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Time Stamps: 

02:19 Front Page

50:19 Obsessions

55:44 Reader Mail 

1:00:47 Favorite Item of the Week 

Show Notes: 

NYT: Jeff Bezos Visits The Washington Post as Layoffs Loom

NYT: Washington Post Lays Off 20 Journalists

WaPo:Opinion section at The Washington Post expands its roster with seven new contributors

NYT: Media Start-Up Semafor Plans to Buy Out Sam Bankman-Fried’s Investment 

NYT: Rupert Murdoch Backtracks on Plan to Merge Fox and News Corp

Daily Beast: Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight Are on ABC’s Chopping Block 

Mediaite: Steven Crowder Daily Wire Rant Epitomizes Conservative Betrayal Complex 

American Firebrand on Twitter: “Tucker's full monologue exposing the deep state's control over the government: "Permanent Washington is in charge”

WaPo: Opinion | Tucker Carlson's messages with Alex Jones are revealed: 3 takeaways

CBS News: M&M's puts spokescandies on "indefinite pause" in wake of uproar over changes to green M&M 

NYT: Good morning. “The 1619 Project” continues to provoke national debate about race and history.

WaPo: Doomsday Clock hits 90 seconds to midnight, its most dire prediction eve

Newsweek: I'm Gay. Leave Ivan Provorov Alone | Opinion

WSJ: The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens

NYT: Opinion | Nancy Pelosi, Liberated and Loving It

NBC News: Highlights from the Ticketmaster hearing: Senators criticize 'monopoly' over Taylor Swift fiasco 

Fox News: Longtime Fox News Channel executive Alan Komissaroff dead at 47 

Free Beacon: Al Sharpton, Lionized