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Elan Media has announced the launch of Elan Live, a digital control centre. Described as the first facility of its kind in Qatar, Elan Live is a control suite from where Elan Media will control content delivery to all 242 digital screens operating at the Mall of Qatar, Doha Festival City and Ezdan Mall, the company has said in a press statement. The launch of Elan Live reflects Elan Groups overall commitment to innovation, bringing new communication solutions that will increase engagement between brands and audiences. Elan Live opens up a multitude of special executions for brands that want to reach their audience in the most creative and synchronised fashion, delivering tailor-made solutions in a manner not seen before in Qatar, the statement said. The new facility will allow advertisers the flexibility to run time of day, day of week, and geo-located campaigns across all three malls simultaneously, individually or customised to an advertisers specific requirements. Advertising can be programmed to run on one screen once or all of the screens all of the time. With three large screens, including two digital MUPIs similar to those available in the malls, Elan Live also provides advertisers with the opportunity to watch a real-time preview of their campaigns before they go live, giving them full control over their communication. Elan Media COO Jamie Ball said: We are extremely proud that Mall of Qatar, Doha Festival City and Ezdan Mall have chosen us to be their exclusive media partners. The launch of Elan Live is another show of our commitment to deliver the best advertising experience to our audiences, our clients and our partners. Elan Live will create a new dynamic and ensure that advertising on the Elan digital OOH networks will work harder and smarter for brands, enabling them to deliver exactly the right marketing message to the right people at the right time.

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Elan Media formally launches digital control centre - Gulf Times

The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The author works for the podcast.

Jeffrey Goldberg, veteran Washington correspondent and editor in chief of The Atlantic, says the reporters who cover the Trump administration should not be distracted from their duties by a hostile White House.

"To me, it's all about journalistic composure," Goldberg told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN. Goldberg spoke last week before the White House press secretary took the unprecedented step of blocking several news outlets, including CNN, from attending an off-camera press briefing.

"We're not supposed to be the resistance. We're not supposed to be the opposition," Goldberg added. "We're supposed to tell the truth about what's happening in any given moment and in any given place. And let's just do that."

Reflecting on the toxic relationship between the White House and the reporters who cover it, Goldberg cautioned, "The danger is that (journalists) spin ourselves out of control out of anxiety or fear or whatever you want to call it," he said. "But all that this moment requires is a doubling down of our basic commitment to a fact-based discourse."

Just days after the conversation with Goldberg took place, Trump continued his strategy of portraying the media as opposition with the news media during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in which he suggested media outlets rely on fabricated sources.

"A few days ago, I called the fake news 'the enemy of the people,' and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources. They just make them up when there are none," the President said.

Goldberg, a prominent foreign affairs analyst, also commented on Trump's debut on the global stagefrom the consequences of Trump's decision to withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade agreement, to what the new dynamics of the U.S.-Israel alliance could mean for Middle East peace. He warned that the President's impulsive instincts and inflammatory rhetoric could risk hurtling the country toward an international crisis.

"My first instinct is to say that (Trump's foreign policy) is heading towards some kind of disaster," he said, arguing that Trump doesn't give appropriate forethought to the decisions he's making as President.

Goldberg continued, "I'm afraid that we're heading into a situation in which there will be a provocation, there will be an attack that is going to cause an over-response, that is going to make the terrorism problem worse, not better."

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Editor cautions journalists: Don't 'spin out of control' about Trump's media attacks - CNN

Where is Melissa McCarthy when you need her??

Sean Spicer is completely losing control of the White House, and an incredible new report in POLITICO details exactly how bad Sean's been at his communications job of late.

Related: Trump's Approval Ratings Hit Record Low! Sad!

According to the political news outlet, Spicer held an "emergency" meeting with the entire White House communications staff last week only the meeting wasn't about anything.

Instead, it was a ruse to get every single staffer in a room, take their government-issued and personal cell phones, and look through all the devices to try to figure out who is leaking so much administration info to the press.

He admonished the group of staffers about leaks, after which that meeting immediately leaked out to POLITICO, and now we're reporting on it!

LOLz!!

Spicey has lost control of his team!!!

Related: Bernie Sanders 1, Donald Trump 0

Here's how it all went down, according to the news outlet's leaked source info:

"Upon entering Spicer's office for what one person briefed on the gathering described as 'an emergency meeting,' staffers were told to dump their phones on a table for a 'phone check,' to prove they had nothing to hide. Spicer, who consulted with White House counsel Don McGahn before calling the meeting, was accompanied by White House lawyers in the room, according to multiple sources. There, he explicitly warned staffers that using texting apps like Confide an encrypted and screenshot-protected messaging app that automatically deletes texts after they are sent and Signal, another encrypted messaging system, was a violation of the Presidential Records Act, according to multiple sources in the room. The phone checks included whatever electronics staffers were carrying when they were summoned to the unexpected follow-up meeting, including government-issued and personal cellphones."

This administration is horrified and running scared because their own staffers don't believe the bullshit and misdirection they constantly spew.

At some point here, heads have to roll.

It's becoming abundantly clear that Spicer has not only lost control of his communications staff, but the administration as a whole can't plug leaks coming out of staffers from all corners who recognize Donald Trump's gross incompetence and repeated problems.

Read the whole report about leaks and emergency 'meetings' HERE.

Surely, The Donald can't be happy about Spicer's inability to lead his staff!

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In an offhand comment Wednesday on Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski said that it was the medias job to control exactly what people think. The comments are being spread as an example of the hubris and arrogance of the mainstream media.

Joe Scarborough was talking about how the media was overreacting to Trumps actions, and how Trump supporters mock them. They go yeah you guys are going crazy,' he said, what are you so surprised about? Hes doing exactly what he said hes going to do.

Well, and I think the dangerous edges here, Brzezinski added, are that he is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts.

And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he could actually control exactly what people think and that is our job.

Presumably by our she is referring to members of the mainstream media.

President Trump has made the media and their alleged bias the focus of his campaign and now presidency as he discovers new reasons to bash them on his Twitter account and in every manner available to him. The media has fired back and challenged him and his allies, sometimes blurring the line between traditional journalism, and partisan activism.

Trump has been especially outspoken against CNN since they reported on supposed damaging information the Russians had on the president, something that the administration has denied strenuously. The mainstream media has pounced on any instance of misleading information from the administration, while Trump has angrily denounced any hint of fake news from the media.

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MSNBC host says it's the media's job to 'control exactly what people think,' not Trump's - TheBlaze.com

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Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story. New York Times Now, Ms. Stasi said, he is shocked that he is not in control of the press. Attacking the news media, which has an abysmal approval rating among Republican voters, is sound politics in the short term. But Mr. Trump's fury is less strategic than heartfelt. and more »

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Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story. - New York Times