The Powers That Be: Daily

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The CW network is for sale — who might buy it, and how will the sale change its programming?

Showtime has a buzzy hit with Yellowjackets, but it ain't in HBO's league anymore

Daniel Kaluuya's sketchy personal manager, Heir Holiness

Rich Democrats in California are pressuring the White House to protect voting rights

Ron Conway, Carla Jurvetson and the other Silicon Valley liberal elite

With organizations like Emily's List dropping out, should Kyrsten Sinema be worried about big donors in 2024?

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No one could watch the 2022 Golden Globes — but did anyone care?

What could be done to make Hollywood's big awards shows more popular?

Why Mackenzie Scott (nee Bezos) is a powerful, enigmatic "wild card" in the philanthropy-industrial complex

What some big personnel moves at Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC signal about the future of cable news

"Fox News knows exactly what it is, and that is a very powerful place to be"

NBC News' confusing triple identity, and why CNN is building a more compelling streaming project

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The eye-popping numbers for Yellowstone's season finale, and how Viacom screwed up the streaming rights

Matt Belloni's predictions for Hollywood in 2022, including "the great theater contraction"

Will Democrats draft celebrities like Dwayne Johnson and Oprah to run for office in 2024?

What we know about the new media startup from ex-NYT writer Ben Smith and ex-Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith

What the Smiths have said about the new company publicly, and who they're really talking to

Whether or not the NewCo winds up being an "innovation hothouse," there's plenty of room to improve on modern journalism

The one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, and how Republicans are talking about it

What's missing in the media coverage, and was the insurrection just a "pit stop" on the road to much worse stuff?

Donald Trump is getting booed and canceling press events — will the insurrection wing of the GOP carry on without him?

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The state of digital media in 2021, and how Puck is trying to be different from everyone else

A new COVID outbreak in New York City "puts the 'me' in media"

Why voters under 30 are tuning out the news and trashing Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Manchin bumped off Biden's Build Back Better bill, but can anything be salvaged?

Will does BBB's defeat mean for other Democrats facing midterm elections in 2022?

The vicious media cycle of inflation "concerns"

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Hollywood has turned on the Golden Globes, and a different awards show is trying to take the spotlight

Without NBC's telecast, will the Globes still find an audience this year?

What does Chris Wallace leaving Fox News tell us about his new home, CNN+?

Mark Meadows was helping Congress' January 6 investigation, but changed his mind — why?

The screaming, incoherent alternate reality that is the MAGA internet

If Republicans retake the House in 2022, will a QAnon/MAGA-type become Speaker of the House?

The campaign to recall San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, and the pissed-off techie elites behind it all

How the drama in San Francisco affects and reflects Democratic politics nationwide

Crime is not up in San Francisco, but viral videos of crime are way up

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​What's going to happen in the season 3 finale of Succession? (Spoiler alert!)

Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's shocking breakup, and the McKay HBO series that broke the camel's back

Steven Spielberg's West Side Story movie is getting rave reviews — but will anyone see it?

Republican strategist Jeff Roe's victory lap after making Virginia red again, sans Trump

The nuances of running on education, and the power of Asian-American parents

Why California Republican Devin Nunes is quitting to work for Trump

The latest on the Chris Cuomo imbroglio at CNN, and does "cancel culture" have anything to do with his firing?

Why did CNN boss Jeff Zucker support Cuomo as long as he did?

The people rumored to replace Cuomo, including Don Lemon, Laura Coates, and [checks notes] ... AOC?

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Chris Cuomo has been suspended, and a bigger reset at CNN is coming

Bob Iger's next act after Disney: Owner of the Phoenix Suns?

The dismal Thanksgiving box office and which movies are hurting the most

The shifting power centers of campaign finance and the "charitable-industrial complex"

How much power do rich people really have over our elections, anyway?

Kamala Harris' closed-door talk to the Democracy Alliance

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Netflix is overhauling how it measures viewership — but good luck figuring out what those numbers mean

Who should read Jim Miller's new book about the history of HBO

A holiday box office preview: Will the theater-averse turn out for Encanto and West Side Story?

What DC insiders say behind Kamala Harris' back — and whether those criticisms are fair

What happens in 2024 if Joe Biden decides not to run for a second term?

Vladimir Putin is massing troops on the Russia-Ukraine border

Disney is poised to start investing a lot more money into Hulu's original programming

Why it makes sense to spin off ESPN and focus just on Disney+ and Hulu

"Morning Joe" Scarborough wants a $30,000,001 contract (don't we all?)​

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HBO's Succession turns its sights on Sumner & Shari Redstone

The Star Wars brand is stronger than ever — but the movie pipeline is in big trouble

Mathew Rosengart, the legal mastermind who helped #FreeBritney

Will the bipartisan infrastructure bill do anything for Democrats in 2022?

What is keeping Biden's approval rating so low?

The nuances of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, a Rorschach test for America in 2021

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Country superstar Morgan Wallen got "canceled" for using the N-word ... or did he?

What Yellowstone — an enormous hit on an obscure cable channel — tells us about the future of TV

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers lied about being vaccinated — who does he listen to?

The new Republican playbook for winning voters without Trump in the picture

Why Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin's boringness was a good thing

Democrats are stuck between a losing culture war and economic woes

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