Reporter Life Jackets

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 9/5/24

Headline: “The Bezos Briefing”

Subhead:  “As The Post bleeds reporters, its top editor Matt Murray sat down for a meeting with Jeff Bezos in Miami, Status has learned”

“Late last month, just before the Labor Day holiday weekend, The Washington Post’s executive editor, Matt Murray, found himself face to face with the newspaper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos. . .”

“The meeting came against the backdrop of a wave of newsroom departures, this one triggered by buyout offers that sent some of The Post’s best-known bylines toward the exits. That exodus followed yet another round of defections earlier this year, when star talent left for rivals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos-washington-post-matt-murray-meeting

Healthy Media or President?

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Article in The Guardian by Margaret Sullivan, 9/5/25

Headline: “Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump’s health?”

Subhead:  “Most of the mainstream media is overly cautious in approaching the fair topic of the president’s health”

“Prestigious news organizations gave scant attention when, for several days recently, Donald Trump faded from public view. Other than some social media posts and some blurry golf-course images, the normally ubiquitous president seemed almost to disappear.

But most of Big Journalism gave that subject a pass. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/trump-health-media-margaret-sullivan

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Liam Scott, 9/4/25

Headline:  “What’s in a Hand?

Subhead:  “The White House press corps gets credit for not falling for misinformation about Trump’s health. But is it missing the story again?”

” ‘How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?’ It was Tuesday afternoon, and Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy was asking Donald Trump about the viral rumors that spread late last week, fueled by an uncharacteristic span of days without any public events, that the president was gravely ill.

“It’s fake news,” Trump replied . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trump-health-misinformation-hand-social-media.php

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Article in Comic Sands by Alan Herrera, 9/4/25

Headline:  “Vance Gets Brutal Reminder After Accusing Media Of ‘Lying’ About Trump Being On His ‘Deathbed’ “

Subhead:  “Vice President JD Vance accused the media of claiming that President Trump was dying after he wasn’t seen for three days—except no reputable media sources claimed that.”

“Vice President JD Vance was called out after accusing media outlets of claiming that President Donald Trump was dying after he wasn’t seen for three days even though no reputable media sources had published reports saying so. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.comicsands.com/vance-media-trump-deathbed

 

Newspaper Sitcom

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Article in The Contrarian by Meredeth Blake, 9/4/25

Headline:  “Culture recs: The Paper Satirizes the Sorry State of Journalism in 2025”

“On most days I’m more likely to cry about the current state of journalism than I am to laugh. But this very loose spinoff of The Office manages to find the (extremely dark) humor in the story of Ned Sampson (Domnhall Gleason, doing a seamless American accent) the idealistic new editor-in-chief of a struggling Midwestern newspaper called the Toledo Truth Teller . . . a nepotism hire who nevertheless believes in the importance of local journalism, Ned immediately attempts to revitalize the publication . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/culture-recs-the-paper-satirizes

FCC Getting in Range of Networks

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Article in NOTUS by Violet Jira, 9/3/25

Headline:  “Trump Is Targeting Broadcast Networks. The FCC Is Poised to Help Him.”

Subhead:  “Federal Communications Commission decisions ‘were meant to be beyond the reach of the current occupant of the White House,’ the agency’s sole Democratic commissioner told NOTUS.”

“As President Donald Trump continues to attack media organizations, the Federal Communications Commission is uniquely positioned to weaponize its regulatory framework to help him. Critics say it’s already started.

“The FCC is turning into a “wing of the MAGA movement” under its Trump-appointed chair, Brendan Carr, said Timothy Karr of Free Press, a nonprofit that promotes free speech and press freedom. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.notus.org/policy/trump-media-fcc-brendan-carr

Media Racketeer?

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Article in The Nation by Jack Mirkinson, 9/4/25

Headline: “Vile Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media”

Subhead: “Paramount is reportedly set to pay between $100 million and $200 million for ‘The Free Press’ and will install Bari Weiss at the top of CBS News.”

“. . .As a New York Times columnist, she constantly hawked right-wing bile while posing as a liberal who was just tired of all the extremism and censorship on the left—a tedious bait-and-switch that nevertheless sent her media profile soaring. . .”

“. . .There are lots of awful things about our current moment. But one of the worst is that we have to sit and watch as odious hucksters not only take over our public life but make out like bandits while doing so. I hope that CBS News staffers resist this attempt to destroy their workplace with everything they have. . .

“I hope that Weiss’s tenure atop CBS is short and failed. But mostly, I hope that one day we live in a world where people like Weiss are treated with the contempt they deserve and are hurled into the cultural wilderness where they belong.

Read the full article at:

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-news-paramount/#

 

Did Some Media Miss Epstein?

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Getz, 9/3/25

Headline: “Donald Trump killed the Jeffrey Epstein story on the right”

Subhead: “MAGA propagandists care about Trump, not principles or victims”

“President Donald Trump has succeeded in getting his media supporters to stop talking about his old friend Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender and financier. Prominent MAGA media figures ignored a wave of Epstein news on Tuesday, signaling that Trump’s pressure campaign has paid off with their silence — even as (or, perhaps, because) his own corrupt involvement in the story has grown. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/donald-trump-killed-jeffrey-epstein-story-right

Reporters – Forced to Flee

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Paulina Milewska & Ksenia Mironova, 9/3/25

Headline:  “How to Survive the (Media) Apocalypse”

Subhead:  “Lessons from journalists who have lived through all this”

“The ongoing deterioration of press freedom and independence in the United States is deeply concerning to many journalists who don’t know where their country is heading. That chilling uncertainty is one we have lived through ourselves. We are journalists from Russia and Poland. Ksenia has been forced to leave her home in order to continue working, and has watched countless friends and colleagues do the same. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/russia-poland-media-exile-strategies.php

Reporters Trust Political Doctors?

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Article in AP by David Bauder, 9/3/25

Headline: “US media quickly forced to revisit a thorny question: How should a president’s health be covered?”

“. . .Beyond punditry, however, news outlets face serious questions about how to handle the story, much like they did with Biden. The physical signs that have been pointed out online should trigger serious probes into the president’s health. Some critics, like historian Garrett Graff, said it was puzzling that many in the media hadn’t treated it like a news story — although the timing over a holiday weekend surely made it more challenging.. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-media-coverage-1541184240d9092f08159fa36a05a955

 

Battle of Media Predators

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Article in Washington Post by Jeremy Barr, 9/3/25

Headline:  “Newsmax sues Fox News, accusing it of anticompetitive practices”

Subhead:  “Newsmax claims that Fox has illegally edged out would-be competitors in the world of conservative-leaning cable television.”

“Conservative television network Newsmax is taking the market leader to court, suing Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation and accusing them of engaging in anticompetitive and monopolistic practices that have thwarted its growth. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/03/newsmax-sues-fox-news-accusing-it-anticompetitive-practices/

First Newspapers, Now Local TV

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Article in Poynter by Rick Edmonds, 9/2/25

Headline:  “Inescapable technology changes and a migrating audience have local broadcast news in trouble”

Subhead: “For years, local TV looked steady while newspapers flailed. Now the business model creaks, and the challenges feel uncomfortably familiar.”

“The scenario is familiar to any journalist who has worked at a newspaper in the last 15 years. The audience is moving away from the profitable old platform to a hot, new one. The outlet must adapt or at least try to. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/is-business-broadcast-journalism-in-trouble/