Comey Gets Dragged Off Overbooked Flight on Latest New Yorker Cover
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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Friday, May 12:
Dear reader, are you OK? Did this week almost break you? (Because it almost broke me.) Anyway, let’s get started …
1. “President Shifts Rationale for Firing F.B.I. Director, Calling Him a ‘Showboat.'” That’s the big headline atop the front page of The New York Times this morning, which quotes from Lester Holt’s NBC News interview with Trump. The Times also adds to the unraveling White House narrative with its own report by Michael S. Schmidt, which the paper sent out as a “breaking news” alert (it arrived in my inbox at 8:37 p.m. ET last night) titled “President Trump pressed James Comey for loyalty at a private dinner in January. The F.B.I. director promised only ‘honesty'” (the alert linked to a story headlined “In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred”).
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