High of the Ticker: Two main American newspapers—The Washington Submit and The Los Angeles Occasions—have chosen to not situation a presidential endorsement, reportedly on the behest of their billionaire homeowners, Jeff Bezos and Patrick Quickly-Shiong, respectively. It’s the primary time in nearly 40 years that the Submit has declined to endorse a candidate. The choice has already resulted in employees resignations and subscriber cancellations at each papers and the shockwaves are being felt all through the remainder of the information media as effectively. CNN media analyst and TVNewser founder Brian Stelter spoke with a member of The Washington Submit’s editorial division, who remarked: “Democracy doesn’t die in darkness; it dies when individuals anticipatorily consent to a fascist’s whims.”
A member of the Wash Submit editorial division tells me: Bezos’s choice to not endorse is “an outrageous abdication of accountability. Democracy would not die in darkness, it dies when individuals anticipatorily consent to a fascist’s whims.”
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 25, 2024
CNN Goes to Court docket: An appeals court docket in Florida has allowed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to CNN to proceed to trial. Safety contractor Zachary Younger sued the community over the way it portrayed him in a information report following the U.S. navy’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. A trial date has been set for January 6, 2025, and is predicted to final two weeks, probably forcing CNN journalists to testify in court docket.
Awards Watch: What do Christiane Amanpour, Jonathan Capehart, Kaitlan Collins, Anderson Cooper, Mehdi Hasan, Lester Holt, Rachel Maddow, David Muir, Robin Roberts, and Jacob Soboroff all have in frequent? They had been named the ten greatest on-air tv information journalists working in the present day by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Leisure Critics. The league of over 500 skilled critics and leisure journalists unveiled its picks on Thursday. “It’s nice to see GALECA’s members acknowledge these stellar journalists in what clearly stays a really highly effective medium,” group president Walt Hickey stated in an announcement.
Streaming Regulation: The Regulation&Crime community premiering a brand new sequence on its official YouTube channel this weekend. Decide Reacts with Liz Scherer debuts Sunday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. ET, options the previous Florida Circuit Court docket decide issuing her personal insights into high-profile authorized instances. The sequence premiere focuses on the federal expenses just lately introduced in opposition to fallen hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs.
