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Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Tuesday, April 25:

1. So maybe the government won’t shut down after all? “Republicans had been caught in one of their biggest dilemmas of the year: Whether to cross President Donald Trump and ignore his demand for border wall funding or join him and invite a government shutdown while the GOP controls all of Washington,” Politico’s Burgess Everett writes. “But then Trump gave GOP lawmakers an escape hatch, telling conservative journalists at a White House reception Monday evening that he would be comfortable delaying a fight over the wall until September.” Side note: Speaking of Politico, “Patrick Steel, an investment banker for the past 16 years at the firm of FBR Capital Markets & Co., has been named Politico’s next CEO,” per Politico.

2. “Breitbart Has Been Denied Permanent Congressional Press Credentials,” per BuzzFeed News. Meanwhile, over on the Breitbart home page this morning: “Far-Left Voters More Likely to Share Their Wives, Right Wingers More Sexually Dominant, Claims Study.”

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