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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 16: David Ellison, CEO of Paramount, speaks onstage at the Paramount Pictures presentation at The Dolby Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 16, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)

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David Ellison’s Bid To Control Warner Bros. Hits The Rocks

Tom Ley

Politics

Bari Weiss Even Worse At Her Job Than Previously Imagined

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Bari Weiss Hires Credulous Dope To Run ’60 Minutes’

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Media Meltdowns

Bari Weiss’s Handpicked CBS Contributor Peter Attia Sent Jeffrey Epstein Gross Emails

Albert Burneko

A single bullet hole can be seen on the driver’s side of the windshield of a vehicle that a woman was shot and killed in by federal officers on Portland Ave. in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.

CBS News Is The Trump Administration’s New Laundromat

CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil Is Stuck In An Endless Loop Of Humiliation

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David Ellison’s Bid To Control Warner Bros. Hits The Rocks

Bari Weiss Even Worse At Her Job Than Previously Imagined

Bari Weiss Hires Credulous Dope To Run ’60 Minutes’

Bari Weiss’s Handpicked CBS Contributor Peter Attia Sent Jeffrey Epstein Gross Emails

CBS News Is The Trump Administration’s New Laundromat

CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil Is Stuck In An Endless Loop Of Humiliation

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

Tony Dokoupil Eats Heaps Of Shit In First Week As CBS News Anchor

Bari Weiss Keeps CBS News Groveling At The Feet Of Donald Trump

CBS News Hitches Its Wagon To These Two Duds