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Politico corrects story on Susie Wiles after White House threatens 'consequences'

Politico issued a correction late Wednesday to a story it published about White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and the backstory on what led to ousted press secretary Katie Zacharia's firing last week. The outlet originally reported that Wiles helped set up interviews for Zacharia on Fox News, a widely panned series of media...

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Trump’s ‘desperate’ reality-TV playbook is backfiring ahead of midterms: TV criticDonald Trump is reaching for increasingly desperate television-style gimmicks to keep voters watching — but the backlash is exposing the limits of his showmanship, a veteran TV critic argued. Writing Thursday for Talking Points Memo , media columnist Brian Lowry compared Trump’s presidency to “an aging reality show” struggling to hold its audience with…

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