically issued to allow appropriately vetted individuals to start a security level job right away while the bureaucratic wheels turn. In the months following Trump’s inauguration, interim approvals were apparently handed out like Halloween candy. NBC recently reported, based on "two sources familiar with the matter," that career bureaucrats recommending against top-secret clearances for inexperienced officials and unsuitable candidates were overruled in “at least 30 cases.”

The indefinite interims came under scrutiny in February 2018 after White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, working on conditional authority, was publicly accused of domestic abuse. The alleged battering had been disclosed to the FBI agents conducting Porter’s background investigation a year before, but Trump’s assistant was nevertheless still privy to the president’s highly classified papers and phone calls.

Trump’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, a retired 4-star Marine general, took considerable heat from the press on whether he had previously known about Porter’s transgressions. Within weeks Kelly revoked or downgraded dozens of the interim clearances, including Kushner’s. The New York Times, citing "four people briefed on the matter," reported last week that in May 2018, three months after the interim clearances were revoked, former White House General Counsel Don McGahn cited CIA concerns and continued to refuse to recommend Kushner for a permanent top secret pass. Trump, with ultimate authority in the decision, directed Kelly to give Jared what he wanted.

I didn't make the cut for far less

Both McGahn and Kelly, perhaps anticipating future requests from Cummings and other authorities, documented their objections in internal memoranda. The president announced McGahn’s departurethree months later and Kelly was gone before the year ended. Kushner is still enjoying his West Wing office.

After many years of vetting others, in 2013 I was finally recruited for a clearance level job by a U.S. agency with most of its focus in the Middle East. I was flattered, but I suggested that a history of substance indiscretion would surely eliminate me in a review. My backers and would-be colleagues assured me such past activity would not be a problem (“they are looking for spies, not pot smokers”).

I filled out the questionnaire, but it was not to be. The week my application file was assigned for clearance, Edward Snowden turned up in Hong Kong fresh off his National Security Agency desk to humiliate the same federal agency that would review my file. They had repeatedly cleared the talented cyber analyst-turned-whistleblower and were suddenly facing finger-pointing from Congress. My interrogators were especially concerned by a blog post I’d written a few years earlier confessing my respect for hackers as a component of transparency. My job offer was regretfully withdrawn.

Bonnie Goldstein is a writer, investigator, mother and wife in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter: @kickedbyanangel

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The cunning media czar Rupert Murdoch is approaching the 87th But still, the man who is selling Walt Disney is a part of his group is still well ahead. And he interferes in politics.

New York - There are moguls, czars, stars in business, politics and show business who are looking for a career. One wonders how they could stay on their chairs for a single day. When media boss Rupert Murdoch , this question has ever made. The Australian, who once built a 21-year-old local news company into a global media news giant, is a cinematic early-period figure, an instinctive pragmatist who gives markets what markets want. Some fear him as a destructive cynic, who buys serious press products and krakeelende rebuilds, on top of that stick-conservative tabloids, which must bring maximum profit.

But meanwhile, Murdoch is approaching his eighty-seventh birthday on March 11, 2018. And for the first time, the large buyers and buyers want to repel a whopping chunk of his company complex, the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox along with a huge film and series rights library and several cable channels and production houses. The contract with Walt Disney is closed , the US approval authorities still have to agree. This can last until the end of 2019.

An old king

Not only the "New York Times" writes about a "King Lear moment" with reference to Shakespeare, as if Murdoch was the old ruler whose empire is breaking up in a hurry, betrayed by their own children and must flee to madness , Signs of madness but you have to look at Murdoch long.

Noch immer denkt er strategisch, noch immer trauert er nicht dem hinterher, was sich seiner Analyse nach überholt hat. Trotzdem glaubt er zur Überraschung manches Konkurrenten noch immer an Nachrichten als profitables Gut in einer Chaoswolke der gratis verschleuderten Informationen. Gerade hat Murdock Facebook ins Visier genommen und verlangt, das soziale Netzwerk möge doch bitte für Nachrichten bezahlen, schließlich trügen die journalistischen Produkte, die über das Netzwerk verteilt werden, erheblich zu dessen Attraktivität und Gewinn bei.

Haftbar für Fake News

Das mag verwegen klingen, vor allem als Antwort auf Facebooks Entscheidung, durch neue Algorithmen die Verbreitung professioneller Nachrichten stark zu drosseln. Aber Murdoch denkt stets voraus. Er sieht in der Politik von Facebook wohl ein Zeichen der Schwäche und der Verunsicherung, den fast panischen Versuch, das Netzwerk aus Debatten über und Haftbarkeit für Fake-News, politische Einflussnahmen und geheimdienstliche Zersetzungskampagnen herauszumanövrieren.

Murdoch rechnet damit, dass ein banalisiertes Facebook in der Konkurrenz zu Instagram, Snapchat und anderen nicht wird punkten können, dass Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg reumütig zu Nachrichten wird zurückkehren müssen. Dann würde er besseres Handwerkszeug brauchen, um Seriöses von Unseriösem zu trennen. Mit anderen Worten: den Content und die Expertise großer Medienhäuser. Für diesen Moment will Murdoch nicht nur News Corp schon mal als Geschäftspartner positionieren, er will mit seinem Vorstoß wohl die ganze Branche wachrütteln. Er hätte gerne eine Allianz der auf Bezahlung bestehenden Contentlieferanten.

Gratisbrühe und rechte Geister

Darum attackiert Murdoch nicht bloß die Abgreifermentalität von Facebook. Er macht Zuckerbergs Netzwerk dafür verantwortlich, dass Wirrkopfseiten, ideologisch verbohrte Propaganda-Apparate und profitorientierte Skandalerfindungs-Scharlatane gefährliche Reichweiten erzielen und von vielen Menschen als Informationsquellen akzeptiert werden. Murdoch will vorbauen, damit Zuckerberg nicht einfach der möglichen Forderung nach einem wieder anschwellenden Nachrichtenstrom mit Gratisbrühe aus zweifelhaften Quellen entgegenkommt. Dass es Murdoch um journalistische Akkuratesse geht, darf bezweifelt werden. Er bekämpft hier die Geister, die er selbst heraufbeschworen hat und die ihm nun den Markt streitig machen.

Die Masche von Fox News

Zum Murdoch-Imperium gehört der TV-Nachrichtensender Fox News, der die politische Landschaft der USA verändert hat. Stramm rechts ausgerichtet, ist er ein Musterbeispiel für Aufbau und Versorgung einer Filterblase. Wer Fox News schaut, hat ein völlig anderes Weltbild als Zuschauer liberalerer Sender. Wobei Fox sich selbst trotz starker Verzerrungen in der Darstellung und heftiger Unwuchten in der Themenauswahl als Hort der Objektivität preist. Breitbart News und andere Hetzorgane des rechten Rands konnten sich an Masche und Erfolg von Fox News dranhängen. Ein normaler TV-Sender präsentierte nun fanatische Verschwörungstheorien als angeblich vernünftige Analysen.

In Großbritannien hatte Murdoch die Printwelt längst erobert, als 2011 ein Skandal seine Macht erschütterte. Illegale Abhöraktionen seiner Boulevardjournalisten, Datendiebstahl und Erpressung kamen ans Licht. Bis heute ist unklar, wer von diesen Methoden wusste, wer wegschaute, wer sie absegnete.

Brüder und Rivalen

Rupert Murdoch und sein Sohn James (45), der damals für die britischen Blätter des Vaters verantwortlich war, kamen mit beschädigtem Ruf davon. Einige Beobachter unterstellten Murdoch, er habe danach die Lust an Zeitungen verloren und auf Entertainment und Bewegtbild gesetzt. Wer den alten Fuchs so emotional deutet, glaubt gewiss, der nun eingefädelte Verkauf von Hollywoodstudio, Streaminganteilen und Kabelsendern sei ein Lear-Moment, Ergebnis der Rivalität zwischen Sohn James, der den Filmbereich übernommen hatte und dem politische Differenzen mit dem Vater nachgesagt werden, und Sohn Lachlan (46), der bereits neben dem Vater an der Konzernspitze regiert.

Klappt die Übernahme der Murdoch-Firmen, wird Disney der potenteste Entertainment-Konzern der Welt. Daraus zu schließen, einem vom Streit der Söhne zermürbten Murdoch seien die Zügel entglitten, ist allerdings verwegen. Denn Murdoch würde durch den Deal zum zweitgrößten Aktienbesitzer des neuen Giganten. Auf dem heftig umkämpften Kino- und Streaming-Feld überließe er die Schlachtplanung anderen und zöge sich zurück auf seine Kernkompetenz.

Golf mit Trump

In support of Fox News and to ward off the competition, he could buy more local TV stations, media houses and successful network magazines and continue to make policy with them. Access to drivers and decisions is important to him. He criticized Donald Trump during the election campaign, today he supports him and plays golf with him. If something about Murdoch has changed, then that's what he used to want to write down black numbers with his news media, and now history as well. And at the age of 86 he plans, as if he wanted to be involved in shaping for a very long time.

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Get ready for 2020, America — according to a new poll, just four in 10 voters say they want six more years of President Donald Trump.

A little more than a year and a half out from the 2020 presidential election, Trump still has strong party loyalty, but voters are already hinting that they prefer a change. According to a new poll released by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, 48 percent of voters say they would rather vote for the Democratic nominee over the current sitting president — while a smaller 41 percent say they’d “definitely” or “likely” reelect Trump.

Trump largely has his base backing him — 88 percent of Republican voters approve of his presidency, and the majority of Americans express confidence in the economy. But compared to recent presidentswho faced reelection, Trump is lagging a little bit behind. Barack Obama earned 45 percent of voters who said they’d back his reelection; George W. Bush held strong with 52 percent at the same point in his presidency. Only Bill Clinton’s prospects were on par: Just 38 percent of voters said in January 1995 that they’d back Clinton, who later went on to win his reelection.

The president is also struggling with major issues, according to the poll, which surveyed 900 respondents between February 24 and 27. Some 58 percent doubt his honesty toward the Russia investigation, while another 60 percent disapprove of his decision to declare a national emergency in order to justify building his border wall.

Democratic voters, for their part, say they’re more willing to support candidates who propose broad changes; 55 percent of primary voters say they prefer nominees with bold ideas, as opposed to 42 percent who value pragmatism with policies that are considered easier to enact.

Trump’s bizarre, rambling CPAC rant is a good indicator of what to expect in 2020

Trump set a high bar for the antics Americans anticipate from him with his freewheeling campaigning style in 2015 and ’16. But if the president’s two-plus-hour rant before the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Conference on Saturday is any indicator, Trump is anxious to return to his off-script roots by going straight to the voters.

On Saturday, he reveled in the glow of his conservative supporters, railing against the “bullshit” investigations dogging his presidency and bringing up old scores with his long list of known political enemies, from former FBI Director James Comey to ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump started off the event by bear-hugging a staff with the American flag, setting the tone for the rest of his appearance — reportedly the longest speech of his presidency.

Reverting to his roots on the campaign trail where speeches would often unravel into winding rants of word association, Trump proudly made clear he wasn’t following some prewritten speech on a teleprompter. And he said one of his few regrets was running too soon with his derogatory nickname of “Pocahontas” for 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

“I should have saved the Pocahontas thing for another year because that destroyed her political career and now I won’t get a chance to run against her,” Trump said. “I don’t want to knock out all of the good stuff and wind up with somebody who’s actually got talent.”

Trump’s digs against his potential presidential challengers weren’t the only thing he said he wished he’d saved for the heat of the horse race — Trump seemed keenly aware that his CPAC speech had the classic markers of a campaign event.

“I’m going to regret this,” he said. “This speech should have been delivered one year from now, not now, damn it.”

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Mr. Nadler did not mention the word impeachment in any of Monday’s documents, but its specter hangs heavily over Democratic leaders as they wade deeper into the president’s circles.

The House Judiciary Committee has been where impeachment proceedings begin. In an interview with The New York Times last week, Mr. Nadler said that he believed Mr. Trump had committed crimes while in office and had threatened basic constitutional norms. But he said he did not yet have the evidence to make the kind of overwhelming, bipartisan case against the president he believes he needs before pursuing a step as disruptive as impeachment.

Monday’s requests could build that case. Twice in the past half century, the House Judiciary Committee has drawn up impeachment articles based, in part, on the same themes that Mr. Nadler laid out: obstruction of justice and abuse of power. There is already evidence in the public of the kind of actions the Judiciary Committee believes could cross those lines, and Mr. Mueller’s investigation could provide more, even if it does not ultimately recommend charging the president.

The politics of impeachment are more fraught. The president and the White House have repeatedly rejected accusations of wrongdoing, arguing that the president is innocent of many accusations and has broad powers in his office to run the government as he chooses. And there have been few cracks among Republican lawmakers, the president’s congressional firewall.

Speaking to reporters at the White House as he welcomed North Dakota State University football team, Mr. Trump signaled that he would cooperate with the inquiry, and repeated that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia.

“It’s a political hoax. There’s no collusion. There’s no anything,” he said.

Republicans in Congress assert that Democrats have already decided to target Mr. Trump for impeachment, saying repeatedly in recent weeks that despite public statements to the contrary, the new majority is determined to kick Mr. Trump out of office.

“We don’t even know what the Mueller report says, but Democrats are already hedging their bets,” said Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the Judiciary Committee’s top Republican. “After recklessly prejudging the president for obstruction, Chairman Nadler is pursuing evidence to back up his conclusion because, as he admits, ‘we don’t have the facts yet.’”

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