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@brianstelter "I asked FCC chair @BrendanCarrFCC if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show and he sent me this GIF"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-17T22:59Z 746.9K followers, 8.4M engagements

"Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president" since "he might be watching right now." Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T19:29Z 746.9K followers, 555.6K engagements

"For all of the people who have urged the American news media to stand together in the face of the Trump admin's attacks it's happening right now. All the major networks are speaking out against the Pentagon's new press restrictions:"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T19:26Z 746.9K followers, 62K engagements

"Pentagon beat reporters have been handing in their press passes all day long today. It is one of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T18:34Z 746.9K followers, 607.9K engagements

""Trumps Justice Department has now brought charges against three of the presidents political opponents""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-16T20:39Z 746.9K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Let's see if news outlets replay Mike Johnson's soundbites in between the videos of patriotic crowds waving American flags today"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T14:27Z 746.9K followers, 102.4K engagements

"Ari Cohn counsel at @TheFIREorg reacts: "The government pressured ABC and ABC caved. The timing of ABC's decision on the heels of the FCC chairmans pledge to the network to do this the easy way or the hard way tells the whole story. Another media outlet withered under government pressure ensuring that the administration will continue to extort and exact retribution on broadcasters and publishers who criticize it. We cannot be a country where late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn to resist government pressure that is"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-17T23:01Z 746.9K followers, 2.2M engagements

"But there is still perhaps ironically an old plaque in the hallway that promotes the Pentagons principles for the "free flow of information." Press advocates say Hegseth is undermining those principles by pushing reporters out and trying to stop them from talking with sources"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T18:37Z 746.9K followers, 16.1K engagements

"As I reported here for CNN military officers who liaise with the press at the Pentagon have privately expressed regret about Hegseth's clampdown. One longtime military reporter described "lots of grim sad faces and apologies.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T18:37Z 746.9K followers, 19.1K engagements

"This morning CNN announced that its "All Access" subscription tier enabling people to live stream CNN TV without cable will roll out on October XX. And more importantly CNN set the price: $XXXX per month $XXXXX per year. (And an intro price of $XXXXX for the first year.)"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-16T13:03Z 746.9K followers, 88.8K engagements

""No Kings 2" is well underway. I just saw dozens of protesters holding signs at an overpass near my local mall. CNN is showing live scenes of big crowds in New York Boston Atlanta DC. Shimon Prokupecz reports "tens of thousands" of people in and around Times Square"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T16:12Z 746.9K followers, 104.6K engagements

"In her first note to CBS News staffers Bari Weiss lists XX "core journalistic values that have defined this profession since the beginning" and says "I will continue to champion them alongside you:""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-06T13:08Z 746.9K followers, 412.7K engagements

"Zohran Mamdani is constantly talked about on Fox News almost always negatively. (A SnapStream search shows more than XXX mentions of Mamdani in the past two weeks.) Today HE'LL be the one doing the talking on Fox. Details in today's @ReliableSources:"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T16:28Z 746.9K followers, 15.4K engagements

"CBS News desperately needs someone to supercharge its digital strategy. Maybe The Free Press can help. But staffers reading this morning's memos are left to wonder: What exactly do the new bosses think we're doing wrong"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-06T14:27Z 746.9K followers, 373.6K engagements

"The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-13T23:24Z 746.9K followers, 28.5K engagements

"Reps for CNN Reuters The AP The New York Times The Washington Post The Atlantic and NPR have all said that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign either"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-13T23:24Z 746.9K followers, 10.3K engagements

"CNN Fox News NBC ABC and CBS just issued a joint statement: "We join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagons new requirements which would restrict journalists ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades upholding the principles of a free and independent press.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T17:03Z 746.9K followers, 3.2M engagements

"While news choppers are showing huge "No Kings" crowds in major cities protesters in small towns are documenting their own events via social media vividly showing the scale of today's anti-Trump gatherings. I talked with a few of them for CNN's coverage"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T21:08Z 746.9K followers, 50.1K engagements

"Breaking: One of the country's biggest owners of ABC stations Nexstar says it will preempt Jimmy Kimmel's show "for the foreseeable future" because it "strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-17T22:18Z 746.8K followers, 1.4M engagements

"The @NewYorker has just released next week's cover. "Remote Control" by Barry Blitt captures "Donald Trump's unprecedented series of attacks on the media destruction of federal programs and abuses of executive power that have ushered in a new era of political vengeance.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-18T21:13Z 746.8K followers, 341.3K engagements

"The Pentagon's policies "appear designed to stifle a free press" and "further isolate reporters" who are trying to do their jobs the Pentagon Press Association says. Here's my full story"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-08T19:48Z 746.8K followers, 7642 engagements

"Bloomberg: "Warner Bros Discovery has rebuffed Paramount Skydance's initial takeover approach for being too low according to people familiar with the matter.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-12T04:36Z 746.8K followers, 16.7K engagements

"Paramount's initial overture to WBD was recognized by both sides as a "lowball" proposal according to one source. However another source cautioned that David Ellison is "pragmatic and rational when it comes to value and pricing." The tug of war is just beginning"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T13:32Z 746.8K followers, 8312 engagements

"To some this media merger chatter is mostly about business; to others it's mostly about politics. Truth be told it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins.Trump praised his "friends" at Paramount just the other day"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T13:33Z 746.8K followers, 6754 engagements

"In an interview that aired on Fox today Trump made it sound like the Murdochs are personally involved in the pending TikTok deal. I'm told the talks are about Fox Corp becoming part of the consortium not Rupert or Lachlan individually per a person familiar with the matter"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-21T17:07Z 746.8K followers, 20.1K engagements

"New statement from Nexstar: "Nexstar is continuing to evaluate the status ofJimmy Kimmel Liveon our ABC-affiliated local television stations and the show will be preempted while we do so. We are engaged in productive discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Company with a focus on ensuring the program reflects and respects the diverse interests of the communities we serve.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-24T18:21Z 746.8K followers, 14.2K engagements

"The blackout is over: "Nexstar today announced that 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will return to the companys owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network beginning tonight.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-09-26T20:51Z 746.8K followers, 46.4K engagements

"Military officials are pushing forward with new restrictions on the Pentagon press corps despite objections from news organizations and watchdog groups. News outlets are signaling that they don't intend to sign"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-08T19:48Z 746.8K followers, 7884 engagements

"Tuesday's @ReliableSources lead: At the surface Paramount's pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery is barely making a ripple. Beneath the surface however the thrashing and maneuvering is wild like something straight out of Discovery's "Shark Week.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T13:30Z 746.8K followers, 9969 engagements

"The Pentagon's deadline for journalists to accept its new press access policy has passed and pretty much the entire Pentagon press corps has declined to sign. I'm up next on @OutFrontCNN with the story"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-14T23:34Z 746.8K followers, 15.8K engagements

"MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler has been diagnosed with breast cancer and she will undergo surgery next month. On this morning's editorial call she told staffers that the prognosis is good and that she anticipates being away for just a few weeks"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T14:21Z 746.8K followers, 10.9K engagements

""There's a thought among some of them that in a country where the military and civilians are somewhat living in parallel worlds this will not help bridge any gaps.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T19:01Z 746.8K followers, 6978 engagements

"Over on Substack I'm talking with @katiecouric about the Pentagon press corps controversy & more:"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T22:16Z 746.8K followers, 7857 engagements

""In recent days mid-level troops have been reaching out to me unsolicited and promising that they would keep providing journalists with information not to snub their civilian leaders but to uphold the values embedded in the Constitution.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-16T03:42Z 746.8K followers, 10.6K engagements

"A country where you can't lampoon the president is not a free country. Of course we're not there not even close in the US but there's a bit of a chill in the air today"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-07-18T22:32Z 746.9K followers, 712K engagements

"The Paramount-Skydance saga "reeks of Orbanism." That's the assessment of @GScheiring who experienced Viktor Orbn's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-07-25T15:04Z 746.9K followers, 231.4K engagements

"As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News it is also dropping the "NBC" from its name: Later this year it will become MS NOW which stands for My Source for News Opinion and the World"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-08-18T13:11Z 746.9K followers, 1.9M engagements

"Pete Hegseth bedeviled by leaks is trying to stop Pentagon beat reporters from talking with sources. But the reporting will continue just from outside the Pentagon's walls"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T02:52Z 746.9K followers, 440.2K engagements

"Yesterday some Pentagon reporters noticed a new poster on the wall leading to the Correspondents' Corridor. It said "JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME." It was a silent protest of Pete Hegseth's new policy that criminalizes routine reporting. By this morning the poster was gone"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-15T18:37Z 746.9K followers, 13.5K engagements

"".the reason to pay attention to whats happening with the coverage of the Presidency is that Trump cares about it perhaps more than anything else.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-16T21:44Z 746.9K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Fox News just did this BTW 👆🏼 As people walked by waving American flags a Fox reporter in Atlanta tossed to a clip of Johnson's "hate America" venom along with a Hakeem Jeffries sound bite then back live to normal people protesting in a local park"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T16:19Z 746.9K followers, 7559 engagements

"MSNBC's @VaughnHillyard noting that TV can't fully capture the scale of the "No Kings" protests: "Forgive us we only have so many boxes we can fix on the television screenwe know these are happening ALL over the place.""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T17:43Z 746.9K followers, 88.6K engagements

""such a huge gap between scary GOP rhetoric and the completely peaceful reality""
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T22:14Z 746.9K followers, 47.8K engagements

"It's one thing when you see the pictures on the news it's another thing when you see the protesters on your main street or outside your mall"
X Link @brianstelter 2025-10-18T23:43Z 746.9K followers, 15.9K engagements