Corbin Bolies
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new: David Letterman has remained silent on CBS' canceling "The Late Show," but if his YouTube account is anything to go by, he isn't happy. His "Letterman" channel posted a 20-minute montage of all the times he sniped at CBS + an old Colbert interview. thedailybeast.com/letterman-back…
Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
I spoke to Allison Silverman, Stephen Colbert's former head writer for "The Colbert Report." She told me how Colbert was dedicated to "service," and speaking out about the Paramount settlement reflected his care for CBS News. Hours after we spoke, his show was canceled.…
These cuts by Fox in Trump interview on Epstein are more substantively consequential than those cited in Trump's lawsuit against CBS (which basically included Harris's full answer across 2 shows)
I had not seen this Fox News extended interview with Trump from 2024 — where they deliberately edited his Epstein answer — where he won’t commit to releasing the full files because of “phony” stuff in it.
Graydon Carter was banished from Swifty Lazar’s Oscar-night fete. Then he seduced the town, took over the event & turned it into one of the most coveted invites in the world. New excerpt from my Condé Nast book is up now at @THR: hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/life… On sale Tuesday!
Davidson tangled with a Post editor over other "restrictions," too, and concluded that "I can't live with that level of constraint. A column without commentary made me a columnist without a column." h/t @CorbinBolies thedailybeast.com/wapo-columnist…
new: NBC's Tom Llamas scored his first win in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demo this week, beating ABC's David Muir on Tuesday (904,000 v. 891,000). comes after Llamas lost his first month to Muir, though he's been gaining ground. my story from Monday:…
less than 48 hours after an antisemitism scandal and they literally want to put the "mechahitler" bot in cars wired.com/story/elon-mus…
Elon's first public comments on Linda Yaccarino's exit. Story here: thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-x-p…
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But what she was seeking in writer-director David Lowery’s “Mother Mary,” due later this year, was the chance to submit (her word) to the unknown. “I had to submit to being a beginner,” she explains. vogue.com/article/anne-h…
The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The political theater of the last six months was the stuff of an Aaron Sorkin fantasy. It passed despite the upper chamber versus lower chamber infighting, despite the partisan zingers during overnight committee mark-ups, despite the feud between the world’s richest man and the…
New: G/O Media is shutting down, its CEO Jim Spanfeller says, after announcing the sale of Kotaku to European media co Keleops. The Root is the only site left at G/O Media, and Spanfeller says they are still hunting for a buyer nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus…
scoop — The Washington Post is piloting a program that will allow sources in its articles to annotate the stories they’re mentioned in. Here's the memo from executive editor Matt Murray:
Wrote about Alex Warren, Benson Boone, and how "tradpop" fits into this cultural/political moment, one year after brat summer
Tucker Carlson’s first comments since the U.S. struck Iran:
Thank God.
Cable news Saturday night -- Fox: Bret Baier, Jennifer Griffin, among others CNN: Anderson Cooper, Clarissa Ward in Israel MSNBC: 'The Weekend' hosts rely on NBC News correspondents, w/ Rachel Maddow coming on at 9p, Nicolle Wallace expected
The most shocking details of the Minnesota shootings seem confounding. Maybe they aren't. slate.trib.al/Yy2OLQh
NEW: How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel. @jonathanvswan @MarkMazzettiNYT @ronenbergman @EricSchmittNYT @helenecooper @julianbarnes me nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/…