Donald Trump

He’s not unprecedented. He’s not going to change. And 11 other lessons the media still haven’t learned about the president.

Inside the new power dynamics roiling Fox, Breitbart and the Wall Street Journal. Conservative media have been increasingly pulled by a tractor beam that demands positive coverage of the president regardless of how far he wanders from the ideas they once enforced.

The president puts on a big show of assaulting his “opposition” in the news media. But inside the White House, it’s a different story. The Trump White House has turned into a kind of playground for the press. Politico interviewed more than three dozen members of the White House press corps, along with White House staff and outside allies, about the first whirlwind weeks of Trump’s presidency. Rather than a historically toxic relationship, they described a historic gap between the public perception and the private reality.

The Federal Trade Commission says it’s getting to work cutting down its regulatory footprint in line with President Trump’s agenda. Earlier this year, President Trump directed all executive branch agencies to eliminate two regulations for every new one created. The FTC as an independent agency not covered by the executive order, but Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen said she welcomed the president’s directive.

President Trump late Sunday slammed the media over its coverage of the Kansas congressional race. “The recent Kansas election (Congress) was a really big media event, until the Republicans won,” the president tweeted. “Now they play the same game with Georgia-BAD!”

Journalists and open-government advocates derided the Trump administration’s decision last week not to release visitor logs to the White House, in a break with policy established by the Obama administration.

Daily Show‘s Hasan Minhaj, the evening’s entertainer, has a history of mocking the president, who is boycotting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Now, Minhaj will face one of the most politically freighted gigs of his career, delivering what has traditionally been a barb-filled performance, with the president as a major target, to a dinner that Trump is boycotting because of tension with the media.

Andrea Mitchell has covered seven White Houses. Then came Trump. “I’ve never seen anything like this.” The White House staff, she says, uses the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine and the president and secretary of state outright attempt to undermine the ability of reporters to do their job.

Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create.

The bill scraps an FCC online privacy regulation issued in October to give consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share that information. Critics have argued that the rule would stifle innovation and pick winners and losers among internet companies.

David Zurawik: “A lot of things puzzle me about the presidency of Donald Trump. But none quite so much as how he went from being one of the most effective media candidates in modern history to one of the most inept media presidents.”

President Trump on Saturday swiped at NBC News personality Chuck Todd over his opinions on White House’s possible ties to Russia. “When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?” Trump wrote.

Major pieces of President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda have been held up, but for technology and communications policy, his approach is making big inroads. The rapid upheaval may be due to Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s long familiarity with the agency, where he has been a commissioner for five years, as well as the strong backing by the industry’s biggest players.

President Donald Trump plans to sign a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules as a bigger fight looms over rules governing the openness of the internet, the White House said on Wednesday. Republicans in Congress on Tuesday narrowly passed the repeal of the privacy rules with no Democratic support and over the strong objections of privacy advocates.

In another Twitter attack on The New York Times, President Donald Trump today floated whether the U.S. should change its libel laws, a threat he made as a candidate that worried First Amendment advocates and could exacerbate tensions between his administration and the press.

Univision CEO Randy Falco reveals his plans to reverse his network’s ratings slide how the Spanish-language broadcaster is moving forward in its coverage of the president (“without fear or favor”).

With President Donald Trump trying to find his footing after his failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a group of wealthy backers is launching a 10-state media blitz to pressure Democratic senators to support him — or at least think twice about piling on. Making America Great, a nonprofit run by Rebekah Mercer, one of Trump’s most influential donors, will begin airing $1 million in TV ads today, coupled with a $300,000 digital campaign.

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican President Donald Trump’s lawyers say he’s immune while president from defamation claims brought by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” who […]

Working with Data Refuge, an organization set up to preserve climate and environmental data, Investigative Reporters and Editors has compiled an index of more than 100 datasets gathered by the likes of NASA, the Department of Energy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s not just the fear of things that are online disappearing,” Minshew said. “There’s also the fear that funding for data collection and hosting of data by the government will disappear in the near future.”

The president’s view on the $85.4 billion merger has been quite un-Republican-like, and he wants to keep his campaign promise, which would mean intervening (and stifling CNN nemesis Jeff Zucker).

Much of conservative media rallied behind Donald Trump in 2016. Now that he’s struggling to live up to some of his promises as president, the relationship is fast becoming more complicated.

Commercial prices for Saturday Night Live and Rachel Maddow have soared right along with their audiences. But also seeing a surge in advertising demand is his favorite network, Fox News.

President Trump must fill two vacant seats on the FCC, an important decision that could set the tone for his administration’s policies on tech companies. FCC watchers believe the Democratic spot will likely be filled by former Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. For the Republican seat, Trump has not yet tipped his hand, but there is growing speculation over who could be on his shortlist. Among them: Michelle Connolly, Patricia Paoletta, Roslyn Layton and Ben Moncrief.

On Saturday, President Trump tweeted to his 27 million followers a tune-in for Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show Justice With Judge Jeanine, writing, “Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.” Just hours later, Pirro opened her show with a blistering segment calling for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to resign.

President Donald Trump labeled reports from two of the major broadcast TV networks on alleged ties between individuals linked to his campaign and the Russian government as “totally biased and fake news” Thursday morning, continuing his tirade against allegations that his election team colluded with the Kremlin.

The Block Communications-owned Fox affil in Louisville, Ky.,  announced on air Monday that the White House made it clear prior to an interview that President Donald Trump wouldn’t answer questions on Russia or wiretapping.

Outside pressure groups are flocking to the West Palm Beach, Fla.,  media market (DMA 38) for narrow, cheap television campaigns on weekends when President Trump calls it home. The budgets are small, but the buys are a reminder of the unusual efforts being undertaken just to convince one particularly avid television watcher. When he’s back up the north, the ads vanish.

President Trump has some harsh words for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Saturday Night Live’s Alec Baldwin and CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker during an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters that will air on Saturday night.

President Trump must fill three vacant commissioner seats and decide on a chairman — moves that Republicans hope could push the regulatory agency in a business-friendly direction.

At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites. The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat.

The Trump era has opened with the promise of a White House foothold for media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch has told close associates that the nation’s 45th president calls to confer frequently — as often as multiple times a week — and that he has visited the White House to meet with Trump more than once.

Citing the Freedom of Information Act, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is asking for details on the March 6 meeting between FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and President Trump. A quick response is merited, it says.

Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson will interview President Donald Trump in what’s being billed as “a wide-ranging conversation” that will air during Wednesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson’s first one-on-one sit-down with Trump since Election Day will occur in Detroit.

At a Senate hearing, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had an opportunity to repudiate Trump’s assertion that CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC are “the enemy of the American people” and, by doing so, declare the FCC’s independence from White House. He didn’t take it, choosing instead to retreat behind a First Amendment platitude.

With Twitter app at the ready, the man who condemns the media as “the enemy of the people” may be the most voracious consumer of news in modern presidential history.  No recent president has been so public about his interest in his media coverage, nor seemed so willing to mobilize the powers of the federal government based on a media report that he has just read, heard or watched.

“I don’t believe my membership in that group in any way endorses or supports any specific policy of the president or his administration,” Disney CEO Bob Iger told shareholders.

NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said on Tuesday that the president’s attacks on some media outlets won’t deter his organization from doing its job. NBC News was one of the organizations specifically cited by Trump last month in his tweet about the “fake news” media that is the “enemy of the American people.” Said Lack: “We’re not the opposition party and we’re not in a popularity contest with this administration or any other administration.”

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was renominated by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Republican lawyer, Pai has served on the commission since 2012 and been its chairman since January. He would need to leave at the end of this year unless confirmed for another term. His nomination was sent Tuesday to the Senate, a day after Pai met with Trump in the White House.