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The Big Picture: Streaming and Social Media Climb Amid Traditional Media’s Slow-Motion Breakdown
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Sold! The Lakers Remain Hollywood’s Team as Sale Sheds a Tie to a Storied Past
Jerry Buss turned the “Showtime” Lakers into the biggest party in L.A. – now new owner Mark Walter faces a high bar to continue that legacy
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HBO’s ‘Surviving Ohio State’ Documentary Doesn’t Play Politics in Exploring the Abuse Scandal
Review: Rep. Jim Jordan comes off badly in the George Clooney-produced docu about abused college wrestlers, but he’s not alone
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The Assault on Good-for-You TV: C-SPAN and PBS Teeter as Trump Attacks
Programming spared from commercial pressure to serve viewers is suffering as politics and changing distribution weighs in
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LA Protest Coverage Sparks Cable News Ratings Growth, CNN Doubles Audience
Plus, NBA finals ratings slide in first two games, while the NCAA Women’s College World Series delivers historic viewership
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Congrats, Conservative Media: Even Your Fans Don’t Always Trust You
A Pew Research study found Democrats and Republicans split on their choice of news sources, but another rift on who they trust, and don’t, also stands out
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Amid Cable Spinoffs, Trump’s CNN and MSNBC Hostility Could Raise M&A Hurdles
News operations threaten to complicate dealmaking for Versant and now WBD’s cable group, as Paramount has discovered with “60 Minutes”
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Moguls Take Aim at Zaslav’s Vision of WBD as Company Splits: ‘It Was a Failure’
Said one top executive: “It’s a deal that never had a shot and shouldn’t have been done. But they’ve also done a terrible job running the company”
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Trump’s ‘California in Chaos’ Dystopia? Not if You Live Here
The administration and its media allies paint a distorted, politically motivated picture that’s untethered from L.A.’s reality but made for social media
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Barry Diller’s Road to Success: 8 Tips You Can Follow, and a Few You Probably Can’t
The billionaire mogul’s autobiography “Who Knew” details his business philosophy, overshadowed in part by personal revelations that helped forge it
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The Trump vs. Musk Brawl Is an Old-White-Guys Version of a ‘Real Housewives’ Catfight
The president and billionaire’s escalating social media insults have serious implications – but for now, it’s a pass-the-popcorn moment
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Molly Jong-Fast on Mom Erica Jong, Dementia, Sobriety and Joe Biden
The political commentator has a new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother”
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Wages a Lonely Fight for Press Freedom in Trumpland
Facing Brendan Carr and Trump’s punitive actions against media companies, the commission’s outnumbered Democrat publicly pushes back
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‘Mountainhead’ Packs a Sobering Warning Within Its ‘Tech Bros Gone Wild’ Satire
Director Jesse Armstrong’s Emmy-bait movie can’t match “Succession,” but its take on oligarchs, AI and disinformation feels grounded in reality
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Bob Pittman on 50 Years in Media and What He’s Not Saying About the Future
Office With a View: The CEO of iHeart Media, the co-founder of MTV and former top AOL-Time Warner exec also says he loves ad-supported audio podcasts because it’s just “radio on demand”
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