6 h. ago Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level | Arwa Mahdawi

How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia?You know how I’m going to be able to tell that I’ve really made it as a writer in America? When our very handsome (much better-looking than Zohran Mamdani!) and very high-IQ leader Donald Trump gives me a personal shoutout to commend me on what a wonderful job I’m doing. As we all know, a good journalist should always make the rich and powerful feel comfortable.While I wait for that day to come, I’m watching and learning from the head honchos at CBS. Trump appeared on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night for his first sit-down with the show in five years and commented on how much better the network has become after its owner, Paramount, was taken over by his billionaire allies, the father-and-son duo Larry and David Ellison. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Jon Stewart to remain ‘Daily Show’ host through 2026 — despite criticism of Paramount CEO

Jon Stewart has been highly critical of new Paramount chief David Ellison amid the company’s rightward shift in recent months.

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31 h. ago Jon Stewart to remain ‘Daily Show’ host through 2026 — despite his criticism of Paramount’s CEO

Jon Stewart has been highly critical of new Paramount chief David Ellison amid the company’s rightward shift in recent months

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32 h. ago CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’

Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free pressThe CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O’Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Things to do in London this weekend, whether you're staying in or going out

Josh Barrie and David Ellis pick the very best of what to do in the capital

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5 d. ago David Ellis reviews Cô Thành: A timid tribute to Bourdain's Vietnam

Moments of brilliance were hampered by moments of boredom, but David Ellis is confident this Covent Garden café can find its way

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6 d. ago From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones

We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating powerDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I warned of “Orbánisation” – in reference to Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. There, democracy was not extinguished by firing squads or the mass imprisonment of dissidents, but by slow attrition. The electoral system was warped, civil society was targeted and pro-Orbán moguls quietly absorbed the media.Nine months on, and Orbánisation is in full bloom across the Atlantic. Billionaire Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder, and his filmmaker son, David, have become blunt instruments in this process. Trump boasts they are “friends of mine – they’re big supporters of mine”. Larry Ellison, second only to Elon Musk as the world’s richest man, has poured tens of millions into R...

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7 d. ago Things to do in London this Halloween, from the Clapham Grand parties to Phantom Peak

VR zomies! All-night parties! Julia Fox! Make this fright night a spooktacular one, says David Ellis

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9 d. ago Country pub of the week: The Old Orchard, Harefield, Middlesex

Here is a pub with storybook views and an invitation to linger, says David Ellis

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1 week ago David Ellison has ‘Trump card’ in Paramount’s pursuit to take over Warner Bros. Discovery

‘Trump's implicit support for the deal is their number one talking point,’ an Ellison adviser told CNN this week.

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1 week ago David Ellis reviews Lilibet's: A triumphant ode to maximalism

Here is a room that considers Versailles a touch demure, says David Ellis, but with its brazen madness comes brilliance

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2 w. ago Warner Bros Discovery considers going up for sale as potential buyers show interest

Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Skydance are reportedly among possible bidders in sale that could shake up industryWarner Bros Discovery is considering an outright sale following interest from several potential buyers, the company said Tuesday, in what would be the latest shakeup across legacy media.Shares of the company rose 10.5% in morning trading. Netflix and Comcast are among the potential bidders, CNBC reported Tuesday, citing sources, following earlier reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was also in talks to acquire the combined company. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fired Stephen Colbert professes his ‘love’ for new CBS boss David Ellison: ‘That oughta buy us a couple more months’

‘Mr. Ellison, I love you,’ Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday night

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2 w. ago David Ellis reviews L'Autre: The best restaurant you've never heard of

David Ellis discovers a Polish-Mexican love story to comfort the soul

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3 w. ago Salt Bae's losing money? Shock horror: London is over £1,400 steak

It looks like the joke’s finally worn thin. Thank goodness, says a weary David Ellis

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3 w. ago Salt Bae's losing money? Maybe London is finally getting its own back

It looks like the joke’s finally worn thin. Thank goodness, says a weary David Ellis

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3 w. ago David Ellis on the Liverpool St Chop House: It might just be London's best steak

David Ellis on the Liverpool St Chop House: It might just be London's best steak  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago David Ellis reviews the Liverpool Street Chop House and Tavern: Quite possibly London's best steak

Guinness for a fiver, bone marrow crumpets, Welsh rarebit fries. I want it all, says David Ellis

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3 w. ago David Ellis reviews the Liverpool Street Chop House and Tavern: Near

Guinness for a fiver, bone marrow crumpets, Welsh rarebit fries. I want it all, says David Ellis

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4 w. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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