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Puck’s Dylan Byers has the backstory on the strange Morning Joe post-debate preemption that left co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist chafing at NBC News Group chairman Cesar Conde. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dXFS-EXg Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images #Media

David Ellison’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount is already facing legal challenges, including a new suit from Mario Gabelli, the long-suffering Paramount shareholder who is now questioning whether Shari Redstone’s sweetheart deal was just a little too rich. Gabelli explains his beef to Puck’s legal expert, Eriq Gardner: https://lnkd.in/ejwH9HY4 Photo: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg/Getty Images #Media #Legal #Finance 

“The Democrats are neither here nor there, neither all in nor all out, neither fully supporting their nominee nor ditching him, a situation perfectly summed up by a Russian expression: a turd stuck in an eddy,” Puck’s Julia Ioffe writes. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezgugPKs Photos: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images, Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Has the political class been thinking about young voters in the wrong way? Puck’s Peter Hamby got his hands on fresh research on the youth vote, coming from a brand-new organization “FutureVoice,” which has the goal of reimagining how campaigns approach Gen Z and young millennial voters. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ecq2jh9v Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images #Polling 

“With the benefit of hindsight, of course, it feels like it was always going to be Senator Vance,” Puck’s Peter Hamby writes. “Trump trusts him, he’s a loyal Mar-a-Lago supplicant, and the fact that he’s close with Donald Trump Jr. made it a sure thing down the stretch.” Peter sizes up Trump’s V.P. announcement, and examines what the polls really say about the state of the race, here: https://lnkd.in/ey-hKyzp Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

“My hope is that Joshua Schulman will indeed home in on Burberry’s Englishness, and its heritage in outerwear, instead of trying to sell an empty dream,” Lauren Sherman writes. Read the full dispatch from Puck’s fashion correspondent here: https://lnkd.in/eWRUBbbq Photos: Victor Boyko/Getty Images for Michael Kors, Macall B. Polay/HBO #Fashion #Leadership 

With Carlos Watson’s guilty verdict, we’re revisiting William D. Cohan’s “Carlos Watson Has a Cold,” a tale of the embattled OZY Media founder, a turkey club sandwich, and a misadventure in crisis management. #Media #Legal

The semi-secret, multipart Prince documentary that Oscar-winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman has been working on for more than four years finds itself caught in purgatory. “While Netflix and Edelman maintain final cut of the film, the Netflix deal with (Prince’s) estate calls for a six-hour series, and Edelman delivered nine hours,” Matthew Belloni reports. “The estate has been using that violation of the agreement to essentially hold the film hostage.” Will the doc ever premiere? Read Matt’s full story here: https://lnkd.in/eXHD255d Photos: Kristian Dowling/Getty Images for Lotusflow3r.com #Legal #Hollywood 

“It is going to be a sight to see—and not a pretty one, at least for those of us who considered ourselves card-carrying members of Team Democracy,” John Heilemann writes of the Republican National Convention this week following the Trump rally shooting. Read John’s full dispatch here: https://lnkd.in/eHz-dqNd Photos: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

“With the marketing upgrade of Paris+ (no, it’s not a streaming service) to Art Basel Paris and the tailwind of attention many expect after the Olympics, along with the consistent push from the Arnault and Pinault clans to draw attention to the city as the capital of the art-luxury industrial complex, there’s a dawning recognition that Paris will be playing a bigger role in the art trade—and its late October pit stop on the international swirl will become a signature annual event,” Marion Maneker writes. Puck’s art market expert examines the battle for Paris that’s shaping up a solid three months ahead of Art Basel Paris: https://lnkd.in/evtVDz9W Photo: Luc Castel/Getty Images #Art #Auctions