The Powers That Be: Daily

Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss Chris Licht’s mounting crisis at CNN—declining revenue, sagging ratings, and dwindling loyalty. Is a recovery possible? Then marketing living legend Alex Bigler discusses Puck’s niche in D.C..

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Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss D.C.’s preemptive decision that the G.O.P. has won the House. Then Tina Nguyen and Ben Landy discuss the fresh hell that is in store for the new majority leader.

Baratunde Thurston joins Peter to discuss the real inside story of the Kanye West crisis. Then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy discuss the most exclusive club on Earth.

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Julia Alexander joins Peter to discuss Peacock’s necessary moves, and imminent agonies. Then Bill Cohan and Ben Landy discuss the ways Elon Musk could win, or lose, Twitter.

Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss their expectations regarding the early days of the Elon Regime at Twitter. Then they discuss the latest oscillations in the creator economy, particularly what it means for the journalism business.

Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to discuss the Axel Springer-and-KKR-fueled resurgence at Politico, the new University of Kentucky of journalism. Then marketing luminary Alex Bigler chats with Matt Belloni about the origin story of What I’m Hearing.

Here’s a preview of a new podcast, Story of the Week. Each week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. Sometimes the story will be the one everyone is talking about, like the New Yorker article on smoking hallucinogenic toads. Other times we’ll find a story you might have missed, like the one in the Verge about the rock groupie turned hacker who had huge corporations at her mercy. Stories that stick with you long after you forget whatever headline you just doom-scrolled through. In this preview, Joel is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to talk about his experience speaking to a group of tech billionaires in the middle of the desert. He thought he’d be chatting about the latest in tech advancements, but all these guys wanted to talk about was building doomsday bunkers. Hear the full episode, and more from Story of the Week, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/sotw?sid=powers. 

Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss Dr. Oz’s ascendance in the Pennsylvania Senate race after John Fetterman’s disastrous debate. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer discuss Hillary Clinton’s legacy-making moves.

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https://puck.news/hillarys-new-play-newsoms-midterm-post-mortem-a-thiel-shake-up/

Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter cost-cutting bloodlust. Then Ben Landy and Eriq Gardner get into the Ye insanity.

Julia Ioffe joins Peter to dive into the Ukraine escalation question. Then Julia Alexander and Ben Landy chat about Disney’s Star War IP wars.