Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81 (Adam Nossiter/New York Times)

Mediagazer: Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81 (Adam Nossiter/New York Times)

Top News:

The Hollywood Reporter:

As the DirecTV-Disney carriage dispute continues, DirecTV nudges customers to Fubo or Sling and offers a $30 credit, and Disney offers $30 off Hulu with Live TV— DirecTV is offering discounts and a $30 credit toward Fubo or Sling, while Disney is offering $30 off the first month of Hulu with Live TV …
Discussion: The Streamable, The Verge, Slate, Awful Announcing, Cord Cutters News, Matthew Keys on LinkedIn, Streaming Better, Next TV, The Wrap, Deadline, The Desk, Variety and Media Play News

Discussion:

Matt Tamanini /
The Streamable: Watch NFL Kickoff Weekend for Free With a Hulu + Live TV, Get $30 Back

Nitish Pahwa /
Slate: Disney Is Trying to Kneecap Traditional TV Once and for All

Andrew Bucholtz /
Awful Announcing: DirecTV offers customers credit if they sign up for Sling or Fubo during Disney carriage dispute

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: DIRECTV Customers Can Get Sling TV For Just $10 a Month or $30 Off Fubo

Matthew Keys /
Matthew Keys on LinkedIn: I'm not surprised to see DirecTV point its customers to Fubo and Sling TV. Keep in mind that executives from DirecTV and Dish (which owns Sling TV) …

Jon Lafayette /
Next TV: DirecTV Offers $30 Credit to Subscribers Who Sign Up for Rivals Fubo and Sling to Watch Football Games During Disney Blackout

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Disney Offers $30 Credits for Hulu + Live TV Plans Amid DirecTV Carriage Dispute

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Disney-DirecTV Carriage Fight Grinds On As ‘Monday Night Football’ Debut Looms; Both Sides Point Customers To Pay-TV Alternatives

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Amid Disney Blackout, DirecTV Is Offering Customers a $30 Credit Toward Dish's Sling or Fubo Streaming Services

Erik Gruenwedel /
Media Play News: Disney, DirecTV Offering $30 Credits to Satellite Subs as Carriage Dispute Enters Second Football Weekend

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Variety:

DirecTV plans price increases on October 6: DirecTV Stream Choice will go up by $6 to $114.99 per month, and DirecTV Stream Ultimate by $10 to $129.99 per month— The higher pricing for DirecTV's satellite TV and streaming television services will take effect on or after Oct. 6, 2024 …

Discussion:
Streaming Better, Forbes and Cord Cutters News

Discussion:

John Finn /
Streaming Better: A Strange World. DirecTV Is Now Giving Subscribers Credits To Try Fubo And Sling TV

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Sinclair ousts Ken Solomon, CEO of the Tennis Channel since 2005, citing his time spent advising Dr. Phil McGraw's company as a growing distraction— As the tennis world focuses on the U.S. Open, the network is embroiled in off-court drama.

Discussion:
Deadline, @jbflint, @christophclarey, @benrothenberg, Front Office Sports, Awful Announcing, Sports Media Watch, The Desk and TVNewsCheck

Discussion:

Natalie Oganesyan /
Deadline: Sinclair Ousts Tennis Channel CEO, Citing His Role As Adviser For Dr. Phil's Company—Report

Joe Flint /
@jbflint: Not all the tennis drama is at the US Open! Ken Solomon out as CEO of Tennis Channel after spat with owner Sinclair over Solomon's ties to Dr. Phil's media business. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ

Christopher Clarey /
@christophclarey: Surprising news in the midst of the #USOpen. Ken Solomon, the driving force at Tennis Channel since 2005, is being relieved of his duties as chairman and CEO by parent company Sinclair Inc, citing concerns about outside roles Solomon a key figure in #tennis

Ben Rothenberg /
@benrothenberg: Strangest Mad Libs of a tennis headline I can remember: “Tennis Channel Ousts CEO, Citing Ties to Dr. Phil” WSJ reports Sinclair ousted longtime Tennis Channel head Ken Solomon over concerns about spending too much time on Dr. Phil's company's projects. https://www.wsj.com/...

Sean Keeley /
Awful Announcing: Tennis Channel fires CEO, reportedly due to role as Dr. Phil advisor

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Sinclair fires Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon over Dr. Phil's media company

Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:

The Tenet Media case highlights both the lack of transparency in the creator economy and the threat this poses to media integrity— We need to know who is funding the creator economy — Yesterday, a federal indictment revealed that a Tennessee media company working with right-wing …

Discussion:
New York Times, @jvlast@threads.net, @karaswisher@threads.net, @joeabodnar@threads.net, @YourNeighbor57@mastodon …, @ronaldfilipkowski@threads.net, @micah_loewinger@threads.net, @taylorlorenz@threads.net, Tubefilter, Mercury News, Zoe Scaman on LinkedIn, @jvlast@threads.net, The Bulwark, YouTube Official Blog, Know Your Meme, Byline Times, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, @mastodonmigration …, @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social, NPR, @katieboue@threads.net, @taylorlorenz@threads.net and Semafor

Discussion:

Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: Some inside-baseball on the Tenet Media / Tim Pool / Benny Johnson / Dave Ruben story: I know a fair amount about the economics of YouTube and when you look that the channels these guys are running, you can tell pretty quickly . . . 1/6

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher@threads.net: Not so secret and the INEVITABLE result of zero accountability or regulation on the tech industry, even as the regular media has its economics hollowed out while also having to follow laws: https://www.nytimes.com/...

Lynne Jackier /
@YourNeighbor57@mastodon.sdf.org: Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America's Conservative Media https://www.nytimes.com/... It felt like this because it was actually like this. — #Russia — #Influence — #USpolitics

Ron Filipkowski /
@ronaldfilipkowski@threads.net: Tim Pool gives his side of the story.

Micah Loewinger /
@micah_loewinger@threads.net: I can't get over the irony of the Tenet media stuff. A group of rw influencers, who cater to an audience obsessed with shadowy international conspiracies, were wrapped up in one themselves!

Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@threads.net: My Substack post on how we need to stop letting far right influencers cosplay as independent media is featured on Mediagazer! Read it here: https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ... Mercury News: Want to be an ‘influencer’? Texas university launches new degree for digital influencing

Zoe Scaman /
Zoe Scaman on LinkedIn: Taylor Lorenz's latest piece uncovers something we need to be paying attention to: who is funding our creators? …

Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: This scheme was so shady that SEB GORKA looked at it and said, Bro that money is dirty: 5/6

Jonathan V. Last /
@jvlast@threads.net: TL;DR: These Tenet guys aren't victims. They're not even dupes, or profiteers. They're collaborators. /fin https://www.thebulwark.com/...

Jonathan V. Last /
The Bulwark: The Tenet Media Guys Are Worse Than Useful Idiots

Amjad Hanif /
YouTube Official Blog: New tools to protect creators and artists

Pekka Kallioniemi /
Byline Times: Russia Allegedly Spent $10 Million Funding US Media Company and its ‘Superspreader’ Creators to Push Pro-Kremlin Disinformation

Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social: Without full knowledge of who is financing the creators we follow, watch, and read, how will any of us know whether the content we're consuming is shaped by dangerous hidden agendas or foreign interference? https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ... @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online: Related to guestions about who's behind all this right wing bro content, Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz has an excellent piece out today asking this very question... 'Who's funding these guys?' — https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ... See also: https://mastodon.social/...

Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social: “The robust financial backing the right wing content creator ecosystem enjoys, allows extremists the ability to fund professional production teams, social media ad buys, and marketing initiatives that give them a competitive advantage online. … @katieboue@threads.net: The way I just GASPED when I heard that number on the radio earlier. For a very, very brief moment I chuckled and thought “get that bag content creators” 😂💀

Taylor Lorenz /
@taylorlorenz@threads.net: Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ‘independent’ media! https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/ ...

Ben Smith /
Semafor: Blaze Media's CEO says it has ended its contract with BlazeTV contributor Lauren Chen of Tenet Media, which is alleged to have been funded by Russia

RELATED:
Reuters: YouTube terminates Tenet Media's channel and four channels operated by Tenet owner Lauren Chen

Discussion:
New York Times, Engadget, Tampa Free Press, NewsBytes, @chickenpuppet.bsky.social, NBC News, Forbes and Bloomberg

Discussion:

Katie Robertson /
New York Times: Tucker Carlson Criticized for Hosting Holocaust Revisionist

Will Shanklin /
Engadget: YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indictments

Harold Hutchison /
Tampa Free Press: YouTube Takes Down Conservative Podcast Network Tied To DOJ Russia Indictment @chickenpuppet.bsky.social: “We need to kill all the f*gs” - completely fine — “We need to kill all the f*gs. This video sponsored by Russia” - very bad [embedded post] NBC News: How some of the internet's most popular pro-Trump pundits ended up as paid messengers for Russian propaganda

Siladitya Ray /
Forbes: YouTube Removes Alleged Russia-Funded Outlet Hosting Tim Pool, Benny Johnson Videos Wired: An analysis of Tenet Media's videos shows frequent use of terms including “white people”, “Black people”, “civil war”, “Elon Musk”, and “illegal immigrants”

Discussion:

Caleb Howe /
Mediaite: MSNBC Guest Demands FBI Investigations Of Big Tech, Social Influencers, MSM, Billionaires, Senators & Reps to Battle - Authoritarianism

Hadas Gold /
CNN: How some of the biggest right-wing social media stars became unwitting mouthpieces of Russian propaganda

Matthew Sheffield /
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social: What was in the content that Russia paid for from Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin? Ragebait about trans people, race, civil war, illegal immigration, guns, and Elon Musk. — If you believe right-wing narratives on these topics, you're being manipulated. …

Terra Kater /
@americansfordemocracy@threads.net: I highly recommend reading this entire article. https://www.wired.com/... @wired: Using our interactive tool, you can search terms that were most mentioned in videos by influencers working for Tenet Media like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson. Try it yourself here: https://www.wired.com/... [video]

Dhruv Mehrotra /
@dmehro: We analyzed hundreds of deleted Youtube videos of right-wing influencers working for Tenet Media—a company the DOJ alleges was financed and guided by a state-backed Russian news network. Here's what the paid influencers talked about: https://www.wired.com/...

Steve Thompson /
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social: “What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos” — https://www.wired.com/... “A WIRED analysis shows that right-wing stars like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson focused on topics like Elon Musk and supposed racism toward white people in hundreds of videos allegedly paid for by Russia.” …

Katie Drummond /
@katiedrumm@threads.net: Using closed captioning of the Tenet Media videos we downloaded before YouTube removed them, @wired compiled lists of terms frequently mentioned in them, along with a searchable database: https://www.wired.com/...

Matthew Gault /
Gizmodo: YouTube Deletes Tim Pool's Embarrassing Kremlin-Backed Videos

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Right-Wing Influencers Claim Victimhood in Alleged Russian Interference Scheme

Zachary Basu /
Axios: MAGA's media meltdown

Josh Christenson /
New York Post: ‘Secret’ Russian influence campaign paid $10M to prop up right-wing US commentators: indictment

Gerrit De Vynck /
Washington Post: YouTube takes down right-wing channels linked to DOJ Russia indictments

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez /
Fortune: Elon Musk repeatedly interacted on X with right-wing influencers allegedly backed by a Russia-funded company

Nikki McCann Ramirez /
Rolling Stone: Right-Wing Influencers Deny Knowledge of Russian Funding

Mother Jones:
A Tenet Media contributor tweeted that Tenet “has ended”; its X, Instagram, TikTok, and Rumble pages are online but haven't been updated since the indictment

Discussion:

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling /
New Republic: Pro-Trump Media Firm Abruptly Folds After Russia Scheme Exposed

Charlie Warzel /
The Atlantic: YouTubers Are Almost Too Easy to Dupe

Anna Merlan /
@annamerlan: One day after the DOJ accused Tenet Media of receiving $10 million in covert funding, a “reporter” for the company announced that Tenet “has ended.” Tenet's founder Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan still haven't commented on any of this. Normal! https://www.motherjones.com/ ...

Anna Merlan /
@annamerlan: I wonder if media companies generally roll up like faulty umbrellas and blow away without a single word?

Tayler Hansen /
@taylerusa: Announcement: TENET Media has ended after the DOJ indictment and I will now be pursuing other job opportunities so I may continue to report on vital news stories this election season. If you'd like to independently fund my work or think I'd fit in well at another source let

Chase Martin /
Deseret News: U.S. conservative media company funded by Russian interests, DOJ alleges

NBC News:
Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators through a pro-Trump media outlet, prosecutors say

David DiMolfetta /
Nextgov/FCW: Russia's influence operations aim to tip US election in favor of Donald Trump, intel official says

Peter Kafka /
@pkafka@threads.net: “Even after recruiting their talent, though, the Russians purportedly running Tenet were frustrated with Tenet's lack of success. Like many media executives, they worried that their employees were doing more to promote their personal social media brands than their new outlet.” — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Katie Paul /
Reuters: Social media platforms leave alleged Russian influence network largely untouched @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host: #politics #Russia #disinformation #propaganda #InformationWarfare #TenetMedia — 'A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that accused it of being covertly funded by employees of a Russian state-controlled media outlet. …

Frank Main /
Chicago Sun Times: How right wing podcaster from Chicago landed at center of federal probe into Russian meddling

Andrew Beaujon /
Washingtonian: These Are the Conservative Commentators Who Allegedly Got Hoodwinked (and Indirectly Paid!) by Russia

Inbox Collective:

A profile of The News, a Brazil-based newsletter published in the Portuguese language that has over 2M subscribers, 33 staffers, and seven spin-off newsletters— They've got two million active subscribers, eight different newsletters, 30+ staffers, and multiple revenue streams.

Discussion:
@risj_oxford

New Republic:

Media “sanewashing”, or reframing Trump's incoherent and dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, is a form of misinfo that distorts reality— Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump's incoherent ramblings …

Discussion:
American Crisis, New Republic, It's the democracy, stupid, @judisgarcia, @therickwilson, @froomkin, @cavandy, @langdongrant2, @mikeelgan, @hemantmehta, @parkermolloy, @mlcalderone, @newsjennifer, @jimwurst1, @frozencanuck@mas.to, @froomkin, @briannawu, @michael.chabon@threads.net, @ilpomodoro2, @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, @jamisonfoser, @riseandgrindcor, @acwardblueridge@threads.net, @atrupar, @ok_post_guy, Boing Boing, @parkermolloy@threads.net, OutsideTheBeltway, The Present Age and Crikey

Discussion:

Margaret Sullivan /
American Crisis: The power of a single word about media malfeasance

Jennifer Schulze /
It's the democracy, stupid: Hello sanewashing, goodbye journalism.

Judi Garcia /
@judisgarcia: Dear @nytimes - why do you keep covering for this man, when he obviously has zero clue what he's talking about?! #sanewashing

Rick Wilson /
@therickwilson: “Sanewashing” is a brilliant term

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: First use of the term I've found on Twitter in the context of politics (Trump coverage, in fact): August 2020 https://x.com/... @cavandy: Also let's imagine Biden said any of this how would the coverage look? https://newrepublic.com/... [image]

Langdon Grant /
@langdongrant2: @TheRickWilson As is Trump's mental decline, as evidenced by their continued sanewashing of his nonsensical gibberish. Here are the headlines from the AP, WSJ, NYT, and WaPo on Trump's train wreck of an “economic speech” yesterday. [image]

Hemant Mehta /
@hemantmehta: The correct interpretation of Trump's word salad. A welcome alternative to sanewashing him.

Parker Molloy /
@parkermolloy: Amazing levels of sanewashing here. [image]

Michael Calderone /
@mlcalderone: Great points from @ParkerMolloy on the media's “sanewashing” of Trump's statements https://newrepublic.com/... [image]

Jennifer Schulze /
@newsjennifer: Some media outlets reported trump had a sweeping vision of economic policy. Read this⤵️ to see if you agree OR if you think the press was sanewashing trump yet again. (Hint: it's sanewashing)

Jim Wurst /
@jimwurst1: I believe I'm correct in attributing this great coinage to @atrupar. Let's get #sanewashing trending! @frozencanuck@mas.to: “the media is actively participating in the erosion of our shared reality” — This New Republic article perfectly captures why so many people are infuriated with the majority of American mainstream media (NY Times, CNN, etc). This constant sanitization is straight up journalistic malpractice. …

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: I found a 2020 use of the term “sanewashing” by Matt Yglesias — ironically (but on brand for him) about liberals sanewashing the far left. https://www.slowboring.com/...

Brianna Wu /
@briannawu: New discourse terminology just dropped! “Sanewashing.” Trying to advocate consideration of additional context instead of just being angry. This is a real term, not a troll, and I will try to listen and grow from this problematic behavior.

Mike Elgan /
@MikeElgan@mastodon.social: Word of the moment: “sanewashing” https://newrepublic.com/...

Jamison Foser /
@jamisonfoser: Journalists think their job is to turn what Trump said into something people can understand; it's actually their job to make clear that Trump doesn't understand what he's talking about

AC Ward /
@acwardblueridge@threads.net: From @sulliview: “But why does the media sanewash Trump? It's all a part of the false-equivalence I've been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.” It IS malfeasance to present incoherent rambling as a polished vision expressed by a candidate. https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/ ...

Aaron Rupar /
@atrupar: Hey! I got shouted out by @joyannreid on @thereidout “This process of rehabilitation that journalist Aaron Rupar calls ‘sanewashing’ is happening nearly every time Trump opens his mouth ... ” [video]

Rob Beschizza /
Boing Boing: Michigan judge suspended after racist, homophobic remarks: “I'm not systemically racist. I'm a new racist.”

Parker Molloy /
@parkermolloy@threads.net: Over at @newrepublic, I wrote about the media “sanewashing” Trump https://newrepublic.com/...

Parker Molloy /
The Present Age: The Press Response to Trump's Word Salad Answer on Childcare is Peak Sanewashing

Bloomberg:

Sources: Shari Redstone will get $180M in severance and other benefits on top of $350M from the sale of her 20% stake in National Amusements— Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, will get $180 million in severance and other benefits on top of hundreds of millions from the sale …

Discussion:
Quartz, Financial Times, Reuters and New York Post

Discussion:

Bruce Gil /
Quartz: Shari Redstone is reportedly set to make $530 million from the Paramount-Skydance deal

New York Times:

Michael Lerner, the founder of Tikkun, a magazine that was a leading voice for US Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, died on Aug. 28 at 81— His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

Discussion:
The Times of Israel: Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser /
The Jewish News of Northern California: Rabbi Michael Lerner, a religious and political visionary, never stopped believing @sojogram@threads.net: Rabbi Michael Lerner, founding editor of Tikkun, died on Wednesday. As we remember his work, we're reflecting on his words from the May 1994 issue of Sojourners magazine: https://sojo.net/...

Mark Leviton /
@markleviton@threads.net: Rabbi Michael Lerner died Wednesday. I attended many services at Beyt Tikkun and went to Michael's classes, learning a lot from him. Here's a link to his final essay, dictated after he knew he was terminally ill. May his name be a blessing. https://givebutter.com/... @nytobits: Michael Lerner, who founded and edited Tikkun, a magazine that became a leading voice for American Jews critical of Israel's policies toward Palestinians, has died at 81. https://www.nytimes.com/...

@nytobits:
Michael Lerner's primary focus in his magazine was Judaism, Jewish thought, Zionism and Israel. But he also made the news in 1993 when his influence reached the White House. He has died at 83. https://www.nytimes.com/... @mitchhorowitz: I worked for Michael briefly after college. He was a hard-driving personality—but I never once heard him enunciate a public position that lacked humanity, relied on shallow anecdote or symbolism, or expressly humiliated anyone. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Jay Michaelson /
The Forward: How Rabbi Michael Lerner merged spirituality and social justice and influenced a generation of progressives

CNBC:

A look at the DOJ's and multiple states' antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, as its trial is set to begin on September 9— A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors.

Discussion:

Lee Hepner /
@leehepner: Detractors will treat “abuse of dominance” as some indecipherable new antitrust standard created from whole cloth, but courts are already accustomed to articulating it. This is Judge Brinkema in the Google Ad Tech case on “the essence of antitrust law”: [image]

Jason Kint /
@jason_kint: Excellent to see AdExchanger digging back in on Google adtech antitrust trial starting on Monday. Fun overview of code named projects. I just want to correct something here so others also are aware (since Google is spreading false info). ps we'll def see them get into weeds. /1 [image]

Jennifer E. /
@jenn_elias: A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the DOJ, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors. This time, the focus is on the company's advertising tech. https://www.cnbc.com/...

Arielle Garcia /
@ariellesgarcia: Great piece by @KendraEBarnett at @TheDrum about what to expect at #USvGoogle II, which starts MONDAY! Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts. Also, lol @ the last line. https://www.thedrum.com/... [image]

Kendra Barnett /
@kendraebarnett: NEW for @TheDrum: The DOJ & Google are going head to head in a historic antitrust trial concerning the search giant's adtech business beginning Monday. Here's my overview of what we can expect to see - and key predictions from antitrust & media experts: https://www.thedrum.com/...

Matt Stoller /
BIG: A Post-Google World — “The essence of antitrust law is to try to keep the system working …

Kay Jebelli /
@kayjebelli: As @vidushi_law notes, helping ad-tech rivals in this way could go against the interests of advertisers and publishers, making the Google products less integrated and less helpful. It's lowest-common-denominator thinking. [image]

Lauren Feiner /
The Verge: Google and DOJ return for round two of their antitrust fight — this time about ads

Allison Schiff /
AdExchanger: Project Cheat Sheet: A Rundown On All Of Google's Secret Internal Projects, As Revealed By The DOJ

Kendra Barnett /
The Drum: What we know about Google's upcoming adtech antitrust trial - and how it might play out

Constantine von Hoffman /
MarTech: US vs. Google, round 2: Government targets digital ad business

Marty Swant /
Digiday: From ‘Jedi Blue’ to ‘Banksy’: What Google's code names reveal in the DOJ's landmark antitrust case

Sabrina Quagliozzi /
The Media Leader: Google heads back to court to defend ad empire

Variety:

NBC plans to cut The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from five to four original episodes per week in the new season, the last to join its late-night rivals— The last of TV's big five-original-nights-a-week late-night show is giving up 24 hours out of its schedule.

Discussion:
LateNighter, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, New York Post, UPI, Matt Wolfe on LinkedIn, @marcmalkin, @doctor_hue, @variety, @ruthiesky, @bristei, USA Today, The US Sun, Cinemablend, Vulture, TV Shows, Entertainment Weekly, AV Club, Adweek, Los Angeles Times, TVLine, The Wrap, Deadline, IndieWire, Consequence and New York Daily News

Discussion:

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: NBC's ‘Tonight Show’ to Drop Friday Show in Shift to Four-Day Schedule

Andrew Court /
New York Post: NBC cuts ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ back to four nights a week

Karen Butler /
UPI: Jimmy Fallon's ‘Tonight Show’ dropping to four nights a week

Matt Wolfe /
Matt Wolfe on LinkedIn: Big - but albeit, not surprising move on NBC's part considering audience viewership habits with linear television today. …

Marc Malkin /
@marcmalkin: Whoa... NBC Pulls Back ‘Tonight Show’ to Four Nights Per Week https://variety.com/... via @variety

Jay Kelley /
@doctor_hue: Don't tell me streaming hasn't hurt network tv. When I was a kid, the “Tonight Show” was 5 days a week and 90 minutes per night. https://variety.com/... via @variety

Ruthie Rader /
@ruthiesky: And Johnny Carson is just spinning in His grave•••• NBC will pull 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to four nights a week as TV networks look to shore up declines in late-night economics Source: Variety https://search.app/...

Brian Steinberg /
@bristei: NITE OWL: NBC pulls back ‘Tonight Show’ to four nights a week, the latest in a series of moves aimed at shoring up the economics of late night as linear audiences decline https://variety.com/... via @variety

Ashley Gale /
The US Sun: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon undergoes drastic schedule change as late night landscape continues to shift

Laura Hurley /
Cinemablend: As NBC Makes A Major Cut For Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show, Here's How Long The Host Is Sticking Around

Jennifer Zhan /
Vulture: Jimmy Fallon Might Be Laughing a Little Less Than Usual

Wesley Stenzel /
Entertainment Weekly: Here's why we'll be seeing less of Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show

William Hughes /
AV Club: The Tonight Show is dropping to four new episodes per week

Bill Bradley /
Adweek: NBCU Cuts Back on The Tonight Show to 4 Nights Per Week

Loree Seitz /
The Wrap: ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ Cuts Back to 4 Nights a Week on NBC

Nellie Andreeva /
Deadline: ‘The Tonight Show’ Drops Friday, Goes Down To Four Originals A Week

CNBC:

In a letter, Kamala Harris is endorsed for president by 88 corporate leaders, including media execs James Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Mark Cuban, and Barry Diller— @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Discussion:
Variety, @mmcassella, @levie, @mattyglesias, @shannonrwatts, Reuters, Axios, Semafor, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Raw Story, Quartz, CoinDesk, Deadline and CNN, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Kamala Harris Endorsed for President by 88 Business Leaders Including James Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Mark Cuban, Jeff Bewkes

Megan Cassella /
@mmcassella: @CNBC @KamalaHarris On the list of Harris backers: -A dozen+ Wall Street alums, including fmr Blackstone COO Tony James -Laurene Powell Jobs & Dustin Moskovitz, Harris backers from her CA days -DC sports magnate Ted Leonsis -3 former Treasury secs: Blumenthal, Rubin, Summers https://www.cnbc.com/...

Aaron Levie /
@levie: Current and former CEOs of Costco, Ford, American Express, Merck, PayPal, Autodesk, Lyft, Asana, Yahoo, Sunshine, Docusign, Box, IAC, Yelp, DuPont, Sony, Pepsi, Zillow, Twilio, LinkedIn, Dreamworks, Infor... https://www.cnbc.com/...

Matthew Yglesias /
@mattyglesias: Business for Harris, good to see https://www.cnbc.com/...

Shannon Watts /
@shannonrwatts: Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a letter Friday endorsing Kamala Harris for president, including the CEOs of Costco, Ford, American Express, Merck, PayPal, Autodesk, Lyft, Yahoo, Docusign, Yelp, DuPont, Sony, Pepsi, Zillow, Twilio, and LinkedIn. https://www.cnbc.com/...

Sareen Habeshian /
Axios: Dozens of high-profile business execs endorse Kamala Harris

Joseph Zeballos-Roig /
Semafor: Mark Cuban is Kamala Harris' on-call billionaire. What's he after?

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Barry Diller, James Murdoch Among 88 Business Leaders Endorsing Kamala Harris in Open Letter

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: James Murdoch, Barry Diller Among Media Execs Endorsing Kamala Harris in Open Letter

William Gavin /
Quartz: Kamala Harris just got endorsements from 88 business leaders, ranging from Yelp's CEO to Magic Johnson

Ted Johnson /
Deadline: James Murdoch, Barry Diller, Peter Chernin And Michael Lynton Among Corporate Execs Endorsing Kamala Harris In New Open Letter CNN: James Murdoch, Mark Cuban and dozens of other business leaders endorse Kamala Harris for president

New York Times:

The judge in the Google monopoly ruling says he'll take until August 2025 to determine remedies in the case and asks the DOJ to propose fixes by the end of 2024— After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next August to determine fixes that the company must make.

Discussion:

Charles Arthur /
@charlesarthur: That'll definitely teach Google a lesson won't it.

Barry Schwartz /
@rustybrick: So another year or so from now until the DOJ will come up with the punishment for Google's monopoly ruling...

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Google to receive punishment for search monopoly by next August, says judge

Martin Peers /
The Information: Benioff Comes Into His Own

Sabrina Willmer /
Bloomberg: Google Judge Eyes August for Decision on Remedy in Monopoly Case Associated Press: Judge gives US regulators until December to propose penalties for Google's illegal search monopoly

Tyler King /
@tylerking.bsky.social: Sure. No hurry. What could they possibly harm in the mean— Oh, I'm being told they have a monopoly on internet search and searching the internet is important. [embedded post] @itnewsbot@schleuss.online: Remedies to Google's Search Monopoly Will Be Decided by August 2025, Judge Says - After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next... - https://www.nytimes.com/... #regulationandderegulationofindustry #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #suitsandlitigation …

Lauren Feiner /
The Verge: The DOJ wants info on Google's AI strategy to bust up its search monopoly

Louis Ashworth /