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[@brianstelter](/creator/twitter/brianstelter)
"Happy launch day to @Elex_Michaelson He's live around the world from CNN's West Coast studio right now:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1983022956537143592) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-28T04:08Z 746.4K followers, 32.5K engagements


"Warzel: The "AI slop is winning" and "our brains are being sous-vided in machine-made engagement bait like poor Pikachu until they're tender and succulent enough to fall apart on contact.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1982510402878820426) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-26T18:11Z 746.4K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Stop me if you've heard this one before: CNN's parent company is up for sale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1980634691352010864) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-21T13:58Z 746.4K followers, 30.2K engagements


"Seth Meyers brought it up in his monologue last night: "This is the first thing aliens do in movies to announce they're evil. They blow up the White House. Trump is just cutting out the middleman of invading aliens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981397396203720925) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-23T16:28Z 746.4K followers, 9311 engagements


"It all started with an excavator and a source who thought the public ought to know. The Washington Post published a startling photo of the East Wing of the White House being demolished on Monday afternoon triggering a week-long news cycle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981716101823140144) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-24T13:35Z 746.4K followers, 38.2K 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1946337283491168355) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-07-18T22:32Z 746.4K followers, 712.1K engagements


"Today's @ReliableSources lead: It's time for a checkup on the health of the media sector starting with Netflix. The streamer will report quarterly earnings tomorrow afternoon kick-starting an earnings season full of intrigue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1980360784845893992) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-20T19:49Z 746.4K followers, 7815 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1948761218300477924) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-07-25T15:04Z 746.4K followers, 241.1K engagements


"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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1968449834697834591) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-09-17T22:59Z 746.4K followers, 8.4M 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1968450369366724819) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-09-17T23:01Z 746.4K followers, 2.2M engagements


"Bari Weiss "has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports asking if the company can identify the leakers according to three people familiar with her remarks.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1979950913314759028) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-19T16:40Z 746.4K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Comcast's donation toward Trump's ballroom project has made for some interesting moments on MSNBC the cable news channel that is being spun off but is still owned by Comcast. MSNBC has disclosed Comcast's $$ during numerous outraged segments on the demolition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981761485316431933) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-24T16:35Z 746.4K followers, 14.6K engagements


""With all due respect to Comcast" @davidfrum said on air during Nicolle Wallace's show earlier this week the company is not donating "for love of ballroom dancing; they're doing it with an expectation of something in return.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981761487254564887) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-24T16:35Z 746.4K followers, 19.3K engagements


""U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1982631270342676913) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-27T02:11Z 746.4K followers, 108.7K engagements


"But like MacCallum also said building a new subscription service takes a lot of time and work. CNNs rollout of All Access has been closely watched across the American news industry since no other major network has attempted a New York Times-like pivot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1983154140944707843) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-28T12:49Z 746.4K followers, 1228 engagements


"I remember what it felt like at the @nytimes when we introduced online subscriptions. today feels like the same turning point at @cnn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1983312160626487414) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-28T23:17Z 746.4K followers, 56.4K 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1978144608233160802) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-14T17:03Z 746.4K followers, 3.2M engagements


"NYT not mincing words: "The situation has no parallel in American history.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1980737176326533344) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-21T20:45Z 746.4K followers, 176.1K engagements


"The East Wing demolition looks like something out of a disaster movie. I think that's partly what explains the intense reactions this week 👇🏼"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981397392378253794) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-23T16:28Z 746.4K followers, 127.4K engagements


""To watch this film is to be fully immersed in a learning experience while teetering on the edge of your seat with your heart in your mouth. Its not technically a horror film but it should be.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981928045272277082) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-25T03:37Z 746.4K followers, 11.4K engagements


"First big talent departure at CBS News since the Paramount ownership change:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1982813973855547745) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-27T14:17Z 746.4K followers, 90.2K engagements


"CNN EVP Alex MacCallum told me market research has found there are XX million people in the US alone who no longer have cable are CNN fans and have indicated willingness to pay for a product from CNN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1983154136817512642) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-28T12:49Z 746.4K followers, 1399 engagements


"Today's @ReliableSources lead is a free speech story we all need to follow. There is a man sitting in jail in Tennessee right now over a Facebook meme he posted in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1983549612117143632) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-29T15:00Z 746.4K followers, 19.5K engagements


"Tapper: "Why are you putting import tariffs on islands that are entirely populated by penguins" The Agriculture Secretary dismissed the question with a "whatever.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1908875844413514028) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-04-06T13:34Z 746.5K followers, 236.1K 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1978180624000163841) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-14T19:26Z 746.6K followers, 62.1K 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](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1978543778030870946) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-15T19:29Z 746.5K followers, 559.4K engagements


"The Times of Northwest Indiana (@nwi) pushes back on House Speaker Mike Johnson's rhetoric:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1979910454618018038) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-19T14:00Z 746.5K followers, 2932 engagements


"And here are a few more from "Big crowds protest Trump across U.S." in the Washington Post to "REIGN CHECK" in the Chicago Sun-Times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1979910456966828041) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-19T14:00Z 746.5K followers, 8968 engagements


"Just in: Warner Bros. Discovery the parent of CNN says it has received "multiple" expressions of interest from potential buyers. The board has started a "review of strategic alternatives.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1980623381666971847) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-21T13:13Z 746.5K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Ellison letter: "We are confident that we are the best partner for WBD with a combination of our two companies creating a scaled Hollywood champion to the benefit of both our companies shareholders consumers and the entertainment industry at large""  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981125830551228617) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-22T22:29Z 746.5K followers, 9091 engagements


"Government officials have seemingly discouraged people from seeing and sharing the East Wing demolition but journalists have made sure it has been seen through photos videos live feeds and even satellite images"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981748550493958612) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-24T15:44Z 746.5K followers, 7492 engagements


"Reporters and Wall Street analysts have recently noted that Comcast M&A activity (like a possible bid for all or part of WBD) could be impeded by Trump's disdain for MSNBC and the rest of Comcast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1981761489880125932) [@brianstelter](/creator/x/brianstelter) 2025-10-24T16:35Z 746.5K followers, 6457 engagements