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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

I'm at war with my phone.

Seriously, I think my iPhone doesn't like me

because, you know, we have this illusion

that it does what we want.

But turn the thing off.

This happens constantly now.

Turn it back on the next day.

And all of the little icons have decided,

I don't like being over here. I'm just going to rearrange ourselves. And so, you know, some of them

are missing. Some of them are hidden inside these little boxes. It's like digital torture.

And I have big fingers, so it's hard for me to flip them back into the spots. You know,

everybody has their favorite page, or maybe you have it the first thing on the line. So it's hard for me to flip them back into the spots. You know, everybody has their

favorite page or maybe you have it the first thing on the line so it's easy to spot or now it's

stuck on the six page. I had like about five pages of icons. Now I have eight and it's just

something, you know, it's like the classic technology is the most wonderful thing in our lives

except when it's not. So I will consider that war privately. And meanwhile, Donald Trump did

something yesterday. He hadn't done in a long time. He held a rally after a lot of criticism

from the media types about how he is a lighter schedule and he's 79 and sometimes

he closes his eyes, all that stuff.

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