Article in AP by Maria Sherman, 8/5/26
Headline: “Space for music on late-night TV has dwindled. New media seeks to offer an alternative”
“When CBS ended ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ earlier this year, it also shuttered the program’s robust music offerings — a major blow for artists whose television platform was already dwindling. . .”
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Article in FAIR by Carolina Abbott Galvão. 8/4/26
Headline: ‘The Most Accurate Truth’
Subhead: “After CBS News hit the brakes on a 60 Minutes story about CECOT prison, the League of Latin American Citizens decided it was time to start their own newsroom. Within months, El Grito Media has become a definitive resource.”
“n July 7 in Houston, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a fifty-two-year-old Mexican man. Audrey Colocho and Katherine Torres of El Grito Media—which this spring started publishing stories directly on Instagram, X, YouTube, and TikTok instead of on a dedicated site—tried to piece together what happened, beginning with a social media post. Soon, they had collected more footage, from more angles—providing a definitive account that became a source for major news outlets. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Tyler Monroe & Kayla Gogarty, 8/3/26
Headline: “Fox News and podcasters in the right-wing media ecosystem bury recent reporting on alleged domestic abuse by Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller”
Subhead: “The Benny Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Megyn Kelly Show, Steve Bannon’s War Room, The Ben Shapiro Show, Loomer Unleashed, Tim Pool Daily Show, and Timcast IRL all ignored the story”
“The right-wing media ecosystem has largely buried recent reporting detailing reports of alleged domestic abuse by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), with Fox News spending just 4 minutes discussing the story and several popular podcasters ignoring it completely. . . ”
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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 7/31/26
Headline: “Opinion | ABC is done playing defense against the FCC”
Subhead: “The network’s unusually forceful filing accuses the FCC of retaliation and warns of a chilling effect on the media”
“For more than a year, the Federal Communications Commission and its chairman Brendan Carr have repeatedly hassled, threatened and tried to intimidate ABC. . .”
“But now, ABC says it has had enough.
In a fervent filing with the FCC, ABC is accusing the commission of “attempted censorship.” The FCC is targeting the network, ABC claims, simply because the FCC doesn’t like what the network sometimes says. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/abc-accuses-fcc-attempted-censorship/
Article in The New Republic by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, 7/28/26
Headline: “NYT’s Most Obnoxious Columnist Joins 60 Minutes in Pro-Trump Overhaul”
Subhead: “Bari Weiss is bringing a friendly face to the prestigious news show.”
“Conservative columnist Ross Douthat is leaving The New York Times to join the storied broadcast magazine in a new role, 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton announced Tuesday. . .”
“Despite being an early skeptic of Donald Trump’s politics and popularity, Douthat has since downplayed the president’s authoritarian and fascist tendencies while attempting to rationalize Trump’s behavior.”
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Article in The Washington Post by Scott Nover, 7/27/26
Headline: “Trump’s fresh mocking of CNN reporter renews calls to end correspondents’ dinner”
Subhead: “The president posted a doctored image of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as the network’s future, and that of the correspondents’ dinner, are in limbo.”
“President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the news media over the weekend, following a blistering address at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by posting an edited image mocking CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — a personal jab later amplified by an official White House social media account. . .’
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Article in The New York Times by Michelle Goldberg, 7/27/26
Headline: “A Setback for the MAGA Media Takeover”
“. . .Historically, it’s unusual for the states to take the lead on antitrust enforcement actions,” reported Variety. But the case was strong enough that last week, a California judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the merger on hold. And on Friday, Paramount, which had hoped to close the deal this month, agreed to postpone the merger until next June or the end of the trial, whichever comes first. . .”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/opinion/media-ellison-paramount.html
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Article in The Wrap by Roger Cheng & Lucas Manfredi, 7/24/25
Headline: “Why Paramount Delayed Its Warner Bros. Takeover, What the Latest Legal Twist Means | Analysis”
Subhead: “With a costly ticking fee looming, Paramount is banking on a speedy trial”
“It looked like a victory on Friday for opponents of Paramount’s $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount agreed to push back the acquisition — all the way to as far as next summer.
But, as with everything in this M&A saga, it’s not that simple. . .”
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https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deals-ma/paramount-warner-bros-merger-delay-explained/
Article in Meidas Touch News by Brett Meiselasm 7/24/26
Headline: “Awkward Moment at WHCD as Trump Applauds Reporters Who Exposed His Epstein Ties”
Subhead: “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner produced one of the night’s most surreal moments as Trump congratulated reporters honored for exposing his Epstein ties.”
“President Donald Trump sat on stage smiling as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer presented The Wall Street Journal with the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability—an honor recognizing the newspaper’s reporting on Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the fallout that followed. . .”
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Article in Mediaite by Kathryn Wilkens
Headline: “Ex-60 Minutes Journo Says She Was Asked to Cover Nonexistent Events Under Weiss”
Subhead: “While Vega did not directly name Weiss as having personally made the requests, she pointed to changes under the network’s ‘new administration at CBS News’ “
According to an audio recording obtained by Oliver Darcy’s Status, former 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega accused CBS News chief Bari Weiss of leading a push to include claims in stories that her reporting team could not verify, alleging she was asked to report on incidents that ‘never happened.’ ”
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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy 7/23/26
Headline: “Vega Breaks Her Silence”
Subhead: “The fired ’60 Minutes’ correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.“
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https://www.status.news/p/cecilia-vega-cbs-60-minutes-bari-weiss
Article in UPI by Joe Fisher, 7/20/26
Headline: “Judge temporarily halts Paramount, Warner Bros. merger”
Twelve state attorneys general won a court order on Monday to halt Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. for at least 14 days.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in the Northern District of California granted a temporary restraining order to a coalition of 12 states, including New York and California, in their lawsuit to block Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for Aug. 3. . .”
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