Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Spiking a news story the day before publication to protect an authoritarian regime is like stuffing ballot boxes after the polls close to rig an election. It's not how the pros do it; if you waited that long, you're already in trouble; and you're not fooling anyone.

Go! Go! Go!

BTW you can let a Paramount+ agent that you'll cancel your sub unless they air an unedited CECOT segement on 60 Minutes here help.paramountplus.com/s/contact-us

no wait let her cook

“I know how we can make Trump look better, let’s put Stephen Miller on TV some more”

my position on automated traffic safety enforcement:

Republicans don't want to work anymore, sad.

the best part is that the documentary is absolutely going to be aired in the next few weeks and it will get 3-4x the viewership it would have gotten running without fanfare four days before christmas

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

it’s so annoying that i have to know what so many stupid incurious and hateful bigoted people are up to all the time. i shouldn’t even have to know what a “bari weiss” is.

the two people alive most likely to be the actual biblical Antichrist are the president and Mr Beast

Lmao

I know of only one way to make a broadcast network news division into an effective right-wing propaganda organ, but Bari Weiss is constitutionally incapable of discovering it. Give her a thousand years, and her own ego and stupidity would never let her see it.

anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties

it's the same ethos, and doomed for the same reasons, as redacting the entirety of the grand jury records from the epstein files. you aren't that hot shit! you didn't actually win forever in 2024!

Bari Weiss probably could have gotten away with glazing the regime in facially benign ways (e.g. the Erika Kirk obsession) but cancelling stories is the one thing you can't get away with because it threatens the most important thing to journalists: attention

I've been fucking saying

It’s ok to lib out right now

“60 days. 60 days to take down 60 minutes, you have to give the Weiss her props”

cargo cult fascism strikes again

chatterton doesn't really post here but i would love his thoughts on of his most famous episodes given today's events.

it's baffling how...dumb Bari Weiss is. like, how did you think this was going to go. how did you think this was going to look. I would say Everybody Is Twelve Now but twelve-year-olds are generally much smarter than this.

I guess every American needs a side hustle in this economy

the one thing that i don't think Bari Weiss (the fucking moron) recognizes is the fact that if there's one the press loves, it's about reporting on internal reporter drama

Bari Weiss, accelerationist antifa secret agent:

not that bright, things got out of hand, etc

Americans voted for Trump to make them rich

I don’t know how people who defend and enable sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag can sleep at night

it's going to be so goddamned funny to see Bari Weiss, a lifelong contrarian mediocrity, face a reaping of her own sowing

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

the knives are out welcome to the spotlight, Bari, hope it’s everything you ever wanted

yup, this is Kimmel redux and thrusts the takeover of CBS into a glaring public spotlight larger than any it’s already faced it’s a stupid move by a stupid person

every day I fight with my own mental health I try to remind myself that I am going to get to see my enemies battered to pieces and I want to be around for the gloating

remember how Kimmel went for them? it's going to be even worse

we now know what it would look like to have a IDW lesbian run NatCon Pravda very poorly

Nothing Bari Weiss censors is going to reverse this.

if Democrats were going to take over full management of the executive after their victories next year, I'd be pretty worried about having the political capital to do this.

LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer

against all odds we're probably going to get another shot at this and if the cost of exploiting is spiking Tim Kaine type Democrats into the pavement, we pay it.

I think Trump is clearly outrunning the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation but also the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation is worryingly high

'Woke at the point of a gun' is what I have in mind, personally

"assertively moral" is one way to put it

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

You can watch “Surviving CECOT” a ProPublica production for FRONTLINE on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

she's just doing what she was hired to do

so we're just getting straight-up censorship now.

Think about how Marjorie Taylor Greene was actually dumb enough to believe that the Epstein files mattered to Trump, and her disillusionment. There were people dumb enough to believe that the right-wing “free speech movement” was actually about free speech.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.