Tag: Media

Sports Illustrated’s Print Edition to Continue Under New Operator

The owner of Sports Illustrated said it had chosen a new company to publish the magazine, a deal that could settle some of the recent friction at the storied publication and continue the print edition. Authentic Brands Group, which owns the intellectual property rights to Sports Illustrated as well as to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe […]

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“Bloodbath”-Gate: Yes, Trump Meant the Auto Industry. At First, Anyway

Still, maybe he only meant an economic bloodbath. In fact, that’s just typical Trump bluster—built as usual on lies. The Biden economy as we all know reeled from inflation in 2022 and 2023, and that overwhelmed the narrative. Beyond that, the 289,000 jobs gained per month during Biden’s term is the highest for any president […]

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What Must Nelson Peltz Do to Get Some Respect?

At age 81, with over four decades of dealmaking and corporate cage-rattling under his belt, Nelson Peltz would seem to have pretty much everything. He’s a billionaire. Until the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin came to Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Peltz had the largest property tax bill in town, with an oceanfront estate estimated to […]

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Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84

Gerald M. Levin, a “visionary” media executive, as he was often described, who became C.E.O. of the world’s largest media company, Time Warner, and an architect of its merger with America Online, widely considered the worst corporate marriage in American history, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Jake Maia Arlow, a grandchild of Mr. Levin’s, […]

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Physical media is having a moment

For as long as humans have made stories, songs, and other forms of self-expression, we have also endeavored to find new and theoretically better ways to share those efforts with others. Cave paintings, illuminated manuscripts, wax cylinders, vinyl, laserdisc and so on — each new medium brings its own unique set of assets and challenges. […]

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Everybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling

But while he agreed with the final outcome, he also found plenty of fault with how the court got there. The justices dismissed, for example, the idea that the election clauses in Article 1 and 2, which allow states to hold elections for federal offices, also allow them to apply disqualifications under the Fourteenth Amendment. […]

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Biden Needs to Stop Hiding

Hersey had been granted a short interview with Truman, a self-taught lover of history who revered Plutarch’s Lives, biographical sketches of great Greeks and Romans. Instead of asking the predictable reporter questions, Hersey used his time to appeal to Truman’s obligation to history. The result: Hersey was soon allowed to roam the Truman administration for […]

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How U.K. Media Is Covering Kate, Princess of Wales, After Her Abdominal Surgery

After a week of often hysterical speculation about her well-being, there were suddenly two plausible pieces of evidence that Catherine, Princess of Wales, was on the mend: a photo of her in a car driven by her mother and a confirmation by the British Army that she would attend a military ceremony in June. But […]

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The Right-Wing War on Abortion Has Nothing to Do With Babies

This is the crux of the whole damn thing: It doesn’t matter what a person wants the autonomy for! She can want to use her bodily autonomy to conceive through in vitro fertilization with her husband of 15 years, or she can want to use it to take Plan B after a one-night stand, or […]

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A Year of Republicans Lying About Abortion

As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]

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MotorTrend+ Streaming Service Dies And Content Moves To Discovery+ And Max

MotorTrend+ Streaming Service Dies And Content Moves To Discovery+ And Max | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Warner Brothers will keep the content, but the streaming service itself will no longer be available 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> MotorTrend+ is going away but don’t worry too hard. The remaining users still on the platform will […]

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Fox’s Steve Doocy Shreds GOP Biden Probe for Having “Zero Evidence”

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Fox News Panel Erupts in Chaos Over “Zero Evidence” in Biden Impeachment

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Bill Ackman Is Going to Help Save Journalism

But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]

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Bill Ackman’s 77-Page-Long Case Against Himself

But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]

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The Brokered Convention That Could Break the Democrats

As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]

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Is Ofcom on collision course with GB News?

Ofcom is investigating the prime minister’s controversial appearance on a GB News Q&A show, highlighting the media watchdog’s ongoing battle to regulate the right-wing TV channel.  “People’s Forum: the Prime Minister”, which aired on 12 February, resulted in more than 500 complaints related to bias being sent to Ofcom. Rishi Sunak took questions from 100 […]

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The Democrats Are Blowing the 2024 Election

As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]

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Trump Quietly Edits Fox News Story That Was Apparently Too Mean to Him

On Wednesday, the former president shared altered screenshots of a Newsweek story to his Truth Social account, omitting a lede reference to the outcome of the 2020 election (which Joe Biden won), while cutting a line about the “81-year-old” Biden being seen as too old to run for president. Trump is 77 years old. And […]

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Watch: Tucker Carlson Explains Why He Gave Putin a Pass on Navalny

The claim in the documents went like this: Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which at the time employed Hunter, paid both him and his father $5 million in bribes. It would appear that a tall tale was told. “As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the […]

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What Tucker Carlson Said About Alexei Navalny and Putin Killing People

The claim in the documents went like this: Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which at the time employed Hunter, paid both him and his father $5 million in bribes. It would appear that a tall tale was told. “As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the […]

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Twitter Files’ Matt Taibbi Says Elon Musk Sent Him Unhinged Messages

“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself […]

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One NYT Opinion writer vs gender-affirming youth care

Opinions are ubiquitous. Everyone has one. The New York Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul is full of them, as her job demands.  Since joining the Times’ Opinion pages in 2022, Paul has received formidable resistance from the trans community for a series of columns that have been called a “long line of … transphobic opinion […]

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Trump Is Posting His Own Fake News—Under an Actual News Outlet’s Name

Pilip’s loss, meanwhile, comes after months spent skirting the limelight rather than courting it, avoiding media presence and refusing debates with the seasoned politician until just five days before election night, when she finally faced off against Suozzi to lackluster reception. “I can explain why she didn’t want to debate, and I can explain why […]

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Liberals Still Have a Chance to Save the Administrative State

The answer to that big question will depend on Justice Brett Kavanaugh. During oral arguments, Kavanaugh channeled a 46-page Harvard Law Review article he had published in 2016, two years before President Donald Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court. The crux of the piece, which was titled “Fixing Statutory Interpretation,” was that existing Chevron […]

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