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CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht had advised Collins not to be combative with Trump, sources familiar said.
MEDIA May 12, 2023
Inside CNN, the reverberations from Wednesday’s town hall are still being profoundly felt, further testing the long-strained relationship between the network’s anchors and journalists on one side and their newly dispassionate boss on the other. As one insider put it: “It’s Chris Licht’s fucking CNN now.”
Kaitlan Collins is now the primary talent on which Chris Licht is staking his pivot to the middle.
MEDIA May 10, 2023
Kaitlan is Licht’s answer at 9 p.m.—the great conservative hope upon which his legacy will likely hang.
Undoubtedly, everything in the Times report is true enough, but it nevertheless still felt like window dressing on the real motivation for Tucker’s termination.
MEDIA May 3, 2023
News and notes on the latest comings and goings in the land of cable news: suspicions regarding the trending explanations for Tucker Carlson’s ouster, and all the internal feels about CNN’s Trump town hall.
Tucker Carlson
PUCK April 28, 2023
News and notes on the latest grumblings in the media business as the industry descends on Washington for the nerd prom: Tucker’s future, his succession, and a new CNN threat.


David Zaslav tells friends that CNN is some 6 percent of his business—and 90 percent of his headaches.
MEDIA April 26, 2023
It’s been a year since CNN has been under Zaz rule—a mixed bag of earnest repositioning and depolarization, to be sure, but also rough headlines, rougher ratings, and high-profile departures. Chris Licht’s post-Zuckerification wasn’t going to happen overnight, but how long will it take?
MEDIA April 24, 2023
Insights and revelations regarding a stunning and extraordinary day in the media industry. (Jeff Shell, please buy these guys Rivians!)
BuzzFeed C.E.O. Jonah Peretti.
MEDIA April 21, 2023
BuzzFeed News and the world it made, and didn’t make, and what happened in between.
MEDIA April 19, 2023
Deciphering the post-settlement legal murmurs surrounding Fox’s new vulnerabilities, audience leakage, and a potential blood sacrifice.


Fox News host Lou Dobbs told his viewers that the Dominion scandal appeared to be “the endgame to a four-and-a-half yearlong effort to overthrow the president of the United States.”
MEDIA April 14, 2023
Lawyers on both sides of the Dominion v. Fox News case have zeroed in on Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, and Maria Bartiromo as the epicenter of the network’s financially-driven indulgence of quack election conspiracies. But what if they genuinely believed in them?
On Wednesday, Judge Eric M. Davis sanctioned Fox’s legal team, indicating that he would launch an investigation into whether they had withheld details about Rupert Murdoch’s role as executive chairman of the news channel.
MEDIA April 12, 2023
As Fox’s Dominion case heads to trial, and Hannity and Tucker et al. face the prospect of testifying before a jury, many Murdoch-watchers are grumbling about why he didn’t settle in the first place.
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