David Ellison will take full control of Paramount Global when it merges with his company, Skydance Media, according to a new regulatory filing. According to a Federal Communications Commission filing on Tuesday, Ellison’s role will be chairman and CEO of the new Paramount, combining the assets of Hollywood production company Skydance and Paramount, home of…
More than 250,000 Washington Post readers — or 10% of the paper’s customer base — have canceled their subscriptions after owner Jeff Bezos blocked its editorial board from publishing an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report. Over the weekend, the iconic broadsheet had lost 200,000 subscribers after it was first learned…
A CNN contributor credited President Joe Biden with calling Trump supporters “scum” because he stutters during a roundtable discussion about the election. “As someone who had a stutter growing up, it’s pretty obvious to me that there was an apostrophe after ‘supporter,’” said film executive Franklin Leonard. “He was referring to the rubbish thrown by…
CNN has fired a conservative pundit after he joked with left-wing Muslim commentator Mehdi Hasan during a brief exchange on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.” It started when guest panelist Ryan Girdusky pointed out that Hasan has been called an antisemite. Hassan said he was “used to” the label because he is a vocal supporter…
Veteran political reporter Andrea Mitchell announced that she will leave her namesake MSNBC show after the inauguration, but will remain as a correspondent at NBC News. Mitchell, who held the anchor chair at the left-leaning network for nearly two decades, will continue in her role as NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington…
Gannett-owned USA Today and more than 200 other chain newspapers will not endorse a presidential candidate — joining the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in choosing to remain silent in next week’s election . “None of the USA Today Network publications endorses the presidential or national races,” USA Today spokesperson Lark-Marie Antón told The…
Vice President Kamala Harris said she was disappointed Tuesday by the decisions of major liberal newspapers such as The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times not to offer endorsements this election cycle. During an appearance on “The Breakfast Club,” host Charlamagne the God asked Harris how he felt about major news outlets like The Post…
San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa donned a MAGA hat and bombed NBC’s postgame interview following the team’s win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night, but the network initially removed the gesture from clips it posted on social media. . The incident happened at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara Sunday night after…
Gayle King has finally broken her silence on “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil’s fiery interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates and its aftermath — calling it a “learning” opportunity for staff. King, who spoke at a panel at the Paley Center in Midtown on Tuesday night, said her show won’t “shrink from tough conversations” but that…
A Palestinian reporter for CBS News who lives in the Gaza Strip repeatedly posted anti-Israeli social media posts — once asking, “Are Jews people like us?” – according to a curse report by a media watchdog. Marwan Al-Ghoul, 61, has been a reporter for the Tiffany Network inside the war-torn enclave since the October 7…