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The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C. has been in a bit of nostalgic mode. At the DC/DOX Festival, directors Debra McClutchy and Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitc…

NBC News is taking heat for its decision to schedule a town hall on Thursday evening with President Donald Trump that will compete head-to-head with ABC News’ event with Joe Biden. On Thursday, more than 100 actors, writers, directors and producers sent a letter to top Comcast and NBC officials asking them to shift…

"We must never manipulate or invent; we must never knowingly deceive," Fox News Channel's Shep Smith cautioned Wednesday night as he picked up a First Amendment Award at the Radio Television Digital News Foundation’s First Amendment Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. Speaking to a crowd that feels more comfortable…

Famed Washington Post Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein tore into the Fourth Estate falling for Trump's dueling memos distraction. “It’s a sideshow, playing right into Donald Trump’s hands,” Bernstein warned today on CNN of POTUS’s distraction: Devin Nunes vs Adam Schiff memos. “Trump wants to turn this into a Dems…

UPDATE with video Bill Maher didn’t exactly go easy on his pal Al Franken tonight, spending much of the opening monologue and a big chunk of Real Time’s season finale tossing joke grenades at the Minnesota senator. But the HBO host drew a hard line between the former Saturday Night Live staffer and the ever-growing…

Four of the most pedigreed reporters on the politics beat managed to find some rays of hope in the current moment of White House media coverage during a vigorous and wide-ranging panel discussion at the New Yorker Festival. For starters, “Thank God we have his tweets,” exclaimed Carl Bernstein. “It’s like a road map…

CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter began this morning’s program with a heads-up – “This was not a normal week so this is not a normal show” – before raising questions he conceded were usually posed off the air: Is Donald Trump a racist? Ill? Unfit to serve? Though Stelter’s questions – posed to a panel…

GOP candidate Ted Cruz made a play to insert himself into the cable news cycle today, announcing former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate the morning after Donald Trump swept all five states holding primaries in this week’s Super Tuesday. “And then everybody’s going to play back Carly Fiorina…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road just got this testimonial for Spotlight from Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward led the Washington Post investigation that traced the Watergate burglary all the way to the Nixon White House and was immortalized in All The President’s Men. They’d been trying to get him to see the movie, and…