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After the COVID-19 pandemic, two strikes in Hollywood and with the impact of streaming and the advent of A.I, the media landscape has continued to shift and consolidate, as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav predicted as recently as the 2024 Allen & Co. Sun Valley Retreat. Zazlav knows whereof…

UPDATED: Among those who were laid off from CNN today were Brian Lowry, its media critic, and senior tech writer Samantha Murphy Kelly. CNN Worldwide CEO Mark Thompson said that about 100 people would be impacted by the job cuts, or about 2.9% of its 3,500 employee workforce. Lowry has been a…

For the second time in less than a week, Donald Trump has called on Joe Biden to go "man-to-man" in another debate with no moderators, but this time the ex-president has thrown in a round or two of golf as well. Swinging at one topic after another, including the fictional Hannibal Lector again, at a…

Ana Navarro is slamming the wall-to-wall coverage on CNN and other news networks surrounding Joe Biden following the presidential debate, questioning if he should step down. The View co-host is taking some time off but took a break from her vacation to turn on the news and was not happy with what she…

Editor's note: Damon Lindelof has been a significant contributor to Democrats up and down the ballot for years, including to the campaigns of President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden. However, after Biden’s stumbling debate performance last week, the Emmy-winning…

"I want to be really clear, I have not heard anything like what has been reported in the New York Times," Rep Debbie Dingell (D-MI) told MSNBC this morning as the Old Gray Lady reported that the incumbent is considering his options about continuing his reelection effort in the fallout from last week's…

EXCLUSIVE and UPDATED: "Why isn't Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?” Those are the questions an exasperated top Hollywood donor had Sunday as the blast radius from the president's disastrous June 27 debate performance continued to expand despite the White…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's reelection campaign has a problem with some of its top donors after last night’s debate fiasco, and they may have just made it worse. To mollify the agitation and quell a "cooling," as one insider put it, among some of the most generous entertainment industry donors on both…

UPDATED with Stone comment: After an outpouring of concern from Hollywood notables prompted by Joe Biden’s performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Sharon Stone offered a counterpoint today in a video she posted to Instagram. “I’ve been thinking a lot about last night’s debate,” Stone says…

The Biden vs Trump debate took place in the small hours of the morning in many parts of the world but one only needed to watch a few clips and glance at headlines within minutes of waking up to get a feel for what had happened. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the global press focused on a very tough…

UPDATED, 1:48 PM: Final figures showed that the CNN presidential debate drew an estimated 51.3 million viewers across 16 networks, according to Nielsen. That is a drop of almost 30% from the 73.1 million who watched the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in 2020. The…

During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Vice President Kamala Harris ackowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during Thursday night’s debate but insisted that it was a “strong finish.” Cooper repeatedly pressed Harris on Democratic concerns over Biden’s performance, in which…