Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Chief Media Analyst, @CNN / Author, "Top of the Morning," "Hoax," and "Network of Lies" / @TheMorningShow producer / Class Dad
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The Paramount-Skydance saga "reeks of Orbanism." That's the assessment of @GScheiring, who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament.
Bloomberg: "Warner Bros Discovery has rebuffed Paramount Skydance's initial takeover approach for being too low, according to people familiar with the matter." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The White House wouldn’t explain why President Trump says he’s secured “more than $17 trillion” in investments when the White House website says $9 trillion… …and an item-by-item review shows that even the $9 trillion list is full of holes. Fact check: cnn.com/2025/10/11/pol…
Just in: The @nytimes will *not* sign the Pentagon's press policy. "Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment."
New newsletter: EVERYTHING IS TELEVISION - Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers - Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show - AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones on the way to building god derekthompson.org/p/why-everythi…
New: In a note to staff this morning, New CBS EIC Bari Weiss asked everyone across CBS News to send her a memo by next Tuesday explaining how they spend their workday and what’s working/not working…
Trump cited 3 Democrats in his Sept. 20 Truth Social post urging Bondi to prosecute them (that the WSJ reported was supposed to be a DM). Less than 20 days later, the US attorney Trump installed to replace one who resisted that has indicted 2 of the 3.
Donald Trump has sued several media outlets. We asked MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, do you ever wonder if he’s going to sue you? Full interview here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Nf21R…
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
Imagining a time traveler going back to the height of DOGE mania and saying “in 6 months Elon will have completely given up his ambitions of transforming the government and pivoted to a more achievable goal of making sexy AI-generated cartoons”
"... let's just point the camera at it and interrogate it and ask smart questions." tinyurl.com/2jheprs5
BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
President Trump just complained that "you give 82 vaccines in a shot to a little baby that hasn't even formed yet." There is no shot that contains anything like 82 vaccines. Little babies don't even receive 82 vaccines total; kids generally get under 30 shots by 15 months.
NEW: Harvard is facing down a major question that those who have been targeted for retribution by Trump now face -- why make a deal with Trump if his administration is still going to go after you? nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/…
Today's @ReliableSources: Reporters reject Pentagon rules; CNN CEO opens up; Megyn gets her own SiriusXM channel cnn.it/42wAWH9
I don’t think I need to persuade anyone I’m not a Trump fan. But he deserves credit and praise for this phase of the deal — if the reporting is accurate — and he will deserve more credit and praise if the larger plan comes to fruition. This is a good example of how claiming…
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