"Bilton's openness to potentially rehiring the show's top editor amounts to yet another acknowledgment that Weiss badly misjudged when she carried out her ill-conceived firings at #60Minutes," Status' Oliver Darcy wrote. "Indeed, it is difficult to interpret the move as anything but an admission that perhaps Mihailovich should not have been pushed out to begin with." Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/cbs-tried-rehire-ousted-60-103644812.html
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CBS Tried to Rehire Ousted 60 Minutes Editor Amid Show Upheaval

Attempts to clean up the mess at 60 Minutes caused by CBS News’ MAGA-curious editor-in-chief Bari Weiss were met with humiliating pushback. Nick Bilton, the ...

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"The president told Welker, "You're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN, one-sided crooked networks," before taking off his microphone. "Let's call it quits, because I've had enough… Thank you, darling," he said. TV Insider https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/meet-press-host-kristen-welker-142753223.html
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‘Meet the Press’ Host Kristen Welker Reveals What Trump Said After He Stormed Out of Interview

The president ended the interview after calling NBC News 'crooked.'

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"#CBS ended up trailing the competition with only 628,000 total viewers for Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, which launched a day after Colbert left the network, a 65-percent drop for the same time slot compared to last year. In the 18-49 demo, only 82,000 viewers tuned in."

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CBS Gets Harsh Reality Check in First Night Without Colbert

Late-night viewers appear to have crowned their new favorite following Stephen Colbert’s departure from CBS airwaves. On Monday, the first night that ABC’s...

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"The latest evening news ratings are in, and it was bad news across the board for the three major networks, with #CBS Evening News hit particularly hard in its week-over-week numbers." TV Insider https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/cbs-evening-news-ratings-revealed-141227814.html
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‘CBS Evening News’ Ratings Revealed After Shocking ’60 Minutes’ Firings

Did Tony Dokoupil take a hit in battle with David Muir and Tom Llamas?

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Two people "filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging recent Pentagon actions targeting Stars and Stripes*, arguing they 'erode its longstanding editorial independence and First Amendment protections.' The lawsuit asks a judge to block new restrictions the Pentagon has imposed on Stars and Stripes":
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*A newspaper that specializes in its coverage of the United States #military.
Plaintiffs sue Pentagon, allege illegal limits on Stars and Stripes

The lawsuit asks a judge to block new rules the Pentagon has placed, arguing changes made to governance of the media organization were illegal.

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Das European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) hat mir heute mitgeteilt, dass deren Monitoring Team einen Eintrag zu meinem Fall auf „Mapping Media Freedom“ auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht hat: https://www.mapmf.org/alert/34979. #Pressefreiheit #freedomofthepress
Mapping Media Freedom: Germany: Police publishes press statement with false and incriminating claims about journalist (2021-11-07)

On 7 November 2021, the Federal Police Unit San Augustin published a press release with false and…

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Das European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) hat mir heute mitgeteilt, dass deren Monitoring Team einen Eintrag zu meinem Fall auf „Mapping Media Freedom“ auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht hat: www.mapmf.org/alert/34979. #Pressefreiheit #freedomofthepress

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Mapping Media Freedom: Germany: Police publishes press statement with false and incriminating claims about journalist (2021-11-07)

On 7 November 2021, the Federal Police Unit San Augustin published a press release with false and…

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"A group of award-winning journalists and documentarians expressed strong opposition to a proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery during a press conference today, citing the threat the deal poses to journalism and American democracy":
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“Consolidation of media is bad for the public, it’s bad for creators, it’s bad for the public’s right to know”
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Journalists slam proposed Paramount merger as threat to press freedom

Speakers warn of censorship through oligarchy

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"The letter, organized by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and obtained by Status, is signed by around 200 current and former journalists, including former ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson, former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, and former ABC and CBS News correspondent Judy Muller."

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Bombshell Letter Sounds Alarm on ‘Meddling’ MAGA Billionaire

More than 200 journalists and program makers have signed a letter warning of the impact that Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will ...

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