The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur. from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

The new Washington Post opinion editor delivered surprise layoff notices to high-profile columnists and editors on Yom Kippur, while some were off observing the holiday. They’re being replaced with reliably conservative voices as Bezos tilts right, via @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

A veteran CBS News journalist tells @status.news about Bari Weiss: “She has the gall to write her 10 commandments of journalism and share them with us? She is not a journalist, never has been.” www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

NEW: X's former communications chief speaks out in an exclu interview, telling me social media is not a replacement for journalism. That's in direct contrast to what his former boss Elon Musk says, who often bashes the media and says X is the media now.

Hands down @oliverdarcy.bsky.social is the main must read in media reporting www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

News: The Pentagon has sent out its revised rules to reporters who wish to have building access. The new rules say that even soliciting tips on social media is grounds for losing badge access, per a copy I've obtained. More in tonight's edition of @status.news. Subscribe: www.status.news/subscribe

It's now clear that Tom Cibrowski -- CBS News' president and a broadcast-news veteran who has covered wars, earthquakes and plane crashes-- will now have his judgment frequently overridden or second-guessed by Bari Weiss, who has never done any of those things. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Washington Post editor Matt Murray defends Jeff Bezos’ changes at the paper in a rare interview with @status.news: “there is zero ‘meddling’ from Jeff on the news report. Full stop.” www.status.news/p/matt-murra...

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events. It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath. And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Scoop: The Washington Post's ad chief has been eying an exit from the newspaper. It's an exit that, should it happen, would spell big problems for Jeff Bezos' already embattled outlet. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

On Monday, I testified at a forum held by Senators Blumenthal and Warren on Trump's efforts to stifle free speech. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/free-speec...

The Pentagon is demanding news outlets sign a policy not to report on anything without its permission. @status.news has learned no major outlet, including Fox, plans to sign Hegseth's pledge, setting up a showdown just as top military brass arrive for a rare meeting www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

White House photo op for the president's granddaughter's new $130 sweatshirt line

The Trump Bibles in the classroom guy is out

After dozens of educators nationwide were fired or suspended for social media posts about Charlie Kirk, several have now filed federal lawsuits, saying these schools violated their First Amendment rights www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

As I was saying…

"while most news organizations devote enormous resources to covering Washington, very little is still spent by comparison toward covering the online underworld where movements are born and its adherents are radicalized"

“Well, there’s no question we are facing asymmetric civil warfare," far-right extremist Jack Posobiec told CNN. Instead of the correspondent pushing back, CNN put it in the chyron and headline. The interview then set off internal backlash. Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/cnn-jack-p...

Scoop: CNN's softball interview with far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec drew internal backlash from senior journalists at the network, including Jake Tapper. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-jack-p...

YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir” It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it. In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg told Republicans the Biden administration had pressured him to take content down. Now Google is doing the same thing. It's move designed to give Jim Jordan a win, while keeping Google off the regulatory hook. www.businessinsider.com/google-meta-...

NEW: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused by family members of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren. Elon has repeatedly had to intervene, a secret that’s spanned generations. Our months-long investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

“It takes big balls to stand up to any of this shit, but it’s hard to understand why, rich as he is, Bob can’t have big balls. If he can’t stand up, who can?” puck.news/iger-eisner-...

More than an hour after Disney announced Kimmel will be back on the air, affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair, which publicly grandstanded about his comments last week, remain silent on if they will broadcast the show

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Some personal news: Thrilled to be joining former CNN colleagues Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino at Status.news, writing about Hollywood, media and everything surrounding them. Will start in a few weeks, but you can check out the site here: www.status.news www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

So excited to join the @status.news team and contribute to their unflinching coverage of the industry

Absolutely thrilled to have @nataliekorach.bsky.social and @brianlowry.bsky.social joining us at @status.news as we expand our coverage of the media and entertainment industry, holding those in power to account www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Bob Iger once stood up to political pressure and publicly called out his successor. Now he’s facing the same backlash after pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air, emboldening Trump and his administration’s attacks on the media. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

"By suspending Kimmel under political pressure, Iger hasn’t just abandoned its biggest star. He’s signaled that under his leadership, Disney will play ball with the government, even if it means... putting the very principle of free speech at risk." www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

“.. Iger hasn’t just abandoned its biggest star. He’s signaled that .. Disney will play ball with the government, even if it means jeopardizing its credibility, alienating its audience, and putting the very principle of free speech at risk.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Someone opened fire on the ABC affiliate in Sacramento www.kcra.com/article/abc1...

Michael Eisner, welcome to the Resistance.

BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage. Must be rewritten within 28 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CNN staffers are bracing for the Ellison family’s looming bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—a takeover that could merge the network with CBS News, hand Bari Weiss editorial power, and radically reshape its future. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

"A person close to the show said that Kimmel was planning to say that his words were being purposefully twisted by some members of the Make America Great Again movement." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Bari Weiss' Free Press, in its attempt to criticize the Trump FCC over the muzzling of Kimmel falsely claims the comedian said Kirk's killer was a conservative, and then goes on to blame Bluesky. This is what David Ellison is buying for $100 million+ and is coming to CBS News and perhaps CNN

Weird, I wonder why

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

“I think the long game is clearly to weaponize government, to use the power and the force of the federal government to target people who speak out against this president,” @oliverdarcy.bsky.social tells NPR after Kimmel is pulled from the air one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5544...

Jon Stewart in 2022: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether... When a society feels under threat, comedians are who gets sent away first.” apnews.com/article/bill...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

How the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air went down inside ABC with emergency meetings convened and the comedian preparing to go on the air to address the situation before execs pulled the plug, via @status.news www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

Couldn't have said it better myself

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Flashback to 2019