FIFA joins the Trump capitulation charade. It's not as though these supposed stewards of the beautiful game fell from a moral perch to begin with.

Purges that come after every media merger have an even more sinister cast in the hands of Barry Weiss, who plays lip service to notions of diverse thought (which to her applies only to conservative voices) while, in practice, eliminating people of color from CBS' payroll. c/o @treymous.bsky.social

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

... @gregsargent.bsky.social blasts to bits the notion—championed by some in legacy media—of an *either/or* approach to campaign against the GOP: Their misguided thinking is that you can't focus on both Trump's authoritarianism & kitchen-table issues, preferring the latter. It's a both/and ...

Meta annually earns $16 billion (with a "b") on ads built to defraud people. It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy. Reporting by Reuters. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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At CJR, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social speaks to legacy media's (in this case NYT & WSJ) disdain for any politician who upsets the cozy status quo enjoyed by their top editors & owners. Essentially, how can you "afflict the comfortable" — to quote F.P. Dunne — when you're swaddled in media power?

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

No better way to capture last night's zeitgeist than "Morning Joe" bringing on ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt to attack Mamdani

The breathless Post goes full McCarthy.

This seems to be one next-day narrative that many legacy news outlets are coalescing around (These examples from lead stories in today's NYT and at CNN). It comes off as horserace-y, but the media pundocracy's gotta stick to the playbook, even after election day.

among the many wins tonight: in at least four races where AI/data centers were front and center - two Public Service Commission seats in GA and two VA House races - the incumbents are out

To be clear, Trump never had a public mandate. He won the General with less than 50% of the popular vote. Tonight just makes it far more difficult for legacy media to continue to claim that he has.

Chants of "Shame on Sliwa" from the crowd assembled at the Cuomo non-victory party. So pathetic. For those claiming third-way centrism is the future look no further than Cuomo 's losing campaign.

Bloodbath.

I can't decide if this is funny or disturbing. I'm going with hilarious ... (volume on)

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

The numbers 6 and 7 have just endorsed Andrew Cuomo to be NYC's next mayor.

NYT's choses revealing pic to lead its Cheney obit—seated next to former Sec. of State Colin Powell, who lied to the world about the supposed existence of Iraqi WMDs, paving the path for a war that unnecessarily cost hundreds of thousands of lives & set a region on its ongoing & deadly trajectory.

Every now and then I dip back into the Xitter to see what's trending in hell (I maintain a tombstoned account there for such rare moments), and was surprised to find a new follower from the Trump 45 era:

Another example of vibe shift between Trump’s first presidency and now: In 2017, Teen Vogue stood out for outspoken, social-justice politics. In 2025, it laid off its entire politics team, including the last two Black women journalists on staff. NBC and CBS have made similar moves.

Another major media conglomerate (Advance Publications) signals its willingness to abide by the Trump Administration's segregationist agenda.

Merge and purge claims its latest crop of victims, and at the hands of nepo-baby Chloe Malle who's never had to worry about her next paycheck.

That would cover the costs of nearly 50 working reporters (assuming $75K starting salaries) pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Question for @cbsnews.com: How much of a role did Bari Weiss play in selecting the edits to last night's "60 Minutes" Trump interview? Thanks in advance for your prompt response (which you can provide via DMs if you prefer).

So ... "60 Minutes" made edits to its Trump interview, including to Trump's unhinged response to questions about possible payouts to his family in exchange for pardoning a billionaire crypto-crony. The edited 2024 Kamala interview, for which Paramount paid Trump dearly seems a forgotten footnote:

Jemima Kelly ( @jemima.bsky.social ) nails it to the door: www.ft.com/content/5ada...

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

A news outlet that prides itself on scooping all others is embarrassingly late to this story. Two questions of my own 1. Is this still even a question? 2. How does the Times explain its reluctance to ask this question in 2024, when doing so might have mattered? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At Status_, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social indicates that Comcast may also be in the running to bid for Warner Bros. WBD's Zaslav, no doubt, would be happy to have competitive bidders, but Trump's contempt for Comcast Chairman David Roberts may get in the way: www.status.news/p/comcast-wa... 1/4

New at Media Nation: The Washington Post runs three editorials failing to disclose Jeff Bezos' business interests. dankennedy.net/2025/10/29/t...

CNN just now played that clip of Trump again claiming he's very popular with people, receiving “the best polling numbers" ever. CNN let's the claim pass w/o the necessary corrective: According to Economist: Trump's is deep underwater (-18%) with approval ratings far worse than his predecessors.

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

CNN is doing damage control for a White House that is reeling following a week of fierce public backlash to Trump's illegal East Wing demolition. @status.news reports... www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

Uh oh, the FCC Chairman is podcasting again. Brendan Carr’s supposed efforts to “reinvigorate the public-interest standard” are really about bullying timid media executives and transforming their newsrooms into Trump mouthpieces. New Pressing Issues out now! Subscribe!

Not only are capitulating media giants tearing down the Fourth Estate, they're the money behind the literal tear down of the White House's East Wing: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New video @afp.com: I explained how we caught US President Donald Trump's White House using outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and other states in a video that it claimed showed "Chicago is in chaos." youtube.com/shorts/sKRcv...

The Elliot Smith force is strong in this one: open.spotify.com/track/0i8yxF...

I interviewed Indivisible's @ezralevin.bsky.social & @antonioarellano.com about the media's spotty coverage of Saturday's massive #NoKings rallies. “No Kings did not end on Saturday," Antonio says. "It is the continuation of a movement that has been building all summer, & we are not stopping now.”

"Successful movements evolve and grow and mature and engage in new tactics," @ezralevin.bsky.social of Indivisible tells @jenpsaki.msnbc.com "The trajectory is up ... but growth isn't enough; we have to then apply that power in a way that successfully pushes back against the regime."

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.

That he's damaged is something we all can agree on. But let's call corruption by its name.

The 25th edition of PressingIssues.org is strong media analysis by @timkarr.bsky.social To the Nation’s Dominant Media, No Kings Means No Coverage Why many legacy media outfits are allergic to protest reporting

DHS was caught lying about almost this exact same series of events — an agent shooting someone after that person allegedly rammed the agent’s car — less than 3 weeks ago, in Chicago www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/u...

ah shucks

"Potential ethical complaints" is textbook Timespeak. As one of my colleagues said: "It's like they're trying to put the pitch bot out of work." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

Your Monday reminder that the nation's largest public protest *ever* happened over the weekend. (Necessary as the nation's largest newspapers have already moved on from their #NoKings reporting, which was fairly paltry to begin with). Today's headlines:

Sad reality...

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.