Paramount Skydance refused to air an ad submitted by @freedom.press that heavily criticized the company's leadership and merger with Warner Bros Discovery after an advertising associate deemed it a “conflict of interest." (Paramount declined comment) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I've learned that Elisabeth Hasselback, a former Fox & Friends co-host and conservative commentator on The View, will be guest-hosting an hour of the CBS morning show next week from Monday to Wednesday — though she won't be doing hard news segments. It's being seen internally as a sort of "try out"

News: Dozens of CBS News (and 60 Minutes) veterans sent a letter to David Ellison on Monday urging him to guarantee editorial independence on the show in light of Thursday's firings of top producers and correspondents. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Sources tell me that Scott Pelley got into a heated back-and-forth with new '60 Minutes' executive producer Nick Bilton and managing editor Charles Forelle in today's meeting. He demanded to know why his colleagues were fired, prompting Bilton to say he wouldn't be intimidated and quickly leave.

Some news: CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is moderating a town hall with Erika Kirk next week: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

I went through years of TV/radio interviews, campaign speech transcripts, White House remarks and social media posts and found at least 28 instances of Trump calling for a national TV network's license to be taken away — even though it doesn't work that way: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also in the filings: Tucker Carlson called Trump a “total piece of shit," Sean Hannity said Covid "masks should have been embraced" by Trump, and (wrongly) predicted he would concede the election: “That will happen. I know it for a fact.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...