Oliver Darcy here at 11:45pm ET Monday, unfortunately writing to you after another mass shooting in America...

In less than a week, the national news media is again reporting on a mass shooting. This time, the scene is in Boulder, Colorado, where police say 10 people have been killed, including a police officer, after a gunman opened fire at a grocery store.

"It is truly awful," Don Lemon said. "Quite frankly, it is sickening that we have to deal with these shootings on what is becoming a regular basis."

Fox shows its true colors

I said the national news media was covering the mass shooting. That didn’t include Fox, which largely turned a blind eye to the horrific violence Monday night. The channel demonstrated clearly — for everyone to see once and for all — that it is primarily a right-wing talk channel, not a cable news network.

While CNN and MSNBC aired the press conferences from Boulder police, which any TV news professional with half-decent editorial judgement would do, Fox opted to stick with regular programming from its propagandists. During the first press conference, the network aired Sean Hannity showing footage of Biden stumbling on the stairs of Air Force One last week. And as Boulder police announced that 10 people had lost their lives, Laura Ingraham chatted with Dr. Scott Atlas about "THE SOCIAL DISTANCING FARCE."

This is not the behavior of a news organization. It's the behavior of a right-wing talk channel. And it's really time for other media outlets to recognize this and stop pretending the channel's primary aim is to deliver the news. Failure to call the network for what it is not only does a disservice to readers, it is simply inaccurate.

Part of the shooting was livestreamed by witness

Some of the video that aired on cable news came from a livestream taken by an eyewitness at the scene. It "appeared to show motionless individuals on the ground inside and outside the store, and purported gunshots are heard," CNN's team reported. "The video, taken by Dean Schiller, is part of a longer livestream that he showed as the shooting progressed, and police arrived. In the excerpt, Schiller is heard calling out saying that people need to call 911..."

What we don't know

>> Police have not yet named a suspect, though they have said one is in custody.

>> A motive is still unknown.

>> Police have ID'd the officer killed as Eric Talley, who was first to respond on the scene. But other victims have not been identified.

Next press briefing: Tuesday morning

The next briefing from Boulder police will occur Tuesday morning, Boulder Police Department Commander Kerry Yamaguchi said...

FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE

-- "The attack was the seventh mass killing this year in the U.S., following the March 16 shooting that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University..." (AP)

-- Rachel Maddow spoke with Anna Haynes, a student journalist for the CU Independent who said she witnessed the shooting: "We initially heard what sounded like maybe fireworks or a car engine failing, but then the sounds kept going and they were gunshots. So I looked outside my window, and I saw two things. I saw a body in the middle of the parking lot that I later realized was a dead body because they brought a body bag, and then I saw the shooter. He had the rifle. He was firing at somebody..."

-- "Today, I worked on a segment about one mass shooting that had to be postponed due to breaking news on another mass shooting," CNN's Kim Berryman tweeted. "At one point, I said to a friend 'I'm not sure if this will air since we are in a different shooting now...' This is not okay..." (Twitter)

-- "I've been a reporter in Colorado for 11 years (including four in college) and this is at least the fifth shooting I've covered where more than four people have been shot," Coloardo Sun reporter Jesse Paul tweeted... (Twitter)

Trump is on the phone and on the attack

Brian Stelter writes: "A long interview with Fox's Harris Faulkner. An even longer podcast with Lisa Boothe. And a dinnertime phone call with Newsmax's Greg Kelly. Former President Donald Trump was audible, though not visible, all day long on Monday — attacking President Biden and promoting himself. His unwillingness, or inability, to lay low is exactly what many Trump observers expected, but a stark departure from the behavior of other ex-presidents. 'The code of the presidents club is to get out of the way and let the new commander in chief have a year or two,' Douglas Brinkley told me. But Trump is so narcissistic that 'he cannot accept to be out of the spotlight for a day.'"

>> Stelter adds: "The last president who failed to win a second term, George H.W. Bush, 'made clear that he expected to retire from public life,' according to Tim Naftali's biography of Bush. Bush told his successor, Bill Clinton, in November 1992 that 'when I leave here, you're going to have no trouble from me.' Biden is having nothing but trouble from Trump." Read on...

"Picked up"

Trump told Boothe that he believes his emailed statements are "much more elegant than a tweet, and I think it gets picked up better." Of course, "picked up" was the key phrase. The need for pickup — meaning attention from the American news media — is at the heart of Trump's post-presidential behavior.

"I like this better than Twitter," Trump claimed to Kelly. "Actually they did us a favor. This is better." Sure. He also hedged the recent talk about a Trumpy new social platform, saying that "something will happen with social media if I want it to happen."

At the end of the interview, Kelly looked starstruck. "Very cool," he said, "the president of the United States," forgetting to call Trump the "former" prez...

Faulkner's serious error during Trump interview

Fox anchor Harris Faulkner made a serious and bizarre error on Monday -- interrupting a live phone interview with Trump to wrongly report that DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had resigned. "I want to get to this because it just happened now," Faulkner told Trump as he attacked the Biden admin over the situation at the US-Mexico border. "I want to double-check this with our producers. The DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has resigned, Mr. President."

Trump, who attacked Mayorkas as "pathetic" and "clueless" in a statement Sunday, briefly celebrated, saying it was a "big victory for our country." But then Faulkner issued a retraction. "Hold on. Let me stop, let me stop. Let me listen to my team one more time," Faulkner said. "Forgive me. Forgive me. That has not happened but -- I apologize." More in my story here...

>> Brian Stelter adds: "When you're the anchor, live on the air, you're responsible. Period. If a producer says something strange in your ear during a big interview, you don't just blurt it out. You look down at your laptop, find the statement or news alert, digest it for a second, THEN share the news. Faulkner skipped all those steps. Fox's statement blamed 'an audio issue in a virtual working environment,' alluding to the fact that Faulkner has been anchoring from home for the past year. But that's no excuse for this..."

You called me!

This was another awkward moment. As Faulkner wrapped up her interview with Trump, she asked the former president why he was commenting on the Biden admin. "Most president, ex-presidents like yourself do not weigh in at this level," she said. Trump replied, "Well, you called me, I didn't call you, in all fairness." Faulkner pushed back that Trump had issued a statement ripping Mayorkas...

FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO

-- Paul Farhi on the post-Trump media landscape: As expected, outlets are losing some of the "audience and readership they gained during his chaotic presidency..." (WaPo)

-- David Bauder and Marina Villenevue wrote about how Fox meteorologist Janice Dean has morphed into a "fierce Cuomo critic." The duo note, however, that her advocacy "raises ethical questions..." (AP)

-- "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have finally admitted to The Daily Beast that they were not married three days before their official ceremony, as they had claimed in their interview with Oprah Winfrey," Tom Sykes reports... (Daily Beast)

-- Congrats to Abby Phillip, who is expecting a baby this summer. She shared the news with The Cut and was photographed for this digital cover... (The Cut)

"Blocking access to the news media is not leveling with the American people"

The Biden administration continued to face criticism Monday for the lack of transparency at the US-Mexico border. "The Biden administration kept talking about transparency, and we’re not getting any transparency here with what is happening at the border," Katy Tur noted on MSNBC. Jake Tapper pointed out on CNN, "Blocking access to the news media is not leveling with the American people, Mr. President."

>> Related: "A growing chorus of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called on the Biden administration to allow reporters and journalists into facilities housing unaccompanied migrant children," CBS' Nicole Sganga reports...

Psaki: We are working on getting press access

During Monday's daily WH briefing, Jen Psaki was asked about the Biden admin blocking reporters from having access to detention centers. "We are working on independent press coverage," she said when asked whether the WH would commit to it this week. "We believe that that should happen and that should be the case. And I don't pull the levers here. I wish I was that all powerful; I am not. But I can just reiterate our commitment to transparency. And I certainly hope to have an update for you very soon, but I can't give you a deadline on that."

News outlets publish photos of border detention sites

For now, reporters are finding ways to circumvent the WH. On Monday, several news outlets — including CNN — published images revealing some of the conditions inside the Donna, Texas, migrant facility. The images were provided by Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez has more here...

FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE

-- Monday's big coronavirus headline: AstraZeneca will apply for emergency use authorization after its vaccine was found to be 79% effective against symptomatic disease... (CNN)

-- Dr. Sanjay Gupta: It is "unlikely" that the US will see "significant fourth surge" of coronavirus... (Mediaite)

-- "Multiple MSNBC personalities shared a photo of crowds in Miami Beach breaking coronavirus guidelines but were subsequently slammed by social media commenters who quickly pointed out the photograph was from 2019..." (WaEx)

-- NBC stars have filmed a "plan your vaccine" PSA. Personalities in the video include Mario Lopez, Mike Tirico, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Amber Ruffin, Padma Lakshmi, Drew McIntyre, José Díaz-Balart, and more... (Deadline)

-- Meghan McCain apologized for her previous use of the phrase "China virus." The apology came after John Oliver called her out... (The Hill)

Dr. Oz and Jeopardy

"Jeopardy!" is — once again — facing blowback for allowing Dr. Mehmet Oz to guest-host the show. The decision was announced in February and elicited criticism back then, but a new wave ensued Monday when the show's official Twitter account promoted Oz as this week's host. Sony Pictures, which produces the show, has not commented on the matter.

But selecting Oz was certainly a bizarre choice. Oz has a lengthy history of being skewered by the medical community for promoting alternative medicines/treatments. In 2015, a group of physicians wrote Columbia University saying they were "dismayed" he was a member of the school's faculty. In 2014, Oz was scolded by senators during a hearing for his promotion of weight-loss products. And, most recently, Oz drew scrutiny early on in the pandemic for some of his comments, such as talking up hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment (despite the lack of evidence)...

>> Yashar Ali's point: "So Jeopardy has Dr. Oz, who spreads dangerous pseudoscience, guest host but they have yet to book [Laura Coates] guest host. Before he died, Alex Trebek told [Harvey Levin] that Laura would be his pick for a woman host of Jeopardy..."

FOR THE RECORD, PART FOUR

-- On the topic of purveyors of bad info: This NYT headline on Sen. Ron Johnson is brutal: "Senator Ron Johnson has spread misinformation on the virus, the election, the Capitol riot, even Greenland’s greenness..." (NYT)

-- "Facebook said on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December and that it had over 35,000 people working on tackling misinformation on its platform..." (Reuters)

-- Ahead of Thursday's Big Tech hearing, a group is launching a campaign to "ban surveillance advertising," Gilad Edelman reports... (Wired)

-- "NBCUniversal and Facebook unveiled a new partnership that will put e-commerce pitches from the TV company’s clients on Facebook and Instagram," Brian Steinberg reports... (Variety)

-- Paul Waldman's take on Trump's teasing of launching a social network: He wants to add that "to his list of failures..." (WaPo)

-- "YouTube is testing automatic product detection in videos," Bijan Stephen reports... (Verge)

-- How a preteen YouTube star gets really really rich: "Ryan Kaji's video empire makes most of its revenue from merchandise, not ads..." (Bloomberg)

-- The NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet has sold for $2.9 million... (CNBC)

-- Quartz: "We sold the first-ever NFT news article for $1,800..." (Quartz)

FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE

By Kerry Flynn:

-- Ben Thompson weighs into the Substack controversy, writing it's "not a scam" and that the "sovereign writer is another product of the Internet, and Substack will succeed to the extent it serves their interests, and be discarded if it does not..." (Stratechery)

-- "As a news consumer, you are less likely to be able to cancel online than you are to get a please-stay pitch from a customer service rep on the phone," Laura Hazard Owen writes based on a new American Press Institute survey... (Nieman Lab)

-- Dave Jorgenson, also known as "Washington Post TikTok guy," discusses his year in quarantine, his dream TikTok cameo and why he loves Spam... (Mashable)

-- Condé Nast announced Jackie Marks as its new chief financial officer. She was most recently CFO at Mercer... (Adweek)

-- Meredith Bennett-Smith has been named managing editor at MSNBC. She was the founding editor of NBC News THINK... (Adweek)

Comcast's interesting point of emphasis

Brian Lowry writes: "The main takeaway from Comcast’s One21 presentation for its business partners today? 'We’re not just a content company, we’re also a technology company,' as NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell put it in closing the virtual event. It’s an interesting point of emphasis, given the entry of tech players like Apple into the content game. The pillars of NBC’s streaming strategy, executives noted, are 'Aggregation, personalization and community,' citing a more dynamic vision for 'channels' that consist of experiences that 'feel like they’ve been created by you, and for you,' such as an assortment of related content aimed at 'The Office' fans. From an advertiser’s perspective, one can see the appeal of that — although splitting one’s product into narrower and narrower 'experiences' sounds like a formula for even more of a media Tower of Babel than currently exists."

FOR THE RECORD, PART SIX

-- New from John Ourand: "Last week's NFL media deals underscore the different streaming strategies each TV network will use..." (SBJ)

-- "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has "had a steep ratings decline since the host addressed accusations by former staff members that led to firings and an internal investigation," John Koblin reports... (NYT)

-- Bob Iger chatted with Alan Fleischmann about his future, saying he is "excited about life after Disney," but making it clear he is not retiring... (Deadline)

-- "A show centered on Echo, a deaf Native American character who will be played by Alaqua Cox in the 'Hawkeye' series, is in the early stages of development for Disney Plus," Jordan Moreau reports... (Variety)

-- Katie Couric talks about hosting "Jeopardy," her media company which now has 30 employees and her upcoming memoir... (Poynter)

DC diehards, don't get too excited...

Brian Lowry writes: "The really interesting takeaway from Warner Bros. chief Ann Sarnoff’s interview with Variety’s Brent Lang was that while 'Zack Snyder’s Justice League' was a gift to fans who lobbied for it, the studio doesn’t intend to let the peasants with pitchforks take over the lab. Asked how responsive Warner Bros. would be to the loudest voices in the DC fan base – an unintended consequence, potentially, of fulfilling their wishes -- she said, 'We’re always going to listen to our fans, but we are in service of the broadest fanbase and we owe them an integrated, holistic strategy. … For certain fans that want singular voices, they may be disappointed, but we would ask them to be patient and see what we’ve got in store because perhaps the newer voices in the mix will have just as compelling stories to tell. On balance, you of course want to listen to your fans, but we do want to stay true to our vision and our mission for DC and build that out.' Read the full interview here..."

FOR THE RECORD, PART SEVEN

-- Lisa Respers France writes: Demi Lovato says she now feels "more joy" after her overdose in 2018. She also admitted she's not completely sober these days... (CNN)

-- One more from Lisa: Kylie Jenner faced backlash for promoting a makeup artist's GoFundMe. Her followers questioned why the wealthy makeup mogul didn’t pick up the bill herself... (CNN)

-- "Survivor is finally getting back into production," Bryn Sandberg writes. "The CBS mainstay will start shooting its 41st season in Fiji, a full year after it'd initially planned to do so..." (THR)

-- HBO Max is letting users customize their profile photos... (The Verge)