Article in Daily Kos by Oliver Willis, 11/20/25
Headline: “Is CNN next on Trump’s media hit list?”
“Billionaire Larry Ellison, whose company Paramount Skydance is considering acquiring the parent company of CNN, reportedly discussed firing anchors at the network with the Trump administration. . .”
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Article in Common Dreams by Ricardo Vaz, 11/20/25
Headline: “Venezuela Gets the Iraq Treatment: US Corporate Media Manufactures Consent for Another Imperialist War”
Subhead: “Over weeks of military buildup and threats, corporate outlets elected to ignore the evidence disproving Trump’s claims and to platform warmongers.”
“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. Rather, they are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers. . .”
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Article in FAIR by Ricardo Vaz, 11/19/25
Headline: “Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Justify War on Venezuela”
“. . .Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 6/4/21, 1/22/20). Now, with a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are making little effort to hold the US government accountable. . .”
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https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-parrot-dubious-drug-claims-that-justify-war-on-venezuela/
Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 11/18/25
Headline: “Trump threatens ABC News broadcast license after reporter asks about Epstein “
“President Trump attacked an ABC News reporter Tuesday after she asked about the Epstein files, threatening to have the network taken off the air for questioning him about the controversy. . .”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5611057-president-trump-threatens-abc/
Article in Poynter by Al Tompkins, 11/18/25
Headline: “Scripps tells staff a Sinclair takeover isn’t a done deal, even after surprise stock purchase”
“Scripps Broadcasting president and CEO Adam Symson told employees Monday that a takeover by rival Sinclair Broadcasting is far from a done deal, even after Sinclair announced it had purchased more than 8% of Scripps stock and had been in merger talks for months. . .”
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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 11/18/25
Headline: “The War for Warners”
Subhead: “Paramount, Comcast, and Netflix are preparing final bids for Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will reorder the media landscape”
“. . . Variety had reported, and then largely walked back, that Paramount had ‘formed an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi’ to pursue a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. . .”
“What is accurate is that Paramount is preparing its final bid for WBD, which Ellison still hopes to swallow whole despite David Zaslav’s best efforts to beat back the takeover. . .
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https://www.status.news/p/warner-bros-discovery-bids-paramount-comcast-netflix
Article in FAIR by Ari Paul, 11/17/25
Headline: “For NYT, Trump’s Gulf Corruption Is the New Normal”
“. . .It is a hallmark of corrupt societies that institutions like the media simply accept that payoffs and the personal business interests of politicians supersede public service. A good example of this casual resignation to a corrupt regime came from the New York Times (11/15/25) under the headline ‘Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal.’ ”
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https://fair.org/home/for-nyt-trumps-gulf-corruption-is-the-new-normal/
Article in The Guardian by Robert Reich, 11/13/25
Headline: “Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back”
“The richest man on Earth owns X.
“The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS, and could soon own Warner Bros, which owns CNN.
“The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“The fourth-richest man owns the Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios.
“Another billionaire owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
“Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much of the media? Vanity may play a part, but there’s a more pragmatic – some might say sinister – reason. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy
Article in The Guardian by Michael Savage, 11/12/25
Headline: “BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat”
Subhead: “The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama”
“The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. . . ”
“The BBC’s leadership is facing a looming deadline over how to reply to Trump’s legal threat, filed in a Florida court on Wednesday according to the White House. It follows the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama, which was a significant factor in the resignation of director general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, its head of news. . .”
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Article in AP by David Bader 11/11/25
Headline: “In Trump-dominated media world, editing video takes on new significance — as BBC uproar shows”
“In the space of a few months, one of the more straightforward journalistic tasks — editing tape for broadcast — has been behind a $16 million legal settlement, a network’s change in how it offers interviews on a news show and, now, the resignation of two top leaders at the BBC.
“The other common denominator: President Donald Trump.
“Britain’s BBC is reeling this week following the resignations of its director-general, Tim Davie, and news chief Deborah Turness amid accusations of bias in the editing of last year’s documentary, ‘Trump: A Second Chance.’ . . .”
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Article in Mediaite by Colby Hall 11/10/25
Headline: “Trump’s Pardons Are Rewriting His 2020 Failed Coup — And the Media Is Letting Him”
“President Donald Trump is betting you’ve already forgotten how close the nation came to an abject election meltdown in 2020. Judging by the way the media will almost certainly cover his latest wave of pardons — speed-run through the news cycle and treated like just another Trump social media post — he may be right. . .”
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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Riddhi Getty, 11/10/25
Hedline: “Has the Media Reached the End of Its DEI Era?”
Subhead: “Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020.”
” ‘Where’s all the Black journalists at now?’ Rendy Jones, a freelance journalist, asked on X last week. He was referring to a wave of recent layoffs at CBS News, McClatchy, NBC News, Axios, and Teen Vogue, which was absorbed into Vogue. Jones is one of many in the industry who observed that these cuts have hit journalists of color in particular. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/has-media-reached-end-dei-era.php