#press-consolidation

#press-consolidation

"We appealed and appealed and lost every appeal. And then the case was ultimately dismissed."

For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants of CNN sucks! reverberated at his campaign rallies, and he still jumps at every opportunity to disparage star CNN journalists such as Kaitlan Collins. He charges that the cable network is dishonest and biased against him.

We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that. The memo comes a day after CBS News owner Paramount Skydance emerged as the likely victor in a takeover fight for Warner Bros Discovery, owner of CNN. CBS is now headed by Bari Weiss, a conservative commentator turned media entrepreneur, whose appointment was seen as a fillip to the Trump administration.

The Washington Post's suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the staff that the Jeff Bezos regime had decided "not to send a contingent to the Winter Olympics." The opening ceremony in Milan is under two weeks away. News that the Post intended to no-show an event that it had historically flooded with reporters was partially walked back on Monday,