Jane Rosenberg LaForge
@elrosenberglaforge.bsky.social
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Poet, novelist, book reviewer, former adjunct professor, former journalist, blah blah blah blah blah
My
#cat
looks very presidential today, don't you think?
#PresidentsDay
about 1 hour ago
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If you missed my
#poetry
reading on Feb. 12 (I read from my newest
#book
of
#poems
, THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED from Broadstone Books), you can catch a video of it here; thanks to Malaika King Albrecht for including me in her monthly book celebration!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIw...
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Book Celebration with Jane R & Open Mic with Redheaded Stepchildosenberg LaForge
YouTube video by malaika888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIw51DH5bs
1 day ago
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"You can't shrink your way to relevance," Jeff Bezos told
@polgreen.bsky.social
but he apparently changed his mind.
#journalism
@washingtonpost.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
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Opinion | I Trusted Jeff Bezos. The Joke’s on Me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
1 day ago
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#DHS
asks tech companies for info on those who post criticisms of
#ICE
on social media. People have a
#FirstAmendment
#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
right to do this, right? Maybe
#Google
#Meta
/
#Facebook
#Discord
#Reddit
& our own government have forgotten. Yeah?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
3 days ago
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#Art
installation -- recreation of a Botanica store w/messages criticizing
#ICE
and
#DHS
-- shut down at the
#University
of North Texas.
#Artist
heard about it through
#students
on social media.
#FirstAmendment
#censorship
#highereducation
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...
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Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/arts/design/university-north-texas-victor-quinonez-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
3 days ago
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Just thinkin' about
#fascism
and its sex scandals today. No reason.
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3 days ago
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#TONIGHT
!
#FREE
#FANTASTIC
virtual
#POETRY
reading on Zoom with open mic! 7 pm EST. I'll be reading from my new book of
#poems
, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated." You can buy it here:
www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/the-e...
and the details for the reading are here:
www.facebook.com/events/35257...
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THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED, poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge — Broadstone Books
Publication Date: October 15, 2025 Paperback, xx pages ISBN: 978-1-966677-20-8 In her fifth full-length poetry collection Jane Rosenberg LaForge declares “I realize in context / I have given up on...
https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/the-exhaust-of-dreams-adulterated-poetry-by-jane-rosenberg-laforge
4 days ago
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You gotta "align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America" if you want a grant to help children
#read
, add a science lab, or digitize historical material, w/the help of a government agency Trump tried to shut down last year. Is it
#fascism
yet?
www.propublica.org/article/inst...
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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
https://www.propublica.org/article/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-grant-guidelines-donald-trump?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1770725722&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawP4h7dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhNlVyd244TlhsWVVSYmNvc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmJjWg1MmdThYRBtBJkL33dBdqLVcXsX321I7_eU3wgkR0ftVaPvFe3pykVA_aem_vE-5RwvjJoj_sO_Ka6JlAQ
6 days ago
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#Bibliotherapy
: sign me up.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'It opened up something in me': Why people are turning to bibliotherapy
"Bibliotherapy" has been soaring in popularity as a means of improving people's wellbeing. But getting it right depends on the book, and the person.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250616-how-bibliotherapy-can-both-help-and-harm-your-mental-health
6 days ago
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Jeepers! Golly gosh gee whiz!
#Language
#slang
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/crosswords/why-kids-are-starting-to-sound-like-their-grandparents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
6 days ago
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Is the
#SuperBowl
over yet? Is it safe (a relative term) to discuss something else?
7 days ago
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Guess I should have told this story earlier. Once someone was giving me a huge scoop about mob infiltration into the local carting business (it was a long time ago) and told me to wear "shorter skirts" when I said I wasn't sure I could get that story.
#journalism
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8 days ago
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CEO and
#publisher
@washingtonpost.com
Will Lewis is out. Gone. (I heard it on the BBC World Service.) Like we used to say in college, "so long, chief."
thehill.com/homenews/med...
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5728245-washington-post-ceo-steps-down/
9 days ago
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#Kitties
on
#Caturday
9 days ago
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Seven principles of
#journalism
once practiced by
@washingtonpost.com
and an elegy for all that's lost, from Carlos Lozada:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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Opinion | An Elegy for My Washington Post
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/washington-post-bezos-layoffs.html
9 days ago
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Goodbye to all that; and mass market
#paperback
#books
too:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
#publishing
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
10 days ago
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Don't really know what to say since so much has already been said, plus this isn't the first time I've said this. But at this point it's all we've got left.
constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
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The 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
SECTION. 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv
10 days ago
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1 week from today, 2/12, I'll be reading
#poems
#poetry
in a virtual event thanks to Red Headed Stepchild magazine & Malaika King Albrecht. 7 pm EST, includes open mic, details here:
www.facebook.com/events/35257...
including link to Zoom meeting.
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Book Celebration with Jane Rosenberg LaFor & Open Mic with Redheaded Stepchildosenberg LaForge
Event by Malaika King Albrecht on Thursday, February 12 2026
https://www.facebook.com/events/3525795787559102/?rdid=kOruynht5q8ObS4w&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1BoPF5E8ty%2F#
11 days ago
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Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Senator Bernie Sanders
12 days ago
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Sandy McIntosh
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Poetry News →
boingboing.net/2026/02/01/d...
#PoetryNews
#PoetrySky
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Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now
Poet John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem is back, featuring revolutionary poetry to soothe our collective wounds and voice our collective outrage.
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/01/dial-a-poem-is-back-with-the-revolutionary-poetry-we-all-need-right-now.html
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
11 days ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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"A society that claims to value our
#democracy
cannot criminalize those who document threats to democracy....If we as a nation fail to defend that principle (also known as the
#FirstAmendment)...we
may soon that there is nothing left to defend."
#GeorgiaFort
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/minnesota-protest-arrested-press-journalism.html
11 days ago
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Here's a palette cleanser:
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
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Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
12 days ago
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Karl Bode
12 days ago
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
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Jack Mirkinson
12 days ago
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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Ben Mullin
12 days ago
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Layoffs forecasted for February begin today at
@washingtonpost.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
12 days ago
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Weaponized wit and
#writerly
flare in judge's opinion that released father (Adrian Conejo Aras) and son (Liam Conejo Ramos) from ICE detention:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/03/books/judge-ruling-liam-conejo-ramos-analysis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
13 days ago
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Trump administration using
#propaganda
or "brazen
#disinformation
from the top level of government" (an AI-edited or "manipulated" image) to break opposition; sounds like fascism to me. Because fascism never works.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
13 days ago
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Everyone says I read too fast when I read my
#poems
#poetry
at a performance.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...
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What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/arts/poet-voice-when-reciting-poetry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
14 days ago
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Picked the wrong presidential administration to stop sniffing glue, is all's I can say.
14 days ago
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Been gone for a while traveling, but I hope you'll read my
#poem
#poetry
"How Many Miles High" appearing in the new issue of GINGERBREAD RITUAL today. Thanks.
selfeducatingpoetsnetwork.org/one-poem-by-...
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One Poem by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
How Many Miles HighThe corn stalks have perfectedthe art of centurions, a patienceagainst the directives of a breeze, keeping the distance betweentassels and silks incalculable inmiles but decipher…
https://selfeducatingpoetsnetwork.org/one-poem-by-jane-rosenberg-laforge/
15 days ago
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Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Don Lemon
17 days ago
My first remarks since being arrested last night.
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Mueller, She Wrote
17 days ago
This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
17 days ago
🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States. Read more:
cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
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Joyce White Vance
17 days ago
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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Wondering if the arrests of
#journalists
#DonLemon
#GeorgiaFort
are a sign the Trump administration knows it's flailing & they're searching for new targets &/or distractions but man oh man what a burden to place on two of our fellow Americans.
#FirstAmendment
#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
17 days ago
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Who is
#GeorgiaFort
? She's the
#journalist
arrested today in Trump's fascist America.
#FirstAmendment
#FreePress
#FreeSpeech
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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Who Is Georgia Fort, the Other Journalist Arrested Over a Church Protest?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/who-is-georgia-fort-journalist-arrested-church-protest.html
17 days ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
17 days ago
FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested alongside three others "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-lemon-arrested-federal-authorities-attorney-says-rcna256680
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Don Lemon
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Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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Phil Lewis
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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue
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This is from Georgia Fort’s video. DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
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Ilhan Omar
17 days ago
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
17 days ago
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
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jamelle
17 days ago
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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Never thought I'd be living in a country w/ethnic cleansing AND the arrest of
#journalists
at the same time but here we are.
#FirstAmendment
#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
oh yeah that applies to
#protesters
too
#GeorgiaFort
#DonLemon
www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...
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Journalist Don Lemon taken into custody after Minnesota church protest | CNN Politics
Lemon and another independent journalist, George Fort, have been taken into federal custody in connection to a protest at a church earlier this month in St. Paul, Minnesota.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/politics/don-lemon-custody
17 days ago
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Late stage capitalism and or capitulation comes for
@washingtonpost.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
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Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
18 days ago
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Posting this trailer for "Network," the 1976 movie my mother absolutely loved and I think foretold the future....at least where the
#CapitulationBroadcastingSystem
#CBS
Evening
#News
is concerned. Do you think
#BariWeiss
has seen it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwQ...
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Network (1976) Trailer | Faye Dunaway | William Holden
YouTube video by Film Trailer Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwQaUffIHI
18 days ago
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Some good (
#FirstAmendment
#FreeSpeech
) news about teachers reading
#books
to school children:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
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Educator Who Read ‘I Need a New Butt!’ to Students Wins Job Back in Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/new-butt-book-appeal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
18 days ago
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When all else fails, there's always buyouts.
#CapitulationBroadcastSystem
#CBS
#BariWeiss
#legacymedia
#broadcastjournalism
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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CBS News Seeks Buyouts at ‘Evening News’
CBS News Seeks Buyouts at 'Evening News'
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-evening-news-buyouts-bari-weiss-tony-dokoupil-1236643552/
18 days ago
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