Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Chief Media Analyst, @CNN / Author, "Top of the Morning," "Hoax," and "Network of Lies" / @TheMorningShow producer / Class Dad
Out with the oldspeak. In with President Trump's newspeak – or else. The AP being barred from Trump's events is part of a much larger weaponization of language to advance the MAGA agenda 🧵
You can tell this a lot of times because all of these weirdo foreign accounts LARPing as American are all racist in a direction that most Americans just... aren't?
why is it that about half of all high engagement rightwing accounts that focus on american politics aren’t even american
As Laurene Powell Jobs turns The Atlantic into a journalistic all-star team, an even richer owner lets some of his best talent walk out the door every week.
🗞️"@CapehartJ, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at The Washington Post after 18 years with the paper," @sarafischer reports in Axios AM. Capehart will "continue to co-host 'The Weekend' on MSNBC."
"This attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment," the @WHCA says after the Trump admin nixes the WSJ from an upcoming trip cnn.com/2025/07/21/med…
Wonder if the anger will extend to other Murdoch properties. FWIW: This is why capitulating on these previous phony lawsuits was such a mistake by Paramount and Disney. If you give a mouse a cookie…
"The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland," after the WSJ story about Trump's birthday note for Epstein's 50th. @politico reports politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Here's what @PressSec is saying about the White House's retaliation against the @WSJ: "As the appeals court confirmed, the Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in…
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…
We have yet to see if the Epstein story really dings Trump with his base. What's clear: That skepticism of his and his administration's actions among the base is more substantial than on virtually anything else -- including Jan. 6. cnn.com/2025/07/21/pol…
"What rich irony that the defense against the latest assault by Trump on press freedom is now in the hands of old crocodile Rupert Murdoch, the very media owner whose Fox News gave us Trump in the first place" —@TinaBrownLM open.substack.com/pub/tinabrown/…
"The black or white views of Trump that animated the 2024 campaign now carry over to how most voters view his presidency." Check out John King's latest check-in with voters participating in CNN’s “All Over the Map” project cnn.com/2025/07/21/pol…
I have a fairly long reflection on the cancelation of @StephenAtHome, informed by my own experience working for a big, dumb network. natesilver.net/p/why-colbert-…
NBC: "A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using AI to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump admin." Researcher @darrenlinvill says the bots exist to "massage perceptions" nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
JUST IN: Trump’s lawsuit against Murdoch and the WSJ goes to Judge Darrin Gayles, an appointee of Barack Obama.
Colbert will "be fine, of course — but he also has 200 staffers to think about," @latenightercom's Jed Rosenzweig points out cnn.com/2025/07/21/med…
Remember when Trump said his settlement deal with Paramount was actually worth 2x as much as it was announced for? Well, this morning Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Skydance CEO David Ellison asking whether there is a "secret side deal." washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
"If I had to choose between fame and a billion dollars, I would choose fame 100 times out of 100. It’s very hard to achieve."
this was really well done imho wired.com/story/big-inte…
one year ago today, Wolf's day took quite a turn.
Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC.
"I hope it reflects that people really want to understand the story from the beginning," says @jkbjournalist. tinyurl.com/3u7ce5x4
Today's @ReliableSources lead: What will Stephen Colbert say tonight, on his first show since the cancellation news? Here's our roundup: cnn.it/453NeHp
I'm live on The @BrianLehrer Show — and taking listener calls! — for the next half hour or so 🔌 👂🏼 wnyc.org/radio/
