Joe Flint
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WSJ media reporter. Contrarian. Curmudgeon. Provocateur. "Sleep is for fools who never see the sun rise." A lifeboat in a sea of turds. Open DM: DON'T ABUSE IT.
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Yes I’m now an advertisement!
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J.P. Morgan removes NBC News ads over Megyn Kelly interview with Alex Jones
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WSJ is reporting that NFL is near a deal with Google's YouTube for Sunday Ticket rights. Story coming on
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Here’s a crazy thought: Why not find an original project for Sara Gilbert? How about crusading lawyer or single mom trying to make ends meet or daughter dealing with a crazy mom not named Roseanne?
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NBC Sports Network is shutting down later this year and big events (NHL and NASCAR among them) will migrate to USA Network. Story coming ASAP.
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NBC News head Cesar Conde says, "We share in the frustration that our event will initially air alongside the first half of ABC’s broadcast with Vice President Biden. Our decision is motivated only by fairness, not business considerations." via
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Rashida Jones catapults to the upper echelon of TV news as new head of MSNBC and becomes first Black executive in charge of a major cable news operation. W/
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Will Michael Scott leave Netflix?
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Apparently America was ready for a woman running for president but vice president is still a question mark, according to Maureen Dowd.
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Former FCC Commissioner Ervin Duggan and Bill Kristol, veteran of Reagan and Bush White House and former Weekly Standard editor (when News Corp. owned it) file at FCC to object to renewal of Fox Corp.'s Philadelphia TV license. Said Duggan: "Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch's role in…
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Disney will "likely bundle" Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, says streaming and direct to consumer chief Kevin Mayer at Disney investor day.
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In LA, 2.1 million watched Rams - Saints while 2.5 million watched Pats - Chiefs.
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WGA response to AMPTP offer and decision to release it publicly and break press blackout.
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RIP Wilford Brimley who could play good and bad equally well and also managed some nice comedic turns.
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I think we need a new word other than documentary for programs that are just crazy conspiracy theories dressed up as journalism. The hunger for content has lowered the bar for so-called docs which contributes to the muddying of the waters of fact vs fiction.
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"We saw it in our newsrooms and in our pitch meetings. `All the news that’s fit to print' was becoming “all the news that fits the narrative.” Curiosity was becoming a liability—not a necessity."
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Tom Brady joining Fox Sports as lead NFL analyst after he retires! Lachlan Murdoch breaks news on Fox earnings call.
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Russell Crowe looks like Christian Bale playing Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes.
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ESPN anchor Sage Steele is suing the network, alleging that her right to free speech was violated and contract breached after she was benched for remarks on vaccine and Obama on Jay Cutler podcast last year.
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Netflix will likely lose access to lots of content from three of its biggest suppliers: WarnerMedia, Disney and NBCUniversal.
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A&E's canceled Live PD is being reborn as "On Patrol: Live" will be on Reelz. Rejoice
@LivePDNation
cc:
@danabrams
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@WSJ
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Biden-Harris speeches do well on CNN and MSNBC. Fox News audience tuned out.
CNN: 13.61 million viewers
MSNBC: 8.53
CBS: 5.63
ABC 4.38
Fox News: 2.96
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The problem is that the Redskins will cut Cousins loose and then replace him with someone like Alex Smith.
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Understatement of the year.
“If you are actively advising a politician in trouble while being an on-air host on a news network, that’s not okay,” said Nicholas Lemann, a professor at Columbia Journalism School and a New Yorker staff writer.
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Lets get this out of the way now. This will be the least-watched Oscars ever.
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Why even give this oxygen?
No, Tom Hanks did not flee to Greece to avoid pedophilia charges, you sickos
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Boots Riley at WGA rally says, “when we come we taking everything” adding “we want a world where we control the wealth made by our labor.”
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The classic Simpsons episode with Michael Jackson's voice will disappear. Executive producer Jim Brooks says HBO doc Leaving Neverland convinced him to pull it. via
@WSJ
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I'm so old and out of it that I see Reggie Jackson trending and immediately think:
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A&E’s average prime-time viewership since it canceled “Live PD” on June 10 was down 49% from the same period last year
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My favorite Tarantino quote: "Also, I’m the director, so I can kind of art direct this spit."
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Can we drop the comparisons to the 1960s please. There isn't widespread destruction. City blocks and whole neighborhoods are not up in flames. There aren't hundreds dead. There has been in the grand scheme of things minor looting and violence marring otherwise peaceful protests.
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Fox News is set to find itself Monday in a place it has spent two years trying to avoid: a Delaware courtroom where a jury is expected to decide a once-in-a-generation defamation case --
@erinmulvaney
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@thesimonetti
via
@WSJ
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The idea of Trump replacing Limbaugh is laughable if for no other reason than it is real work. Whatever one thought of Rush, three hours a day five days a week is no small task. He made it look easy. It's not.
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Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle for $12.99 starting in November.
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Shondaland shows have generated over $2 billion in revenue for Disney/ABC so yes, Netflix coughed up big $$ for her.
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The Chiefs are one game away from achieving Roger Goodell's dream of getting Taylor Swift to a Super Bowl.
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Fox News & 21CF stands by Bill O'Reilly. New deal signed even with knowledge of NYT story on harassment settlements.
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Bob Iger to Disney creatives: "Over the coming weeks, we will begin implementing organizational and operating changes within the company. It is my intention to restructure things in a way that honors and respects creativity as the heart and soul of who we are." Kareem Daniels out
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says Black Panther has created "an authentic cultural moment" that is inspiring young minds and touching hearts of all ages." He says he's never seen anything like the reaction to Black Panther.
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For those keeping score at home:
Megyn Kelly week one: 6.2 million viewers
Week two: 3.61 million viewers
Week three: 3.5 million viewers.
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Sad that when Isa Hackett told Amazon two years ago what Roy Price said nothing happened but when she told the press, then they reacted.
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Breaking: Federal Communications Commission
@FCC
has told Sinclair Broadcast Group it is launching investigation into whether the media giant engaged in misrepresentation and/or lack of candor” with the agency.
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Parole board says Leslie Van Houten hasn't committed violent crime as adult is a reason for parole. She's been behind bars her adult life!
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De Niro cursing at Trump during Tonys makes Bill Maher's point from this past Friday's show about hollow liberal victories. "This country is in quite a pickle, conservatives govern without shame and liberals shame without governing."
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Netflix signs ‘Scandal’ creator Shonda Rhimes away from ABC, as talent battle escalates via
@WSJ
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Oh what I would have given if Robin Wright had responded to Savanna Guthrie's questions about what she knew about Spacey with, "well, Savannah, what did you all know about Lauer?"
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HBO lost $3 billion dollars last year, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav says at RBC conference.
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Netflix confirms Friends will be on service in 2019. Could it be any clearer (see what I did there)?
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And a psychopath.
RIP Phil Spector. A genius irredeemably conflicted, he was the ultimate example of the Art always being better than the Artist, having made some of the greatest records in history based on the salvation of love while remaining incapable of giving or receiving love his whole life.
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Is John Goodman starting to look like Russell Crowe or is Russell Crowe starting to look like John Goodman?
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Shonda Rhimes and Shondaland are moving to Netflix!
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CBS suspends Charlie Rose after Washington Post story reveals long history of troubling behavior with women who worked for him.
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Disney Streaming Chief Kevin Mayer says, "We have the brands the matter most to consumers when it comes to great entertainment."
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No idea of accuracy of this but yeah Swift is bigger than the Super Bowl. NFL should ask her if they can play the game during a break at one of her concerts.
Taylor Swift Has Declined Doing The Super Bowl Halftime Show For The 9th Year In A Row, Get A Clue Goodell
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Statement from Walt Disney Co.'s (I just like doing that) 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Corp.'s Fox Entertainment: “Jussie Smollett has always maintained his innocence and we are gratified on his behalf that all charges against him have been dismissed.”
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"It was the best if times, it was the worst of times." What? That too? Jeez I give up!
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Hey we better take out that "Ask not" bit from Thursday's speech!
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Netflix Global TV Chief Bela Bajaria says CBS was great training to learn to make shows she wouldn't necessarily watch.
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I know it’s bad karma for a reporter to post someone else’s correction but this is too good.
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My question is why does US Central Command have a Twitter account? Why does the CIA? Not like they'll tweet, "great overthrow last night."
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"It turns out the pandemic is a pretty big part of the news cycle and that’s not going away any time soon...It turns out it's really good for ratings." Jason Kilar on post-Trump CNN. Careful. That's awful close to Moonves line that Trump may be bad for U.S. but he's good for CBS.
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Black Widow is coming for Disney! Scarlett Johansson alleges her contract was breached and she was hurt financially when Disney released ‘Black Widow” simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ via
@WSJ
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First the Oscars go no host and now the Emmys. It's mad I tell you, mad.
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Garth Ancier (
@GAncier
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Megyn Kelly almost beat 60 Minutes repeat in viewers and did win in 18-49 and 25-54 demos.
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NBC is considering stopping programming in the 10 p.m. hour and giving time back to affiliates, a cost-cutting move that would reflect waning interest in broadcast TV. If it happens Tonight Show w/Fallon would likely move to 11 PM or 10:30 PM. via
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Bob Costas on CNN says tonight’s game will not “cause people to say ‘I’m not a football fan anymore.’ The game is too big. It’s too profitable. It’s too popular.”
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If Twitter is sold hope the buyer can figure out the technology to edit a tweet after it's been tweeted. How tough can that be?
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At first tired glance I misread an email about Brian Setzer Orchestra as the
@brianstelter
Orchestra and thought, man he's really taking media coverage in a new direction.
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Netflix lands People vs OJ & also global rights to USA's Queen of the South in big deal with 21CF.
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I don't know much about soccer but I'm pretty sure being down 2-0 at half is the NFL equivalent of being down 52-0.
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If only there was some way NBC could have known she might make racially insensitive remarks.
Who ever thought Megyn Kelly's career at NBC would end like this?
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NBC's big bet on Megyn Kelly isn't paying off the way the network hoped.
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This is brutal. "AT&T retirees will see life insurance that was promised them, in some cases long ago, cut back unless they die by Dec. 31." from
@DrewFitzGerald
@theofrancis
via
@WSJ
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Parents TV Council chief Tim Winters says Netflix decision to edit suicide scene from 13 Reasons Why is "responsible decision." He calls on company to "redouble its efforts to protect children from harmful content.”
Story here:
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Does he know he is speaking to an industry that for the most part stands behind Roman Polanski?
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ABC News suspends and investigates Barbara Fedida holds tremendous clout within unit after
@yashar
story. She negotiates contracts for the network’s top on-air talent and producers—and is big deal in clubby world of TV news.
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I will just say it. It’s weird not watching Reliable Sources. Now I’m yelling at a blank screen. And yes, I watch Media Buzz too. Total geek here.
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Ryan Murphy certainly doesn’t need me to defend him but the idea put forward in some media circles that somehow his output at Netfiix has been some blemish or done irreparable damage is laughable and overwrought. He makes content. Many like it. Many don’t. His prodigious…
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Heck, we would often joke that we didn't know if any Team Member at the Parks Division was "straight", especially at Disney World in Florida.
For Chapek not to understand that reality - well, no serious CEO can be that detached from his workforce."
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