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Homicide: Life on the Street

Season 3, Episode 8 - December 16, 1994

All Through the House

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Director - John Carpenter, Cinematography - Gary B. Kibbe

"A master vampire, able to walk in the sunlight, unstoppable. Unless we stop him."

John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)

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Pete Tsipis and Reed McMaster at MMFA:

A Media Matters review of White House press briefings held so far in President Donald Trump’s second administration found that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on right-wing media outlets 41% of the time, and 4 of the 5 reporters called on most were from right-wing outlets. The press briefings now include a “new media” seat which the White House has used to amplify more right-wing voices. While the White House attacks traditional press freedoms, the press briefings are now littered with biased questions from the administration's most staunch supporters. 

Data: Trump's White House elevated conservative media, while snubbing legacy outlets like The New York Times, AP, and public media

Media Matters found that during the 16 press briefings held from January 20 to April 22, the White House called on right-wing outlets 41% of the time (110 out of 267). Leavitt gave the remaining opportunities to ask questions to non-ideological (52%, or 139 times) and foreign (7%, or 18 times) outlets. Reporters at right-wing outlets also made up 4 out of 5 of the reporters called on most. While CBS News' Jennifer Jacobs was called on the most, with 10 occasions, all the other reporters in the top 5 were from conservative outlets. The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese was called on 9 times, while Fox News’ Peter Doocy, The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan, and the New York Post’s Diana Glebova were each given 8 chances to ask questions.

The conservative media outlets White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on most were Fox News (15), the New York Post (12), The Daily Caller (10), The Daily Wire (8), and Newsmax (7). Among nonideological media, Leavitt called on CBS News (19), CNN (14) , ABC News (13) , NBC News (11), and Bloomberg (9) most.

The White House elevated smaller, far-right media over many established outlets, calling on One America News (5 times) and The Gateway Pundit (5) more than The Washington Post (4) and The Associated Press (3). As the Trump administration works to cut federal funding from public broadcasters PBS and NPR, Leavitt has boxed them out, having called on a journalist from each network only 1 time.

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The Trump administration has elevated right-wing voices while cutting traditional press freedoms

The administration has moved to limit the press access of outlets Trump disagrees with while amplifying right-wing outlets. It barred entry to The Associated Press when the news wire refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” relenting only after a court order — and only partially. It established a “new media” seat in the press briefing room, whose occupant gets to ask the first question at briefings; it has been populated by both new media ventures and established right-wing media, including Breitbart and The Daily Wire. The White House has also wrested control of the press pool — the reporters assigned to follow Trump and share information with other outlets — away from the White House Correspondents' Association and used that control to cut out newswires, another blow to the AP. This eliminates direct access for hundreds of outlets, including local news, that rely on newswires. And now the Trump administration is threatening to change the seating chart in the briefing room, which currently gives the front two rows to major broadcast networks and papers, including CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Press briefings under the 2nd Trump Administration, led by Karoline Leavitt, favored right-wing outlets and commentators in being picked to ask questions.

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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, German lobby card, German theatrical release 1994

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Vampires (1998, dir. John Carpenter)

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Attack of the 50 ft. Woman (1993)

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'Homicide: Life on the Street' Commentary on 'A Shot in the Dark'

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Daniel, you weren't sober? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Daniel Baldwin played basketball one-on-one with Charles Barkley. It didn't go well, but at least Danny is a better golfer.

It's good to know that Richard Belzer was always kind and generous to Reed.

Not so nice to Reed: the over-enthusiastic Hungarian actor in Reed's vampire movie (The Breed, 2001) who bit Reed on the neck for real.

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Mulholland Falls (1996) Lee Tamahori

July 23rd 2023

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Ian Ward at Politico:

As she left the James S. Brady Briefing Room in early April, Natalie Winters, the newly minted White House correspondent for Steve Bannon’s War Room, tried to describe the relationship between the White House press corps’ old guard and the “new conservative media” who’ve entered the briefing room in the early days of the second Trump administration. “You know when you’re at a party and you see someone who you don’t technically know, but you know them like through a friend from social media, and it’s that awkward question of, like, ‘Do I say hi or do I not?’” Winters told me. “It’s a room full of that, except you know the people because you bash them on TV.” Not that she particularly minds the confrontation. Since securing credentials to cover White House events in January, Winters has distinguished herself as the enfant terrible of the “new media” set, the collection of non-traditional — and mostly MAGA-aligned — outlets that the Trump administration has welcomed to the White House as part of its campaign shake up the briefing room. “We’re the rising power,” Winters said.

Most of the members of the new media have adopted Trump’s hostile relationship to the mainstream media, but Winters goes further than most in her animosity: She has accused other White House reporters of taking part in “CIA psy-ops,” and she believes the liberal media is actively fomenting a “color revolution” against Trump. “They can criticize what we’re doing [at War Room] as, like, state regime propaganda or whatever,” she said as we walked along the National Mall. “But at the end of the day, I’m like, ‘Who’s running cover for the state?’”

Winters’ ire isn’t reserved just for what she views as the liberal parts of the media. “I think the fact that we’re there is almost more of an offense or an affront to [an outlet] like Fox,” she told me as we walked by Peter Doocy, the network’s White House reporter, “because it sort of shows that, like, the base was not appeased.”

The administration’s embrace of alternative conservative outlets continues a pattern from Trump’s first term, but the divide between the MAGA-friendly media and their more mainstream counterparts has become visible in the briefing room in a way it wasn’t before. Without dedicated seats of their own, a group of about a dozen new media reporters have taken to gathering in the “conservative corner” — as some reporters call it — along the far wall of the briefing room, near the “new media seat” that Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has set aside for a rotating cast of alternative outlets and conservative influencers.

The occupants of the conservative corner cut a sharp contrast to their seated colleagues: Many of the reporters in the gaggle are younger than the average White House correspondent, and a handful of them tote around hand-held cameras or other DIY live-streaming equipment. Their fashion choices — flashy ties and steep high heels — stand out in the sea of grey suits and sensible flats. They chatter like old friends (which many of them are from prior reporting gigs) or even romantic partners (which at least two of them are). “It’s a little bit of a who’s who of my friends in the conservative ecosystem that have suddenly popped up in the White House,” said Mary Margaret Olohan, the White House correspondent for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. Despite their shared sense of opposition to the media mainstream, not all the conservative outlets in the briefing room see eye-to-eye politically: “It’s a broad and diverse group, so not everyone is ideologically aligned,” said Olohan. The competitive nature of the White House beat — and the cramped layout of the briefing room — has also led to some minor kerfuffles among the new media cohort. “There’s a lot of the petty stuff of people being like, ‘When you raised your hand, you blocked my face!’” said Winters.

Their exile to the aisles may soon be over, though. In late March, reports started to trickle out that the White House is formulating plans to take control of the briefing room seating chart from the White House Correspondents Association, a move that many new media members are hoping could land them actual seats. The news had Winters dreaming of more fundamental changes to the briefing room: “Get some Serena and Lily in there, some Restoration Hardware cloud couches, some more pink, some rose gold accents,” she said. “Steve Bannon’s there, front row.” But any changes to the seating chart will merely be symbolic of the deeper shifts in the media dynamics in Trump’s Washington, where the mainstream press is fighting for viewers and relevance while the alternative conservative media steadily expands its audience — and basks in the warm glow of Trump’s affection. “In some ways, the revulsion to the new media people being there [stems from the] fact that we’re like a mirror,” said Winters, “a reflection of the fact that they’re dying.”

Brian Glenn

Real America’s Voice

Chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn was something of a MAGA celebrity even before he called out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit to the White House during the question-and-answer portion of a tense Oval Office meeting in March. But his public needling of the Ukrainian leader instantly raised his stock on the right. [...] The episode was representative of the role that Glenn has played in the MAGA media ecosystem, first as a host for the conservative media company Right Side Broadcasting Network and now as the face of Real America’s Voice, which airs on the right-leaning streaming site Rumble. Glenn, 55, exudes the puckishness of an overgrown frat boy, a reputation that’s been bolstered by his long-term romance with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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Cara Castronuova

Lindell TV

Yes, the “MyPillow guy” Mike Lindell has his own TV network — and it’s credentialed at Trump’s White House. But its White House correspondent, Cara Castronuova, might have an even more colorful background than Lindell: After studying journalism in college, Castronuova became a championship boxer and boxing announcer, which she parlayed into a career as a celebrity fitness trainer, including on the NBC reality show Biggest Loser. She has also worked as a stuntwoman and stunt coordinator and voiced characters for the popular video game Grand Theft Auto, according to her IMBd page. Castronuova, 45, decided to turn to political commentary during the pandemic, and she helped organize the “Justice for J6” rally in September 2021 calling for the release of people arrested for participating in the Jan. 6 riots. In late 2024, she was hired by Lindell TV, which Lindell founded last year to cover “election integrity issues.” (Lindell played a major role in spreading false claims about election fraud in 2020 and was subsequently sued by two voting machine companies. The cases are ongoing.)

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Mary Margaret Olohan

The Daily Wire

The Daily Wire has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the conservative media boom, buoyed by the enduring popularity of its founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, whose podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, continues to rake in over 7 million subscribers on YouTube. At the White House, the digital outlet has trained its coverage on the kind of conservative culture-war issues that Shapiro and the Wire’s other big-name hosts have become famous for railing against. [...]

Daniel Baldwin

One America News (OAN)

Trump started praising OAN late in his first term, as his relationship with Fox News began to sour. But the president’s soft spot for the network has seemingly continued into his second term, even as he has mended his relationship with Fox. Its White House correspondent, Daniel Baldwin, operates out of a much-coveted tent on the North Lawn, and its correspondents were recently given a workspace at the Pentagon. The network’s coverage of the White House predates Trump, dating back to OAN’s founding in 2013, but its unapologetically pro-Trump sensibility is right at home in the “new media” ecosystem.

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Monica Paige Luisi

Turning Point USA

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA made headlines during the last election cycle for its sprawling get-out-the-vote effort in key swing states, and the organization’s media arm has been rewarded with a coveted spot in the briefing room to cover Trump. The group’s White House correspondent, Monica Paige Luisi, is an alum of OAN and Newsmax who said she’s especially focused on covering the economic issues that matter to TPUSA’s college-aged audience: “College-age students who are looking ahead to their futures and really want to know, Will I be able to afford a home when I graduate college?” she told me. In response to Trump’s recent tariff announcement, for instance, she posted a meme on X with the caption, “yay ❤️.”

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Matt Boyle

Breitbart

Breitbart isn’t exactly new, having been on the White House beat since its erstwhile leader, Steve Bannon, became the chief ideologue behind Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. But after falling on hard times following Bannon’s ouster from the White House in 2017, Breitbart is back in a big way under the second Trump administration. The website’s White House correspondent, Nick Gilbertson, is a staple of the briefing room, and its Washington bureau chief, Matt Boyle, is the administration’s go-to reporter for chummy on-the-record interviews with Cabinet-level officials — which Breitbart often publishes as straight write-ups with minimal editorializing.

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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

The Daily Signal

Founded in 2014 as the in-house publication of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, The Daily Signal spun off as an independent publication in 2024. Still, the outlet’s coverage reflects the ideological sensibility of the Heritage Foundation under its current president, Kevin Roberts, who has moved away from Heritage’s traditional commitment to small-government, free-market conservatism in favor of a kind of MAGA-lite populism. The outlet’s White House correspondent, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, is a former Fox News intern and graduate of the conservative liberal arts mecca Hillsdale College.

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Natalie Winters

War Room

Steve Bannon’s internet show has extended its reach from Rumble into the briefing room, led by the 24-year-old Winters. She started co-hosting War Room while Bannon was in prison in 2024 for defying a Congressional subpoena, and has since become the polarizing face of the new conservative media set, thanks in large part to her edgy online persona and flashy wardrobe: In January, Winters kicked off a transparently sexist tabloid fury after she showed up to a White House briefing wearing a somewhat coquettish shirt-and-sweater combo.

Politico reports on 8 MAGA media influencers who show up to the White House Press Briefings under Karoline Leavitt. Those 8 rotate for spots in the “new media” seat(s).

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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, German lobby card, German theatrical release 1994

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Vampires (1998)

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Dopo aver fatto diversi articoli sull’animazione e la Disney, siamo tornati a parlare di live-action e questa volta l’abbiamo fatto con uno dei registi europei che nell’ultimo periodo si è dimostrato veramente abile. Il film in questione è Inexorable. La storia parla di Marcel, uno scrittore divenuto famoso dopo aver pubblicato il suo primo libro,…