There was something poetic about the news of Roger Ailes's departure from Fox News breaking hours before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination. No presidential candidate has demonstrated the power of television and celebrity more than Trump, and no one did more to fuse GOP politics with TV and show business than Ailes.
Speculation about the Republican National Convention centered on two things: Whether Donald Trump would bring his reality-TV-honed media savvy to the proceedings; and how the nominee would fare wedding his improvisational speaking style to the strictures of this sort of carefully programmed event.
The Donald Trump campaign has invited a Washington Post photographer to a campaign event on Friday morning, at least temporarily lifting the ban on the paper that he put into place more than five weeks ago.
Meredith McIver, one of Donald Trump's most prolific collaborators, is now embroiled in the biggest controversy at this week's Republican National Convention.
Medium, the digital publishing start-up led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is about to add the largest website yet to its growing portfolio when the liberal advocacy site ThinkProgress migrates over next month.
The ousting of Roger Ailes, which now seems almost certainly imminent, is nothing short of a seismic event in both the media world and the conservative movement in America.