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Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Reject David Zaslav’s $51.9 Million Pay Package for 2024
The non-binding “Say-on-Pay” vote came during the media giant’s annual meeting on Monday
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Trump Calls on Congress to Erase $1.1 Billion in Public Broadcast Funds
The president’s rescission request comes after he signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR last month
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CNN, Jake Tapper Ratings Drop as Biden Book Faces Blowback
Coincidence or cause? Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Kaitlan Collins all saw their viewership drop 18% at the same time Tapper’s ratings fell while promoting “Original Sin”
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Vox Media Union Pledges to Strike Without New Deal Addressing AI, Rising Costs
The strike threat, made by WGA East, says it wants a joint contract that includes The Dodo Union colleagues
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David Mamet Compares Democratic Party to Families Who Deny They Have Pedophile Fathers | Video
The “Glengarry Glen Ross” playwright tells Fox News that “everything in the Democrats’ playbook” is geared towards denying reality
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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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CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Alex Marquardt Exits Months After Defamation Lawsuit
The veteran correspondent was at the center of a defamation lawsuit after he reported a U.S. Navy veteran “exploited” fleeing Afghans
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Bill Simmons Thinks ESPN Will ‘F—k’ Up ‘Inside the NBA’
The Sports Guy says his former network will have to change how it does commercials in order to give Barkley & Co. the room they need to operate
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John Brenkus, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Sport Science,’ Dies at 54
The Base Productions and Brinx TV founder had been battling depression, his family shares
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Elon Musk Tells CBS ‘DOGE Will Continue as a Way of Life,’ Still Questions Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ | Video
The tech entrepreneur deflects questions about international students at Harvard
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George Stephanopoulos, Unfazed by $16 Million ABC Settlement, Accuses Trump of Corruption: ‘Scale Is Staggering’ | Video
ABC News agreed to pay Trump a $16 million defamation settlement in December – so you can bet they carefully fact-checked this bombshell
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OAN Pentagon Reporter and Self-Styled ‘MAGA Girl’ Says She Was Fired for Criticizing Pete Hegseth’s Press Restrictions
Gabrielle Cuccia, a former Trump White House staffer, wrote that the Defense Secretary’s rules are the “antithesis” of MAGA values
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In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Shutter as All Staff Are Laid Off
The number of staffer impacted by the McClatchy Media Company layoffs is unclear
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President Trump Bids Elon Musk Farewell From Oval Office: ‘We’ll Remember You’
Musk says DOGE is “a way of life” that will continue following his exit from the Trump Administration